Blake Lively

If you apply the name and the label, then you just are automatically kind of disqualifying them with a segment of the public.

And it's really, I mean, it's a terrible way to do politics in the United States, obviously.

Now you have a huge section of the country that's against this war.

You can't really do that.

And so it's falling apart.

And it just it's not good for anybody.

And I know, Megan, like you have really thick skin.

But I also just feel like we have to pause and realize what a horrible thing that is to do to another human being, especially another human being who is like put their own skin on the line to stand up, as you have done many times in some of these campus cases.

and to like stand up against legitimate antisemitism.

It is just, I don't wanna get numb toward a horrible thing that is for one human being to do to another human being, because in the United States, we have worked really hard to stigmatize bigotry.

We have more people from different parts of the world, different backgrounds,

living in one country than I think has ever happened in human history in such close proximity.

And it is an incredible accomplishment of the American people that we have done this for the length of time that we've done it with the level of relative harmony.

Like, yes, things feel tense and painful right now, but what we do in the United States is actually amazing.

And it's partially because bigotry, genuine bigotry, has been highly stigmatized.

And so to apply that label to somebody

who doesn't actually believe those things.

And to just, again, put the label on them, not argue about whether you're enabling it or just like have a substantive argument, fine.

But to just toss the label around is truly disgusting on top of just not being constructive.

It poisons the dialogue.