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Utah tech executive resigns after anti-semitic email rant

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Re: Utah tech executive resigns after anti-semitic email rant

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Well he did say God said it. We're generally not allowed to question what God says.

To be honest, "God" has been saying all sorts of anti-semitic things for almost two thousand years. It's funny how the standards of sanity shift and sway over time. And we're talking Utah here.

Logically it doesn't make much sense, since Israel is one of the most vaxxed places. You'd think God had better control over scope, if the vaccine is the conspiracy by the Jews. You wouldn't see God turn the vaccine on them.

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> Yes. I sent it. I have nothing but love for the Jewish people. Some of my closest friends are Jews. Satire has nothing on this article

I genuinely believe that these people see "the Jews" and "Jewish people" as two entirely separate concepts in their head. One is the group of people they may know, hang out with, be friends with, and one is the concept of evil brought up by conspiracy nuts that get associated with murdering babies and widespread paedophilia.

I've read an article, linked here during the Trump administration, about people of Mexican origin being deported from American towns. The townsfolk were upset that their friend or neighbour was being deported, but they still believed in Trump's promises. They didn't want this to happen, they only wanted "the bad ones" to get out, whatever abstract concept of "the bad ones" meant to them. The people they knew were always "one of the good ones".

Obviously, no group of people is uniform, but the human brain loves to think in groups. The groups can overlap and they don't need to make sense; they exist purely to attach some kind of judgement or prejudice onto. Probably a great feature of the human brain if you're a primate trying to make it to adulthood, but, in modern times, humanity's worst flaw.

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#24

Are these the same Jews that control the space laser used to start the California wild fires? So crazy.

I'm Jewish, how come I don't have access to this laser? I've loved lasers since I was a kid. Life isn't fair!

You have to go to one of those laser time share meetings. Not sure it's worth it. It's like the whole afternoon and they say you're going to get tickets to Broadway but at the end it's just a screening of Santa inc.

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#25

Having just read it, this sounds like a mental health issue to me. It's well outside the bounds of opinion, even a ridiculous or hateful opinion. I worry that people are running to mock this guy because they want to portray these views as the kind of things their opponents actually think, while in reality there is clearly something wrong with him and he may need some compassion. This is not a fringe opinion, there is…

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It really isn't.

Most on the far right are very very very pro-Israel.

Re: Utah tech executive resigns after anti-semitic email rant

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The free-speech brigade that rails against Cancel Culture will be speaking out against this any second

It's perfectly okay to be pro-free-speech while acknowledging people like this exist. Plus the guy resigned, not hounded into quitting by a Twitter mob.

Re: Utah tech executive resigns after anti-semitic email rant

#27

This man is seriously unwell. This wasn't just normal politics - This was deep conspiracy theory nonsense. The fact that he thought others would appreciate the message is further proof that he is in the midst of a serious crisis. He has completely lost touch with reality. Unfortunately, being a wealthy ex-CEO and ex-pat living in another country, away from his former social circles, has likely removed all social supp…

Thank you for this humane point of view instead of just making fun or getting enraged.

Re: Utah tech executive resigns after anti-semitic email rant

#28

Are these the same Jews that control the space laser used to start the California wild fires? So crazy.

These Jews are pretty inventive...first space lasers, now vaccines that render women baren to depopulate the earth... Though, it's not a bad idea considering the food shortages, water shortages, supply chain issues, etc...we're nearing max capacity... It's a fairytale, how this guy got to be a CEO when I'm struggling as a burned out developer w/ way more common sense I'll never know.

From what I've seen, it has a lot to do with having rich parents as a fallback cushion.

Re: Utah tech executive resigns after anti-semitic email rant

#29

Having just read it, this sounds like a mental health issue to me. It's well outside the bounds of opinion, even a ridiculous or hateful opinion. I worry that people are running to mock this guy because they want to portray these views as the kind of things their opponents actually think, while in reality there is clearly something wrong with him and he may need some compassion. This is not a fringe opinion, there is…

Plenty of otherwise intelligent people have believed in conspiratorial nonsense through history. Especially when that nonsense was about Jews.
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