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> but "kill all the jews" merely resulted in their Head of Diversity getting reassigned

I think I’ve heard different story involving Head of Diversity, nowhere close to “kill all Jews”. Do you have source on that?

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"If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defence of myself,"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57342967

That's a pretty bad statement, but not close to "kill the Jews".

Start by dehumanizing, right?

"Start by breathing" would be just as applicable and useless. A necessary precursor to an offense is not equal to an offense.

HN posters whose names start with a B should be concerned about their insatiable appetite for war and killing. Is this more useful? How about the fact that the whole thing is based on a lie to begin with?

It sounds like when someone says something bad about women you don’t care, but when they say something bad about the Jewish people you do care, and you are mad that anyone would think differently than you?

I am genially confused here. What are you trying to say?

I'm not sure I get what you're trying to say, but no, that's just as useless.

What 'whole thing' are you referring to being a lie?

"my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defence of myself,"

For a culture, that sounds like a feature, not a bug.

I don't hate the idea of FAANG unions, although I expect you just end up with two abusive quasi-monopolies instead of one. (Question: Why is Netflix in that group aside from the unfortunate new acronym?)

> (Question: Why is Netflix in that group aside from the unfortunate new acronym?)

Because they pay massive salaries, at the same level of the other companies.

FAANG is so constituted because at the time, all of those stocks were massively outperforming expectations, and the market in general.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/faang-stocks.asp

That is pretty bad. It makes the (far-right Israeli-encouraged) fallacy of equating the desires of all Jews (who, like most people, simply want peace and prosperity) with the plainly destructive aims of a portion of the Israeli government and the Zionist diasporans who support their illegal, internationally-condemned activities.

No matter how much Likud ghouls et al. would like you to believe that they represent Jewish people worldwide, they don't, and of course we should condemn any attempt to pin on unrelated civilians, just by mere association of faith, the hundreds of killings and countless instances of human rights abuses and war crimes perpetrated by Israeli military and civil forces.

No, I don't think this person is committing any fallacies or anything else they just hate Jews.

Just because you insist on braindead reductionism doesn't mean that other people are also incapable of forming complex sentiments. Even the most abhorrent hatred can be examined for its core lie.

“Diversity head” is a title inflation thing here. He was the titular head of some diversity research thing, not the head of Google’s diversity program; from what I remember, it didn’t seem like anyone at all reported to him.

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