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So much tragedy right this holiday season. I know that all of us have really sore hearts and heartache for the Reiner family, for the massacres in Australia, for senselessly murdered at Brown University and so many people at a time where we should feel compassion and empathy, try to categorize us and pumps. And I want to just offer an episode to you all right now to tell you you can both care about anti Semitism and stand in solidarity with Jewish people who feel very scared and very targeted right now. And you can also stand with Muslim people who are falling prey to Islamophobic attacks, Islamophobic bigotry and racism. You don't have to pick all of these human rights are linked and any group that tries to prioritize the rights of one specific group over another group is in fact not for equality and is not supporting universal human rights. That notion is actually they're supporting supremacy. And so this episode, I want to talk about this and I want to talk about the sitting senator, Tommy Tuberville. And he tweeted something that was so abhorrent, Kylie put this up after the attacks in Australia. He tweets, islam is not a religion, it's a cult. Islamists aren't here to assimilate, they're here to conquer. Stop worrying about offending the pearl clutchers. We've got to send them home now or we'll become the United Caliphate of America. And this is just utter insanity. This is what I'm talking about. Something tragic happens and then the real bigots try to give you a binary choice. And Tommy Tuberville is an absolute racist bigot. Anybody who tries to get you to pick when all of these human rights are linked. The hero in Australia was a Syrian Muslim immigrant that put himself in the line of fire, took two shots and prevented a much larger massacre. And so you see humanity and all different kinds of people and Muslims and Jewish people and you see bigoted attacks towards all different types of people. And I just think that I want to live in a country where if a senator says something like that right now is not the time, but in the future we need to make that's immediately disqualifying and they're kicked out of the Senate.
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I completely agree. This was not stunning because Tommy Tville, in his Senate while he's been a sitting senator, has proved that he is a white supremacist racist, full stop. He has never stood up for human rights. He is running for governor from Alabama. And to insult Muslim people and people that are worshipers of Islam is so horrific. I dare say that the white Christian nationalism is more of a concern than Muslims practicing Islam. Islam. It's stunning to me that he is just patted on the back. He'll run for Alabama because probably they agree with them. It's so easy to pick out people that you hate when you hate everybody that doesn't look like you. It's abhorrent.
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So I think it's interesting that, you know, you have extremists in all religions and I think they're all equally dangerous. But the notion that Tommy Tuberville is pushing is this anti Muslim, downright bigotry. And it's important to note for just white viewers of this show, if you're a Jewish person and you see the anti Semitism and the terror attack that happened in Australia, you feel complete fear. But also for the Muslim community, these extremists act out and they're like, oh God, we're going to get a lot more bigotry. So that's why you can see through all of the noise and all of the propaganda, you can see people that stand for universal human rights, people that are against anti Semitism but equally against anti Muslim bigotry, unite together. Here's a wonderful tweet from Senator Bernie Sanders, a stark juxtaposition to Tuberville Ahmed Al Ahmed, a Muslim father of two risked his life to disarm a murderer who was shooting down Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney. Religion must not divide our common humanity. We must stand together and end anti Semitism, Islamophobia and all hate. No exceptions. And this is. This gets worse, this Islamophobia. And you may remember during the election of Zoran Mamdani, he was accused of being anti Semitic, while at the same time the people who were accusing him of being anti Semitic were targeting him with Islamophobic bigotry. And it never occurred to them like, oh, wait, I'm doing the same thing. I'm accusing him up. And that's something we really have to have moral clarity on because you have all these propaganda channels like CBS has now been taken over by a propagandist and they very much want to produce only one group of having falling prey to bigotry when it's so Many groups fall prey to bigotry. But here is a councilwoman out of New York and she tweeted the following. We're in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it. We need to take very seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from Western nations, or at the very least, the severe sanction of them within Western borders. The administration needs to begin developing a formal legal framework for the denaturalization process and get it over with before we end up with another 911 or worse. Enough is enough. So this mirrors what Tommy Tuberville says. It also mirrors, like Stephen Miller, this is where you have a lot of dark forces colluding together for the same goal of this mass exodus of brown skinned people. And Muslims typically are brown from the United States. And Zoron, the mayor elect of New York City, responds to the councilwoman and he says, a million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
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Good for him. Good for him. Because here's the thing, what makes me so mad is that these people who are willing to browbeat, you know, any class of people, they pick somebody to hate and they say, you can't have nice things because of Muslims. And so we're going to ruin every Muslim's life over that. And you can't have nice things because of poor people, you can't afford health care because poor people are lazy or all this shit. When at the end of the day, if we treated everybody equally and we took everybody into our community and said, everybody deserves dignity, everybody deserves happiness. All of the problems that we're seeing right now, I mean, and I know that's Pollyanna, but they would subside. And it's stoking this hate among each other. That's why we got Donald Trump, in my opinion, because he said, I hate everybody you hate. I'm going to stand up for white Christians and I'm going to demean women on a regular basis because poor men, they're being marginalized, you know, so if we just would look and take a look at all of the people that are hate and shut them up and said, you cannot serve in the New York City Council if you have this kind of views that you want to take innocent people and send them out because of the color of this, of their skin and religion, that's not American. That is far more not American to me than it is for American to practice freedom of religion. It's just gross.
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You know, it's vile bigotry. And I think this is why MAGA and the Republican party does such an assault on blue cities. Because blue cities are the remedy for this racism.
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That's right.
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Right. You have cities that are multicultural, where all different types of people, all different types of immigrants, all different religions, all peacefully coexist and cooperate in a large city. And that's why there has been a decades long propagandic attack on blue cities, because multiculturalism is the remedy for this. And that's why the billionaires colluded in New York City so strongly against Zoron, because he is the remedy to this. Here's a guy who, if their narrative about Muslims is true, that they are all jihadist, who want to stone and kill gay people that are primitive, that have all of these wives. If that's true, then you've got Zoron, who speaks for universal human rights, was at a pride parade with a trans flag, who links all human rights together and promotes multiculturalism in the most welcoming way imaginable and then gets on, you know, X or Twitter and says, you belong here. Just something very simple. And when you hear marginalized groups like the, the black Americans, when their mantra is black lives matter, where you have to reduce it to something so simple.
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Right.
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And then Zoron, his tweet kind of broke my heart because it's like, you belong here. Just a very simple sentiment against this bigoted mounted, horrific hatred and this narrative that Muslims are, you know, all of them are jihadists and all of this is something that the Benjamin Netanyahu's government needs to succeed so that they can continue doing this. So it's just, it's really sad. And now I do. I would be remiss if I didn't say in every religion there are extremists, there are Muslim extremists. I lived in Oklahoma for 51 years and there are Christian Taliban extremists that are absolutely zero different from the Muslim jihadists that Tommy Tuberville and councilwoman Vicki Palladino are so terrified of. I encourage, you know, Vicki Paladino to go live in a red state. Now Tommy Tuberville, but perfect for him to live in Alab because everything set up for a white racist, redneck piece of shit to succeed in Alabama.
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All right, and lastly, here's what's so important about what they keep doing with this. They are using and weaponizing anti Semitism to shake down universities and other institutions so that they can erode our civil liberties. Pop this up. ProPublica did an article on the Trump regime and the Tennessee Hauler tweets the following. ProPublica on the Trump regime insidiously using anti Semitism claims to crack down on universities. Trump's DOJ threatened UCLA with discrimination lawsuits, demanded 1 billion plus in fines, pressed for changes that had nothing to do with anti Semitism. And here's the highlights. The playbook. Trump's DOJ threatened UCLA with discriminations lawsuits, demanded a billion dollars. An internal memo DOJ career lawyers warned that the case against UCLA was shaky. Many said they were glad to be leaving before they might be asked to sign the complaint. UC's dependence on federal funds limited its ability to push back aggressively. So this, this accusation of anti Semitism is being used by a fascist regime to target universities and shake them down. And the one way that we know for sure that we cannot incubate anti Semitism is through an educated electorate that is educated on history. And so it's interesting to me that you, these far right fascist Jewish groups that are allowing for the weaponization of anti Semitism to erode critical thinking and institutions that will fundamentally incubate more anti Semitism. I mean, look at like if you go to rural America and the anti Semitism in those places, the Jews will not replace us. All of those marches, the Young Republicans, that's where a lot of the real Jew hate is. And if you take that out of academia and studying the historical nature of anti Semitism, how dangerous it is, the, the, the long storied history of it and understanding what Zionism is and understanding what Palestinians are going through, all of that is liberation from all of this binary style thinking. So it's just fascinating to watch a fastest fascist regime. Benjamin Netanyahu has a fascist lobby group, APAC, spend $300 million to get a fascist elected Donald Trump, and then weaponize this anti Semitism and then shake down all these universities. And in the long term, they're actually just going to be incubating more of this bigotry, in my opinion.
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Well, in terms of what Trump, I don't think Trump gives a flying about anti Semitism, Islamophobia. He, they're all, he doesn't care. What he wants is the power. And you hear over and over again because facts have a liberal bias that we have to go in and make more conservative curriculum in universities. Because you see, you know, women with college degrees overwhelmingly vote against Republican candidates. But I will not listen to the Trump administration, even if they're acting like their goal is anti Semitism, because I know they don't give a shit. And you know how I know? Because they have people in their tent that do Sig heils on stage at the inauguration, Elon Musk. They have people that wear Confederate flags, camp Auschwitz T shirts, boat parades with the Nazi flags on them. You've got right wing podcasters hosting people that say, I think we should have sided with Hitler. I don't think it was that bad. They're rewriting history, so do not. It's just like the Republicans are so pro life. No, you're not. You're pro control. You don't give a about life after it's born. And we know that because there are no social safety nets for these people. So don't tell me that the Trump administration is so raw, raw anti Semitism, because everything they do says they are white supremacist. They don't give a about anybody that doesn't look like them. And it enrages me that now we have a government that would go into to institutions of higher learning that teach critical thinking. But for higher learning and critical thinking, I would still be indoctrinated to think that the earth was 7 or 2000 years old. Okay? So these people that go to college that have been indoctrinated their whole lives, it is a lifeline to them to have critical thinking skills taught to them. And it took me a long time to be able to use them. I'm not saying I learned it in college, but you're never exposed to it. And this is disgusting. It's bigotry. It's hateful, it's cruel rule. It's wrong. It's like everything else Trump does. If he got a billion dollars from ucla, you think the American taxpayer would see it? No, I'm sure it would go right into his bank account. I mean, that's what I would think.
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