lol fair enough!

So you believe in the redeeming potential of art? What are the historical precedents for such a view?

I personally think we should allow Gazans to spam all of us all day non stop that this site should be unusable until the genocide is over- but I’m not asking for that- I am asking for reasonable compassionate responses to people

I agree. But it’s sadly an unenforceable principle when dealing with German musicology. Maybe I should just point out the people who were demonstrably not Nazis

Det er ganske mye modigere å kjempe mot Israel, tenker jeg.

Hello dear Lubna, thanks for writing me. I just made a small donation. The situation in Gaza breaks my heart.

Thanks for writing me! I just made a small donation - hope you get many more!

I'm still struggling with this tbh!

And then there's also a whole list of subtle hints and phrases to show that one belongs among the privileged few

Another thing one doesn’t learn in German class is the one-way-Du. If a professor says Du, you’re still supposed to respond with Sie. It took a whole year before I got this

That’s a great story. It makes sense that the collegial Du was no longer appropriate. Still, it must be feel really strange to consciously distance oneself in this way.

Hell is what people are going through in Gaza, but I hope you will be able to cope with this difficult experience.