"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,’" he told a crowd at Duke University.

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.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    i don’t know if anyone worked as hard as Jerry Seinfeld to ruin his own reputation insistently for so long.

    • Karjalan@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      I mean, he’s doing a great job of it, but there are a lot of other sensational examples

      Musk, Russel Brand, Kanye, Gervais, Rogan, Rowling, Dilbert guy…

      You could argue none of them were as big a self inflicted fall I guess, but they were all, at times, thought of in pretty high esteem by a lot of of people, and then, well, you know.

  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    17 days ago

    “Just say you don’t like Jews.”
    Yeah that makes total sense. Obviously, if I feel like a group of people deserve to not be genocided, that means I don’t like Jews. So “liking Jews” = You must want to destroy another culture.

      • RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works
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        17 days ago

        As gross as this is, and clearly a 17 year old is not an adult by any real standard, but depending on the state it was legal. Just fucking gross and wrong immortal and he should be shamed into Oblivion for doing it.

        • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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          14 days ago

          This is the real answer. Really, really gross, just not necessarily illegal.

          Age of consent varies. Example in Victoria Australia is it’s within 2 years until 16, anyone from 16 as long as they’re not your teacher or someone else with authority, and then 18 anyone older than 16.

          Prevents stupid shit like I’ve heard from the US where an 18 year old gets booked because the parents don’t like that their 17 year old is having sex…

          Don’t look up the age of consent in China, they’ve really dropped the ball on that one 👀

  • xyzzy@lemmy.today
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    17 days ago

    “I don’t care about Palestine,” says the comfortable billionaire. He doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about the issue. He’s just OK with genocide as a final solution, like the vast majority of Israel.

    “I don’t preach about [the war]. I have my personal feelings about it that I discuss privately. It’s not part of what I can do comedically, but my feelings are very strong.”

    His feelings:

    Jerry Seinfeld

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Exactly what I’d expect from the billionaire leech class.

    I wonder what he thinks about a thirty-eight year old man dating a seventeen year old? Oh wait we know already.

    Dude’s been fuckin’ gross for years, nobody should take moral advice from this pedo.

    • CannonFodder@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      Agreed. So Hamas needs to surrender or be eliminated.
      What Israel is doing with blocking humanitarian aid and having seemingly zero care about civilian casualties is abhorrent. But this only ends with the complete destruction of Hamas.

      • ideonek@piefed.socialEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Silent part of this abhorrent argument is that as long as at least one Palestinian live, there is no certainty that Hamas was completly destroyed.

          • eclipse@lemmy.world
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            17 days ago

            Have you considered that killing people’s children (directly or indirectly through forces like starvation, lack of medical care, etc.) might be one of the best recruitment motivators for Hamas?

            • CannonFodder@lemmy.world
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              17 days ago

              Yeah, it’s probably not great for Israel long term. But Hamas will never allow peace while Israel exists. Kinda fucked up all around.

              • kreskin@lemmy.world
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                17 days ago

                Yeah, it’s probably not great for Israel long term.

                “Not great” you say?

                Israel may end up nuked. It seems inevitable at this point. And its like zionists couldnt care less about the danger they put themselves and the rest of the world in.