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Jerry Seinfeld says KKK is ‘actually a little better’ than Free Palestine movement

www.yahoo.com Jerry Seinfeld says KKK is ‘actually a little better’ than Free Palestine movement

NEW YORK — It’s no laughing matter when it comes to how Jerry Seinfeld feels about what he seemingly believes is the lesser of two evils. During a Duke University event on Tuesday, the Emmy-winning comedian compared the Free Palestine movement to the Ku Klux Klan. He even went so far as to say that ...

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If anything good has come of this Israel-Palestine conflict thing, it has been exposing idiots.
- Specifically pretend-progressive idiots, for whom progess is great when it's for their approved groups.
  
  Seinfeld is a known conservative. Has never been known as a progressive.
  
  Idk, I never would have learned about all the "nuances" within the far right about this issue if not for what happened to Charlie Kirk. It's not just a pretend-progressive idiot thing. Idiots across the political spectrum have done some very interesting mental gymnastics over this conflict.
  Charlie Kirk made some clearly antisemitic statements during his career, but he also fully supported Israel in this conflict. That is fucking dumb, but also sounds pretty on point considering Trump supports Israel in this conflict, yet refused to admonish his neo nazi supporters who were caught on camera during rallies doing sieg heils before his first term. Or his supports that marched with torches chanting "Jews will not replace us." Not to mention some dude on Ketamine who hopped on stage during his second inauguration to do a few more sieg heils just to really rub it in.
  Apparently the shooter was a fan of Nick Fuentes. Fuentes hated Charlie Kirk bc he believed he was "too moderate" in his far right views. Ok...
  Nick Fuentes is apparently a Holocaust denier and has called for the death of jews in a holy war. He is very upfront and honest about his antisemitism. I guess this makes Fuentes the kind of guy Jerry Seinfeld apparently prefers as opposed to anyone who might otherwise just simply disagree with him about Palestine.
  Nick Fuentes also called Charlie Kirk a hypocrite for claiming to be a Christian while supporting genocide and murder of hundreds of people on a daily basis.
  I can't argue with him on that particular statement. However, it also seems just a bit hypocritical to be an antisemite calling for the death of jews, while claiming to worship a jew who sacrificed himself for the sins of the world, and only asked in return that you love your God as the creator of all things and love your neighbor as yourself.
- But the infestation is bad, so widespread. It's like moving your fridge and there are thousands of roaches under it.
- I mean I'd prefer people not being idiots. But yeah

Says guy who never had to deal with the KKK.
- This really calls attention to his overdeveloped sense of victimhood.
  
  He needs another reason to whinge about being canceled.
- Well, the KKK has never burned a cross on his lawn but the Free Palestine movement made him feel bad.
- Weirdly, it is actually true that both the KKK and Hamas have bought support in their communities by doing good public works for people. It’s not what they are best known for, but I don’t think shadow organizations survive for long without building some support somehow.
  
  their "shadow support" that you can't figure out is hate. Usually hate from religion. KKK are ALL christians, and use their religion to justify their hate. Hamas are ALL muslims, and use their religion to justify their hate. Israelis are ALL jews, and use their religion to justify their hate.
  Religions openly hate each other. They all have lived under the motto: There can only be one god(s), only one of us can be right. (even though some lie about that, too). They fight religious wars that last for thousands of years, and that's how they look at you. A pawn so small that you can't ever fit into a 1/10th of their next thousand year plan.
  
  Not really that weird? Basically every organization does this or is immediately unsuccessful. The only exception is companies under a government that's stable enough to carry water for them.
  This doesn't mean that the organizations are a net benefit.

“By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re not admitting what you really think,” said Seinfeld, who publicly embraces his Jewish heritage and has pushed back against critics of Israel.
“Just say you don’t like Jews,” he said in reference to the movement, before comparing its supporters to members of the KKK.
In that spirit, Jerry, maybe you should say what YOU really think. You’re a genocide apologist. Embrace it, instead of putting words in other peoples mouths.
- Nah, just have him say what he thinks about Palestinians and muslims. The rest follows.
- Probably he also doesn't like black people.
  
  If true, that would be grotesquely funny
- Calling critics of a state and a polity racists is some high level bullshit
  Did you criticise the Nazis? Pretty sure that means you hate all modern day Germans /s

Let's see, so we have
Free Palestine, a group that wants to stop the genocide and promote the freedom of Palestinians being murdered through no result of their own actions beyond simply existing.
The KKK, a group who expressly want to genocide and oppress the freedom of anyone non-white for just simply existing.
Jerry, you're telling on yourself here a bit
- I mean, he spent decades trying to rehabilitate his pal Kramer after he melted down and shouted the n-word at members of his audience.
  Now he’s saying he’s okay with genocide as long as the victims are brown or the wrong religion and they have real estate he’d like.
  Seems like he’s consistent.
  
  The Michael Richards incident was a literal one time event, albeit a terrible one. There were zero instances before and zero instances after that suggest Richards is racist. Everything since then Michaels has done suggests he’s exceedingly remorseful over it.
  I am not excusing it in the least, but I don’t think it’s even close to fair to compare him to someone currently supporting the genocide in Palestine.
  
  his mind kinda broke when spoke at DARTHMOUTH, when nobody laughed at his joke.
- The KKK claims the Jews are doing a white genocide. Are you a genocide denier if you don't believe the claims of the KKK?
  
  So you're saying the only people claiming theres a genocide are Hamas?
  Ahh okay, zionazi.

Jerry Seinfeld has always been a pompous piece of shit. Fuck him and his unfunny horsefaced “comedy”.
Oh, and he fucked a teenager at the height of his show. Release the files.
- This is the truth. Once he got money, he turned into the asshole he was always wanted to be and oh, what an asshole he's blossomed into.
  Now he's added piece of shit who likes genocide AND is entirely brain damaged about what the KKK does and has done.
  Pretty solid work to show that you're a piece of shit, like murder and have zero clue about the KKK all in one go.
  If this country is going up in flames, can we put the boomers on the front line? They love to talk a big game, let them live up to their own hype.
  
  Boomers pulled the ladder from us, and ran their mouths about it. Absolutely send them in first.
- No one watches Seinfeld for Seinfeld.
  Same effect with King of Queens.
  
  I only watched that show for Jason Alexander. Although Duckman was his much better work.
  
  Larry David is the genius behind the show.
  
  Exactly. We watch them both for Jerry Stiller.

Jerry Seinfeld is a pedophile
- Is this why he's trying to distract us from the Epstein files?
  
  I'd be surprised if he wasn't on the list.
- Jerry Seinfeld is a pedophile
  You don't say.

Good thing I don’t take advice from pedos who "date" 17-year-olds when they’re 39 😃
- pedos who “date” 17-year-olds
  Stop watering down the term. Yucky? Sure. Pedophile? No.
  Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Although girls typically begin the process of puberty at age 10 or 11, and boys at age 11 or 12, psychiatric diagnostic criteria for pedophilia extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13.
  Emphasis mine. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia.
  
  He's a type A fucking creep and a pederast if you want to get technical about it.
  
  A little further down:
  In popular usage, the word pedophilia is often applied to any sexual interest in children or the act of child sexual abuse, including any sexual interest in minors below the local age of consent or age of adulthood, regardless of their level of physical or mental development.
  
  Dude, nothing's creepier than people who are eager to argue about the exact definition of pedophile.
  
  This isn't something to be pedantic about. You're not solving any problems by protecting a child-raping billionaire from misused words. Don't be a bad human, please.
  
  Man didnt read the entire wikipedia or conveniently forgot that 17 is still considered a child in the US
  
  Whats the deal with girlfriends? You pick them up from school, and all they talk about is homework, and who's going to the school dance! Don't girlfriends know people who oppose genocide are worse then the KKK?
  actually if its not from the pedophile region, otherwise it's just sparkling child abuse
  you and that other weirdo in this thread really need to check yourselves
  
  Wow a morally & ethically-sound person on lemmy that respects the rule of law.
  You are a rarity, sir/madam

"Just say you hate Jews. Just tie me up and say Jews should die. Spank me and call me an evil little Jew. You know you want to."
"Mr Seinfeld, children are starving."

He's always come off as a smug arrogant douche and he doesn't change this first impression the more he opens his mouth,

Sorry Jerry but I don't hate Jews but I hate the government of Israel

Why do they keep trying to fuzz the terminology?
Zionists and Jews are not the same thing. They have very little in common.
- Because they're dishonest; unfortunately, it's very effective in shutting down public conversations about what's happening over there.

What's the deal with Israel, pedos and billionaires?

what a rubbish human. Fuck you, jerry (I'm not capitalising his name. he doesn't deserve it)
- "Finally, a Jerry worse than me!"

"What's the deaaal with unfunny, stupid comedians?"

To be fair that is an absurdly funny statement, it's just a shame that he wasn't joking...
- That's something someone says in "curb your enthusiasm", but he also bakes the best pumpkin pie in town, so people have to pretend to not hear it.

What's the deal with black people? They're not black, and they're not people.
-Jerry Seinfeld (probably)

Jerry has been a salty prick ever since people figured out the writers did all the heavy lifting on his show.
- probably none to happy that him being a fuckin pedophile became widespread news either.
  
  No, surprisingly I don't think that bothered him. Otherwise he would not have made this joke.

Does he have any respect left?
Honestly...like...who still thinks Jerry Seinfeld is a good person? Jerry Springer is a better person.
Who'd think that George would be the most respectable of the group 30 years later.
- Wait did Julia Louis Dreyfus do anything?
  
  Well, she was a billionaire before the show even started. She's an heiress to a massive family fortune.
  
  She seemed to be snarking on Seinfeld's attitude on political correctness last i checked.
  
  I DONT KNOW, MARGO!

“The KKK is a little better than Free Palestine. The crisp white robes? The anonymity? They’re basically racist laundry!”
funky slap bass

Not really related but I'm having the weirdest time because I got on FB for the first time in a decade, and learned an old friend has transitioned and looks to be much happier now, so I'm excited, but their feed is FULL of zionist propaganda and it appears her entire identity is wrapped up in this now, so accepting her request would be a time bomb. Fuck, why everything gotta be this way now.
- So are you transphobe OR antisemitic? Sorry but you have to pick one
- Let me make it simple; You genocide, you lose. So cut off communication if you wish, but first attempt to reason
- People contain a multitude of thoughts and opinions. But, it always surprised me how one group that is persecuted can't empathize with others experiencing persecutions too.

Oh look everyone. It's the "airline food" guy who peaked in the 90s. He has a political opinion.

Of course Jerry of course. Israel is still a terrorist state. Bye.
- a NAZI terrorist state.

So. after WW2 Jewish people can obliterate an entire population just because they were attacked. boohoohoo What if the USA did the same thing in Vietnam, Korea, Afganistan, Iraq, etc? How is starving civilians to death is this fucking right Israel? You are making yourselves the new German Party of 1933. Netanyahu is the new Hitler. He ignores the international community, just like Hitler, kills innocents and does not admit it, just like Hitler. He kills starving children ffs. How low do you want to go Israel before you become what you've feared for 80 years? It's an international disgrace. Even trump is telling you to stop now, I mean WTF dudes?

Jerry had more worthwhile things to say back when he had a show about nothing.
- In retrospect, Seinfeld was a very dark show. Somewhere on YouTube there is an insightful little video essay about how the first few seasons of the show are basically the story of how Elaine, a perfectly decent person, gets drawn into their little circle and over time adopts their awful selfishness and sociopathic behavior to try to fit in. How most of the problems of the show are caused by their selfishness and dishonesty, and often involve significant harm coming to someone else, and they don't care.
  I can't even remember which comedian it is, but someone had a bit about how the darkest joke he ever heard was a Seinfeld bit about being at the movie theater and just throwing his drink on the ground at the end for someone else to clean up. Like it's a small thing, but the guy talking about it was genuinely alarmed by the depth of how far he genuinely just doesn't give a fuck and doesn't mind if you know it.
  
  T1J?
  Great TV essays.
  
  Here you go on that essay I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ77Qn53xhw

He's a comedian. Is this a joke? How can someone honestly think this?
- Delusional billionaire with a persecution complex.
  
  I actually think you hit the nail on the head with persecution complex. He likely grew up experiencing antisemitism, I know I did and I'm younger than him. But he became incredibly privileged. Since being persecuted is core to his younger identity, he doubles down on the idea that he is persecuted. I see this frequently with people that are newly rich, they can't accept their new privilege as a shift in their identity, so they double down on an old identity.
  It's the same issue with Dave Chappelle, who used to be more conscious of -isms, but is dishonest about any other bigotry but anti-black bigotry since he became ultra wealthy. He needs to focus on anti-blackness over all else because if he doesn't he just becomes another privileged dude in a broken system (in his mind). It's about protecting your self image of a victim after becoming one of the privileged.
  Also Seinfeld is a groomer creep.

Fuck Seinfeld
- You might be too old for him.

He's a rich NYC Jew, running with rich NYC Jews. Who expected him to say anything else?!
“Because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ OK, that’s honest.'”
I dunno. I like my racists honest, not hiding behind dog whistles.
- And dated a teenager when he was 38... Wonder how young he went for behind the scenes? Epstein list material, perhaps, considering he's a fascist sympathizer already
- No, you see. Youre supposed to be outraged, dont you know? Youre not supposed to read the context, just consume the headline, write something obvious for upvotes, and then move on to the next headline where you dont read the context. Jesus, is this your first time on reddit... Wait a minute!!!?

Who, oh ya that soso comedian that got lucky with a tv show about nothing.
Useless twat.

What a trash human being. I hope somebody leaves a burning cross in his yard.
- No one knows where he lives because Americans don’t care about him, he’s so irrelevant that he’s pushing shit out because he’s trying to be in the media… he and Drumpf can be pedophiles together and fuck off!!
  FREE PALESTINE!!!! 🖕🏼🖕🏼
  
  Yeah right, americans don't care about celebrities.

Jerry Seinfeld is a washed up comedian, who cares what his opinions on international geopolitics is???

nazionist

Who?

Remember when his show had an episode where a minor pursued Ellen? What did the show mean by that?
- It's Suze!

He's got enough money to retire in luxury forever. Why is he still trying to be relevant? Fucking egomaniacs will be the end of us all.
- Maybe he's thinking about getting into politics. Feels like it's time.
  
  If we're looking for comedians to run for office, can we get Doug Stanhope instead, please?

Man now I can’t watch Seinfeld anymore? Why people got to do this?
- Because some people are jerks who don't want better people to enjoy life. Especially out of touch billionaires like Seinfeld.
- Yeah you can, just remember Larry David and the other writers who actually made it good.
  Edit: and the cast! So many iconic performances.
- You can watch it, it’s even a little better than Family Guy later seasons.

Bet you won't say that at a clan rally, they looove jews

This guy needs rotten tomatoes thrown at him everywhere

Queue clip of Jimmy gervais, telling all of those Hollywood idiots to take their little Grammy and stfu because they know nothing about the real world.

Add this to his removed about no one finding him funny anymore when his humor hasn't changed since '86. He's just trying to stave off irrelevance. The last great thing he did was a movie about bestiality (BEEstiality).

KKK is not.

"Whyyyyy does the word 'lisp' have an 's' in it? HALF A BILLION DOLLARS PLEASE!"

This is what happens when his little sitcom has been out of syndication for nearly three decades. Starts going crazy.

Fuck him! He’s a horrid human, pedophile, and pos to his “fans”.. like all 10 of them. He’s more irrelevant than any “news” the right owned media pushes out! Keep firing people for freedom of speak and find out real quick… new gen’s aren’t that dumb as MAGATS we have critical thinking skills and know what’s truly going on; distract all you want, but we know the GOP’s are all pedophiles!!
**RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!! **

The problem with activist groups that spring up online is there's no leadership to keep it focused on it's goals.
There's a one-upmanship that happens where everyone is competing to get attention for themselves regardless of whether it hurts their movement. One person hates Netanyahu (understandable) the next hates the soldiers participating in the war and that gets more attention. The next hates anyone that has ever been in the IDF, gets the attention, so the next hates everyone in Israel. On and on it goes until we start seeing people hate any business that has ever had any association with Israel, and any political group with any association. Eventually gets so that only way to get attention is to express hatred of all Jews. Just have to use the word Zionist (no different to how white supremacist types use Globalist) so you can avoid association with the Nazis.
And what was this movement originally about? Helping Palestinians? How does deplorable behaviour help Palestinians? It doesn't. But it get attention, it gets internet clout which can be monetized.
The Free Palestine Movement is no longer a movement that's helping Palestinians in any way. It's just a hate group full of attention removed.
- Yes. If you're part of the IDF and aren't trying to minimize your effect and get the hell out, you're a bad person.
  The US has never had mandatory service in my life time, but when I was called to serve in Bush II's wars, I was proud to refuse.
  If the Free Palestine Movement had a central origination, you'd just be criticizing that instead. BLM sort of had a central origination that was misusing funds, but the decentralize aspects never really lost focus.
  
  I'm not talking about an organization, I'm talking about actual leadership. There's a difference. There's no Martin Luthor King for the Free Palestine movement, there isn't anyone that can call out the bad actors who are manipulating the movement for their own ends.
  The BLM movement as you mentioned got associated with a shady organization. There wasn't a respected leader that can say "we have nothing to do with that shady organization" so it was kinda convincing to some. But since there were enough existing leaders from the Civil Rights era and politicians to explain it, the message got across well enough to many people.
  The Free Palestine movement doesn't have anyone that can do that. There was no one within the movement brave enough to denouce Hamas the day after October 7, so the movement is associated with Hamas. Which means it's associated with the genocidal acts of Hamas. So the constant screams about genocide by the movement sound hypocritical to any bystanders. There were a few politicians like AOC that had sympathy for the movement that were harrassed for failing to pass the purity tests of the worst people in the movement. The Free Palestine movement is unable to form alliances with anyone. It's carcinogenic to mainstream politics because no one can trust those within the movement to not say something overtly antisemitic. And those fears are confirmed when people in the movement talk endlessly about it being the Jews preventing them speaking at an event.
  It's gotten to the point where I don't think it's possible for there to be a leader of this movement now. It's not possible to pass the purity tests of the radicals that want to be more radical than everyone else.
  The game of one-upmanship has made the Free Palestine movement is completely out of touch with the rest of the world. There's protests at syngogues, harrassment campaigns against holocaust museums and somehow y'all believe the rationalizations about these actions not being antisemitic. Nobody outside your little group believes those rationalizations.
  You're just a hate group to the people that don't frequent your online forums.
- Jerry, is this you?

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