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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 07:41 PM Feb 2018

EXCLUSIVE: Fired Infowars staffers at war with Alex Jones...

EXCLUSIVE: Fired Infowars staffers at war with Alex Jones - one claiming he was teased as the site's 'resident Jew' while African American worker says she was 'mocked' for her skin tone and Jones 'grabbed her behind'

By Ryan Parry West Coast Correspondent For Dailymail.com

PUBLISHED: 13:51 EST, 28 February 2018 | UPDATED: 13:57 EST, 28 February 2018

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has discriminated against his staff, laughed along with racist and anti-Semitic slurs against former employees and even groped one female worker, bombshell documents allege.

The controversial Infowars owner joked with staff who called Rob Jacobson 'The Jewish Individual', 'The Resident Jew' and shouted 'Yacobson' across the office, it's claimed.

Jones allegedly continually bullied, ridiculed and humiliated Jacobson - who worked for Jones' company Infowars for 13 years - before firing him last May.

Jacobson is in the process of suing Jones for discrimination, harassment and unfair dismissal and his lawyers have submitted a complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5419371/Former-Infowars-employees-claim-Alex-Jones-harassed-them.html#ixzz58Rv52D6B
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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. Bottoms up.
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 07:46 PM
Feb 2018

Nothing new about people like this turning their verbal weapons on new targets. Trump's story about snakes, "you knew what I was," comes to mind.

AJT

(5,240 posts)
3. Am I supposed to geel sorry for them? It's not like they didn't know that
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 07:46 PM
Feb 2018

they didn't know that Infowars was a hate site. But conservatives only think the hate will be aimed at liberals, not them.

hlthe2b

(102,357 posts)
4. this guy is so incredibly 'insane', yet I can remember when he merely wrote a blog that DUers would
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 07:48 PM
Feb 2018

on occasion site--largely because (at least as far as I can recall) because they criticized the Iraqi war and Bush*.

While I think there was an assumption that he was a wacko conspiracy theorist then too, he surely was more mainstream than now.

I guess that is the Trump effect.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
5. Time for some remix whiz to make an appropriate musical background...
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 07:51 PM
Feb 2018

I’m thinking the “Mortal Kombat” theme using Daffy Duck “whoop-whoop-woohoos”.

 

Exotica

(1,461 posts)
7. quite ironic as his ex-wife (and mother to his children) is Jewish, his main lawyer
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 07:59 PM
Feb 2018

for years is connected to the Bronfmans in Canada, and actual Neo Nazis HATE Jones because he always refused to play along with their "Da Jooooos run everything" bullshit.

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