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Lara Kollab, a Muslim Palestinian, fired from Ohio residency program for tweeting that she would give Jews wrong meds
Cleveland Clinic resident who made anti-Semitic comments online no longer employed by the hospital

This is the tweet in question.

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But she has a lot more.
 
This is exactly the kind of thing I was discussing when the Nazi cook got fired by the restaurant. I had said that it would be acceptable for a manager/owner to fire someone based on risks when their so-called ideology is actually ideation of violence and harm to customers...Nazis, al Qaeda, whatever this individual woman is...have beliefs in practicing harm to their customers/patients. It's not too different than hiring a pedophile (which is also belief in a practice, not necessarily acted upon yet) to work in a daycare center. You don't want a Nazi poisoning the food of your customers and you don't want a doctor giving the wrong drugs intentionally to Jewish people. It's not based on a born trait of a person that renders them innocent but bad decisions to have harmful beliefs of harmful practices.

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Lara Kollab, a Muslim Palestinian, fired from Ohio residency program for tweeting that she would give Jews wrong meds
Cleveland Clinic resident who made anti-Semitic comments online no longer employed by the hospital

But she has a lot more.

In fact, Lara Kollab is an American, born in Ohio.
Just WOW. that is one hell of a powerful defense... :rolleyes:

I suspect you are taking her out of context. Why would you assume this is a defense instead of addressing something appearing anti-immigrant by Derec?
 
Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
Just WOW. that is one hell of a powerful defense... :rolleyes:

I suspect you are taking her out of context. Why would you assume this is a defense instead of addressing something
appearing anti-immigrant by Derec?

I read what both Derec and Toni posted. Any 'context' that would make my post questionable would have been kept secret and unspoken by both. Perhaps you are assuming a 'context' that doesn't exist.
 
It's nothing but a bad joke. But joking like that will get you thrown out of residency programs.
 
Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
Just WOW. that is one hell of a powerful defense... :rolleyes:

I suspect you are taking her out of context. Why would you assume this is a defense instead of addressing something
appearing anti-immigrant by Derec?

I read what both Derec and Toni posted. Any 'context' that would make my post questionable would have been kept secret and unspoken by both. Perhaps you are assuming a 'context' that doesn't exist.

First, this thread was split from another one. You would need to read more than the 2 posts you said you read. Second, nowhere in Toni's post does she say she is defending anyone. So even in reading the 2 posts, you've read something not present.
 
Lara Kollab, a Muslim Palestinian, fired from Ohio residency program for tweeting that she would give Jews wrong meds
Cleveland Clinic resident who made anti-Semitic comments online no longer employed by the hospital

But she has a lot more.

In fact, Lara Kollab is an American, born in Ohio.
Just WOW. that is one hell of a powerful defense... :rolleyes:

What made you think I was attempting to defend Kollab rather than correct an inaccuracy?
 
It's nothing but a bad joke. But joking like that will get you thrown out of residency programs.

I don't really think that it was a 'bad joke.' And yes, suggesting that you would intentionally give the wrong medication to any patient is exactly something that would and should get you kicked out of any residency program--and your medical license pulled, no matter who that patient might be.

Seriously, what is wrong with people???
 
The psychopaths that deliberately give people the wrong medication don't talk about it.

It was a bad joke.
 
The psychopaths that deliberately give people the wrong medication don't talk about it.

It was a bad joke.

Aren’t jokes supposed to be funny? Or st least allude to humor?

She made a number of similar statements—not political statements that are pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli. Not political statements but hate speech and alluding to her intentions to commit medical malpractice or even murder.
 
I can understand why a Palestinian would hate the nation of Israel.

But hating individual Jews living in the US is not justifiable.
 
I can understand why a Palestinian would hate the nation of Israel.

But hating individual Jews living in the US is not justifiable.

I understand —or rather, I accept that some people hate some other people based on race, gender, ethnicity, skin color, religion, sexual orientation, etc. and even affiliation with the Packers.

I do not understand how it is possible to get through medical school and to land a residency at a prestigious medical center and to not realize that it wasn’t ok to state your willingness to engage in medical malpractice. For any reason. Or how anyone can mistake that for ‘a joke.’
 
The psychopaths that deliberately give people the wrong medication don't talk about it.

It was a bad joke.

Psychopaths that have convinced themselves that there is nothing immoral about killing anyone belonging to a group that they consider vermin apparently do (they may even consider it admirable). I think it quite likely that Nazi leadership quite often talked about killing Jews and Gypsies.
 
I can understand why a Palestinian would hate the nation of Israel.

But hating individual Jews living in the US is not justifiable.

I understand —or rather, I accept that some people hate some other people based on race, gender, ethnicity, skin color, religion, sexual orientation, etc. and even affiliation with the Packers.

I do not understand how it is possible to get through medical school and to land a residency at a prestigious medical center and to not realize that it wasn’t ok to state your willingness to engage in medical malpractice. For any reason. Or how anyone can mistake that for ‘a joke.’

It was either a bad joke or a threat.

I do not think it was a real threat.
 
I can understand why a Palestinian would hate the nation of Israel.

But hating individual Jews living in the US is not justifiable.

I understand —or rather, I accept that some people hate some other people based on race, gender, ethnicity, skin color, religion, sexual orientation, etc. and even affiliation with the Packers.

I do not understand how it is possible to get through medical school and to land a residency at a prestigious medical center and to not realize that it wasn’t ok to state your willingness to engage in medical malpractice. For any reason. Or how anyone can mistake that for ‘a joke.’

It was either a bad joke or a threat.

I do not think it was a real threat.

Why not?

Can you point to anything remotely humorous about any of her tweets?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ya...hreatening-anti-semitic-tweets-183416657.html
 
In fact, Lara Kollab is an American, born in Ohio.

Her hateful tweets have nothing to do, as far as I can see, with her being born in Ohio and having American citizenship.
They have a great deal to do with her being Palestinian (certainly by descent and also how she seems to see herself and identify as) and a Muslim.

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What made you think I was attempting to defend Kollab rather than correct an inaccuracy?
What exactly was inaccurate?

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It's nothing but a bad joke. But joking like that will get you thrown out of residency programs.

I don't really think that it was a 'bad joke.' And yes, suggesting that you would intentionally give the wrong medication to any patient is exactly something that would and should get you kicked out of any residency program--and your medical license pulled, no matter who that patient might be.

Seriously, what is wrong with people???

Yes, even if she was not being serious, she is a giant liability.
 
Her hateful tweets have nothing to do, as far as I can see, with her being born in Ohio and having American citizenship.
They have a great deal to do with her being Palestinian (certainly by descent and also how she seems to see herself and identify as) and a Muslim.

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What exactly was inaccurate?

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It's nothing but a bad joke. But joking like that will get you thrown out of residency programs.

I don't really think that it was a 'bad joke.' And yes, suggesting that you would intentionally give the wrong medication to any patient is exactly something that would and should get you kicked out of any residency program--and your medical license pulled, no matter who that patient might be.

Seriously, what is wrong with people???

Yes, even if she was not being serious, she is a giant liability.

You claimed that she is Palestinian when in fact she is as American as you are.
 
You claimed that she is Palestinian
But she is Palestinian. And that identity is the one that is relevant to her antisemitic tweets.
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She even lists two cities in her profile: Nablus (West Bank) and New York.
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I know, I know. "Whore, where is your hijab", but many extremists are hypocrites to the core...

Whatever else she may or may not be, she is a Palestinian...
when in fact she is as American as you are.
Her also being American (at least de jure) is not relevant to her tweets, which is why I did not mention it.
 
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