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Not sure if this fits the bill but here's a story[0].

[0]: https://nypost.com/2020/07/02/harvard-grad-claira-janover-fi...



I'm not sure that really fits.

Her anger is the problem.

She was going to work with Deloitte, where she will represent her organization in front of clients that regularly sign off on invoices that resemble less a major purchase and more the GDP of a small country.

Imagine that you have a business.

Would you hire such an angry, callous, and impulsive person to represent you in front of clients?

Unless the name of your business starts with "B" and ends with "ank of America", the answer is probably "no".

Folks on the right are saying that she called for stabbing conservatives.

I don't think that's true.

She was using metaphor -- comparing being stabbed to having a paper cut -- and just did it exceedingly poorly.

The metaphor doesn't become clear unless you watch until the end of the video, and I don't know a lot of people, conservative or liberal, that are all that interested in watching the entirety of a video where they are being offered a complementary stabbing, just so that they can get the punchline.

If you post a video of you start off by repeating, over and over, "I am going to $VERB you", then don't be surprised when people interpret your message as, "I am going to $VERB you".

Finally: imagine that we flip her political orientation, and that she recored an angry video where she used a metaphor in which she talks about shooting BLM supporters.

She would likely be in jail.

There is a political difference in how both threats and actual violence are treated in the United States, and it favors the Left.


thats not even an extreme leftist opinion, that's terrorism.




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