The Critical Compass Podcast - Was the October 7th Hamas Attack ＂A Unique Evil？＂

00:00:00.000 it feels like a lot of this hinges on this idea of this anti-semitism is a unique hate

00:00:11.640 and the actions are unique action it's a unique evil it's a unique it's very special and it

00:00:20.620 exists outside of other moral framework and that feels like we've as a society we've given a lot

00:00:26.220 of special treatment and special consideration that well we would speak in one way about other

00:00:32.740 groups and when it comes to some particular groups we have to be very specific or measured or

00:00:41.220 it since they're special we have to we have to measure every single word because their experience

00:00:47.960 is very unique um again very reminiscent of how uh leftist groups treat uh their their particular

00:00:59.260 oppressed minority du jour um so yeah let me just pull up here miscommunication happens so i'm going

00:01:09.700 to ask you simple questions that would define anti-semitism with the vast majority of rabbis

00:01:16.400 jews and theologians do you believe october 7th was uniquely evil and on a whole other level

00:01:25.200 that anything going on especially anything going on in gaza or anything else right now

00:01:29.840 from the moral ethical your point of view as a christian i am asking you point blank do you feel

00:01:36.540 that october 7th what happened is uniquely at a whole other level and depth of evil yes or no

00:01:43.660 i believe that what happened october 7th is evil we've seen do you believe it is a whole other

00:01:49.060 level than anything else especially what is going on in gaza i think that there have been things that

00:01:56.120 have happened historically like the holocaust like what the bolsheviks did to christians the christian

00:02:01.800 holocaust that i don't answer i'm trying to answer your question i guess i would like you to explain to

00:02:06.460 me in your own context holocaust versus what happened october 7th why is october 7th uniquely

00:02:13.820 evil compared to the holocaust maybe you can educate in october 7th there was you don't know

00:02:19.500 your history about the holocaust and october saw the holocaust was a machine that was made

00:02:23.900 and cost germany the war so you'd say october 7th october 7th was a specific intention remember that on

00:02:33.500 the holocaust the first attacks are are war attacks because it's all about a war effort and world

00:02:38.860 domination october 7th is about to torture and do such horrific things

00:02:48.380 to civilians to the weakly innocent people so i'm asking you a very simple question

00:02:56.540 i i i i'm honestly you didn't ask it i mean i'm ready to answer it i think it was evil and you know

00:03:02.920 if you if you feel it's uniquely bombed a million iraqi civilians you're talking about just like if

00:03:07.940 you're weighing against civilian costs and again i think well how you said about when you read the

00:03:11.560 you know you watch the passion of the christ and you have you know your eyes when you watch and i have

00:03:16.500 my christian eyes very difficult for me to say when the greatest holocaust that ever happened was

00:03:20.200 against christians and what the bolsheviks did to us drowning us in barges i cannot like i cannot

00:03:25.600 discount the things that have happened to christians we are actually the most persecuted religion in the

00:03:30.300 world and it's never described as uniquely evil and so what happened october 7th is evil full stop

00:03:36.060 what has happened in the past to christians what is happening currently to christians in armenia

00:03:40.600 it's evil so i i i and they go back and forth on that interesting what are your thoughts on that

00:03:50.860 it's interesting that he needs that he needs to hear that that october 7th was uniquely evil like i don't

00:03:59.280 really know i don't really know what he's driving at like why i also don't really know why that why it

00:04:06.180 would be like of course i agree you know with both of them that it of course it was evil and it was a

00:04:12.320 you know one of the worst you know horrific terrorist attacks that have ever happened but

00:04:16.720 like as opposed to what like and and by what metric because kind of by definition like all

00:04:25.200 terrorist attacks are aimed at civilians in the weak and whatever like they're they're aimed to cause

00:04:30.380 their their goal is to cause terror and discord and death and suffering and so like

00:04:35.400 how do you measure that like you know i i presume what he's what he's saying is the fact that it's

00:04:42.360 directed against jews and israelis by a militant uh islam islamic uh um force that you know that

00:04:52.300 basically exists to eradicate judaism makes it uniquely evil yeah it's it seems really important

00:05:01.960 that she gave that specific answer and the thing is this is not a intellectual discussion this is a

00:05:11.120 struggle session feels like he's in there to get her to admit and speak a certain way and very much

00:05:19.020 she says that later on that she does not want anybody to police her speech

00:05:24.480 yeah and oh yes this rabbi she's the wrong target if that's what you're trying to do yeah she does

00:05:30.840 not like being told what you can and cannot say um and she is very adamant on like well here's what

00:05:40.980 i said here's what i believe it's pretty clear-cut i she condemns hamas she condemns the attack

00:05:48.860 but she still feels for the innocent people getting harmed right now

00:05:54.820 so

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The Critical Compass Podcast - April 08, 2024

Was the October 7th Hamas Attack ＂A Unique Evil？＂｜ A Critical Compass Clip

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