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People point to uh
they point to public opinion shifting.
You know, I guess if you're all about
just clicks and ratings
and then you attribute virtue to
popularity, but I don't.
There's been many many times in history
where there were popular movements and
trend trends that were revolutionary and
evil, but they were popular. Communism
was popular and trendy and fashionable.
Nazism was popular. slavery was popular
doesn't mean they were right and good.
So, sorry, that's kind of meaningless to
me. If you're talking about
pragmatically, I get it because yes,
when populations turn on certain things,
they can actually shift and extend into
politics and that can create very
dangerous situations. But I just want to
say this last point with regard to
anti-semitism in general as I shied away
from kind of using overusing the term
and it has been overused in a lot of
ways. Everybody could admit that you
know not everything is anti-semitic. But
if anti-semitism is not hate hate but
more of a lie then I think it is
applicable to say that uh
it is the undercurrent here because if
it's not just hatred if oh yeah you
don't hate your random coworker who's
Jewish. No, you could still possibly buy
into a conspiracy about Jews a lie. And
I'll say this,
I wrote this down because it's
important. I uh I do not think
anti-semitism, and this points more to
the right than to the left. We covered
the left earlier in the episode.
Anti-semitism did not rise because
people object to this war and object to
Israel's actions in this war. It's the
opposite. People object to the war and
object to Israel because of
anti-semitism.
I'll say it again. Anti-semitism did not
rise because of Israel's actions in
Gaza, because of the war. It did not
rise because people object to the war.
People object to the war irrationally,
instinctively because of anti-semitism.
There's this obsession with this one
state. While there are many more, way
more evil regimes and states around the
world committing actual genocides and
ethnic cleansing against Christians all
around doesn't get talked about. Not a
word, not a blurb. People turn a blind
eye to radical Islamic terrorism. They
turn a blind eye to Christians being
massacred. They turn a blind eye to Jews
being massacred in Syria.
I don't even like this argument so much
because it it reeks of what aboutism and
it makes it seem like, okay, Israel is
bad, but so are all these other
countries. No, Israel is not only not
bad, it's good and virtuous.
But it points to a weird blindness to
everything else and an obsession with
this. Every single American politician
has to comment on it. Every single one
has to condemn it as a genocide, as a
litmus test. It's become the litmus
test. It's become the obsession of the
world, left and right. And don't tell me
on the right it has to do simply with
foreign aid while we're funding it and
that's the reason my life sucks. So if
all the funding stopped tomorrow, you
completely support Israel's efforts in
its fight against radical jihadists. I
don't buy it. I think it's used as cover
as coverage as an excuse
as an excuse
to scapegoat the Jewish state, the
Jewish people. The entire language
structure of anti-semitism as a
historical bigotry and trope is used in
the form of anti-ionism.
Jews control the media. Zionists control
the media and the narrative. Jews
control our politicians. Apac controls
our politicians.
You've just superimposed a very very old
nasty lie
under the framework of opposing foreign
wars and making it a foreign policy
policy issue and an issue of funding.
[sighs]
I don't think so.
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