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What do you say about activists recruited as children (in this case White fundamentalist women)? When do you stop feeling sorry and start vilifying them? This reminds me of kids entering the IDF having been raised in Israel. I can't expect different, but want to (I know this is an old question)

@philipncohen I really don't like that analogy, since nobody thinks it's illegitimate to target IDF soldiers, except the odious Asa Kasher. The main Israeli complaint about Hamas is that it makes little attempt to target soldiers and prefers targeting civilians even when they're nowhere near military targets (the top Israeli city targeted by rocket attacks, Ashkelon, has no military bases). The upshot is, if a 25-year-old works for a winger org, they're a winger, not "just a kid" or anything.

@Alon not sure what you mean. I'm not thinking of military targeting, just blame and shame. Seems like they're recruited about the same age to do what everyone else is doing

@philipncohen Blame-and-shame is not really relevant for this (for one, the people who do it to IDF vets do it equally to Israelis who refused to serve, e.g. Joanna Chen or Tal Mitnick). It's also not really what's going on with conservative thinktankers, who don't really care about being shamed by liberals.