Knowledge Fight #374 dissects Alex Jones’ November 25, 2019 episode, where he falsely claims "uppity" was banned from UK TV and misrepresents Sasha Baron Cohen’s ADL speech as a call for executions. Jones promotes paranoid conspiracy theories—like the ADL collaborating with Nazis or Amazon’s Hunters depicting Jews hunting Christians—while dismissing caller recommendations like E. Michael Jones, an extremist Catholic anti-Semite who blamed the Tree of Life synagogue victims for their own deaths. His fringe rhetoric, including Holocaust denial and false flag fears, reveals a pattern of deflecting criticism with baseless, inflammatory claims, ultimately exposing his audience’s embrace of extremism over evidence. [Automatically generated summary]
There is a story out of the UK that Alex believes is evidence that the demon cult of pedophile globalists that is in charge of the world is starting to lose control.
And because they're losing control, they have to crack down on language.
See, that naturally does have connotations, since the term has been historically used to describe non-white people, particularly black people in America, who didn't know their place in society and dared to act like equals.
It's very possible that Holmes himself was unaware of that historical use of the term, particularly when it's being used to describe a non-white person behaving in ways that you have a problem with.
But the message is the same regardless, whether or not he intended it to be that way.
It began being reported that Holmes had been reprimanded, which the network ITV denied.
And then, you know, it started to be reported as the word uppity had been banned from ITV.
Immediately, the right-wing media went into active mode because this was a fringe case where potential racism needed their help, and they can't resist that brand of free speech issue.
In fact, it seems like that's the only kind that really seems to matter all that much.
It seems to be like that is the world of free speech that they are only uniquely interested in.
One thing that places like Zero Hedge made a very serious point in stressing is that only one person complained, and it led to the banning of a word.
That's PC culture run-amok, Jordan.
I noticed this same overemphasis of the one complaint issue in the coverage of the story in RT, but in other articles about this, that wasn't the focus.
Like in The Express, The Metro, and The Sun, all the stories seem to imply that there was only one complaint to the broadcast regulatory organization Ofcom, but that detail isn't used to minimize the complaint where it is in these other spheres.
They're just trying to say like, oh, just this one person was butthurt about this.
It's nonsense.
It's entirely possible that there were other complaints to the network, but this one to Ofcom is the one that prompted a reaction.
Also, it's possible that only one person followed through with the filing of a formal complaint.
Even if that's the case, that doesn't have anything to do with whether or not the single complaint is valid.
In this instance, if there's one person complaining, that one person is absolutely correct.
The term uppity does have racist connotations, specifically in the way that Holmes was using it.
As far as I can tell, Holmes doesn't seem to have a history of racially inflammatory commentary.
So it's entirely possible that he didn't mean this in the way that it came off sounding.
And that's probably why he didn't get in trouble for the comments.
The context was just explained to him so that he could choose better words in the future.
And the word wasn't banned from ITV.
A representative for the network was very clear, telling the Express, quote, it is incorrect to state that this is an ITV ban on the word uppity.
There's no such ban on the word uppity per se.
Rather, care will be taken regarding the context of its use.
This is a situation where things played out pretty much exactly how they should have.
A guy on TV said something that he didn't realize was kind of racist.
Someone pointed out that what he said was kind of racist.
And the response was, oh, good point.
Let's try to be more careful about how we say things in the future.
And the right wing in the United States apparently can't stand that to the point where they have to manufacture narratives about banned words and shit.
Alex's version is even crazier.
He's saying that the word is being outlawed as if to say you're going to go to jail for saying it.
And they have to go, like, the thing is, it's just any, anything, any small thing that they can find, they will attack on that.
Just like my theory on that is that if they attack on those like edge racism situations, then you then we're all over here looking at these edge bullshits going like, no, you can't.
It's not that you can't say the word.
It's that, you know, like it's always been used in a certain way.
And that's why we're just very careful about the context of this word.
And they turn that into fucking ape shit.
And then we still can't get back to like the mortality rate for black people is 10 million times worse.
So, Jordan, I don't know if you saw the video, but last week, Sasha Baron Cohen gave a speech at the ADL's Never Is Now conference.
And it was kind of a very big deal.
Because for years, Cohen's been a performer that very seldom appears as himself.
He prefers to exist in public almost entirely as one of his characters.
Dropping that facade and speaking bluntly makes a bit of a powerful statement on its own.
But even beyond that, it was a pretty good speech.
I found it to be pretty well delivered.
A large part of Cohen's message is about linking his own work to the corrosive effect that social media has had on society.
Facebook and Twitter are profoundly powerful propaganda tools, which are able to lead people to believing completely insane things, which has led to a mainstreaming of previously fringed conspiracy theories.
He discusses how as his Israeli commando character, as part of the show Who Is America, he told a guy that attendees of the Women's March were putting out chemicals to turn people trans and instructed him to plant explosives on three people.
The man did it and actually pushed the detonation button, which would have killed tons of people if they weren't fake explosives.
Cohen, I believe rightly, connects this person's willingness to believe the dumb conspiracy that his character presented to him with his prior interaction with online misinformation.
It's a good speech.
And honestly, Cohen makes a lot of points that are completely compatible with the goals Alex pretends to hold.
He's arguing for big tech companies to be responsible for what goes on on their platforms, which Alex professes to want.
They both don't want these companies to be allowed to hide behind the excuse that they're just a space where anyone can post whatever they want, while their operations appear to be counter to that.
The primary difference seems to be that Alex wants more unhinged racist conspiracy theories to be posted, and Cohen wants less.
The prevalence of complete bullshit being passed around as truth online has an effect of normalizing the sort of content Alex puts out.
So it's a really important aspect of his business model.
Without the erosion of objective reality, he's way less able to trick people into believing that his subjective delusional fantasies are real.
No, and a lot of it doesn't reflect Cohen's speech at all.
Like, he didn't call for Zuckerberg's execution.
And Alex himself was barely even a footnote in the speech.
Cohen didn't say that everyone needs to be silenced.
He was specifically talking about tech companies removing content like Holocaust denial.
Because as Sasha Baron Cohen puts it, quote, that is not some random opinion.
Those who deny the Holocaust aim to encourage another one.
Again, I can't help but notice that it seems like every free speech issue Alex decides to get on his soapbox about has nothing, or it has to do with attacking someone who says, hey, there's a lot of racism flying around.
I know it's nothing new, but it feels particularly overt in this episode.
It seems like a lot of these free speech protestations that he has are too specifically directed towards people who are pointing out a problem of racist harassment.
I think that's some of it, but I also think that Alex understands that the themes that Cohen was talking about are things that are dangerous to his ability to operate.
And then I shot a very important seven-minute report for every post of the front page of Infowars.com here in the next few minutes that I hope he will share that I'll be airing at the bottom of the hour.
Zach Voorhees, a major Google whistleblower, probably the biggest yet.
He's going to be back in studio with new developments and intel from his sources.
So like I said, I just feel like a really overt, really problematic storm is coming.
So he begins talking about this complete bullshit story out of the UK about the word uppity being banned, primarily to, I guess, argue that it's cool to call non-white people uppity.
Weird.
Then he gets into this bit of a tizzy about Sasha Baron Cohen's ADL speech, most of which he should agree with, but seems to think is terrible because Cohen's main point has to do with the need to remove things like Holocaust denial from mainstream conversations.
And now Alex says that he has this Google whistleblower Zach Voorhees coming back on the show.
That just fits too perfectly.
Because if you recall, Zach's big cache of documents that he released to Project Veritas were all basically meaningless.
But in the fallout of him going public, it was revealed that Zach had a track record of posting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on social media.
On multiple occasions, he posted about how America had a Zog or Zionist-occupied government and said, quote, it's very simple.
Either you go along with the Zionists or you end up like Andrew Breitbart, which is, of course, to say that there's also a Zom or Zionist-occupied media.
The Daily Beast reviewed his Twitter account and found that Zach believed that the prevailing concept of free speech really meant, quote, free speech for Jews, not free speech for Goyum.
He claimed that Jews were using vaccines to attack non-Jews of the world.
When Alex wants to do the big free speech pageant and mysteriously only ends up bringing up cases where racist stuff is the subject of possible curtailing, and he lies about the circumstances of each such story, and then has this guy on his show to discuss the issue who believes there's a zog and that free speech is, quote, free speech for Jews, not free speech for Goyam.
You really have to ask yourself what's really going on here.
This isn't a defense of free speech.
It's protecting racism and dabbling a little bit into anti-Semitism.
Arrest the tech heads if they don't fully submit to the ADL and the university combine of leftists that are now openly suing everybody that protects America, like myself and others.
Georgetown University is organized and funding the fake Charlottesville case and many others.
And their stated goal is to end the First Amendment.
They're not just going to take your guns.
They're going to take your speech.
They're going to take everything until we start refusing to bow down and stop refusing to be slaves to the system.
One of the biggest things you can do, because we've already enraged the enemy staying on air this long, is to buy the products.
So the new special is basically the same as so many of these other we're selling off the store sales that we've seen in the past, but now there's an added bonus.
For the first time ever, you get triple Patriot points, which I honestly can't imagine means anything to anyone who's on the fence about buying his products, because I don't think anyone's on the fence about buying his products.
And the temptation of building up even more points in a system that you're not even engaged with probably doesn't move the needle at all.
Different kinds of sales are targeted at different demographics.
For instance, a giveaway, just a free giveaway, that's intended to specifically increase your customer base.
You have faith in the thing that you're selling, but you need market awareness.
So you give it away for a brief period of time to get the word out there.
This is a strategy often employed by a lot of booze companies.
The shot people go around.
They're like, oh my God, this is great.
Everyone loves booze.
It's a strategy to get you to enjoy their thing, and then maybe you'll become a customer.
Absolutely.
That's one tactic that people can use.
Offering triple Patriot points is the exact opposite.
That's a special that cannot appeal to new customers, since the incentive to buy is accruing points in a loyalty campaign that they aren't part of.
This is a strategy that you only employ if the people you're trying to increase sales for are the people who are already customers, which absolutely tracks with the state that Alex's business is in.
The focus of his advertising should be geared toward trying to maximize the amount he can get from existing customers, because he's probably not getting a ton of new customers at this point.
That putting money towards expanding the customer base is probably fishing in a dry well.
At a certain point, though, that strategy can become very dangerous.
At its baseline, the way Patriot points work is that if you spend a dollar at the Infowar store, you get five Patriot points.
If you build up points, you can exchange 500 of them for $5 in store discounts.
Basically, you get a point for every 20 cents you spend at the store, and then you can redeem them for one cent in discounts.
That's how it tracks based on if you get it all down to under normal circumstances, Alex is accepting losing 5% to incentivize increased purchasing.
But this can get really hairy when you start adding multipliers to things.
Because the triple Patriot points, you know, if you do that with triple Patriot points, customers are now getting 15 Patriot points for every dollar they spend, or one point for every $0.06.
If the exchange rate still holds, where 500 points equals $5 in store credit, you now have to spend $0.06 to make one cent, as opposed to before, where it's 20 cents to make one cent.
You can see how these two prospects are pretty different in terms of how much of a loss you're willing to accept in order to increase repeat sales.
This shit will really cut into margins at a certain level.
It's just not a good idea from a business perspective.
Mostly because if someone is going to be inclined to purchase product because of triple Patriot points, they're probably going to be just as swayed by double Patriot points.
This feels like a really desperate attempt to sell things off to the base that he has left, profit margin be damned.
Honestly, he could offer 10 times Patriot points, and it probably wouldn't matter if he knows that he's probably going out of business.
Yeah, this does seem like a, if they grab as much revenue as possible as soon as they can, then they can funnel that out into, I guess, Alex's legal defense.
And then, whenever they declare bankruptcy, they don't have to give up anything and they don't have to pay back all the Patriot points.
Influential Jewish Organization in the World, the ADL or Anti-Defamation League, has come out and issued a public statement at their main conference calling for the arrest of the big six tech heads if they do not fully turn control of their company's moderation and content over to them.
That was just an event that a keynote speaker at, getting an award.
Alex can argue all he wants that the ADL tacitly agrees with Cohen's comments, but it's a gross mischaracterization to say it's a public statement put out by the ADL.
He knows what he's doing, and it's called lying.
Also, like I talked about with the Myanmar Rohingya situation, I think that he's being a little bit too generous.
But at the same time, I understand why someone wouldn't make this speech and be like, you should be in prison right now.
Also, for someone who claims to be as much of a history buff as Alex does, what with the 25,000 books on World War II he's read, I would suggest he revisit some of Hitler's speeches.
I would hate for Alex to accidentally say that those speeches weren't evil and draconian because he'd just forgotten, you know, how evil and draconian they were.
I could come up with plenty of examples of very evil and very draconian things that Hitler said in speeches, things that are far more evil than Sasha Baron Cohen suggesting that tech companies shouldn't platform Holocaust denial.
And if their platforms are used to carry out genocides, they should probably have some consequences.
Well, the underlying thing here is that Alex wants to argue that the ADL is complicit and actively working towards a white genocide, but he knows that it would be way too overt.
On the one hand, Alex is trying to demonize the ADL because he's a gigantic bigot, and the ADL is kind of a threat to bigots because they take them seriously.
But on the other hand, in the process, Alex is whitewashing Adolf Hitler by implying that he wasn't as bad.
Alex is very, very fucked up.
And the most generous reading of that is that he has so little idea of what he's talking about that he's willing to hand wave Hitler's speeches in order to attack the ADL.
The least generous reading is that he actually does know what he's talking about, and he thinks Hitler's speeches weren't evil.
So I think that Alex is starting to realize that more people are taking seriously how deeply rooted in anti-Semitism his worldview is, and that he needs to come up with a good defense for that.
I didn't predict it would involve him saying that Hitler's speeches weren't evil, but Alex is consistently unpredictable.
We were far from the only people who were previously pointing out that Alex's conception of his villain seems to pull heavily from old-time anti-Semitic tropes, but lately it seems to be more of a public thing.
For instance, last week we saw Fiona Hill testify in the impeachment inquiry, during which point she pointed out that the conspiracies surrounding George Soros are little more than a modern-day update to the protocols of the Elders of Zion.
This is a, you know, that was a forged document specifically designed to spread antipathy towards Jews.
Alex has nothing to worry about from this sort of talk in terms of his audience.
They don't care, or probably even support, at least some of them support that element of Alex's broadcast work.
But the more and more the rest of the world understands how much Alex's show does fit into the box of this sort of propaganda, the more likely it is that he'll be seen for what he is, instead of some patriot truth-teller.
And so it makes sense that Alex realizes that he's probably going to be accused of being an anti-Semite a bit in the future.
So it's probably best to come up with a preemptive defense around that.
They're just calling everyone who loves America anti-Semitic now.
In Cohen's speech at the ADL event, he discusses that sketch he did while he was playing Borad, getting a group of people at a bar to sing along with the song Throw the Jew Down the Well.
The reason that scene in Borad is so resonant is because it demonstrates how there are places in the country where anti-Semitism is so casually acceptable that no one thinks to speak up when a complete stranger starts singing about how the Jews are the problem in their country and how they take all your money.
That scene is an actual example of satire.
Sasha Baron Cohen did something very risky, going on stage at a country music night and singing an explicitly anti-Semitic song to see how people would react.
And it turns out they reacted by clapping along and singing the chorus.
So the ADL is going to protect us from all these Nazis.
And then we learn they're Alex Jones, Donald Trump, Breitbart, Stephen Miller, anybody that doesn't like George Soros that was an actual Nazi collaborator and said it was the best time of his life on 60 Minutes.
This is dangerous.
But it's more than just a power grab.
It's also about money.
Because the ADL is already paid hundreds of millions of dollars a year by big tech to run their moderation and the training of their sensors.
Well, I mean, there's a lot of stuff going on there.
So, of course, Alex there pulls out more rank Holocaust revisionism in the form of lying about George Soros' actions during World War II.
This is no surprise, but I was pretty shocked when Alex followed that up by saying that the ADL is out for power, but they're also out for money.
Does he not realize the characterization of Jews having no morality past a lust for money is a deeply anti-Semitic trope from history?
It's almost like he's going out of his way to appeal to tons of anti-Semitic shit in his weird attempt to defend himself from claims that he's anti-Semitic.
So the ADL isn't paid millions by big tech to train their sensors, as far as I can tell.
Alex is referring to a 2017 story he read in Breitbart about the ADL teaming up with Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft to create the Cyber Hate Problem Solving Lab, a place where issues across platforms that have to do with hate-oriented harassment can be discussed.
I can see how this would be construed by Alex as the ADL being paid millions to train censors, but there's no evidence I can find that that's what's going on.
The ADL wasn't even the only advocacy group that was involved in that project.
Legitimately, this special report that Alex plays is one of the most fucked up things he's done in a while.
It's completely misrepresenting Cohen's speech on every level.
It's a misrepresentation of the content of the speech.
It's a misrepresentation that it's a public statement from the ADL.
And even beyond that, Alex's rebuttals to the straw man arguments he's attributing to Cohen are laced with anti-Semitism.
Honestly, in a thing where he says they say that we are Nazis like me and Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, and it's like, yeah, you all say the same Nazi shit.
They've made many public statements about not comparing people to Nazis and the concentration camps at the border to concentration camps in the Holocaust.
And the left says we're calling for violence when they're the quote anti-fascist funded by the most famous living fascist who worked directly for Hitler.
He's talking about this show, Hunters, is this new show.
So I guess Hunters, the Hunt, I guess, whatever.
So I'm not entirely sure how he could see that trailer and come to the conclusion that it's about Jews hunting down Christians or that it has anything to do with Trump or MAGA hats.
As to that last part, the show takes place in the 70s.
So MAGA hats and Trump being president would be pretty fucking anachronistic.
To the larger issue, though, which is that Alex sees this show and decides it's about Jews hunting down Christians.
That's not the plot.
It's about a ragtag group of Nazi hunters who are not so much hunting down Christians as much as they are hunting down Nazis.
It's just another, this right here is just another in a long string of instances where Alex seems to be running damage control for imaginary racists.
We saw him do this with that other TV show a while back about the time traveler going back to stop a white supremacist bombing, which Alex claimed was about a time traveler trying to stop patriots from fighting globalism.
So the hunt was coming out a few months ago, and it was where the left kidnaps people wearing Make America Great Again hats and takes them out to a farm and hunts them.
Well, folks knew that was going to cause mass shootings, and so they didn't release the film.
But now they've released Hunters, where anyone wearing Make America Great Again hats are really secretly Nazis.
This show, as best as anyone can tell at this point, there's one trailer for it.
It has nothing to do with Antifa.
It has nothing to do with Trump.
It has everything to do with a reality where tons of actual Nazi Nazis escaped into the United States and they're being hunted down by a group led by a rabbi who's pretty anti-Nazi.
So there's one shot in the trailer where a guy is holding a red hat to his chest, as one might when they're in prayer, which is apparently enough for this whole show to actually secretly be about hunting down Trump supporters by claiming they're Nazis.
The red hat is not a Trump hat.
It has yellow lettering and it doesn't say make America great again.
It's just red.
Other people in the same shot have no hats.
Another guy has a pork pie hat.
Also, there's no evidence from the trailer that this guy who has a red hat is one of the targets of the hunters.
Actually, Alex is just reporting on a Paul Joseph Watson assumption.
This is just outright white identity victimhood shit taken to a point of self-parody.
Paul Joseph Watson's article on Infowars legitimately says, quote, the plot of the show appears to bear numerous similarities to Jason Blum's The Hunt, a horror movie that's centered around a group of liberals who hunt down red state conservatives.
That's not really a good description of the plot of the hunt.
It has some relevant points in there, but if I were a middle school teacher and that was the plot description little Paul Joseph Watson turned in for a book report, let's say I'd probably give him a C.
It demonstrates a lack of critical thinking and contextual analysis.
That said, there's nothing really similar about the plots of the Hunt and Hunters.
Their names are close, and Infowars has turned them both into attacks on Trump and white people.
But beyond that, they're very different stories.
If you're a hammer, everything is a nail.
If you're a rabid white identity propagandist, all you ever see are attempts to make white people look bad.
So, we're dealing with second-degree bullshit here.
They're not engaging with the hunters, but they are drawing a connection to the hunt, which they already have narratives about.
So, then because it's hunters and they know that nobody who watches or who is dealing with this shit is going to actually give a shit about the actual show, unless they're huge Al Pacino fans in the Infowars.
You've got to, you know, when I was doing stand-up, one of the things that made it the most difficult was constantly being like, someday people will find out I'm not funny.
See, now I think it's one of those things where it's like when you, it's like how rich people become more sociopathic when you're living, when you're riding the bus, you know, you're much more close to your fellow man.
And then as you get rich, you isolate yourself and you start to become that kind of psychopath.
I think the same thing happens when you're in the, like you're in the pitch meeting and you're trying really hard.
The first couple weeks, you're like, I'm going to really dig down on this story.
Then after a couple weeks, everybody's like, you don't have to do it.
So one of the things you can tell there that Alex is trying to imply that there's some kind of a connection between LaRouche's publication about the ADL and his arrest.
That's impossible since the pamphlet came out in 1992, whereas LaRouche was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud involving more than $30 million, 11 counts of actual mail fraud, one credit card statement, and a count of conspiracy to defraud the IRS in December 1988.
The ADL pamphlet was released while LaRouche was in prison for the things far more serious than one credit card receipt not being right.
Just as a rule of thumb, I'm going to say this: anyone you hear saying positive things about Lyndon LaRouche in the year of our Lord 2019, he's someone you should walk away from.
They're either members of his cult or they're just too dumb to recognize what a con man Lyndon LaRouche was.
But when they make recommendations, that kind of thing speaks volumes about who Alex's audience thinks he's in line with.
This caller apparently thinks that Alex is on the same wavelength as E. Michael Jones, which is really fucked up because that dude is a huge bigot.
Jones is an extremist Catholic speaker who said some pretty outrageous things in the past few years, a lot of it having to do with how the Jews are behind all the evil in the world.
For instance, he said in an interview, quote, if you turn away from the Catholic Church, you will end up a slave, a slave to the Jews, either through their pornography or their usury.
So when you look into E. Michael Jones, you see these sorts of things where, like, after this synagogue shooting, he's saying that the Jews brought this upon themselves.
He's saying they brought the Holocaust and the pogroms upon themselves.
So in many ways, what he's expressing there is that the ADL is going to bring on whatever backlash they have, which is obviously some sort of a code for an attack.
You know, they're saying that there's a bunch of neo-Nazis that they're in America and that they're about to rise up.
Like, let me just paint about how ridiculous this is.
Think if Putin was saying we need to stop the neo-Confederate movement in Russia, right?
Like, you think Russia might be, you know, taken over by neo-Confederates?
And this is what they're trying to say in America is that we're going to be taken over by neo-Nazis that that a German political party a century ago is on the verge of taking over America.
He's trying to say that it would be absurd to say the Confederacy would take a foothold in Russia the same way it would be absurd for the Nazis to take a foothold in the United States.
One problem is that the Confederacy was not really an international thing, whereas Nazism involved a world war as opposed to a civil one, which is a little different.
But the bigger reason this is a fuck-up is because he's on Alex Jones' show.
Alex's entire grand conspiracy involves the same globalists who ran communism and overthrew the Tsar in Russia and installed Hitler and did literally everything through history.
They were the Illuminati, Adam Weish Hop.
They are now in power in the United States.
For Zach to mock the idea that a centuries-old group could possibly be relevant to present day is to mock Alex's entire worldview.
This show is very pathetic and often self-contradictory, mostly because they're all just making this shit up based on their feelings of aggrievement.
Also, Zach, he believes that the U.S. has a Zionist-occupied government, which seems relevant to this conversation, but weirdly never comes up.
And so the two of them just, it's just, it's tough.
And so when Alex is already in this state where he's really mad about Sasha Baron Cohen doing the speech at the ADL, he's had these callers call in, really validated his anti-ADL.
He's like, oh, this is the direction to go in.
He just launches into yelling about how he's the Jew in this equation and they're Hitler.
So we know that largely a lot of the ways that Alex deploys false flag narratives are to mask and apologize for terrorism that's related to people in his community.
The militia community, the white supremacist, white nationalists.
I think that it more just might be a situation where he has an instinctual ability to read the tea leaves a little bit and be like, well, violence is very possible from the rhetoric that's being put out, and I'm going to have to defend it.
I know you're not saying that's the case, but I have to push back just in case anyone takes away, like, that's a legitimate possibility.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I don't think that's a legitimate possibility.
I think the only two options are Alex talking shit, which is very possible, or him having a sense that the climate is right in terms of the way people's mood is coming up on a really highly tense time with the election season coming.
I'm not, I'm absolutely not saying that the conspiracy theory is the case, but it's hard not to think it at least for at least for a little bit, you know?
I would ask Alex to prove that claim because that would be something I'd like to see him demonstrate instead of just claim as he's rushing out to break because he knows that he can just reset when he comes back from commercial and never has to demonstrate any of his fucking claims.
All I can do is really sit back and think, huh, seems like a lot of the Jewish people that Alex disagrees with politically happen to secretly have worked with Hitler in World War II.
Like the ADL comes to you and says, hey, we're writing some bad stuff.
Do you want this to go away?
How about you make a donation to our organization?
Like that happened with YouTube's largest video producer, PewDiePie.
And he ended up capitulating and then saying, I'm going to donate $50,000 to the ADL.
But something amazing happened when that happened.
The whole internet said, why?
What are you doing?
And it was such a commotion because now it's known that the ADL is this slandering operation that PewDiePie did the amazing step of retracting his $50,000.
Him making that decision on his own is capitulation, whereas him being screamed at by thousands of online neo-Nazis is him doing something amazing and retracting a donation.
There are many criticisms that you can have of both the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ADL.
You can have criticisms of all of them.
And I would not say that it's intrinsically anti-Semitic or even to disagree with the ADL or bigoted to disagree with the SPLC.
There are fine ways to do that.
My response to this and the way that this carried out is that Alex is using very much anti-Semitic ideas to lash out at the ADL.
And the thing that he's responding to that they're doing has nothing to do with, or it has to do with tamping down on things that are anti-Semitic in his content and in other people's content, vis-à-vis Holocaust deniers, like outright Holocaust deniers.
So when you respond to things like, hey, this isn't an opinion.
This is propaganda that is meant to normalize mainstream, take the teeth out of the history of a genocide.
You shouldn't allow that on your platform, Facebook.
That's not the government censoring.
That is not against the First Amendment.
You have a choice in the matter.
When you respond to something like that with like, this is worse than Hitler's speeches, that is not responding to the ADL.
Well, and the thing, like the thing, the reason I want to make that clarification is because I think it would be easy to hear this episode and get the impression that we are treating it with the same like A means B.
So when I hear all this stuff, I'm left with like a real troubling feeling because this is an almost entire episode long breakdown about feelings of being accused of being anti-Semitic, responding with some pretty anti-Semitic stuff.
think i've heard it like because this is really there's still a bit of like uh linguistic distance a little bit of like you know code but sure but it's very man when you're talking about a sasha baron cohen speech at an adl event you say that hitler's speeches weren't this evil you're you're i mean i i can't i can't look at that as anything other than like are you trolling here?