tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post7621691830623174161..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: J Street on the Goldstone Resolution; Anti-Zionists Sabotage J StreetDavid Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-2133628261346502632009-10-19T15:28:34.912-07:002009-10-19T15:28:34.912-07:00The "shorter" convention is well-recogni...The "shorter" convention is well-recognized, but how do you propose that a person not familiar with what Klein has said would know that you were making a "sarcastic paraphrase" rather than actually quoting her? People often will use a genuine quote the way you have used a sarcastic paraphrase.<br /><br />Also, the accurate paraphrase would be "I'm more disturbed by clowns than I am by anti-Semitism." Klein didn't say she was disturbed by all opposition to anti-Semitism, just that in clown form.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-72045499436906284732009-10-19T14:04:37.495-07:002009-10-19T14:04:37.495-07:00Aren't you aware of all internet traditions, P...Aren't you <a href="http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2008/06/thanks-to-911-shes-outraged-by.html#583745" rel="nofollow">aware of all internet traditions</a>, PG? In this case, the one of using quotations to sarcastically paraphrase a persons positions (here, Klein's statement that while both Ahmadinejad's speech at Durban II, and the Jewish student's protest of it, were both "truly awful", it was the former that she found "most disturbing").David Schraubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-27450230226435307372009-10-19T14:00:04.703-07:002009-10-19T14:00:04.703-07:00"I'm more disturbed by opposition to anti...<i>"I'm more disturbed by opposition to anti-Semitism than I am by anti-Semitism itself"</i><br /><br />I didn't see that quote in the old post you linked, nor in the interview that that post links.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.com