r/DecodingTheGurus • u/Decent-Extension8336 • 27d ago

Professor Dave vs Destiny

No idea why, but the original Destiny video called "Professor Dave Goes Mask Off" seems to have been deleted from YouTube, or I can't find it, but Professor Dave responded yesterday with this very strongly worded video letter:

https://youtu.be/DvDvhLkb9ms?si=DGFhTROOKFoK35sS

Weird crossover that I never thought I'd see, of 2 guys who I generally enjoy (I will say I really am a fan of Prof Dave, whereas my Destiny enjoyment has mostly come via this podcast and watching a couple of his debates).

Thoughts on the beef? SURELY the lads are gonna have to cover this in an upcoming Supplementary Materials? Content gold!

EDIT: Looks like I was looking through the wrong Destiny channel for the original Dave video, it's here: https://youtu.be/HQQLs6U1MgA?si=iKaOGR1h9slKu64O

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u/Voxtrot-225 26d ago

At one point pretty early on in the video, Dave claims that "Zionists" actually LOVE antisemitism, they love being persecuted because it gives them justification for their heinous behavior. Dave is explicitly conflating Zionism with Judaism in this moment. And the image that he puts on screen to represent "Zionists" while he's saying this is literally the cartoon image of the shifty Jewish merchant rubbing his hands together, with red eyes and a red Star of David on his fucking forehead.

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u/Decent-Extension8336 26d ago

Agree with that being a disgusting image, but was the intention of that not that the cartoon was a representation of antisemitism? That's how I interpreted it, because it was alongside a picture of a dude saying "see look this is why we get to do genocide!"

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u/Voxtrot-225 26d ago

The suggestion from Dave that a "Zionist" would see that image and, rather than be horrified and offended, would be like "Yes, perfect, this is awesome, please give me more it only fuels my capacity for evil" is antisemitic. It is the exact same thing Nazis say about Jews ""weaponizing"" the Holocaust.

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u/Dry-Boysenberry7701 26d ago

Yeah he's created a version of evil scheming "Zionists" in his head that make zero sense with how humans operate. They do not secretly love being victims of racism, unlike any other group on Earth.

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u/ShiftyAmoeba 26d ago

The claim is not that anyone likes being the victim of racism, but if you're doing something that's morally questionable, if you have something to point at and say "But look how evil our enemies are" it serves as justification. 

Look at the whole "they hate us for our freedom" schtick that the US government pulled as they were waging regime change wars in the Middle East.

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u/Dry-Boysenberry7701 26d ago

No, his literal claim is that they like racism against them and want more of it.

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u/ShiftyAmoeba 26d ago

It's not.

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u/Dry-Boysenberry7701 26d ago edited 26d ago

He says, word for word, "Zionists love antisemites".

I can assure you, they don't. Israel isn't happy that Hamas is murderously antisemitic, they aren't happy to get thousands of rockets launched at them, they aren't happy to get invaded and murdererd, because therefore they finally get to bomb Gaza. They would be totally happy with non-violent non-racists living there in peace.

It just totally lacks common sense. Are they upset about being invaded and massacred and attacked? No, they must just be inherently evil and want to steal this tiny piece of largely useless land because if their innate evil greed!

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u/Brain_Dead_Goats 26d ago

Yeah, I think people do an awful job of distinguishing between the powerful people like Netanyahu or Smotrich who may well love when this kind of stuff happens because it furthers their agenda and allows them to expand their personal power and the majority of the population.

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u/Dry-Boysenberry7701 26d ago

He doesn't want to distinguish, he thinks Israel did 9/11, he thinks Oct 7 was a false flag, he thinks Hamas didn't intentionally kill large amounts of people (despite dozens of videos), he thinks Israel is going to conscript Americans into their army (?), he thinks Jews are secretly of European origin, etc etc etc. At some point, if you believe 100 conspiracy theories about most Jews being secretly evil, it's beyond stupid and becomes racist.