Talk:Eugene Puryear

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Does anyone know if Puryear is old enough to be constitutionally eligible for the Vice Presidency. Everything I've found lists him as a student at Howard, and from photos of him he appears to be fairly young. Obviously, there are students who enter college later, so I'm not asserting his inelgibility--I'm just wondering if anyone knows his age. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.43.169 (talk) 17:38, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I was thinking the same thing. I can't find anything that say when he was born. --AW (talk) 18:45, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

He wasn't old enough to run at the time, and part of the campaign was in protest of the age requirements for office. I couldn't find source, however. 18:10, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

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Video praising Hamas attack
@EggRoll97 "per WP:RSPTWITTER, "Twitter should never be used for third-party claims related to living persons."

That part of WP:RSPTWITTER is not relevant, since there is no third-party claim about Puryear. "Twitter accounts should only be cited if the user's identity is confirmed in some way" might be relevant (if you believe the person in the video is not him). The video is a reliable primary source of the words said in the video.

Other sources of the quote:

https://news.yahoo.com/socialist-rally-in-times-square-praising-hamas-terror-attack-draws-widespread-condemnation-204123785.html

"“And as you might have seen, there was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters,” one speaker joked about the Hamas assault on a desert rave,"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/opinion/israel-hamas-protests-left.html

"“As you might have seen, there was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters,” a speaker said. “But I’m sure they’re doing very fine despite what The New York Post says.” He was met with cheers."

and there are a bunch of others if you google "electrified hanggliders".

NY Times cites this longer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1545&v=CooCkzYnFPQ

I don't see any reason why this shouldn't be in the article, if stated neutrally. — Omegatron (talk) 01:24, 11 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Looks fine with the other sourcing from the New York Times and Yahoo News, and the wording you've used is far more neutral than the original insert. EggRoll97 (talk) 02:44, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

There are many edits to this page and comments in other places that assume he was celebrating the killing of civilians ("taking them out"), but I think the "doing very fine" part of the comment implies he was "only" celebrating their abduction ("taking them"). I'm not sure how to put this neutrally in the article, though. Examples:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/growing-threat-antisemitism-america

"After learning that terrorists used hang gliders to storm a musical festival near the border with Gaza, Eugene Puryear from the Party for Socialism and Liberation mocked the innocent Israelis who were systematically slaughtered."

https://www.riverdalepress.com/stories/israel-hamas-war-reverberates-in-riverdale,127418?

"Another Pro-Palestian speaker, Eugene Puryear, referencing the massacre at the Tribe of Nova music festival, called the victims “hipsters.” The mention of Hama militants taking them out, was met with cheers by a nearby crowd."

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-at-war

"listeners cheered a speaker who boasted that Israelis had been having a “great time” at “some sort of rave or desert party” until “the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took out at least several dozen hipsters”"

— Omegatron (talk) 19:20, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Should he be listed as an anti-semite?
Based on his sickening and vile comments supporting the Hamas attack should he be listed in the category Antisemitism in the United States? Jaydoggmarco (talk) 23:56, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
 * No, per the explicit category description. Please stop your edit-warring. StAnselm (talk) 01:47, 15 October 2023 (UTC)