Warner Robins teacher accused of threatening to kill student over comment about his Israeli flag

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — A Warner Robins teacher is accused of threatening to behead a student after she made a comment about his Israeli flag, according to the Houston County Sheriff's Office.

https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/warner-robins/new-details-in-warner-robins-teacher-charged-with-terroristic-threats-and-cruelty-to-children/93-66334447-a1d9-4e3a-beb9-8cb300595d35

After that, several different witnesses independently said they heard Reese say, “he would kick her fg a, slit her godn throat and drag her a** outside and cut her head off.”

The same witness says Reese was later seen returning to his classroom, cursing extremely loudly. The witness says he was yelling that he “should not be spoken to like that because he is a Jew.”

He went on saying, “I will drag her a** into the parking lot, slit her f*****g throat and kill her.”

Wow, not sure to call him ultra-nationalist or religious-extremist.

Violent bigots come in ever flavor. At a certain point, it's not worth the effort to suss out the source of their prejudices. It's an unanswerable question that leads to the same dissapointment in simple minded zealotry no matter their specific path.

I'd rather spend time trying to understand the ones I respect instead of getting lost in the maze of a random scum.

Best comment in this shit-stained comment section.

Wow, not sure to call him ultra-nationalist or religious-extremist.

There's a word for those two things; Zionism.

So now even Jew haters are Zionists?
Pretending the teacher isn’t pro-Israel, doesn’t make it true.
It’s always funny watching you people get mad when people call out zionism for what it is.

Oh, look… the fascists are now desperately hoping we’re going to forget what the word nazi means.

Yeah… not going to happen, fash.

Not all zionists are religious, like at all.
It takes like 10 minutes of googling to see Zionism is an umbrella term for multiple different schools of thoughts. People are turning it into some slur when at its core it’s the belief that Jews have a right to a state. Keep in mind that Jews are both a race and a religion.
Well it’s more of a state in a specific place and that maybe everyone should go there.
Several different locations were considered at first. I think the levant was chosen because it renders the “go back where you came from” argument moot since they’d be living in the area they originated from.

it’s the belief that Jews have a right to a state.

Bullcrap. Zionism originated as an antisemitic Christian idea that was specifically based on the premise that Jewish people “don’t belong” in (so-called) “western civilization” and should return “where they came from” - ie, Palestine.

Keep in mind that Jews are both a race and a religion.

White supremacist much? Do you want to tell me now that Ethiopian Jewish people and Ashkenazi are the same “race”?

Uh no, Zionism is not a Christian idea. It’s been an idea long before Christianity was even around. I’m flabbergasted that you called me a white supremacist for stating a fact. Ethiopian and Ashkenazi Jews could very well share DNA linking them back to the original Jewish diaspora.

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/03/21/beta-israel-reconsidered-defending-israelite-ancestry-ethiopian-jews/

“As the BBC reports, the study suggests that “Ethiopians mixed with Egyptian, Israeli or Syrian populations about 3,000 years ago.” Professor Chris Tyler-Smith, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, told the BBC: “By analyzing the genetics of Ethiopia and several other regions we can see that there was gene flow into Ethiopia, probably from the Levant, around 3,000 years ago, and this fits perfectly with the story of the Queen of Sheba.” Note that the study does not contradict the 2007 work by Entine or other historical evidence. The results suggest that Israelites-Jews entered the region 3,000 years ago, but they were not necessarily consolidated as a group until about 1,500 years ago. Also, note the study does not necessarily confirm the biblical story of affair between Queen Sheba of ancient Ethiopia and king Solomon of ancient Israel.”

Here’s another

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543766/

“By principal component analysis, it was observed that the Jewish populations of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East formed a tight cluster that distinguished them from their non-Jewish neighbors (Fig. 1). Within this central cluster, each of these Jewish populations formed its own subcluster, in addition to the more remote localization of members of some Diaspora communities. The observation of a major central tight cluster was supported by statistical metrics for genetic distances (Fst, allelic sharing distances).”

With all this said, even if Ethiopian Jews and Ashkenazi Jews are not actually genetically related, they still get targeted the same whether they practice Judaism or not.

Beta Israel reconsidered: Defending the Israelite ancestry of Ethiopian Jews

Ethiopian Jews are often portrayed in modern media and in some academic texts as having no true ancient ancestral connection to Israelite Jews. But there is substantial historical evidence for it.

Genetic Literacy Project

I’m flabbergasted that you called me a white supremacist for stating a fact.

Oh, look… a white supremacist is “flabbergasted” that someone pointed out their white supremacism.

Yawn.

Uh no, Zionism is not a Christian idea

Nope. Christian zionism predates Jewish zionism by about two decades. It’s such non-controversial history you’ll even find it on wikipedia, Clyde.

Ethiopian Jews and Ashkenazi Jews are not actually genetically related,

I’m genetically related to every other human being on the planet, genius - does that make me every “race” according to people like you who buy into the tenets of “race science”?

I have literally no idea how Jewish communities sharing specific DNA linking them to the levant has anything to do with white supremacy, or how that makes me a white supremacist. Zionism started after the Jewish Diaspora in 8th century BCE. Are all scientists that study genetics racist? Where are you getting this from and why are you so angry about it?

I have literally no idea how Jewish communities sharing specific DNA

Only a white supremacist classifies people into “races” based on arbitrary bullcrap like “sharing specific DNA.” Methinks you don’t seem to know how white supremacism works - despite the fact that you see the world through it’s lens. It’s a pretty common symptom amongst sufferers of the particular disease we call “westernism.”

Zionism started after the Jewish Diaspora in 8th century BCE.

No it didn’t, Clyde. Again… it’s such non-controversial history you’ll even find it on wikipedia.

If westernism is a disease which region is the cure professor Tank

So not only don’t you understand your own diseased ideology… you also completely miss the point of all the others.

No, Clyde… desperately hurling the term “tankie” at others does not distract from your white supreamcism.

Yes my horrible ideology of citing a peer reviewed science article published by the national library of medicine lmao. Science is a capitalist and imperialist conspiracy!!1!1
Again, Clyde… desperately hurling the term “tankie” at others does not distract from your white supreamcism.
As soon as you called westernism a disease I knew exactly what your profile would look like. You’re a tankie. If I called easternism a “disease” would that be okay? No because I’m not a bigot. If you’re old enough to be using this site you’re old enough to know better.

As soon as you called westernism a disease I knew exactly what your profile would look like.

Hey, Clyde… here’s a nice trick for you to try on your own. Every time somebody mentions the term “western civilization” to you, substitute the word “western” with the word white.

See if it changes the context - it’s a very fun little game. And quite educational.

If I called easternism

What “easternism,” Clyde? There is no such thing “eastern civilization” underpinned by “yellow and/or brown supremacy” - in only exists in the fevered imaginations of white supremacists.

I’m not a bigot.

Let me guess… you have a black friend?

You’re a tankie.

Again, Clyde… desperately hurling the term “tankie” at others does not distract from your white supremacism.

“What “easternism,” Clyde? There is no such thing “eastern civilization” underpinned by “yellow and/or brown supremacy” - it only exists in the fevered imaginations of white supremacists.”

This word vomit is incomprehensible to anyone who isn’t a Tankie. I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. If easternism isn’t a thing why would westernism be a thing?

No, no, no, Clyde… what “easternism?”

What’s the matter? Afraid of following your own narrative to it’s logical conclusion? Why would that be, eh?

Show it to me. Show me this “other” to your precious white - oops, sorry, I meant to say “western” - civilization that only exists in your head.

What are you even trying to say? You’re having an entire conversation with yourself and putting words in my mouth, it’s bizarre and hard to understand. I’m guessing westernism means the belief in western values and easternism would mean belief in eastern values.

I’m guessing westernism means the belief in western values

There has never been more than one “western” value, Clyde - it’s white supremacism. That’s it. That’s what makes something “western.”

easternism would mean belief in eastern values.

So I guess you won’t be putting up any credible evidence to back up your silly claims?

No surprises there.

You are an actual racist

Race is the wrong word in the modern American context. Jews aren’t a race in the sense of black vs white.

Jews are, however, an ethnicity - much like how you can be ethnically Navaho or ethnically Basque. It’s a matter of being part of a community of people with a shared culture and ancestry. And yes, beta Israel and Ashkenazim are both ethnically Jewish.

Jews aren’t a race in the sense of black vs white.

That’s really weird, Clyde… considering that it’s the only understanding of “race” we have here in our fundamentally white supremacist society.

Do tell… what does the KKK and the neonazis think of your (supposedly) “nuanced” take on pseudo-scientific “race science?”

Race used to be commonly used as a synonym of ethnicity - it isn’t rare to see references to the German race, the Celtic race, Greek race, etc.

Oh… so dividing people into “races” using the most arbitrary characteristics is a recent thing?

You don’t say.

Zionism started after the Jewish Diaspora in 8th century BCE.

No, it didn’t. Zionism started in the late 1800s/early 1900s.

This has happened before. One specific movement started then, but the idea is very old https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Zion
Return to Zion - Wikipedia

And that’s not “Zionism.” You could say it was a precursor, but Zionism is distinct thing.
This is the very first line in the book “Der Judenstaat” by Theodor Herzl, considered to be the father of modern Zionism starting with this book. “The idea which I have developed in this pamphlet is a very old one: it is the restoration of the Jewish State.” Herzl simply renewed the idea in modern times, so many websites will list him as the start. However, a little digging into Jewish history and you will find Zionism is a very old idea.

The idea is old but the specific movement and the execution of it is very young.

Zionists are primarily characterised by “the end justify the means” which mostly means they will kill and expell anyone they don’t like.

Jews however want their promised land but specifically not by violent means.

After spending some time reading the history of Zionism, I find you’re characterization of them dishonest. There’s tons of early Zionists that preached pacifism and coexistence. Here’s one of many examples https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._D._Gordon
A. D. Gordon - Wikipedia

Are you trying to come off an asshole? Like… cause you are.
TIL… it’s the people running interference for genocidal white supremacist settler-colonialist states that aren’t the assholes.
Race is a construct. We are all the same species.

Yes but so is Money, the significance of a social construct comes from how much society as a whole puts stock in the ideas. Unfortunately race is very relevant in today’s world as ethnicity and perceived race is a big factor in how issues are discussed and acted on.

I may be overreacting a bit, but your comment sounds a lot like the colorblind/all lives matter rethoric to me in this context, so I want to emphasize it’s significance to this discussion.

Totally reasonable reaction to have…

(Please tell me I don’t need to tag this as sarcasm)

Wow, not sure to call him ultra-nationalist or religious-extremist.

Fascist. That’s the word you’re looking for.

Religious nationalist is not a synonym for fascist. We need to stop diluting the meaning of the word fascist.

Religious nationalist

“Religious nationalist” is an oxymoron - especially when it comes to Abrahamic religions. Saluting a piece of colored fabric and treating it with any kind of reverential significance literally breaks the very first commandment.

They are neither religious - they literally act in direct contravention of the teachings they (supposedly) “follow” - nor nationalist - they literally (and overtly) place the interests of a small wealthy elite above the interests of the people in the nation.

No, Clyde - they are fascists.

Nations aren’t considered gods, and flags aren’t idols of those non-gods. You don’t sacrifice goats to the flag, or burn incense for it.

Judaism has historically looked at Christian beliefs and practices with way, way more suspicion of polytheism and idolatry than it’s ever looked at national flags.

The teacher here is unhinged, but you clearly don’t really know very much about the ten commandments, especially from a Jewish context.

Nations aren’t considered gods

Oh really? Children aren’t brainwashed into worshipping the classical liberal nation-states they are born into with religious-like reverance?

Really?

You don’t sacrifice goats to the flag,

No, we sacrifice people to them. Do tell, Clyde - how many USians have sacrificed themselves to “defend America” in the past couple of decades?

Judaism has historically looked at Christian beliefs

Oh, I see Jewish people everywhere being very suspicious of your precious nationalist religion… and it’s not a new thing, either.

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Yes. Children do not literally worship their nation-state with literal religious reverence. No rabbi would tell you that the ten commandments are about prohibiting metaphorical sacrifices to metaphorical religions.

No rabbi would say that saying that someone “worships money” turns their wallet into an alter and their job into idol worship. Religiously, it’s just a metaphorical turn of phrase.

Maimonides, probably the most influential rabbi of the middle ages, explicitly called Christians idolaters. The trinity isn’t precisely considered polytheistic; the Hebrew term is shituf.

Can you find a single rabbi who would call volunteering to join a military and dying at war halachically prohibited human sacrifice to the nation-as-god or flag-as-idol?

And where exactly did I call myself a religious nationalist? I’m just saying that your argument that the term is an oxymoron is idiotic and betrays a deep ignorance of the religion. I mean, you couldn’t even quote the right commandment - in Judaism, the first item on the ten commandants is “I am the lord your God”, which makes your argument a complete non sequitur.

Shituf - Wikipedia

Children do not literally worship their nation-state with literal religious reverence.

Of course not! Performing weird little rituals in regards to it’s symbols and sacrificing themselves and others to it’s (alleged) grandeur cannot possibly be compared with anything religious!

I mean… at least the older religions offers you the fantasy of an afterlife to cling to, right? That must be enough of a difference, right?

No rabbi would say that saying that someone “worships money”

Capitalist bootlickers have always attempted to pretend that religious figures “didn’t mean what they say” when they condemned the wealthy elites… I guess that hasn’t changed at all, huh?

I’m just saying that your argument that the term is an oxymoron

I can’t wait for you to actually come up with something that isn’t just bottom-of-the-barrel apologetics - will this be taking you long?

Let me make sure I understand you: your argument is that any self-consistent Jew cannot make an image of anything that can be compared to religion?

because of the religion of French cuisine, and no pictures of Rossini because of the religion of opera?

I’m sure you’re going to provide me with plenty of evidence that lists the millions that laid down their lives or were murdered for French cuisine and/or Italian opera.

Come now… don’t keep me in suspense.

This really has nothing to do with religion or politics - that’s just the trigger.

This person needs to be put into psychiatric care immediately and given the appropriate treatment as they are a danger to themselves and others. They should not be allowed to post a bond and leave custody. A medical evaluation should be performed, obviously, but this is clearly a psychiatric case.

It’s a fringe case, nothing to do with us!

lol, nice damage control.

It’s “fringe” but if this was our response to every time someone did this shit our mental healthcare facilities would be overrun like it was peak COVID. Plus, if this were some kind of treatable mental illness they’d be going absolutely nuts about curing it being some kind of liberal brainwashing. But it is an epidemic.

That would not be the case if ineffective resources dedicated to the prison system were properly redirected in an evidence-driven program designed to isolate people from larger society when they constitute a danger and effect whatever treatments are possible to fix the actual issues, not some misconstrued notion of good and evil. I believe that it is legitimate and moral for society to protect itself from people like this man. You’re just not going to fix anything by sticking him in a dark abusive hole for five years, much less letting him out on parole for a few grand.

This man’s brain is in the exact same condition that it was in when it caused him to react to a child’s statement as if he were sieging Fallujah. That same guy is still walking the streets. Having received some consequences for his action may have attenuated those signal pathways, but may have also exasperated them. He needs a combination of medication to reduce his reactivity and coping mechanisms for realizing when it’s happening. He may never be safe for society, but he’s certainly not safe because he was able to take $5k from his savings to pay bail.

Seriously, what the flying fuck are you talking about?

People who commit acts of violence like this are quite clearly psychotic - whether it’s a mother murdering her children, a teacher threatening to murder a student, a gunman on campus, or someone who gets into fight after fight in bars. There is something broken in their brain.

Let me walk you through this, since your background in the subject is lacking. I will bet you $1000 dollars that if we were to do a neuroimaging on this man, we would see that his amygdala - the part of the brain that senses threat and engages the rest of the brain in a threat response is hypertrophied. His limbic system, which controls emotional response, is primed to react to a level of stimulation so small that probably neither you nor I would notice. His prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for pushing back on those signals through rationality and long term planning is hypotrophied. It is decoupled and unable to do its job. This is the same as we see in violent individuals throughout the prison system.

There are a number of ways this can happen. Having been abused as a child is one. Having been malnourished. Having grown up experiencing social abuse and rejection. It’s more likely than average he suffered a traumatic brain injury at some point in his history. TBIs are about ten times as common in the violent prison population as in society as a whole.

This man’s clinical condition dictated his interpretation of himself, which includes his religion. It’s the same for the gunman. It’s the same for the child abuser.

You will find the same in the brains of Hamas and IDF combatants. You will find, in a time series study, that these conditions become more extreme as a result of combat stress and ptsd. The Palestinian children who are being subjected to this massacre will display these same symptoms. The inner city kids in the US who grow up in a culture of systemic racism and violence show these same symptoms.

If you’re the kind of person who ascribes this kind of behavior to someone being an “evil” person or having an “evil” ideology, I strongly suggest you read some textbooks on neuropsychology and behavioral science.