Was the October 7th Hamas Attack ＂A Unique Evil？＂ ｜ A Critical Compass Clip
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Summary
What is anti-semitism? What does it mean and how does it relate to anti-Judeaism in general? Why does it exist? How does it differ from anti-Semitism in general, and what does it have to do with Judea?
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it feels like a lot of this hinges on this idea of this anti-semitism is a unique hate
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and the actions are unique action it's a unique evil it's a unique it's very special and it
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exists outside of other moral framework and that feels like we've as a society we've given a lot
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of special treatment and special consideration that well we would speak in one way about other
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groups and when it comes to some particular groups we have to be very specific or measured or
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it since they're special we have to we have to measure every single word because their experience
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is very unique um again very reminiscent of how uh leftist groups treat uh their their particular
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oppressed minority du jour um so yeah let me just pull up here miscommunication happens so i'm going
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to ask you simple questions that would define anti-semitism with the vast majority of rabbis
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jews and theologians do you believe october 7th was uniquely evil and on a whole other level
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that anything going on especially anything going on in gaza or anything else right now
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from the moral ethical your point of view as a christian i am asking you point blank do you feel
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that october 7th what happened is uniquely at a whole other level and depth of evil yes or no
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i believe that what happened october 7th is evil we've seen do you believe it is a whole other
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level than anything else especially what is going on in gaza i think that there have been things that
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have happened historically like the holocaust like what the bolsheviks did to christians the christian
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holocaust that i don't answer i'm trying to answer your question i guess i would like you to explain to
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me in your own context holocaust versus what happened october 7th why is october 7th uniquely
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evil compared to the holocaust maybe you can educate in october 7th there was you don't know
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your history about the holocaust and october saw the holocaust was a machine that was made
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and cost germany the war so you'd say october 7th october 7th was a specific intention remember that on
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the holocaust the first attacks are are war attacks because it's all about a war effort and world
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domination october 7th is about to torture and do such horrific things
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to civilians to the weakly innocent people so i'm asking you a very simple question
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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
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if you if you feel it's uniquely bombed a million iraqi civilians you're talking about just like if
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you're weighing against civilian costs and again i think well how you said about when you read the
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you know you watch the passion of the christ and you have you know your eyes when you watch and i have
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my christian eyes very difficult for me to say when the greatest holocaust that ever happened was
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against christians and what the bolsheviks did to us drowning us in barges i cannot like i cannot
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discount the things that have happened to christians we are actually the most persecuted religion in the
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world and it's never described as uniquely evil and so what happened october 7th is evil full stop
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what has happened in the past to christians what is happening currently to christians in armenia
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it's evil so i i i and they go back and forth on that interesting what are your thoughts on that
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it's interesting that he needs that he needs to hear that that october 7th was uniquely evil like i don't
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really know i don't really know what he's driving at like why i also don't really know why that why it
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would be like of course i agree you know with both of them that it of course it was evil and it was a
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you know one of the worst you know horrific terrorist attacks that have ever happened but
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like as opposed to what like and and by what metric because kind of by definition like all
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terrorist attacks are aimed at civilians in the weak and whatever like they're they're aimed to cause
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their their goal is to cause terror and discord and death and suffering and so like
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how do you measure that like you know i i presume what he's what he's saying is the fact that it's
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directed against jews and israelis by a militant uh islam islamic uh um force that you know that
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basically exists to eradicate judaism makes it uniquely evil yeah it's it seems really important
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that she gave that specific answer and the thing is this is not a intellectual discussion this is a
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struggle session feels like he's in there to get her to admit and speak a certain way and very much
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she says that later on that she does not want anybody to police her speech
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yeah and oh yes this rabbi she's the wrong target if that's what you're trying to do yeah she does
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not like being told what you can and cannot say um and she is very adamant on like well here's what
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i said here's what i believe it's pretty clear-cut i she condemns hamas she condemns the attack
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but she still feels for the innocent people getting harmed right now