Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

So when people try to tell you that opposing a genocide abroad is about your hate for a group of people, I always find that to be such a wild thing.

I stand up against antisemitism because I love people.

I stand up against genocide because I love people.

At the end of the day, that is the moral least common denominator that should motivate all of our politics.

And I hope that people have the courage to move in that direction, whichever way it leads them.

And if your politicians do not, ask them why their policy proposals don't map to what they say they believe.

Just ask.

Because normally, the difference is somebody's money.

You know, you talk about being under the bus.

I know what it's like to live under the bus.

I was a junior in high school after 9-11.

I remember going from being a kid with a funny name and an olive complexion to being a very particular kind of funny name and a very particular kind of olive complexion.

I had to grow up real quick.

And when people are so quick to throw you under the bus, you start to see all the other people under the bus.

And you realize that at the end of the day, nobody wants to be under the bus.

And so you start to think, you know what?

I may not understand why you're here.

I know intimately why I'm here.

But I may not know why you're here.

But I do know none of us deserve to be here.