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      12 hours ago

      What’s that quote, never think they don’t understand what they’re saying? Can someone fill it in, can’t find it.

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        “Never believe that antisemites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge… They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.”

        – Jean‑Paul Sartre’s 1946 essay “Réflexions sur la question juive”

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          That’s the one, thank you.

          "If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

          The modern day version of the ending is to scream and teehee the argument is over by commercial break,