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WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — A Warner Robins teacher is accused of threatening to behead a student after she made a comment about his Israeli flag, according to the Houston County Sheriff's Office.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 9 months ago (4 children)

After that, several different witnesses independently said they heard Reese say, "he would kick her fg a, slit her godn throat and drag her a** outside and cut her head off."

The same witness says Reese was later seen returning to his classroom, cursing extremely loudly. The witness says he was yelling that he "should not be spoken to like that because he is a Jew."

He went on saying, "I will drag her a** into the parking lot, slit her f*****g throat and kill her."

Wow, not sure to call him ultra-nationalist or religious-extremist.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Violent bigots come in ever flavor. At a certain point, it's not worth the effort to suss out the source of their prejudices. It's an unanswerable question that leads to the same dissapointment in simple minded zealotry no matter their specific path.

I'd rather spend time trying to understand the ones I respect instead of getting lost in the maze of a random scum.

[–] Oderus 2 points 9 months ago

Best comment in this shit-stained comment section.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Wow, not sure to call him ultra-nationalist or religious-extremist.

There's a word for those two things; Zionist.

[–] stevehobbes 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not all zionists are religious, like at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (38 children)

It takes like 10 minutes of googling to see Zionism is an umbrella term for multiple different schools of thoughts. People are turning it into some slur when at its core it’s the belief that Jews have a right to a state. Keep in mind that Jews are both a race and a religion.

[–] raynethackery 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Race is a construct. We are all the same species.

[–] GojuRyu 0 points 9 months ago

Yes but so is Money, the significance of a social construct comes from how much society as a whole puts stock in the ideas. Unfortunately race is very relevant in today's world as ethnicity and perceived race is a big factor in how issues are discussed and acted on.

I may be overreacting a bit, but your comment sounds a lot like the colorblind/all lives matter rethoric to me in this context, so I want to emphasize it's significance to this discussion.

[–] Thoth19 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well it's more of a state in a specific place and that maybe everyone should go there.

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[–] masquenox 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wow, not sure to call him ultra-nationalist or religious-extremist.

Fascist. That's the word you're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Religious nationalist is not a synonym for fascist. We need to stop diluting the meaning of the word fascist.

[–] masquenox 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Religious nationalist

"Religious nationalist" is an oxymoron - especially when it comes to Abrahamic religions. Saluting a piece of colored fabric and treating it with any kind of reverential significance literally breaks the very first commandment.

They are neither religious - they literally act in direct contravention of the teachings they (supposedly) "follow" - nor nationalist - they literally (and overtly) place the interests of a small wealthy elite above the interests of the people in the nation.

No, Clyde - they are fascists.

[–] Pipoca 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Nations aren't considered gods, and flags aren't idols of those non-gods. You don't sacrifice goats to the flag, or burn incense for it.

Judaism has historically looked at Christian beliefs and practices with way, way more suspicion of polytheism and idolatry than it's ever looked at national flags.

The teacher here is unhinged, but you clearly don't really know very much about the ten commandments, especially from a Jewish context.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Totally reasonable reaction to have...

(Please tell me I don't need to tag this as sarcasm)