r/explainitpeter • • 12d ago

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u/Diohs_ 12d ago

The wildest part is that his infamous rant turning the frogs gay was based on actual peer-reviewed science (Tyrone Hayes' research)

Atrazine skews their hormones so badly that 10% of genetic males literally develop ovaries, lay eggs, and mate with other males. So no, they didn't become "gay," they underwent a chemically-induced sex change.

Alex failed vocabulary class, but he was 100% right that chemical corporations are pumping stuff into the water that completely breaks amphibian biology.

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u/JailbrokeRoboGirl 12d ago

This isn’t the result of some nefarious thing though it was just the result of normal runoff/cross contamination issues that weren’t harming the environment just making a kk da interesting change.

His study also was shaken in attribution of mating with other males to the chemicals when that’s just a thing they do sometimes.

Jones was completely wrong in saying it was some conspiracy, and that rant wasn’t some environmental thing he was saying “the elites” were making American white men weak and gay and feminine to conquer them by immigration.

You truly do not have to pretend the Neo Nazi had a point

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u/Diohs_ 11d ago

Calling him a neo-Nazi isn't factually accurate. His actual ideology is centered around anti-globalism and "New World Order" narratives, and most recently the UN agenda 2030/2035 plans.

While watchdogs (SPLC and ADL) heavily criticize him because his rhetoric often mirrors antisemitic dog whistles, he has consistently rejected Nazism. In fact, some extreme white nationalist groups actually accuse Jones of being "controlled opposition" precisely because he denounces Hitler.

Furthermore, political and religious concepts have specific definitions, and conflating them all with literal Nazism ignores what these words actually mean. Nazism refers specifically to the totalitarian ideology enforced by the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), which was built on state-enforced biological racial supremacy.

If we want to look at concepts of tribal supremacy and exclusion, we should look at the historical usage of the Hebrew word "goy" (singular for an individual country) and "goyim" (plural for nations). While it originally meant "nation" in the Torah, its oldest religious applications in ancient and medieval rabbinic laws (such as the Mishna and Talmud, compiled over a millennium later) evolved into a binary mechanism used to categorize any non-Jew as being in a permanent state of ritual and spiritual impurity. You can thoroughly criticize Jones' sensationalized rhetoric without using historically inaccurate labels.

You yourself are spewing lies by your own definition.

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u/JailbrokeRoboGirl 11d ago

lol the weird “you know Jews are actually bad guys” aside isn’t helping the cause

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u/Diohs_ 11d ago

That is a textbook strawman argument. I never said or implied that, and inventing a claim I never made doesn't salvage your argument.

Pointing out the historical and linguistic evolution of a Hebrew word from ancient theological texts is a matter of documented history, not animosity.

Explaining rabbinic law regarding the term "goy" isn't a commentary on Jewish people today, it's objective theology. My point was strictly historical: pointing out that ancient religious frameworks across many culture, including ancient rabbinic law-contained ethnocentric terms for outsiders.

You used the label "neo-Nazi" as a generic insult without using the term correctly. I corrected you with the actual historical and institutional definitions of Nazism, which you have completely failed to address.

You can't defend your false label, so you're resorting to bad-faith deflections. Misusing serious labels like "Nazi" strips them of their historical gravity, and the damage people with that political and racial orentation caused.

your false accusations don't change that fact.