Mamet on Fox: "Teachers are inclined, particularly men because men are predators, to pedophilia."

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

They're trying to get teachers killed with the side benefit of destroying public education.

[Aristus]

1. He's really gone around the bend.

[Dorian Gray]

37. Hopefully this man

has family who loves him and who will stop him from speaking publicly. Because this is deranged.

[Johonny]

2. When what you say tells more about you, than it does about who you're talking about

For the record, grade school teachers are not grooming anyone. They're just trying to do their job while being underpaid and under supplied. Mamet on the other hand has issues on a lot of fronts. I'd keep my kids away from him.

[jcgoldie]

9. see also Trump, Donald

For whom that explains just about everything he says.

[MarcA]

18. Doncha know, those with great wealth are people

of unquestionable great moral character. They are the job creators
and the Lords of all that is good in our feudal society.

[shrike3]

15. Good God, I have friends who are teachers.

I am just floored by this.

[underpants]

3. I had a little talk this weekend with my Mom about QANON

and how all this “grooming” business (which does happen) is really going back to QAnon. The folks are regular Fox viewers. She’d never heard of QAnon and what it is.

[Jim__]

4. And, of course, David Mamet is a recognized expert on education, sex, and pedophilia.

Because if he's not, we might think that his opinion on these matters is nothing but bullshit and should not be broadcast over national TV.

[MagickMuffin]

5. What dirty little secrets are you hiding David Mamet?

I hear you guys like pizza parlors with basements.

[barbaraann]

12. Did he know something about Epstein and the Dalton School?

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-epstein-barr-problem-of-new-york-citys-dalton-school/

[Sherman A1]

13. My first thought as well

Sounds like projection to me.

[onecaliberal]

6. If this pathetic excuse for a human had even one clue how hard it is to be a teacher in this climate

He would know how completely stupid and unhinged he sounds.

[Peregrine Took]

7. Never liked him or his wierd plays/movies. n/t

[marmar]

8. Projection maybe?

[milestogo]

10. He graduated from the School of Gross Generalizations with honors.

[Johnny2X2X]

11. This is Conservative thought for you

Conservative ideology assumes the worst about everyone. It's why they don't trust the public to ever make their own choices.

[shrike3]

14. One more reason not to see Glengarry Glen Ross.

But seriously, this is so offensive I wouldn't know where to begin. So I won't try.

My sincerest apology, though, to all teachers on DU. Most of us are not assholes like this one. I promise.

[Revanchist]

38. Actually it's a good movie

Outstanding performance by Jack Lemmon

[shrike3]

40. That was rhetorical. I haven't exactly avoided GGR, just haven't sought it out.

And I have heard lots of praise for the movie and for Lemmon.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

16. He wrote a play about a college professor's career being ruined by sexual harassment charges

I'm sure there's some experience somewhere in there.

And what is it with acclaimed male writers and the whole "older male professor and their female student" genre?

[obamanut2012]

34. Educating Rita is the very rare exception to this

I agree.

[JohnSJ]

17. Mamet is a hateful POS. The fact he is a trumper should also tell you he is a racist, sexist, and

bigot

No surprise he was on Bill Maher last week, because both have much in common, with the exception that trump won the election

[smirkymonkey]

23. +1000

Totally agree with you there. The amazing thing is that he’s not even that well informed, but he thinks because he is a famous writer/director/academic that he can make up his own facts, and he does.

[JohnSJ]

24. You nailed it smirky

[Hortensis]

28. Yup and yup with both of you.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

19. Stick to writing plays, David.

Jesus Fucking Christ.

[Hortensis]

20. Unfortunately, he's making a rational-ish seeming connection

between gender education and sexual grooming of innocent children by pedophilic schoolteachers. Scraps of truth make foundations for great lies, and we do know that elementary education would attract sexual predators if it wasn't such a dangerous and unlikely place to get away with it.

Repeat a lie often enough..., or just a lying connection between good and bad.

Teachers, pedophiles. Democrats, "corporatists." Etc.

[DonCoquixote]

22. rational ish is a the worst form of irrational

Because it camouflages itself in reason, ideas that are rational "Ish" get swallowed.

[Hortensis]

26. Exactly.

As said, these victims are especially inclined to have a dark view of human nature, which toxic manipulators are feeding, and feeding, and feeding.

These days, any public figure who tries to amplify people's fears to get elected or stimulate donations is adding to something already grown very dangerous and out of control.

Build. Better. Yes, we can. That's us.

[Oneironaut]

21. Wtf? What a nut job.

The war on teachers and education continues.

[Takket]

25. Absolute projection

[Torchlight]

27. Damn. Another instance I'm happy after the fact

to separate the art from the artist.

Between The Untouchables and The Verdict to Oleanna and Glengarry, I've been a fan of his almost free-form style of writing since the mid-90s (Mamet-speak as per the hipsters).

Such a shame to see talent like his wrapped up in such a miserable human.

[Casady1]

29. It strikes me that he

was a victim of sexual abuse. I also think some of his movies were kind of weird ."The postman rings twice" was nothing that i wanted to see. To go on To go on Mark Levin's show is all you need to know. I had never seen him interviewed but I did watch him on youtube with maher and he creeped me out.

[RockRaven]

30. People who make sweeping generalizations about vast numbers of pedophiles* are revealing more

about their own thought processes and predilections than they are about the group they are yammering about.

*without evidence, that is

[dameatball]

31. But then he left out coaches, scoutmasters, clergy, therapists, den mothers, piano teachers, medical

professionals, postal carriers ( hey, they know who the latch key kids are), baby sitters, grandparents, and who knows how long the list is? Heck, the dreaded ice cream truck drivers are looking better all the time.

[patphil]

32. Wow! Men are all inclined to pedophilia because they're predators.

Why stop at teachers? How about coaches, councilors, doctors, dentists, priests, ministers...any job where a male contacts children.
Not to mention uncles, brothers, cousins, next door neighbors.

Sure, there are men who fit what he describes, but his idiotic, gross generalization is just a way to "groom" kids to his way of thinking.
Demonizing teachers is just another form of grooming and indoctrination.

It's also a way of getting rid of any teacher who wants to teach kids to think.
When I went to my Catholic grade school, we had to memorize whole sections of the catechism they handed out to us. I experienced it again while attending a Catholic high school.
I'm sure this guy wouldn't object to religious indoctrination; a not to subtle form of grooming.
After all, it's not the indoctrination he is actually objecting to, it's just that it's not his idea of what to "groom" the children to believe.

What an asshole!
Thought I'd add this for effect:

[obamanut2012]

33. The FUCK

[11 Bravo]

35. Every conservative accusation is actually a confession.

Mamet just outed himself as a wannabe kiddie diddler.

[msongs]

36. one suspects the huge majority of offenders are heterosexual and xtian nt

[budkin]

39. Cannot believe I used to respect this asshole

Fuck him.

[JoanofArgh]

41. He's a huge Trump supporter

On to Mamet’s much-documented swing to conservatism, from his stand against the NFL’s kneeling-during-the-anthem protests to his support for Donald Trump. It seems so far away from the leftist leanings of his youth, the critiques of capitalism clearly visible in American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross. “I was never, ever a communist,” he says. “All you need to know about communism is that Marx was a sponger. He lived off Engels’ family who had a furniture factory.”

Mamet became a vocal Trump supporter during his presidency, which can’t have been easy in the Democratic stronghold of California. “Well, he did a great job as a president.” Really? “Well, if you put everything you see on these little screens aside and look at what happened during the Trump presidency. We told China to knock it off. We told Nato to start paying their fair share. We moved the Embassy of the United States to Jerusalem in Israel . . . Gas prices were down. There was the lowest black unemployment in history …”

There was also Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was rigged. Does Mamet believe America’s democratic process to be flawed too? “It’s an interesting question. I grew up in Chicago, which was run as a mob’s fiefdom by Mayor Richard J Daley. So all elections were rigged. The idea that people are not going to steal elections is ignorance because people steal elections all the time. The question is: ‘What was the extent of the election rigging?’ I don’t know. But was it questionable? Yes.”

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/feb/23/trump-great-job-president-david-mamet-free-speech-gender-politics-election-rigging-woods

[Deep State Witch]

42. On behalf of my late father

Who spent 40 years as a high school educator (teacher, guidance counselor, VP, and principal), I am offended by that statement. My dad never had ANY student accuse him of anything - except maybe being too strict. David Mamet should STFU.