I love that the ex-supremacist guy was able to literally outgrow his father, like his father is still stuck in his stupid mindset while the son has grown out of it against all odds.
Sometimes this world doesn’t need adults teaching the children, sometimes it needs the children to teach the adults- someone (I feel like that’s a quote from someone famous but I made it myself).
Because of the hitler shit i am allways ashamed of our history and dont even want to go to other countrys. I know the generation and I today cant do anything for that what happened in the world war. But as an german i still want to say sorry for what happened.
@@a-random-pers0n lol that shame is engineered in to you. Don't let people tell you that you should be ashamed of something you as an individual had no part in. Your ancestors were already forced to work off the damage they did to the world.
A meeting like this, where you can see two sides of the same coin, is a magical thing. I was also an ex-Neo Nazi, and it's difficult to break free from that mindset when charismatic individuals flood you with lies about how the world works and who you should and shouldn't trust. I'd like to see more videos of people who are in some ways 'polar' opposites, because it's very uplifting in such a hate-filled world.
I’ve been to Auschwitz, and it was scary. I saw the shooting wall, the standing cells, courtyard, gas chambers, and even Maximilian Kolbe’s death record, which btw said he died because ‘his heart was beating to slowly’ (he actually died of starvation and lethal injection).
That depends on why the kids question their parents. Are they looking for answers or just rebelling for the sake of rebelling? Whether or not the answers are good is a separate issue.
This restores my faith in humanity. It shows how people can endure hardships beyond comprehension and how people can come back from a point many would view as irredeemable.
I lose and gain faith in humanity on a regular basis. Can't look at humanity as a whole, honestly. Some individuals are worth putting faith in, and others are not.
It takes a strong person to go against everything you know and have a battle with your own demons. The weak people never even tried and just decided it would be easier to just exist as a shitty person forever and make up excuses for themselves, with not putting in any work towards self betterment. What separates humans from animals is that humans can go beyond simply acting on instinct. Racism, hatred, emotions, needs in general is in our DNA and is part of instinct too. Some people are animals in essence, they act purely on instinct, never think they could be wrong, never question, only make decisions based on their immediate first reaction. People that cheat because they were horny, not thinking about the consequences afterwards are also just acting on instinct. Some "people" do not deserve to be called people, some of us are animals. And I want to clarify this is not towards any group of people, but if you act like an animal I will call you an animal, on an individual basis.
Full respect to both of these guys. It ain't easy to talk about anything they were talking about here. Respect the Jewish fella for being able to speak out about the racism they experienced and respect to the former Neo-Nazi for being able to accept he was wrong in his past, and being able to outgrow that life and become a good person.
My grandpa once told me about how he'd been taught to hate the blacks growing up but that all changed when he was speaking with a teacher if I remember right. They talked for a bit and he began to cry when he realized how wrong he was. And he became a changed man after that. He'd tell me things like "don't judge anyone based on looks" and "treat everyone with respect no matter what" and I'm so glad he learned from his ways and taught me to be a better human being. I've never understood how you can go after someone for something they can't control. I mean I can understand cracking a few light hearted race jokes to a few very close friends. But giving them death threats because your doing wrong? I guarantee if that was my kid(s) I'd bust them upside their heads. This was a damn good video,keep up the good work,and be kind to one another aight?
Sadly, there’s still alot of people that believe the other thing. My grandmother being one of them. She says, almost every time she see’s a black person, some comment about how “WHEN I WAS YOUNG, THERE WERE NO BLACK PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY. I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I SAW A BLACK MAN, I COULDNT STOP STARING AND WHEN HE LOOKED BACK AT ME AND SMILED, YOUR GREAT GRANDPA BEAT HIM UP, GOOD TIMES” or some shit. She’s actually said the n-word multiple times infront of me or other family. She’s the same with anyone included in LGBTQ and she gets mad af when a transgender person comes on tv because “MEN WILL ALWAYS BE MEN AND WOMEN WILL ALWAYS BE WOMEN”.
When I've heard the Jewish person interview I felt my blood pressure rise... I am from Poland, and I went to Auschwitz with my class, when we were still in elementary school. I've seen this place, I've seen the see of shoes stored there... Where every single one belonged to a person. I've seen the Books that were there, tomes bigger than anything I've ever seen before. They just were lists of people. My best friend almost fainted. A dude who is one of most balls of steel people I know ALMOST FAINTED. Ever since I feel discussed in antisemitism jokes. I cannot stop people from telling them, but still, after they go too far, I just say: "Go to Auschwitz, wander there few hours. See it. Then, tell me this joke again." I feel discuss in that trash presenting themselves as people for they think it is funny to go against a person who did not choose who they are.
American here I can completely agree. Saying anything like that in the same room as my family ,specifically my grandparents would get your but kicked so hard you'd be feeling it for months And the fact that he reported it and the teacher still did nothing makes it so much worse, I know this is a couple weeks into the video already being posted but I just needed to comment and I have only seen the first 4 minutes.
Your story reminds me of when I went to concentration camp Theresienstadt in Czechia when I was on an one week school trip in the country. While it was not a death camp, everything that was originally built is still there. We had a guide that told us the history of the place, but at the end we also got to see a short movie. The whole time I was there I wore an expression and a feeling of horror, but when I saw the movie it turned into extreme sadness. The movie told us again what went on in the camp and moreover showed us how the nazis propagandized it to make people think they were treating their prisoners formidably, as if they actually went on vacation. Then we heard the numbers; the numbers of people, Jewish or otherwise, that came there from which country, that went to that camp and whether they survived or not. I'm 6'5"/1.98m and I like to call myself tough, but I cried like a little girl at the end of that movie. When we went back outside some kids and A TEACHER started cracking jokes about how some of the prisoners would be stoned to death, and istg I wish I actually did punch them in the face like I wanted to.
This is a tangent, but you just made me remember the time my class went and my rage against all the kids going around giggling talking about teen shit....
Ok I'm only just 5min in but I gotta say, that type of extreme bullying would absolutley NEVER EVER happen in a german school. Even the word "Holocaust" itself is sort of a tabu word, let alone jokes about it or simplifying what happend. We are very mindfull of our past and teach the next generation accordingly.
How it should be done. Here in America, we off-handedly mention how we completely fucked many ecosystems to make America what it is today, the racism that persisted up until the late 20th century, and how we completely ruined the lives of the native Americans who were here before us. Because America is where you go to take zero accountability for your actions, and always has been basically.
Brit here, we have similar issues with insensitivity too; a lot of the people I knew in school carried a LOT of disrespect and unawareness to the holocaust because they believed it either wasn’t important (because it was in the past), or didn’t apply to them. I hate to say it, but in the UK, our early teachings of WW2 focus around how we ‘won’ the war, rather than the atrocities that came from that period. It’s very unfortunate and disturbing. Obligatory edit to mention that this is from the perspective of my friend and I, who went to completely different schools and had these experiences. Not saying that my statement applies to everyone, but it’s a personal commentary of what I’ve witnessed.
@@organism7002 I actually didn’t have that experience thankfully, I think people were at least respectful enough to stay silent during the class, but this history was taught to us when we were pretty young so I think some people just forget :c
But you have a different past. That's the problem those kids are just assholes and don't have anything close to that past. Hell their family probably hasn't done anything important in generations. Germany was the direct cause of millions of people suffering so I would imagine that it's a bit of a touchy subject but for America we don't have anything like that except Vietnam and maybe the Native Americans. I'll be man enough to say we fucked up and never should've gotten so involved in a civil war that one side didn't want to fight. I'm going to say this but there was never any bullying like this so open at my school because if it did happen the seniors would've rocked their shit. We did not appreciate bullies or freshmen trying to talk shit and attack their fellow students. (Also just because you don't know its happening doesn't mean it isn't)
hol tf up, u cant say that. Im in a german school myself and i can tell u that 70% of them are racists. Like i think its more about in wich location in germany u are. Like all the "not racist" people knew how fucked up that place was
I wish conversations like this were more prevalent instead of the screaming/doxing matches we see way more often. Two people coming to the table with love and honesty is what i like to see.
The ex-neo nazi dude was actually seeking out the conversation which helps. A lot of people however wouldn't want to do that, ignorance and hatred often makes people just tunnel vision everything and choose to not seek out understanding incase it completely shakes their whole perspective on things and question their own actions.
It’s easy to do horrible things to a person you’ve convinced yourself or have BEEN convinced is something less than a human being. It’s easy to despise someone you’re convinced is a “pig,” a “rat,” an “insect,” a “wild animal,” etc. The trick to combatting this is remembering that you were born from a man and woman, that you can bleed, that you can feel pain, and remembering or reminding yourself that this is true for everyone you’ve ever come across.
@@thegrimcritic5494 I suppose so, yes. I was mainly talking about the bullies in the first interview. I don't know their backgrounds, but the constant bullying and 'jokes' they made were just plain barbaric and inhuman, at least in my opinion.
@@26O3 It's not even fully that I believe. It comes down to what they were programmed to do, and that is a common theme in this video- people believe what they are led to believe. For example, White Supremacist ideology comes from the former of themselves- their parents, their grandparents, etc. Now, where the origin of these ideas lie is up for debate, but it comes down to programming of someone's mindset. Now, it's not that you aren't correct- if you can save someone from the toxic mindset, then yeah. But the idea that someone was never taught what kindness is? That would be kind of an understatement in certain contexts. So, yes, you have a point, but as it's said in the video, it's easier said than done to just be taught kindness.
"What's it like being Jewish?" "It's sort of like being despised, mocked, and threatened on the basis of your existence alone, something like that" That would be my answer but I don't know what his would have been. You never know man, sometimes hitting them with the truth, even if they indulge in it might get them to stop, because I can't imagine anyone would want that.
Ill tell you, I live in Israel so the only hate i see is on the internet, Holocaust jokes all the time because no one can get hurt everyone where i am is atheist/Jewish. To me it feels that Christianity is just an expansion pack to my culture. Most Christian Hollidays are just ripoffs of our Hollidays, Passover is just easter but with weird bread instead of eggs Purim is like Halloween but without the spookiness. Yom kippur is basically Thanksgiving but you are sorry instead of thankful or whatever Christmas is kinda like sukkot? Idk not really
This heals my mind and makes me feel happy that everyone can get over hate and tolerate one another. There is hope for a better future if this generation and the next stops believing in the propaganda of old bygone era.
I think humanity is always one generation behind. It takes a generation to catch up to things. A lot of problems this generation will probably be gone in the next.
Like the 2nd person said, deprogramming is one of the hardest things a person can do (I know from experience) but it is 100% possible and 100% worth it. Eventually you get to a point where you wonder why you ever thought or felt those things in the first place and realize how much happier you are now.
Not really. All that happens is the propaganda of a hundred years ago gets supplanted by the propaganda of the modern age. That only means that the hate shifts from one group to another.
@@BR-dy1ie I'm not seeing nearly as much hate now, at least not any on such a wide scale as before that doesn't have people fighting back against, and against any particular group Not denying that there is hate, racism, homophobia or anything like that, but generally the modern mindset is to be more accepting of things people can't control
@@QuokkaWaka not entirely correct. I’d suggest that there’s been a distinct rise in anti Asian and anti white bigotry within the past two decades. Racial and gender based hiring practices have only helped engender animosity that we’re experiencing in today’s political climate
I remember growing up and falling into nazi groups and everything like that, like these people were serious too, planning rallies, basically stalking and gathering info on opposing political group leaders and shit. It was hard to get out of because I've always struggled with feeling alone being emotionally neglected by my parents. The guy in the video was right, not stereotyping after doing just that for years is difficult, but it's beautiful to see the world as a melting pot instead of "black, white, jewish, etc."
I'm really happy about every single neo nazi/racist who is changing their views, because I would really rather enjoy some of those weekends when fascists are marching (or trying to) on my comfy couch. Instead of trying to block them, getting f'd up by the police while trying to stop fascists march, running away from nazis because they are having the upper hand (higher numbers), getting hurt or having fear of getting hurt badly, hurting them because we've reached a point where talking aint possible anymore. Fu...ng sucks that humanity isn't over this already and sad that it seems like it's getting worse sometimes.
@@Gilhadriel Sadly some of my classmates do the Nazi salute and…..I don’t know why they started doing this or how this started…Every time they do this I get the shivers and close my eyes…I hope they will soon stop doing this
@@shootingsmilla1239 Oh, you don't want to come to Finland. We were voted as the most racist nordic country and it was nowhere near a close call EVERY FUCKING DAY THOSE DAMN IDIOTS GET ON WITH THE STEREOTYPE (basically being an alcoholist and a racist)
The most i would joke to my ex-girlfriend about being jewish is by calling her a bagel for that stereotype that jewish people love bagels. She enjoyed it with a laugh but i would never go so far as to make holocaust jokes because she Isnt into the dark sense of humor
I'm Asian and live in the middle of the South and it's scary to just live here. Everyone in my neighborhood flies confederate flags and everyday when I get off the bus all of my neighbors stare at me. I don't feel welcomed here at all but I kind of want to stay just to spite them.
Let them stare, your no different from them your born in the south correct? If so get your own flag then if you love your place or even fly an Asian flag I don't know what color it is or what's its really called but show them that your not afraid or just don't react to them it just keeps the bullying going if you react because they want that
go mudding with them. embrace where you live. fly any flag... respect is gained. the biggest issue some folk face is living in a place, and not "living" there. I live in the far north east of the USA. Here.. sure there are eyes cast, but that happens everywhere. Here it is work... any work... fishing, landwork, nursing. You carry yourself, you good. you piss and moan and want hand outs, and try to use colour... you get eyes. and the few that do throw eyes, they old and ignorant, fuck them. you live in the south... its a culture... try to learn to embrace it. if I moved to... I don't know.. Usbeckistan... I'd be pretty shitty after a while.... but, thats because I'm me, and they aren't. while there may be some hateful folks where you live; I can bet winning odds; a bunch would be besties. Find a common goal. Haters gonna hate, but others gonna love. I'm -White- white.. and live in the north east... past all that boston and new york dog shit... my wife is likely one of the maybe 3 "coloured" people in out town. things in this world suck; but hey kinda suck for every one... I bet you'll make that one best friend that you'll keep through life. you, some asian, and some dopey chubby white boy; but, things will have clicked and; life is fucked like that and hey, if not, cest la vie.
Ask them why they fly the battle flag because the civil war didn't start over slaves it started by different laws north and south that flag used to be for state rights but it has been used for horrible acts
@@celuler22 No no don’t ask them WHY they’re flying that. They’ll interpret that as an attack. Mention to them in casual conversation at some point your knowledge of the local history. Or just…don’t mention it at all and try to make friends with them normally.
the whole part about the bullying in school really is common fare in the American school system. not even just because he was jewish, but simply because kids here in the US always have a chip on their shoulder and aren't above even the lowest hanging insults available. all they care about is if it hurts you, if they can find something "different" or "weird" about you its easy fodder material for bullying. Legit the only way to stop it is just haul off and beat one of them or dont let them know anything about you to begin with. the teachers are incentivized to ignore bullying cause it inconveniences them to have to confront parents about it. If you get in trouble because of "MUH ZEEROH TOLERUNCE POLICUY" then oh well, better than just curling up and taking it from a system that doesn't care about you and letting it eat you up from the inside.
in around 6th grade a kid jumped on my back and grabbed around my neck and when i pushed him off me we both got the same punishment because i touched him
Zero-tolerance policy is stupid because when I was in middle school everyone all had the realization at the same time that if they received the same punishment no matter what happened then they might as well hit the bully first and beat them to an absolute pulp, each year around the same time there was a week of mass suspensions and nurse visits and everyone was overly nice for the rest of the year
I was raised to be one of those Racist, Sexist, Homophobic type Neo Nazis. And like this guy I stepped away. I did a lot of evolving and actually discovered I was a Transwoman. I ended up alienating everyone I knew. I was so afraid of leaving that world behind… but… growing up I discovered so much more and I’ve never looked back. It’s scary to step away from this sort of brain washing. Especially when it starts at such a young age and there were things and still ARE things that pop into my brain. Every time I see someone who isn’t white I used to instantly get stressed. But after I moved to Southern California and really just mixed in… that all went away. Like he said, “Sometimes all it takes is seeing that there is no boogy man.”
I'm glad you were able to get away and discover yourself! Getting out of a brainwashing situation is very difficult and can be saddening, but so worth it.
The fact he keeps saying “it might not seem like a lot” is so fuckinh messed up. Cuz it means he got his feelings constantly invalidated by telling ppl what happened to him. It IS a lot and it IS really fucked up. I live in a very diverse country and seeing that this kind of heartless people actually exist in present day is absolutely unreal and disgusting
@mura in the Bible, it is said at the beginning of Earth Adam and Eve ate a bad fruit that Satan had told them to do because then they will be of great fortune, so God threw them out the garden and that’s all I remember idk if this is correct
Hearing about what happened to him really shocked me. I'm not a religious person but after learning about the holocaust (and before) I've only ever had respect for jews. I honestly thought that it was an unsaid, known rule to respect others no matter their beliefs.
you´re the first jewish person that call out the rest of your comunity. and its true. same as every minority. racist is not a color thing, is a mindset and ignorance state. could be withe, black , asian , jewish. so yeah . every one could be racist.
Yeah I’m with the Jewish guy about the constant bullying. No matter which school you go to or what country it’s in (for me it’s Australia for him it’s America) the Jewish harassment put on us is constant and brutal. Just because I’m/we’re Jewish
I've never understood why people go after Jews just for being Jewish. Their a human being sane as anyone else witch means their entitled to a certain level of respect and decency.
I'm Jewish too but I've gone to Jewish schools all my life as opposed to public school, I find it interesting how wildly different being in a more Jewish area.
@@oreo1749 I think that might be part of the problem though, that Jewish people in general are very closed off in their own community and don't mix with others so others don't get much time to appreciate Jews as people. This is obviously just my opinion so I might be wrong but I think in my life I haven't actually met a Jew and I've met people of so many different races and religions so far.
@@iamrazor9831 no, you are definitely on to something there. Since being Jewish goes by the mother, Jewish men are encouraged to marry other Jewish women and also you need 13 males above the age of 13 to have what is called a "minyan", basically a prayer group. Also, we need to eat kosher so already being somewhere with other Jews, near a synagogue, and in an area that has kosher food/groceries are probably the main reason we all stick together. This probably results in what you suggested
Honestly this really changes things for me I had no faith in people changing this dramatically. I thought once your born into a way of thinking you as a person couldn’t think any other way. Like you couldn’t change. But this, this proves that there is a chance for people to change, even if that chance was slim to none it still proved me wrong. Some people might say this is fake but i hear the truth in their voices. No stopping to think what will happen next. You can hear the pain in their voices, that these things really happened to them. And that just brings joy to my heart.
There's an entire community based upon changing Neo-Nazi's and white supremacists. I remember seeing a video here on TH-cam about a white supremacist who got his racist tattoos removed, including a large Hitler tattoo on the center of his chest and a swatstika with the support of a black friend of his. People can definitely change on these stances, it just takes effort on both sides in my opinion.
@@hasargel Not just that, but also being smart enough to recognize the patterns in the way you think and being smart enough to change those patterns to be better
y'know, come to think of it, if time travel ever becomes a thing, if a Young and naive Neo-Nazi met a tired and traumatized Wehrmacht soldier that fought from Poland all the way to Berlin, what do you think would happen?
When someone tells me they are Jewish, Im like cool. Mind telling me some more about it. Because me personally as an atheist, i don't personally believe in religion. But hell I love learning about them.
I’m Jewish. Being Jewish isn’t about believing in G-d really. I mean it’s a part of it but it’s not required. We’re what is known as an Ethnoreligion, which means that we are also an ethnic minority (this is partially why it is so difficult to convert). Yes we are still a religious community, but the songs we sing and the chants we pronounce aren’t just about G-d, I mean yes at a surface level it’s about G-d, but it is also about our culture, practices, traditions, and philosophies. This is why I cannot personally get behind the anti-religion rhetoric some atheists spout, because I cannot separate my cultural identity and my religion. Despite this, most of the Jews I know are agnostic, including myself. (I apologize for the lack of paragraph separation I’m on mobile)
This is a interesting video idea to see two sides that are trying to break away from something they dong agree with and having to deal with being different my man keep up the vids my man
This is an amazing use of VRChat. This can link so many people into real conversations as if they were in front of you. So much potential. Amazing use that I am so happy about. I am almost in tears watching such dark and serious stuff where I normally watch gaming and weeb stuff.
I have German blood in me, and I’m unfortunately related to Hitler’s wife somehow. I’ve been going through similar shit, and yeah, it sucks because word gets around and spreads like wildfire, and I remember in Middle School, I’d be the victim to literal hundreds of Nazi jokes daily just because I had German heritage.
70% ish of me has German heritage, and especially in elementary school when people found out, I would get death threats and shit. Crazy how fucked up kids are
@@RomanumChristum, agreed. And it was worse for me because y’know, being related to the literal Nazi Leader himself because you’re a descendant of his wife’s family, people had a specific kind of way to bother me.
This feels like a setup to a crappy dad joke like an ex neo nazi and a Jewish kid walk into a bar but then it just restored all the hope I had in general
@@troyherrmann235 I don’t know it just seems fake to me. Also I watched the video because it was on my recommended I quit watching after like 5 minutes and started looking at the comments. Everyone can have an opinion
@@Head_Hunta well at least you are not a ass about it like me 6 hours ago sorry for that, i just got a bit mad as i felt your comment was unnecessary and somewhat rude but yes everyone can have an opinion, sorry for the heated reply
You hate what you don't know, You fear what you don't know, But if you know what felt foreign to you, You might start to like it. Plato said that your wrongdoings are sparked from your ignorance, and your experience is exactly what this is all about. I hope you two are okay and that you live an happy life from now on, nobody should suffer that much, especially in their childhood. Have a good day, love yourself and spread your love to the people around you!
I have so much respect for both of them. They're so young. So understanding. I could even say, wise. They're both so respectful towards each other Many other people in the world could learn from them
@@jerrell1169 like kids and adults needing different levels of help, I don't think it's usual to help an adult to go to the bathroom, but a kid is slightly more common.
I’ve seen so much bigotry and prejudice of ALL KINDS that I have long since accepted this as true. I was born from man and woman, I can bleed, and I can feel pain. If this is true for you, then all I see is a human. Everything else is just straight up secondary. The only reason I’ll hate someone is if they start to dehumanize me or others; and even then I won’t hate you as much as I’ll fear you. Anyone who sees others as anything more or less than a human… they are capable of doing truly horrific things. And I want to be as far away from that kind of a person as possible.
I cant relate to much to either of their stories, but I couldnt help but start crying when they actually just sat down and had a full conversation without any hate towards each other. Shows how much a person as an individual can change despite their upcoming. i'm glad they got to sit down and meet each other.
My great great Grandfather was a infantry soldier for the German army. He fought hard for his fatherland and believed the bullshit those Nazis shoved down his throat. He was a good man, a proud businessman, and a great grandpa. But because of his upbringing, he would look at blacks weird and tell me the Aryan was all superior. He was a Nazi, and when anyone learned that of my past, that would ruin any social title I had. A title I never even wanted nor experienced was place on me because of my Grandfather. Don't let the title shape you, let the life you lead shape you. I'm all American and ready to join the US Marines.
@@lrballistics My story ain't anything. I shouldn't be commended for such a insignificant thing. The dead men who fought should get your graditute. Others suffered more than I. They should get your appreciation. I suffered a roach compared to them.
Ex-Neo Nazi dude is a monster. Dude was able to lose everything he had and still be able to move forwards with his life. That is some mental fortitude and I hope life only gets bets better for here on for him.
I'm so glad that I'm not in a US school anymore because that means I won't ever have to deal with any of this sorta shit. Edit: Also I am in the same boat as the Jewish person because every day I dreaded going to school since every day all I hear is people yelling the number 4 at me to piss me off but then one day the lockdown hit and it was my savior. Edit 2: Everybody make sure to join Azeal's discord server. Its a great place filled with great people.
@@owgdj It could be that they are asian. In asian cultures the number four is a sign of bad luck and a Death symbol because it's Pronounced very similarly to "Death" or something like that, correct me if Im wrong :)
I've always gone to a religious school so I never experienced that kind of shit, on leaving the building that's when things usually happened, kids in my school have been verbally abused and had rocks thrown at them in the past, and attacks happened on the train I usually go on. I knew it was bad in public schools and the US but its shocking. literally just want to live life. Also fuck yes please join the server its epic. (this is moth btw)
@@owgdj @Álvaro Navarro They were saying four as a means of pissing me off. It only worked because originally it kept reminding me of a stupid argument I had over what I said and nobody believed me when I was right and then people would just say four to piss me off. They were not likely asian since I was in Temecula Valley, California.
It’s interesting how both of these people are essentially victims of circumstance on complete opposite ends of a spectrum. Both victims of hate but from opposite perspectives. It’s inspirational to learn how they’ve overcome their individual struggles and made a friendship in two situations that would have lead them to be enemies if anything had gone differently. At the end of the day, we may be different races, but we are still one species.
I’m so glad these two can work past their- well, their past, and work towards their own better futures. Seeing a Jewish man and an Ex supremacist talking like old friends is amazing, good on you two
Essentially, quite a bit of this channel is anonymous therapy, and it actually works. You are doing a grand service giving people the chance to talk of their problems and allowing them to spread their words as comfortably as possible. For that, you earn me as a subscriber. :) Really love "two ides of the same coin" stories.
I discovered your channel yesterday and i'm blown away by how efficent it is this VR format to truly let people express their true/deep feelings and thought. amazing amazing amazing work, great idea and great topics. sending love from italy, keep it up
I think it works because usually, they are safe enough to express their true feelings without everybody learning who they are. A lot of the pressure and stress is removed from the people there.
I’m glad I live in Florida. I know it gets a terrible rep, and everyone seems to hate on it, but it’s a really inclusive place. You rarely see racists here except in the middle, where I’m not. Everyone is kind here honestly.
Liked the video b4 i even saw it. U legit posted this as soon as the poll was clear on what we wanted to see. Keep up the great content and in no time this yt channel is gonna make u big bucks
I wish there were more people like these two in the world. World Peace would have been a reality if that was the case. I just hope things get better for them and anyone else in their situation.
Oh man watching the video as a german makes me actually feel bad for the jewish people that are bullied in school.. don't understand me wrong i feel bad for them but now i feel much more bad for them
Look. I’m a moderate conservative. I’ve been called a bigot for simply being conservative, so I’ll say this right now as someone who firmly believes what I believe. If you were born of man and woman, can bleed and can feel pain, you are human. If you are human, you are made in God’s image and have a soul. I swear on my soul and my belief of the sanctity of the soul that I will never sacrifice another human being for my own goals, neither will I allow myself to be sacrificed for the goals of others. That’s it. If you want to stop - to TRULY stop bigotry in this world, to end hatred in this world? Stop dehumanizing people. Stop dehumanizing people for their birth, for their nationality, for their ideologies, philosophies, religions, dehumanizing people for their wealth or poverty, dehumanizing people for their race or creed, for being liberal or conservative, for being better off than you or dehumanizing people you’ve never met who don’t do what you personally think is “for the greater good of humanity.” If you ever find yourself beginning to hate someone and they‘ve never hurt you before, make a small cut on the back of your hand and look closely at the wound. If you bleed, remember that they do too. If you feel pain, remember that they do too. And realize that the power to harm or help them is in your hands, just as is the power to decide who is human and who is not. Do the right thing. Remember our humanity, because I will always remember yours.
While I don't believe in any god (But would actually be exicited to be wrong, I don't buy into the Big Bang), I don't care if others have faith in whoever their god is. *Fully agree with you* and I am honestly glad you could find something to believe in and hope it can help you in the future. Sadly I'm more of a science and logic guy, but the concept of a god and soul is pretty cool... just easier for me to believe in nothingness, emptyness and the death of all life in the universe... Yeah, I never grew out of my edgy side.
Not only humans deserve that tho. Everyone who is capable of love should not be a target of bigotry or discrimination simply for how they look like or how they are different.
Going through America school system. Being bullied is shitty. Teachers, principals. Nothing. Did nothing to help. Blamed me or shrugged it off. I feel for that man, I really do. I was too bullied for 12 years. The only people who were able to help me cope with that were my folks. I dealt with name calling, stuff being broken or stolen. Even at points being punched, kicked, etc. This is shit that still bothers me to this day.
If your parents showed up to a school meeting with an expensive-looking lawyer, that shit woulda stopped, as if by magic. Funny that. But hey, hugs are almost as good, right?
The Jewish kid's story both saddens and scares me: we as a society have clearly lost track of what happened back then and how horrible it is. People making fun of Jews, people calling other people Nazi's over a difference in opinion, I hope this sht stops soon. I just have no reason to think it will soon...
Can I give you some advice? If you have any family members that were born in the 1930's or before, interview them! We can record conversations with people who lived through the second world war with ease nowadays, and we are the last generation that can. Even if your grandparents or great aunts or uncles were average people trying to live their life. I did it 3 years ago with my grandparents and learned so much about it.
I had several people in my school that were Holocaust deniers, and more than that, supporters of the KKK and other alt-right movements and it terrifies me because every day I'm scared I'm going to turn on the news and hear that someone I went to school with did something awful
I love the format of these VR videos! Just talking to interesting individuals, even putting two entirely different people together to have conversations is truly fascinating.
My great grandmother was at a school in Auschwitz during the time the second world war broke out. She never went to the camp but I remember my mother telling me the story of her seeing people not show up to class, never return, and were told never to talk about it. It's great to see people with such different upbringings come together and have a nice conversation.
You know, with everyone trying to scream down each other’s throats, trying to make people accept different views on a multitude of things, it’s refreshing to see a civil conversation between what used to be polar opposites. Makes me smile and feel like maybe this whole culture war won’t completely screw us over
I am 32 and I still fight off that programming, even though that fam has been cut out of my life - hearing you all talk about it gives me hope because I know I'm not alone with this experience. Never give up, never surrender, seek out awareness, kindness and love. Sending you warmth and wellness from this trans woman
I'm so glad I was raised to be kind to everyone. My mother ended up being racist from the things she'd see on the internet, but my grandma (who we live with) taught me not to feel that way. I love my grandma, she has always been so charitable and accepting of everyone. Me and her are working on trying to get my mom to see the world the same way.
you know 5 years of being miserable day in and day out from late elementary to late middle, really does fuck with you, i speak from experience. this guy did it for nearly 12..fucking respect for him.
Yeah I agree, I had to leave our public school system after 8th grade. I was fortunate enough to have a family that could put me in private school. And I live in a fairly "Jewish" area, meaning there would usually be 3 or 4 other Jews in any given class of 30-35. I couldn't, and didn't, take it for that long.
I am a German that Jewish kid has it pretty rough, I’m not even Jewish and I still get shit about the Second World War. One time I had told a kid that I was German and he said: “are you a nien German or a normal German?” Now I am also a huge history geek so I’m like “😶 wtf you talken bout?” And he was like “so your a normal German than.” And I’m like “WTF IS THAT!?” So he explains that a “nien German” was a Nazi. So I’m like “look kid the Nazis were disbanded around what three? Six months? After Hitler killed himself. I’m not a Nazi.” Now I know that a lot of people will say that: all the Germans in wwII were bad and all hated Jews! And all I have to say to that is: “*sigh* you do realize that Hitler basically brainwashed Germany into believing that he was a god? Oh and not to mention the fact that he was insane.” After that I get ither: “oh.” Or: “yeah but: this that and the other thing” and at that point they know that they fucked up.
These stories hit very close to home for me because the majority of my family was also like card-carrying KKK white supremacists, though I was raised by my uncle who didn't share their views and when he passed away he left everything to me, and they would not stop harassing me so I moved from Florida to Minnesota to get away from them and their horrible mentality. Best decision I ever made, i'll take the merciless winters over dealing with that any day.
Every time the guy was saying, "you probably think it was nothing, just a joke..." pissed me off, the guy basically got forced into believing that was okay. Damn schools.
is funny how we're in the most isolated moment and yet it actually helped alot of people to help them self, to understand them self for me, pandemic is a bittersweet experience, it helped me in many ways but it brings a hard problems aswell
I've actually had this discussion with some of my black friends. About who gets more hate here in America, we Jews or African Americans. We came to the conclusion that it's a different experience. People can see your skin color, so they might not tell you how they "really" feel, but, because they can see you, you'll get much more random bullshit from people just walking down the street. People can't see we're Jewish (unless we wear our religious garb like a yarmulka) so they usually don't know we're Jewish, and will just assume we're "white". So we, oftentimes, get to hear exactly what certain people think. It isn't pretty. In college I knew a guy, he was the biggest antisemite I've ever met, actually. I asked my friends not to tell him I was Jewish because I really wanted to get to know him. Long story short, he had actually not ever (at least consciously) met a Jew before. 6 months after I met him I told him I was Jewish. His backward ass family just raised him that way. I thought I had made great progress, and then his family came to visit and he had to pull me aside and politely ask me not to acknowledge him when they were around, because he had told them he'd met a Jew, and they gave him shit for it. Edit: I just want to be clear. The discussions I've had with African Americans and, indeed, other minorities here in the US, have not been in the context of so called "oppression Olympics". Rather, these were/are generally just talks between friends about our experiences dealing with stereotypes, bigotry and other such unpleasant things.
i'm also black and once i heard "it started getting worse from middle school and up" i just was like "oh god, here we go..." because idk what is given to kids during those years but they become fucking relentless with discriminating against different people. like idk whats in your uncrustables and caprisuns that are making you ignorant but we gotta put a stop to this. it just ain't right :(
Its amazing that... whenever youre a part of some group thats exceedingly violent for no reasons, and you finally take those blinders off? Its both painful and freeing at the same time. You question yourself like "Oh my lord... what the hell have I been doing? What the hell have I been supporting all this time?" Its crazy how a lot of people are a part of these violent and hateful groups and dont even know why...
as a german i love this. For some reason deep down in out hearts us germans somehow still feel responsible for what happened in WWII, so seeing a jewish person and an ex-nazi talking to each other is just nice. I'm feeling proud of both of them. I'm proud of the jewish person to talk to him (especially for all he went through) and I'm proud of the ex neo-nazi because he managed to break out of that mindset and that he is fighting back those thoughts.
Look how both of them are in total peace and being friends, those are the people I would really love to see more in this world, but now learning about how things get influenced, is sad to see how many people have a mindset of Everything goes around me, I can get out with anything, etc. This video is so special, these two friends deserve a better life
it's crazy how relatable this is in terms of people breaking their cycles of ignorance and bigotry. bigotry isn't a natural occurrence, it's learned wholeheartedly out of sparking fear in others. i encourage that people should definitely question a lot of the things they are taught at a young age because so many things change or are outwardly wrong.
Its sad that those camps were built on the lands of the country i live in , and how many people suffered there. What is good that people who believe/believed in diffrent things can unite like this
This whole archetype of your channel amazes me. Every video on your channel gets introspective about things I either didn't know about, or things I can relate to in a very surreal way. You deserve all the attention that TH-cam can offer you 🤘
I've learnt from a child's story called 'The Little Prince' that we don't see with our eyes, but instead with our hearts I like how the Jewish guy was able to continue pushing on with all of the bullshit getting in his way and then the Ex-Supermisist guy carved his own path instead of following in his fathers footsteps Our parents expect us to carry on their 'memes'; basically like what they did, day to day activities, teaching us the quote on quote proper technique on something so simple that can be done more effectively through a new method. Most parents I feel suffer from Nerotisism, trying to control something they know the can't control. Everyone suffers from it, but parents more than anybody else. I know this as my parents are exactly that, I used to see them as loving people who got along with their children, but now, I always find them looking to pick a fight. The moment I can get out of my parents house the better I'll feel about myself that I have free will that isn't a myth (I have control over my life, but not a whole lot, like... 25% say).
I remember watching Schindler's List at school. It had a huge emotional impact on me. How can you laugh at the Holocaust or say it didn't happen? Keep up the VR vids man.
Making fun of Hitler and Nazis is one thing. They deserve to be turned into the butt of a joke. However, it is severely in bad-taste to belittle or harrass Jewish individuals by "joking" about the people who suffered through that horrible tragedy.
@@MrSephirothJenova Making fun of modern nazis isn't good either. You essentially have to be brainwashed to believe in that shit these days, and brainwashed is the same in my eyes as any clinical mental disorder.
I mean, WOII jokes are common where I live. Holocaust jokes a bit less. Mainly some shit about Nazi's stealing bikes and digging holes? It depends on the place the joke is coming from. Is it ridiculing the Nazi's or the victims of the Holocaust?
@@MrSephirothJenova Abseloutly agree with it in the form of mocking people but disagree that topics themselves are off limits. It just has to ACTUALLY be a joke not "just a joke bro". It's like my family hates how the internet calls things "cancer". So I don't say it around them because it makes them uncomfortable. but I say it around friends.
This makes me so angry. We're all human like why do people do this. You can only imagine the poor people who had to go through all of this for no apparent reason but for being different and something else from skin colour, ethnicity, culture etc. People are just fucking pieces of shit honestly. why can't we all just get along and work together and build one giant community and help eachother instead of separating into smaller different tribes.
Hi. I am assuming you're on the young side. I'm almost 40, please, take it from me, this is progress of a kind we've not ever had in our history -- as humans. It shouldn't make you angry. Prejudices and hatred exist and always have, but now there are ways of combatting them that never existed before. I understand why it is upsetting, I, myself, am Jewish so I know all too well that what he says at the beginning portion is true. I live(d) it. Progress is slow, but this is certainly progress.
Don't be upset. Mankind is making progress. It is sad that it was a problem, and sad that it is. But change like this takes time and is actually going relatively fast. I've noticed that the people that go and all-out attack prejudice end up overshooting and making things worse for the next generation, because they try to fix problems that take time to heal. People need to look less at how things are *now* and look more at how things are going to be for the *next* generation. I see this with extreme forms of feminism, extremists in lgbtq+ communities, and even some extremists that seem to treat white people as less than black people when we wanted equality. Men get treated like scum by some people. Same for straight people. And for white people. This is still rare, and generally feminism, lgbtq+ rights, and racial equality are really good things. But I'm worried about extreme cases becoming more common if left unchecked. The world needs balance and it is difficult to balance when we are all outdated by one or more generations.
@@rainbowcraft2694 The hate people get from having a different skin color and the hate people get for being LGBTQ+ feels exactly like the same hate any group of people get for whatever reason. Those things sound like excuses, just to make others feel less powerful and/or yourself more powerful. It's irrational, we are human and that won't change. Be glad you got extremely lucky to even have been born. Gender is a biological way to reproduce offspring of the same species. Race is a genetic difference and adaptation of evolution of the same species. Culture is in my opinion an opportunity to look at history and a way to improve, it's important to know why we follow it and to question it equally. In scientific numbers, none of us should have been born and you only got this one life. Enjoy it and make sure others do too. Edit: Sounds aggressive and that wasn't my intentsion, sorry!
@@tobiasskorupa1649 @Tobias Skorupa Yeah, I don't understand why so many people have trouble understanding that we're all the same. We're all just people. And sometimes we might disagree on ideologies (often seen with religion, lgbtq+, etc) and things like that, but that's normal and there's healthy ways to handle conflicts like that (unfortunately many people prefer to be destructive about it) I don't get why some people have such a hard time understanding that someone else having a different belief from one's own (about anything in life) doesn't affect them. It's not like someone else believing something different is going to affect your own beliefs. Better to have a society that actually functions well than to have everyone pointlessly hating each other for mundane reasons. Humanity still has a lot of things to work out. Fortunately it does look like we're getting better, even if it's taking some time.
@@rainbowcraft2694 Thanks to the internet and open communication across the world, I think it's pretty obvious that Humanity was never this much connected with each other. Yes, there are always people who are hurting others, being greedy or enjoy watching others suffer... But I believe most people would rather have an enjoyable life, than have it filled with drama and tragedies. I think entertainment medium, like anime, cartoons and video games are great ways to teach others that skin and gender doesn't define who someone is.
Being able to pull away from that mindset is stronger than simply avoiding it. This dude should be an example to others who feel trapped in family dynamics or whatever else they are dealing with.
No matter the game, no matter the setting, no matter the place. You will always have someone there that has a backstory that is interesting, they will have went through their own dungeon of pain, and you will never be alone in what your suffering. I myself have had issue, but that made me to who I am today building me to a more powerful me today then yesterday just like them. But knowing that they suffered worse makes me happy for my situation since the quote "could be worse" Could be taken into progress. I also find it cool to see that even the internet can connect with you and care for you when you wish for it to be there. I wish for a great future for the two of them and hope that they find something for themselves in their lives and that they complete their goals in life. 😊
It's the opposite for me. I'm German and a big Nazi background (not me my ancestors), and kids always go off calling me Nazi or Würdemannslaughter (my father's last name is würdemann so they came up with that.
I makes me happy to see two people from opposite standings change and become friends rather than hate each other. Society has changed so much and it’s nice to know.
I remember having a party and one of my friends was scared I would treat a friend of his like crap just because he is Jewish and has been treated like crap in the past for that reason. I had to reassure him that I know what is and isn't acceptable to Jewish people. I ordered pizza and made sure that none of them had pork. So when he arrived he was trying to ask me if there was sausage or ham in any of the pizza I ordered. I told him not to worry and that I wouldn't do that to him. He looked at me puzzled not knowing that I knew he was Jewish. I just simply told him that pork doesn't digest well in comparison to most meats and that it wasn't vital to have in order to enjoy pizza. He figured out very quickly that I knew he was Jewish and that I didn't feel the need to point it out or treat him differently because of it. I grew up being one of the only white kids in an all black school. In some ways I was lucky to grow up with diversity even though I was often left out of group activities and games for that reason. I didn't understand that at the time because I was so young. Now looking back I know why but just simply don't care. It's not like I wasn't able to make any friends I just couldn't always make friends with who I wanted to just because I'm white. I've been picked on and I've learned that bullies find reasons to be terrible human beings just because they aren't happy in general and will find any excuse to be that way. We just need to grow a backbone and realize that everyone matures at different speeds.
As someone who was born in a Hasidic Jewish family (basically the Amish of Judaism lol) this video means a lot to me because a lot of people hate Jews especially an Hasidic Jew such as myself. People tried beating me up and made fun of my families looks anyways your videos are amazing!
This was really great to listen to. To quote Daryl Davis: "If they are talking, they aren't fighting." I would love to see more of these types of conversations.
You know i gotta say, the Naziism stuff doesn't ever seem real until it happens to you. I always saw the Nazi movement as some distant ideology that no one in modern times aligns with anymore, so for a while i never took it all that seriously. That is up until about a week ago when one of my friends said he wished I would die because I talk to blacks and Jews, and that I'm bisexual myself which makes me a race traitor. It never felt real to me until it happened to me, and now i can see how the Nazi movement has infiltrated the daily lives of Americans and how widespread it is. I don't want to make this too long, but my friend fell into the Qanon cult which is basically the modern day American Nazi movement, and it's really sad that millions of people are falling into this type of stuff.
I have a radio... Nazi's would already kill me for that. No need to be a black, gay or a jewish person with or without a physical disability. You could just be physically "perfect" in their opinion and straight, and they might deport you (or your husband) to work in Germany (this happened i the middle of the night). Then they will assign some Germans to live in your house. You had a bike? It is gone now. You had a school? Sorry, the Germans might need it as a base. Have complaints? Going on a strike? Get murdered. Have radio's or the wrong newspaper at home? Get murdered. Lived in Rotterdam? Well, your house is bombed now. But neo-nazi people like to forget about that shit.
That's true, on the flipside I think people see American society and individuals as a whole to be, say, racist and having hatred towards certain minorities, while in my own personal experience I have not run into that at all. It depends on where you were brought up, and who you were surrounded with (and the ideas they carry, of course). That's not to say it doesn't exist, because it certainly does, but if I were to base a large region such as America based on my own life excluding the teachings addressing racism, I would not even be aware that racism exists.
I can really relate to this. As someone who recently discovered themselves as queer and started to question their religion as a Christian it was really difficult for me to finally come to terms with my sexuality and gender and to accept myself knowing that what I'm going through is not a choice and is not a phase. Although, I am no longer a Christian because of my different values for human rights, I still respect the religion and any for that matter. And even though many Christians I know who are still in this homophobic mindset, I know their experiences too. For a long time ever since I was a toddler I was told that same sex marriages are wrong and anyone in the lgbt community are going to hell for their sins. To tell you the truth I believed in that, without hesitation. I harrassed people online, I told my friends who came out to me that what they were doing was wrong and I was no longer friends with them, I protested against gay rights, and always voted for the right depite their conservative veiws even towards women. For years I followed in my family's footsteps until puberty came and I started to feel very uncomfortable with my body. I told my family what was going on with me, I prayed to God to help me, I read the Bible for answers, and yet all that was said to me is that "oh it's just a phase, you'll grow out of it." Unfortunately, I'm 17 now and I still haven't grown out of it. When my family got us internet, my entire life changed, I was able to access so much information and watch whatever I wanted (under my parents supervision of course.) And there were platforms like youtube where I could watch whatever I wanted. maybe out of spite I watched a few videos that were recommended to me on youtube about the lgbt community It was a documentary about a teenage boy coming out as trans. At first I thought it was some leftist form of capitalism or something stupid like that and I was going to comment a bunch of transphobic slurs, but I stopped when the kid explained everything I was going through. And my whole world shook after that moment. Could it be that I was trans? I cried for hours thinking I was a freak and it wasn't until that moment I finally realized I wasn't going through a phase. What I was going through was normal and is a part of who I am. I realized this was part of God's plan for me. And ever since that I day I haven't been happier. I'm becoming more and more like my true self and can safely say I am a proud asexual trans man.
This video right here, IS the nature VS nurture debate. IMO the ex-supremacist perfectly exemplifies his nature breaking through his environmental nurturing. To my knowledge I had no interactions with either such individuals growing up. But my gut says that if I was in the Jewish guys class I would've done SOMETHING to help him.
I don‘t know this person but i am so proud of him how strong he handled everything in his young life. It needs so much strength and courage to get out of all you know before to start a new life you really wanna life and I‘m glad that he saw that ❤️ i wish you all the best in the future
It's kind of terrifying to see just how easily people can be influenced. Exposure to stuff like that can so easily lead down a dark road that is nigh impossible to get off. Some are lucky enough that when they are exposed to something, they aren't so easily drawn in. I remember back when I was just learning about politics, I came across a political TH-cam channel that I'd watch fairly regularly. Eventually I lost interest, and moved away from political content for a while, as watching it all the time gets boring and draining. It wasn't until later when I began learning the code words of supremacists and anti-semites to make sure they didn't enter a political community I moderate, that I realized just what that channel I used to view was implying. This channel wasn't heavy handed with the codes, but knowing them now, I can see how they were subliminally sending bad messages. And I find that terrifying, to think that I could have ended up going down that rabbit hole. I could of ended up hating Jews and others, but I thankfully was in the group that their messages didn't stick. I could have so easily ended up like them, but I thank God that I didn't, and that I actively despise people who are so heinous to others for something as simple as religion or background. Keep your mind open people.. It's easy to miss propaganda.
I love that the ex-supremacist guy was able to literally outgrow his father, like his father is still stuck in his stupid mindset while the son has grown out of it against all odds.
i mean thats the point of children, evolution and shit. i do understand the comment though
Sometimes this world doesn’t need adults teaching the children, sometimes it needs the children to teach the adults- someone (I feel like that’s a quote from someone famous but I made it myself).
The ability of people to change, and to understand is more powerful then anything will ever be.
Because of the hitler shit i am allways ashamed of our history and dont even want to go to other countrys. I know the generation and I today cant do anything for that what happened in the world war. But as an german i still want to say sorry for what happened.
@@a-random-pers0n lol that shame is engineered in to you. Don't let people tell you that you should be ashamed of something you as an individual had no part in. Your ancestors were already forced to work off the damage they did to the world.
A meeting like this, where you can see two sides of the same coin, is a magical thing. I was also an ex-Neo Nazi, and it's difficult to break free from that mindset when charismatic individuals flood you with lies about how the world works and who you should and shouldn't trust. I'd like to see more videos of people who are in some ways 'polar' opposites, because it's very uplifting in such a hate-filled world.
That is pog for sure (actually using pog as play of the game)
I'm so glad you grew out of that, thanks for being cool :)
that is incredibly pog (the toy, i like the toys)
I’ve been to Auschwitz, and it was scary. I saw the shooting wall, the standing cells, courtyard, gas chambers, and even Maximilian Kolbe’s death record, which btw said he died because ‘his heart was beating to slowly’ (he actually died of starvation and lethal injection).
@@jacobinator4981 When I have the time and money, I plan on visiting there as well.
This is why we need to encourage kids to question their parents
I second this
Yes
This is true
I think better way to say this is to have people question authority/the status quo
That depends on why the kids question their parents. Are they looking for answers or just rebelling for the sake of rebelling? Whether or not the answers are good is a separate issue.
This restores my faith in humanity. It shows how people can endure hardships beyond comprehension and how people can come back from a point many would view as irredeemable.
I lose and gain faith in humanity on a regular basis. Can't look at humanity as a whole, honestly. Some individuals are worth putting faith in, and others are not.
It takes a strong person to go against everything you know and have a battle with your own demons. The weak people never even tried and just decided it would be easier to just exist as a shitty person forever and make up excuses for themselves, with not putting in any work towards self betterment.
What separates humans from animals is that humans can go beyond simply acting on instinct. Racism, hatred, emotions, needs in general is in our DNA and is part of instinct too.
Some people are animals in essence, they act purely on instinct, never think they could be wrong, never question, only make decisions based on their immediate first reaction. People that cheat because they were horny, not thinking about the consequences afterwards are also just acting on instinct. Some "people" do not deserve to be called people, some of us are animals. And I want to clarify this is not towards any group of people, but if you act like an animal I will call you an animal, on an individual basis.
"master cheif what are you doing?"
"Sir respecting people"
"Master Chief. Mind telling me why you are in Palestine?"
"Sir, respecting both sides and treating both like a human being, like people should"
“Master chief, mind telling me what your doing in Gaza?”
“Sir ending the war that’s been going on for 3,000 years.”
yes
@@weaponsofwar7202 See this guy gets us.
@@KazualBopthKatze lol
Full respect to both of these guys. It ain't easy to talk about anything they were talking about here. Respect the Jewish fella for being able to speak out about the racism they experienced and respect to the former Neo-Nazi for being able to accept he was wrong in his past, and being able to outgrow that life and become a good person.
My grandpa once told me about how he'd been taught to hate the blacks growing up but that all changed when he was speaking with a teacher if I remember right. They talked for a bit and he began to cry when he realized how wrong he was. And he became a changed man after that. He'd tell me things like "don't judge anyone based on looks" and "treat everyone with respect no matter what" and I'm so glad he learned from his ways and taught me to be a better human being. I've never understood how you can go after someone for something they can't control. I mean I can understand cracking a few light hearted race jokes to a few very close friends. But giving them death threats because your doing wrong? I guarantee if that was my kid(s) I'd bust them upside their heads. This was a damn good video,keep up the good work,and be kind to one another aight?
Thanks for this comment, tell your grandpa he's based af
Sadly, there’s still alot of people that believe the other thing. My grandmother being one of them. She says, almost every time she see’s a black person, some comment about how “WHEN I WAS YOUNG, THERE WERE NO BLACK PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY. I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I SAW A BLACK MAN, I COULDNT STOP STARING AND WHEN HE LOOKED BACK AT ME AND SMILED, YOUR GREAT GRANDPA BEAT HIM UP, GOOD TIMES” or some shit. She’s actually said the n-word multiple times infront of me or other family. She’s the same with anyone included in LGBTQ and she gets mad af when a transgender person comes on tv because “MEN WILL ALWAYS BE MEN AND WOMEN WILL ALWAYS BE WOMEN”.
@@goofygoober7183 old people are resilient; it's hard to change their minds
@@goofygoober7183 Id tell her
In nature everything changes
If you dont change you die
So learn to change
@@Azeal he's based??
When I've heard the Jewish person interview I felt my blood pressure rise...
I am from Poland, and I went to Auschwitz with my class, when we were still in elementary school. I've seen this place, I've seen the see of shoes stored there... Where every single one belonged to a person. I've seen the Books that were there, tomes bigger than anything I've ever seen before. They just were lists of people. My best friend almost fainted. A dude who is one of most balls of steel people I know ALMOST FAINTED.
Ever since I feel discussed in antisemitism jokes. I cannot stop people from telling them, but still, after they go too far, I just say: "Go to Auschwitz, wander there few hours. See it. Then, tell me this joke again."
I feel discuss in that trash presenting themselves as people for they think it is funny to go against a person who did not choose who they are.
American here I can completely agree. Saying anything like that in the same room as my family ,specifically my grandparents would get your but kicked so hard you'd be feeling it for months And the fact that he reported it and the teacher still did nothing makes it so much worse, I know this is a couple weeks into the video already being posted but I just needed to comment and I have only seen the first 4 minutes.
Your story reminds me of when I went to concentration camp Theresienstadt in Czechia when I was on an one week school trip in the country. While it was not a death camp, everything that was originally built is still there. We had a guide that told us the history of the place, but at the end we also got to see a short movie. The whole time I was there I wore an expression and a feeling of horror, but when I saw the movie it turned into extreme sadness. The movie told us again what went on in the camp and moreover showed us how the nazis propagandized it to make people think they were treating their prisoners formidably, as if they actually went on vacation. Then we heard the numbers; the numbers of people, Jewish or otherwise, that came there from which country, that went to that camp and whether they survived or not.
I'm 6'5"/1.98m and I like to call myself tough, but I cried like a little girl at the end of that movie. When we went back outside some kids and A TEACHER started cracking jokes about how some of the prisoners would be stoned to death, and istg I wish I actually did punch them in the face like I wanted to.
This is a tangent, but you just made me remember the time my class went and my rage against all the kids going around giggling talking about teen shit....
I don't think thos kids were real
Ok I'm only just 5min in but I gotta say, that type of extreme bullying would absolutley NEVER EVER happen in a german school. Even the word "Holocaust" itself is sort of a tabu word, let alone jokes about it or simplifying what happend. We are very mindfull of our past and teach the next generation accordingly.
How it should be done.
Here in America, we off-handedly mention how we completely fucked many ecosystems to make America what it is today, the racism that persisted up until the late 20th century, and how we completely ruined the lives of the native Americans who were here before us.
Because America is where you go to take zero accountability for your actions, and always has been basically.
Brit here, we have similar issues with insensitivity too; a lot of the people I knew in school carried a LOT of disrespect and unawareness to the holocaust because they believed it either wasn’t important (because it was in the past), or didn’t apply to them. I hate to say it, but in the UK, our early teachings of WW2 focus around how we ‘won’ the war, rather than the atrocities that came from that period. It’s very unfortunate and disturbing.
Obligatory edit to mention that this is from the perspective of my friend and I, who went to completely different schools and had these experiences. Not saying that my statement applies to everyone, but it’s a personal commentary of what I’ve witnessed.
@@organism7002 I actually didn’t have that experience thankfully, I think people were at least respectful enough to stay silent during the class, but this history was taught to us when we were pretty young so I think some people just forget :c
But you have a different past. That's the problem those kids are just assholes and don't have anything close to that past. Hell their family probably hasn't done anything important in generations. Germany was the direct cause of millions of people suffering so I would imagine that it's a bit of a touchy subject but for America we don't have anything like that except Vietnam and maybe the Native Americans. I'll be man enough to say we fucked up and never should've gotten so involved in a civil war that one side didn't want to fight. I'm going to say this but there was never any bullying like this so open at my school because if it did happen the seniors would've rocked their shit. We did not appreciate bullies or freshmen trying to talk shit and attack their fellow students. (Also just because you don't know its happening doesn't mean it isn't)
hol tf up, u cant say that. Im in a german school myself and i can tell u that 70% of them are racists. Like i think its more about in wich location in germany u are. Like all the "not racist" people knew how fucked up that place was
I wish conversations like this were more prevalent instead of the screaming/doxing matches we see way more often. Two people coming to the table with love and honesty is what i like to see.
The ex-neo nazi dude was actually seeking out the conversation which helps. A lot of people however wouldn't want to do that, ignorance and hatred often makes people just tunnel vision everything and choose to not seek out understanding incase it completely shakes their whole perspective on things and question their own actions.
@@caldw615 that tunnel vision and hatred is exactly what I wish we see less of. Its everywhere and it stops us from talking to one another.
Stories like these make me wonder how shitty someone’s life has to be to be horrible to others. How can they not understand what kindness is?
It’s easy to do horrible things to a person you’ve convinced yourself or have BEEN convinced is something less than a human being. It’s easy to despise someone you’re convinced is a “pig,” a “rat,” an “insect,” a “wild animal,” etc. The trick to combatting this is remembering that you were born from a man and woman, that you can bleed, that you can feel pain, and remembering or reminding yourself that this is true for everyone you’ve ever come across.
@@thegrimcritic5494 I suppose so, yes. I was mainly talking about the bullies in the first interview. I don't know their backgrounds, but the constant bullying and 'jokes' they made were just plain barbaric and inhuman, at least in my opinion.
I guess because they were never taught what kindness is
@@26O3 It's not even fully that I believe. It comes down to what they were programmed to do, and that is a common theme in this video- people believe what they are led to believe. For example, White Supremacist ideology comes from the former of themselves- their parents, their grandparents, etc. Now, where the origin of these ideas lie is up for debate, but it comes down to programming of someone's mindset.
Now, it's not that you aren't correct- if you can save someone from the toxic mindset, then yeah. But the idea that someone was never taught what kindness is? That would be kind of an understatement in certain contexts.
So, yes, you have a point, but as it's said in the video, it's easier said than done to just be taught kindness.
@@raezor6941 Guess you're right yeah
"What's it like being Jewish?"
"It's sort of like being despised, mocked, and threatened on the basis of your existence alone, something like that"
That would be my answer but I don't know what his would have been.
You never know man, sometimes hitting them with the truth, even if they indulge in it might get them to stop, because I can't imagine anyone would want that.
Ill tell you,
I live in Israel so the only hate i see is on the internet,
Holocaust jokes all the time because no one can get hurt everyone where i am is atheist/Jewish.
To me it feels that Christianity is just an expansion pack to my culture.
Most Christian Hollidays are just ripoffs of our Hollidays,
Passover is just easter but with weird bread instead of eggs
Purim is like Halloween but without the spookiness.
Yom kippur is basically Thanksgiving but you are sorry instead of thankful or whatever
Christmas is kinda like sukkot? Idk not really
This heals my mind and makes me feel happy that everyone can get over hate and tolerate one another. There is hope for a better future if this generation and the next stops believing in the propaganda of old bygone era.
I think humanity is always one generation behind. It takes a generation to catch up to things. A lot of problems this generation will probably be gone in the next.
Like the 2nd person said, deprogramming is one of the hardest things a person can do (I know from experience) but it is 100% possible and 100% worth it. Eventually you get to a point where you wonder why you ever thought or felt those things in the first place and realize how much happier you are now.
Not really. All that happens is the propaganda of a hundred years ago gets supplanted by the propaganda of the modern age. That only means that the hate shifts from one group to another.
@@BR-dy1ie
I'm not seeing nearly as much hate now, at least not any on such a wide scale as before that doesn't have people fighting back against, and against any particular group
Not denying that there is hate, racism, homophobia or anything like that, but generally the modern mindset is to be more accepting of things people can't control
@@QuokkaWaka not entirely correct. I’d suggest that there’s been a distinct rise in anti Asian and anti white bigotry within the past two decades. Racial and gender based hiring practices have only helped engender animosity that we’re experiencing in today’s political climate
I remember growing up and falling into nazi groups and everything like that, like these people were serious too, planning rallies, basically stalking and gathering info on opposing political group leaders and shit. It was hard to get out of because I've always struggled with feeling alone being emotionally neglected by my parents. The guy in the video was right, not stereotyping after doing just that for years is difficult, but it's beautiful to see the world as a melting pot instead of "black, white, jewish, etc."
Mr R.K you have us. We will talk to you when ever you need any thing. We are all brothers and sisters here on this channel
I'm really happy about every single neo nazi/racist who is changing their views, because I would really rather enjoy some of those weekends when fascists are marching (or trying to) on my comfy couch.
Instead of trying to block them,
getting f'd up by the police while trying to stop fascists march,
running away from nazis because they are having the upper hand (higher numbers),
getting hurt or having fear of getting hurt badly,
hurting them because we've reached a point where talking aint possible anymore.
Fu...ng sucks that humanity isn't over this already and sad that it seems like it's getting worse sometimes.
@@Gilhadriel Sadly some of my classmates do the Nazi salute and…..I don’t know why they started doing this or how this started…Every time they do this I get the shivers and close my eyes…I hope they will soon stop doing this
@@shootingsmilla1239 Oh, you don't want to come to Finland. We were voted as the most racist nordic country and it was nowhere near a close call
EVERY FUCKING DAY THOSE DAMN IDIOTS GET ON WITH THE STEREOTYPE (basically being an alcoholist and a racist)
@@vergl569 Oh god..
The most i would joke to my ex-girlfriend about being jewish is by calling her a bagel for that stereotype that jewish people love bagels. She enjoyed it with a laugh but i would never go so far as to make holocaust jokes because she Isnt into the dark sense of humor
damn, my dad is jewish and he loves bagels. never knew that was a stereotype lmao
Y’know most Jewish stereotypes and stereotypes in general are awful but that one seems surprisingly wholesome.
I’m Jewish and hate bagels
Donuts are better.
@@commanderkronos then you are not Jewish....
PFP REFERENCE I UNDERSTAND
I'm Asian and live in the middle of the South and it's scary to just live here. Everyone in my neighborhood flies confederate flags and everyday when I get off the bus all of my neighbors stare at me. I don't feel welcomed here at all but I kind of want to stay just to spite them.
Let them stare, your no different from them your born in the south correct? If so get your own flag then if you love your place or even fly an Asian flag I don't know what color it is or what's its really called but show them that your not afraid or just don't react to them it just keeps the bullying going if you react because they want that
go mudding with them. embrace where you live. fly any flag... respect is gained.
the biggest issue some folk face is living in a place, and not "living" there.
I live in the far north east of the USA. Here.. sure there are eyes cast, but that happens everywhere. Here it is work... any work... fishing, landwork, nursing. You carry yourself, you good.
you piss and moan and want hand outs, and try to use colour... you get eyes.
and the few that do throw eyes, they old and ignorant, fuck them.
you live in the south... its a culture... try to learn to embrace it.
if I moved to... I don't know.. Usbeckistan... I'd be pretty shitty after a while.... but, thats because I'm me, and they aren't.
while there may be some hateful folks where you live; I can bet winning odds; a bunch would be besties.
Find a common goal. Haters gonna hate, but others gonna love.
I'm -White- white.. and live in the north east... past all that boston and new york dog shit... my wife is likely one of the maybe 3 "coloured" people in out town.
things in this world suck; but hey kinda suck for every one...
I bet you'll make that one best friend that you'll keep through life.
you, some asian, and some dopey chubby white boy; but, things will have clicked and; life is fucked like that and hey, if not, cest la vie.
Make them question their prejudice by being a good neighbor/part of community if you feel safe enough to.
Ask them why they fly the battle flag because the civil war didn't start over slaves it started by different laws north and south that flag used to be for state rights but it has been used for horrible acts
@@celuler22 No no don’t ask them WHY they’re flying that. They’ll interpret that as an attack. Mention to them in casual conversation at some point your knowledge of the local history. Or just…don’t mention it at all and try to make friends with them normally.
the whole part about the bullying in school really is common fare in the American school system. not even just because he was jewish, but simply because kids here in the US always have a chip on their shoulder and aren't above even the lowest hanging insults available. all they care about is if it hurts you, if they can find something "different" or "weird" about you its easy fodder material for bullying. Legit the only way to stop it is just haul off and beat one of them or dont let them know anything about you to begin with. the teachers are incentivized to ignore bullying cause it inconveniences them to have to confront parents about it. If you get in trouble because of "MUH ZEEROH TOLERUNCE POLICUY" then oh well, better than just curling up and taking it from a system that doesn't care about you and letting it eat you up from the inside.
As somebody who was picked on during middle school I can say that you are very much correct.
in around 6th grade a kid jumped on my back and grabbed around my neck and when i pushed him off me we both got the same punishment because i touched him
@@meemeleem Americas schools suck in general
Zero-tolerance policy is stupid because when I was in middle school everyone all had the realization at the same time that if they received the same punishment no matter what happened then they might as well hit the bully first and beat them to an absolute pulp, each year around the same time there was a week of mass suspensions and nurse visits and everyone was overly nice for the rest of the year
@@squidfan6187 sounds like the purge but it actually makes sense.
I was raised to be one of those Racist, Sexist, Homophobic type Neo Nazis. And like this guy I stepped away. I did a lot of evolving and actually discovered I was a Transwoman.
I ended up alienating everyone I knew. I was so afraid of leaving that world behind… but… growing up I discovered so much more and I’ve never looked back.
It’s scary to step away from this sort of brain washing. Especially when it starts at such a young age and there were things and still ARE things that pop into my brain. Every time I see someone who isn’t white I used to instantly get stressed. But after I moved to Southern California and really just mixed in… that all went away.
Like he said, “Sometimes all it takes is seeing that there is no boogy man.”
GOOD FOR YOU I APPLUDE YOU
You go girl
-Fellow transwomen
That's amazing. Thank you for being you
Wow that is amazing. Theres hope!! I dont know you but Im proud of you 💕
I'm glad you were able to get away and discover yourself! Getting out of a brainwashing situation is very difficult and can be saddening, but so worth it.
If I'm ever fortunate enough to be interviewed by you, I would love to talk about my experience with autism.
I'd love to hear that story. My sister is autistic and it is difficult to live with- or as being different the way people don't truly understand.
Hey there, just saw this! If you'd like to join the discord there's a channel for story stuff :)
That was my young self. Don't go too hard on her.
Ur profile pic says enough. Lol
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The fact he keeps saying “it might not seem like a lot” is so fuckinh messed up. Cuz it means he got his feelings constantly invalidated by telling ppl what happened to him. It IS a lot and it IS really fucked up. I live in a very diverse country and seeing that this kind of heartless people actually exist in present day is absolutely unreal and disgusting
As a Jewish person, this video means a lot thank you for making it.
Agreed
For some reason the comment I expected to see here was some jerk making a jew joke but it's not so I'm gonna keep it that way have a nice day
As a fellow Jewish person I agree
Im Christian
But your religion and Christianity are pretty similar
@@seantaggart7382 jewism??
As a jew, it’s fucked up how every “racist” type gets called out but yet Jewish racism shall remain normalized
Everyone’s been hating on us since the beginning my guy, ever since God threw us out the garden lmao
@mura in the Bible, it is said at the beginning of Earth Adam and Eve ate a bad fruit that Satan had told them to do because then they will be of great fortune, so God threw them out the garden and that’s all I remember idk if this is correct
Hearing about what happened to him really shocked me. I'm not a religious person but after learning about the holocaust (and before) I've only ever had respect for jews. I honestly thought that it was an unsaid, known rule to respect others no matter their beliefs.
@mura Gaza issue my friend.
you´re the first jewish person that call out the rest of your comunity. and its true. same as every minority. racist is not a color thing, is a mindset and ignorance state. could be withe, black , asian , jewish. so yeah . every one could be racist.
Yeah I’m with the Jewish guy about the constant bullying. No matter which school you go to or what country it’s in (for me it’s Australia for him it’s America) the Jewish harassment put on us is constant and brutal. Just because I’m/we’re Jewish
I've never understood why people go after Jews just for being Jewish. Their a human being sane as anyone else witch means their entitled to a certain level of respect and decency.
I'm Jewish too but I've gone to Jewish schools all my life as opposed to public school, I find it interesting how wildly different being in a more Jewish area.
@@oreo1749 I think that might be part of the problem though, that Jewish people in general are very closed off in their own community and don't mix with others so others don't get much time to appreciate Jews as people. This is obviously just my opinion so I might be wrong but I think in my life I haven't actually met a Jew and I've met people of so many different races and religions so far.
@@iamrazor9831 no, you are definitely on to something there. Since being Jewish goes by the mother, Jewish men are encouraged to marry other Jewish women and also you need 13 males above the age of 13 to have what is called a "minyan", basically a prayer group. Also, we need to eat kosher so already being somewhere with other Jews, near a synagogue, and in an area that has kosher food/groceries are probably the main reason we all stick together. This probably results in what you suggested
@@iamrazor9831 also acces to Jewish schools is another reason
Honestly this really changes things for me I had no faith in people changing this dramatically. I thought once your born into a way of thinking you as a person couldn’t think any other way. Like you couldn’t change. But this, this proves that there is a chance for people to change, even if that chance was slim to none it still proved me wrong. Some people might say this is fake but i hear the truth in their voices. No stopping to think what will happen next. You can hear the pain in their voices, that these things really happened to them. And that just brings joy to my heart.
Wtf is your profile picture
There's an entire community based upon changing Neo-Nazi's and white supremacists. I remember seeing a video here on TH-cam about a white supremacist who got his racist tattoos removed, including a large Hitler tattoo on the center of his chest and a swatstika with the support of a black friend of his.
People can definitely change on these stances, it just takes effort on both sides in my opinion.
Ya know what? Good on that Ex-supremacist guy, its good he managed to break away from that horrible 'community'
Being able to change your own view of the world like that is absolutely a hard thing, reconstructing personality.
Thats a strong thing
Sand undtaul?
@@hasargel Not just that, but also being smart enough to recognize the patterns in the way you think and being smart enough to change those patterns to be better
y'know, come to think of it, if time travel ever becomes a thing, if a Young and naive Neo-Nazi met a tired and traumatized Wehrmacht soldier that fought from Poland all the way to Berlin, what do you think would happen?
When someone tells me they are Jewish, Im like cool. Mind telling me some more about it. Because me personally as an atheist, i don't personally believe in religion. But hell I love learning about them.
Same
I’m Jewish. Being Jewish isn’t about believing in G-d really. I mean it’s a part of it but it’s not required. We’re what is known as an Ethnoreligion, which means that we are also an ethnic minority (this is partially why it is so difficult to convert). Yes we are still a religious community, but the songs we sing and the chants we pronounce aren’t just about G-d, I mean yes at a surface level it’s about G-d, but it is also about our culture, practices, traditions, and philosophies. This is why I cannot personally get behind the anti-religion rhetoric some atheists spout, because I cannot separate my cultural identity and my religion. Despite this, most of the Jews I know are agnostic, including myself. (I apologize for the lack of paragraph separation I’m on mobile)
This is a interesting video idea to see two sides that are trying to break away from something they dong agree with and having to deal with being different my man keep up the vids my man
Thank you!!
Hehe dong
This is an amazing use of VRChat. This can link so many people into real conversations as if they were in front of you. So much potential. Amazing use that I am so happy about. I am almost in tears watching such dark and serious stuff where I normally watch gaming and weeb stuff.
I have German blood in me, and I’m unfortunately related to Hitler’s wife somehow. I’ve been going through similar shit, and yeah, it sucks because word gets around and spreads like wildfire, and I remember in Middle School, I’d be the victim to literal hundreds of Nazi jokes daily just because I had German heritage.
70% ish of me has German heritage, and especially in elementary school when people found out, I would get death threats and shit. Crazy how fucked up kids are
@@RomanumChristum, agreed. And it was worse for me because y’know, being related to the literal Nazi Leader himself because you’re a descendant of his wife’s family, people had a specific kind of way to bother me.
@@Cru128 but how they would know tho
@@benjapizarro981, I was a dumbass and I thought I could trust someone, but it spread like wildfire after I told one person.
Goddamn the Germans and the Jews are both being bullied like this. I just don’t get it?
This feels like a setup to a crappy dad joke like an ex neo nazi and a Jewish kid walk into a bar but then it just restored all the hope I had in general
This video sounds seems fake ngl
@@Head_Hunta then why the fuck are you here?
and how the fuck do you know?
@@troyherrmann235 I don’t know it just seems fake to me. Also I watched the video because it was on my recommended I quit watching after like 5 minutes and started looking at the comments. Everyone can have an opinion
@@Head_Hunta well at least you are not a ass about it like me 6 hours ago
sorry for that, i just got a bit mad as i felt your comment was unnecessary and somewhat rude
but yes everyone can have an opinion, sorry for the heated reply
@@troyherrmann235 Nah bro your all good I can see how my comment might of been offensive to some people. Have a good rest of your day or night
You hate what you don't know,
You fear what you don't know,
But if you know what felt foreign to you,
You might start to like it.
Plato said that your wrongdoings are sparked from your ignorance, and your experience is exactly what this is all about.
I hope you two are okay and that you live an happy life from now on, nobody should suffer that much, especially in their childhood.
Have a good day, love yourself and spread your love to the people around you!
10/10 comment
@@Azeal Thank you, have a good day!
@@kernium thats why I perfectly understand something I hate and why I hate it, I understand them more than they understand themselves
@Dangoサンタ
Thats so random LMAO 💀
@@kernium tread cautiously around men with well earned hatred
I have so much respect for both of them. They're so young. So understanding. I could even say, wise. They're both so respectful towards each other
Many other people in the world could learn from them
its annoying to think people would just treat others differently from race color and age
reality is often disappointing
Well I mean, there *are* some reasons to treat people differently due to age.
@@jerrell1169 like kids and adults needing different levels of help, I don't think it's usual to help an adult to go to the bathroom, but a kid is slightly more common.
I know it sucks. :(
I’ve seen so much bigotry and prejudice of ALL KINDS that I have long since accepted this as true. I was born from man and woman, I can bleed, and I can feel pain. If this is true for you, then all I see is a human. Everything else is just straight up secondary. The only reason I’ll hate someone is if they start to dehumanize me or others; and even then I won’t hate you as much as I’ll fear you. Anyone who sees others as anything more or less than a human… they are capable of doing truly horrific things. And I want to be as far away from that kind of a person as possible.
I cant relate to much to either of their stories, but I couldnt help but start crying when they actually just sat down and had a full conversation without any hate towards each other. Shows how much a person as an individual can change despite their upcoming. i'm glad they got to sit down and meet each other.
My great great Grandfather was a infantry soldier for the German army. He fought hard for his fatherland and believed the bullshit those Nazis shoved down his throat. He was a good man, a proud businessman, and a great grandpa. But because of his upbringing, he would look at blacks weird and tell me the Aryan was all superior. He was a Nazi, and when anyone learned that of my past, that would ruin any social title I had. A title I never even wanted nor experienced was place on me because of my Grandfather. Don't let the title shape you, let the life you lead shape you. I'm all American and ready to join the US Marines.
Ooh-rah!
Semper Fi my friend. Glad you're not letting your ancestor's past weigh you down anymore.
@@lrballistics My story ain't anything. I shouldn't be commended for such a insignificant thing. The dead men who fought should get your graditute. Others suffered more than I. They should get your appreciation. I suffered a roach compared to them.
Im also joining the Marine Corps brother, I'm shipping out to parris island in February. Best of luck to you overcoming the past.
@@SomeStarASCII It hurts to not do this so...
Corps.
Ex-Neo Nazi dude is a monster. Dude was able to lose everything he had and still be able to move forwards with his life. That is some mental fortitude and I hope life only gets bets better for here on for him.
It's fake
I'm so glad that I'm not in a US school anymore because that means I won't ever have to deal with any of this sorta shit.
Edit: Also I am in the same boat as the Jewish person because every day I dreaded going to school since every day all I hear is people yelling the number 4 at me to piss me off but then one day the lockdown hit and it was my savior.
Edit 2: Everybody make sure to join Azeal's discord server. Its a great place filled with great people.
What does 4 mean?
@@owgdj It could be that they are asian. In asian cultures the number four is a sign of bad luck and a Death symbol because it's Pronounced very similarly to "Death" or something like that, correct me if Im wrong :)
I've always gone to a religious school so I never experienced that kind of shit, on leaving the building that's when things usually happened, kids in my school have been verbally abused and had rocks thrown at them in the past, and attacks happened on the train I usually go on. I knew it was bad in public schools and the US but its shocking. literally just want to live life.
Also fuck yes please join the server its epic. (this is moth btw)
@@alvaronavarro4895 Nah, you're right. In China, the only difference with how the number 4（四）and Death (死）is how the vowel at the end is sound.
@@owgdj @Álvaro Navarro They were saying four as a means of pissing me off. It only worked because originally it kept reminding me of a stupid argument I had over what I said and nobody believed me when I was right and then people would just say four to piss me off. They were not likely asian since I was in Temecula Valley, California.
It’s interesting how both of these people are essentially victims of circumstance on complete opposite ends of a spectrum. Both victims of hate but from opposite perspectives. It’s inspirational to learn how they’ve overcome their individual struggles and made a friendship in two situations that would have lead them to be enemies if anything had gone differently. At the end of the day, we may be different races, but we are still one species.
I’m so glad these two can work past their- well, their past, and work towards their own better futures. Seeing a Jewish man and an Ex supremacist talking like old friends is amazing, good on you two
Essentially, quite a bit of this channel is anonymous therapy, and it actually works. You are doing a grand service giving people the chance to talk of their problems and allowing them to spread their words as comfortably as possible. For that, you earn me as a subscriber. :) Really love "two ides of the same coin" stories.
I discovered your channel yesterday and i'm blown away by how efficent it is this VR format to truly let people express their true/deep feelings and thought. amazing amazing amazing work, great idea and great topics. sending love from italy, keep it up
I think it works because usually, they are safe enough to express their true feelings without everybody learning who they are. A lot of the pressure and stress is removed from the people there.
I’m glad I live in Florida. I know it gets a terrible rep, and everyone seems to hate on it, but it’s a really inclusive place. You rarely see racists here except in the middle, where I’m not. Everyone is kind here honestly.
i personally think the "bad rep" comes from the memes and isnt really taken all that seriously... i could be wrong on that tho
Liked the video b4 i even saw it. U legit posted this as soon as the poll was clear on what we wanted to see. Keep up the great content and in no time this yt channel is gonna make u big bucks
tysm! I try to do what will be most appealing to my viewers
I wish there were more people like these two in the world. World Peace would have been a reality if that was the case. I just hope things get better for them and anyone else in their situation.
hearing both of these stories really broke my heart to be honest.
A lot of love goes to those people
This channel is so vital and humanist. Thank you for this.
Oh man watching the video as a german makes me actually feel bad for the jewish people that are bullied in school.. don't understand me wrong i feel bad for them but now i feel much more bad for them
It ain't just in school
Look. I’m a moderate conservative. I’ve been called a bigot for simply being conservative, so I’ll say this right now as someone who firmly believes what I believe. If you were born of man and woman, can bleed and can feel pain, you are human. If you are human, you are made in God’s image and have a soul. I swear on my soul and my belief of the sanctity of the soul that I will never sacrifice another human being for my own goals, neither will I allow myself to be sacrificed for the goals of others. That’s it.
If you want to stop - to TRULY stop bigotry in this world, to end hatred in this world? Stop dehumanizing people. Stop dehumanizing people for their birth, for their nationality, for their ideologies, philosophies, religions, dehumanizing people for their wealth or poverty, dehumanizing people for their race or creed, for being liberal or conservative, for being better off than you or dehumanizing people you’ve never met who don’t do what you personally think is “for the greater good of humanity.” If you ever find yourself beginning to hate someone and they‘ve never hurt you before, make a small cut on the back of your hand and look closely at the wound. If you bleed, remember that they do too. If you feel pain, remember that they do too. And realize that the power to harm or help them is in your hands, just as is the power to decide who is human and who is not. Do the right thing. Remember our humanity, because I will always remember yours.
While I don't believe in any god (But would actually be exicited to be wrong, I don't buy into the Big Bang), I don't care if others have faith in whoever their god is.
*Fully agree with you* and I am honestly glad you could find something to believe in and hope it can help you in the future.
Sadly I'm more of a science and logic guy, but the concept of a god and soul is pretty cool... just easier for me to believe in nothingness, emptyness and the death of all life in the universe... Yeah, I never grew out of my edgy side.
Not only humans deserve that tho. Everyone who is capable of love should not be a target of bigotry or discrimination simply for how they look like or how they are different.
You aren't a conservative than you likely just like that title
these two are absoloute legends
Going through America school system. Being bullied is shitty. Teachers, principals. Nothing. Did nothing to help. Blamed me or shrugged it off.
I feel for that man, I really do. I was too bullied for 12 years. The only people who were able to help me cope with that were my folks.
I dealt with name calling, stuff being broken or stolen. Even at points being punched, kicked, etc.
This is shit that still bothers me to this day.
If your parents showed up to a school meeting with an expensive-looking lawyer, that shit woulda stopped, as if by magic. Funny that. But hey, hugs are almost as good, right?
And they wonder why kids take their own lives. Or lead to lashing out when they snap.
Sadly, this happens all over the world :(
The Jewish kid's story both saddens and scares me: we as a society have clearly lost track of what happened back then and how horrible it is. People making fun of Jews, people calling other people Nazi's over a difference in opinion, I hope this sht stops soon. I just have no reason to think it will soon...
Can I give you some advice? If you have any family members that were born in the 1930's or before, interview them! We can record conversations with people who lived through the second world war with ease nowadays, and we are the last generation that can. Even if your grandparents or great aunts or uncles were average people trying to live their life. I did it 3 years ago with my grandparents and learned so much about it.
I had several people in my school that were Holocaust deniers, and more than that, supporters of the KKK and other alt-right movements and it terrifies me because every day I'm scared I'm going to turn on the news and hear that someone I went to school with did something awful
I love the format of these VR videos! Just talking to interesting individuals, even putting two entirely different people together to have conversations is truly fascinating.
My great grandmother was at a school in Auschwitz during the time the second world war broke out. She never went to the camp but I remember my mother telling me the story of her seeing people not show up to class, never return, and were told never to talk about it. It's great to see people with such different upbringings come together and have a nice conversation.
You know, with everyone trying to scream down each other’s throats, trying to make people accept different views on a multitude of things, it’s refreshing to see a civil conversation between what used to be polar opposites. Makes me smile and feel like maybe this whole culture war won’t completely screw us over
I am 32 and I still fight off that programming, even though that fam has been cut out of my life - hearing you all talk about it gives me hope because I know I'm not alone with this experience.
Never give up, never surrender, seek out awareness, kindness and love.
Sending you warmth and wellness from this trans woman
I'm so glad I was raised to be kind to everyone. My mother ended up being racist from the things she'd see on the internet, but my grandma (who we live with) taught me not to feel that way.
I love my grandma, she has always been so charitable and accepting of everyone. Me and her are working on trying to get my mom to see the world the same way.
you know 5 years of being miserable day in and day out from late elementary to late middle, really does fuck with you, i speak from experience. this guy did it for nearly 12..fucking respect for him.
Yeah I agree, I had to leave our public school system after 8th grade. I was fortunate enough to have a family that could put me in private school. And I live in a fairly "Jewish" area, meaning there would usually be 3 or 4 other Jews in any given class of 30-35.
I couldn't, and didn't, take it for that long.
I am a German that Jewish kid has it pretty rough, I’m not even Jewish and I still get shit about the Second World War. One time I had told a kid that I was German and he said: “are you a nien German or a normal German?” Now I am also a huge history geek so I’m like “😶 wtf you talken bout?” And he was like “so your a normal German than.” And I’m like “WTF IS THAT!?” So he explains that a “nien German” was a Nazi. So I’m like “look kid the Nazis were disbanded around what three? Six months? After Hitler killed himself. I’m not a Nazi.” Now I know that a lot of people will say that: all the Germans in wwII were bad and all hated Jews! And all I have to say to that is: “*sigh* you do realize that Hitler basically brainwashed Germany into believing that he was a god? Oh and not to mention the fact that he was insane.” After that I get ither: “oh.” Or: “yeah but: this that and the other thing” and at that point they know that they fucked up.
So your a Nazi... got it
@@Green-lk5nt what of course he’s not.
I’m so happy for these two! Also love how the group interview is in one of my favorite worlds
These stories hit very close to home for me because the majority of my family was also like card-carrying KKK white supremacists, though I was raised by my uncle who didn't share their views and when he passed away he left everything to me, and they would not stop harassing me so I moved from Florida to Minnesota to get away from them and their horrible mentality. Best decision I ever made, i'll take the merciless winters over dealing with that any day.
is nice to see people from different backgrounds can have a nice conversation
Every time the guy was saying, "you probably think it was nothing, just a joke..." pissed me off, the guy basically got forced into believing that was okay. Damn schools.
is funny how we're in the most isolated moment and yet it actually helped alot of people to help them self, to understand them self
for me, pandemic is a bittersweet experience, it helped me in many ways but it brings a hard problems aswell
i'm so proud of both of them. regardless of what they've been through, they both came out of it not only alive but fighting for what's right
I feel bad for the first guy as a black person I don't know how long it would take me to snap if i heard some nasty shit said to me every day
I've actually had this discussion with some of my black friends. About who gets more hate here in America, we Jews or African Americans. We came to the conclusion that it's a different experience. People can see your skin color, so they might not tell you how they "really" feel, but, because they can see you, you'll get much more random bullshit from people just walking down the street. People can't see we're Jewish (unless we wear our religious garb like a yarmulka) so they usually don't know we're Jewish, and will just assume we're "white". So we, oftentimes, get to hear exactly what certain people think. It isn't pretty.
In college I knew a guy, he was the biggest antisemite I've ever met, actually. I asked my friends not to tell him I was Jewish because I really wanted to get to know him. Long story short, he had actually not ever (at least consciously) met a Jew before. 6 months after I met him I told him I was Jewish. His backward ass family just raised him that way. I thought I had made great progress, and then his family came to visit and he had to pull me aside and politely ask me not to acknowledge him when they were around, because he had told them he'd met a Jew, and they gave him shit for it.
Edit: I just want to be clear. The discussions I've had with African Americans and, indeed, other minorities here in the US, have not been in the context of so called "oppression Olympics". Rather, these were/are generally just talks between friends about our experiences dealing with stereotypes, bigotry and other such unpleasant things.
i'm also black and once i heard "it started getting worse from middle school and up" i just was like "oh god, here we go..." because idk what is given to kids during those years but they become fucking relentless with discriminating against different people. like idk whats in your uncrustables and caprisuns that are making you ignorant but we gotta put a stop to this. it just ain't right :(
@@stoopidpants that's mad fucked up dude I'm so sorry
im so glad that people are talking about this more and shed some light on it and show how much a little joke can impact someone's life
Its amazing that... whenever youre a part of some group thats exceedingly violent for no reasons, and you finally take those blinders off? Its both painful and freeing at the same time. You question yourself like "Oh my lord... what the hell have I been doing? What the hell have I been supporting all this time?" Its crazy how a lot of people are a part of these violent and hateful groups and dont even know why...
as a german i love this.
For some reason deep down in out hearts us germans somehow still feel responsible for what happened in WWII, so seeing a jewish person and an ex-nazi talking to each other is just nice.
I'm feeling proud of both of them. I'm proud of the jewish person to talk to him (especially for all he went through) and I'm proud of the ex neo-nazi because he managed to break out of that mindset and that he is fighting back those thoughts.
Keep up the amazing content Azeal!
thank you!!
Look how both of them are in total peace and being friends, those are the people I would really love to see more in this world, but now learning about how things get influenced, is sad to see how many people have a mindset of Everything goes around me, I can get out with anything, etc.
This video is so special, these two friends deserve a better life
it's crazy how relatable this is in terms of people breaking their cycles of ignorance and bigotry. bigotry isn't a natural occurrence, it's learned wholeheartedly out of sparking fear in others. i encourage that people should definitely question a lot of the things they are taught at a young age because so many things change or are outwardly wrong.
Its sad that those camps were built on the lands of the country i live in , and how many people suffered there. What is good that people who believe/believed in diffrent things can unite like this
This whole archetype of your channel amazes me. Every video on your channel gets introspective about things I either didn't know about, or things I can relate to in a very surreal way. You deserve all the attention that TH-cam can offer you 🤘
thanks so much, I really appreciate that. It's the people in the videos that make this channel possible and I am forverer grateful for them.
This just shows that no matter how awful somebody is, people can change.
Indeed!
I've learnt from a child's story called 'The Little Prince' that we don't see with our eyes, but instead with our hearts
I like how the Jewish guy was able to continue pushing on with all of the bullshit getting in his way and then the Ex-Supermisist guy carved his own path instead of following in his fathers footsteps
Our parents expect us to carry on their 'memes'; basically like what they did, day to day activities, teaching us the quote on quote proper technique on something so simple that can be done more effectively through a new method. Most parents I feel suffer from Nerotisism, trying to control something they know the can't control. Everyone suffers from it, but parents more than anybody else. I know this as my parents are exactly that, I used to see them as loving people who got along with their children, but now, I always find them looking to pick a fight. The moment I can get out of my parents house the better I'll feel about myself that I have free will that isn't a myth (I have control over my life, but not a whole lot, like... 25% say).
I remember watching Schindler's List at school. It had a huge emotional impact on me. How can you laugh at the Holocaust or say it didn't happen? Keep up the VR vids man.
i hate that the phrase “casual holocaust jokes” exists. jewish people have been raised in a world where it’s ok for them to be hated.
Making fun of Hitler and Nazis is one thing. They deserve to be turned into the butt of a joke. However, it is severely in bad-taste to belittle or harrass Jewish individuals by "joking" about the people who suffered through that horrible tragedy.
@@MrSephirothJenova Making fun of modern nazis isn't good either. You essentially have to be brainwashed to believe in that shit these days, and brainwashed is the same in my eyes as any clinical mental disorder.
I mean, WOII jokes are common where I live. Holocaust jokes a bit less. Mainly some shit about Nazi's stealing bikes and digging holes? It depends on the place the joke is coming from. Is it ridiculing the Nazi's or the victims of the Holocaust?
@@MrSephirothJenova Abseloutly agree with it in the form of mocking people but disagree that topics themselves are off limits. It just has to ACTUALLY be a joke not "just a joke bro". It's like my family hates how the internet calls things "cancer". So I don't say it around them because it makes them uncomfortable. but I say it around friends.
In the early 90s, I would never imagine bullies going that far. I feel sorry for the guy.
This makes me so angry. We're all human like why do people do this. You can only imagine the poor people who had to go through all of this for no apparent reason but for being different and something else from skin colour, ethnicity, culture etc. People are just fucking pieces of shit honestly. why can't we all just get along and work together and build one giant community and help eachother instead of separating into smaller different tribes.
Hi. I am assuming you're on the young side. I'm almost 40, please, take it from me, this is progress of a kind we've not ever had in our history -- as humans. It shouldn't make you angry. Prejudices and hatred exist and always have, but now there are ways of combatting them that never existed before. I understand why it is upsetting, I, myself, am Jewish so I know all too well that what he says at the beginning portion is true. I live(d) it. Progress is slow, but this is certainly progress.
Don't be upset. Mankind is making progress. It is sad that it was a problem, and sad that it is. But change like this takes time and is actually going relatively fast.
I've noticed that the people that go and all-out attack prejudice end up overshooting and making things worse for the next generation, because they try to fix problems that take time to heal. People need to look less at how things are *now* and look more at how things are going to be for the *next* generation. I see this with extreme forms of feminism, extremists in lgbtq+ communities, and even some extremists that seem to treat white people as less than black people when we wanted equality.
Men get treated like scum by some people. Same for straight people. And for white people. This is still rare, and generally feminism, lgbtq+ rights, and racial equality are really good things. But I'm worried about extreme cases becoming more common if left unchecked. The world needs balance and it is difficult to balance when we are all outdated by one or more generations.
@@rainbowcraft2694 The hate people get from having a different skin color and the hate people get for being LGBTQ+ feels exactly like the same hate any group of people get for whatever reason. Those things sound like excuses, just to make others feel less powerful and/or yourself more powerful.
It's irrational, we are human and that won't change. Be glad you got extremely lucky to even have been born.
Gender is a biological way to reproduce offspring of the same species.
Race is a genetic difference and adaptation of evolution of the same species.
Culture is in my opinion an opportunity to look at history and a way to improve, it's important to know why we follow it and to question it equally.
In scientific numbers, none of us should have been born and you only got this one life.
Enjoy it and make sure others do too.
Edit: Sounds aggressive and that wasn't my intentsion, sorry!
@@tobiasskorupa1649 @Tobias Skorupa Yeah, I don't understand why so many people have trouble understanding that we're all the same. We're all just people. And sometimes we might disagree on ideologies (often seen with religion, lgbtq+, etc) and things like that, but that's normal and there's healthy ways to handle conflicts like that (unfortunately many people prefer to be destructive about it)
I don't get why some people have such a hard time understanding that someone else having a different belief from one's own (about anything in life) doesn't affect them. It's not like someone else believing something different is going to affect your own beliefs. Better to have a society that actually functions well than to have everyone pointlessly hating each other for mundane reasons. Humanity still has a lot of things to work out. Fortunately it does look like we're getting better, even if it's taking some time.
@@rainbowcraft2694 Thanks to the internet and open communication across the world, I think it's pretty obvious that Humanity was never this much connected with each other.
Yes, there are always people who are hurting others, being greedy or enjoy watching others suffer...
But I believe most people would rather have an enjoyable life, than have it filled with drama and tragedies.
I think entertainment medium, like anime, cartoons and video games are great ways to teach others that skin and gender doesn't define who someone is.
Being able to pull away from that mindset is stronger than simply avoiding it. This dude should be an example to others who feel trapped in family dynamics or whatever else they are dealing with.
No matter the game, no matter the setting, no matter the place. You will always have someone there that has a backstory that is interesting, they will have went through their own dungeon of pain, and you will never be alone in what your suffering. I myself have had issue, but that made me to who I am today building me to a more powerful me today then yesterday just like them. But knowing that they suffered worse makes me happy for my situation since the quote "could be worse" Could be taken into progress. I also find it cool to see that even the internet can connect with you and care for you when you wish for it to be there. I wish for a great future for the two of them and hope that they find something for themselves in their lives and that they complete their goals in life. 😊
I seriously need more of this. Human beings having calm and civil conversations are so satisfying yet very rare to find
It's the opposite for me. I'm German and a big Nazi background (not me my ancestors), and kids always go off calling me Nazi or Würdemannslaughter (my father's last name is würdemann so they came up with that.
I makes me happy to see two people from opposite standings change and become friends rather than hate each other. Society has changed so much and it’s nice to know.
Indeed!
I remember having a party and one of my friends was scared I would treat a friend of his like crap just because he is Jewish and has been treated like crap in the past for that reason. I had to reassure him that I know what is and isn't acceptable to Jewish people. I ordered pizza and made sure that none of them had pork. So when he arrived he was trying to ask me if there was sausage or ham in any of the pizza I ordered. I told him not to worry and that I wouldn't do that to him. He looked at me puzzled not knowing that I knew he was Jewish. I just simply told him that pork doesn't digest well in comparison to most meats and that it wasn't vital to have in order to enjoy pizza. He figured out very quickly that I knew he was Jewish and that I didn't feel the need to point it out or treat him differently because of it. I grew up being one of the only white kids in an all black school. In some ways I was lucky to grow up with diversity even though I was often left out of group activities and games for that reason. I didn't understand that at the time because I was so young. Now looking back I know why but just simply don't care. It's not like I wasn't able to make any friends I just couldn't always make friends with who I wanted to just because I'm white. I've been picked on and I've learned that bullies find reasons to be terrible human beings just because they aren't happy in general and will find any excuse to be that way. We just need to grow a backbone and realize that everyone matures at different speeds.
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At some points in the interview with the Neo Nazi, his voice cracks, it's really sad but inspiring, I'm glad he was able to break out of that cult?
all I watch is Moistcr1tikal videos and now I get "jew befriends retired neo nazi"
Truly wonderful you people's interconnected world is
As someone who was born in a Hasidic Jewish family (basically the Amish of Judaism lol) this video means a lot to me because a lot of people hate Jews especially an Hasidic Jew such as myself. People tried beating me up and made fun of my families looks anyways your videos are amazing!
Dude!
having those two personal experiences as an advertisement
to a memorial donation is just a 200 IQ move!
This was really great to listen to. To quote Daryl Davis: "If they are talking, they aren't fighting." I would love to see more of these types of conversations.
You know i gotta say, the Naziism stuff doesn't ever seem real until it happens to you.
I always saw the Nazi movement as some distant ideology that no one in modern times aligns with anymore, so for a while i never took it all that seriously.
That is up until about a week ago when one of my friends said he wished I would die because I talk to blacks and Jews, and that I'm bisexual myself which makes me a race traitor.
It never felt real to me until it happened to me, and now i can see how the Nazi movement has infiltrated the daily lives of Americans and how widespread it is.
I don't want to make this too long, but my friend fell into the Qanon cult which is basically the modern day American Nazi movement, and it's really sad that millions of people are falling into this type of stuff.
Qanon is despised by most nazis , it’s likely he is just a white supremacist
I have a radio... Nazi's would already kill me for that. No need to be a black, gay or a jewish person with or without a physical disability. You could just be physically "perfect" in their opinion and straight, and they might deport you (or your husband) to work in Germany (this happened i the middle of the night). Then they will assign some Germans to live in your house. You had a bike? It is gone now. You had a school? Sorry, the Germans might need it as a base.
Have complaints? Going on a strike? Get murdered.
Have radio's or the wrong newspaper at home? Get murdered.
Lived in Rotterdam? Well, your house is bombed now.
But neo-nazi people like to forget about that shit.
That's true, on the flipside I think people see American society and individuals as a whole to be, say, racist and having hatred towards certain minorities, while in my own personal experience I have not run into that at all. It depends on where you were brought up, and who you were surrounded with (and the ideas they carry, of course). That's not to say it doesn't exist, because it certainly does, but if I were to base a large region such as America based on my own life excluding the teachings addressing racism, I would not even be aware that racism exists.
What does the Qanon cult have to do with National Socialism?
In a strange way, this video put a smile on my face, seeing people looking past differences and seeing each other for humans.
I can really relate to this. As someone who recently discovered themselves as queer and started to question their religion as a Christian it was really difficult for me to finally come to terms with my sexuality and gender and to accept myself knowing that what I'm going through is not a choice and is not a phase. Although, I am no longer a Christian because of my different values for human rights, I still respect the religion and any for that matter.
And even though many Christians I know who are still in this homophobic mindset, I know their experiences too. For a long time ever since I was a toddler I was told that same sex marriages are wrong and anyone in the lgbt community are going to hell for their sins. To tell you the truth I believed in that, without hesitation. I harrassed people online, I told my friends who came out to me that what they were doing was wrong and I was no longer friends with them, I protested against gay rights, and always voted for the right depite their conservative veiws even towards women. For years I followed in my family's footsteps until puberty came and I started to feel very uncomfortable with my body. I told my family what was going on with me, I prayed to God to help me, I read the Bible for answers, and yet all that was said to me is that "oh it's just a phase, you'll grow out of it." Unfortunately, I'm 17 now and I still haven't grown out of it. When my family got us internet, my entire life changed, I was able to access so much information and watch whatever I wanted (under my parents supervision of course.) And there were platforms like youtube where I could watch whatever I wanted. maybe out of spite I watched a few videos that were recommended to me on youtube about the lgbt community It was a documentary about a teenage boy coming out as trans. At first I thought it was some leftist form of capitalism or something stupid like that and I was going to comment a bunch of transphobic slurs, but I stopped when the kid explained everything I was going through. And my whole world shook after that moment. Could it be that I was trans? I cried for hours thinking I was a freak and it wasn't until that moment I finally realized I wasn't going through a phase. What I was going through was normal and is a part of who I am. I realized this was part of God's plan for me. And ever since that I day I haven't been happier. I'm becoming more and more like my true self and can safely say I am a proud asexual trans man.
I can't keep watching these. This is the third one I've watched and I'm like literally crying right now
This video right here, IS the nature VS nurture debate. IMO the ex-supremacist perfectly exemplifies his nature breaking through his environmental nurturing.
To my knowledge I had no interactions with either such individuals growing up. But my gut says that if I was in the Jewish guys class I would've done SOMETHING to help him.
I don‘t know this person but i am so proud of him how strong he handled everything in his young life. It needs so much strength and courage to get out of all you know before to start a new life you really wanna life and I‘m glad that he saw that ❤️ i wish you all the best in the future
Earth approved.
Geometry dash approved.
Hats off to both of these guys, it gives me a little bit of hope seeing how people can change and accept each other.
It's kind of terrifying to see just how easily people can be influenced. Exposure to stuff like that can so easily lead down a dark road that is nigh impossible to get off. Some are lucky enough that when they are exposed to something, they aren't so easily drawn in. I remember back when I was just learning about politics, I came across a political TH-cam channel that I'd watch fairly regularly. Eventually I lost interest, and moved away from political content for a while, as watching it all the time gets boring and draining. It wasn't until later when I began learning the code words of supremacists and anti-semites to make sure they didn't enter a political community I moderate, that I realized just what that channel I used to view was implying. This channel wasn't heavy handed with the codes, but knowing them now, I can see how they were subliminally sending bad messages.
And I find that terrifying, to think that I could have ended up going down that rabbit hole. I could of ended up hating Jews and others, but I thankfully was in the group that their messages didn't stick. I could have so easily ended up like them, but I thank God that I didn't, and that I actively despise people who are so heinous to others for something as simple as religion or background. Keep your mind open people.. It's easy to miss propaganda.
Crazy what Mr. Skeleton had to go through... It's unbelievable to me that nobody helped...