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As someone who's never worked for Google, I recognize the name Yonatan Zunger. - He's the guy who posted the bizarre and really popular conspiracy theory about
by makomk 8y ago
As someone who's never worked for Google, I recognize the name Yonatan Zunger.
- He's the guy who posted the bizarre and really popular conspiracy theory about the President of the United States secretly plotting a coup: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e024990891d5 https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/trial-balloon-for-a-coup-e...
- He's the guy who posted this incredibly misleading, and astoundingly viral, tweet about children which ICE seized from their parents being missing and unaccounted for - https://twitter.com/yonatanzunger/status/999827396046995456 https://twitter.com/yonatanzunger/status/999827396046995456 - which lead people to believe they'd been ripped from their families and vanished, when they'd actually been reunited with family members who didn't want to be found. This was particularly irresponsible since the fix for this would literally be imprisoning more kids rather than reuniting them with their family members.
- He's the guy who wrote a popular piece opposing the idea of tolerance: https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376 https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...
- I'm pretty sure I caught him posting other dubious misinformation and conspiracy theories too.
- whydoineedthis 8y agoEverything you just wrote is completely misleading. As an example, he's against tolerating Nazi's specifically ,not tollerence in general. Your a loser dude, go crawl back into a hole somewhere.
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- pseudalopex 8y agoThe article says that other sources corroborated Zunger's account. That seems more relevant than anything about the man. "Opposing the idea of tolerance" is an extremely uncharitable way to describe a piece dealing with the paradox of tolerance. Zunger's description of 1,475 children as "missing and unaccounted for" was prompted by an Arizona Republic article that described them as "lost".[1] He was mistaken about ICE separating those particular children from their parents, but the article wasn't entirely clear about that. There was also still the question of what would happen to the children that ICE did separate from their parents. [1] https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2018/05/22/immigration-children-separate-families-lost-kirstjen-nielson/631627002/ https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/201...
- makomk 8y agoWhile I guess it is pretty commonplace for the paradox of tolerance to be invoked these days as a way to turn intolerance into a virtue by declaring the people we dislike the intolerant ones and claiming we're somehow improving tolerance by hating them, and while taking the most shocking-sounding op-ed any of the uncountable smaller papers on the planet is willing to publish, squeezing any nuance and inconvenient details out of it, juicing it up, and blasting that idea to a global audience it wouldn't otherwise have reached is basically what social media is used for nowadays, I'm still not convinced either of those is a good or moral thing.