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I can't believe that months later, Abby would reveal that she'd actually been French the whole time.
lmfao
Zut Alors!!
Not French!! Gasp!
Everybody gotta come out with something sometime 🤷🏽♂
What?! That is super icky.
‘THERE WILL BE NO CROSSDRESSING IN THIS VIDEO’ HAS A WHOLE NEW MEANING NOW
OH MY GOD IT JUST CLICKED IN MY BRAIN, IS THIS WHAT SHE MENT BY "I ALREADY CAME OUT AGES AGO BUT I JUST DIDN'T TELL YA"?!
or maybe I'm just looking for hints. If I were a youtuber in a closet I would totally od that lol
“there will be no crossdresing in this video. just kidding!”
THE CROSSDRESSING WAS THE RESPONSE VIDEO PERSON DJSJNZKXIDJSNA
@@shneancy220 I think she meant that she came out to friends and family lol
@@zacpier yeah that makes more sense, but I'll still keep my idea as a headcannon
So the difference is weather he says he a man or not. Interesting
“There will be absolutely no crossdressing. I am *kidding!*”
**sound of an egg cracking very loudly**
Love you, Abby. ❤
She was already cross-dressed as a man
a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman
@@jalapenoofjustice4682All very Shakespearean.
@@jalapenoofjustice4682 ah, the old Victor/Victoria story
"The biggest argument against communism is that the cringe is not evenly redistributed" I had to pause the video because I laughed so hard at this!
Hard snort-laugh from me!
You people are easily entertained, no surprise there
Hi, Viewer from the Dominican Republic here. I hate to be an "actually" person, but actually the person who agreed to take the jews in, was a president called Rafael Leonidas Trujillo aka the worst dictator in the DR's history and the reason he took the jews in is popularly believed to be a part of his plan to introduce more "fair skin" into the country, since he was profoundly racist. And if it seems contradictory that he was a racist but took jews in, here in the DR racism is way more about skin colors than it is about ethnicities.
I was familiar with the history of the Parsley Massacre under Trujillo but had no idea that he took Jews in, or with that reasoning. As a Jew... Jesus. That's fucked.
Ohhh yikes
Well, i guess accidentally doing the right thing is still better then nothing.
@@benlalammohamedrachid3112 not when its accompanied by death squads
Wow, it reinforces the video! Trujillo didn't see the Jews as people, but as a "concept"- in this case, a way to reinforce white supremacy in the Dominican Republic.
She did indeed crossdress in this video, but not in the way we thought...
She’s been a drag king for years
She did a flipsie with our brain-noodles
@@GZQ9 I really like looking at it like that
@@GZQ9 yes
That Aussie character.
As an Australian cis-girl with size 11 feet, I can say anti-Semitism is irrational and your Australian character is spot on.
I'm a Kiwi and I can't fly Don't know what your foot size has anything to do anti semetism and I think your comment is mire to kiss up to abbys ass rather than the product of you actually sitting down and thinking about the subject and coming up with your own conclusions.. What is a Cis Girl by the way is it some new fringe minority group that has to be accomodated for now as well.
As a deaf Australian man, I wholeheartedly agree
Why is it irrational?
@@varunv2584they may call you irrational, but they won't call you a liar.
@@frankimusmaximus3012he is a liar
I'm Jewish. I watched this the day it came out and loved it. Two days ago, the Colleyville hostage situation happened. I come back here after antisemitic attacks just to read the comment section. Seeing all the positivity and acceptance genuinely helps me feel better.
Karl Marx has been oddly silent since this video dropped.
Yo he fucken dead bro 💀
HAHAHAHAAH😂😂😂😂😂
Post more vids dude
@@lemmonboy6459 you don't say
Are you saying he was not quiet before this video? Because that is concerning. I'd rather not have to live with the knowledge of a zombie Karl
Clean-shaven Olly looks like the type of man Oscar Wilde would have as his muse and pose on his fainting chair
Now i just keep imagining Olly as Dorian Gray in the 21st century major movie adaptation
Which is oddly appropriate as Oscar Wilde was also an antisemite
She femme
Watching him talk is making me blush, I don't even understand what he's saying, just so much serotonin levels
My thoughts were "Man Timothee Chalamet got thicc"
Anyone else revisiting this because of recent events or is it just me? I needed a refresher course.
same
I just want to say as a Jewish Israeli who is openly critical of a lot of what Israel does I adore this video thank you so much for making it
No Israeli is innocent.
@@_blank-_ literally did you watch the video? The Israeli government often doesn't speak for the people. Also, free Palestine.
I'm actually the opposite of you me thinks. I reckon a lot of the anti-Semitism you experienced as a people in Europe was of your own making and from a combination of Jews in General not mixing with the host peoples and having a superior belief of being god's chosen people superior to your host people and at ease to exploit your host for whatever you could. I think Jews hijacked the 2nd World war and used it to vilify and destroy Germany and making it all about them in their victimhood. They destroyed the German nation and cut its balls off, then cried victim. In saying that, I do believe the Israeli people are people too and have as much a right as anyone else to exist and support the state of Israel and her dealings in that region. I actually like the modern Israeli state and how her people have come together and by and large formed a modern secular society . All of Israels military actions have been legit, and I admire their skill in war and her lack of carrying out excesses of brutality on your enemies. You will always get some incidents down on ground level that could be done better, but this is not a state organised problem. Every time I come across Israeli hitch-hikers in my country doing their post conscription holiday thing, I always pick them up and look after them in my house .
@@randomshades every synagogue flies the flag of Israel over their own nation. They are inherently disloyal
@@blakemccann445 this is a 4 sentence disaster of a comment reactions
Ok if Philosophy Tube was already Abby at this point then that means this video features a woman playing a man playing a woman or a full Victor-Victoria plotline. Cheers to you Abby.
Exactly bro she’s brilliant
That, and something tells me the driving-home-tired story actually happened. Hindsight being 20/20.
This is so Shakespearean...
A girl playing a guy playing a different girl
We love a full Victor/Victoria
>Pride month starts
>Olly shows us his clean shave
Now that... that is an unfairly pretty man.
Big Umph
I know right?!!!😻😻 without the beard he looks so young
I was watching the live steam yesterday and I wondered why his brows were so fine... Now we know!
Ok, at first I definitely liked him more with the beard but his cross dressing madame de la resistance was too perfect to keep me from falling in love again, stupid olli being so damn pretty all the time
He’s freaking beautiful! This man is a prettier lady than me and he doesn’t even have to try!
Right? I mean he always looks incredibly attractive, but the clean shaven look really makes his eyes look amazingly beautiful.
Getting into Philosophy tube lately. Abigail really is just like the super fun history teacher in this video. Love it
This has now become the best crossover ever
i love trans youtube
So glad to run into you here.
Rewatching rn. 💖 lovely seeing you here.
Oh, you here? Fantastic :D Love your videos! We love you, HeadLead!
''the biggest argument against communism, is that the cringe is not evenly distributed''
LMFAOOOOOO I DIED
Philosophy Tube finally broke. He's so upset about people using his videos like podcasts he included french with subtitles
Thankfully I speak French so I can continue with the podcasts!
Not exactly. He's using it the same way he used them in the last video:
1. To decrease the risk of demonetization in the event they ignored the blatant red button.
2. As part of the gimmick of the episode. Every episode since he started recovering from his abuser's actions he has had a thematic gimmick, a character, or both.
lol, that won't stop me.
joke’s on him, i’m fluent
jokes on him because I will just miss out bc Im lazy
"the play had to be shut down because the audience was fighting"
the YT comments section is older than I expected
hugely underrated comment.
@Carlos Saraiva The Internet brought the freedom to make an ass of yourself in public to the common man, whereas before it had been restricted to those with the wealth to purchase theater tickets and eat fines for vandalism and the like.
@Carlos Saraiva It was even nicknamed « Le Massacre du Printemps » (The Massacre of Spring, it’s a pun with « Le Sacre du Printemps » which is the French name of the piece)
@@timothymclean The internet is the democratization of cringe.
@@yonatanbeer3475 But the cringe is not equally distributed, he said so in this very video.
Hate to be a killjoy, but I gotta provide some historical context for the Dominican Republic accepting Jewish refugees - as nice as the result was, the reason for this was the policy of "blanqueamiento" by the dictator Rafael Trujillo (ironically a genuine fascist himself), which was meant to make the Dominican nation "whiter" by encouraging European immigration and committing a genocide against the Haitian minority in the Dominican Republic to prevent interracial relationships. Not to attack Abby or anything, love her content, I just think people should probably be aware that the far-right Trujillo regime, which ruled during the WWII era, wasn't progressive on racial politics or something - it's just that its anti-Haitian racism beat the more common anti-Semitism.
Shit, thank you for letting us know.
"Why would anybody choose to be angry all the time about NOTHING".
As a post-Mormon, I assure you it's very very easy to find things to be mad about when you've been taught your whole life that somehow YOU have been the repressed one. Seriously....Cis-Male, white, raised with some money in Southern California in the late 20th century.....and somehow I was convinced that I was the one who had been given the short end of the stick.
Listening to somebody say the phrase “comrade Trump” with my own ears is bizarre
I laughed my ass off at that. The most comically mismatched image of a man vs. the real man since "Antifa Tim Kaine."
Particularly at this timing.
@@1000g2g3g4g800999 particularly
Stop lying Mitochondria don’t have ears!
In German it would actually make more sense as the literal translation comrade=Kamerad is more used in the military jargon as someone you were in the Military with.
Meanwhile a fellow worker and/or comrade of your workers Party or union would be a "Genosse"
But Trump never Served in the military either so...
This hits quite different knowing Abigail here was all along, dressing as herself.
She still carries big Mademoiselle Y vibes
Isnt it wild? It wasn't just a character it was, perhaps, a way for her to be herself on camera for once
FORESHADOWING
@@madisonkehl7461 she is though! She's playing a man who's playing a woman and it actually shows through and it's pretty impressive.
"oooOOOOOhhhhh"
-Probably a few Philosophy Tube fans
As someone who was simultaneously very critical of the Israeli government in recent weeks and disgusted by the antisemitic backlash we've seen, I found this video helped me to make sense of things. Thank you!
... And then I saw this comment was posted two years ago
@tamarbeker1701 what do you mean?
@@AmberLois ... How much do you know about the war that's been going on lately?
They got us fighting culture wars to not fight class wars. It's a tale as old as time
"Just like Dr. Who, White Supremacy keeps getting rehashed because it's one of Britain's most popular exports"
I have nothing of value to add to this discussion, only that this is is both brilliant and hilarious.
The truth is always valuable to a converstion
as a dr who fan, i confirm that is correct 😂
I have hope. At leat Ruth is a start
Ruth should have been the next Dr not a pre-Hartnell version
Britain likes to export colonialist rethoric I suppose.
"Every night before I go to sleep in my bunker, I read a chapter of the Communist Manifesto, I moisturize my face, and I bludgeon a policeman to death with a baguette" MORE SELF-CARE TIPS PLZ
Where do you find those baguettes? They must have metal in the dough 😀
@@charismahornum-fries691 they’re french bread… it’ll be hard as rock within an hour. /s
Keep the police, use it to fight the reactionaries
@Pattern Recognized they were not Palestinian every one was born in Russia so they were Russian. They were by no possible definition Palestinian. Now if you use Palestinian as a dog whistle for Jewish people than maybe an oppressed groups are more likely to go for communist thought. Just to reinforce how stupid you are Lenin was born is Russia both of his parents were born in Russia and his 4 grandparents were born in Russia. Same goes for Trotsky. And of course most of course most of the atrocities you listed were committed by Stalin a born Christian Georgian. God just say Jews antisemite. Because none of the people you listed were born in Palestine or in any way related to Palestine for sometimes 20 or 30 generations.
@Pattern Recognized also who still uses lett for Latvian
As someone who's only been a fan of philosophy tube for a couple weeks, it's *really* weird to go back and watch her old videos
Yep...
Yes, my brain goes all where did smart philosophy girl go, and then she starts speaking and it’s that same cadence and pronouciation, and I can calm down
I love how I'm literally Jewish, but I grew up in Israel (which i by the way agree with your critiques of), so I actually didn't know almost any of what you explained in this video. Like, I grew up in a bubble of being exposed to exactly zero antisemitism, so I know less about it then many non-jewish people, so, em... Thank you, I guess?
Edit: welp, that's not the case anymore
lol hard to believe when u grew up in “Israel” you don’t know the history or ur own people
"Chill lofi beats to study/wage international conflict to"
whoever did these subtitles deserves a raise
it was Olly lol
LiliOcelote Premium Olly needs a raise
pretty sure he did it! You're absolutely right about the raise though
olly: no theatrics or costumes!
me, looking at his plucked brows: riiiiiiiiiiiiight
Not to mention his French-tips... which you can only briefly see only in a few frames.
not to mention no facial hair !!!!! lowkey didn't recognize him because of how much i associate him with it
The minute he came on screen I said "Oooh, someone got their eyebrows did!"
thats what i was like as well
Them eyebrows is squares away though!♥️
23:20 - "One of the core tenets of Judaism is that Jews are the chosen people."
*_NO._* Most people misunderstand this concept. Jews are not _the_ chosen people, Jews are _Yahweh's_ chosen people. Being chosen by Yahweh doesn't make the Jews better than anyone else, it makes the Jews subject to Yahweh's law and judgement -- whereas other people remained subject to the laws and judgements _of their own gods._ Judaism was formulated in the midst of a polytheistic culture, and Yahweh was never meant to be one god for all of humanity -- only to be one god for _the Jews specifically._ In Genesis, when Adam eats the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, Yahweh says "Now man has become like us" -- "us" was misconstrued by Medieval European culture to mean "the royal we", but "us" in the original context _actually_ means the _community of gods,_ of which Yahweh was a single member. Jews never had any expectation that the rest of humanity should have to conform to Yahweh's laws -- ask anyone who has actually studied Jewish religious law. THAT idea came from Christianity.
Thank you for saying this. ^^
i had literally never heard this before, thank you for the input!
Didn't know this. Thanks for clarifying
I never knew that, thank you
Like my family is jewish (I'm an atheist), and from what I remember, when Yaweh found his people in other cities praying at other god's altars, he didn't punish the people from the other cities (again, he mightve, I'm just going off of memory), he mainly punished his people for praying to someone who wasnt him.
Australian here, I have to congratulate you on your Australian character, Ian N Drivel. While the accent isn't perfect (still better than most foreign attempts) the whole Australian TH-camr vibe is just bang on. The deadpool mask, the nickname he gives himself and his vernacular are all amazing and perfect.
One thing that I have found really interesting in conversations I have had about anti-Semitism is people praising Germany for educating the youth about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, but I found travelling in Germany that many people were extremely uncomfortable when I mentioned my Jewish grandfather who was a Holocaust survivor. My flatmate's sister mentioned that she was Jewish to several good friends, and they could not believe it. They were uncomfortable to realize that their close friend was Jewish. I never really understood where this discomfort came from until a German friend of mine came and stayed with my flatmates and me in Manhattan (all my flatmates are Jewish). We would casually mention and make insider jokes about Judaism, and she later asked me about why we did that. I realized in our ensuing conversation that although German children are taught from a young age about the Holocaust and how anti-Semitism is wrong, there are so few Jews in Germany now that no one really thinks of Judaism as a modern phenomenon and a religion/culture that exists in the modern-day. I've seen this happen with Americans and Indigenous Americans where we like to think of their colonization and genocide as a thing of the past. There's a certain comfort in drawing a hard line between the sins of the past and the present. One reason I love this video so much is that it focuses on these historical continuities that connect the past and the present. If the German educational system only focuses on anti-Semitism in the past and a little bit on its existence today but does not really touch on the lives and lived experiences of the millions of Jews in the world, then people don't have to deal with the continuing legacy of trauma inflicted upon a people. I recommend for all people to not just learn about anti-Semitism but to also engage with knowledge beyond the "struggle narrative."
so true
Wow this is an amazing comment! Thank you, it really made me think abt the education system in not just Germany but also the United States. Why can’t we be taught important lessons about history without making the US seem so heroic and like a saving country? Lol I know this question might not make much sense... sorry abt that
Christina Meyer Thank you for your comment. I’m a German student currently. Next year my selected class will be dealing with right wing ideologies in connection with post/modern art and at the end we’ll write a thesis. Your comment inspire me to seek out artists who explore past trauma in relation with present. It’s true that schools repeatedly teach us about First and Second World War but not nearly as often about current state of minority groups in Germany or the lasting fallouts they have on social dynamics. Like you said it’s comfortable to seal up the past, but history never exist in a vacuum. Without dealing with it’s influence we’ll ever achieve peace.
I experienced the German educational system and I couldn't agree more. The problem is that there is a big myth about "Entnazifizierung" which means that after the second World War the German society got rid of all the Nazis in power and left their world views behind. Which is simply not true. In the 50s and 60s most Germans still saw the end of the second world war as loosing, not being liberated as it's told today.
There was and is lot of continuity of Nazi Power in politics and economics. The 68 student movement tried to address that (it had it's own problems anyway) - but today the myth is that White supremacy and anti-semitism is a thing of the past and couldn't happen again because Germans are so expertly taught about the Holocaust - which isn't true and blatantly clear in today's politics.
For more about how this myth came to be I suggest reading Max Czolleks "Desintegriert euch!" (Desintegrate yourself! )
As a German student, I can offer you one more point of consideration perhaps. In Germany, the holocaust and nationalsozialismus and all that jazz is only discussed in highly specific contexts. We talk about it in school, sure, outside of that it is considered to be, let's just say, unsuitable for polite society. It is a highly uncomfortable topic for many people, which they prefer not to talk about. It's not quite a taboo (although it most certainly is a faux-pas), as much as it is something that has been given so much power and attention that free discussion of it just isn't possible without people growing upset. We are a culture that doesn't really talk about things. Rigid adherence to remaining "polite" and not wanting to think about it too actively and just going about your day. I find an elephant in a crowded room an apt analogy; everyone is perfectly aware of its existence, and they simply walk around it because they find it an uncomfortable topic to give too much depth to. I mean, do you particularly want to think about an elephant that is in a crowded room? How did it get there? Why is it there? Who is continuing to keep it there? People are aware of modern anti-semitism. It's impossible not to be, but they avoid talking about it on most occasions. There is also a legacy of trauma for this topic on the German side of things, which goes widely ignored. There is a reason for this of course. We were the perpetrators not the victims. (upon re-reading this I kind of want to add more, but I'm not entirely sure what to add, since there would be a disconnect to the original content of my comment + i'm tire since high schools have re-opened and I now have classes till 18:00)
"No theatrics, no fancy costumes, and absolutely no crossdressing"... Olly, we're barely a minute into the video and your makeup is already flawless.
Especially with the Gaza nightmare right now, I feel like the distinction between the state of Israel and the Jewish people is especially important. As always incredibly broken down Abigail.
As a Jew, I think this video hardly skimmed the surface at all. Since you talked to Jewish script consultants I was hoping you might dive into what it's like being a Jew today and seeing anti-semitism rear its ugly head still. Being the descendant of four holocaust survivors there is a lot of intergenerational trauma lending itself to dysfunction. It's crazy that the Nazis who traumatized my grandparents can affect my life nearly 80 years later. I wish your video would have touched on what it's like to grow up being told stories of what happened to your grandparents and living with this hypervigilance/fear of it happening again. After all, all of our holidays revolve around the theme of some nation trying to eradicate us and either failing or almost succeeding. Unfortunately, in a way the theme of anti-semitism is core to our culture as a reaction to always being a scapegoat. It's wild to pass as a white person but to live around constant reminders that you are "The Other", even in small situations where people meant no harm. Being a Jew is a weird blend of masquerading as 'normal' while understanding that you will always be a foreigner.
Poor thing. Maybe the billions in tax dollars we give to you can console you.
@@blakemccann445 Oh wow. Anti-Semitism on an anti-Semitism video
@@prettykittyenergy6473 appreciate the irony
@@blakemccann445 I don't
@@prettykittyenergy6473 The millions murdered under communism are still waiting for their reparations but they will not get it or even an apology.
"What 9-dimensional, non-euclidian rabbis have you been talking to, mate!?"
I am astonished by the geniusness.
"Non-Euclidian Rabbis" sounds like a band name.
Talk to many a rabbi, and you will find that many are non-euclidean.
Jewish prog rock/metal sounds like a pretty sweet idea.
i kept hearing Hegeling in that section
That phrase will live in my brain forever.
Why people want equality
Olly: To have the same positive and negative liberties as everyone else
Natalie: To have the same level of sadness and dysfunction as everyone else
Redistribute the sadness amongst the people
@@tangothembo8198 Viva la Emotional Repression
Philosophy daddy and philosophy mommy
What's the difference at this point, hahaha 🙃
@@heysimone :/
I'd absolutely attend any history lecture that you held. Or a lecture on any subject. Wonderful work, and fabulously well done ❤️
תודה רבה לך אביגיל, שתיארת את הנושא בצורה כל כך טובה. שה' יעשה לך רק טוב
יאיי ישראלים
דיי אני מאחרת ב7 חודשים אבל יוווווו!!!!! ישראלים???? בלי תגובת אנטישמיות?????? הסרטון היחיד באינטרנט שזה קרה חחחח
חד משמעית
Forever sad I cannot read the language that is so important to my family's history. It looks gorgeous
@@OneMustImagineSisyphusThicc ❤
It gives me peace knowing that British people speak french just as poorly as Americans do
I thought he was doing alright, until he got to "poursuivez moi" lol
Even i can't speak french properly and it's my second language.
As a French man, I have to say he is not that bad. Also, we French are pretty bad at English pronunciation as well. But the good news is we tend to both find our bad accents sexy. So we may not understand eachother, but we still fancy eachother. And if that is not the French way, nothing is.
@@Zenbateau A common fear of learning a second language is the embarrassing early stage when it's hard to pronounce anything right, but if you say it's actually sexy even for English speakers, that's very encouraging!
I knew it was bad French because I could understand it. put your uvula into it, Olly! Robert et Mireille!
Without the beard and mustach you look like a fairy tale prince
Definitely not wrong, but less kingly.
Straight up aged backwards
Or a fairytale princess 🥰
seeing it, l could only think about the last time he crossdressed
Oly: "this is a serious video".
The comments: jokes and thirst
omfg thank you so much for this video!!! my whole life, since i was little and heard my parents talk negatively about jewish people, i’ve wondered wtf is everyone’s problem with the jews? and nobody ever could answer that. not one antisemite that i’ve met could actually tell me why they hate the jewish people so much. when i grew up and asked my parents why they said what they said, they couldn’t answer. so i was like???? what is the reason???????
and this video actually helped me understand! not like it changes much but at least it makes a bit more sense now. like i know that people hate gays because of religious brainwashing and they hate women because of religious brainwashing but the jews???
You know, I once made a comparison between anti-Semitism and pornography. Both are seemingly ubiquitous across all cultures at all times and you can find a lot of both on the internet. I concluded that, much like pornography, anti-Semitism must fulfill some sort of basic irrational need. I just couldn't figure out what it was.
Abby just provided that answer. It fulfills the basic purpose of defining the other, even when the other in question is absent. Because like images designed purely for the purpose of gratifying oneself to, it doesn't need to make sense. In the case of anti-Semitism, it just has to tell you who to hate.
I like your thoughts, it's a good segway to put in the very start of a talk about antisemitism and most other kinds of bigotry, a quick very way to explain the fundamentals
Who do you think created the pornography industry in the West?
Benschachar
Of course we have a antisemite here. But if you know. Modern day pornography was created by two horny French men by the name of Eugène Pirou and Albert Kirchner. Both are not Jewish. In matter intact. They are barely any Jews in the modern day porn industry.
@@quesocoatl21You really think that people weren’t looking at pornography before Jews arrived?
The best part of the intro is that Abby couldn't even keep a straight face when she blatantly lied about what she would not be doing this video.
I know, right? Adorable!
Well, he is a trained actor after all, so he absolutely knows what he's doing. And it's working :)
Rewatching this video, saw my own comment and had to make edits to match Abby's identity.
I love how half the comments are now about the “absolutely no crossdressing” line.
Hail to the princess of terf island 💖
I mean, I guess it's true!
Technically she was crossdressing when she said that.
@Electroencefalografista Because even though she wants/wanted to "fuck the queen", she doesn't want monarchy to exist.
@@sarahwinn2453 she was already out to everyone in her private life so no?
@@josukeyn3761 yeah, I meant that she was crossdressing by being dressed as a man.
Watching this video as a French guy who's fluent in English, I have to say that your pronunciation is pretty good (even if some translations are a bit weak but French is a weird language) and that it feels very weird to have your brain be able to automatically switch between the two languages as if they were just one. Also, thank you for bringing a closer light to this part of history that wasn't explored in such details in school over here
It’s a shame that after an hour long, incredibly insightful deep dive into antisemitism, a huge chunk of comments are about Abigail’s gender and “cross dressing”.
That being said, as a leftist Jew this video is very meaningful to me. Thank you Abigail for taking the time to research this and educate your following ❤️
Agree.
Completely agree. I am both trans and converting to Judaism, and this is in no way the place to be commenting on her gender. She made a long coming out video that is more appropriate of a space, and she took the time to make a genuine deep dive into issues that are rarely discussed about a deeply prominent issue. It's a shame people can't take a minute to put others at the forefront at least in the comment section. Thank you for vocalising this
Don't worry, that's literally every comment section on her channel pre coming out
Or maybe do worry? Important topics are seemingly overshadowed by this
That had been getting on my nerves as well. I’m sure it’s not the case, but it feels as though they weren’t watching this video for its contents, but rather for clues of Abigail’s transition
!!!
I'm Jewish and it's the first comment section on a video who talks about antisemitism, where the comments don't make me want to burn my computer and never connect to internet ever again.
thank you ❤✡
I have seen one of your replies on one of the comments above in which you mention being Arab jew, I just wanna say I found that really fascinating as an Arab ex-muslim myself, to know that there are (or are still) Jews who identify as Arab and it's not something of the past is quite refreshing. Best wishes 👋
@@appleslover
it's not exact, we say "arab jew" cuse it's easier for others to understand world wide, usually we have been using "mizrahi jews" since in bibilical Hebrew (which my grandfather used to speak in iraq, like most jews in Baghdad) Mizrah= from the east, meaning eastern jews (ashcenazi, or Maharavi jews, are "from the west" for example)
it's just a name, but overall we do believe we are Hebrews and we do see arabs as "cousins" because of the connection of Isaac and Ismail 🙂
@@appleslover
and thanks! best wishes to you too ❤😁
@@link6397 So we got you to consume our propaganda nice
@@link6397
so...
you think I want to destroy the USA? 😂
me and my mighty strength of a 200 chocolate bars? (addicted to sugar 🤣😅)
'there's going to be no cross dressing' *i frown* 'just kidding welcome to the show' *relieved sigh*
Looking back at how excited she gets when she says "I am KIDDING!" about not crossdressing is hilarious now that she came out as trans and it's such a vibe for me. I'm trans and seeing someone like Abby (before she came out) be so comfortable expressing her femininity really helped me be comfortable exploring mine before I knew I was trans
This was a truly excellent video. Thank you for also addressing the antisemitism of the left; although it’s not as dangerous as that of the right, it’s still significant.
To expand on this, it’s exasperating that many on the left make excuses for fascist, antisemitic Islamic societies and only focus on Christianity. Both religions need to be held accountable.
There is no “anti-Semitism of the left” that’s clearly nonsense that Israel bootlickers like yourself believe in order to justify your support for a country that occupies Palestinian land. Oh and drop the the whole “fascist, antisemitic Islamic societies” nonsense, Israel is clearly a racist Islamophobic society
why this video is great:
-Abigail talking about something not very discussed in the left (as a jew thanks)
-Drivel calling out Karl Marx
-ABIGAIL DOING DRAG
-French AND spanish
a leftist youtuber calling out left wing AND right wing antisemitism is very relieving. It's why I love Ollie's videos, and he even handled the Israel section well.
@@Superbl0bby Omg yes, the Israel part was so easy to comprehend and so well put
@@palomaalmiron6790 Check out the I Don't Speak German podcast.
100% I have NEVER seen Olly as sexy as he is in this video when he's speaking french and I am a straight male. Or am I? Olly got me questioning over here.
@@Robstafarian I never heard of it, but it sounds cool so I'll check it out
"I think the biggest argument against Communism is that the *cringe* is not evenly-distributed."
One of my favorite quotes of the ever. I peed a little.
Honestly
Was the pee equally distributed?
@@SpoopySquid
Probably throughout their pants.
"What can I say but Yikes" Was a close second. I was not expecting an educational video to be full of zingers.
I haven't laughed that hard in a while.
"9-dimensional non-euclidian rabbis" is now my #1 favorite phrase oh my god
I’m binge watching philosophy tube in no particular order and yknow, having a few trans friends I find it quite easy to turn the “person is x gender” setting on in my brain, but the way you can really see her come to terms with being a woman is so beautiful and is something I never noticed in my friends, and I think for anyone who struggles with turning the “person is x gender” setting on could benefit from watching the videos where she is still presenting as male in videos, but is likely living, personally or publicly as female, like this one.
"He's already been cancelled.... by bronchitis."
That got me good
Whenever you crossdress I feel like you're some woman out of a BBC murder mystery series
that's so spot on!
Olly: Today I'm feeling Miss Fisher but as a cute French girl.
Also Olly: Today I'm feeling Australian bloke/The Anime Man.
Vera
I _knew_ I recognized him from somewhere!
well, she's doing a BBC drama?
I'm Jewish and I really appreciate you taking the time and effort to make this video, this means a lot. It's just really upsetting that the majority of the comments have nothing to do with this incredibly serious issue and are about crossdressing. I just find it sad.
It seems that many who have left comments are either uncomfortable with the topic of anti-Semitism and/or rather flippant about it hence have focused on crossdressing. And the rest of the comments are disappointing since it's clear there is a lot of anti-Semitic commenters and the rest are Jewish individuals who feel like yourself.
@@Adara007 And for some reason the video seems to have been thrown directly at the TH-cam historian community, who are all eager to correct, specify, and expand upon the video.
I'm Jewish, My family is very noticeably Jewish...We still keep a firesafe lockbox of passports and all necessary information to leave the country last minute "Just in case". Many people think that anti-Semitism only started being a thing during the holocaust and that it ended after it...but it didn't. Anti-Semitism is easy to conceal and think isn't there because it's so baked into society that people just think it's normal. I really appreciate this video. I've seen so many things invalidating how harmful anti-Semitism is or that Jews aren't actually a minority or targeted in any way and it's just scary and hurtful. I don't support a lot of what Israel's government does but people have to understand that it was made because throughout our whole history every single country we settled down in kicked us out in some horribly violent way and none of the other countries wanted to accept us so we were stuck. Israel gets rid of the fear of having no where to escape to...it's a safe haven and It's the only Jewish country in the world. Not to mention that it has been genetically traced that Jews are indigenous to that area of land (yes even the white looking Jews). There have been so many nights when I just stayed up and cried because of how scared I was. And it very often feels like the only people I can rely on to stand up for me are fellow Jews because the right doesn't see us as white enough to be worth fighting for and the left sees us as too white to be worth fighting for. It really means a lot that my family and I aren't alone in this world. That there's someone who is willing to acknowledge the anti-Semitism that's seen as normal. Thank you.
"karl marx please respond" is an all-time genuine laugh out loud bit
That and comrade trump
"I think the biggest argument against communism is that the cringe is not evenly distributed"
The Drivelator
One of my favourite quotes from this episode xD
Recent events have made this video VERYYYYYY relevant again...
Sad events. Now in mar 2024- dangerous too.
@@Maryculligan yea...it's worse in April ....
i like to consider myself a history nerd, and i try too read or listen and learn as much as possible!
Your way of explaining and telling things is one of the best ways (as in most digestible ways ) ive found too get info, learn stuff or brush up on stuff. Without it being mega dry or longwinded..
it's astonishing to see abi thorn do an even posher british accent than her own. truly fascinating
lmao you've got my number there lol
It makes his bogan Drivel character really funny, because some of the vowels turn posh despite the rest of the character lol
@@mostlyharmless6x9 That was hilarious. Sometimes he'd hit a vowel sound a little too sharply to compensate, and it'd turn into a bit of a kiwi accent lol. Still probably the best Aussie accent I've seen anyone do on youtube, hardly anyone can ever get it right
He got so close to nailing the Aussie accent too, a few minor things Olly but I give the Isaac Butterfield impression a solid 9/10
@@bryntendo I noticed that too.
This is really interesting. I'm someone who has some physical characteristics in common with stereotypes of Jewish people, but I'm not Jewish. Many times, I've seen relief on the faces of white, Christian people when I've revealed that I'm not Jewish. It's weird. Their whole attitude changes towards me. It's like they're saying, "Whew! For a minute, I was wondering if maybe you weren't white. Thank god you are because now I can relax." I don't think these people are even aware that they're doing this. It makes me very uncomfortable and reminds that white supremacy and antisemitism is everywhere.
@@user-dh4zd8pr9t Okay, fighter jet profile picture.
@@ragalyiakos :)
@@user-dh4zd8pr9t The Talmud understander has logged on
Lol and I’m the exact opposite. I’m Jewish, but literally EVERY time it’s come up in conversation, people’s first response is “but…but you don’t LOOK very Jewish?” Just because I have blond hair and blue eyes. The first time was when I was 9-ish? It’s gotten very annoying. I get it, I don’t look like the stereotype. You don’t have to SAY it.
You know, I’ve never experienced this to my face because I wear my Judaism on my sleeve. I have nothing to hide regarding it and I am incredibly proud of my Jewish ethnicity and religion, as I have thousands of years of history. However, this is VERY interesting to hear. Now I am super curious as to what people in my community actually think of me (I live in a predominantly WASP neighborhood)
Wow, it's wild seeing you pre-transition. Thank you so much for keeping up your old videos, you're so informative and funny. I love your videos!
23:31 - "Everywhere they wanted to remain Jews, and everywhere they were granted the privilege of establishing a State within a State. By virtue of these privileges and exemptions, and immunity from taxes, they would soon rise above the general condition of the citizens and municipalities where they resided. They had better opportunities for trade and accumulation of wealth, whereby they excited jealousy and hatred."
*_Lazare is incorrect._* Jews were not _exempt_ from taxes, they paid _special_ taxes levied only on nonbelievers, both in Christian kingdoms and in Muslim kingdoms. Jews were also banned from taking most jobs, because respectable employment was reserved for good God-fearing Christians and Muslims. That, combined with being required to live in segregated neighborhoods where their beliefs couldn't contaminate the minds of good God-fearing Christians and Muslims, meant that most Jews were significantly _poorer_ than their Christian and Muslim counterparts. BUT -- Jews didn't have a religious law against charging interest for loans (mistakenly called "usury" by Christians and Muslims who don't understand the idea that interest is paid as compensation for the privilege of having access to money _now_ instead of years in the future), and because Jews didn't have that religious ban, a _few_ Jews were employed by royal families as financiers, to handle all that dirty filthy money used to pay for righteous Crusades and whatnot, and it was "okay" because Christians and Muslims believed Jews were going to hell anyway. Those few Jews who were employed as financiers became the founders of large international banks, because that was the only path to wealth and success that Medieval Europe and the Levant _allowed Jews to have._ Of course now all Jews are hated by anti-Semites on the basis that they're all part of a conspiracy to control the world by strangling its money supply. The irony is, that conspiracy _is_ real, but it took place a thousand years ago, and it was spearheaded by Christians and Muslims.
The video already says that Lazare is incorrect, and makes the same point you do, although in less detail.
@@aaronpolichar7936: Well, now you know more details.
@@the_famous_reply_guy It's also illegal in many places, so who cares?
You forgot the most important thing that feminists want: pockets of equal size to men's in our trousers.
And our dresses
My dress today has no pockets. It is too pretty not to wear, but I would like to see 'the manager.' The manager of pockets!
I'm afraid it's a losing battle. As a man who still finds pants pockets too small, I'd argue we should just ALL start carrying purses around with us.
I know this is a joke, but AS A CIS MAN, I don't understand why women's clothes have smaller pockets.
@@rorykurek643 Hell yeah.
Olly couldn't even say "no crossdressing" without a huge grin on his face, like... A Bi Icon.
A bi-con?
@@vfaulkon damn it. I was coming.
@@vfaulkon one ~~second~~ month
I love how he tags the antisemitism and white supremacy content warnings, but doesn't put a content warning for "fem!Olly thirsttrap."
@@stevencleere4912 well you better clean it up
the fact that the open captions are slightly above the closed captions is so considerate. thank you whoever edited this.
I am just blown away by how good this piece is. The number of nuances she captures and explains!
This might not make sense but Quarantine Olly looks like he came straight out of a Shakespearean story. His face looks so soft, smooth and feminine in an appealing way. He handsome.
it seems like time has gone backwards to 2016 and olly is a young boi again
he came out of 2014
On his patron he talked about how much make up it took to cover his 5 o’clock shadow from shaving the goatee
He's so cute!
It’s called makeup..
A video about antisemitism and the comments section isn’t toxic hellfire. That’s a first, and I appreciate it.
You do realize that this comments section is very heavily censored? It's not "toxic" because it doesn't have views you disagree with.
@@Zorro9129 You say. On the platform you claim is censored.
@@Zorro9129 what is your opinion on the subject Mr. Zorro?
@@Zorro9129 Found the alt light NPC. Back to /pol with you, a cancerous place where undesirables like you belong.
@@SoRAnubis yo you sound like when you go to r/FULLCOMMUNISM and say something positive about trotsky. If he was watching the video he's at least sympathetic or open minded but by confirming his beliefs about raging leftist communities you are making sure he doesn't leave pol
Thank you for being a non-Jewish person who has actually done her research into what antisemitism actually is and looks like. It is frustrating how much antisemitism is in the left, after standing in solidarity with them on so many other things. Many don’t realize that antisemitism still exists or know that they’re doing it. I once posted on social media how my country’s (the US) overabundance of the Christmas market is borderline propaganda and that my cousin once came home from elementary school, on a day they had a Christmas party, wishing he was Christian so that Santa can come to his house and give him presents. Even my own friends were trying to tell me how stupid I was for even bringing it up. To sum it all up, they thought I was criticizing each of them for celebrating Christmas instead of criticizing the over-advertising and marketing of Christmas (which is a product of capitalism, you know, the very thing us leftists all collectively hate).
There are a few facts that would be worth adding here.
- To add to the fact that not all Jews are white, believe it or not, the current Jewish population in Israel is made up of a big mix of races. The Jewish population in Israel is made up of Jews from all over the world (and therefore all different races) who immigrated there, including Jews from other parts of the Middle East, and from South America. This is why I cringe when anyone tries to argue that the oppression in Israel is rooted in white supremacy (along with the other things you pointed out about that Jews have also been oppressed by white supremacy).
- Also, there were Jews before British colonialism who were actually indigenous to Palestine. In fact, when European Jews first arrived during the colonialism, there was actually conflict between the European Jews and the Palestinian Jews. Another argument I often hear from leftists is that the oppression is an act of colonialism, even though there were already Jews indigenous to the land, on top of the fact that the UK were actually the colonizers.
Also, anyone else find it contradictory that Christian leftists love pointing out that Jesus was Black and Jewish and that he was whitewashed by the Europeans, and then assume that all Jews are white and European?
Also, I just wanna say, I discovered your channel via your coming out video. I was so afraid to watch any videos you uploaded before that video because I wanted to see the new you that I met and it felt weird to see content from the person you used to live as that I never met. It’s relieving to see that you’ve given hints to your real identity in your videos prior that one, like the “crossdressing” you did in this video.
I think you would really like the book Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour.
2 years later and this video is depressingly relevant
@@Jm-uh7wg obviously not...
@@Jm-uh7wg yet here you are
I hate how right that is
Olly: there's gonna be no theatrics or costumes
*1 minute later*
Me: You lied!
For very good reason though
I believe the proper response is
J'ACCUSE!!
And I'm glad he did ❤️
Those crafty ladies of the French Resistance :D
I felt a great sense of relief. At least his magnificent goatee didn't die in vain.
I'm here on behalf of cis girls with big feet to say we exist.
i second this im a trans guy, my sister has bigger feet and hands than me. of course i had to be the petite biogirl 😢😭
How big is big feet. I'm pretty sure I am not included because this guy and I got a good chuckle out of how similar our feet were sized even though our height difference was 6(later 3) inches.
hey :)
@Tom Chaney Hush now.
Did you never think about surgery? Cut off the excess parts and get smaller feet! C'mon!, don't you want to be "normal" ? ;-)
I know this is a year on and will probably go unnoticed, but attaching antisemitism to white supremacy erases large swathes of antisemitism in the middle east and Africa. It is a more universal issue than the Eurocentric view makes it seem, which unfortunately contributes to my family being physically attacked by non-whites and it being downplayed as not fitting the definition.
Also, if you would like to see functional true socialism, I have a cousin who is kibbutzim. You might enjoy doing some study on the philosophy surrounding that lifestyle.
Thank you, I was scanning the comments for someone else who actually picked up on this as well.
The worker co-op has always thrived in the rural areas. I want to someday extend the model to other fields, like technology, industry, and the arts.
Who doesn't want Kibbutz Silicon?
As a Jew I can confirm I am a lizard with a really long nose and am in a constant need to betray whatever nation I am in for no reason at all!
Do you also eat palestinian children for breakfast?
"You think your life is hard? I'm a high school Junior wearing size 13 Nikes.... Men's size 13 Nikes."
I refuse to believe that movie wasn’t actually satire so high brow we didn’t realise
"White supremacy is like Doctor Who, okay? It's mainly white guys, sometimes there's a white lady, sometimes they let gay people do some of the writing, sometimes people of colour play supporting roles but it keeps regenerating is my point because ultimately it's one of Britain's most popular exports." Incredible.
its on the decline, mainly because how they fucked up the history. its loosing more and more views and the audience score is non-existing, have you ever seen a 0%? well now you have.
Interesting simile - how do the Daleks fit in?
Exellent allegory. Although something inside me winced due to my affection for Dr Who.
Indeed. One of the many, many brilliant bits of this video.
@@jackjordan5833 Yep. There is a book of essays on just this topic, *Doctor Who and Race*, edited by Lindy Ortha, that I've been meaning to get to. Now may be the time.
This video is so important and gained so much more significance in 2023
I'm perpetually surprised with how much sense Abigail's videos make and how she helps me connect dots between things i didn't realize were connected. Props to you, Abs.
Binging on content coming back from the future and amazed at Abby's ability to make a deep, complex, emotional, scary topic easy to digest and add humor without making it any less serious
As a black person, I have to say that this video really helped me understand a lot of questions i've been having about antisemitism. I won't lie that I have often considered many jewish as white and have not taken their problems as seriously as I should. Dismissing their calls of antisemitism as exaggerated because I thought they were not important, at least not as much as facing black people. I was going to click away when I saw the video was almost an hour but now I'm glad I watched the whole thing. Not only was it interesting but it challenged a lot of the underlying thoughts I had been having about antisemitism. So thank you for making this video.
I'm Jewish and really support what BLM has been trying to achieve, but have really struggled with the antisemitism of the leaders. When I question or say I disagree with it, I'm not welcome and sometimes have faced outrage. I don't feel like I am welcome, so have felt like I have to stand aside. I try to buy from black owned businesses, learn about racism to improve myself and help others learn, advocate reforms, vote, change the systems in the ways that I can, but still do not feel comfortable with the BLM leaders. I've had many talks with other Jews who feel like, yes antisemitism is bad and growing worse, but BIPOC have it worse, so we should be quiet and address that first, even though they are tied together. Thank you for starting to understand that it is a tightrope and I hope you can learn a bit more about the history of the tropes that are used and how they have been used.
as a jew, no real racist white person considers Jews white, since we are originally middle easterns, and even if our skin colour is different than it was 2,000 years ago we still have lots of middle eastern DNA that white supremacists think of as "Disgusting"
in fact, im also an arab jew (jew that her grandparents and community lived in an arab country) and even within Asia and the middle east we are classified as Hebrews, there is a word in Arabic to Jews which is the equivalent of "N" word that my grandfather used to hear in Iraq a lot, it's "Yehud".
in the past highly respected Muslim leaders used to insult each other with this word, because even suggesting that there is Jewish blood in you was, in the society of back than, like having "devil's blood" in your veins.
my grandfather suffered a lot in iraq because of this.
This is interesting. As a white person, I get the sense that you can fall into the racist trap on either end. Seeing Jews as fundamentally different and "other" is racist, given that Jews have been a part of "the West" (whatever that is) for centuries. You can also go too far the other way by failing to see that many forms of Judaism do maintain a partially distinct culture and heritage. It seems like a balancing act.
@@NC700xLover
jews were always in this unstable middle ground. this is basically one of the reasons for antisemitism,
in Iraq, my family was the same "race" technically (middle eastern, like arabs, that's why we are called arab jews) but it was still a pendulum of "same- but will always would be inherently different from everyone else."
My favorite thing about Olly’s channel is that he encourages me to challenge my underlying thoughts.
OLLY, as a Jew, THANK YOU SO MUCH. It seems like no one on left tube talks about it. I think the hardest part about “defining” antisemitism is that it’s a PERCEPTION, not an ideology. Thank you.
I think the "perception" definition could be extended to other forms of prejudice as well. Misogyny, homophobia etc. are all based on people perceiving x group in a negative way.
Natalie has talked in her Patreon Livestreams quite a few times about making a video on antisemitism, but she is very unsure about how to tackle the issue.
@Rebecca Woolf i volunteer! lmao
@@mikelmontoya2965 Sounds like the right person for the job...
Aaaaah that’s an incredibly useful way of putting it, thanks!
I grew up in Iran, where, unfortunately, even among many of the left leaning folks, antisemetism has a solid presence. I found this video to be incredibly helpful, and it was a starting point for me to learn much more about the history of antisemetism. Thank you Abby from the bottom of my heart for this.
One question: why not include a section on the history of the protocols of the elders of zion? It seems that played a very pivotal role in the shape and severity of modern antisemetism, and now looking back on this video, it's absence is palpable to me. Perhaps could be part of a follow up video?
I've rewatched this so many times, and only today when I wanted to take notes about the Dreyfus affair, did I find flight of the concords at the end 😂. Abi's videos just keep on giving.
I hesitated for about a week to watch this video upon seeing the title. I'm usually afraid to hear about non-Jewish peoples opinions on antisemitism , because it's usually used for a particular agenda, or is just wrong, even if the intention is good. After watching this, I can say that it's good... damn good. If there is anything that I've learned in my time on this planet, it's that non Jews hate it when Jews try to explain what antisemitism is, and to be honest, we don't do a good job of it ourselves. It's really really complicated, because it deals with the human condition in a subconscious sort of way, at least to some extent.
Overly Sarcastic Productions did a video called "The Persistence of Judaism", which to me has been the gold standard and my go to video in explaining Judaism and antisemitism in a single video. That video finally has company. Thank you Philosophy Tube for taking the time and doing the difficult research into a very complicated topic. As I write this there are 3,892 comments, and 235,707 views- (thanks to all of you that took the time to watch it, and to those who gave it a thumbs up),- so I highly doubt many will read this, but if by chance you do read this, Philosophy Tube, I want to say Toda Raba תודה רבה
@Ian Miles There are no intrinsic differences, but people grow up with different experiences and challenges. As such, a jew will have more experience dealing with anti-semitism, so it would make sense to give them preference to talk about it over a non-jew because they have a higher level of expertise on the subject.
@Glühfunke It wasn't for his benefit, it was for the benefit of anyone who may have asked that question in good faith.
the thing is people from both sides tend to highjack legitimate discussion to fuel their view points. for example whenever there is discussion about the Palestine Israeli conflict, antisemites express their racist views under the cloak of Palestinian solidarity and the right wing extreme pro Israel people use antisemitism as a cover to demonize the Palestinians and shut down any legitimate discussion about Israeli oppression of the Palestinians.
Ian Miles there is nothing intrinsically wrong with it. It’s just that non-Jews have never experienced anti-semitism, so it’s hard for them to understand what it’s like. It’s like how a cis person can’t really understand transphobia. A cis person could do a lot of research, and talk to a lot of trans people and get a good idea of transphobia, but that would still only be a theoretical academic understanding. A cis person still wouldn’t know what it’s like to victimized because of their gender identity. Likewise, a non-Jew can do a lot of research and talk to a lot of Jews and get a good (but not perfect) understanding of antisemitism. However, people rarely put in the amount of work required to understand these topics, so when non-Jews discuss antisemitism they tend to miss the mark.
I waited too. Because who doesn't love the Jews, right? Your comment made me watch the video and the video gave me more vocabulary to discuss it. Hooray!
I'm amazed that its possible for anyone to feel so strongly about Red Lobster that they would attack staff and also amazed the staff would care enough to defend Red Lobster
Same. Essential workers all over have been attacked and even killed for trying to enforce facemask rules! I just let it go at my job. I'm not getting my ass shot for a shitty dollar store
It's like an ancap utopia!
@@rvrlrvy Holy shit, *_WHATTTTT_*
@@arandomcomment1092 Yeah, a lot of violent instances are breaking out when certain white people are told the food court is closed or they are asked to please wear a mask. Because in my country the only freedoms people care about are the freedom to go shopping, the freedom to say slurs, and the freedom to not be bothered.
Ok but those cheddar biscuits though
"A whole lasagna of nonsense" gave me a chuckle. I believe this is the first of your videos I've watched from before you came out. I had to pause the video and reconcile the "before and after" images. One thing hasn't changed: philosophical chewies for me to gnosh on.
As someone who only recently went "Yes, I suppose I'm Jewish" after years of small bits of touch and go research on Jews in Ukraine and my "Roman Catholic" family that spoke Yiddish as a primary language and fled the country in the early 20's because "It was dangerous for us" thank you for making this video. I've read a variety of takes on antisemitism and I still have many more to read and to look into. But this has been a helpful video. And it does mean a lot to see someone who isn't Jewish and who has a fairly large platform talk about these issues. The bits about antisemitism on the left in particular have been very helpful.
Rest in power George Floyd!
Yeah!
and to all the other people who have died due to racist police brutality
Black lives are not Targets.
So mote it be!
And Tony McDade
A Jew and historian here: excellent video. I liked it very very much, and as a Jew I feel and believe you tackled it superbly. I would add some sections, though. I mean, what about other forms of antisemitism that aren't necessarily white supremacist? And the relationship between totalitarianism and authoritarianism to antisemitism specifically?
There's also the issue of antisemitism in fact being similar to homophobia than other forms of discrimination, for two reasons: 1) The idea of the Jew and the gay person (particularly male) not being easily identifiable to the bigot. PoCs are clearly identifiable, for example, by their physical traits. The former two aren't. This causes a massive upsurge of the bigot's paranoia. 2) The common idea that both Jews and gays somehow cause the "degeneration" of the "white race" or whatever other society (yes, it's extensive in the Middle East for different reasons as well).
Would love to find more opinions on the subject too. As always, hope you have a great day.
Well, here's a good example of antisemitism that isn't really white supremacist. Washington DC held a march for lesbians called the Dyke March during Pride last year. They encouraged people to bring Pride flags with symbols of other groups, including religious groups, on them. However, they asked that people please not bring flags with a Star of David. The Star of David is the symbol of Judaism, and more importantly the only Jewish symbol which is inclusive of women. While it is on the flag of Israel, a Pride flag with a Star of David is not an Israeli flag. Nor does it show support for Israel. Putin is using the Orthodox church as an excuse to persecute gay people in Russia, but the march did not outlaw the Orthodox cross.
They *could*. have said not to bring flags with religious symbols on them: and nobody would likely have complained. After all, anyone in the gay community (even those who are deeply religious) understands that religion is a touchy subject for their fellows. Many people have faced some horrific persecution by religious institutions, and so seeing a religious symbol might very well ruin someone's day. The organizers of this march were mainly black and latina, and part of their reasoning for this rule was to support people who are (mainly) considered black in the US: the Palestinians. However, partially unknowingly, they stumbled into anti-semitism.
that's a great point in 1) i feel like that's what hannah arendt was getting at and it went over my head lol
in her chapter about "inverts" and criminalization i mean
@@sophiejones7727 That's a tricky one. I definitely feel like not allowing religious affiliated flags would have been a better way to go.
If you ever make a video essay filling in these things please let us know I would be interested
Sadly more relevant than maybe ever
We just stumbled across your channel and have been watching your more recent videos and absolutely love your content!
Also, you’re so beautiful in your recent videos.
Thank you SO MUCH for providing this direct, and extremely informative education! Our US history is SO polluted with propaganda that we rarely get to hear what ACTUALLY happened. This was BRILLIANT! Thank you. 👍🏼☺️♥️
If more of us thought about our wrong ways as “doing an antisemitism”, “doing a racism”, “doing a transphobia” etc rather than ~being~ it, we would make more progress.
that would definitely make more people less likely to double down on their incorrect perceptions, because actions are easily correctable, you make an awesome point :)
I love that idea
Indeed! Attacking people’s identities, labeling them as a racist, or transphobe, etc. makes people quite defensive, sometimes irrationally so. But some people also just balk at being called out 😅
@@HerneHunter "cancelling" and just shutting out people who do wrong is not gonna make them do right. If we just ignore a part of the population, it's not "pure equality and egalitarianism". I do think that thinking about racist acts for example as just an isolated mistake one makes is inaccurate, but I believe in encouraging change. (by the way, I shouldn't have to say it but I'm part of a minority, so, yeah).
if you ask yourself: "am i a bad person?" you most likely just use your redeeming qualities to excuse everything else. that's just how people in general are! but if you're asking yourself "am i doing something wrong?" you force yourself to focus on your faults, because you remove yourself from your actions and can therefore judge them better. and it's more likely that you'll work on them. if you realize: "hey, i'm doing this thing that i would scrutinize others for!" you have already done the first step to improve yourself. and calling yourself a "bad person" isn't gonna cut it, because how the fuck are you supposed to work on yourself, when you have no clear direction on self-improvement?
if you beat yourself up over it, you'll never get out of your personal rabbitholes.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for making the distinction between the Israeli government and Jews. As a Jew, this is one of the most frustrating things I deal with, politically. People often assume that, because I am a Jew, I automatically endorse everything the Israeli government does, which just isn't true at all.
Very good comment. I think the same, about the zionists in other countries. Zionists are a threat just like nazists, but, just like a german isn't necessarily a nazist, a jew isn't necessarily a zionist. W Karl Marx!
maybe you Should read more about Zionism and understand it's place in history. Zionism was basically the realisation that Jews can't live in peace in Europe and it doesn't matter how much they assimilate, they will always face antisemitism and pogroms. The idea was to establish a country where Jews can live in peace. That's it.
Today "Zionism" is used as an antisemitic propaganda tool. Saying zionists are like Nazis is just very wrong and not based on facts.
I'm very critical of Israels politics but it has to be treated as politics and not some kind of "evil zionist club".
And for the necessity of a place where Jews can live without discrimination I dare you to walk a month with a kippa in Germany or look at Attila Hildemans telegram group. By your understanding of Zionism you are probably already a follower of his.
@@user-lt2yq7hn2b Eel
@@user-lt2yq7hn2b "Zionists are like nazis periodt" -Noam Chomsky
@@user-lt2yq7hn2b yeah no. Germany doesn't have many Nazis or racists at all compaired to other countries.
And if you go into Attila Hiltmans telegram that's just digital selfharm.
The majority of germans hate Attila Hiltman and his supporters, there is a reason why he is mocked on every big TV program.
Idk about jews, but my parents are immigrants so I know what getting faced with xenophobia means. I've seen it. And xenophobia and antisemitism are very closely linked by our history. I know what it feels like to be called slurs, a lot of Germans don't really like Romanians much.
I agree that Jewish people still face discrimination, but it isn't nearly as bad as it is in other countries.
I have gotten a LOT more xenophobic shit while living in England. Both because I am an immigrant and because I grew up in germany.
A guy literally threw glass bottles at me for speaking German
If you compaired Germany to the USA, England or many other countries we are so much better.
At least we get thought in schools that Nazis are bad and what they did to our country.
Don't make us out as this place where jews get jumped for existing.
You are such a pleasure to learn from. Thank you for sharing your lovely self and your knowledge with us. You're appreciated.