Brother Nathanael - Notes From A Gas Chamber
Aired: 2018-03-08
Duration: 06:46


=== Developing the Online Hate Index (02:24) ===

[00:00:01]  I am a troubled man, perhaps a wicked man.
[00:00:04]  I think my brain hurts.
[00:00:06]  I don't give a fig about treating it.
[00:00:08]  I like nursing it.
[00:00:10]  And though I speak as a Jew, racially, I'm prone to superstition, for I sail the high seas of Jewish censorship.
[00:00:18]  ADL and the University of California at Berkeley's D-Lab have been working to develop a new approach to tackle online hate using the latest methods.
[00:00:27]  The goal of the Online Hate Index is to help tech platforms better understand the growing amount of hate on social media.
[00:00:34]  and to use that information to address the problem.
[00:00:37]  By combining artificial intelligence and machine learning with social science, the online hate index will ultimately uncover and identify trends and patterns in hate speech across different platforms.
[00:00:49]  We've just completed our first phase of research and we found that the machine learning model identified hate speech accurately between 78 and 85 percent of the time.
[00:01:00]  In the next phase of our project, We will look at specific targeted populations in a more detailed manner.
[00:01:07]  We'll examine content on multiple social media sites.
[00:01:10]  And we'll identify strategies to deploy the model more broadly.
[00:01:15]  While there's still a long way to go with artificial intelligence and machine learning-based solutions, we believe the Online Hate Index will help tech companies better understand the extent of hateful content on their platforms by creating community-based definitions of hate speech.
[00:01:29]  Nothing sinister here, kind of like a vasectomy, a sterilization process supervised by a shuxa.
[00:01:36]  So I reached for the crack in the wall and get out the gizmo that gauges the expanse between German evil and Jewish good.
[00:01:43]  Good.
[00:01:45]  Bell rings.
[00:01:47]  Music.

=== Thanking Elie Wiesel (04:35) ===

[00:02:53]  We gather here today with love and appreciation, not only to remember you, but to thank you.
[00:03:06]  To thank you for the so many gifts that you have bestowed upon us.
[00:03:14]  Thank you.
[00:03:16]  Thank you for teaching us the importance of memory.
[00:03:24]  And teaching us how to remember.
[00:03:28]  I thank him too.
[00:03:30]  I'm safe in my box, for not once did Ellie mention gas chambers in his book Night.
[00:03:36]  Every Jew, Ellie later said, should set apart a zone of hate.
[00:03:41]  A healthy, virile hate for what the German personifies and persists in the German.
[00:03:48]  I like that. He was frank, not giving a fig for Jewish censors, though Holocaust hawking always gets a free pass.
[00:03:56]  They made an industry out of it.
[00:03:59]  Don't all lives matter?
[00:04:01]  Don't German lives matter?
[00:04:04]  Here's a victim of World War II, a starving girl, a German girl.
[00:04:10]  There were many like her who suffered from Allied bombings, but this is heresy, an antitrust intrusion on a monopoly.
[00:04:19]  And that voice of monopoly of misery made at least six mil.
[00:04:27]  He would become the most famous survivor of the Holocaust.
[00:04:31]  But at the age of 15, Elie Wiesel had no fears when his family was rounded up in Hungary by the Nazis.
[00:04:38]  To the very last minute, I wasn't worried.
[00:04:40]  We had no idea that Auschwitz existed.
[00:04:44]  That changed when he was transported by cattle car with hundreds of others.
[00:04:49]  I knew something terrible, because something terrifying was in store for us.
[00:04:54]  Trapped in a nightmare, Wiesel sustained himself by keeping his father alive.
[00:05:00]  This picture was taken after liberation.
[00:05:02]  Wiesel is in the second level of the bunk next to the beam.
[00:05:06]  He would later say he didn't recognize himself.
[00:05:09]  Others don't recognize him either.
[00:05:12]  Auschwitz survivor Miklos Gruner says that the man claimed to be Wiesel was in his thirties, not in his teens, the age Wiesel would have been at the time.
[00:05:24]  Gruner also says that there was no ditch with burning flames that Jewish babies were thrown into, as Wiesel claims in night.
[00:05:34]  But when launching a career, sensationalism sells.
[00:05:39]  So Knight has a career, which I use the word career almost in a poetic way, because the word career should not be applicable to this kind of book.
[00:05:50]  But you already said it.
[00:05:52]  You speak with poor tongue.
[00:05:54]  Freudian slips with the subconscious on full display, kind of like shoes in a museum.
[00:06:01]  One evening my family was watching TV when Wiesel came on, doing a dramatization of Jewish suffering during the war.
[00:06:09]  It was one of his first TV appearances.
[00:06:12]  It was over-dramatized and kind of fake.
[00:06:17]  My dad muttered, what the hell is this?
[00:06:21]  Went to the TV and shut it off.
[00:06:24]  We never heard of gas chambers in those days.
[00:06:27]  It came later, when Hollywood started pumping out movies about it.
[00:06:32]  There's a new and improved zone of hate today.
[00:06:36]  A virile, healthy hate that the ADL has taken its knife to circumcise.
[00:06:42]  I'm a troubled man, perhaps a wicked man.