Antisemitism -- What? Why? Who? | Yaron Brook Show - Yaron Brook Show

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
A lot of the funds of last and any individual lots.
This is the show. Oh right, everybody, welcome to your
One Book Show on this Sunday, November ninth. I hope

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everybody is having a good weekend, and are you ready
for another episode of you One Book Show? All right, Okay,
We're gonna talk about anti Semitism today. That's the topic
of the show. I figured we talked about a lot yesterday,
and it's come up a number of different shows in
the past few weeks. We might as well just wrap

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it all up with one show dedicated to this topic.
I'll answer any questions about it, any issues, any anything
else you have. We we can cover it all in
one go. I'll cover some of the comments I got
on Twitter for the various things I posted. We'll do

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the history, kind of try to define it. We'll talk
about Zionism, anti Zionism. I mean, there's a lot to cover,
a lot to cover in this one and but we'll
try to kind of have this a definitive show from
my perspective, at least with regard to with regard to Semitism,
so that late I can refer people, Oh you want
to hear my views on at Semmetism. Go watch that show.

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Although I fear, I fear that this is a topic
that I'm gonna have to deal with over and over
and over and over and again in the years, uh
and and maybe decades to come. But it's certainly in
the years to come. Decades. It's a long time anyway,
the years to come. So this is a this is
at least a one one, you know, an kind putting

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down with regards to this topic. But it is it
is going to be sad that we're going to be
talking about this for a long time. Uh. Let's see.
Michaels already started us off with some super chats. He
did promise that today I would achieve my goal easily
because he has so many questions. So Michael's getting us started,

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and I expect him to fill up the screen with
lots of questions. But you too can ask questions about anything.
It would be great if we got a bunch of
questions related to this. But as you know, I take
questions on everything and anything. They get answered in the
first based on how much money you put up. That

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is the above twenty dollars. Questions get ranked based on
the amount of money and then answered, and all the
under twenty dollars basically get answered in the order in
which they are asked, So don't worry. I answer all
the questions. I respond to everything. I read out all

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the comments. If you want to insult me, one way
to get me to read out your insult is to
put it into super Chat. Also, I wanted to just
remind you show tomorrow, probably in the evening, and then
Tuesday from California, and then no show Wednday, Thursday, and

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hopefully a show Friday from Colorado. Uh, and then no
show Saturday Sunday a week from today, a show back
from home. All right, you know, Uh, I just got

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to comment on Twitter that's just too funny to ignore.
So let me just say. I said something about that,
you know, a video of talking talking about the demons
scratching him and stuff, and I said, this guy's nuts
and crazy. And this is the response I got. Demons
are and were accepted by just about every culture throughout history,

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and decent people tend to avoid the personal attacks, whereas
warmongers and israel worshippers seem to thrive on them. All right,
you know, demons are not accepted by any culture of reason.
A culture of reason rejects demons and thinks that people
who believe in demons are little nuts, and particularly if

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they live in the twenty first century, which is a
century built on a foundation of an age of reason
called the Enlightenment, where demons were not taken seriously, and
the idea that in the twenty first century in America,
in spite of all the secularization, in spite of all
the reason, in spite of all the science, in spite
of everything else, anybody who claims to be attacked by

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demons and didn't document, they didn't take pictures of the scratches,
and admit to having four dogs in the bed with
them at the time has to be called a kook.
And that's exactly what they are. And anybody who defends
demons and the existence of demons and the the presence
of demons in our lives and the ability of demons

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to attack you during your sleep even though you got
four dogs protecting you, is another kook. And personal attacks.
This is not a personal attack. It's a personal evaluation.
It is a moral I don't know, a state of
mind evaluation of me, you know, in my view, Tucker Calson,

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for a variety of reasons, is a coke, is a nutcase.
He's lost contact with reality, He's lost contact with any
kind of truth. He is in the category of nutty.
Above and beyond his immorality and his immorality and his

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advocacy for many evil ideas. The guy's just nuts. He's
just crazy. And you want to take the craziness seriously,
go for it, embrace it, you know, go all out.
But I I do attack people personally when they are
or not attack. I evaluate people personally, and if they

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behave like kooks, I call them kooks. If they advocate
for evil more evil ideas, I call them evil, particularly
if they're adults, and there's reason to believe that those
they should know better than the evil ideas that they hold.
I believe in moral evaluation and generally evaluating people, and
I will make those evaluations public to the extent that

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they are public figures. If they're a private figure, there's
a kook who's my neighbor, I'm not going to make
it public. But they're out there telling stories about demons
scratching themselves, then they're begging to be called a nut.
And with all due respect, to all of you who
love Tucker Causon and view him as a demigogue. Tucker
Causon is nuts. All right, Let's talk about another nutty

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set of ideas, and that set of ideas is an
anti semitism. Anti Semitism is, of course a pretty agent
of ideas. It's uh uh, it is not new. We'll
talk about the history of it. We'll go back to
where it started. This, of course, will not be a comprehensive,
thorough uh you know, thorough analysis of of antisemitism. That

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would take a massive book. And I do intend to
do some work on this. I presented as a lecture
and things like that, but for now, this is this
is going to be my take on the phenomena. So
first let's let's talk about what it is. Uh, what
is anti Semitism? I mean, here's a definition. Antisemenis is hatred, uh, discrimination, prejudice,

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hostility of violence against Jews as Jews. It includes, it
includes the belief in a whole variety of conspiracy theories
that view Jews somehow, you know, having extraordinary power over

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people's lives and over over over the world in which
we live. Now, part of the question is and and
I think an important part is who Jews, what our Jews?
What is your what is this refer to? What is
jew refer to? And I think it refers to a

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few things, and it doesn't refer to these as a
separate but all is one, Bob. If you have questions,
the super chat is available, happy to answer all of
your questions. Do you refers to the religion, It refers
to a culture, It refers to a particular ethnic group,

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and it refers to a perception of the existence of
a nation and a Jewish a nation. Jew refers to
all of those in and members who belong to any
one of those people who practice the religion, people who
have a and it reforms to you know, genes, to

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a genetic heritage, whether you know people. People refer to
other people as Jewish even when Jews don't refer to
them as Jewish. For example, according to Judaism, you can
only be a Jew unless you conferred. But it can
only be a Jew if your mother was Jewish. If
your father's Jewish and your mother's not Jewish, you're not Jewish.

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And yet again, I think people refer to the Jews
if anybody related to them was Jewish at some point.
And here's the important part about jew in the context
of anti Semitism. I mean a lot of people refer
to themselves as Jewish because they are religious, or because

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they view themselves as part of a nation that they
define and is Jewish, which is pretty amorphous, or because
they are collectivists and view themselves as somehow belonging to
other people through some kind of genetic genic relationship. I
don't consider myself a Jew in day to day life.

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You know, it has no relevance to me. I'm not religious.
I'm not religious. I'm an atheist it culturally, you know.
I'm sure the Jewish culture had an impact on me
and my life, but you know, I've chosen a different culture.

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Most of my friends today are not Jewish. The culture
in which I live is not a Jewish culture. Genetically,
I'm certainly a Jew, but I don't know what that means.
That means nothing. You're not. Who you are is not
your genes. Who you are what you make of yourself.
It's the choices you make in your life. So in

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that sense, I don't consider myself Jewish. I don't celebrate
any of the Jewish holidays, so that's religion. Now culture
is out. I just don't think of myself as belonging
to to I don't believe in race. I don't believe
in the concept of race, and even even the concept

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of you know, ethnicity is kind of an antichotist What
does it actually mean, particularly if you detach it from
particularly if you detach it from the issue of race.
So you know, to me, I am not a Jew,

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except that the anti Semites, those who hate Jews, clearly
define me as such. That as I know that when
they start rolling up the Jews, however they want to
define it, I will be one of the people being
rounded up. When people express anti Semitic views, they are

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pointing their finger at me. My own views about at
about Judaism or being Jewish are irrelevant to the very
fact that the anti Semite has his own definition of
who a Jew is. I mean, Hitler, what was it
two generations? If you had anybody, any of your grandparents

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was Jewish, you are jew. It didn't matter whether you
considered yourself one or not. And one of the things
that led Hrzel, the founder of a designist movement, to
found designist movement is the realization that the haters, the
haters of the Jew, the anti Semites would never let

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Jews assimilate. He was a completely assimilated Jew, didn't consider
himself a Jew until he faced the Dreyfus trial and
realized that as assimilated as you get, the anti Semites
will always, always, always view you as a Jew. Bob

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doesn't like Jews, but he also says, we don't like
libertarians either. Well that's good because I'm not a libertarian.
So there we go. I'm not Jewish and I'm not libertarians.
You love me, now, Bob? Do you like me?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Now?

Speaker 1 (13:32):
The haters have come. At least, you know, Bob represents them.
I don't know how many else they are available, all right,
So so, anti Semitism is a hatred, discrimination, prejudice, stility,
violence against Jews. It is the the advocacy and the

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embrace of conspiracy theories related to to the Jews, and
we'll talk about those. It is it is characterized by, uh,
you know, by by stories of primarily of Jews doing
horvable things that then justify the hatred, prejudiced and violence

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against them. Right, if if Jews are really you know, killers,
if Jews really do I don't know, drink the blood
of whatever, then violence against them is justified. Right. So, uh,
Anti Semitism not only has this hatred and violence and prejudice,

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but it also builds up the stories. It builds up
the theories, it builds up the justification for that violence.
And I think you can only understand the stories about Israel,
the lying about Israel, the the constant lies about Israel
in the context of they need to constantly rationalize the hatred.

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They need to constantly justify the hatred, they prejudice. And
ultimately what they want is that the violence against the
Jew and and they will they will, they won't make
up stories. Uh. You know, blood libels go back to

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the very early you know, Christianity and and really to
the beginning of Christianity. We'll get to the original blood
libel in a minute. But blood libel, the idea that
Jews kill this, do that you know, they're responsible for
blood that that kind of blood libel is always used
as justification. Let's go slaughter the Jews, Let's go kill

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the Jews, let's discriminate against the Jews. Let's so you
need a story. You know, they control the world, they
make money off of exploiting Christians, they make money off
of off of useless interest or whatever. You know, all
of this is uh is the case Cook says, blood

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libel is starting in England. No, it didn't actually starts
way before that. If if we understand what blood libel
really is, we'll see that it starts really way before that.
So you know, this is the this is the essence
of of of of antisemitism. It's the the the the

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hatred that is then justified by conspiracy theories and and
and look, the the original conspiracy theory and the original
blood libel, the original conspiracy and the original blood libel,
and the justification uh for much of the hatred of
Jews and discrimination against them and the violence against them

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by Christians in the uh you know period of the
early Church all the way through the Middle Ages and
through the Crusades, is the conspiracy and the blood libel
that the Jews, the Jews, not age you, not a
group of Jews, but the Jews were responsible for the
death of Christ. That is the idea that Jesus was

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killed by the Jew. That is that the theologically you
blame Jesus's death on the Jew becomes really the first
blood libel and becomes the first great conspiracy theory that
justifies hatred. I mean, if if Jesus was the Messiah

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and Jesus was the superhero in Jordan Peterson's terms, and
Jesus was God's son, whatever the hell that means, and
God himself, whatever the hell that means, and the Jews
killed him, well that's bad. And remember that he was crustified,
so it wasn't just any death. It was a particularly brutal, horrible, painful,

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excruciating death. And the Jews are responsible. So this is

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really where it starts. Now. You could argue that there's
certain passages in the New Testament that already are suggestive
of kind of a very negative attitude towards Jews, and
certainly it's the way it's been interpreated. It's certainly the way.

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It's certainly the way it's been interpreated. And whether I'm
sure there are other interpretations that are not anti Semitic,
but certainly certain elements than the Church have used these interpretations.
For example, in John eight forty four, you are your
father the devil, which has been interportal to me and
Jews were collectively guilty for rejecting and killing Christ, and

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they are basically the devil, and they were created by
the devil, and they are the devil. But really, and
I you know, anti Semitism really takes off with certain
figures in the early Church, and then we'll see it
gets institutionalized in the Middle Ages and just thrives in there.

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So we're going to just go, I'm going to read
you some passages just to give your sets of the
extent of which Christians, early Christians at least some leading
figures among early Christians. I do not want to say
that all early Christians believe this, but certain figures among
early Christianity were you know, you know, viewed, viewed, uh,

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viewed Jesus, sorry, viewed the Jews as really horrific, really evil,
really bad, and that the source of that was the
fact that they were responsible for the death. And and
again let me note it's I've noted this in other contexts.
But what they do is they they they shift right,

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because we know who was responsible for you know, jesus death,
and that was the Roman, the Roman Empire, Roman authorities.
But it very quickly, certainly from you know, the rise
of Constantine on, it becomes very politically not very good,

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very politically bad to blame the Roman Empire because Rome
now becomes Christian are the good guys. The Romans are
the ones spending Christianity all over Europe. She can't blame
Rome for for this attack on h on on on Jesus.
You've got to find somebody else. Uh. And he's right

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there and and he's like, you know, the Jews identified
very early on as the killers of Christ. So it's
easy to do. It's easy to do. Mh. I mean,
I just before we do this, before we uh talk

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about some of the early Christian commentators, let me let
me one more point I want to make, and that
is that people have said people have in a comment
section keep saying to me, no, no, Christians didn't invent
anti Semitism. Anti Semitism existed before that. Lots of people

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hated the Jews. For example, the the Egyptians enslaved the Jews.
That's the beginning of anti Semitism. But that's silly, right,
I mean, the Egyptians enslaved the Jews, They enslaved lots
of different people. They did enslave the Jews because they
would Jews. They enslaved the Jews because they were foreigners

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who came to Egypt and didn't have a home, and
it was easy to enslave them. It was more politics
geopolitics of the time, right. Jews were people without really
a home at that point, and the Egyptians just used
opportunity to enslave them, and people w enslaved all over
the Middle East at that point in time. Slavey was
just part of life. It was even Jews had slaves

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later on in the Old Testament, so you know, and
people fought wars, and people hated each other, but it
wasn't there wasn't a theme here. We hate Jews, quad Jews,
you know, we hate those people because we'd like to
pillage and take their stuff and we'd like to conquer
their land. That is not the same as antisemitism. Not

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the same as antisemitism. So that is so I do
consider the beginning of anti Semitism really, the beginning of
anti Semitism really the first Christians to articulate the case
for hatred of Jews, and then Christianity dominates the West

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and it becomes the fountain head of all anti Semitism,
secular and religious, including much of Muslim anti Semitism, you know,
probably to large extent, originates, particularly the modern form of it,
originates with Christianity. So you know, justin the matter one

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hundred and fifty five, see in the Common Era, in
a dialogue says, the tribulations were justly imposed on you, Jews,
for you have slain the just one, Jesus, and there's
prophets before him, and now you reject those who hope
in him. See here's the basic Christian claim. Jews killed

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Jesus again collective guilt. Even if now all those disciples
would Jews, he was a Jew, many of his disciples
would Jews. I mean everybody or most people in that
part of the world at the time would Jewish. But
it's collective guilt. It's all Jews killed Jesus. Even Jews

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that come generations after Jesus was killed, killed Jesus or
share the blame in the killing of Jesus. But here's
the more subtle reason why they hated Jews at the
time of Jesus and then repeatedly over the decades, centuries,

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really millennia, a couple of millennia, Jews have had opportunity
to see the light Jesus was among them. Christians surround them.
They could convert to Christianity at any point in time.
They can become Christians, and the Christians will embrace them

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if they become Christians, at least up to a point,
you know, as the Inquisition in Spain showed, not completely,
but they claimed that they would embrace them. And yet
the Jews resist or resistead. They didn't embrace Christianity. You
reject those who hope in Him. They don't become Christian

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And that's what really makes them evil. That's what really
justifies discrimination and hatred and sometimes violence against them. It's
the not willing to recognize Jesus as the Messiah, the
responsible for his death, collective guilt over millennia, and they

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won't convert to Christianity or they won't become Christians. John Chu,
I can't pronounce his name, hy Suwstom three eighty six.
I mean he was he was particularly vicious. This guy

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was really hated Jews. Again, one of the fathers of
the Church, one of the early great thinkers of the church.
He did eight homilies delivered in an Antioch, among the
most explicitly antisemitic. There was a lot of antisemitism there.
But among the most explicit antisemitic Semitic works is this one,

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I mean, the whole thing is is probably, if not
the most one of the most anti semitic works produced
by a Christian. The synagogue is worse than a brothel.
It is the dan of scoundrels and the repair of
wild beasts, a place of meeting for the assassins of Christ.
There it is again assassins of Christ right through the generations.

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Every generation is responsible for. Again, I hate the synagogue
precisely because it has the law and the prophets. It
is the dwelling of demons. Remember demons. Hmm, Maybe it
was Jews that scratched, that scratched the taker cows. Maybe

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maybe it was them. Sir John was particularly bad, particularly bad.
You can read, I mean, you can find lots of
other stuff. Let me see you once again, I had
head here. I mean ce this is Saint Ambos. Saint
Ambos is considered one of the great thing is of
really Christianity. I mean, he was the Bishop of Milan.

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He was the bishop to the Emperor who was in Rome,
but the Empire often was ruled out of Milan, so
he was the most influential, one of the most influential
you know, Christians, theologians, leaders of his time. And you
know he wrote extensively. Is again considered one of the

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fathers of the Church. And and here here is this
quote about Jews. Right, this is this is sorry he
was born in three forty this is three seventy nine,
so this is all the first century. Remember this is
this is after Christianity has now become the religion of
the Roman Empire. Bob, I don't have a bronxy accident

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than the bunks never lived anywhere near the bunks quote.
I mean, he's such a Bobby, is such an idiot?
Quote the most worthless of all men. That's Jews. They
are lecherous, greedy, raptures. They are perfidious murderers of Christ.
They worship the devil, their religion as a sickness. The

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Jews of the odious assassins of Christ and for killing God.
There is no expiation possible, no indulgence or pardon. Christians
may never cease vengeance, and that you must live in
servitude forever. God always hated the Jews. It is essential

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that all Christians hate them. Whoa I mean, it doesn't
get much more explicit than that. Now he goes on
and on. I mean, some Christians burned down a synagogue,
and the Emperor comes in, and he says, no, us
rebuild it for them. You must compensate them, rebuild it.
I mean that the Roman empires often, you know, wanted

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religious pluralism, and and and and and didn't want to discriminate.
And and Ambos goes to the Pope, to the Uh
Emperor says, absolutely not, should not build their temple. Remember
this the next time you see one of these scoundrels
somewhere spouting Jewish hatred. Ambo said, God always hated the Jews.

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It is essential, not optional. It is essential that all
Christians hate them all all, all the all uh what's
his name? Fuentis and Tucker Casson, all these guys and
and Candicon. All they're doing is doing what Ambo said
all Christians should do. Hillary uh again for a century.

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Jews are perverse people, accused by God, accursed by God forever.
Greg Graving, I see again one of the great thinkers
of the early Christian Church. The Jews are brood of vipers,
haters of goodness. The Jews are brute of vipers. Haters
of goodness. That's from n see it. And again another

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one from Saint Jerome. Saint Jerome, of course, the saint.
If you call it a synagogue, if you call it
a synagogue of brothel a then of vice, the devil's refuge,
Satan's fortress, a place to deprive the soul, an abyss
of every conceivable disaster, or whatever you will. You are
still saying less than it deserves. And you can see

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how for Intance and Tucker Carlson kind of mild in
their anti Semitism as compared to these early Christians. And
you can see how, you know, the Christian world later on,
much later on, can easily come up with the protocols

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of the Elders of Zion. You can see how they
can claim the Jews control everything, and I mean, this
is yeah, it's pretty bad. This is pretty bad. Now.
So this is the early Church. I will say Augustine,
Augustine maybe the most influential of all the early Church fathers,

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is the most influential of all the Church fathers. And
one of the two, you know, probably I think is
in Christianity Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. Augustine again late fourth
century early fifth century is generally less violent towards the Jews.
He's not an advocate of violence, but his attitude, nonetheless,

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is this. The Jews, by their own scriptures, a testimony
to our truth. They bade the mark of Kine, living
as wanderers, so that they, by their dispense, dispersion, they
may be witnesses to us. In other words, the reason

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Jews exist, and the whole point of having Jews out there,
is that they witness the success, They witness the grandeur,
they witness the greatness of Christianity. They are witnesses their
whole purpose of being. And of course, from the perspective

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of the Christian Jewish suffering Jewish dispersion, the minority status
of Jews is a reminder to all Christians that their misery,
their poverty is a reminder of all Christians of the

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proof of Christianity. You can see now, in some sense
why when Jews become rich, strong, able, when Jews establish
their own state, that this is an affront to Augustinian theology.

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No longer are the Jews witnesses to Christianity's success. The
Jews are successful, but that's a perversion and distortion to
the Augustinians, I mean for the Gastinians. And this is
at least for millennium, but I think it still has

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influenced to this day. Jews were to be preserved in misery.
This partially explains the creation of the Jewish ghettos as
proof of Christianity's truth. And if that is true, If
that statement is true, then when Jews are not in misery,
when Jews rich, successful, prosperous, and maybe even having their

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own state, what does that say about Christianity truths.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
So some of the elements that build up towards modern
anti Semitism.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
The fourth latter in Council. This is now twelve fifteen.
It's quite a bit later. In some provinces different a
difference in dress distinguishes the Jews or Saracens from Christians.
We decree that such Jews and Severacens are both sexes
in every Christian province, and at all times shall be
distinguished from other people by the character of the address.

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So this is the beginning of kind of a gold
star that the Nazis embraced. Afterwards, we want to be
able to tell whose Jewish and who's not by what
they wear. Now twelve fifteen, of course, reminds one also
of the of the you know, the Crusades and uh
and literally remember the Crusades were a great opportunity for Christians, uh,

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to to express the hatred of Jews toro, you know,
incredible acts of violence. Uh and uh, I'm just looking
for some of the material of heavenness. One second. Unfortunately
I didn't organize this. Uh where was it? All right,

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doesn't matter, you know, because it's uh, I know this stuff.
The First Crusade, Oh yeah, the Crusades again military campaigns
that were launched by Western Christendom, originally to liberate holy
lands for Muslims. They were also they also called the Crusades,
the attacks in the Spanish Peninsula, the Barian Pilliansida on

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the on the Muslims. They also in Spain they also
called crusades. The attempts by the Christians, success full teremps
by the Christians to Christianize the Northern Europe, in particular Scandinavia.
The conversion of the Pagans to Christianity by the Sword,
I might ask and will also considered crusades. But anyway,

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in the Crusades, the First Crusade, the idea was. The
idea was that we had to go, and the Christians
had to go to fight the Infidel, and to fight
the Infidel and to liberate the Holy Land. The whole
point was fighting the Infidels, and the idea was to

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set out the Holy This is Pope. This is Pope
up in the second announcing the First Crusade. Let those
who have hither throw being robbers now become soldiers of Christ,
set out for the Holy specter Jusalem, rescue that land
from the wicked race. And rejected to yourself right now,
this is aimed at Muslims. That is the wicked race

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that he intends. But you can see how well, there's
another wicked race here in Europe amongst us. Why should
we go all the way over there to the Middle East.
It's far away, so it's a trek right in ten
ninety five. It's a trick to get that to get there.
So what about the wicked race that's among us? What

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about the wicked race that's right here, right here in
front of us? And indeed they use this to basically,
you know, aggress or slaughter the Jews on the way.
On the way. Now it's worth mentioning that the Pope

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did not attend this, and the Pope spoke out against
the killing of the Jews during the crusade. The Pope
did not support it. The Pope rejected it and actually
argued against it, but he was not on the ground.
By the time he heard about it was too late
and it didn't stop anybody. There were enough religious authorities
that supported this that he was just ignored. Here's a

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German cleric describing what happened in Germany in the area
of minz In in north northwest Germany. As this rabble
of robbers and others, guided by preachers and holy Man,
traversed through Germany on their way south to the Holy Land.

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The people, inflamed by a new spirit, said, why go
to fight the enemies of Christ and distant lance? While
the Jews whose father killed him dwell on us in peace.
They slew them, spared neither age nor sex. Hundreds of
Jews and whole communities were wiped out. They were given

(39:59):
their option of converting to Christianity. Some chose suicide, but
most were just slaughtered when they refused to convert to Christianity.
And you know this is a well documented by people
at the time. And you know, thousands agains of Jews

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were killed in Germany as part of the First Crusade.
Of course, when the Christians actually got to Jerusalem, they
didn't differentiate between Jews and Christians who were living there,
Jews and Muslims who were living there, and indeed the Jews.
Here's a quote from William of Tire who writes a
history of the First Crusade. The Jews who had dwelt

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in Jerusalem were burned alive in this synagogue, which was
set on fire by our men, crying out, Christ is
our Lord.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
You know, this is the history of Christianity. This is whoops,
what happened to my right?

Speaker 1 (41:10):
There we go. This is the Christianity. This is you
know how progressed. Of course, you know it doesn't stop there,
because you have constant blood libel against Jews. You have
constant blaming the Jews for the problems that the Christian
world is encountering. Uh. You know, for example, uh, you know,

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just to add uh, just to give you a just
to give you a sense of this, right, that was
the First Crusade. The Second Crusade, you get s Bnad
of Clovo condemns the attack that says the Jews are
not to be persecuted, killed, the exiled, They are for
us as a living sign. And yet you are killed

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throughout thewai Inland. Again nobody's listening to him. The killings
are regardless. In the Third Crusade eleven eighty nine to
eleven eighty two, anti Jewish riots in England occur, during
which of the first Coronation. They then occured York in
eleven ninety where the entire where much of the Jewish

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community is destroyed. Now, part of that has to do
with usury and Jewish users and you know who are
bankers basically lending money at interest. And this is this
is where they take the opportunity to burn all the
books of the bankers so that they don't have to
pay their debts back. And the Fourth Crusade, it continues

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basically on and on, and then you get the blood
libels which are always associated with these with these programs
of Jews, you get Norwich in eleven forty four, you
get Trent in fourteen seventy five. And then during the
Black death Right, the Black death that is wing out
huge numbers of Europeans, huge numbers of Europeans. You get,

(43:09):
you get that the Jews are responsible for the Black death.
They are poisoning the wells uh and and the black
death is the consequence of the well poisoning, and that
is why Christians are dying. And of course the consequence
of that or again mass killing of Jews throughout this period. Uh.

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Jews are then later on in in in European history,
Jews are then isolated in in ghettos in the major cities.
UH so that they so that they you know, they
they could still live in the city, but they're all
in one quarter, usually very very very uh very crammed

(43:58):
into a corner where they're living standards horrific. And again
they are they serve as witness, witness to what happens
to a people who don't accept Christ and h and
witness to the to the Christian success and and Christian
power over them. So this is very much a part

(44:21):
of Christianity really, you know, until the nineteen sixties and
nineteen seventies, where the Catholic Church makes efforts to apologize
for to some extent a complicity with the Holocaust and
to for the history a long history of anti Semitism.

(44:43):
They acknowledge it, and they somewhat apologize for it, although
arguably they've never really they've never properly they've never properly
taken full responsibility for it. But there's no question that UH,
anti Semitism has its origins, has its roots deep into

(45:09):
in Christianity. And and this is not uniquely Catholic. When
when Luther rebels against the Catholic Church and and start
basically the protest Protestant uh, prot Protestantism, I can't say
that word right, He riles reels against against the Jews. Uh.

(45:36):
He is one of the most anti Semitic thinkers UH
that Christianity has produced. UH and UH he shapes much
of the attitude towards Jews UH within the Protestist Protestant religion.

(45:59):
And and remember Lutha is in Germany. German anti Semitism.
It was not invented in the twentieth century. It has
its roots going back to the early Church. But it
certainly has its roots going back to Lutha and in
the sixteenth in the sixteenth century. It's interesting, you know,

(46:20):
he starts out kind of rejecting the idea that that
you know, the Jews are to blame for Christ's death.
He writes, we have to treat the Jews kindly and
deal with them in a friendly way if we want
them to become Christians. Right, so we want them to
become Christians. And he reminds his reader is that Jesus
was born a Jew. But over time he really changes

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and he writes a number of different essays you know
that basically attack the Jews. They don't reform, they don't
join the Provenceton movement because he blames the fact that
Jews didn't become Christian. Well, it's because the Catholics will corrupt.
So he's between fifteen thirty eight and fifteen forty three,

(47:13):
you know, he starts producing more venomous works. So on
the Jews and their Lies fifteen forty three, we'll get
to that in a minute, of the Unknowable Name and
the generation generations of Christ. On the last words of
David against the Sabbatarians, that's the Jews the Sabbath. So

(47:33):
he's writing extensively about the evil of the Jews because
they're not converting to his new religion. On the Jews
and their Lies fifteen forty three, which is sixty five
thousand words, just has the whole litany of accusations against
the Jews that Christianity has developed over the decades. Just

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to give you a few a few of the citations,
this is Luther. The Jews are base, horring people, full
of the devil's feces. Their synagogues are incurageable, whole and
evil slut. He continues on another passage, they are nothing

(48:16):
but thieves and robbers, who daily eat no morsel and
wear no threat of clothing which they have not stolen
from us. This is primarily in the context of usury.
Usury is theft. According to Christianity, usury is a mortal sin.
The Jew with the bag of gold around his neck

(48:37):
is in the seventh running of Hell, with the gold
dragging down into the fire. Jews are usurers, and the
Christians hate them for that. He then writes their synagogues
should be set on fire and their schools destroyed. So
Luther is actually calling for violence against Jews in fifteen
forty three, this is what he proposes for rulers in

(49:05):
Protestant nations. This is what they should do. They should
burn synagogues and schools that destroy Jewish homes. They should
confiscate prayer books and talmuds. They should forbid rabbis to teach,
they prohibit safe travel, they should force Jews into manual
labor expulsion. And he framed these acts as Christian duties.

(49:27):
They would actually save souls and protect society from Jewish blasphemy.
And it's theological reasons for this. Jews refused to accept
Christ as proof of divine rejection. Jews were instruments of Satan,
keeping Christians from truth. And you know the idea of

(49:51):
the apocalyptic. During the apocalypse, there would be a final
conversion of the Jews to Christians or they all go
to Him, which you know Christians still believe to this day. Now,
luckily it's rare the Jewish rulers actually acted on his recommendations.

(50:13):
I think too many of them needed the Jewish money
landers It's a fund many of their wars. But again,
this is lu. This is not some second rate unknown
nobody out there preaching. This is this is the founder
of the Protestant Protestant religion. Uh and uh and and

(50:35):
this circulated thoroughly. And by the way, you know the Nazis.
The Nazis mined the fifteen forty three essay for for
for for juicy bits. You know, they they reprinted excerpts.
One of them was was you know what Luther said
about the Jews? Which was a pamphlet after christal Nach

(50:59):
Luther and bish Martin Sass published a pamphlet celebrating that
the synagogue burns on Luther's birthday, and Hitler himself mentioned
Luther approvingly in speeches as a great reformer. I mean,
Luther's authority, minutes sense, gave kind of the modern anti

(51:20):
Semites a theological pedigree, a theological excuse for what they
believed in. So, you know, in other words, at the
end of the day, anti Semitism again has its roots

(51:41):
deep into Christian theology. Christianity has basically allowed perpetrated anti
Semitism through the last couple of millennia, particularly, i'd say

(52:02):
up until the you know, the eighteenth century, it was
primarily a feature of Christianity. So one wonders where does antisemitism,
hatred of Jews come from. It comes from the father
of the Church, the fathers of the Church. It comes
from Augustine, It comes from Ambos of Milan, it comes

(52:27):
from Luther, it comes from popes and bishops and theologians
who wrote extensively about this, about the hatred of Jews
and the legitimacy of violence against them for almost two
thousand years. And the sin is the collective guilt of

(52:54):
killing Christ. The sin is that they will not convert
to Christianity. Is you know, when you have two mystical religions,
and Judaism is mystical, just as mystical as Christianity. But
do you have two mystical religions, how do you prove
one is better than the other? Well, you can't, So

(53:15):
you just have to declare one better than the other.
And particularly if you're in a position of power, i e.
Christian in this book. Point at this point, then the
fact that you know the other party doesn't recognize that
you are the truth and they are not is a

(53:35):
sign of their depravity. That is the evil of mysticism
and religiosity. And you know the subjectivism that it implies,
because there is no truth there, there's just there's subjective emotions.
Now if you add to that the economic argument again

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the Jews, which I've talked about and written about extensively elsewhere,
so I'm not going to cover it here. We're already
approaching an hour, and that is the fact that Jews
were usurers, that they were successful, that they made money.
You can see why people are hostile to was them
because they're making money. They're doing something that the Christian

(54:21):
considered a mortal sin. They're lending money. They're making money
off the loans of the Christian. How dare they their
inferior There were wicked people, and yet they're making money
off of us. You can see how this just exacerbates everything.
By the way, one of the reasons, just as an aside,
one of the reasons there are so many Jews in

(54:45):
Eastern Europe, or were so many Jews, I should say,
were so many Jews in Eastern Europe before Hitler managed
to kill most of them. One of the reasons for
that is that Western Europe became so poisons poisonous, so
anti Jewish, anti Semitic, that they just couldn't stay there.
And indeed, there were kings in Poland and Lithuania and

(55:09):
the Baltics who were, you know, who needed population, who
needed people to come and populate the area, who were
willing to tolerate the Jews, willing to be positive about
the Jews, and As a consequence, the Jews moved there
for their own safety. And for a long time Eastern

(55:29):
Europe was relatively safe for Jews until eighteen Suddenly, the
nineteenth century things flipped and Eastern Europe became again a
land of pogroms. Now, let's move quickly into the nineteenth century,
you know, and the world is becoming secularized, and yet

(55:52):
anti Semitism is still alive and well. And now now
it shifts. There is a there's a shift from primarily
religious explanations of anti semitism and two dominantly economic and nationalistic.

(56:15):
Now the economics, the economic anti semitism is primarily expressed,
you know, beyond the acquisition of usury. It's primarily expressed
by Carl Marx. Now again, uh, if you if you're
interested in the relationship between anti capitalism, between Carl Marx
and and antisemitism. I have a number of lectures on

(56:37):
this online. You can find it. Just put you on
book Anti Semitism, Anti Capitalism, and you will find the lectures.
I'm not gonna belabel them here, but I'll just say
that Marx has an essay, his first published essay, which
is highly recommended that you read uh. It is an
essay that basically it's called on the Jewish Question, that
basically declares the Jews the problem with the Jews is

(57:00):
they're self interested, the capitalists, and capitalism is evil. Self
interest is evil, and there for Jews evil and that
the problem with Christianity, the problem with Europe of the
nineteenth century is that Europe is adopting Judaism in a
sense that it's adopting capitalism, and that, you know, Judaism
has to be in a sense eliminated and first farm

(57:24):
Christianity and then from Jews themselves. It is a scathing
antisemitic essay, which again you can find on Marx dot og.
I think just put call marks on the Jewish question
and you will find it. It's quite striking. The second
thing that happens during the nineteenth century is you get

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a rise of nationalism. Nationalism is the phenomena, is a
phenomena of the nineteenth century. You get, you know, nationalistic revolutions.
People start defining themselves in terms of tribal but but
in terms of a collection of tribes rather than tribal
city or tribal very small locations, not a collection of

(58:09):
tribes and now it's called the nation. So suddenly you
create you get this creation of nations. You get the
creation of Germany, you get the creation of Italy, you
get the creation of uh uh. You know, the Czech
today is the Czech Republic in Slovakia. And all these
become nations. They were never nations before. They were part

(58:32):
of empires, and you belong to a particular tribe within
the empire. But now the idea was to deliberate the
nation from the empire. And they were belled against Australian
given empire. They were billed against or in Italy and
in Germany it is it is a process of uniting

(58:54):
city states or disparate provinces that each have autonomy or
each have uh independent. And now what you see is
a consolidation of power in the creator of nations. And
then the question is the question is in all these
new nations that are being created, is what is what
is the place of the Jew here? And by the way,

(59:17):
this is part of the Jewish question that car Marx
is trying to answer, because what what's going on is
during this period Jews have now some of them have
assimilated into the common the the culture of the of
the of the place and the time, right, so uh

(59:42):
specific time and place uh. And they were gaining civil
rights in place like Fans and even Germany, Austria and others.
And it wasn't clear how they belonged because they weren't
part of the tribes that made up even of these nations.

(01:00:03):
And they were the original globalists, right. And they were
even called it the time Cosmopolitans. Right, it's a it's
a code word for jew. Marx was not a Jew.
Max was a Christian. Max has raised a Christian uh.

(01:00:24):
And his father had converted from Judaism to Christianity and
raised Marx as a Christian. Marx grew up in an
environment of Christians hating Jews and absorbed that environment. He
had Jewish relatives, but he was a baptized Christian. So
Max was not a Jew. But during this period of nationalism,
where do you where do you put the Jew? How

(01:00:47):
do you refer to the Jew? They don't. They can't
assimilate into us, They can't become German or French or
Austrian because they're not. Because what defines German, French, Austrian
is genes is genes and the Jew has different genes.

(01:01:09):
It comes from a different lineage. Notice collectivism. Once you
have collectivism and tribalism. Well, the other, the other, the
one who doesn't belong to your tribal or collective, Well,
how do you categorize him? What do you do with it?
How do you treat him? I mean romantic nationalism cutting
out of Germany defined the nation as ethnic bloodline, and

(01:01:34):
the Jews were outsiders. They were outsiders. And of course,
just like what was done in Christianity, every problem that
was created, every problem that happened, was blamed on the outsider,
and the convenient outsider was the Jew among us, not
only and now, of course, the Jews as a successful

(01:01:55):
in the nineteenth century, or at least some Jews were.
The assimilated Jews certainly were, and now it was easy
to go after them. They were no longer the witnesses
of Christianity. Now they were successful, which was horrific to
the Christian They were not part of the nation. They

(01:02:19):
were outsider and they fought. You know how, Right now,
Tucker Kausen and others are accusing Jews of having more
than one allegiance. They're not just they don't have the
allegiance to America, they have joint citizenship, they have allegiance
to some other cause, and ifore, we can't trust them. Right,

(01:02:39):
this is not new. This is not new. Jews during
the nineteenth century and early twentieth century were constantly accused
of not having allegiance to the state in which they lived.
I mean, this is the whole argument against Dreyfus. Dreyfus

(01:03:01):
was a French senior officer in the French Army, accused
of spying, clearly false accusations motivated by antisemitism. He was
completely assimilated, motivated by anti Semitism. And the whole point
that was being made is, well, he's a Jew, so

(01:03:25):
can't really be a Frenchman, So how can we really
trust him to be committed to the French interests Because
he's a Jew, He's of a different nation. He's not
part of our nation. He can pretend he can speak French,
he can be part of our culture, he can go
to our concerts, he can sing our songs, but he'll
never be French because French is in the blood Dreyfus.

(01:03:50):
This is Dreyfus. So this idea of dual loyalty is
not new. It's just another one of those you know, accusations.
They're being thrown to Jews for hundreds of years. The
Tucker's just reerring, revoicing. None of the anti Semitism around today.

(01:04:22):
The nick four intess type, the tech of Cosson type
is new. They're just rehashing old myths. Now, People like
Bob who's on the Chat believe something like, well, the
Jews have been accused of all these evils for two

(01:04:44):
thousand years. Yeah, they didn't really kill Christ because the
Romans did it. And yeah, all the stories of them
poisoning whales, Yeah, it turns out rats for the reason,
actually caused a black death. Any Yeah, that idea of
them drinking the blood of children, it turned out to
be wrong. And it turned out that all of these

(01:05:05):
you know, blood things, it turned out to be wrong. Yeah,
but it can't all be wrong. I mean, God, I mean,
people can be wrong for two thousand years about Jews.
There must be something true behind it. There must be
something that they've done. I mean, they were kicked out
of England, and they were kicked out of Spain, and

(01:05:26):
they were kicked out of all these places. So I
mean it can't all be just false accusations, and yet
it absolutely is. They were kicked out of Spain because
they refused to convert to Christianity. They didn't do anything,
they just refused to become Christian. And yet every single

(01:05:49):
one of the accusations, every single one of the accusations
made to them about them, it's turned out to be
false and collectivistic garbage and try ballistic nonsense. Have they
been bad Jews? Of course? Are they bad Christians? Of course?

(01:06:17):
I mean, but collectivizing guilt disgusting, despicable evil. So what

(01:06:41):
exactly I am at fault because some jud did something bad? Well,
human beings do bad stuff, all people do bad stuff,
But you collectivize the guilt. That is the worst kind
of tribalism, the kind of irrationality, the worst kind of evil,

(01:07:02):
Bob evil. Anti Semitism is, Yeah, did one of Jesus'
disciples betray him? Did that disciple happen to be Jewish?
Probably because I think most of them were Jews. And
does that mean all Jews killed Christ? Of course not.

(01:07:26):
I mean, that is so irrational, so illogical, But that's
how a collectivistic, tribalistic mind works. So you know, we don't,
we don't have time. But the made up stories about

(01:07:50):
Jews just continued. You know. During during the early twentieth century,
you get the what do you call it, Protocols of
the Elder was Zion. This is a book that was
published by anti Semites in Russia Neo Odessa, which is
today in Ukraine, claiming to be a Jewish manifesto about

(01:08:13):
the Jews desire to take over the world. Clearly afford,
clearly written by Christians, not by Jews, and yet became
the basis for programs all over Eastern Europe and Russia.
Uh and uh and to this day is cited by
people and to this day, maybe they don't refer to
the Elders of Zion, but they refer to the Jews
controlling the world, I mean, for interest does this all

(01:08:35):
the time? The Jews controlling finance and therefore controlling the world.
Of course, the fact that Jews was so successful in finance,
the fact that they thrived onder capitalism, not all Jews,
some Jews. But because those some Jews thrived on the capitalism,
the socialists always hated them. The left hated them and

(01:08:57):
again collectivized the guilt. The few who thrived under capitalism
were Jews, and therefore all Jews were bad, and the
Christians of the non Jews, who maybe didn't thrive any capitalism,
hated them, resented them, rejected them for being successful. They
were the other. For decades, Wall Street in America was

(01:09:23):
quite anti Semitic. The traditional firms refused to accept Jews
as partners in the investment banks. Jews how to create
their own investment banks in or to compete, and ultimately
they did a better job. So yes, you know, in

(01:09:57):
in Ivy League, universities in the United States only part
of the twentieth century had a quota for Jews, just
like they in the latter part of the twenty cent
she had a quota for Asians. And you know, again
anti semitism. Country clubs wouldn't accept Jews in them, certain
companies wouldn't accept Jews. Again, his senior positions in them.

(01:10:20):
Anti Semitism has been with us forever, and sadly it
appears is spiking again in the United States and in Europe,
motivated both on left and right, and motivated to some
extent at least by Muslims, by Islam. By Islam's adoption
of many of Christianity's anti Semitic views. Although the Quran

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is filled with hatred of Judaism and Jews, it's just
that that hatred has manifested itself in a much more
violent way among Christians than among Muslims. All right, Just

(01:11:06):
to summarize it, anti Semitism is a consequence of viewing
the world through the prism of collectivism. It is it
is the consequence of viewing the world through the idea
that your primary identity is determined by your bloodline. This

(01:11:29):
is blood and soil collectivism. It's who your ancestors will
that determines you're worth the lack of it, and you
are you benefit and you'll get blamed for what your
ancestors did and what other members of your so called
tribe do today. Now, granted, Jews the guilty of this

(01:11:54):
collectivism as well. They take pride in the achievement of
Jews that they have no relations to. And you know
they they engage in the same kind of collectivism in
self identifying, well, we Jews. It's someone understandable because whether
they engage in the idea of self identifying as a

(01:12:19):
members of a collective or not, the rest of the
world will brand them as such anyway. So Jews, sadly,
we live in a world full of collectivists anti Semitism.

(01:12:39):
The hatred of Jews is motivated by collective guilt, the
hatred of the other, envy of their success, and a
deeply rooted, deeply rooted anti Semitism within the Christian Church,
Catholic and Protestant. And it seems to rear it had

(01:13:16):
whenever there is existential angst among the people, whenever there
are things happening that people cannot understand, whenever there is
challenges and problems, it's easy to blame the other. It's
easy to blame the tribe over there, the people who

(01:13:39):
are different, particularly if they're successful. And that's exactly what
we're seeing today. Exactly what we're seeing today, we're seeing
a rise in anti Semitism on the left and on
the right. Now we will have to do another show
because we've gone for so long already. We'll do another

(01:13:59):
show on the relationship between anti Semitism and anti Zionism,
anti Israel, the relationship between those those things, because that's
important both to understand left wing anti semitism and today
right wing anti semitism. They couture very much. In terms
of anti Israel. It's the same anti semitism as in
the past, it just couched differently, it's presented differently, and

(01:14:22):
it's very similar left and right, and both are influenced
by Christianity. In the end, you know, the left is
much more influenced by marx and by altruism, by explicit
altruism in the form of intersectionality. The right is much
more influenced explicitly by Christianity and by the stories of
the Both are influenced by the stories of the elders

(01:14:43):
of Zion, the conspiracy theory the Jews control the world.
So we will get to that. That's kind of at
the heart of of Tucker's kind of anti Semitism. It's
this uh anti anti Israel. And but let me leave
you with this Israel as the ultimate symbol of you know,

(01:15:07):
the awful jew It's all is successful, is all is strong,
and Israel is now a nation, is now a nation,
and of course a nation that is you know, identifies

(01:15:33):
as Jewish and is strong and powerful and successful and rich.
Is a repudiation of the whole idea of the Jews
kept miserable in order to be a testament for Christianity
and to prove Christianity's value and truth. Maybe Christianity not
true if God is favoring the Jews right now, m

(01:15:58):
particularly if christian is a feeling angst, if Christians is
feeling insecure. Well, when Christians feel insecure, lash out at
the strong Jews, lash out at the successful Jews. The
only antidote to antisemitism, ultimately is individualism. It's to stop

(01:16:25):
treating people as collectives. It stop treating people as members
of tribes. It's to eradicate the idea of collective guilt.
It's the idea of treating individuals based on the nature
of their character. Now, look me telling you about Christianity

(01:16:56):
and its history of antisemitism does not mean that every
Christian is an antisent might, of course not. Indeed, many
Christians are not antisemits. Many Christians saved Jews during the Holocaust,
you know, But the Catholic Church didn't behave itself particularly well,
you know, at least the pope didn't during the Holocaust. Again,

(01:17:17):
I'm not a collectivist. I'm saying the ideology as articulated
by the leaders of the church has been antisemitic and
has contributed, contributed to anti Semitism. But I don't blame
Germans today for what Germany did in the past. I

(01:17:38):
don't blame Christians today what Christianity did in the past.
I'm just saying, this is the influence. This is the influence.
And you cannot understand taka. You cannot understand nik foantis.
You cannot understand the anti semitism of globalizing to fada

(01:18:00):
without understanding the history, without understanding its source, without understanding
the last two thousand years of Christian ideology, the Christian
ideology of jew hatred. It is not to condemn every Christian.

(01:18:21):
All right, I am way behind. We did an hour
and twenty minutes. I didn't think it would be that long,
and we didn't cover everything I wanted to cover. So
we will do the kind of Israel and anti Semitism
and Zionism on another show. All right, let's switch to

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thank you for the sticker. Let me thank Stephen Harper,
and a lot of questions less stickers, mostly questions. This
is great, Catherine, thank you, and let's see who else

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do we have here to dum well, only eighty nine
dollars short of our seven and fifty dollars goal. Steven,
thank you. I think I'm I mean no, I saw
honing earlier, Catherine again, and I know I saw Jonathan honing.
Thank you Jonathan with two stickers, and thank you. Roland

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really appreciated guys. Thank you. All right, let's jump in
with questions, and let's start with Michael, who's asked I
think most of the questions, yeah, but let's start with
Michael's fifty dollars question. He says, Megan, mam donnie one.
Because voters are saying, if you don't fix out life economically,
we're going to get radical politically. We need a significant

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shift towards capitalism, or we're going to get configurations of
national socialism. Yes, I think that's absolutely right, m donnie one.
Because people are unhappy with the state of the economy.
They're unhappy with the cost of living inflation in other words,
or price inflation. They're unhappy with the cost of housing.
And what you see is what you don't see is

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anybody coming up with solutions that are consistent and is
willing to argue passionately for them. There's very little you
can do as mayor of New York to reduce the
cost of living when it comes to groceries and things
like that. So ma'm donni can pretend that he so
Mamdani offers what Mamdaney does HEAs he offers fantasies. You

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can pretend that by starting a government run a grocery
store you can lower the cost of groceries, but that
is just a fantasy. Socialists generally proposed fantasies to solve
economic problems. You can pretend that price controls rent control
can lower rent, and that seems to a zero sum
mentality person reasonable. Most people don't know economics. They don't

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know that rent control never works. And who is going
to go out there and tell them. I mean Como,
who's a democrat, who's a little less socialist than Mamdani,
but not really that much. What you need is somebody
to come out and say, yes, cost of living is
way too high. What we need is to crush inflation,

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price inflation. And you do that by getting rid of
the FED, by privatizing money. And what about housing, Well,
you do that by privatizing housing, getting rid of zoning
and getting rid of all these restrictions and taking years
and years and years to get a permit to build,
and height restrictions and parking restrictions and the millions of

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restrictions that inhibit construction. Make construction great again. Build, Build, Build.
That's how you lower the price of housing. There's demand.
People want to live in New yok In spite of
how some of you think how awful it is to
live there. People want to live in New yok. What

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they need is more housing. You need to have greater supply,
that'll lower housing. It's economics. I want somebody needs to
advocate that, not mildly moderately, but passionately, and that indeed
price controls, rent controls will only make things worse, not better.

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But for that you need some understanding of economics. You
need to have passion abound freedom and free markets, and
you need to be able to willing to go on
TV and advocate for that and advocate for it passionately, consistently.
And we don't have a political figure willing to do that.
I mean, Milai and Argentina is about it. But nobody
in the United States that I know of, oh I've
seen running for political office, has been willing to go

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all out on economic liberty, on economic freedom. But that's
what's needed. We need capitalism because the alternative to capitalism
is socialism or fascism. And what we're likely to get
is alternating. You know, the socialists will win. It'll be
a disaster, and the response to that will be a
fascist response, and I'm not sure there'll be an election

(01:23:58):
after that, but you get you get some fascism and
then some socialism and maybe some moderate will come in
the middle. And make things a little better for a
little wobb but not too much, and then you'll get
back to that. So you just keep going in the
same path, same path. So you know, truly, truly, we

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need some passion and consistent advocates of liberty and freedom
and free markets. And we're not getting them, not getting them.
Certainly the right is not producing them, and the left
you can't even pretend could produce them. So we're just
not getting them. Andrew, of course there are some bad Jews,
but in general Jews a highly productive and peaceful group.

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Antisemitism is based on a highly inaccurate judgment. I'm against
collective judgment, but if one is going to do it,
at least come close to the truth. Yeah. But again,
it's a success that inspires the anti Semitism. If they
weren't successful, particularly modern times, they'd be less anti semitism

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against them. Remember, Augustine relish is the fact that they're unsuccessful.
Wants to keep them unsuccessful because they become a testament
to Christianity success. Now they are successful, well, now we
really need to hate them. We need to make them
unsuccessful by knocking them down a few notches. So I

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don't think these people don't assess Jews as successful or
even as productive. But that creates envy, and that creates
resentment for a variety of different reasons, and they hate
it in spite of that or because of that. So again,

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altruism demands that we hate the successful and the productive
and the rich and the powerful powerful economically. So you know,
we hate Jews, and now they even have their own country,
we suddenly have to hate them. That's ridiculous. So so yes,

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I don't think it's an issue of assessment. I don't
think it's an issue of assessment. I think it's an
issue of what you do with that assessment and how
you interpret that assessment. All right, Michael, also fifty dollars,
Thank you, Michael. Ben Shapiro had to cut ties with

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Candice on Stephen Crowder and Tucker calls an over anti Semitism.
I wouldn't be surprised if Pat Walsh is next. Doesn't
he see the conservative movement he helped create is imploding
in on him. I don't know what Ben Shapiro Seesar
doesn't see. I mean again, he is a collectivist and
an and he is a religionist, and you know, I

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don't know. I think he's I think he's afraid at
this point. I think he's worried. I think it is
collapsing around him. How much he can recognize it and
how much he can clearly identify the causes of this
and the problems with it, I don't know. Because he
can't reject the Conservative movements religious roots. He can't accuse

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them of He can't go after Christianity as the root
cause of anti Semitism because that will alienate all the
other conservatives. He's not gonna suddenly become a supporter of
capitalism and of reason, because that's not who he is,
not fully, so I get it. You know, he supports

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the poor visual conservatives, and he is more rational than
the rest. But he's in trouble and this is not
where the conservative movement is moving. And I think he
knows that, and I think he is afraid. I think
he's worried and afraid. And I mentioned this yesterday on
the show. He has to worry about Matt Walsh and Knowles.

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He has to worry about them. There's every reason to
believe that they are that they will bolt from the
Daily Wire unless he's got them tied up in some
way that they can't legally. But you know, he's lost
Candice Ow. He lost another woman. I can't to to
the Blaze. I mean, he's losing people. The Daily Wire

(01:28:38):
can't just be him, although I'm sure he could have
a very successful what do you call it, a podcast
all by himself, but the Daily Wire is a whole
infrastructure that has you know, massive costs, and that those
are not sustainable without a whole network. Yeah, he lost
Brett Kooper, so you know, this incredible success there was

(01:29:01):
the Daily Wire just a few years ago is in trouble.
And I think I think Ben Shapiro knows that he
knows that he doesn't belong. He doesn't belong, partially because
he's Jewish, but also partially because he's better than these
other people. He's better than them on economic issues. He's
been mildly better than them on Trump, although he sold

(01:29:24):
his soul to some extent on Trump, and he knows
that as well. He knows he sold his soul. So
I don't so Ben, I think is not feeling too
good about himself generally right now. It's my I don't
have any first and information. That's just my supposition. Charzbad says,
I've heard that Superman is a Moses allegory. In the

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new movie, it is revealed that his parents sent him
to Earth with a manifesto unbespoken to him, which urged
him to become the king of the planet and acquire
horrm of concubines. That is bizarre, that's really, really, really weird.
I assume he rejects that. That's part of the storyline,

(01:30:08):
that he rejects that that assignment, that manifesto. Why is
he a Moses? I mean, who is he leading out
of out of slavery? I mean, isn't he just there
to save the world from evil? And so I don't

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I mean Moses is like that? You know. I was
called to Moses by your Mazzoni. In our debate. He
kept calling me Moses trying to lead the individualists out
of a collectivistic world. I took it as a compliment,
I guess, coming from him, but I'm not sure he
meant it as a compliment. But I took it as
a compliment. Although Moses is a positive character for him,

(01:30:53):
so he viewed me as kind of leading, leading these
individualists out. But he also viewed it as a as
a as a inherently going to be unsuccessful. But yeah,
I don't. I don't get the Moses is Superman analogy.
Don't get it. I mean Moses is I mean Moses

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was born a Jew who was then raised within the
Egyptian court, the king's court. But he was born a Jew,
and you know, and and the pharaoh had decided to
kill offers Jews, so he was he was put in
a in a in a little what do you call
a floating thing, and put in a nile, and discovered

(01:31:49):
by the daughter of a pharaoh and raised within the courts.
I'm not sure how even that is related to to Superman.
I just oh, I guess that he's raised among human beings,
but he's not from here. Yeah, not a good analogy anyway.
Michael asks, does the mix the economy concentrate wealth in

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cities so Middle America ends up being screwed? Or all
the people who gravitate towards cities smarter and have better values,
so they create more wealth for themselves. No, I mean again,
you are assuming a zero some world. I really don't
understand the argument. Cities an immense value. Cities have the

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economic mass, they have the mass of talent, and they
always thrive. They were a sign of civilization, but they
don't come at the expense of Middle America. Middle America thrives.
And what Middle America is good at doing. It might
be in agriculture, it might be in industry, it might
be just in what do you call those people who

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who live in the countryside and work in the city remotely.
They might just be places that people want to live
for lifestyle reasons, but yet they can benefit from modern
technology and work anywhere. But there's no contradiction between the
two in a purely capitalist market, there's no zero sum here.

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The thriving in the cities only makes Middle America more prosperous,
not less prosperous. And indeed, Middle America becomes poorer if
the cities fail. I mean, cities are signs of civilization.
Cities collapse a sign of civilization collapse. So it's not

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a sign of the mixed economy that wealth is concentrated
in cities. And it's not true that wealth is concentrated
in the cities. Think of one Buffett living out in
the middle of nowhere in or think of the Koch
brothers who are from Nebraska, or Kansas. I can't really remember.
They're all live in the middle of Norway, so it's

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not even that concentrated. It's the reality is that cities
will always be under capitalism in everywhere is richer at
least at least there's a concentration of wealth because they
have the benefit of maximizing division of labor and specialization,
and they have the benefits of economies of scale in labor.

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You can get more people working, but there's still rich
people in the center of the country, and those people
are better off. Even the poor people in the center
of the country are better off of the city's success
than otherwise. So nobody is being screwed. Nobody is being
screwed now in a mixed economy that we have today,

(01:34:50):
I don't know who's being screwed. Maybe the cities are
being screwed, right, I mean, the the middle America is
full of farmers being subsidized by taxes paid by city folk.
Industries are being kept alive through cronyism in all kinds
of states because of cronyism. Uh, military bases are kept

(01:35:16):
alive and and not closed when they need to be
closed because of various levels of cronyism in parts of
Middle America. So it's not clear who's who's being screwed.
If you think about the fact that Middle America is subsidized,
then in a mixed economy, somebody is paying to get

(01:35:37):
to give them the subsidy. And who pays most of the taxes.
It's the cities, it's the coasts. Most of the taxes are
paid by California and New York places like that. So
in the mixed economy, everybody's being screwed. Everybody's being sacrificed

(01:35:58):
to somebody. And you know, everybody being screwed, for example,
by inflation. So the distortions and perversions everyway, and everybody's
being screwed by them, everybody who lives in that country. Enrick,
thank you for the sticker. And I saw one of
the sticker. Linda, thank you for the sticker. Really appreciate that,

(01:36:21):
all right, So thank you, Michael. Another Michael saying, Michael,
but another question, Part one. Megan Kelly is such a disappointment.
She's afraid of going against taking ganis on same with
the head of the Heritage Foundation. I don't know, I'll
just come into this. I don't understand why Megan Kelly
is a disappointment because I don't understand what you expected

(01:36:42):
of her. Making Kelly's always being a you know, a
Fox she was a Fox show host. She always followed
the party line. When she went out on herself. She
she's a trumpist. She she mouths the the what was

(01:37:03):
expected of her. I mean, it's not like Making Kelly
was some great journalist that's gone rotten. She was never
very good. She was always like this part two. This
suggests that anti semites are no longer on the fringes
of society. They have they have numbers, and mainstream conservatives

(01:37:24):
outlets are taking notice. Yes, I think that's right. I
think that's why it's such a problem. I'm saying, uh,
and yeah, it's being mainstreamed and and uh. These are

(01:37:49):
leaders of the conservative movement. These are not fringed characters. Unfortunately,
Tucker calls and Making Kelly and and and this is
coming to it because it's a powerful political force within conservatives.
Soria charitch is massive there. It shows the fact that
they intellectually bankrupt, they intellectually bankrupt, and that they have

(01:38:14):
to appease a large base of people that have accepted
these horrific ideas. Paul, can you give three examples in
basic philosophical or political premises where the right and left agree, Well,

(01:38:35):
it depends which right and which left, but you know
they agree. They both agree that individual rights need to
be violated in order to satisfy something that they categorize
as the public good or or the common interest or

(01:38:58):
what's good for America, or what's good for the politarian
and what's good for somebody in right and left agree
that rights are not inaliable. Rights can indeed be violated
for the common good. They just define the common good
differently in different circumstances, but the principle of rights can
be violated. What else do they Well, they agree. You know,

(01:39:22):
this is a manifestation of the fact that they fundamentally
agree in collectivism. They both view collectivism as the standard.
You know, the right might view the collective as the
nation and the left might view the collective as the
poor or the apolitarian of the workers, or something like that.
But they both agree that the standard of value and

(01:39:44):
the standard by which we should all behave as a
collectivistic standard. It's the standard of the group, not the individual.
And this relates of course the fact that they don't
believe in protecting individual rights. Jennifer Sis My dad was
a Jewish atheist. I grew up with the name Feldman
and luckily never got any anti semitism, maybe because I

(01:40:06):
grew up in a wealthy neighborhood in Michigan. Is anti
Semitism worse in the South? Yes, I think it is
worse in the South. It's also worse in places that
don't have a lot of Jews or where they're not
exposed to a lot of Jews. And you know, the
more Christian a place, the more anti Semitism you're going
to get generally. And that's why I think you get

(01:40:28):
more of it, or got more of it in the South.
I don't know about today. But it also depends on
All it takes is a couple of kids to express
anti Semitic views, and other people join the little gang.
So sometimes it's just an issue of the particular people
that happen to be in your class or in your

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social group, whether you feel the anti semitism or not. Clark,
doesn't it ever shock you how deep human hatred and
narationality can urtionality can go. There's so many layers and
it builds up over time to create monsters seem like
a completely waste of energy, complete waste of energy. Absolutely,
I mean it really is horrific, and it's it's unbelievably

(01:41:15):
sad and pathetic because think of that energy and that
focus and that enthusiasm going towards productive activities, productive endeavors. Uh,
think about what could be what could be made? The hate,
the the the irrationality, Think about all those irrational people
being rational, what kind of a beautiful, amazing world we

(01:41:37):
would have? And yes, they build up to create monsters,
monsters like real monsters like Hitler or you know, monsters
on the communist side like Stalin and Mao, but even
you know, junior monsters, smaller monsters that just entrenched our
mixed economy and refuse to allow us to move towards

(01:41:59):
greater eat them in greater prosperity. Monsters come in all sizes,
in all types. So yes, or the Nick Frantis type monsters,
the techer Costan type monsters. Waste our time, waste our energy,
and waste so many people. I want to say mind,

(01:42:20):
but do they have a mind? Waste waste the energy
of so many people, so many people, Andrew, how do
you explain that there's still immense man made pain and
suffering because of a belief in gods at the same
time when science and technology is an advanced state. Well,
I think basically, what religion provides people and this is

(01:42:43):
the hook and then it gets its fangs into its
claws into us. It provides me both morality. So and
this is this is and an epistemology. So it tells
people where the truth comes from. Uh, and yeah, you
know this is not truth about the natural world that
comes from science, but the truth primarily about morality. The

(01:43:03):
battle is really about morality. And uh, people don't know
what to do without religion guiding their their morality. So uh,
the consequence of that is that people embrace this primitive,

(01:43:24):
primitive ideology because they view it as the only source
of malco the only source of how to be good
if you will, right, all right, all right? Uh, let's

(01:43:48):
see it's yea. Andrew also says, what about Jewish people
or any minority seeing themselves as victims? Jews have a
claim of legitimate victimhood or at least a being maligned
by nasty conspiracy theories. Still, isn't it bad? To label
oneself a victim. It is unless you are a victim, right,

(01:44:08):
I mean, so if somebody steals, if somebody burglarizes you,
or somebody kidnaps you, and and and I don't know,
puts you in a jail or puts you in the dungeon,
you're a victim. And you've got to label yourself, not

(01:44:29):
label yourself as a victim, as in, I'm always a victim,
but right now I'm a victim. And part of the
reason you if that happens is you need to know
who to fight, how to fight, what to do to
stop being a victim. But yeah, sometimes you're being victimized.
So you have to acknowledge reality when it's really reality

(01:44:52):
and deal with it. Now. You're right in a sense
that you can't in turn, I've been victimized heref I'm
always a victim. I am a victim. I should always
be a victim. And yes, some Jews do that and
some you know, some Jews do that and they live
with that. But that's that's true of individuals, that's true

(01:45:14):
of groups. You know, you've got to face reality. You're
a victim. When you're a victim, you're not a victim
when you're not a victim, and you have to deal
with that, and you have to when you are victim,
you have to get out of that situation as quickly
as possible and and and figure out how to never
become a victim again. Talk about victim. You know, I
get this question. I've been getting this question for for

(01:45:36):
forty years, right from anti Semites and haters generally. This
is John Smith and the Chat teach us about the
USS liberty. Now, volumes have been written about this. There's
nothing new I'm going to say about this, but this
is just this talk about victim right, This is this
is the This is the non Jewish victimhood, the victimhood

(01:45:59):
of anti Semites. Who this is another blood libel. It's
the same blood libel as the poisoning of Welles. It's
the same blood libel as the Jews killed, you know,
killed Christ. It's the same blood libel as everything. Now,
you know, this was a US Navy ship that was
attacked by the Israeli Air Force in the lead up

(01:46:22):
to the Sixth Day War, and it clearly was an
accident and Israel's you know, it's been explained and analyzed
and explained and expecially Theoris don't matter. The idea is
that Israel did it on purpose. Now, let's even assume
that that is true, that Israel did it on purpose. Okay,
that was sixty you know, that was almost sixty years ago.

(01:46:46):
What relevance does it have to anything today? The people
who did it are all dead. The people who did
it are all dead. You know, if you put that aside,
Israel has been an amazing fen to the United States.
It's in pro us in a way that no other
country in the world has been. What exactly is the problem.

(01:47:08):
Let's assume they made a mistake. Let's assume they did
it on purpose. Okay, go, you know, why why are
you continuously hopping on this on the USS liberty again?
It was almost sixty years ago. It's irrelevant anything going
on today, It's irrelevant. It turns out to the relationship

(01:47:31):
between Israel and the United States. Certainly, everybody who investigated it,
everybody in power in the United States who looked at it,
decided that was irrelevant. But Israel didn't kill them. It
was a mistake. It was an error. You don't commit errors.

(01:47:51):
Do you feel the same way about the Vietnamese? Do
you know how many Vietnamese killed am American American serviceman.
Do you hate the Vietnamese is the same way you
hate Israelis? No, you don't. The Germans killed tens hundreds
of thousands of Americans World War one and two. Do

(01:48:14):
you hate them as much? Uh? You know many Americans, many, many,
many Americans have been killed, servicemen and others have been
killed by Palestinian terrorists and everb terrorists over the years.
You hate them? No, it's it's just pure victimhood, you know,

(01:48:42):
and in a victim victim mentality, And it's just pure
anti Semitism. And it doesn't matter how many times what
happened to the liberty is explained to people, no matter
how many people investigated and come up with the same conclusion,
it doesn't matter. The conspiracy will always be there. It
is the poisoning of Wells cause the Black Death. And

(01:49:04):
it doesn't Facts don't matter, reality doesn't matter, truth doesn't matter.
All the matters is the Jews did it? She? Just
John Smith or whatever you call it. You're just an
ugly anti semit that's all you are. And look in
the mirror and that's what you should see. That's right.

(01:49:27):
What you do. See? All right, how about Campbell, let's
go on. I don't think love by nature is stronger
than hate. Hate seems to have won out for most
of human history and is unfortunately dominated today. Well, it
depends what we need by stronger. Love is what builds things.
Love is what creates things. Love is what makes life possible.

(01:49:49):
Love of values, love of self, love of the people
you love. You don't get skyscrapers, you don't get onobiles,
you don't get technology, you don't get iPhones, you don't
Without love, all hate can do is destroy. Now, what
have we had? More creation or destruction? Clearly creation. Clearly,
love is stronger than hate. Clearly love is more dominant

(01:50:11):
than hate. Clearly the productive of winning in spite of everything. Now,
they're not willing enough. Imagine a world in which love
dominated and hate was gone. You know all of that,
But no, I completely disagree with you. Hate is way
too powerful, there's too much of it, and it's horrible

(01:50:33):
because we could be so much more productive. But love
ultimately is dominates and most people, most people are much
more loving than they are hating. John, thank you for
the five dollars, And that was your fifth super chat.
So I appreciate that, Andrew, I'm going fast because otherwise

(01:50:54):
this will take all night. It was interesting to me.
It was interesting to me that rand wrote in her
journal about Peterson that she makes collectivistic judgments, which is horrifying.
But it's true. Collectivistic judgment is an extremely irrational way

(01:51:15):
to judge an individual. But it's true. Collectivist collective judgment
is an extremely irrational way to judge an individual. Yes, yes,
she wordered about Isabel Patterson that she makes collective judgments,
and Einran thought it was horrific, horrifying, And yeah, collective
judgments are horrifying, and the particularly horrifying, particularly horrifying when

(01:51:44):
they are kind of negative collective judgments, and they necessitated
some negative action against whoever? Bobby what aari ever consider
adding an addendum the description of the first lecture of
objectivesm Through Induction to reflect that doctor Peacock no longer

(01:52:04):
holds that causality is volitionally induced. What. Yeah, I don't know,
I mean, I don't remember what he says in Objectives

(01:52:25):
and through Induction in that first lecture, And yeah, I'm
not sure, and I'm not sure what Leonard would think
about that, but certainly I can ask, okay, ask See,
I can't remember that first lecture. I organized it, I
was there live, but I can't remember it. So I

(01:52:47):
don't know what he actually says in that lecture. What
does he how does he think if it's not causally induced,
where does it come from? How do we know? How
do we know it volitionally induced? Oh, it's induced but novolationally?
I see, I think that's right. Okay, we'd have to

(01:53:10):
find way. Do you know where he actually says that?
And I can look into that, Andrew, it's normal for
an objective is to get the principles on deeper level
over time, as he learns the philosophy better and makes
new observations. Twenty years in, and I still get shocked

(01:53:33):
at new integrations of the evil of altruism. Yeah, I
think that's right. It's still I mean, I don't know
that I'm shocked, but I still make new integrations and
still here, other people make new integrations. And some of
them are new integrations that are really old, but some
of them are you. And this is the beauty of

(01:53:53):
this is a philosophy that gives you the tool to
constantly grow, to constantly see to constantly integrate. It is
the ultimate philosophy of integration. Hughes has any thoughts on
the new show Pubius by Breaking Bad Creative Vince Gillium.

(01:54:16):
It seems to have an explicitly individualistic versus collectivist esteem.
Only watched the first episode, and it does it's a
little creepy, and it seems a little weird. It's weird.
Let me see more of it, and we'll see if
that is indeed the theme and what comes of that theme,

(01:54:37):
how how it develops. And it is sad though you'll
notice one of the one of the other sub themes
is that the collective is all happy, the blob, the group,
the collective, it's all happy. It's all hopeful and happy
and benevolent and nice and friendly. And though the individualist,

(01:54:57):
who is not susceptible to this virus and is not
is not being contaminated by it, is a cynic miserable.
We'll see again how that developed and that I think
that'll hold. I think the theme will be something like,
it's better to be a individualism entails misery, but that's

(01:55:22):
better than happiness under the blob, under the collective, which
is better than nothing, but that's not a good thing.
I mean, I'm still waiting for the happy individualist to
be projected in a movie. Steve and how you on
I start a very demanding job tomorrow in immigration law. WHOA.

(01:55:46):
What advice do you have for people starting high stress
jobs to boost productivity and actually impress their bosses. Well,
don't start a job with the idea that you're going
to impress your boss. Be the goal shouldn't be the purpose.
You should answer a high stress job with the idea

(01:56:06):
that you want to do as good of a job
as you can do. You want to be the best
Stephen Katz that you can be. You want to be
the best in immigration law that you can that you're
just gonna do a good job, and that you care
about the job and you're gonna, you know, hopefully derive
real satisfaction from doing that job. Well, it's it's uh,

(01:56:30):
it's not uh, it's not a m It is not
a about impressing your boss. It's about impressing yourself. It's about
doing a good job for you. Focus on you. Focus

(01:56:50):
on doing the job because you love doing a good job,
because you have pride. Focus on your pride. Screw your boss.
Focus your pride, and if you do that, and if
you do good job, your boss will be impressed, hopefully
if he's rational. But don't. If you start with the
secondhand assumption that your purpose is to impress your boss,
things will go haywhile because you'll start thinking about not

(01:57:13):
about doing a good job, but about what your boss wants,
and that will not lead to good things. All right,
thank you for the twenty and fifty dollars questions. Let's
move on to our ten and below questions and see
how long it'll take to get through these. Michael, seeing

(01:57:36):
seeing choose behind everything. Seeing Jews behind everything doesn't reveal
the world. It reveals the rot in our mind. Yes,
I mean the anti Semite who sees Jews behind everything,
or the or the conspiracy theoriess generally, and the conspiracy
theories who are not anti Semite. So though the amount
of overlap is pretty amazing, basically gets wrought in their

(01:57:59):
own mind. It's it's it's finding causality whether it is none,
it's it's uh, it's integrating things that do not belong together.
It's a failure of reason and rationality, and uh that
even if it's not caused by rot develops rotten brain. Matt.

(01:58:29):
I hope your book will have a chapter on anti Semitism.
It will not. It will not. That maybe is a
different book or certainly a different essay, uh, different talk.
Maybe it will become a book one day, but it won't.
It won't be in this in the book on Christianity,
it will not cook. Speaking of demons, what's the quote

(01:58:51):
people who can convince you of absurdities can convince you
to commit atrocities. That's true, and that's scary. That's scary
because if if Takakossan can convince you of the insanity
of his demon's claim and things like that, then what
is he going to demand of you? What is he
going to convince you to do? Because at some point

(01:59:13):
his agenda will turn to doing. It will not always stay.
And I'm just asking questions. And that's scary given the
size of his audience, Liam says, does Christianity make populations dumb,
hateful and racist? Christianity taken seriously consistently at least as

(01:59:38):
it was understood uh in in in the Middle Ages. Yes,
I mean no science, no real progress, uh civilization of
the kay uh hatefulness, the hate of the jew and
and and hate hate of the other. Yeah, all part

(02:00:00):
of that Christian world. Destruction of art, destruction of science,
destruction of economic progress, destruction of money. That's all part
of the Dark Ages. It's all part of a period
in history where religion was taken seriously. It had to
come out of that period only by discovering Aristotle, discovering
Greek ideas, which starts happening in the eleventh century, twelfth century,

(02:00:26):
really kicks off with Equitas in the thirteenth century, and
really gets integrated into society with the Renaissance. Andrew no
hates on autobiographies, but it is said, but it says
something positive about Rand's psychology that when asked if she'd

(02:00:46):
write her by autobiography, she said no, it would bore her.
She was no narcissist. Absolutely absolutely. I think that's right. Harpercampbell.
I get a sense Nick Foint just doesn't actually believe
any of this. He's a master antagonizer and troll and

(02:01:09):
found a way to make a lot of money by
saying outrageous nonsense. No, I actually think he does believe it.
I think he believes it. He tells the story of
coming home from college and telling his parents how much
he loves Hitler and at the Holocaust didn't really happen,
and how they are shocked. I don't think he only
did it to shock them. I think that was an
added value. But I and particularly if you start repeating

(02:01:32):
it and saying it often enough, I think it becomes
part of you. But given that he was just in college, Yeah,
I think he believes it, or at least to the
extent that you can believe stuff like that. I think
he believes. He believes it, and it's part of him.
It's part of who he is now. He can't separate
it out. He cannot separate He's not just an entertainer. Michael.

(02:01:57):
If Donald Trump ran for president in the nineteen eighties,
would you have gotten to know it? Why was the
country responding to the optimism of Reagan despite how miserable
and cynical the nineteen seventies were. Yeah, because I think
the culture was a lot better in the nineteen eighties,
a lot better. I think the American sense of life
still existed, the can doism, and I think Americans were

(02:02:19):
frustrated by the seventies and they wanted something better, and
they were looking for something better. They had a much
much better sense of life. I mean, you could argue
that that sense of life had been nourished by iron
Rand and that so many Americans had read her. But
beyond that, it just hadn't been corrupted by time quite

(02:02:41):
as much, and it still had remnants of that nineteenth
century or founding Father's kind of sense of what it
meant to be an American. So no, Donald Trump would
have been a complete flop in the nineteen eighties. You
would have never succeeded. Americans could see right through him.

(02:03:01):
I think during that period they responded to optimism because
that's who they were, That's what Americans were, and it's
only I don't think Donald Trump could have succeeded in
the nineties, and not even in the two thousands. Donald
Trump is a post nine to eleven, post financial crisis phenomena.

(02:03:22):
He's Americans giving up on being American, and that manifested
itself in the response of nine to eleven and in
response of financial crisis, and there was nothing left by
the time Donald Trump showed up. Jonathan miss Rand did
not generally speak of her Jewish heritage unlist faced with
anti Semitism. Yes, as with Isabel Patterson. As far as

(02:03:46):
we know, the only time she talked about it that
she said was that she did not consideredself Jewish accept
when faced with antisemitism, and I I have the same approach,
I guess, not that I'm comparing myself to rand. I
don't think of myself as Jewish, quite Jewish, except when

(02:04:07):
I faced anti Semitism, and then suddenly you know, yeah,
now I'm a Jew. What of it. It's like, I'm
not a Zionist. I'm not a Zionist except when you
get these anti Semitic, anti Zionists creeps, and then I'll
defend Zionism. Right. God, I'm looking at my Twitter feed

(02:04:43):
and people are so delusional, They're so nuts. I boasted
the the all the all the quotes about from the
Christian fathers about Jews, and this guy says, ever noticed
how much the West has declined since we abandoned this view? Really?
I mean, the West was like at the bottom of
the pit of hell when that view was held. It

(02:05:06):
was poor, it was pathetic. The Muslims were better and
more advanced than the West when the West held those views. Explicitly,
what is he talking about? The West rose when it
abandoned those views when it embraced reason and science and secularism.

(02:05:27):
People are ignorant, they're so that my book will address. Okay,
we're seeing a pincer movement right now. This is from
James against Jewish community from both left and right. It's
a type of political formation to gain power. No, I
don't think so. I don't think it's planned. I don't
think it's that sophisticated. It's just, you know, anti Semitism

(02:05:51):
rears it's ugly head whenever irrationality is strong, and irrationality
is strong on both left and right right now, and
that's why we're seeing the anti semitism. So no, it's
not some power grab. It's just a manifestation of the
evil are both left and right right now. And it's
still not true that a majority of Americans hold this.

(02:06:15):
Neither majority of Democrats, a majority of Republicans are not
don't buy into this garbage, James says, have you read
mind COMF? Was there anything unique about Hitler's orientation towards
anti Semitism and how to gain power from the phenomena?
I have not read mine COMF. I'm really not interested.
I see no value in it. I mean, some people

(02:06:37):
get value found, you know. And if you're studying the
period and used to studying Hitler and you really want
to understand Hitler, I guess you need to read it.
I've never read it and not really interested in it.
And I don't think he has a unique perspective. He combined.
His perspective is nationalistic, blaming the Jews for basically the

(02:06:59):
fa of World War One and the failure of the
German people to rise up to its full potential. And
you blame the other And that's historically consistent. There's nothing
really that original there other than the particularly integration that
he makes of the time and place. Not you have
a jog with him. Tucker calls an acts as an

(02:07:20):
ideological laundeuer of other people's evil. Yeah, sol, though we
add some spice to it, all, right, Jacob. Did the
Jews even have free will in killing Jesus? It was
prophetized and Jesus didn't save himself at the Garden of Jests.
I mean, that is a deeply theological question that I

(02:07:43):
have no answer to, right, I don't know. I don't
know what that I don't know. Once you accept God,
the Jewish and Christian God. Once you accept his existence
as this kind of being and petermination as part of
the consequence of that, the whole thing is is The

(02:08:05):
whole thing doesn't make any sense. None of it makes
any sense. Not do you have a j'all go with him?
And argument to be convincing requires someone entertaining it. Motivation
is part of the persuasion pluzzle. Many people unmotivated to
seek truth and level up. Well, many people are not
don't have don't know the tool, the tool i e. Reason,

(02:08:27):
They're not capable. Uh, they're not that they don't value reason,
they don't elevate reason, they don't engage in reason. Uh.
And and therefore they don't know how to seek truth
even if they wanted to. Reason is the only tool
for truth. John says this is in the chat, an

(02:08:51):
old Russian propri that you will always tell you what
happened to him, but he won't tell you why. I'm
telling you why because of the irrationality, the collective, the
nastiness of early Christianity, of nationalism, of collectivism and tribalism.
I'm telling you exactly why. That's why these bad things

(02:09:11):
happened to the Jews. It's not because of anything the
Jews did. Now, John, who's an anti Semite, will never
accept that Michael, just like Trump's no longer fail to
be accused of violating the Constitution and acting like a dictator.
That the new right is not a fraid of being
called anti Semitican racist. That's right, because too many Americans

(02:09:35):
like John already anti Semitican racist, and they're just capitalizing
in on it. And I've told you that I think
that Donald Trump in his first term opened the door
to this and in a sense implicitly wink wink, embraced
the old rights and allowed the old right to grow
and become dominant. Clark, do you see a time in

(02:09:59):
the next ten to twenty years when Islamics and Islamists
and Jews are rounded up in some capacity by the
authorities and exclusive from society. It was I mean, maybe
not ten, maybe twenty years in Europe in certain parts
of Europe. Yes, I do think that is a possibility
that Muslims are we wounded up, and I think Jews
will be thrown in for good measure. Why not. So

(02:10:23):
I do think that's possible in Europe, and I think
it's why you know, it's not the main reason Jews
are leaving Europe. They're leaving you primarily because of Muslims,
but ultimately they'll also lead because of what non Muslims
are going to do. All right, Michael, how do emotions
respond to higherarchy of values we've created? Well, I mean

(02:10:44):
they reinforce the higher KA values. Once you have a
high K of values, start feeling towards the higher values
more passionately than you do towards the lower values. If
you completely integrate it so it takes actual work. It
doesn't happen instantaneously. The emotions follow the evaluation, and if
it's integrated, ultimately your passions will correspond to the higherarchy

(02:11:06):
of value. High K value is not created by your passions,
but your passions will adjust to it. Right, Liam says,
even though Southeast Asian cultures may be more collectivistic than
we are when it comes to duty and family, they
don't have the same contempt for worldly things or the
work that Europe has because they unsaturated with Christianity, which

(02:11:28):
is why they'll eventually overtake us and objectives and will
rise there first. I mean that is quite possible. I
do think Asia has this huge advantage of not having
Jesus on a cross constantly looking down at them and
inflicting guilt on the earthly success Catherine. Such a sad

(02:11:48):
topic for Sunday, but very interesting. Well, but it's appropriate
for Sunday. This is instead of going to church Part one,
could you have at least one objectivist anti Trump rally,
maybe at the next No King's protest. I'm not saying
it will change the culture, but it helps grow confidence
within our own movement. I don't understand why by getting

(02:12:10):
ourselves offline in an organized physical space while simultaneously increasing
network and networks of trust amongst objectives. Well, that's what
ocon is for. But when you do that, you should
strive to have a positive not a negative. We shouldn't
come together in order to fruitlessly demonstrate against Trump. We

(02:12:31):
should come together to study positive ideas, to share our
positive values, to reflect on, you know, on Iran's great achievements.
So I just don't get the protest thing. And what
is appealing about it is the Trump phenomena and the
mainstreaming of anti Semitism and notification that the impact of

(02:12:53):
the Enlightenment is fading. It's being able to hold us afloat.
But now we see a real drop off. You know. Yes,
it's only dropping off. It's been dropping off for one
hundred years. It's been in decline. We know that, and
so this is to be expected. It is the impact
of the Enlightenment that is fading. Reason and individualism fading

(02:13:13):
and reason and individualism are the achievements of the Enlightenment.
So yeah, Michael, the Jewish conservatives seem to be better
than Christians. Ben Shapiro and Mike Lavin orders a magnitude
better than Tucker calls in Matt Welsh. Yes, Judaism, modern Judaism,
your modern secular Judaism, not the Judaism of the ultra Orthodox,

(02:13:36):
is a much healthier religion because it's much more this
worldly than Christianity. And therefore, and I think Mark Livin
is pretty secular. I don't think he's an atheist, but
he's pretty secular. So yeah, I think they are better.
I think Jewish Jewish conservatives generally are better than the
Christian counterparts because to the extent that they're religious, the

(02:13:59):
modern version of that religion is a more this worldly
religion than the Christian type. Hypacambo. When Nazi Germany arose,
there was America to stop it. If America dissolves into Nazism,
there's no one to stop it. That's right, that's right.
Let's hope it doesn't happen. But again, the ominous powallel

(02:14:21):
is very much predicted that it would happen. Andrew, is
species pride valid? That is, when in awe of a
great artworker, technological achievement, one can feel pride in being
a member of the species that created that or is
that collectivistic? No, not in the sense that you relate

(02:14:44):
to what made it possible, and you see that in yourself.
So you relate to your species because you see it,
you see the capacity in yourself. So it's a pride
in self. It's a pride in those attributes that you
have as part of that species. But only if you
choose to engage them. Liven, thank you for the sticker.

(02:15:07):
Really appreciated. Who didn't more in the name of protecting
individual rights from Americans? Charlie Coca Dick Cheney. God, I don't,
I mean that's ridiculous. I mean, i'd say Jick Cheney.
Cheney was a congressman who was quite good. It was
quite good primarily on economic issues. He was not bad.

(02:15:29):
I mean, yeah, I don't know. I mean they're both bad, right,
I mean Charlie Coco's bad, particularly towards the end, more
and more Christian, more and more interventionist, lesson less capitalist.
Dick Cheney sent troops to Rock for no reason. So
both mixed bags. I used no way to rank them.

(02:15:53):
Paul is anti semitism and expression of altruism. I mean,
I think on the left it is that is. I
do think that the the the leftists intersectionality is a
big driver of the anti semitism. And that's pure altruism.

(02:16:14):
I've talked about it many times. I don't see it
quite as much on the right. On the right it's
more motivated by hatred. Uh and uh and and you know,
Christian view of their own superiority. I like numbers. Are
big city mayors a sign of where culture is? No,

(02:16:37):
I mean big city mayors are being democrats for a
long long time. I mean maybe yes, to the extent
that that the culture has been very left, much more
left than the economy other things. Yeah, in a sense
it is and and uh, most big city mayors are
democrats because the cultures dominantly democratic, productive people, educated people,

(02:17:04):
predominantly vote Democratic sadly well, I mean, given the alternative
Republicans Republicans, it's not that hard to understand. Yeah, it's
certainly an indication of where things are. Anyway, Why didn't
Jews from their own kingdom form their own kingdom elsewhere
after dispersing by Romans in another favorable area, it was

(02:17:27):
the religious adherents to the land of Jews or otherwise
could have been better. There was a Jewish kingdom, There
was a Jewish state in Central Asia, the Khazars, I
think they were called. That lasted a while. I do
not know the history of it. I don't know how
it was formed and why it went away, but there

(02:17:49):
was something there. But also, you know, they were always
they were always a minority with this exception, and there
was under the thumb of the majority that was around them,
where the Muslims or Christians. So they never had the
opportunity form their own state, and they were always dispersed
because the powers to be made sure that they were dispersed. Matt.

(02:18:13):
Some people I know who are mostly irrational flirt with
Athles shrug claiming with as as claiming something's up Anti Semitism,
Something's up when seeing many Jews in high positions, Why
is this irrational? Because why can't it just be that
those people are successful, and why can't it be that

(02:18:35):
maybe they come from a culture that emphasize the success.
Are we anti Asian because Asians are relatively successful? I mean,
it's completely irrational. Just I mean, Indians in the United
States are even more successful than Jews, Indians from India,
and you can see now that people hate Indians. Look
at the Indian hatred that maga is expressive. Why because

(02:18:57):
they're successful, the more successful than mega failures. Indians are
successful and they have brown skin, and that's unacceptable. So
it's the same phenomenon as Jews. Why are they successful
because they have a culture that emphasized success and they're envious.

(02:19:23):
I'm proposing a two hundred year mortgage. What do you think, Well,
I mean, nobody's going to buy a two undred year mortgage.
I'll talk about Trump's suggesting a fifty year mortgage on
the show tomorrow. So if you're interested in that, I'll
talk about it tomorrow. Marius, to which extent do you
agree with Theodore Hurtzel's idea of a Jewish state and

(02:19:43):
which degree do you think it's a collectivistic idea. Again.
I mean, I've talked about this in the past, and
I'll talk about it again in the future. I'll do
a quick version. I agree with the idea that there
needs to be a state for Jews, that is, a
state that is dedicated for the self defense of Jews.

(02:20:03):
Jews can escape there, and since Jews will be a
majority there, there will be no anti semitism in the state.
Given the global nature of anti Semitism and how prevalent
it is and how common it is across time, someplace
to protect Jews, even Jews who don't consider themselves Jews,

(02:20:25):
is worthwhile having. To that extent, I agree with Hurtzel's
state for Jews, not even Jewish states state for Jews.
To what degree do I don't it's a collectivistic idea. Well,
it is collectivistic because it's for Jews, but of course
that has been forced on Jews by everybody else again,
whether they accept it or not. And to the extent

(02:20:48):
that it becomes Jewish, the law is Jewish in any
kind of way, which is not hurtilized the idea but
did develop later that is wrong. So the laws of
the State should not be Jewish. John Smith says, Greek Rome,
Great Britain, United States has been European dominance from the beginning. Yeah,

(02:21:11):
but you skipped from Rome to Great Britain. You skipped
over what twelve hundred years, one thousand, two hundred years,
where Central Asia, where the Middle East, where North Africa,
where China and India were far more advanced than Europe,

(02:21:33):
far more advanced than Europe. She can take the racist
nonsense and find somebody else to believe in it. Let's see, Bobby. Yeah,
he says it at the end of Actions Induction one,
first lecture of Induction in Physics and Philosophy. Okay, I'll
take a look at it, Bobby Williams, My bad. It

(02:21:57):
is more completely formula related an hour into the second
part of this of what of induction of the second
part of his Physics and Philosophy Induction in Physics and Philosophy. Okay, Andrew,
I think it really speaks to an objective sense of
life that Rand wrote in her journal that Gold was
a lover of reality. Shouldn't we all experience that metaphysical

(02:22:20):
feeling on a basic level, Yes, lover of reality and
lover of the human mind for being able to integrate
reality and capable of achieving what we can achieve. But yes,
a love of reality is a beautiful statement, and this
is a sense in which I think love is far
more powerful than hate. Cook Besides Constantine's Sword by James Caroll,

(02:22:46):
are there any other books on the topic of anti
Semitism you to a command? I don't have them here.
I haven't. I've read bits and pieces. I haven't read
anything I will right now. I'm working on this side
of the project. At some point I work an anti
Semitism project, which will involve reading books, and then I'll
be able to recommend more to you. But I think
there's a lot of stuff out there on anti Semitism

(02:23:08):
that is probably worth reading. Nothing that comes to mind
right now, Andrew. What makes me nuts about matt Levin
is he spends half an hour outraged that Trump has
the legal right to impose tariffs, while never mentioning that
that power is supposed to be limited to emergencies. Yeah,

(02:23:35):
I mean matt Levin is outrageous in the sense that
he will justify things that Trump is doing the deep
down he knows are evil and wrong, And there are
only a few issues in which he's willing to criticize Trump,
Ukraine being one of them, but very few others. Nate,
why do activist hedge funds like to do stock buybacks

(02:23:58):
during a hostile takeover a corporation? I don't understand any
of that activist hedge funds. Who's stuck? Are they buying back?
When you do a hostile takeover corporation, you're buying at stock,
So I don't know what the who they're buying back.
I don't understand stock buy back. The question doesn't make

(02:24:18):
any sense to me, So maybe try to formulate it
differently tomorrow on tomorrow show, on a future show. But
there's something that doesn't add up in that, you know,
ask me a more direct question where the different components
are clearer. But how stock buyback is related to takeover?

(02:24:40):
Those don't go together. All right, guys, thank you really
really appreciate the support. I'm going to go off to
dinner and I will see you tomorrow. I think it'll
be in the evening. We'll do a show tomorrow, but
I will see you tomorrow and we will we will

(02:25:00):
talk more than about you know, there's a lot of
stuff to talk about a lot of stuff to talk about.
Among other things, I'll call, I'll talk to him about
the fifty year mortgage proposal, and a lot of other things,
a lot of other things. Talk to you soon, BUYE
everybody

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