Bassem Youssef
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1,048 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 5 Jun
Bassem Youssef’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was very easy with the Indians because they had smallpox, there was no social media, they did it over 400 years, they had time. The problem is what is happening right now, I agree with you, it might not be that new, but we are there and we're watching it happen.
Because you know what's the problem? We told ourself we can be better. After 1948, there was the universal declaration of human rights. It means that we are gonna be better humans. We're not gonna kill and take land. We're not gonna displace people. We're not gonna take people for what they are. There's now laws. There's international laws. There's international court of justice.
And now Israel is giving the middle finger to all of them.
I think the shock came from the fact that we thought that we as humanity have evolved, and now we are What have actually changed is that we became more advanced in effectively eradicating a group of people because of the technology that we have. And the fact that we can do that under the eyes and ears of all the world, and we are watching it under our phone. We have a window.
We have a window to the war. You know, 1945, people didn't know what was happening. In Japan, what? Well, we heard about it in the radio. Like, oh, today our forces came in and they launched. We don't know.
And it is so much for our psyche. And we can't get it. And the Arabs are saying, like, guys, you told us. We came to the West because we were told that we were equal. You know the Universal Declaration of Rights? One of the co-authors, his name is Stefan Hessel. He's a Jew. He is a survivor of the Holocaust. And you know what happened to him?
He died, by the way, a couple of years ago, but before he died, he was canceled by so many people and he was called anti-Semitic because he joined the BDS movement and he spoke of Palestine. That is the author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that we value so much and we think that that would define our humanity. But then we go in and we are
shocked it's like maybe we were sold something maybe that was false advertisement you shared a tweet by an account called awesome jew
First time. First time. I have been called so many things in Egypt. So in Egypt, I was called a CIA operative, a Mossad spy, a secret Muslim brotherhood, a secret Jew. There was also an article that was published about me in the state-run media saying in details how Bassem has been... recruited by CIA agents using Jon Stewart in order to use satire to bring down the country.
I was a Freemason, an infidel, a member of the Knights of the Temple, something like that. And there's actually people, the Muslim Brotherhood on their show, they would say like,
So it's kind of like when I guess, I said, I had, I left all of that behind and I come here, it's like, boom, anti-Semitic Nazi. Damn. I mean, I really covered everything. I don't know what else. I mean, I think I have, it's kind of like I'm collecting PhDs. I'm just like getting like all of these credits.
These kind of attacks, at the beginning, it's fun.
But when they evolve into something else, so for example, I was like laughing of all of the stuff about calling me this, calling me that, but then when people would come and thread the theater, because it's not the people who are making those accusations that would come to you, it's the people that will hear and see those accusations and act on it. And there's always the fear of like,
I mean, we have in the airport a lot of things that somebody would hear something about someone else and go kill him and whatever, like anybody else. So there's this, but somehow I want to make fun of it. And it is to be called an Islamo-Nazi, it must been the funniest thing ever.
How did you become an Islamo-Nazi?
I know what you did. It was very inappropriate. You're also obviously a sexual harasser of me. Okay. Is this like a me too?
my memory in general was was cool it was cool i went to a catholic uh uh school until the for for primary school the elementary and by the time i'm done uh there was kind of like a start of a decline into the public education and my parents they're like middle class working officials you my dad was a judge my mom was a business professor and she's and they were like one of the people's like
They didn't have that much luxury. My dad, like, drove, like, a regular, like, car, a Fiat, which is, like, the equivalent for the Lada in Russia.
Thank you for speaking to the audience. The Lada. And... Well, so, would that be a good car? No, no.
It's kind of like... kind of like the minimum. And my dad was not a command of showing off. Whatever money they would do, they would put it for us, education, give everything to their kids. This is kind of like a very, very typical mentality. And I'm sure it's in many cultures, but like we grew up with this, like everything that we have is left for kids. So they would put us into education.
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