A brief recap of my thoughts on the Don Lemon Show, a tweet about the lack of a Palestinian nation, and the Messi vs. Messi debate. Gadsad is back from a family getaway, so I thought I d provide a brief synopsis of a few stories that tweaked my interest.
00:00:00.380Hi everybody, this is Gadsad, just returned from a family getaway, was much needed, now I'm back.
00:00:10.840So I wanted to maybe just catch up on a few things that have transpired since I was away.
00:00:16.280Some of these issues I managed to weigh in on even when I was away on a family vacation.
00:00:23.420And so I thought I would provide a little synopsis of a few of the stories that tweaked my interest.
00:00:33.540The first one is the Don Lemon Show, which was supposed to be airing on X.
00:00:44.000His first guest was Elon Musk and as some of you know by now, Don Lemon started with all of his sort of usual woke, progressive accusations to Elon, which Elon didn't appreciate.
00:01:00.720I can understand it. Elon's time is valuable.
00:01:02.980You have a chance to have a conversation with someone who is a great entrepreneur, a great mind, and instead you waste this wonderful opportunity in doing your usual woke stuff.
00:01:19.180Imagine all of the incredible things that you could discuss with Elon.
00:01:23.100Hey, you know, tell me about your love of books.
00:01:28.380What are some of the attributes that you think any entrepreneur must possess?
00:03:00.000Can you name 10 historical Palestinians from, say, the past 200 years and their areas of excellence?
00:03:04.760Now, what do you think I meant by this tweet?
00:03:07.660What I'm basically arguing is that there is no such thing as a Palestinian nation that has historical contiguity.
00:03:15.300There is a Palestinian flag for hundreds of years, a Palestinian identity, a Palestinian national anthem, a Palestinian soccer team.
00:03:26.540Palestinians are a hodgepodge of other Arabs.
00:03:29.640Now, I'm not going to rehash the history of the area known as Palestine.
00:03:35.440But my point was that there isn't a historical contiguity when it comes to a nationhood of merit that, you know, where people are Palestinians 100 years ago, 200 years ago, that have done great things.
00:03:54.760Now, some people, oh, you're dehumanizing them.
00:03:59.660Every single person who is an innocent person who is just going about their business and life deserves to live a dignified life, whether they are Palestinians or Israelis or anyone else.
00:04:14.600The point that I was trying to make there is that there is no historical Palestinian people with an actual documented history of, say, excellence in medicine or art or literature or poetry.
00:04:33.400Now, some people got upset because then what they argue is, oh, but here's a person who's a professor at University of Madison, who's a Palestinian American.
00:04:44.560If you say, do Hungarians have a history of excellence in poetry, in folkloric dance, in art, in architecture, then you could say yes, because there is a peoples called Hungarian.
00:05:02.020So, the only point of my tweet was to make that point.
00:05:06.280It was a statement about the historical provenance of a Palestinian people, right?
00:05:15.460That doesn't mean that I'm trying to, quote, justify a genocide.
00:05:19.900It doesn't mean I'm trying to dehumanize.
00:05:37.380I put out another tweet where I listed, you know, I could weigh in on anything.
00:05:42.600I weigh in on how gorgeous the goal of Messi was.
00:05:46.240And then someone says, that shows you you're a genocide enabler because at least you can enjoy Messi, whereas the Gazan people can enjoy Messi because they're avoiding a genocide.
00:05:57.200If I say, here's a photo, you know, I love that my children are so happy on our vacation.
00:06:02.160Oh, yeah, well, you could take a vacation, but the Gazans can't take a vacation.
00:06:05.180So, anything that I say is proof that apparently I am complicit in the, quote, genocide of Palestinians.
00:06:17.020Some of you may have seen it where I said, how is it that I, I live in Canada, right?
00:06:23.000I've only been to Israel three times in my life.
00:06:25.120So, I am directly complicit in the, quote, you know, killing of Gazans, because apparently nothing has happened that would justify why Israel would attack Gaza.
00:06:38.960But I am directly complicit in the genocide of Palestine.
00:06:44.580There's been, there's been nearly 37 million Gazans killed, of which 33 million are children.
00:06:51.840And you better take those values, those figures, as veridical, because only the Zionists lie.
00:07:00.960There is no such thing as October 7th.
00:07:10.860And there were no children killed when it came to the October 7th attack.
00:07:14.060But there's been nearly 937 million Gazans killed since I started this clip.
00:07:20.200And that has to be taken at face value, because Hamas would not lie.
00:07:25.720So, this is the kind of insanity that you're dealing with.
00:07:28.400So, I then said, okay, well, if I am personally responsible, if every Jew is responsible for what's happening in Gaza today,
00:07:37.020how come it is not okay to blame all Muslims for the 44,000 plus terror attacks since 9-11 alone in nearly 70 countries, right?
00:07:50.600Well, I would say, of course, not all Muslims are to blame, right?
00:07:54.120You can't blame an entire group of people because of the action of some of the people, right?
00:07:59.060So, why is it that I grant that courtesy to Muslims, but when it comes to the other way, every Jew is complicit in what is happening in Gaza?
00:11:15.680And so, therefore, of course, whether I am Jewish or not, I'm not going to be in favor of that society.
00:11:21.620Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't innumerable Palestinians who are lovely.
00:11:26.140Of course, I have had many Palestinian friends in my life, many of whom are actually fans of my work.
00:11:34.400So, this has nothing to do with genocide and complicit and genocide and all this kind of nonsense.
00:11:39.960It has to do with do you support societies that enshrine the liberal values that define the Western tradition or not?
00:11:51.280And, therefore, to the extent that Israel is much closer to that model than is Gaza, then I am going to be in support of that society.
00:11:59.660And that would hold true whether I'm Jewish, whether I'm Muslim, whether I am an atheist, whether I'm transgender, whether I'm tall or short.