America Is Tipping From Hate to the Unthinkable, Says ADL CEO | Amanpour and Company
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- Antisemitism is on the rise globally, including right here in the U.S. Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, addresses the issue in his new book, "It Could Happen Here." He joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how we can strike back against hate. The interview is part of Exploring Hate, our ongoing series on antisemitism, racism and extremism.
Originally aired on January 25, 2022
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Not only anti Semitic, anti others are on the rise.
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Agree.
Exactly. I'm even further here they're making case for Antisemitism but is important to call attention to what Palestine are going through right now under Israel military abuse and pressure
Yes, hate of one group leads to hate of more
Correct. To the Authoritarian, “there is but *ONE* true correct way of being” - and most people don’t measure up to that standard of “accursed perfection.”
Also, the beginning of the Holocaust - the practice for the big time - was Aktion T4 - the war on the disabled.
Hadamar, Hartheim, Grafeneck and the others were where the implementation of the Final Solution was actually “worked out,” and where many of its chief artificers learned their grisly “trade.”
All “failures” of that accursed time and place had their marks of dishonor - their testimony, visible to all of the “faithful” (National Comrades) - of how they did not measure up - how they could not be *synchronized* (German: Gleichschaltung) into that hell-wrought time and place.
It did happen here. The USA is built on a native American burial ground. C'mon catch up.
The first sweep of viruses from the Europeans happened in an incidental way not as part of an attempt to wipe out populations. Later, some learned that passing out contaminated blankets worked, but the vast majority (tens of millions) died due to simple contact. There is a major difference between an intentional act of murder and accidently spreading a virus.
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Mostly they were mowed down with guns or starved to death! Thousands died on ‘The trail of tears,’ from the area that I was born in!
@@baddoggie101 Read the book Beyond Germs.
Everywhere things are built on burial grounds. Humans migrate, integrate, and dominate. My genome is Native American, Jewish, Scottish, German, Greek, and African. Like most Americans, Canada to Brazil. Expand your historical knowledge beyond the geography and timeline limitations of part of North America 1700-1900.
and on the backs of blacks stolen from their home to work on stolen land.
It’s almost like we have split as a species and half has begun the process of devolution. Sad and terrifying.
You have summarized a large part of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine".
They haven’t begun de-evolving. They were born de-evolved.
I say the 'de-evolution is the falling away of the Love principle. This principle is at the center point of the Christian message. The true message taught by Jesus is to want for everyone, what you want for yourself. He summed this up himself.
It seems to me that the 'loud ones' calling themselves Christians, have abandoned his central message, in favor of end-of times prophecies of Revelations. That book was written by someone else decades after Jesus past the scene.
Anyway, what you could do, in the right situation, ask this question: "What about Love?" Because this is the reason for which we were made. And you were made unique. Your DNA is proof. You cannot be 'replaced'. You be that blessing to the world, that you were meant to be. That is what we need the most.
@@yurei8 It does not take a scholar, or even an adult to understand _"The Golden Rule",_ the primary teaching of Jesus as you explained nicely, as it is at the very heart of all the major religions of the world. Your suggestion, like the concept of pacifism, is filled with good intentions and light, but like pacifism, it is less than effective in the real world and sadly, unrealistically naive.
Those lacking empathy often cannot grasp the concept at all. And those motivated by a fear of mortality and the false sense of isolation that creates a fear they lack the courage to face build a house of cards of denial, while this fear manifests as self-hatred that is projected outward in a desperate attempt to affix blame upon anyone or anything. This is a pathological compulsion, and most often not chosen behavior and is immune to logic and reason.
Sometimes lighting a candle forces some to run for the shadows, my friend. Love is the driving force behind the universe, and in a sense IS God. But many are unable to see that which to some is obvious, and draw their conclusions not unlike the parable of the blind men and the elephant.
Namaste.
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The unthinkable IS happening in America just slowly and economically. Consider the concept of chronic genocide accomplished by mass encarceration, health care disparities and failing public schools.
That's right!
We have a financial system that creates anger, inequality and ultimately hate...end Trickle Down Economics!!!
Thats because racist white people are perfectly willing to vote against their own interests,concerning healthcare,jobs, prosperity. As long as they can vote for the very racists, that rob them blind, can remain in office.
Yes! Are Republicans mostly for trickle down economics?
@@parrisprice5892 totally agree... poor and middle class whites have no idea how manipulated and fooled they are by their GOP politicians in regards to Economics... they are totally oblivious...
@@FLAC2023 while Im sure many are ignorant, theres also a large number who are perfectly willing to sacrifice their own interests, if it advances their racist ideaology. They dont care their being swindled by the politicians they vote for...as long as they keep the " blacks" in their place. It really is quite astonishing. What they fail to realize ,dump and his republikkkan horde ,will screw them over just as quickly as black people if they get in their way
@@parrisprice5892 agree 👍💯
In the Netherlands we keep the memory of the horrors inflicted in the second world war alive, not to point fingers but to realize what hate and autocracy can lead to.
We do, but are not alone in that. Heard of the dutch woman bringing the nazi salute in front of camp Auschwitz lately? Her husband filmed it, btw. And of course they said it was all just a joke, when interrogated and fined by Polish police.
Mr. Greenblatt is very right about the tendency to explain by means of conspiracy and the dangers of social media.
We have a lot of copycats here, along with our own long standing tradition of nazi scum (Joop Glimmerveen etc.)
And therefore they invite in millions of immigrants who alternate between Holocaust denial and complaints that Hitler didn't finish the job.
Parenting matters.
Greenblatt heads an organisation that the FBI caught in the 90s spying on actual civil rights groups (including the NAACP and an Arab American civil rights group). Now their website has changed its definition of racism to only being the oppression of people of colour for the benefit of white people. They are a European-Jewish supremacy group that even calls other Jewish groups anti Semitic for criticising Israel.
The Netherlands is a smart culture though. You guys also have socialized medicine so taxes actually help the public instead of scraps that conservatives call "entitlements" being constantly fought over by the lower middle class looking for different types of poor people and immigrants to blame for all their problems.
We are in a time of name calling, unexpected violence, not knowing who is going to lose it when you are driving ,or standing in line in a store. Greenblatt's stories about how his grandparents lost their lifetime home - Germany, and that his wife's family lost their lifetime home- Iran, just for being Jewish, are appropriate warnings. There is a lot of dehumanizing talk in general going on towards numerous people groups. Nothing good can come of it.
🇨🇦Its demonic it really is. This is a movement you have to come down very hard on these guys or its all over.
Dems have to offer something to these populations. But also there is rising violence and threats of violence that could turn against conservative communitites themselves. The Trump movement has parallels with the rise of Hitler in Germany, imo.
Here is a thought maybe people of the world of the nations don't want to live beside them
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@@harrisonkane5457 Here's another thought. Maybe most of us don't want to live beside you.
When the shoe is on your foot no one will sympathize. That's karma baby.
@@Madmen604 did you know there no word for integrity in Hebrew
While I agree with everything that he is saying, the same standards apply to the treatment of Palestinians by the IDF and Israel in general. Apartheid is wrong, no who the majority is
Right! But Charlotte was utterly shocking! How was that even allowed?
Wouldn't it be cool if basic human rights applied to ALL humans, regardless of what they looked like, what they believed, or where they lived?
I agree. The US waged a 10-year trillions dollar war in the middle east killing innocent people: Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, etc. Both Saudi Arabia and Israel encourage violent interventions in many of these countries. "Bomb Iran". The insanity never ends.
I am against the way the Israeli gov treats Palistinians. That said, the Palestinian Constitution has the goal of killing every single Jew on earth; quite like Hitler's "final solution" in intent. That conflict is complex and multi-nuanced. Read the Palestinian constituion if you don't believe me. It's available online.
@@brynawaldman5790 The Israelis don't put it in writing but act the same way. Settlers running over young Palestinian children with impunity? If you moralize about hate, one needs to first work on oneself first. It's like the Catholic church lecturing the world about abortion and human rights; meanwhile, there are graves all over the world with the abused and murdered offspring of priests- Canada, Ireland, Australia, South America, etc.
It's sad that we as a species aren't smart enough to handle social media and think critically on subjects instead on going straight to conspiracies.
Well you’re smart enough. But we have a huge part of our population completely brainwashed and I don’t know what to do about it. They cannot grasp basic logic.
Social media isn't a passive element. It uses psychology to keep us engaged for profit, and nothing keeps us engaged more than outrage and hate. We are under attack via psychological warfare. Quit facebook and twitter, and demand that your representatives take social media to task.
It doesn't have to do much with intelligence but more to do with education if you're prone to conspiracies. If you grew up in a school system that is poorly founded or has a bad or too narrow curriculum you're defiantly vulnerable to conspiracists. In fact you're more likely to believe in conspiracies if you are smart but has a poor education.
@@dribrom I think education and intelligence share equal parts and what is referred to as "Smart". A deficit in either makes you vulnerable to bad conspiracy theories.
@@theobserver9131 Well you can use the word smart in several different ways. You can even say that some one dress smart. Meaning they are clean, tidy and well dressed. But when you use the word smart to describe someone's connective functions you're usually just mean that they have a sharp intellect, a high IQ. And IQ is just a measurement of your ability to learn not what you have learned.
I have come to see that racism is a kind of self-hate turned outwards. What you hate in others you hate in yourself; conversely, heal yourself and heal the world.
True.
Not just racism. Hate or even strong dislike of other people is often inverted self hate.
@@theobserver9131 I am so glad that my parents weren’t that way and taught us to not be hateful.🥰
@@nancywebb6549 Having parents must be a lovely thing! Having parents that teach love is priceless.
Still, living without hate is something we can choose to learn, even without someone to guide us there.
So true
"You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides."
---President Donald Trump in his 2017 tribute to the white supremacists and skinheads who marched in Charlottesville Virginia.
It's interesting Jonathon Greenblatt speaks of what happened in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Rwanda, and what is happening here in the US but leaves out the Israeli dehumanization of the Palestinians. As CEO of the ADL addressing/explaining the hate Israel has towards the Palestinians would be a topic worth discussing. Israel is basically wiping the Palestinians off the face of the earth. He goes on to talk about his family history. The exact same thing is happening right now to countless Palestinians families. The perpetrators, Israelis.
Um....I want to agree with some of what you say, countless Palestinian families have been harmed by Israelis, but you've peeled one layer of a historical onion with far more layers than I can tell you know. And for reference, the number of Palestinians is not only growing, but growing faster than Israelis. So that's not exactly wiping the Palestinians off the face of the Earth. Add to that the many Palestinians who are happy to have Israel, especially when they know what the surrounding choices are. You're right, you're wrong, you're all over the place and standing in place. What you're saying is like watching someone play with TNT who has never had a lesson in explosives.
Here's an idea: watch the YT videos here of Corey Gil-Shuster (like, all of them) if you want to have both confirmation of your opinion and shattering of your opinion. It's WAY more complex, and a great portion of Israeli society hates the governmental stance. Just as with the US, the left has a harder time organizing, as they fragment easier than dogmatists.
And fwiw, I've detested Israel's government pretty much since intifada. That's only outweighed by my sadness that WB and Gaza haven't ever found someone brave enough to represent them as one voice unified regardless of threats to their lives (by god knows whom, often people who identify also as Palestinian or Arab, Hamas or some more violent splinter group. It used to be the PLO. Now it's just a sad sad sad sad sad thing.)
I wouldn't normally respond to you, but you've missed a lot.
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Hamas has created a Palestinian group that does evil things. If they were not there, Isreal would be able to work with the Palestinians.
He doesn't talk about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict because he doesn't want that issue to divide his audience. That issue is important but it is off topic, and American extremism is difficult enough.
It is because the ADL only exists to whitewash the racist, colonialist apartheid state of Israell
I don't think it's the exact same thing as those other situations, but definitely one that needs so much help. There have been bad players and tragedies on both sides of the divide. What's encouraging is when we feel genuine efforts, and perhaps the most powerful is from regular people on the ground.. artists, activists, etc. There's a lyric from Jewish rapper MC Serch in a song he did many years ago, "Of my own kind but not my own mind". This is the mindset anyone must have to remain free of all energy meant to force someone to just "go along" with whatever the dominant group message might be, when it's clear it's toxic to the pure effort of peaceful coexistence.
There are so many incredibly wonderful people who are so brilliant and loving and compassionate and this shines a light on Mr. Greenblatt which reminds me of what an absolute blessing diversity truly can be, especially with programs like this looking into the positive roles we can all play in repairing our democracy, and our humanity. Great Program Thank you 🙏
Mr. Jonnath liars are brainswashing American people. Absolutelly narrow mind.
@@maxwellsimoes238 The Extremists are brainwashing each other, and we are all one race, the human race, the culture of Thr Far Right is what’s attempting to destroy Humanity. Look into your own soul and reflect on treating others as you treat yourself, and forgive yourself.
@@willperryman4559 Call me old school but I'm not forgiving the right while they are in the process of destroying humanity. After they have been stopped I'll think about where I stand on forgiveness.
@@tellthetruthna8523 I completely understand and it’s not at all easy when they’re violent, arrogant and wanting to kill people and they’re getting away with it. I know many people following the Far Right are lost and many others are mentally and emotionally in need of therapy, and I believe they must be stopped, and those who are criminals must be held accountable
@@willperryman4559 Hear hear. Our society has become far too divided, hateful, and misguided by conspiratorial nonsense. As is discussed in this video, we have lost a shared reality and instead live in bubbles that become echo chambers for beliefs that are often not true or amplified to absurdity. Why is it so much more difficult for humans to embrace other humans as peers than to mistrust and "other" them?
Anti-semitism is indeed a real problem in society. The ADL considers advocacy of Palestinian human rights as anti-semitism so take the ADL numbers with a grain of salt.
Of all the issues where the U.S. is at odds with the rest of the world, including our European allies, the disregard of Palestinian rights is the most glaring.
It's one thing to be Israel's ally. It's another when that includes the decimation of any hope for a Palestinian homeland, seizure of Palestinian land, walled roads and enclaves sprouting all over, retaliatory strikes that kill at least 10X as many Palestinians, as compared against the Israeli's killed/wounded by the stupid, seemingly random Hamas attacks. Then, under trump, the move of our embassy to Jerusalem, negated any perceived notion of a 'two state' solution and that we could be a fair arbiter.
I didn’t even think of that. Good point
Can you refer a segment where he disregards basic human rights?
There is no such thing as a "Palestinian." They are murdering Jews, and trying to steal Jewish property. "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" (Psalm 2:1). Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Establish the Kingdom in Jerusalem, and keep the world safe from Democracy!
@@davidlafleche1142 Twisted, man. REALLY twisted.
Unthinkable hate and heinous crimes.
Interesting...as long as Anti-Black violence and sentiment exist in US laws and policy...we will always have a problem....decay has always been here ....when this still exists.
lol wtf are you talking about?
@@shaunsteele8244 this is why they want to keep "CRT" out of schools; so people like you can ask a question like that. Then get embarrassed because you are exposed as not knowing or understanding reality. Which then causes you to feel bad and deny there are any issues because no wants to be made to feel bad for not knowing something. Which then perpetuates the system.
You're question shows you to be a cog within the system. A cog isn't aware it's a cog. It just does its job.
Can you name a racist law?
@@AlexAlex-of6ms take your pick from any of the Republican laws amending voting practices in various states. If I remember correctly about 400+
@@DeborahWalkerXOXO ID laws? Lol
Very good. Requires inner and thoughtful consideration and how staying quiet instead of speaking out does enable this continued hate filled rhetoric and actions.
By silence we are complicit in these acts of violence and hate.
As a socialist I wish more folks believed in the sharing of all things including wealth and resources.
"The Führer was a man who was possible in Germany only at that very moment. Had he come, let us say, ten years later when the republic was firmly established, it would have been impossible for him.
And if he had come ten years previously or at any time when there was still the monarchy he would have got nowhere. He came at exactly this terrible transitory period when the monarchy had gone and the republic was not yet secure."
~ A conversation with Hans Frank (governor of occupied Poland during WW2) in his cell at the Nuremberg prison. Frank was later executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The spirit and will of people hides behind so many titles, but evil don't concern itself much with those titles. Nor discriminates, it just uses who's available and willing...
@@chrrylocks Satan agrees...
I think it's a bit ironic that you say "the left say the right are bigoted to their core" then follow that up with "trump gave white supremacists a platform" and Republicans ate it up. Which means the left were right about that though
The right is bigoted to the core. Against each other even.
Though to be fair, Ivanka wasn't so bigoted that she wouldn't marry J Kushner, convert to Judaism herself, and then proceed to give birth to 3 Jewish children making Trump an honorary Jewish Saba. But yeah, I guess the antisemitic Trump followers sweep this factoid under the Persian carpet.
@@Grimpus1972 I mean that's fine, but the Republican party and base immediately bought into it and created a breeding ground for the anti semitism today, pretty sure there were Jewish nazis, doesn't change the fact of the matter of what happened
@@Grimpus1972 qanon types have been denying the holocaust and such, even Jewish qanon types, but the fact of the matter they're running on nazi propaganda
@Retired Arthropod Being a bigot and racist is almost a requirement of the GOP, at least the GOP in its present incarnation. The rank and file GOP are about white grievance. More specifically, white, Christian, grievances.
The leadership has trained the rank and file to also hate government because that serves the interests of the elite but the core of the party is now bigotry and hate.
I will leave social media before it changes me. Just like many of my friends already have. Dropping Facebook and other sites.
Don't wait to quit social media. "Someday" never comes... there's only today. Facebook was kind enough to delete my account for me... I got carried away and made comments about Trump even they couldn't allow; specific ideas about how to get rid of him.... I'm happy to be recovering for nearly two years now. I still can't stand Trump or his cult, but I'm not consumed by hate anymore.
So much happier without Facebook.
I left twitter years ago and have never been happier. I won't go on tiktok either.
Dropped facebook almost 5 years ago now.
Best interview I have ever heard! We need to listen closely! He's warning us!
I think a big part of the problem is the enormous wealth inequality and millions of Americans are living in poverty and homelessness and paycheck to paycheck. When people have a good life they don’t resort to hatred and violence and racism
I think it is more accurate to say 'It IS happening here'.
I have always said that when we see people start doing things to Jewish people, look out the rest of us. They are always the test case. Then comes the rest of us.
The problem is the threats do exist, where aims align, people do not need to conspire. It is to their benefit, for instance corporations are better off if workers don't unionise, if people can't protest, corporations don't need to gather in a smokey room to agree, their aims align and they pervert our politicians with lobbying.
I fear it’s not a matter of it might happen, I very much fear it has already begun. Pray God I’m wrong, but I very much fear we are already in the beginning phases
Thank you for speaking out. 🔊 Some have not paid attention until now. Many have just been trying to survive. Your analysis is right on target. Lord, help us all. 🇺🇸
Social media has to be redefined and regulated as a public utility.
Or just stop using it. Because it’s more bad than good.
@@masonwatters7245 I think that is a bit of over statement though I understand where you are coming from. We just need to bring it under control to render it helpful rather than hurtful. We should bring back the Fairness Doctrine.
@@joea363 I think you need to check your comment, I think you made a typo that makes your comment not makes sense.... :)
"We just need to bring it under control to render hurtful rather than hurtful."
I can't figure out what you meant to say there.
@@theobserver9131 Thanks for pointing it out, you are correct. I was a victimized by the tyranny of autocorrect and the treachery of spell check 😊
Social media is like anything, It can be good, even great because one can look up how to do so many things. Good things, learn, entertainment and love.
It can also be used to spread hatred and evil.
A baseball bat can be used in a fun game, or used as a weapon.
Hate; in general; is on the rise. Anytime you have people that are hurting, from low wages, unaffordable housing, lack of access to good jobs, lack of acess to health care, all of the confusion surrounding the pandemic; you have people that can have a huge amount of pent up anger, and if some people or person has no self control; that anger will burst out somewhere. As I understand it, Hiltler rose to power, after the first World War, when people in Germany were suffering from a terrible economic situation. The political leaders of the U.S. need to wake up to the need to uplift the the average American man and woman, and permanently improve their opportunities, or the insurrection on Capitol Hill will pale in comparison to what is coming.
You are selling us snake oil and false equivalence. Ultra-right-wingers need hatred like they need air to breathe. They received a heavy dose of oxygen when Trump became the hater in chief. Please show us examples of liberals exhibiting antisemitism or any other kind of racism. False equivalence is lazy thinking, ignorance, or deflection from identifying the real culprits for the shit show America is fast becoming.
Stats right before Trump was elected in 2016 show that the average income of his voters was about 20 plus percent higher than that of Hillary's supporters. What they were angry about was that a black man had run the country for eight years and that they were becoming a minority in America. They also hate Latino immigrants, LGBT people, liberals in general, democracy, free speech, the mainstream media, science, education, the arts - all the features of a healthy, civilized society. Instead, "making America great again" means for them having an autocracy of the Trump/Putin type. Their attitudes towards vaccination are a perfect illustration of their warped mentality: They'd rather die than get a jab because for them, that's a symbolic gesture of vexing the libs - one of their prime motivators in life.
It seems like Democrats have good ideas to uplifts Americans. I have not heard similar good ideas coming from Republicans. What is happening is terribly sad and baffling.
@@deanronson6331 real talk! I'm living in SW Florida , and for some reason because I have an "anglo" name ( my father invented it in order to "fit" in) people seem to feel comfortable telling me their hateful thoughts. These are not lower income people. Many are highly educated upper income. So while money problems can cause some anger, I'm not convinced it causes this kind of preoccupation of hate.
@@waitaminute2015 I point my finger at right wing talk, and right wing media in general. I heard a right wing talk person, while I riding in a car say; "Democrats are trying to destroy America." He broadcast over our entire state. Another time I heard him just screaming with anger. I had the radio volume own, so I don't even know what he was talking about. In general it seems that the right wing mission in this case is to make the white majority feel attacked and somehow, victimized. But no fingers get pointed at big corporate money in politics. Instead it is pointed at immigrants and black people asking for equal rights and a system that promotes fairness. I can't listen to right wing talk radio. It makes my blood boil.
@@deanronson6331 I agree with with most of what you are saying. But I think you are a little hard on the original. I learning that people are hurting, and many are just getting on credit cards etc. But their frustrations are misdirected. The right wing has some fairly sophisticated mass psychological conditioning tools. Look at how many people don't seem to believe that Russia was significantly involved with influencing the the 2016 election, when there is massive documentation otherwise.
Great discussion and my thoughts have been wondering on this very subject. During this discussion it came to me why certain people will bring the name of Soros Into a matter. I thought it had something to do with Soros putting up money for something that a person thought he was doing or did contribute to. Now, I am of the mind, that it is his Jewish origin...that is being brought up to debase. The first idea may hold some truth for conspiracy theorist, about putting up money to support a cause, that they hate...in their imagination.
I am truly worried, too many people seem to have no value for the rights of other people or even their person. It is heartbreaking that a Jewish person must be doubly alert about his safety. I am beginning to feel unsafe and I don’t think that I would get singled out. But the rage is coming from many direction!
We better be well able to call Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller, "Kapos." Otherwise, we are in grave trouble.
Great interview! Thank you! It's not history that repeats, but rather human nature. History contains anecdotal block chain tales of human nature.
In the past I’ve had minor quibbles with some of Mr. Greenblatt’s ideas. It doesn’t change the fact that he’s a thoughtful man who brings a necessary warning to our societies. Hate of any group has serious consequences for all of society and it’s incumbent upon all of us to be vigilant against it.
The ADL is not what it appears to be. Sadly, like so many institutions in the USA, it is more interested in fund raising and press than adhering to their stated mandate. I know first hand of a serious anti-semitic hate crime they have totally ignored, with full documentation, corroboration, and zero ambiguity.
@@paradisepipeco I’ve no doubt that this is the case. I’ve had my own concerns about the ADL and how inactive they’ve been with respect to other marginalized groups. In this case Greenblatt however did hit the right notes. The ADL needs to being doing it’s stated job more aggressively though.
@@rajo741 I very much appreciate the reply. Due to the length of this video, I am at a disadvantage having not yet watched it, however I am familiar with him and have heard him speak before. Like many organizations including the ACLU, when the puble watches they do the right thing, but it is a tragically false facade; and the extent of which is so ubiquitous among institutions and organizationss as to make one sound like a delusional paranoid merely to report accurately upon it.
This extends even to the suicide hot line, which is subsidized through public funds. We take much for granted that we should not, regrettably. In an imperfect world, a half full glass is better than nothing at all, I suppose.
Namaste.
I agree. American's have been given to many freedoms. And we are not held accountable for our social misgivings in the world of the internet. But what's happening, is the hate filled world of the internet is spilling over into the real world.
Yal don't know the facts
There are just too many of us on all sides who engage in what is known as "group think" and basically falling in line with everyone else, instead of doing our own research to learn the truth.
"Do our own research" is a frequent refrain these days but considering the abundance of misinformation available "I did my own research" doesn't mean much. At some point we have to rely on credible experts. I have neither the expertise nor the lab in my basement that would allow me to do my own research on vaccine efficacy and safety, for example.
@@tellthetruthna8523 why no research? Because people want what they want. Change is nearly impossible because of past memories and history. People have no incentive to change; their distorted views of their thoughts and old beliefs are the correct ones...forever, it seems.
The hate has always been here, many seemed to keep it discreet, or selective to their own circles, but it really seems since Trump, the outward legitimization of it has grown,,as he has made it” fashionable” and acceptable to boldly and outwardly degrade , marginalize and insult others..His supporters love it, because he has basically said it’s fine to do that....any Presidents behavior sets a standard of behavior for the country, and prior to him, any President, of either party understood that words matter and influence, and generally chose a more professional tone,,Trump consistently insisted any form of PC behavior was basically BS,, his base loved it, because they are just like him and no doubt feel threatened by anyone not like “them”. We are in big trouble in this country unless sensible humanity prevails.
Trumps Fans were drawn to him because they believed Trump would save them (from themselves.)
@Jennifer Hampton
I can’t see that happening now, unless we get big money out of politics! People that I was sure would be elected, were out voted for a person with lessor leadership skills. How has M McConnell stayed in office year after year? Money...big money and it did not come from the citizens! But, yours is a lofty thought as to people who should be making laws and responding to their constitute’s needs!
You mean like AIPAC?
Citizens United! Read DARK MONEY to get a good picture of how the oligarchs are running American politics.
Under TRUMP, HATE is Fashionable and remember that TRUMP called those in Charlottsville, " VERY FINE PEOPLE " !!!
Biden is actually way more racist and it is easy to prove that but hey you are fake news washed.
@@Cheshhire Just as easy to prove as election fraud, troll. Trump and the GOP couldn't prove fraud so they created their own fraud. Get a clue, please.
@@Cheshhire ,, nice try, let’s compare behavior and speeches... take one look at appointees in their cabinet, Biden’s is totally diverse, Trumps was as white as the driven snow, guess who wins on the racist scale.
Talk about taking someone's words out of context.
Sounds like you've got a bit o hate brewing..
Thank you for sharing this, my heart is full of grace, as a result!
Excellent information, and I am glad to hear that Mr. Greenblatt has found the space to allow redemption for Damien. I wonder if he has the same level of openness and acceptance of the Palestinians for just wanting the same thing that Jewish people have wanted for centuries: a homeland to call their own?? Good interview!!
@happy
The Palestinians are at home, been at home for thousands of years....
Tell the Others, to go back to their homes. I forgot, they're travelers.
Their should be laws protecting the media but they need to stop telling their views and just report the news The truth
Tell That to FOX " NEWS" ..Helloooo
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Thank you Hari and team for showing us how to be free people❤️🇺🇸
The problem is the deregulation of media ownership. Before Ronald Reagan, it was Illegal in the US for a corporation or individual to own more than 3 media outlets. The deregulation of media ownership has allowed Rupert Murdoch to create a multinational media monopoly specifically designed to undermine electorates of every english speaking nation by dividing the people and fomenting hatred and knee jerk opposition between fellow countrymen. This had been exacerbated by the rise of Social media that has algorithmically optimized the radicalization and balkanization of national identity into hundreds of squabbling factions that are pitted each against the other in their desperation for shares, likes, and retweets. The idea is simple…. To prevent the electorates of the liberal democracies from forming ANY electoral consensus on how to address the Real problems created by an income inequality rivaling pre-revolutionary France or the era of the Robber Barons. Its a class war of dividing the people so they can’t do anything about pollution, global warming, rising poverty, and a disappearing middle class, because half the nation has been brain washed into opposing the other half as trying to ‘destroy’ their country. Its time to regulate media. Stop the hate speech, and the disinformation. We passed laws in the 60’s to outlaw corporations LYING in their advertising. Well, Fox News and Facebook are corporations selling an agenda. It should be illegal for them to broadcast falsehoods and misinformation. Yank their FCC license. Shut down facebook and instagram and twitter. And tell their owners they can’t do their business until they can put some curbs on the abuse, the bots, the weaponizing of their platforms by foreign nations and domestic billionaires. The people of the english speaking nations are NOT divided. They are being brain washed.
I have always respected the Jewish people for the intelligence, hard work, and their great gifts to the art world. I think they are a wonderful people. Their is only one problem I have, and I have it with all religions, in your case the way orthodox Jewish males treat women. I believe in a loving God, I am not into religions. Both men and woman should be free to enjoy the gifts of God’s blue planet. To not allow that is a slap in the face of our creator. As you know , some religions make woman live in a tent all their lives.
Well 🤔 maybe I'm not well informed about where you can see Antisemitism going currently in 2022, but I'm pretty sure everyone has heard about how Israel military abuse against Palestinians is going on until now. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
You're not wrong. It doesn't change that antisemitism is, throughout the history of the western world and often beyond, the "canary in the coal mine" that indicates societal decay. Israel and it's history is often asked to be discussed on sites like these, but it is perhaps the most complicated history to discuss historically, and is far too layered and often self-contradictory for YT to handle adequately.
Personally, I am about as insightful on the topic as you'll find, and am brutally honest in discussion about Israel. But it would be an aside from the topic of this video.
Your argument is full of disjunctive claims. Therefore, it is not plausible.
You'd probably dig Beau 5th Column.
There are two kinds of cancelling.
1. Dredging up a person's past and using it to destroy their life, despite the fact that they have since evolved and atoned.
2. Exposing a pattern of a person's current behavior that makes them dangerous to be around, and makes their ongoing fame and power a problem.
The former needs to stop, the latter should continue until people stop abusing fame and power.
If you simply mean offending people then no.
Humanity feels like an alien social experiment to determine if an animal can ever become civilized.
The chosen scapegoat is always the most peaceful and least threatening enemy. What, you think the Fuhrer would choose a powerful enemy as the scapegoat and invite retaliation? No way. But he made two extremely bad mistakes - 1) The war would cause an ally to attack the US and make it enter the war (aka escalation) and 2) A powerful enemy would be an easy target to invade and conquer in the summer and fall of a year before the bitter cold of winter set in and your war machine would be stretched over a thousand miles for you to resupply with a very limited natural resources. Germany was much too small to successfully conquer Europe, just like the MAGA crowd was too small to successfully rule over the USA.
I wouldn't rely on MAGAts to keep an outhouse in order.
Greenblat should not be the head of the ADL but the anti Jewish defamation league. He never once mentioned Asian or black racism.
Google will help. The ADL mission is to fight antisemitism. It's a private organisation, not an official national antiracism body.
Hari Sreenivasan specifically asked him about anti-Semitism and they're talking about that as a way to talk about hate in general and what can happen because of it. Plus, it's only a short interview (17:55 min.); they can't cover everything!
May all beings awaken to their own divinity. We are all one. 🙏🏼❤️
When the founding of this country is coupled with devaluing people based on skin color, or eradicating native people, then why should we believe that things would be safe for anyone else?
I hope that the answers posited here make an actual difference in our society.
Start treating the Palestinians right given back their land stop hoarding stopped financing Wars around the world that's a start
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He's right about everything he says but it would have been nice to know his positions - and ADL's - on the tenet of Judaism that says Jews are God's chosen people as well as on Israel's persecution of Palestinians and the question of Zionism.
NEBULA069, what are YOUR positions and underlying assumptions?
Lol, you Israel is always the exception. They can be violent colonial settlers without reprimand.
@@MH-be6hr did she write the book? Is she being interviewed? 🤦🏾♀️
@@MH-be6hr Not a Zionist and don't believe nations should embrace a religious faith, which makes me no less appalled by anti-semitism. By the way ADL website has thorough yet unsurprising answers to the questions I was asking, which were fair given the context. It was pretty obvious what my opinions were. I'm a commenter anyway, so not about me ;-)
Likewise, the Bible says too much about Christians as well, and the Quran says Islam is "the only true religion". But that doesn't mean any of them deserves to persecuted, hated, and killed, just as not all Jews have that mentality.
We may even go so far as to say Americans are of the mind that they are "exceptional" and "better than others". Again, this does not justify violence or hate. Therefore, there is no justification for ignorance.
I agree with most of what Hari says but part of the problem is the oppression of the Palestinians and the world watches as Israel persecutes the Palestinians. That does not help defeat Jewish prejudice and antisemitism. If Israel treated Palestinians humanly and fairly - who could speak against the Jews?
Exactly. It would really help their cause, if they treated others, Palestinians in particular, the way they want to be treated. Afterall, the world gave European Jews a place to live in peace after WW2 called Israel. And that good fortune can be paid forward, by leaving Palestinians a place to live freely, in peace and dignity. Not held behind walls, or have their lands taken.
Well, even if Israel miraculously had a change of heart when it comes to Palestine, I don't think it's a "wiping our hands clean, so you have nothing else on us" type of moment.
It should still be taught forever that Israel committed such crimes and they should always be held to account.
It would be like sweeping American slavery under the rug.
Yes, countries can change and do the right thing, but we should never let Israel or her people forget it.
Those who can't forgive are the real evil. We all need forgiveness.
Very well presented and relevant
Did Damien renouce his past acts or just tried to forget about them hoping his philanthropy was enough?
Fantastic interview! Thank you so much for posting!
Peace and love
How has the term "Semitic" become to be recognized as only related to the Jewish community? Merriam-Webster defines Semitic as "of, relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic"
Every one has a profit to make thru a book...while defending democracy? I dont mind a man making a living, but when its as serious as our very existence, our country and constitution. It bothers me so many think a " book deal" is the answer. I hope they hate is abated, and terrorists are delt with swiftly,as well as traitors,liars ,and racists
People should thank this for US foreign and israel policies.
I really appreciate you calling out cancel culture. It hurts many and is not in line with justice. It's a vigilantism of sorts and does not allow that people are deserving of forgiveness and capable of growth. It really does the opposite of what people think they are achieving with it.
People are prone to identify with their group, and are especially lazy!
Thank you for having this conversation, it is so important that journalism begins to do a deep dive on this topic and spread the conversation across all networks etc! Please continue to spread this focus to teach peaceful understanding of eachother and protect the earth citizens all around the world from hate groups
Replace ‘ anti semitism’ with ‘ anti China’ and it also makes sense.
Question, who was the original Jews, and who was a people that adopted the culture of the real Jews.
I have great respect for Mr. Greenblatt, but I wish in this discussion the dehumanization of the Palestinians would have been discussed.
Why, in every discussion of anti-semitism, does Israel have to be discussed? Israel is not Jews and Jews are not Israel. Conflating the two is, in itself, anti-semitic.
@@susanmiller7560 What planet are you living on? Isreal is most definitely predominately though not exclusively a jewish state/community.
Lol, you know it won’t.
"Democracies can be judged by the way they treat minorities". OK that, so what's with Israel's 65 laws discriminating Palestinians? Given the financial & moral backing of US for Israel, maybe some of this antisemitism is those who despise Israel's impunity re Palestine and lash out at Jews & Jewish Americans. Israel and US are both flawed and dysfunctional democracies..So join the dots when people confuse cultural, ethnic and religious meanings of 'Jew'. Change your policies towards Palestine, stop occupation and see if incidents drop. And if Jews evade responsibility by sliding from one definition of Jew to another to avoid responsibility for foundational terrorism of Israel, maybe you can't blame uneducated from conflating one kind of Jewishness with another, policy of Israel with 'Jew'. Islamophobia has been weaponised also. Cancel moral evasion. Fess up. Move out. Pay up.
Excellent interview. What he said at the end was perhaps the most sobering of all.
Thank you.
Redemption for those who acknowledge their "sins' and do better: You mean like Malcolm X? He definitely went down some dark alleys before he became the great advocate for African American fatherhood and Civil Rights. We are all sinners. We all deserve a second chance. "How many times must I forgive my brother - seven times?" "Seventy times seven....".... Not that I walk that talk.....trying. Forgiveness and redemption are our only hope.
What journalistic standards does Fox "News" get held to? 🤔
Can't understand how someone can call themselves a "Christian" and still be anti-Semitic.
I've yet to hear any Christian be against Jews
Glad that the menace of anti-anti-semitism is still ever present whenever someone suggests not giving billions to Israel yearly
I respect how organized and coordinated the Jewish community is in monitoring and highlighting wrongs committed against their community.
Likes Trump is mr jonathan is oportunism liar. Mr jonathan liar undermines demogracy.
@@maxwellsimoes238 At the very least, learn to construct a proper sentence in English before making your illogical, biased and borderline racist remarks.
@@asadfami7623 my point of view wasnt racist. He rethoric is fascism of course . He minds is coming from abusive racism.
It's curious that citizens *globally* are always fighting against each other [because] of what they are hearing, and/or seeing as examples from political leadership.
There is not enough diversity, or balance of power in the world, and the wealth inequality is another large problem.
Human beings *should* be able to stop blaming the "others", and gain some introspective.
@Betty Veronica
Except for wars...in my 82 years I have never known this much ‘them vs us,’ and it started in the 80s and has multiplied every year since!
I don’t need to be equal...I need decency and adequate necessities so that I can survive with some dignity! But, at the current rate, I will soon be priced out of ‘life!’ And I am not on the poor side...what will they do?
We should have clear rules about who can hold office: mental health, ability to feel empathy etc.
Tell me why Joe Biden's entire cabinet is Jewish.
@@danke1150 you are silly. Nothing wrong with Jewish people.
@@jenniferhampton5171 They're all Jewish, and yet make up less than 2% of the American population.
Are you a Jew? I don't know why you don't see an issue with this gross over-representation.
This video should wake us all up to what is happening in this country
I've read several dozen of the top comments here, and not one cites any novels, memoirs, films, songs or any other ways our best see individuals in their communities.
Sad. We always end up in abstractions, polarities, silos, antagonisms -- unless we access those who best keep it human.
May I say that it's a whole more important to fight anti-Semitism than to defend the State of Israel. Conversely, how can anyone who defends the State of Israel can be an anti-Semite. I hope I am not offending anyone by my commentary.
Israel is a 75 yr old political body, Judaism is a 3000 yr old religion, they are NOT the same thing.
Its crazy to Conflate holding accountable a Nation to which we give billions of dollars, weapons, intelligence, our soldier's lives, and our political capital to antisemitism.
Also Israel meddles in US politics and elections through the propaganda and Super Pacs which buy congress people.
Iran is one of a few Shai nations so are we anti Shia when we hikd them accountable? NO not at all.
Israel must follow Intl Law and stop ethnic cleansing, apartheid, war crimes and human rights violations against Palestinians
Not sure how helpful or accurate it is to frame hate as "Human nature." He's also "both siding" it. Dangerous.
Racisim, I think, should hold the same stigma as pedophilia.
If he didn't have hate and racism to talk about, he'd be out of job and he isn't going to let that happen.
You forgot to talk about how we can stop the hate.
He'd be out of a job.
There are people whose opinions and actions are primarily dictated by emotion .
It is futile to expect to alter their point of view with reason, logic and rationality.
They will reject “science “ if it’s conclusions run counter to their prejudices
Their intransigence is bewildering and infuriating.
Facts bounce off their minds .
They simply do not penetrate.
People will believe whatever supports their prejudices and bigotries whether it's true, reasonable, accurate or not.
People are afraid.
They fear for the supremacy of their tribe .
I still remember my lessons on the Apocalypse, and this is really beginning to look like there are people trying to make that prophecy come true. Believers need to remember that forcing the Apocalypse is a sure way to get thrown into the Lake of Fire. Non--believers need to see how insane this is.
Seems to me that too many people are looking for the Anti-Chirst instead of the real Christ.
Religion poisons everything.
@@stevegoad4133 No, you are only looking a the negative side. Religion in general gives a sense oneself in the universe, as whole as part of Creation. It should and does for most give us a connection with all of humanity, because we all from the same source, which is defined as God. But religion is also a tool, whose use is determined by the intentions of person using. People are murdered by hammers each year. That is a person using someone that tool for another reason than why it was created. That would also be a rare time, when you hear hammers being mentioned in the news. Religions have helped people build hospitals and universities. But it is used most often when we face the inevitable situation of death. Then it becomes a tool to try and make sense of our place in the universe and among humanity.
I see a lot of older people in church. They have used religion to give their lives greater meaning. I remember talking with a woman in church, who was around 102. I went to an affair later that day, and ran into her high school classmate who was also 102 and we talked And the affair was for her old sister, who spoke, at the affair! True story.
@@yurei8 As I said, religion poisons everything! The terrible truth overwhelms the beautiful lies.
@@stevegoad4133 There are billions of people on the planet that would disagree with you. And some of these religions have been around for thousands of years. Meanwhile we have more people on the planet than ever. It has helped many more people, than it has been used as a tool for harm. The real negative issue is power and control. And those that seek to control you will use anything they can, to do so. For example race is just general human physical characteristics, but it is sometimes used to fuel conflict. Nationality can be used as source of pride, but look at how many nations have gone to war.
I claim Christianity as my major guide, but I also learn and try to understand other religious philosophies. Most all have a goals of higher states of consciousness. Of these states, peace of mind, and peace with others is the ultimate goal. But most of all, the concept and practice of Love, is better understood and utilized. And in my current level of understanding, the practice Love is more important than individual ideologies. For example Charity is a form of love. Surely you have some kind of love within you? Love of anything, that has creative fruits is the definition of God in action. We humans believe in things we cannot see, such as atoms. Love cannot be measured, but it is a force of power throughout all of humanity. A bomb cannot build a hospital, but Love can, as an example.
Still, I thank you for your response. It gave me an opportunity to better understand the gifts that life, or God has given me. Such things are the keys to happiness. Seems like, for some reason, you are focused on negative states of being actions, and minimizing the Love that has fueled positive human progress over the centuries. it is your loss if you cannot recognize this. But I believe that, if you do not understand now, you will someday. So I bless you on your journeys!
Be careful. Being dismissive about evidence-less claims with an equally evidence-less rebuttal, doesn’t move the discourse marker toward resolve. Is Hollywood/Entertainment disproportionally Jewish? Without question. NYC is our financial center and has a huge Jewish concentration. US visitors to NYC in Dec are bombarded with Jewish dominance of the season. Pretending non-Jewish laypeople can’t or haven’t done the math on these issues is dangerous. Seinfeld to Gladwell openly proclaim/exclaim prevalence of Jewish intellect and success. Family Guy episodes nudge Jewish lawyers, real estate agents, and doctors as superior. Dismissing reality only fuels suspicion and hate. You’re doing just as much harm as the right. Address the issues and conspiracies openly with professionalism. Start conversations. Stop being pompous and dismissive.
What is wrong with there being successful intelligent kind Jewish people who contribute to our country. I love Jewish people that I've known.
@@jenniferhampton5171 Did anyone say something was wrong or that it wasn’t a good thing?
I'm Jewish, and I agree with you. Those facts change nothing about how those facts are used to distort and to alienate. Germany is the easiest place to point to where the same was true about Jews in positions of power and success, and such facts were manipulated to destroy Jews.
If only we could address the issues and conspiracies openly with professionalism, that'd be great. Show me one mainstream place that occurs, and shout it from the rooftops!
The problem is that the weight of information overwhelms content and meaning of information, much less the humanistic morality of it.
So, we get guys like Weinstein using shorthand that yep, is pompous and dismissive. And yes, it engenders mistrust. It's a damned shame, because his "canary in the coalmine' is largely accurate.
But the loud, weighty populist messages , the conspiracies, cater SO much easier to the lowest common denominator, that I'll take Weinstein's easy message. I engage with every sort of uneducated person imaginable, and I don't condescend...and I will expend factors more energy then they will to answer one uneducated question they've spent very little of their lives considering a la the bullsh*t asymmetry principle, that they will shut down, not comprehend, and mostly not care to comprehend. And I'll STILL persist. It's on the record. Maybe once in a blue, someone will visit or revisit.
I watch the video of "Tomorrow belongs to me" from Cabaret, and I can point out which person they invariably represent from it.
I have nothing but to shake my fist ultimately, and say, "Weinstein is right and who cares"? Do you care, Mason? I hope so.
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It could happen here? It has been here as long as our country has been here
"The canary in the coalmine" EXACTLY! Spot on!
Respectfully, misogyny is as old as antisemitism, if not older - so are hatreds of other tribes (racism). All are unacceptable. Please don't diminish misogynistic and racist violence because it happens as part of daily life (rape, murder of women, police violence, incel violence, violence against women and POC woven throughout music and stories) rather than in places of worship.
I agree that antisemitism must end, and support those of us working towards that end. But stop pushing down the truth about misogyny and racism, and instead stand with women and POC just as you ask others to stand with you. When you spread lies about antisemitism being "the oldest hate", you minimize the efforts of us who are fighting other hatreds that are just as old.
What about hatred for Palestinians in Apartheid Israel. Watch Eye on Palestinian, and see daily ethnic cleansing on a daily basis
Israel under Netanyahu began the perilous course of interfering in domestic US politics He visited the US, snubbed Obama and met with Congressional Republicans instead. They couldn't wait for Obama to be gone, because they've hitched their wagon on Trump and the GOP, which in turn panders to American Jews by things like recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol. It seems like many Jews have left the Democratic Party
@@agentxyz I personally don't know any Jews that vote for Trump or Republicans. According to Pew Research, 7 in 10 Jews consider themselves liberal or Democrats and have been for decades. 73% of Jews had a negative view of Trump.
@@Higgins8 you probably don't know any because the 3 in 10 are rich and live in FL
@@agentxyz That's still only 30% at best.
@@Higgins8 Orthodox jews love Trump so much they're thinking about mink fur MAGA hats. We'll soon see Hasidim in the background at Trump rallies waiving Jews For Trump signs
"Scapegoating" is a recognized "habit" of humans. Ancient peoples were wary of "those folks on the other side of the mountain." That suspicion has become "instinctual" or perhaps ALWAYS was instinctual, a wariness for dangers in the environment. If you want to relieve that instinct, you have to "convince" every human being that we are all "related." But those who "proclaim" difference need to "enter the fold." Identical chromosomes of ALL humans are the PROOF we are all cousins. There are no separate human races, only one. Race is defunct when referring to humans. Are you ready for that? Will the ancient traditions drown out the facts of science? "This whole planet is the Promised Land, for every child, woman and man." Simple. Not Easy.
Inconvenient truths. Marching towards the precipice.
Despite the title of the book Fear, Jan 6th, etc, I think we're neither discussing the properly framed problem, nor the big picture solutions yet. #FearIsTheProblem. Fear is the root of vanity, bullying, misogyny, homophobia, racism, bigotry and greed. Fear allows people to mentally wall-off their own empathy to virtually zero. #MakeBigotryShamefulAgain #BuildBridgesNotWalls #DeportMeToo #BanMeToo
Three of the biggest generators of fear are 1) out-of-control capitalism and historically unsustainable and exponentially growing wealth and income inequality levels (if you lose your job you might lose healthcare access, your home, car, partner, child custody rights, etc), 2) fear-mongers like Fox/Faux/Fear News, the GOP, etc. (they’re all out to get you, all the time), and 3) religion ('evil' is waiting around every corner, all your life with eternal unimaginable fiery torture as a deterrent).
Let's be honest, no amount or size of Great Walls, or military spending, or nuclear arsenal, or non US soil military bases and ops, or international weapons sales, or personal weapons and magazine sizes, or of school teachers with guns, or of privatized, militarized (and systemically racist) police and mass incarceration, or of mass deportations including the Dreamers, or of bans of entire groups of people, or of intentionally torturous (and often permanently orphaning) separation of immigrant children as a deterrent, or threats to shoot rock-throwing refugees, or torture of POWs, or control over women, or Space Farces, or border moats filled with snakes and alligators, or anything else will ever Make American Republicans Feel Safe enough...
Every single American Republican policy puts fear, bigotry (fear) and greed (fear) before people and planet (including equality and empathy) and no single policy in the world in the modern era is as patently bigoted and of the scale as their continued fight to ban (and register, and ''pre-arrest'', etc too) all Muslims (a bigotry-blanket of fear/hate covering all 1.8 billion people of all colors, from all nations, of all ages, of all sexes and sexual preferences, etc).
Fear (and the empathy and critical thought it kills) is what separates the right from the left. The fear at the root of ”Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” -- Albert Einstein
Liberals hate American Republicans because all of their policies put fear and greed (fear) before people and planet (including equality and empathy).
American Republicans hate liberals for the exact same reasons, because they’re afraid we’ll get in the way of their fear and greed.
We're closer to #AmericanCivilWarII than most people believe and just like before our own friends and family members would take up arms against us for not getting on board with their extreme greed and bigotries just like the Confederates in 1865 or the Nazis in 1938.
What do you think will happen to crime rates, peace and equality in general after we launch a livable min wage, universal healthcare, a universal basic income, universal education and internet for all, raising the starting point of capitalism from zero, we'll let you die with no money, to a level of life with dignity, reducing societal daily fears on a massive scale and freeing us to welcome the automation revolution with open arms rather than with fear and great harm? 😃 #EqualityMovement #BLM
Call me overly positive, but I think we’re leaving the era of ‘greed is good’ and celebrating wealth and entering an #EraOfAltruism and equality. Let’s #AutomateEverything and #SkipToAbundance.
People of color have been marginalized since the very beginning of our country. I am curious as to why you have only focused on the Jewish community and completely minimized the racism against people of color? There is a revival of hate all the way around, but specifically it never went away against blacks. From the title of this video, there is no revelation that the topic is only for antisemitism but rather “hate” - this is an example as to why every group is being divided - and people choose to be selective with where they want to focus and employ their hate and empathy towards. Hate is hate. Focus on that, illuminate it and destroy it! But instead we want to pretend that it either doesn’t exist or become selective with which group is being terrorized…..the most. The Shoah happened and we should never forget, but somehow we want to forget what happened to people of color and glaze over the other groups that horrific things have happened to.
My 95 year old father’s father was lynched forcing my father to join the AF in ‘43 and fought against nazism. I am fully aware of the Holocaust, but what about the Holocaust of other groups? Because it did happen. What about talking about 20 million people being kidnapped from their homes and brought to a foreign land and forcing free labor into them? We expect better from our country, but we need to talk about all of it in equal measures in order to heal.
Great to hear about transformed lives!!
Damian's story turns from horror to beauty as he understands and admits what he has done. It shows us that every last one of us can be redeemed. We all must try to do better. None of us is truly innocent. I am so proud of ADL for publically supporting Damian's transformation.
Maybe Mr Greenblatt should look in the mirror for many of the divisions in America. The ADL and other organizations such as AIPAC perfected buying political influence in American politics. This buying of influence to promote the state of Israel and Jewish interests has led to most of the problems today. Money in politics has inadvertently been the origin of these problems.
I was just telling someone that it is human nature to beat up on the lowest hanging fruit and that applies throughout the human race.
In the UK participating in hate groups is illegal, you go to jail. We need this in the US. Enough is enough
Good thing we broke away from you Harry Potter's in 1776.
@@jasondelaloire9167 I'm American...but I get it, you want the freedumb to be a racist nazi
@@coldsnap999 commie's aren't people.
@@jasondelaloire9167 Imagine knowing how to use the apostrophe correctly...lowbrow bumpkin
We need to accept it and eat with it head on and decisively. Some people are thinking the unthinkable, so let’s get them identified and called out. Blast them.