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Melvin Capital boss Gabe Plotkin says he was the target of anti-Semitism on Reddit

The head of the hedge account at the center of last month’s GameStop frenzy utters Redditors targeted him by anti-Semitic insults plus text messages.

Melvin Capital creator Gabe Plotkin made the worrying claim in ready testimony he plans to provide at Thursday’s House Financial Services Group hearing on the current populist rebellion in the stock market.

Melvin converted a main target of rookie traders on Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum since it had taken a short place in GameStop, meaning it was gambling that the struggling video-game retailer’s stock price might fall.

While Reddit users invigorated each other to “trade in the reverse direction” of Melvin’s savings, they moreover took aim at Plotkin individually, he said.

“Numerous of these posts were fastened with antisemitic slurs directed at me plus others,” Gabe Plotkin Melvin Capital said in his testament. “The posts said things similar ‘it’s very clear we requisite a second holocaust, the jews cannot keep getting away with this.’ Others directed similarly profane and racialist text messages to me.”

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WallStreetBets has a reputation for being foul-mouthed and crass. Its users often refer to each other as “retards” — an offensive slur for persons with intelligent disabilities — and Keith Gill, the Redditor accredited with spearheading the GameStop assembly, goes by “DeepF—ingValue” on the forum.

However Reddit CEO Steve Huffman protected WallStreetBets in his ready testimony, saying the 9.1 million-member message board is an online communal with “noteworthy depth.”

Plotkin’s testimony moreover detailed how the extraordinary surge in GameStop’s stock price affected him professionally along with personally.

Gabe Plotkin Melvin Capital entitled after his grandfather — shut its short position in GameStop at a loss in the last week of January as the firm’s stock price soared toward a peak of $483 a share.

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