🤣🤣🤣 You sure read a lot into a few lines of text. Many similes in English compare people to animals. Would you get upset if a poster wrote Palestinians were "brave as lions," "strong as bulls," or "wise as owls?" What's the difference between those similes and "heart-wrenching as a baby seal?" In any case, I was writing about the baby-seal EFFECT, not directly comparing Palestinians to seals. @Nick Carter icp asked about the disparity in the extent of the reaction to the deaths of Palestinians in airstrikes compared to deaths of Afghanistanis. One explanation is the baby-seal effect, in which one group is given much more sympathy than another. I brought up the woke left because it has effusive sympathy for some groups, such as Palestinians or transgendered individuals, while not reacting nearly as much to groups with equally large or larger levels of suffering, such as Sudanese refugees or homeless U.S. military veterans. I take it as a badge of honor when certain individuals put me their ignore lists. It means I have rattled their hate-filled worlds.
