Sam Harris

it's something we have to keep an eye on societally because it's a unique kind of hatred, right?

It's unique in that it seems it's knit together with, it's not just ordinary racism, it's knit together with lots of conspiracy theories that never seem to die out.

It can by turns equally animate the left and the right politically.

I mean, what's so perverse about antisemitism, like look in the American context, with the far right, you know, with white supremacists, Jews aren't considered white.

So they hate us in the same spirit in which they hate black people or brown people or anyone who's not white.

But on the left, Jews are considered extra white.

I mean, we're the extra beneficiaries of white privilege, right?

And in the black community, that is often the case, right?

We're a minority that has thrived.

And it seems to stand as a counterpoint to all of the problems that other minorities suffer, in particular African-Americans in the American context.

And yeah, Asians are now getting a little bit of this, like the model minority issue.

But Jews have had this going on for centuries and millennia, and it never seems to go away.

And again, this is something that I've never focused on, but...

This has been at a slow boil for as long as we've been alive, and there's no guarantee it can't suddenly become much, much uglier than we have any reason to expect it to become, even in our society.

And so there's kind of a special concern at moments like that where you have an immensely influential person in a community that

who already has a checkered history with respect to their own beliefs about the Jews and the conspiracies and all the rest.

And he's just messaging, you know, not especially fully opposed by you and anyone else who's, who's given him the microphone at that moment to the world.

And that, so that, that,

made my spidey sense tingle.

Oh, yeah.