The silver lining in the horrible Hamas-Israel war, as I’ve already noted, is that it seems to causing a lot of people, groups, institutions and media outlets to expose their ethics void, their anti-Jewish bigotry, and, well, the fact that they are blots on decent society. I’ll expand on this theme later today, but for now, another asshole has emulated Mika Tosca, the associate professor with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who issued a pure Jew-Hate social media rant, and then claimed that she didn’t mean it in a mendacious apology.
The post about Tosca applies 100% to this bigot, Beverly Hills doctor Andrew Thierry, who was a apparently trying to top Mika and began by writing on on Instagram that “Zionists are gynocidal, demonic, greedy, pedophilic retards,” and followed that nice sentiment up with the two messages above. ExpertMRI fired Thierry—of course they did–and he then deleted his Hitleresque messages and had the gall to issue this gaslighting apology:
Hilarious. How could anyone interpret “Zionists are gynocidal, demonic, greedy, pedophilic retards” “the wrong way”? Sure, the guy really loves people he calls “war pigs.” Apologies aren’t magic words that erase unambiguous words and conduct. The fake apology should have gotten him sacked as much as the anti-Jew hate rants. No one should trust a doctor who lies like that.
Side note: It took me 15 minutes to find out that the last word in Thierry’s first slur was “retard,” because almost every source blurred the word or reported it as “r—–s.” The news media is run by politically-correct censors and morons—but you knew that, I hope. Calling Jews “gynocidal, demonic, greedy” and “pedophilic” is fine to re-publish, but heaven forbid that advocates for the mentally- challenged are triggered by “retards.”
Ethics Alarms 
I’m trying to decide which is more shocking – the extent of the vicious, seething antisemitism in academia, journalism, and other leftist-infected spaces, or the way they got caught flat-footed by the backlash. Clearly, these people really thought that any decent, right-thinking person – you know, people like they imagine themselves to be – would cheer as the death squads went door to door, exterminating Jews. We’re not just talking about a failure of moral education, we’re talking about a failure of education in general, a lack of exposure to the wider world and a diversity of viewpoints.
Well, Greta Thunberg posed with three other like-minded teenagers supporting a free Palestine. The photo also included a stuffed blue octopus. The octopus was apparently a step too far. She has to reissue the photo sans Octo, apologizing that she didn’t know the octopus was an anti-semitic trope (frankly, neither did I, but . . .). Condemning Israel as and oppressive apartheid state is fine but an octopus . . .
https://nypost.com/2023/10/20/greta-thunberg-posts-pro-palestinian-pic-with-antisemitic-trope/
I’d say the octopus was superfluous, the corrected picture clearly demonstrates her antisemitism. Hopefully this will serve to diminish what influence she has regarding her climate extremism.
So if she is ok with antisemitic terrorism, does she also aspire to become an eco-terrorist?
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Different but related. I was reading a Wall Street Journal article describing an attack on an Israeli kibbutz. It was really jarring — and quite frankly, offensive — to read them repeatedly referring to these terrorists as ‘militants’. Even the WSJ has apparently bowed down to this politically correct ‘style’.