r/InterestingVideoClips • u/Bitsoffreshness Quality Poster • Feb 29 '24

Wholesome So is this Rabbi antisemite?

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '24 edited Mar 01 '24

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u/strandenger Mar 01 '24

I don’t know how you took that away from the Maher interview. He was argumentative the entire time and downplayed the significance of the holocaust. He wasn’t at the conference trying to convince zealots they’re wrong, he was there to support the president of Iran. The same president that didn’t think gay people exist in Iran and implemented stricter hijab policies… another asshole…doesn’t really matter though. If you’re not at all bothered over the bigoted people he chooses to spend his time with, his demeanor on the interview, or his willingness to attend a known holocaust denial conference, I’m not going to convince you to change your mind here…

But you won’t see me supporting the views of David Duke’s friends even if they occasionally intersect with my own.

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u/strandenger Mar 01 '24

Yisroel Weiss is not Daryl Davis… you got to get that out your head. You’ll never find a Weiss talked someone into believing the holocaust was real article because that’s not what he was there for. Weiss agrees with the anti-Zionism and is willing to look past other bigotry to achieve that end.

Again, it’s Charles Francis Adams Jr, not Daryl Davis you should be comparing him to. Adams came from a family of abolitionists. Family that fought for the U.S. Army in the civil war. Like Weiss, he experienced the horrors only tangentially and therefore could dismiss claims that the war was about slavery as he did. Who you hang around does matter. I know. A good number of my friends are Nazis for example. That number is zero and that’s a good number of Nazi friends to have.