The Critical Compass Podcast - Is Antisemitism ＂A Hate That Mutates＂？ Candace Owens vs. Rabbi Barclay ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

00:00:00.000 so and that's where we have rabbi bar barclay writing an article uh being very critical of

00:00:11.760 candace and accusing her for some things so she this was before she got fired she decided to sit 0.94

00:00:17.000 down and she's like well let's have an honest discussion let's fully just go over here's what

00:00:22.640 you claim let's watch the clip that that's based off of and go through and the and it all starts

00:00:27.720 out with her asking what anti-semitism is and the first part of that is a it is a discussion about

00:00:37.340 he spends the first five minutes talking about more the history of like blood libels and the

00:00:44.000 kind of the myths behind jewish people that were perpetrated in kind of the more medieval times

00:00:51.720 and how some of those things fueled hatred towards jewish people as a group but he also specifically

00:01:00.340 says that anti-semitism is a hate that mutates and he's kind of can't really pinpoint a definition

00:01:10.180 so let's just uh i want to show this little part here pause it you said it's a hate that mutates

00:01:17.400 correct so your belief then is that the definition of anti-semitism can necessarily change is that

00:01:26.440 correct it's not just my belief it is the commonly accepted understanding in both the jewish and

00:01:31.320 academic worlds okay this isn't okay as i said that's why i quoted this is a quote it's a great

00:01:36.540 thing from lord sacks uh you know jonathan sacks it's a great thing from naya leckitt this this is

00:01:41.580 just accepted as the understanding of you know i would just say off the bat i do not accept that

00:01:50.160 definitions can just mutate that is something that i could debate that on like the definition of a

00:01:55.340 woman i mean and i'm saying not just about jewish people i think that we have to have a concrete

00:01:59.040 definition to work with because then you can just update and say actually i've changed that and now

00:02:03.320 this is what constitutes anti-semitism but candace that is the horror of anti-semitism so what you are

00:02:11.700 saying to me is that anti-semitism is this and does not change what i am saying to you is that the entire

00:02:20.160 world and scholars about anti-semitism recognize that it is a unique hate that if you define it as

00:02:30.320 the latv the the that that jews should not be able to exist collectively okay as a collective

00:02:37.880 they shouldn't have that right that changes from the middle ages with religion the 18th through 20th 0.93

00:02:43.880 centuries about race and then after israel is created it's a hatred based on the nation 0.91

00:02:50.520 and until that until that is understood that that that it is this isn't something that's really

00:02:59.000 questioned about among academics theologians jewish scholars i'm not presenting it this is why i

00:03:05.800 thought i'm so optimistic about a dialogue but i think part of it is you view that the hate can't

00:03:12.320 mutate and what i'm trying to tell you is that we have two thousands of years of history that

00:03:16.780 demonstrate the exact opposite so and i'm i'm gonna just push back very just gently here

00:03:22.600 for me personally if i thought that racism could just be an ever-shifting uh definition based on the

00:03:31.520 experience of black people it would be a remarkable power and i would be able to create something like

00:03:36.720 blm which could say that everything was racist so i am not going to be able to agree that definition

00:03:43.420 should be able to transform according to what's happening during the day but here's what i will say

00:03:49.380 if you could just because i think it's really important um for us to get to going through

00:03:55.500 this article because then you might be able to so what i would just say for because i hadn't seen that

00:04:03.820 clip my initial reaction to that like regardless of the of the truth value of the argument that he's

00:04:11.620 making the way that he's arguing it is not it's it's suboptimal the way that he's arguing it because

00:04:18.400 sort of rather than defining what he means by why the shifting definition is relevant in this

00:04:26.640 particular type of hate um all he really said there was well other jewish scholars agree that this is

00:04:33.460 the case so that that whole kind of segment was really just one big appeal to authority it felt like

00:04:40.100 without really much like meat on those bones you know what i mean what do you think there yeah he uh

00:04:47.540 he does refer to the jewish scholars defining it and then the only problem with that is is that a

00:04:53.920 collective worldwide definition or yeah yeah that that's the first issue that you get um the next

00:05:00.920 issue is he very much says that he cannot define what racism is like to candace who is a black woman

00:05:10.880 since he is not part of that group i hate i hate that that's in the same way that candace cannot

00:05:20.360 cannot define anti-semitism for herself or cannot because she's not can reject that because she's

00:05:26.820 not so silly that's yeah is here's the thing is that not like he this rabbi is a conservative but is

00:05:34.080 that not the woke playbook in action this is why this is why like this was blowing my mind of like

00:05:42.300 this felt like a struggle session based on these very far left kind of tactics this this is the this

00:05:51.080 is the the the pedagogy of the oppressed right this is the you can't uh you can't uh uh the the

00:05:57.680 oppressed can never can never uh you know ascend to the level of the oppressor and like that's all it is

00:06:03.600 it's it's it's just a reframing of that type of um woke power struggle dynamics that i'm sure as a

00:06:10.740 conservative he would be against in another context but he doesn't apply it to his own circumstance

00:06:14.920 so

00:06:24.140 so

00:06:26.960 so

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The Critical Compass Podcast - April 06, 2024

Is Antisemitism ＂A Hate That Mutates＂？ Candace Owens vs. Rabbi Barclay ｜ A Critical Compass Clip

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