Jerry Seinfeld likened the Free Palestine movement to the Ku Klux Klan — even saying those who use the phrase “Free Palestine” are worse than the white supremacist group — at a student event at Duke University meant to honor hostages who are being held in Gaza.
Seinfeld spoke at the school in Durham, North Carolina, to introduce a former Israeli hostage, Omer Shem Tov, when he made the remarks, according to the university’s student newspaper, The Duke Chronicle. He reportedly started by saying, in reference to the Free Palestine activist movement, “Just say you don’t like Jews.”
“By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re not admitting what you really think. So it’s actually — compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here, because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ Okay, that’s honest,'" the Chronicle reported Seinfeld said.
While Jerry’s statement “‘Free Palestine’ are worse than the Ku Klux Klan” is absolutely moronic, he is not attracted to prepubescent children:
You know who likes to split hairs between liking children, prepubescent teens, and teenagers?
Classic Soresi bit: https://youtu.be/nu6C2KL_S9o
Classic comedy, great bit. But he’s not a doctor, not a lawyer, not a judge. Whoever thinks that conflating terms will help stop actual paedophilia is kidding themselves.
Doctors, lawyers, judges.
It’s still quite predatory behavior, though.
What behaviour exactly? I’m pointing this out because misuse of words can have dire consequences. In the same vain, just because the UK government practically labels people who utter “Free Palestine” as terrorists, it doesn’t make them so.
Dating a much younger person.
So, a large age gap is automatically predatory? When I was in my early twenties I had something with someone 30 years older. Was she predatory even though there was consent?
Don’t be obtuse. They’re talking about a teenager.
Trying to get to someone’s definition before arguing is the opposite of obtuse. Although that does make it sound like Jordan Peterson, yikes.
This whole discussion is centred on Seinfeld dating a 17 year old. It isn’t some abstract academic debate.
Why can’t it be? What’s the point otherwise. My objective is mutual understanding, learning something new, and reaching an agreement or compromise. I know that might still be a pipe-dream online, but yeah, I try.