Arnold Schwarzeneggers Anti-Hate Message Amidst Amid Israel Hama

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Former Californiam Governor and movien actor Arnold Schwarzenne Anti hate message.

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00:00Hello everybody, I want to talk to you today about the rising hate and antisemitism we

00:06have seen all over the world.

00:10In a few months ago, I toured Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp, where 1.1 million

00:17men, women and children lost their lives.

00:20Almost all of them were ruthlessly murdered simply because they were Jewish.

00:26When you walk through a place like Auschwitz, you feel a tremendous weight.

00:30There are reminders everywhere of the horrors that happened there.

00:35The suitcases never claimed by the prisoners, who were told to remember exactly where they

00:39left their belongings so they could retrieve them after they were finished with their showers.

00:45The shoes and the gold teeth and the hair that were taken from the murdered to be reused

00:50by the murderers to fund their evil.

00:54There are logbooks with thousands of names crossed out, as if a cruel accountant only

00:59measured death.

01:01The gas chambers with scratches on the walls from the fingernails of people who tried to

01:06hold on to life.

01:08The crematorium where the Nazis tried to erase all of their atrocities.

01:13Let me tell you something, the weight on your back hits you at the very beginning heavier

01:19than any squat I've ever done.

01:23And it never goes away.

01:25It's the feeling of history.

01:27Of millions of voices that were silenced decades ago, begging you, begging you, not to just

01:34look at their shoes, but to spend a few hours in them, to imagine you were there.

01:42Because once you imagined that you arrived on that train and you were sorted into those

01:47lines and you smelled the smoke that didn't smell like any wood you've ever burned before

01:52and you never saw your families coming out of those showers.

01:57And then you worked your butt off while getting almost nothing to eat, until you looked more

02:03like a ghost than a person.

02:06And then when you couldn't work anymore and they considered you useless, they sent you

02:11to the showers too.

02:15Once you've spent the time to really think about all of those things, then your imagination

02:21has no choice but to start the real work.

02:25How do we stop this from ever happening again?

02:30You know, after a trip to Auschwitz, you would never question why, never again, is the rallying

02:37cry of all of the people who fight to prevent another Holocaust.

02:41You would never question that.

02:44But today, I don't really want to talk to those people.

02:49I don't want to preach to the choir here.

02:52Today, I want to talk to the people out there who might have already stumbled in the wrong

02:56direction, into the wrong path.

03:01I want to talk to you if you've heard some conspiracies about Jewish people or people

03:06of any race or gender orientation and thought, that makes sense to me.

03:12I want to talk to you if you've found yourself thinking about anyone is inferior and out

03:17to get you because of their religion or the color of their skin or their gender.

03:25I don't know the road that has brought you here, but I've seen enough people throw away

03:30their futures for hateful beliefs.

03:33So I want to speak to you before you find your regrets on the end of that path.

03:39I've talked a lot about my father and the broken man that I was surrounded by when I

03:45grew up in Austria after the Second World War.

03:49You know, they drank to numb their pain.

03:52Their bodies were riddled with injuries and shrapnel from the evil war, and their hearts

03:57and their minds were equally riddled with guilt.

04:02But besides the guilt and the injuries, they felt like losers, not only because they lost

04:08the war, but also because they fell for a horrible loser ideology.

04:13They were lied to and misled into a path that ended in misery.

04:20Some of them joined the Nazis because they were filled with hate.

04:24Some of them joined because they thought they deserved more in their lives, and they bought

04:28into that idea that the only way to make their lives better was to make other lives worse.

04:35Some of them joined because they were frustrated with the government, and some of them just

04:39joined because everyone else was doing it.

04:43In the end, it didn't really matter why they joined.

04:47They were all broken in the same way.

04:48That's the bottom line here.

04:50I mean, if you find yourself at the crossroads, wondering if that path of hate might make

04:55sense to you for one reason or the other, or even wrapping yourself with a flag of hate,

04:59I want you to know where that path ends.

05:03I want you to see it very clearly in front of you and in mind, because throughout history,

05:11hate has always been the easy path, the path of least resistance.

05:15I get it.

05:16And I mean, it's easier to find a scapegoat for a problem than to try to make things better

05:20ourselves, right?

05:22But let me be clear, you will not find success on the end of that road.

05:27You will not find fulfillment or happiness, because hate burns fast and bright.

05:33It might make you feel empowered for a while, but eventually consumes whatever vessel it fuels.

05:40It breaks you.

05:42It's the path of the weak.

05:45And that's why there has never been a successful movement based on hate.

05:50I mean, think about that.

05:51The Nazis, losers.

05:54The Confederacy, losers.

05:57The apartheid movement, losers.

05:58And the list goes on and on.

06:02I don't want you to be a loser.

06:05I don't want you to be weak.

06:07See, I've spent most of my life helping people find their strength.

06:14This is where the action is strength.

06:17And despite all of the things that we may disagree about, and all my friends who might

06:20say, Arnold, don't talk to those people.

06:23It's not worth it.

06:24I don't care what they say.

06:26I care about you.

06:27I think you're worth it.

06:30I know that nobody is perfect, I can tell you this first hand.

06:34And I can understand how people can fall into a trap of prejudice and hate.

06:39Whether you grow up surrounded by hate, or get sucked into by some of Big Tech's algorithms

06:44that push you to the extreme, I can see how it can happen.

06:49I think all of us hold some prejudice.

06:51There's no two ways about that.

06:53And we have to fight it our whole lives.

06:57I know this is not the path of least resistance.

07:00It's easier to just throw around some bogus science, claiming that you are superior to

07:04someone else, than it is to actually work on becoming better yourself.

07:10It's easier to make excuses that the Jewish people conspired to hold you back, than it

07:15is to admit that you just needed to work harder.

07:19It's easier to hate, than it is to learn.

07:23It's easier when someone challenges you to get hurty feelings, and to go and find some

07:27echo chamber that will tell you that you are right and they are wrong.

07:32But remember, easier isn't better.

07:34It isn't.

07:36When you spend your life looking for scapegoats, you take away your own responsibility.

07:42You remove your own power.

07:44You steal your own strength.

07:47Anybody who has chosen the easy path of hate, has gotten to the end of that road and said,

07:51oh, what a life.

07:53No.

07:54They die as miserably as they lived.

08:00No matter how far you've gone, I want you to know that you still have the chance to

08:04choose a life of strength.

08:07But you have to give up your war against everyone that you hate.

08:11Let's give up that war.

08:13Whether you hate them because of their color of the skin, or their religion, or their gender,

08:18or their sexual orientation, it doesn't matter.

08:20Give it up.

08:23Give up that war.

08:24You know the war that you have to really fight?

08:26It's the war against yourself.

08:30You have to fight the war against yourself.

08:32Now, it's not easy to look in the mirror and to change your own life.

08:37It's hard as hell.

08:38You have to take responsibility.

08:40You have to learn new things.

08:41You have to feel uncomfortable.

08:43Good, because discomfort is how we grow.

08:46That's how we become strong.

08:48If you run away from discomfort and resistance your whole life, you will always be weak.

08:54Just think about the gym, for instance.

08:56That's where I learned most of my lessons, right?

08:59The muscles only grow from resistance.

09:01You have to struggle.

09:02You have to build strength.

09:05The more I force my hands against that steel bar, the bigger the biceps get and the stronger

09:09they get.

09:11When I was trying to squat 600 pounds and bench press 500 pounds and deadlift 700, it

09:17didn't feel like a walk in a park.

09:19It wasn't easy, no.

09:21I was uncomfortable.

09:23It was painful.

09:24I mean, look at those photos.

09:27I was struggling.

09:28I was crying out loud in pain.

09:32You know something?

09:33Your mind and your character are no different than your body and your muscles.

09:38If you want to grow as a person, you really have to make friends with pain.

09:42Embrace the discomfort.

09:43Enjoy the struggle.

09:44You have two paths in front of you right now.

09:48One of them is going to be the harder one today.

09:51It's going to be downright painful.

09:53You will have to force your brain to think in new ways.

09:57You might lose some friends who want to hold on to their weak beliefs, but as you pull

10:02yourself away from that anger and that hate, eventually you will start to feel empowered.

10:09You will realize that you have the greatest power of all.

10:11The power to change your own life.

10:14You will be stronger than you've ever known.

10:18The other path is easy, much easier.

10:22You don't have to change anything.

10:25Everything in your life that you aren't happy about can be someone else's fault.

10:30You can keep fueling yourself on that sugar high of hate.

10:34But the end of that road isn't pretty.

10:37I've seen it with my own eyes.

10:39You will end up broken, searching for ways to numb your pain and your misery.

10:44See, I don't want you to go through all of that.

10:47It's unnecessary.

10:49Let me tell you something.

10:51When I walked through that camp in Auschwitz and I put myself in the shoes of those people

10:56who were herded into those gas chambers, it was horrifying.

11:01One of the darkest moments of my life.

11:06But in that darkness, a woman who survived the horrors of Auschwitz helped me find the light.

11:14I spent some time with her, had a wonderful conversation with her.

11:20She told me that the Nazis could conquer cities and countries, they could take her freedom,

11:26her friends, her family, even her life.

11:29But they could never conquer her mind.

11:35What strength that woman had, wow.

11:38So the bottom line is, I don't care how many hateful things you may have written online,

11:44I don't care how often you've marched with carrying that hateful flag, or what hateful

11:49things you may have said in anger, there's still hope for you.

11:54There's still time for you.

11:57Choose strength.

11:59Choose life.

12:02Conquer your mind.

12:04You can do it.

12:05Thank you very much for listening.

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