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

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Post by fundad » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 5:22 AM UTC

q1w2 wrote: post #89

version_five wrote: post #12

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…

Does anyone have a link to the original email. I hate reading articles that just take snippets and add their outrage commentary.

Yeah it’s here http://Newsmax.com

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

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Post by fundad » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 5:24 AM UTC

Gustomaximus wrote: post #56

I liked the Bill Burr take on this 'vaccine is to wipe us out' conspiracy. The better logic is this invisible hand would not want to wipe out the vaccine takers as they are the 'sheeple' who are controlled. These powers would want to remove the trouble makers, the people that dont do what they are told. So a more likely conspiracy is the secret plan would be to release a second virus to kill the non-vaxed once the sh…

Not a joke, it happened it’s Delta. Bill Burr’s joke is explain immunology to people hostile to immunology

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

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Post by dukeofdoom » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 6:04 AM UTC

q1w2 wrote: post #93

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #13

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…

I'm not going to join on the outrage/mental illness bandwagon based on the media's interpretation of an email they are not releasing. I'm guessing that the email is indeed anti-semitic, and I'm guessing that the media doesn't want to legitimize anything he's saying by publishing the entire email. ...but I'm not going to throw stones without seeing the evidence myself. This is the trade-off. Unfortunately, the media k…

This is a tactic the soviets used. They would call someone mentally ill, and take them away to the mental word.

Interestingly enough, without casting any judgment on the claim. Canada put a doctor that claimed a rise in vaccine related still births in the mental hospital recently, and treated him with psychotic medication.

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/12/scicheck-doctor-makes-fals...

https://jessicar.substack.com/p/dr-mel-bruchet-did-you-know-...

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

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 6:20 AM UTC

wruza wrote: post #60

mancerayder wrote: post #21

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 vac…

Well, logically one could have two different vaccines. Where conspiracy theories fail is not a basic logic usually. They fail at the reason. There is no reason to decimate the US population in case you want to rule the world, that simply creates nothing but less wealth and more Eurasian influence.

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

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Post by q1w2 » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 1:09 PM UTC

fundad wrote: post #101

q1w2 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone have a link to the original email. I hate reading articles that just take snippets and add their outrage commentary.

Yeah it’s here http://Newsmax.com

I do not see it anywhere on that site. Perhaps the search doesn't work. Can you link it directly?

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

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Post by justspamjustin » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 2:03 PM UTC

This is not a mental health issue. It's a result of misinformation and conspiracy theories being spread most likely on social media and people believing them. So many people just blindly trusting information being spread without properly fact checking or checking their sources. This is what's going on. It starts with bias towards a specific group, then they start searching for any evidence that can support their bias. When a privileged white male has this bias towards Jews it's not a mental health issue, it's antisemitism which is a form of racism. Call it what it is.

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

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Post by hirundo » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 3:01 PM UTC

bell-cot wrote: post #45

Ah... Yet More Proof(tm) that "intelligence" is multi-dimentional. And that you can be very bright indeed in some dimensions (evidence - he was a tech executive), yet far dimmer than a box of rocks (has any box of rocks ever committed career suicide via anti-semitic rant?) in others. A Modest Proposal: Mr. Bateman needs a 72-hour involuntary admission to a good psychiatric hospital. His recent behavior might be cause…

> A Modest Proposal: Mr. Bateman needs a 72-hour involuntary admission to a good psychiatric hospital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_...

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

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Post by fundad » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 3:04 PM UTC

fundad wrote: post #101

q1w2 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone have a link to the original email. I hate reading articles that just take snippets and add their outrage commentary.

Yeah it’s here http://Newsmax.com

Wrong link, here http://nextdoor.com

You need to log in and you can read embarrassing problematic screeds

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

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Post by hodgesrm » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 3:31 PM UTC

zozbot234 wrote: post #69

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #13

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…

> This wasn't just normal politics - This was deep conspiracy theory nonsense. It's 2022 - Qanon-level nonsense is very much "normal politics" at present, however much we wish it weren't.

Vitriol against Jews has been around since the Middle Ages at the very least and pops up in almost every culture I can think of. The Nazi leadership were obsessed by it, just to name one obvious example. I'm generally very optimistic about humanity, but this is really our heart of darkness.

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

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Post by bell-cot » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 4:24 PM UTC

hirundo wrote: post #107

bell-cot wrote: post #45

Ah... Yet More Proof(tm) that "intelligence" is multi-dimentional. And that you can be very bright indeed in some dimensions (evidence - he was a tech executive), yet far dimmer than a box of rocks (has any box of rocks ever committed career suicide via anti-semitic rant?) in others. A Modest Proposal: Mr. Bateman needs a 72-hour involuntary admission to a good psychiatric hospital. His recent behavior might be cause…

> A Modest Proposal: Mr. Bateman needs a 72-hour involuntary admission to a good psychiatric hospital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_...

"A Modest Proposal" is a flag for Juvenalian satire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

(Though such bizarre and self-destructive behavior is a red flag, and medical testing & psychiatric evaluation are quite reasonable. PragmaticPulp's comment kinda covers that.)

Yes, I know the USSR's history. In current-day America...the guy's chances of being forced into a psych. hospital by the government for this seem about as high as his chances of being tried for publicly insulting George III's honor.