You have probably already seen it, But if not, this is worth a watch.
It's the quiet part being screamed:
The problem isn't that Israel is committing genocide.
The problem is that the lesson people took away from Holocaust education, is that genocide is bad.
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Find all the context you want in the original video posted by the hosting org:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QYO2ZsQu0H8
Her part starts at 9 minutes 23 seconds.
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“We are now wrestling with a new I think generational divide here, and I think that’s particularly true in that social media is now our source of media,” Hurwitz said. “It used to be that the news you got in America was American media, and it was pretty mainstream; you know it generally didn’t express extreme anti-Israel views. You had to go to a pretty weird bookstore to find global media and fringe media. But today we have social media, which is the global medium; its algorithms are shaped by billions of people worldwide who don’t really love Jews. So while in the 1990s a young person probably wasn’t going to find Al Jazeera or someone like Nick Fuentes, today those media outlets find them; they find them on their phones.”
“It’s also this increasingly post-literate media; less and less text, more and more videos,” Hurwitz continued. “So you have TikTok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza. And this is why so many of us cannot have a sane conversation with younger Jews, because anything that we try to say to them, they are hearing it through this wall of carnage. So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments, and they are just seeing in their minds: carnage. And I sound obscene.”
Hurwitz went on to say that Holocaust education has begun backfiring, because it has been giving young people the wrong impression that genocide is always bad.
“And you know I think unfortunately, the very smart bet that we made on Holocaust education to serve as anti-semitism education in this new media environment, I think that is beginning to break down a little bit because, you know, Holocaust education is absolutely essential, but I think it may be confusing some of our young people about antisemitism,” Hurwitz said. “Because they learn about big, strong Nazis hurting weak, emaciated Jews, and they think oh, antisemitism is like anti-black racism, right? Powerful white people against powerless black people. So, when on TikTok all day long, they see powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians, it’s not surprising that they think, Oh, I know the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel. You fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.”
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Oh man. I investigated further.
Now all I've got is a vague hope that some of this shit is AI.
Loooordt.
Now people are SENDING me videos.
There really needs to be a "rubs temples" emoji.
This woman really just needs to shut up about her "information is the devil" narrative.
This whole thing feels like "we're not successfully brainwashing people anymore."
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Oh Jesus christ!
I posted that, and GOT SENT ANOTHER ONE.
Why are they not getting better?
Why is she still talking?
Does she not realize that people who are not in the room CAN HEAR HER?
Take away Jewish children's smartphones so they can't see what's happening in Gaza and develop some undesirable empathy for Palestinians?
Wall of dead children?
And the problem is that people are filtering what you're saying through that wall of dead children, and NOT the wall of dead children?
Is she an op?
Is she being paid undermine Israel?
I don't know how they think this is going to make anything better. I mean just openly admitting to needing to brainwash people out of having empathy for anyone other than themselves doesn't seem like a winning strategy.
Honestly, it's like Caryma.
To her:
It's not the bad shit she does that's the problem, it's people commenting on the bad shit she does.
Psychopathy/sociopathy is a hell of a drug.
Gigi 🍄🟫
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