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Fuck...ing...HELL
Often when a headline has only part of a sentence, it was taken out of context so I watched the video.
narrators voice "it was not taken out of context"
I personally have strong dislike of all fundamentalist religious teachings but the things this guy says are despicable. We don't have to respect someone's opinion but we have to respect their right to hold it, and saying vile shit like this only furthers divisions.
Honestly the context makes it even worse. It's not like he was voicing an abhorrent opinion that he just assumed would remain private. He said this while accosting an innocent food cart vendor with Islamaphobic comments and threats.
Yeah, not trying to make excuses for him as he's probably just a vile POS but this is like mental breakdown territory.
Maybe he personally lost someone close to him on 7th Oct and now he's taking it out on someone he perceives as 'Arab'. Even if that was the case though there's no excuse for this kind of hate speech, go grieve in private or with family / friends.
I hate so much that there are people like him out in the world. Many of us are desperately trying to find ways to come together and they make it so much more difficult.
There’s just so much horrifying stuff about this story. The heinous stuff that he said, the fact that these videos clearly were recorded on different days so he had been at it for a while, or the fact that he was high up in the state department working on US-Israeli and US-Afghanistan policies while having such terrible views.
It’s also weird that he’s trying to insult this poor working man about his religion but not even pronouncing his Arabic evidence properly.
Yeah well when you go crazy in old age you go crazy with what you know. I guess it you are high up in the State Department on the Afghan desk or whatever, berating immigrants might be your brand of crazy. Dude needs a padded room, anyhow, maybe some deprogramming.
Yea everyone is like "we cannot condone his vile actions" bla bla. Well it is a bit too late for that isn't? Not only did you condone, you clearly fucking rewarded it. It is terrifying to think how many more such men and women are involved in very critical world politics roles.
It really is full "mask off" for some people because of Israel's ongoing genocide. I hope this fucker never works again.
It took a while for the world to turn on South Africa, too. Idk if it will happen here but I hope it does soon and the suffering stops.
Boomers are scratching their heads in confusion because younger people are starting to sour on Israel and rightly so. It’s not enough to force a policy change in the US, but give it a few years.
This guy was in the US intelligence service, and he didn't know that you're not supposed to fuck with the food cart folks?