Posted on 11/15/2023 2:16:29 PM PST by NohSpinZone
Venture capitalist Kenneth Ballenegger has been suspended from the US investment firm he cofounded, Oyster Ventures, after making offensive remarks on X on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
According to screenshots shared with Business Insider, Ballenegger wrote on Sunday: "After the war, Israel should handle Gaza like China handles Xinjiang. Full surveillance state. Re education camps. Sterilizations. It's warranted and the only way to pacify the jihadi population."
Responding to criticism from a former colleague, Ballenegger continued: "They reproduce like rabbits and raise them to be terrorists, creating more poverty misery and terrorism. Why should we allow that. The world would be a much better place if they didn't reproduce."
Ballenegger's X account was set to private at the time of writing, though not before his remarks were spotted and condemned by other users. The X posts also remain visible on Google search.
"Absolutely disgusting genocidal rhetoric from someone who apparently works in the VC world," wrote Yashar Ali, a widely followed US political journalist, on X.
Ballenegger's cofounding partner at Oyster Ventures, Sophie Liao, issued an initial statement on X distancing the company from his remarks. Liao did not initially condemn Ballenegger or suggest he would be fired.
"Any employee's personal or political opinion does not reflect the values of Oyster Ventures or myself. Oyster Ventures does not tolerate any behavior that disrespects individuals or groups of people," the statement read.
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Sterilizations was going too far, but Israel is going to have to govern them with an iron fist until they can repair the population.
I stand with Mr. Ballenegger.
I’m not offended.
The IDF has many excellent educators.
Their Arab pupils are generally lousy learners.
>> Sterilizations was going too far,
I’m pro-choice in this matter. Give whatever males are left alive the choice of lethal injection or sterilization.
Making your conquered enemy into eunuchs is good governance that has stood the test of time. 😉
#metoo
“the only way to pacify the jihadi population”
Does his former employer have an alternate suggestion?
This case, vs the Kurush Mistry case where he told someone Jewish to “go back to your country” will be good test cases of how employment discrimination and “hostile work environment” laws are applied.
My advice to conservatives: don’t get your hopes up.
Stop being disingenuous. The media is full of stories of people being fired for anti-Israeli / Jewish comments. This is one from just today.
This is literally the first story i’ve seen of someone being fired for Anti-Palestinian comments.
Nothing he said was untruthful.
The thing is, there is a model for how to deal with Gaza within (barely) living memory. How did we deal with Germany and Japan after the war? First of all, we beat the living crap out of them, so that messing with us again didn’t look that good, even to the hard core.
We put their leaders on trial for war crimes/crimes against humanity and after they were found guilty we hanged them. Lesser figures got lesser prison sentences. We purged their education system of Nazism/Japanese expansionism, and modeled democratic ideas.
Was it perfect? Hardly. But how much trouble have Japan and Germany given us lately?
Makes sense to me.
Makes sense to me.
“Nothing he said was untruthful.”
He was wrong when he said it would pacify the jihadi population.
no need for Sterilizations if they are all dead.
He didn’t say anything that isn’t true. I think ethnic cleansing of all Arab Muslims from Gaza would be a better solution.
fixed it
To accomplish this, we would need to make Islam illegal.
His comments are one hundred percent accurate. I don’t see the problem
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