Now, Kyrie Irving Goes "Full Hitler?"
Now, Kyrie Irving Goes "Full Hitler?"
As reported in this ESPN piece, Brooklyn Nets NBA superstar, covid denier, flat-Earth believer and anti-vax fuckhead Kyrie Irving has used his social media account to promote an anti-semitic book and film which casts the institution of Black slavery as a Jewish controlled and run conspiracy.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34898967/nets-condemn-kyrie-irving-promotion-anti-semitic-film
While it is true and documented that a minicule minority of white Southerners claiming Jewish ancestry did profit from the slave trade, the book and film are Nazi style propaganda pieces of recycled filth, similar to those which were popularized and spread among some enraged, victimized and susceptible black people decades ago by Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. American Jews opposed slavery for historical and religious reasons which are well established.
Keying off of the initiatives of bi-polar Nazi 'Ye West, and the fascist takeover of Twitter by racist covid denier Elon Musk, Irving is once again using his platform of celebrity status to recruit fellow conspirophile anti-science fuckheads to his cult of fuckheadedness.
Speech which incites or promotes discrimination, hate, bullying, assault or possibly murder is not protected free speech. It is the psychotic ranting of either an irresponsible or malignant moron.
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Addendum--
Nazi propagandists Alfred Rosenberg and Julius Streicher ran the Nazi Party press, in conjunction with Goebbels and Hitler. They published "Die Völkischer Beobachter" and "Der Stürmer," respectively, and Goebbels had his separate operation called "Der Angriff."
Streicher and Rosenberg wrote the anti-semitic articles, printed the vile cartoons depicting Jews as evil, and did so entirely in their roles as newspaper publishers. Not soldiers, not Stormtroopers, not SS death camp guards, not Nazi doctors. They were writers, party officials and spokesmen.
Neither Streicher or Rosenberg personally ever laid hands on a Jew, assaulted or murdered a Jew in a physical way. They incited hatred, and that hatred drove the actions of the murderers, who followed the orders of their Party superiors. They were the voices and pens which fed the Holocaust. Streicher committed other sorts of war crimes, for which he was also convicted, and Goebbels likewise, though he killed himself before he could be captured and tried.
Streicher and Rosenberg were captured, tried, convicted, and hanged for crimes against humanity at Nuremburg for printing propaganda, neither ever laying hands upon or physically harming a single Jewish person. This was their defense case at the trials. Consider that as you read the Sports Illustrated coverage and transcript of Kyrie Irving's press conference, and others defending their right to "free speech" to spread anti-semitic conspiracy theories.
You might say, he is just one nut, harmless, a clown, etc, isolated and alone. A quote from the article:
["Did I do anything illegal? Did I hurt anybody?” Irving asked reporters in regard to the tweet. “Did I harm anybody? Am I going out and saying that I hate one specific group of people?”
The press conference was tense at times with a dismissive Irving taking jabs at reporters, saying he doesn’t “expect understanding from a media conglomerate group.”
“I’m not going to stand down on anything I believe in,” Irving said. “I’m only going to get stronger because I’m not alone. I have a whole army around me.”]
I have news for him. Hate speech which raises the threat of violence IS violence. So, keep going Kyrie, do your thing, you and Kanye, and lose your career, your money, your friends and family, everything you value, in the name of defending your sick outlook, exercising your free fucking speech. And we will use you to teach our children, just like our World War II generations taught us.
