Sam Harris

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.

And again, things change

when they're for public consumption, you know, when you're, it's like, I mean, the cut for me that, you know, has just the use case I keep stumbling upon is the kinds of things that I will say on a podcast like this, or if I'm giving a public lecture versus the kinds of things I will say at dinner with strangers or with friends.

Like if you're in an elevator, like if I'm in an elevator with strangers, I do not feel, and I hear someone say something stupid,

I don't feel an intellectual responsibility to turn around in the confines of that space with them and say, listen, that thing you just said about X, Y, or Z is completely false and here's why, right?

But if somebody says it in front of me on some public dais where I'm actually talking about ideas, that's when there's a different responsibility that comes online.