New Co-Worker is an Anti-Semite and a Conspiracy Nut

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote Dennis R][quote BigGuynRusty][quote MacMagus]'Know this guy for 2 weeks now. Seems like a very nice, polite, well-educated guy. A family man with a very nice wife and an adorable looking kid.

'Went out to dinner with him after a late night at work and after a couple of beers he spontaneously started on about how Jews secretly run the American government, 911 was a Jewish conspiracy, that there was no terrorist attack, that nobody but the pilots were in the airplanes on 911, that Jews are running the world markets and Jews are deliberately causing the current mortgage/banking crisis to destabilize the world, cause war with innocent Arab nations and enrich the Zionists in Israel.

I'm not polling for how you would have reacted and I'm not saying how I reacted when he said it.

Just... OMG! Where do people like this come from?! OMG! I work with this guy.
Don't date CoWorkers.

BGnR

Maybe his parents didn't date CoWorders but they married family! :-) That is no way to talk about MacMagus!!

BGnR

[guitarist]

Tape recorder, YES!

That's what cell phones are for. Maybe you can get video, too.

What a great bargaining chip, yeah? LOL

[Seacrest]

Too many tire remnants on the road?

The Jews' fault.

[The UnDoug]

He forgot about Hollywood! Be sure to remind him that the Jews also run that!


Or wait....is that part true?


;-)


Biggie Smalls was a Jew!

[D-Rod]

Intro: this is a song, that uh, theres alot of xmas songs out there, but not
Too many about hanukkah, so I wrote a song for all those nice little jewish
Kids who dont get to hear any hanukkah songs--here we go...

Put on your yalmulka, here comes hanukkah
Its so much fun-akkah to celebrate hanukkah,

Hanukkah is the festival of lights,
Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights.

When you feel like the only kid in town without a x-mas tree, heres a list of
People who are jewish, just like you and me:

David lee roth lights the menorrah,
So do james caan, kirk douglas, and the late dinah shore-ah

Guess who eats together at the karnickey deli,
Bowzer from sha-na-na, and arthur fonzerrelli.

Paul newmans half jewish; goldie hawns half too,
Put them together--what a fine lookin jew! [esus]

You dont need deck the halls or jingle bell rock
Cause you can spin the dreidl with captain kirk and mr. spock--both jewish!
[esus]

Put on your yalmulka, its time for hanukkah,
The owner of the seattle super sonic-ahs celebrates hanukkah.

O.j. simpson-- not a jew!
But guess who is...hall of famerrod carew--(he converted!)

We got ann landers and her sister dear abby,
Harrison fords a quarter jewish--not too shabby!

Some people think that ebeneezer scrooge is,
Well, hes not, but guess who is:all three stooges. [esus]

So many jews are in show biz--
Tom cruise isnt, [tacit] but I heard his agent is. [esus]

Tell your friend veronica, its time you celebrate hanukkah
I hope I get a harmonica, on this lovely, lovely hanukkah.

So drink your gin-and-tonic-ah, and smoke your mara-juanic-ah,
If you really, really wanna-kah, have a happy, happy, happy, happy
Hanukkah. happy hanukka!

[laarree]

See if he shows evidence of any of these other symptoms:
http://www.mhf.org.uk/information/mental.../#Paranoid

"Extremely sensitive to experiencing failure or rejection

Hold grudges against people and will refuse to forgive insults, injuries or slights

Very suspicious and will often misconstrue the friendly or neutral behaviour of other people as being unfriendly or hostile. Also constantly suspicious about the fidelity of sexual partners

A preoccupation with personal rights and a sense of these being infringed even when this is not so. Often self centred and self important

Prone to believing in conspiracy theories about events affecting their own lives and in the world at large"

[what4]

Such a person can be difficult, if you can't get away when you want to.

If he starts initiating his rants at work or in a way that makes you not want to hear it, you may have to spell out some firm limits to how much you are willing to participate, even by listening, even by being in the same room.

If he does not honor these limits, just walk out while he is talking. Don't resist, don't argue,. don't accuse, don't apologize, just politely disengage and leave. Do this until he gets the message.

Then you can establish a new relationship along boundaries that are acceptable to you.

You may find some helpful hints in literature on dealing with abusive people, because the pattern of control is similar.

It is always difficult dealing with people whose minds are so made up that stuff only comes out of them and nothing new goes in.

[volcs0]

A couple of relevant stories:

When we lived in southern Minnesota, our Rabbi there told us that during an outreach trip to one of the rural areas, a girl came up to him and asked to feel his head. When he asked why, she told him that she wanted to feel for his horns - her parents had told her that Jews had horns.

When in college, I ended up very close - ultimately sharing a house with - a bunch of guys from all over Illinois. Three of them loved to toss around the term "I jewed him down" to refer to getting a better price on something. It caught me off guard - honestly, I had never heard that term growing up in Skokie, IL. When I asked them about it, they responsed, "C'mon - everyone talks like that - we don't mean anything by it... no offense, of course." It was a real learning process for all of us. In any case, I don't use the terms welched or gyped so loosely anymore. I remain very close to these guys, now 15 years later.

When in Minnesota, my wife worked with a woman (at IBM) who asked her if she celebrated Christmas. When my wife said no, the woman paused a second and then asked her, "Well then, how do you celebrate the birth of Jesus?" This is one of my favorite stories about this kind of stuff.

When I was quite young - around 8 or 9, our neighbor, who happened to be German, told me a joke he heard from his dad - "How to you get 10 jews into a Volkswagon.... 3 in the front, 3 in the back and 4 in the ashtray." I really did not understand the "joke," and neither did he. In the end, we decided (not understanding the ash tray part it) that it didn't have to be jews - any ethnic group would do. When I related the joke to my parents, they were pretty upset, and once they explained it to me, so was I.

[MacMagus]

> When we lived in southern Minnesota, our Rabbi there told us that
> during an outreach trip to one of the rural areas, a girl came up to
> him and asked to feel his head. When he asked why, she told him
> that she wanted to feel for his horns - her parents had told her that
> Jews had horns.

Not unusual. I know an attorney from upstate NY who thought that Jews had horns until he met a few in law school.


> a bunch of guys from all over Illinois. Three of them loved to toss
> around the term "I jewed him down" to refer to getting a better price
> on something.

Also not unusual. I know someone from Long Island who grew up among Jews and still used such phrases. He frequently apologized for what he said, explaining that his dad said stuff like that all the time so it was a conditioned reflex.


This guy was/is a totally different class of person. The others had some minor quirks. This man is genuinely over the edge.

Now I've got email from him -- perfectly ordinary, affable business-stuff. And the idea of responding to this innocuous message makes me feel ill.

[crashlander]

I believe the whole "jewish" thing is a cover for The Borg...resistance is futile.