Thread by @Spinozasrose

Watch this: /1
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1259435251727826944

Now read this, and answer my question in the end: Am I wrong? /2

Tacitus said "It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt.". Look at European support for Palestinian blood libels to understand what he meant.

There 's a darker side to his insight.

It's part of human nature to hate the man who rendered you a great favour. /3

Dante Alighieri, whose work recently attracted the moral wrath of @POTUS wrote in The Divine Comedy:

"amor sementa in voi d'ogne virtute
e d'ogni operazion che merta pene"

"Love is the seed in you of every virtue
and of all acts deserving punishment."
/4

Or, as we know it in its more popular form
"No good deed goes unpunished".
Those who help others are doomed to suffer as a result of their being helpful.
But I am not sure that what animates MichelChe's popular animus towards Jews (or the Jewish state) is ingratitude. /5

It's another kind of human pathology. This blood-libeling as satire directed at Jews is not so simple a dislike of those who helped combat Black American struggles. It's a terrible frustration that the people who rendered these services were Jews. /6

There's something extremely irksome about receiving help from people you really don't like. Imagine having an evolved sense of moral contempt for Jews and having those very contemptible Jews render you a good deed, relentlessly, consistently, whole-heartedly./7

How are you going to maintain your self-esteem, under such circumstances? How are you going to continue to hate the people who help you get what you say you want most of all?

Does that make any sense? Am I wrong here?

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