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Interesting story that the ethnically Jewish CEO was a neo-Nazi.

Sounds like he suffered a level of abuse as a child that might have helped him go down that road. And his mother's Jewish heritage may have been the target for reasons we can only speculate (perhaps the abuse was at her hands?).

Given the depth of his past involvement in white supremacist terrorism, though, he should probably explain himself publicly, given his current success and public profile.

reminiscent of the The Believer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Believer_(film)

In the history there were plenty of Jews who were trading and killing other Jews as well as Nazi soldiers who were saving Jews.

Well Hitler was Jewish

No, he wasn't

He’s referring to the idea that Hitler may have been a quarter Jewish. Not sure where this study from 10 years ago ended up:

https://www.history.com/news/study-suggests-adolf-hitler-had...

There were a lot of articles about that and here’s a recent one:

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/study-suggests-adolf-hitler-was...

Questionable evidence that his grandmother might have had an illegitimate child with a Jewish man is a long way from "Hitler was jewish"

Not to mention this is standard ahistorical conspiracy theory fare.

It’s fine to point out it’s questionable. Both of you were just throwing at one-liners with no substance like you’re fighting on a playground. I rarely downvote and thought about downvoting him but I decided to search to see what he might be talking about. You didn’t even look at my links, otherwise you would’ve known the first one was talking about a DNA study. Yes, as far as I can see it was very much up in the air, but I don’t think I should be downvoted for explaining what he was referring to.

Thank you, I read the links and yes my absolute assertion may be wrong.

> Both of you were just throwing at one-liners with no substance

Welcome to HN - the new Reddit.

Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html to the end.

It doesn't seem to be working. ...much like the Reddit guidelines.

Yes he was. He had an entire city destroyed to attempt to hide that historical fact.

Indeed, 'twas the city of Gralås, oft have I ambled it's cobbled streets in days gone by, smelling the sweet scent of the herb the soothsayers smoke thereon and listened to the ramblings of their visions.

Once I loved a woman there, her skin was red as the fires of the volcano of Taris.

Once I dueled with a man in the foggy morn at the royal park, I killed him, it was a fight over honor and I barely remember the particulars now.

But all that is gone, destroyed years past, you sir, are a scholar of deep erudition to remember the name of Gralås in this degraded age.

Sadly, I'd expect this from hacker news commenters.

HN gets millions of comments a year. You should expect to find all kinds of junk in any set of that size.

The problem is that people (all of us) are more likely to notice and remember the things they dislike. That basically causes everyone's image of the community to turn into a reflection of their own dislikes—and the more strongly you dislike something, the more vivid the image will be. It's a serious problem and I don't know what to do about it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

But it's definitely not the case that the HN readership generally supports a comment like the GP. Note that the comment was maximally downvoted.

If you post flamebait to HN like this again we will ban you. This thread was wretched enough without heading into this circle of hell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We don't know it was true. We know he makes the claim that his mother was Jewish, but who knows?

We also don't know it's not true.

That's why we require evidence before we reject someone's claims.

What? We require evidence before we accept claims, not before we reject them.

No, it depends you see, when minorities claim police misconduct, those claims require evidence before we accept them. In the case of a 'former' Neo-Nazi claiming Jewish heritage we accept the claim without evidence.

But this was a claim about someone else. Let's hear from his mother. If I said something about you should the claim be believed until proven false?

This was a person's claim about themselves. If you have no evidence to the contrary, you obviously cannot accuse them of guilty of being dishonest.

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