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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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[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 77 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago

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@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Best comment in this shit-stained comment section.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

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

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

[-] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

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

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

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@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Nations aren’t considered gods

Oh really? Children aren't brainwashed into worshipping the classical liberal nation-states they are born into with religious-like reverance?

Really?

You don’t sacrifice goats to the flag,

No, we sacrifice people to them. Do tell, Clyde - how many USians have sacrificed themselves to "defend America" in the past couple of decades?

Judaism has historically looked at Christian beliefs

Oh, I see Jewish people everywhere being very suspicious of your precious nationalist religion... and it's not a new thing, either.

[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yes. Children do not literally worship their nation-state with literal religious reverence. No rabbi would tell you that the ten commandments are about prohibiting metaphorical sacrifices to metaphorical religions.

No rabbi would say that saying that someone "worships money" turns their wallet into an alter and their job into idol worship. Religiously, it's just a metaphorical turn of phrase.

Maimonides, probably the most influential rabbi of the middle ages, explicitly called Christians idolaters. The trinity isn't precisely considered polytheistic; the Hebrew term is shituf.

Can you find a single rabbi who would call volunteering to join a military and dying at war halachically prohibited human sacrifice to the nation-as-god or flag-as-idol?

And where exactly did I call myself a religious nationalist? I'm just saying that your argument that the term is an oxymoron is idiotic and betrays a deep ignorance of the religion. I mean, you couldn't even quote the right commandment - in Judaism, the first item on the ten commandants is "I am the lord your God", which makes your argument a complete non sequitur.

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[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Totally reasonable reaction to have...

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

[-] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

This really has nothing to do with religion or politics - that’s just the trigger.

This person needs to be put into psychiatric care immediately and given the appropriate treatment as they are a danger to themselves and others. They should not be allowed to post a bond and leave custody. A medical evaluation should be performed, obviously, but this is clearly a psychiatric case.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I wouldn't blame it on Judaism (religion) but it's pretty clearly a political thing.

It's a pretty normal reaction for a Zionist.

[-] Ejh3k@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

But make sure they can still vote Republican, right?

[-] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I’m going to pretend your question was serious.

Should we allow people with diagnosed psychoses to vote? People with schizophrenia or other psychological conditions?

In the traditional good-and-evil model of the prison system as it exists in the US today, I am very much in favor of allowing prisoners to vote both while in prison and after having served their time. I believe that because I believe that the prison system is fundamentally unjust, that innocent people are jailed, that there is significant racial prejudice constantly driving the system, and that there’s no scientific evidence driven justification for what we do and how we do it. Rubin Carter should have been able to vote. Leonard Peltier should have been able to vote. Until we fix the criminal justice system, I think it’s wrong to deny prisoners the right to vote, and I think we need to make sure their votes are made without coercion and properly registered.

But should we allow someone with a clinically diagnosed psychological condition like schizophrenia to vote? They are wracked by delusions, what does their vote mean? For me, it goes down to the assumption of rational agency being part of the justification of a democratic system in the first place, versus the obvious fear of weaponized medical diagnoses being used for political purposes.

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