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  • @Niffoni
    @Niffoni Год назад +4942

    I can't believe that months later, Abby would reveal that she'd actually been French the whole time.

  • @jasonvargas441
    @jasonvargas441 4 года назад +7078

    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.

    • @genderqueergorehound
      @genderqueergorehound 4 года назад +633

      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.

    • @MsAdlerHolmes
      @MsAdlerHolmes 4 года назад +284

      Ohhh yikes

    • @benlalammohamedrachid3112
      @benlalammohamedrachid3112 4 года назад +157

      Well, i guess accidentally doing the right thing is still better then nothing.

    • @virutech32
      @virutech32 4 года назад +391

      @@benlalammohamedrachid3112 not when its accompanied by death squads

    • @MaskedManta
      @MaskedManta 4 года назад +671

      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.

  • @serapekkala8238
    @serapekkala8238 Год назад +2087

    “There will be absolutely no crossdressing. I am *kidding!*”
    **sound of an egg cracking very loudly**
    Love you, Abby. ❤

  • @Thytos
    @Thytos Год назад +1013

    "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!

  • @saroltagalambodi1513
    @saroltagalambodi1513 3 года назад +5654

    ‘THERE WILL BE NO CROSSDRESSING IN THIS VIDEO’ HAS A WHOLE NEW MEANING NOW

    • @shneancy220
      @shneancy220 3 года назад +307

      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

    • @nyarthecat8195
      @nyarthecat8195 3 года назад +157

      “there will be no crossdresing in this video. just kidding!”
      THE CROSSDRESSING WAS THE RESPONSE VIDEO PERSON DJSJNZKXIDJSNA

    • @zacpier
      @zacpier 3 года назад +44

      @@shneancy220 I think she meant that she came out to friends and family lol

    • @shneancy220
      @shneancy220 3 года назад +26

      @@zacpier yeah that makes more sense, but I'll still keep my idea as a headcannon

    • @Terence.McKenna
      @Terence.McKenna 3 года назад +1

      So the difference is weather he says he a man or not. Interesting

  • @RJH755
    @RJH755 3 года назад +2933

    She did indeed crossdress in this video, but not in the way we thought...

    • @GZQ9
      @GZQ9 3 года назад +269

      She’s been a drag king for years

    • @bigburd875
      @bigburd875 3 года назад +99

      She did a flipsie with our brain-noodles

    • @obliviousotterI
      @obliviousotterI 3 года назад +38

      @@GZQ9 I really like looking at it like that

    • @KatieTheDev
      @KatieTheDev 3 года назад +7

      @@GZQ9 yes

    • @ellenorbjornsdottir1166
      @ellenorbjornsdottir1166 3 года назад +8

      That Aussie character.

  • @sabaducia
    @sabaducia 3 года назад +958

    As an Australian cis-girl with size 11 feet, I can say anti-Semitism is irrational and your Australian character is spot on.

    • @sarahfunaki3884
      @sarahfunaki3884 Год назад

      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.

    • @kshaur13
      @kshaur13 Год назад +22

      As a deaf Australian man, I wholeheartedly agree

    • @varunv2584
      @varunv2584 4 месяца назад +1

      Why is it irrational?

    • @frankimusmaximus3012
      @frankimusmaximus3012 4 месяца назад +3

      ​@@varunv2584they may call you irrational, but they won't call you a liar.

    • @davitdavid7165
      @davitdavid7165 3 месяца назад +3

      ​@@frankimusmaximus3012he is a liar

  • @Leadhead
    @Leadhead 2 года назад +1179

    Getting into Philosophy tube lately. Abigail really is just like the super fun history teacher in this video. Love it

    • @shantih19
      @shantih19 2 года назад +25

      This has now become the best crossover ever

    • @eviethekiwi7178
      @eviethekiwi7178 2 года назад +32

      i love trans youtube

    • @alexanderhuezo958
      @alexanderhuezo958 2 года назад +8

      So glad to run into you here.

    • @abnerdwight
      @abnerdwight 2 года назад +5

      Rewatching rn. 💖 lovely seeing you here.

    • @GraafBerengeur
      @GraafBerengeur 2 года назад +4

      Oh, you here? Fantastic :D Love your videos! We love you, HeadLead!

  • @ellelongacre3723
    @ellelongacre3723 3 года назад +8045

    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.

    • @mcfarlandgeoffroy7212
      @mcfarlandgeoffroy7212 3 года назад +349

      Exactly bro she’s brilliant

    • @jeff6413
      @jeff6413 3 года назад +163

      That, and something tells me the driving-home-tired story actually happened. Hindsight being 20/20.

    • @hq4287
      @hq4287 3 года назад +135

      This is so Shakespearean...

    • @theuncannydag
      @theuncannydag 3 года назад +213

      A girl playing a guy playing a different girl

    • @MarieTherese821
      @MarieTherese821 3 года назад +61

      We love a full Victor/Victoria

  • @IzzetRight
    @IzzetRight 4 года назад +2008

    Karl Marx has been oddly silent since this video dropped.

    • @lemmonboy6459
      @lemmonboy6459 4 года назад +87

      Yo he fucken dead bro 💀

    • @DynastieArtistique
      @DynastieArtistique 4 года назад +18

      HAHAHAHAAH😂😂😂😂😂

    • @stilesna123
      @stilesna123 4 года назад +5

      Post more vids dude

    • @appleslover
      @appleslover 3 года назад +48

      @@lemmonboy6459 you don't say

    • @portablejamie2788
      @portablejamie2788 3 года назад +56

      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

  • @noamaharony4878
    @noamaharony4878 3 года назад +747

    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

    • @_blank-_
      @_blank-_ 3 года назад +5

      No Israeli is innocent.

    • @randomshades
      @randomshades 3 года назад +167

      @@_blank-_ literally did you watch the video? The Israeli government often doesn't speak for the people. Also, free Palestine.

    • @sarahfunaki3884
      @sarahfunaki3884 Год назад

      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 .

    • @blakemccann445
      @blakemccann445 Год назад +6

      @@randomshades every synagogue flies the flag of Israel over their own nation. They are inherently disloyal

    • @jeannebouwman1970
      @jeannebouwman1970 Год назад +87

      @@blakemccann445 this is a 4 sentence disaster of a comment reactions

  • @arkarp
    @arkarp 2 года назад +369

    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.

  • @fantagemagorical
    @fantagemagorical 4 года назад +5726

    Clean-shaven Olly looks like the type of man Oscar Wilde would have as his muse and pose on his fainting chair

    • @laurenlizzbeth
      @laurenlizzbeth 4 года назад +369

      Now i just keep imagining Olly as Dorian Gray in the 21st century major movie adaptation

    • @dylanchouinard6141
      @dylanchouinard6141 4 года назад +244

      Which is oddly appropriate as Oscar Wilde was also an antisemite

    • @TheEmpress1768
      @TheEmpress1768 4 года назад +59

      She femme

    • @no_special_person
      @no_special_person 4 года назад +126

      Watching him talk is making me blush, I don't even understand what he's saying, just so much serotonin levels

    • @KamFails
      @KamFails 4 года назад +101

      My thoughts were "Man Timothee Chalamet got thicc"

  • @Heleyrine
    @Heleyrine 3 года назад +3854

    This hits quite different knowing Abigail here was all along, dressing as herself.

    • @arandomcomment1092
      @arandomcomment1092 3 года назад +88

      She still carries big Mademoiselle Y vibes

    • @madisonkehl7461
      @madisonkehl7461 3 года назад +138

      Isnt it wild? It wasn't just a character it was, perhaps, a way for her to be herself on camera for once

    • @TimdeVisser86
      @TimdeVisser86 3 года назад +56

      FORESHADOWING

    • @Wewin42
      @Wewin42 3 года назад +48

      @@madisonkehl7461 she is though! She's playing a man who's playing a woman and it actually shows through and it's pretty impressive.

    • @captainjules6033
      @captainjules6033 3 года назад +9

      "oooOOOOOhhhhh"
      -Probably a few Philosophy Tube fans

  • @phantomeriklover
    @phantomeriklover 6 месяцев назад +82

    Anyone else revisiting this because of recent events or is it just me? I needed a refresher course.

  • @boy_wells9339
    @boy_wells9339 2 года назад +193

    ''the biggest argument against communism, is that the cringe is not evenly distributed''
    LMFAOOOOOO I DIED

  • @knifedrowns8272
    @knifedrowns8272 3 года назад +2509

    Philosophy Tube finally broke. He's so upset about people using his videos like podcasts he included french with subtitles

    • @marcoshernandez2439
      @marcoshernandez2439 3 года назад +236

      Thankfully I speak French so I can continue with the podcasts!

    • @JeronisLeror
      @JeronisLeror 3 года назад +237

      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.

    • @DaDARKPass
      @DaDARKPass 3 года назад +25

      lol, that won't stop me.

    • @gremlinlad3671
      @gremlinlad3671 3 года назад +40

      joke’s on him, i’m fluent

    • @theteddy906
      @theteddy906 3 года назад +51

      jokes on him because I will just miss out bc Im lazy

  • @asgarzigel
    @asgarzigel 4 года назад +528

    "the play had to be shut down because the audience was fighting"
    the YT comments section is older than I expected

    • @k_a_y_l_e_e
      @k_a_y_l_e_e 4 года назад +4

      hugely underrated comment.

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 4 года назад +19

      @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.

    • @dresseurpokemon430
      @dresseurpokemon430 4 года назад +5

      @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)

    • @yonatanbeer3475
      @yonatanbeer3475 4 года назад +1

      @@timothymclean The internet is the democratization of cringe.

    • @yllejord
      @yllejord 4 года назад

      @@yonatanbeer3475 But the cringe is not equally distributed, he said so in this very video.

  • @rorykurek643
    @rorykurek643 3 года назад +189

    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!

    • @tamarbeker1701
      @tamarbeker1701 4 месяца назад +11

      ... And then I saw this comment was posted two years ago

    • @AmberLois
      @AmberLois 4 месяца назад

      ​@tamarbeker1701 what do you mean?

    • @tamarbeker1701
      @tamarbeker1701 4 месяца назад +3

      @@AmberLois ... How much do you know about the war that's been going on lately?

  • @adamroc123
    @adamroc123 7 месяцев назад +35

    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.

    • @_Tozzie_
      @_Tozzie_ 2 месяца назад

      Shit, thank you for letting us know.

  • @snosibsnob3930
    @snosibsnob3930 4 года назад +1043

    Listening to somebody say the phrase “comrade Trump” with my own ears is bizarre

    • @ScorpionViper1001
      @ScorpionViper1001 4 года назад +37

      I laughed my ass off at that. The most comically mismatched image of a man vs. the real man since "Antifa Tim Kaine."

    • @1000g2g3g4g800999
      @1000g2g3g4g800999 4 года назад +13

      Particularly at this timing.

    • @weatheranddarkness
      @weatheranddarkness 4 года назад

      @@1000g2g3g4g800999 particularly

    • @theharbingerofconflation
      @theharbingerofconflation 4 года назад +4

      Stop lying Mitochondria don’t have ears!

    • @WindsurferNr1
      @WindsurferNr1 4 года назад +1

      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...

  • @PeppermintTaste
    @PeppermintTaste 3 года назад +1389

    "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

    • @charismahornum-fries691
      @charismahornum-fries691 2 года назад +14

      Where do you find those baguettes? They must have metal in the dough 😀

    • @noeljonsson3578
      @noeljonsson3578 2 года назад +34

      @@charismahornum-fries691 they’re french bread… it’ll be hard as rock within an hour. /s

    • @flyingsquirrel1135
      @flyingsquirrel1135 2 года назад +2

      Keep the police, use it to fight the reactionaries

    • @platypodesrock9221
      @platypodesrock9221 2 года назад

      @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.

    • @platypodesrock9221
      @platypodesrock9221 2 года назад

      @Pattern Recognized also who still uses lett for Latvian

  • @sfurules
    @sfurules 3 года назад +61

    "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.

  • @MrTAGGER88
    @MrTAGGER88 7 месяцев назад +18

    They got us fighting culture wars to not fight class wars. It's a tale as old as time

  • @baykkus
    @baykkus 4 года назад +650

    "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.

    • @orion2116
      @orion2116 4 года назад +11

      The truth is always valuable to a converstion

    • @klisterklister2367
      @klisterklister2367 4 года назад +10

      as a dr who fan, i confirm that is correct 😂

    • @Companion92
      @Companion92 4 года назад +1

      I have hope. At leat Ruth is a start

    • @Ben-vf5gk
      @Ben-vf5gk 4 года назад

      Ruth should have been the next Dr not a pre-Hartnell version

    • @lacerda6804
      @lacerda6804 4 года назад +1

      Britain likes to export colonialist rethoric I suppose.

  • @robotbirb7321
    @robotbirb7321 4 года назад +3532

    olly: no theatrics or costumes!
    me, looking at his plucked brows: riiiiiiiiiiiiight

    • @joyshokeir1593
      @joyshokeir1593 4 года назад +142

      Not to mention his French-tips... which you can only briefly see only in a few frames.

    • @madcat9024
      @madcat9024 4 года назад +213

      not to mention no facial hair !!!!! lowkey didn't recognize him because of how much i associate him with it

    • @shariwelch8760
      @shariwelch8760 4 года назад +109

      The minute he came on screen I said "Oooh, someone got their eyebrows did!"

    • @ivypierlot
      @ivypierlot 4 года назад +4

      thats what i was like as well

    • @HaterMcFattyPants
      @HaterMcFattyPants 4 года назад +10

      Them eyebrows is squares away though!♥️

  • @scroogles6207
    @scroogles6207 Год назад +95

    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

    • @tamarbeker1701
      @tamarbeker1701 Год назад +6

      Yep...

    • @julzbehr6696
      @julzbehr6696 9 месяцев назад +8

      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

  • @lukepalmas4776
    @lukepalmas4776 2 года назад +34

    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 RUclipsr vibe is just bang on. The deadpool mask, the nickname he gives himself and his vernacular are all amazing and perfect.

  • @WhimsicalBlades
    @WhimsicalBlades 4 года назад +396

    "No theatrics, no fancy costumes, and absolutely no crossdressing"... Olly, we're barely a minute into the video and your makeup is already flawless.

  • @christinameyer6984
    @christinameyer6984 4 года назад +1095

    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."

    • @MC-tl5bf
      @MC-tl5bf 4 года назад +9

      so true

    • @luciaflores1901
      @luciaflores1901 4 года назад +56

      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

    • @justalostlocal
      @justalostlocal 4 года назад +54

      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.

    • @HanBlack314
      @HanBlack314 4 года назад +65

      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! )

    • @hannahseling1513
      @hannahseling1513 4 года назад +48

      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)

  • @deusexaethera
    @deusexaethera 2 года назад +127

    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.

    • @GrahamChapman
      @GrahamChapman 2 года назад +9

      Thank you for saying this. ^^

    • @ilexdiapason
      @ilexdiapason 2 года назад +14

      i had literally never heard this before, thank you for the input!

    • @anlrmak1534
      @anlrmak1534 2 года назад +5

      Didn't know this. Thanks for clarifying

    • @lavenderhuman
      @lavenderhuman 2 года назад +7

      I never knew that, thank you

    • @apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868
      @apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868 2 года назад +12

      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.

  • @crocve
    @crocve 7 месяцев назад +25

    Recent events have made this video VERYYYYYY relevant again...

    • @Maryculligan
      @Maryculligan 2 месяца назад +1

      Sad events. Now in mar 2024- dangerous too.

    • @lorenrubinstein4353
      @lorenrubinstein4353 25 дней назад

      ​@@Maryculligan yea...it's worse in April ....

  • @DarynLuna
    @DarynLuna 4 года назад +482

    'there's going to be no cross dressing' *i frown* 'just kidding welcome to the show' *relieved sigh*

  • @TheZacharias333
    @TheZacharias333 3 года назад +2403

    I love how half the comments are now about the “absolutely no crossdressing” line.
    Hail to the princess of terf island 💖

    • @zacpier
      @zacpier 3 года назад +9

      I mean, I guess it's true!

    • @sarahwinn2453
      @sarahwinn2453 3 года назад +75

      Technically she was crossdressing when she said that.

    • @freshoutofcrabs
      @freshoutofcrabs 3 года назад +22

      @Electroencefalografista Because even though she wants/wanted to "fuck the queen", she doesn't want monarchy to exist.

    • @josukeyn3761
      @josukeyn3761 3 года назад +1

      @@sarahwinn2453 she was already out to everyone in her private life so no?

    • @sarahwinn2453
      @sarahwinn2453 3 года назад +24

      @@josukeyn3761 yeah, I meant that she was crossdressing by being dressed as a man.

  • @suchlanguageface
    @suchlanguageface Год назад +38

    I'd absolutely attend any history lecture that you held. Or a lecture on any subject. Wonderful work, and fabulously well done ❤️

  • @tamarbeker1701
    @tamarbeker1701 Год назад +36

    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

    • @Serah-pq1cw
      @Serah-pq1cw 3 месяца назад +1

      lol hard to believe when u grew up in “Israel” you don’t know the history or ur own people

  • @jackakimbo5718
    @jackakimbo5718 4 года назад +474

    "Chill lofi beats to study/wage international conflict to"
    whoever did these subtitles deserves a raise

    • @Liliocelote
      @Liliocelote 4 года назад +16

      it was Olly lol

    • @anarcho-cutie2997
      @anarcho-cutie2997 4 года назад +26

      LiliOcelote Premium Olly needs a raise

    • @sophia1801
      @sophia1801 4 года назад

      pretty sure he did it! You're absolutely right about the raise though

  • @anfisachern8570
    @anfisachern8570 4 года назад +327

    it's astonishing to see abi thorn do an even posher british accent than her own. truly fascinating

    • @PhilosophyTube
      @PhilosophyTube  4 года назад +119

      lmao you've got my number there lol

    • @mostlyharmless6x9
      @mostlyharmless6x9 4 года назад +13

      It makes his bogan Drivel character really funny, because some of the vowels turn posh despite the rest of the character lol

    • @bryntendo
      @bryntendo 4 года назад +12

      @@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

    • @schr4nz
      @schr4nz 4 года назад +1

      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

    • @reogrande8020
      @reogrande8020 4 года назад

      @@bryntendo I noticed that too.

  • @hillelshlechinger6055
    @hillelshlechinger6055 Год назад +128

    תודה רבה לך אביגיל, שתיארת את הנושא בצורה כל כך טובה. שה' יעשה לך רק טוב

    • @eliyalevi8140
      @eliyalevi8140 9 месяцев назад +4

      יאיי ישראלים

    • @queertearss
      @queertearss 7 месяцев назад +5

      דיי אני מאחרת ב7 חודשים אבל יוווווו!!!!! ישראלים???? בלי תגובת אנטישמיות?????? הסרטון היחיד באינטרנט שזה קרה חחחח

    • @kubabamia6209
      @kubabamia6209 7 месяцев назад

      חד משמעית

    • @smaartjs
      @smaartjs 7 месяцев назад +3

      Forever sad I cannot read the language that is so important to my family's history. It looks gorgeous

    • @queertearss
      @queertearss 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@smaartjs ❤

  • @prettykittyenergy6473
    @prettykittyenergy6473 2 года назад +51

    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.

    • @blakemccann445
      @blakemccann445 2 года назад +3

      Poor thing. Maybe the billions in tax dollars we give to you can console you.

    • @prettykittyenergy6473
      @prettykittyenergy6473 2 года назад +44

      @@blakemccann445 Oh wow. Anti-Semitism on an anti-Semitism video

    • @blakemccann445
      @blakemccann445 2 года назад +1

      @@prettykittyenergy6473 appreciate the irony

    • @prettykittyenergy6473
      @prettykittyenergy6473 2 года назад +16

      @@blakemccann445 I don't

    • @blakemccann445
      @blakemccann445 2 года назад

      @@prettykittyenergy6473 The millions murdered under communism are still waiting for their reparations but they will not get it or even an apology.

  • @casperchristiansen2458
    @casperchristiansen2458 4 года назад +322

    "What 9-dimensional, non-euclidian rabbis have you been talking to, mate!?"
    I am astonished by the geniusness.

    • @TitanDarwin
      @TitanDarwin 4 года назад +26

      "Non-Euclidian Rabbis" sounds like a band name.

    • @lessonslearned2569
      @lessonslearned2569 4 года назад +13

      Talk to many a rabbi, and you will find that many are non-euclidean.

    • @BababooeyGooey
      @BababooeyGooey 4 года назад +5

      Jewish prog rock/metal sounds like a pretty sweet idea.

    • @weatheranddarkness
      @weatheranddarkness 4 года назад

      i kept hearing Hegeling in that section

    • @sanityisrelative
      @sanityisrelative 4 года назад +1

      That phrase will live in my brain forever.

  • @jackievalentine5048
    @jackievalentine5048 4 года назад +1492

    Without the beard and mustach you look like a fairy tale prince

    • @anniethequeer6510
      @anniethequeer6510 4 года назад +41

      Definitely not wrong, but less kingly.

    • @laurabrichka4717
      @laurabrichka4717 4 года назад +125

      Straight up aged backwards

    • @truebornseeker9767
      @truebornseeker9767 4 года назад +79

      Or a fairytale princess 🥰

    • @pheonixrises11
      @pheonixrises11 4 года назад +6

      seeing it, l could only think about the last time he crossdressed

    • @zxcvxc-ni4mf
      @zxcvxc-ni4mf 4 года назад +37

      Oly: "this is a serious video".
      The comments: jokes and thirst

  • @epicsharkduck7635
    @epicsharkduck7635 2 года назад +19

    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

  • @rebbyberard8150
    @rebbyberard8150 6 месяцев назад +9

    "9-dimensional non-euclidian rabbis" is now my #1 favorite phrase oh my god

  • @Darkthestral1
    @Darkthestral1 4 года назад +1432

    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

    • @tangothembo8198
      @tangothembo8198 4 года назад +202

      Redistribute the sadness amongst the people

    • @glitchedoom
      @glitchedoom 4 года назад +120

      @@tangothembo8198 Viva la Emotional Repression

    • @0cramoi
      @0cramoi 4 года назад +95

      Philosophy daddy and philosophy mommy

    • @heysimone
      @heysimone 4 года назад +9

      What's the difference at this point, hahaha 🙃

    • @tangothembo8198
      @tangothembo8198 4 года назад +2

      @@heysimone :/

  • @your-own-ghost
    @your-own-ghost 3 года назад +421

    "karl marx please respond" is an all-time genuine laugh out loud bit

  • @daimhinaubrey3194
    @daimhinaubrey3194 2 года назад +23

    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???

  • @luckystriker842
    @luckystriker842 2 года назад +94

    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.

    • @d_camara
      @d_camara 2 года назад +4

      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

    • @quesocoatl21
      @quesocoatl21 Год назад +3

      Who do you think created the pornography industry in the West?

    • @I_EaTApple
      @I_EaTApple 7 месяцев назад

      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.

    • @cl9615
      @cl9615 Месяц назад

      @@quesocoatl21You really think that people weren’t looking at pornography before Jews arrived?

  • @pashpashe
    @pashpashe 4 года назад +2607

    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.

    • @Always_wandering
      @Always_wandering 4 года назад +221

      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.

    • @somegirl4631
      @somegirl4631 4 года назад +187

      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.

    • @NC700xLover
      @NC700xLover 4 года назад +71

      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.

    • @somegirl4631
      @somegirl4631 4 года назад +101

      @@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."

    • @riz3310
      @riz3310 4 года назад +29

      My favorite thing about Olly’s channel is that he encourages me to challenge my underlying thoughts.

  • @palomaalmiron6790
    @palomaalmiron6790 4 года назад +306

    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

    • @Superbl0bby
      @Superbl0bby 4 года назад +30

      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.

    • @palomaalmiron6790
      @palomaalmiron6790 4 года назад +7

      @@Superbl0bby Omg yes, the Israel part was so easy to comprehend and so well put

    • @Robstafarian
      @Robstafarian 4 года назад +1

      @@palomaalmiron6790 Check out the I Don't Speak German podcast.

    • @MrBadSmash
      @MrBadSmash 4 года назад +3

      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.

    • @palomaalmiron6790
      @palomaalmiron6790 4 года назад +1

      @@Robstafarian I never heard of it, but it sounds cool so I'll check it out

  • @Le_Codex
    @Le_Codex 2 года назад +31

    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

  • @MyotisOccultus
    @MyotisOccultus Год назад +7

    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!

  • @atticusv668
    @atticusv668 4 года назад +1293

    >Pride month starts
    >Olly shows us his clean shave
    Now that... that is an unfairly pretty man.

    • @JohnMHatch
      @JohnMHatch 4 года назад +12

      Big Umph

    • @legzfalloffgirl5148
      @legzfalloffgirl5148 4 года назад +35

      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!

    • @ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758
      @ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758 4 года назад +48

      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

    • @berkleypearl2363
      @berkleypearl2363 4 года назад +19

      He’s freaking beautiful! This man is a prettier lady than me and he doesn’t even have to try!

    • @ichbinben.
      @ichbinben. 4 года назад +20

      Right? I mean he always looks incredibly attractive, but the clean shaven look really makes his eyes look amazingly beautiful.

  • @bismuthcrystal9658
    @bismuthcrystal9658 4 года назад +910

    "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.

    • @idkwhattodoforaname261
      @idkwhattodoforaname261 4 года назад +6

      Honestly

    • @SpoopySquid
      @SpoopySquid 4 года назад +22

      Was the pee equally distributed?

    • @Drako9823
      @Drako9823 3 года назад +3

      @@SpoopySquid
      Probably throughout their pants.

    • @shelter42Ayre
      @shelter42Ayre 3 года назад +1

      "What can I say but Yikes" Was a close second. I was not expecting an educational video to be full of zingers.

    • @Amberpawn
      @Amberpawn 3 года назад

      I haven't laughed that hard in a while.

  • @duze88
    @duze88 2 года назад +165

    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 ❤️

    • @lightblue254
      @lightblue254 2 года назад +5

      Agree.

    • @elliottc-c8777
      @elliottc-c8777 2 года назад +27

      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

    • @Fridge_Fiend
      @Fridge_Fiend 2 года назад +14

      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

    • @she7061
      @she7061 Год назад +10

      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

    • @sarinabina5487
      @sarinabina5487 Год назад

      !!!

  • @vikingjack9994
    @vikingjack9994 2 года назад +6

    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..

  • @eruditecaptain3117
    @eruditecaptain3117 4 года назад +330

    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.

    • @Magali_theRecordKeeper
      @Magali_theRecordKeeper 4 года назад +8

      I know, right? Adorable!

    • @tryfail_failbetter
      @tryfail_failbetter 4 года назад +14

      Well, he is a trained actor after all, so he absolutely knows what he's doing. And it's working :)

    • @eruditecaptain3117
      @eruditecaptain3117 2 года назад +2

      Rewatching this video, saw my own comment and had to make edits to match Abby's identity.

  • @juls_krsslr7908
    @juls_krsslr7908 3 года назад +1244

    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.

    • @ragalyiakos
      @ragalyiakos 3 года назад +14

      @@user-dh4zd8pr9t Okay, fighter jet profile picture.

    • @user-dh4zd8pr9t
      @user-dh4zd8pr9t 3 года назад +1

      @@ragalyiakos :)

    • @aarontavolacci2311
      @aarontavolacci2311 3 года назад +7

      @@user-dh4zd8pr9t The Talmud understander has logged on

    • @aldenthewizardguy9938
      @aldenthewizardguy9938 2 года назад +129

      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.

    • @she7061
      @she7061 2 года назад +49

      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)

  • @scoshyyyy
    @scoshyyyy 2 года назад +18

    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.

  • @yeet648
    @yeet648 2 года назад +92

    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.

  • @pythonjava6228
    @pythonjava6228 4 года назад +342

    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.

    • @user-jb4ns5cv1e
      @user-jb4ns5cv1e 4 года назад +40

      it seems like time has gone backwards to 2016 and olly is a young boi again

    • @jadacrossing9353
      @jadacrossing9353 4 года назад +5

      he came out of 2014

    • @harveyholmes9533
      @harveyholmes9533 4 года назад +15

      On his patron he talked about how much make up it took to cover his 5 o’clock shadow from shaving the goatee

    • @sammyvincent9615
      @sammyvincent9615 4 года назад +1

      He's so cute!

    • @BrownOpsLeak
      @BrownOpsLeak 4 года назад +2

      It’s called makeup..

  • @GHOST-in-the-MACHINE
    @GHOST-in-the-MACHINE 3 года назад +1761

    Olly couldn't even say "no crossdressing" without a huge grin on his face, like... A Bi Icon.

    • @vfaulkon
      @vfaulkon 3 года назад +193

      A bi-con?

    • @stevencleere4912
      @stevencleere4912 3 года назад +19

      @@vfaulkon damn it. I was coming.

    • @Alex-wi1mx
      @Alex-wi1mx 3 года назад +7

      @@vfaulkon one ~~second~~ month

    • @suddenlysarablog
      @suddenlysarablog 3 года назад +82

      I love how he tags the antisemitism and white supremacy content warnings, but doesn't put a content warning for "fem!Olly thirsttrap."

    • @tieflingcorpse9817
      @tieflingcorpse9817 3 года назад +3

      @@stevencleere4912 well you better clean it up

  • @Mockingdragon
    @Mockingdragon 7 месяцев назад +5

    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

  • @quinngutman4089
    @quinngutman4089 2 года назад +98

    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.

    • @Kiki-Delivering
      @Kiki-Delivering Год назад +1

      I think you would really like the book Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour.

  • @RTAbram
    @RTAbram 3 года назад +1458

    You forgot the most important thing that feminists want: pockets of equal size to men's in our trousers.

    • @manyagaver1946
      @manyagaver1946 3 года назад +83

      And our dresses

    • @katefriend4085
      @katefriend4085 3 года назад +37

      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!

    • @rorykurek643
      @rorykurek643 3 года назад +34

      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.

    • @ozymandiaskingofkings621
      @ozymandiaskingofkings621 2 года назад +17

      I know this is a joke, but AS A CIS MAN, I don't understand why women's clothes have smaller pockets.

    • @ozymandiaskingofkings621
      @ozymandiaskingofkings621 2 года назад +3

      @@rorykurek643 Hell yeah.

  • @michellem6451
    @michellem6451 3 года назад +437

    "He's already been cancelled.... by bronchitis."
    That got me good

  • @YonatanZunger
    @YonatanZunger Год назад +8

    I am just blown away by how good this piece is. The number of nuances she captures and explains!

  • @veggienugnugs
    @veggienugnugs 10 месяцев назад +3

    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.

  • @outaugust
    @outaugust 4 года назад +754

    It gives me peace knowing that British people speak french just as poorly as Americans do

  • @minituex1468
    @minituex1468 4 года назад +3029

    Rest in power George Floyd!

  • @AlatheD
    @AlatheD 2 года назад +1

    "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.

  • @nos5915
    @nos5915 Год назад

    the fact that the open captions are slightly above the closed captions is so considerate. thank you whoever edited this.

  • @jamespatricks5140
    @jamespatricks5140 4 года назад +791

    "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.

    • @KossolaxtheForesworn
      @KossolaxtheForesworn 4 года назад +10

      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.

    • @johnsullivan5101
      @johnsullivan5101 4 года назад +6

      Interesting simile - how do the Daleks fit in?

    • @jackjordan5833
      @jackjordan5833 3 года назад +13

      Exellent allegory. Although something inside me winced due to my affection for Dr Who.

    • @PeteSchult
      @PeteSchult 3 года назад

      Indeed. One of the many, many brilliant bits of this video.

    • @PeteSchult
      @PeteSchult 3 года назад

      @@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.

  • @randomalienfrommars0567
    @randomalienfrommars0567 4 года назад +562

    "You think your life is hard? I'm a high school Junior wearing size 13 Nikes.... Men's size 13 Nikes."

    • @ElloLoJo
      @ElloLoJo 3 года назад +15

      I refuse to believe that movie wasn’t actually satire so high brow we didn’t realise

  • @Norderino
    @Norderino 4 месяца назад +3

    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.

  • @ghostofdayinperson
    @ghostofdayinperson Год назад +27

    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.

    • @gegenpress1695
      @gegenpress1695 8 месяцев назад

      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

  • @samanthamacmillan800
    @samanthamacmillan800 3 года назад +1539

    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.

    • @getmotivated1707
      @getmotivated1707 3 года назад +199

      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 :)

    • @matiasgarciacasas558
      @matiasgarciacasas558 3 года назад +31

      I love that idea

    • @hellofriend545
      @hellofriend545 3 года назад +81

      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 😅

    • @aletheiaverite
      @aletheiaverite 3 года назад +35

      @@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).

    • @Legomicroman
      @Legomicroman 3 года назад +63

      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.

  • @alexanderbarlow3264
    @alexanderbarlow3264 4 года назад +633

    A video about antisemitism and the comments section isn’t toxic hellfire. That’s a first, and I appreciate it.

    • @Zorro9129
      @Zorro9129 4 года назад +8

      You do realize that this comments section is very heavily censored? It's not "toxic" because it doesn't have views you disagree with.

    • @XxThunderflamexX
      @XxThunderflamexX 4 года назад +70

      @@Zorro9129 You say. On the platform you claim is censored.

    • @superdark336
      @superdark336 4 года назад +29

      @@Zorro9129 what is your opinion on the subject Mr. Zorro?

    • @SoRAnubis
      @SoRAnubis 4 года назад +31

      @@Zorro9129 Found the alt light NPC. Back to /pol with you, a cancerous place where undesirables like you belong.

    • @reykholtebronstein2774
      @reykholtebronstein2774 4 года назад +6

      @@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

  • @Creamy6oodness
    @Creamy6oodness Год назад +10

    2 years later and this video is depressingly relevant

  • @heidiwaits6987
    @heidiwaits6987 11 месяцев назад

    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. 👍🏼☺️♥️

  • @slurpchannel1475
    @slurpchannel1475 4 года назад +384

    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

    • @rvrlrvy
      @rvrlrvy 4 года назад +33

      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

    • @johnsMITHhhhhh88
      @johnsMITHhhhhh88 4 года назад +6

      It's like an ancap utopia!

    • @arandomcomment1092
      @arandomcomment1092 4 года назад

      @@rvrlrvy Holy shit, *_WHATTTTT_*

    • @ScorpionViper1001
      @ScorpionViper1001 4 года назад +24

      @@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.

    • @bibliophilecb
      @bibliophilecb 4 года назад +2

      Ok but those cheddar biscuits though

  • @somegirl4631
    @somegirl4631 4 года назад +1144

    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 ❤✡

    • @appleslover
      @appleslover 4 года назад +53

      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 👋

    • @somegirl4631
      @somegirl4631 4 года назад +54

      @@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 🙂

    • @somegirl4631
      @somegirl4631 4 года назад +22

      @@appleslover
      and thanks! best wishes to you too ❤😁

    • @iz2333
      @iz2333 4 года назад +35

      @@link6397 So we got you to consume our propaganda nice

    • @somegirl4631
      @somegirl4631 4 года назад +33

      @@link6397
      so...
      you think I want to destroy the USA? 😂
      me and my mighty strength of a 200 chocolate bars? (addicted to sugar 🤣😅)

  • @urbannus
    @urbannus 10 месяцев назад

    I never realized, until returning here today, that you actually set the entire bibliography on your description.
    You are even more amazing than I realized.

  • @thomascrouchpiano
    @thomascrouchpiano Год назад +5

    Maybe you've read it, and maybe it's in the video (I'm only a quarter through so far) but a great book is called "why the Jews." I never really understood antisemitism growing up as a young Jewish lad, but this book really filled in some gaps. LOVE your content. Recently stumbled onto this channel

  • @dawntavishflynn8802
    @dawntavishflynn8802 4 года назад +535

    Whenever you crossdress I feel like you're some woman out of a BBC murder mystery series

    • @chrisbcpack
      @chrisbcpack 4 года назад +6

      that's so spot on!

    • @casperchristiansen2458
      @casperchristiansen2458 4 года назад +25

      Olly: Today I'm feeling Miss Fisher but as a cute French girl.
      Also Olly: Today I'm feeling Australian bloke/The Anime Man.

    • @evelyneb590
      @evelyneb590 4 года назад

      Vera

    • @okuno54
      @okuno54 4 года назад

      I _knew_ I recognized him from somewhere!

    • @ilicythings
      @ilicythings 3 года назад +1

      well, she's doing a BBC drama?

  • @elliest55
    @elliest55 3 года назад +1405

    I'm here on behalf of cis girls with big feet to say we exist.

    • @nadalekene2446
      @nadalekene2446 3 года назад +84

      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 😢😭

    • @justanotherweirdo11
      @justanotherweirdo11 3 года назад +16

      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.

    • @idkwhattodoforaname261
      @idkwhattodoforaname261 3 года назад +1

      hey :)

    • @khgraywolf
      @khgraywolf 3 года назад +12

      @Tom Chaney Hush now.

    • @sirpente6651
      @sirpente6651 3 года назад +15

      Did you never think about surgery? Cut off the excess parts and get smaller feet! C'mon!, don't you want to be "normal" ? ;-)

  • @flowerwishes9936
    @flowerwishes9936 2 года назад +24

    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.

    • @Adara007
      @Adara007 2 года назад +5

      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.

    • @charliekahn4205
      @charliekahn4205 2 года назад

      @@Adara007 And for some reason the video seems to have been thrown directly at the RUclips historian community, who are all eager to correct, specify, and expand upon the video.

  • @forthewaterz
    @forthewaterz Год назад +16

    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?

  • @leakypfaucet
    @leakypfaucet 4 года назад +362

    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.

    • @nerdygamergeek4291
      @nerdygamergeek4291 4 года назад +8

      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.

    • @mikelmontoya2965
      @mikelmontoya2965 4 года назад +6

      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.

    • @leakypfaucet
      @leakypfaucet 3 года назад +1

      @Rebecca Woolf i volunteer! lmao

    • @JohnSmith-ds7oi
      @JohnSmith-ds7oi 3 года назад

      @@mikelmontoya2965 Sounds like the right person for the job...

    • @helengordon-smith5753
      @helengordon-smith5753 2 года назад

      Aaaaah that’s an incredibly useful way of putting it, thanks!

  • @annahamlin5504
    @annahamlin5504 3 года назад +2451

    I’m a leftist Jew. I’ve been put down, invalidated, or told I’m an imperialist colonizer by non Jewish progressives for saying these same things. It hurts so much worse when it’s from your own political peers. I can’t put into words how much this video means to me. Thank you.

    • @onearmdaddy
      @onearmdaddy 3 года назад +25

      😢

    • @she7061
      @she7061 3 года назад +70

      @Apu Apustaja because we don’t believe in him goddamn, he wasn’t our messiah. We have a specific set of criteria for the messiah that he didn’t meet

    • @averyplaysguitar
      @averyplaysguitar 3 года назад +61

      @Apu Apustaja why do religious people hate each other over which version of the same made up sky daddy they follow?

    • @averyplaysguitar
      @averyplaysguitar 3 года назад +146

      @Ben Black you can criticise Israel without being anti-Semitic, stop hiding behind your identity politics. Israel does not represent Jewish people. Israel does not care about Jewish people. The prime minister of Israel is a HOLOCAUST REVISIONIST. So again, stop hiding behind identity politics to avoid valid criticism.

    • @averyplaysguitar
      @averyplaysguitar 3 года назад +96

      @Ben Black you’re calling criticism of Israel anti-Semitic. Do you think that all Jews support Israel? Do you think that Israel is representative of all Jewish people’s interests?

  • @rachyrachington
    @rachyrachington 2 года назад +7

    I know I'm late to the party but Abigail; thank you so much! I have tried to look for some information that really broke down the situation regarding the labour party, zionist anti-zioist etc and this is the best explanation I've found so far!

  • @LivingBreathingPoet
    @LivingBreathingPoet Год назад +3

    Watching this again, two years later, I feel like it ends too early. I was shocked when the credits rolled, even though I had watched this before and really liked it. I still do! It just ... feels like you started a second point and then stopped? I guess this is my request for a part 2 about those positive liberties! A call to action is nothing without instructions, or something like that.
    Still a solid video that I come back to when I need to think about it. Thank you.

  • @Martin_Gutman
    @Martin_Gutman 4 года назад +230

    "I think the biggest argument against communism is that the cringe is not evenly distributed"
    The Drivelator

    • @snowblood74
      @snowblood74 4 года назад +4

      One of my favourite quotes from this episode xD

  • @shirakowalsky4732
    @shirakowalsky4732 3 года назад +554

    It's so refreshing that finally someone did not include all the Jews in one political group, especially the Jews living in Israel in regard to supporting the Israeli government .. I am a Jew living in Israel and I completely disagree with our government in a lot of matters ( especially on the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict). Recently there are especially a lot of civilian attempts to replace the prime minister, there are huge rallies every day in the big cities and especially in front of his home in Jerusalem, protesters shouting for him to resign (and go to jail because he is very corrupt and dealt horribly with the corona in the country and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) .. Some people here really want the situation to change for the better for everyone here.. There is police violence in the rallies and arrests for no reason but not at the level of the United States, they are truly the best in that matter:)

  • @kiwiaurora
    @kiwiaurora 2 года назад +4

    You are such a pleasure to learn from. Thank you for sharing your lovely self and your knowledge with us. You're appreciated.

  • @johnnyrepine937
    @johnnyrepine937 Год назад +1

    Having the algorithm deliver your channel to me months ago, post transition, this is the first time I've seen and heard the old you. The juxtaposition is giving me some major Team Rocket vibes.
    I have it on autoplay and algorithm took me from the Friendly Atheist podcast to Vaush tearing down Shapiro and Matt Walsh's terrible arguments about the men's soccer team rainbow to you. Interesting segue VJ.
    Too bad both versions couldn't live on as separate beings, like Riker's transporter accident. Two separate channels, but occasional collaboration.
    On transatlantic yesterday you'd said something about using this time to test the waters, or words to that effect. And in retrospect, it really shows.
    I loved your catch 22 video, despite, or perhaps because, of how painfully endearing it was. I listened while at work, so I didn't get to see the costumes. I'll have to watch it later for the full effect.
    Maybe I'll put it on my projector, and watch you at larger than life, movie theater scale. 🙂
    Then I'll get Nebula through your link to watch the Prince and the making of documentary.

  • @CasaiAgicap
    @CasaiAgicap 3 года назад +408

    It's great. I always thought Abi was put on a higher voice as dedication to the bit
    Turns out she was just using her real voice. What an absolute mad lass.

    • @toothfairy10133
      @toothfairy10133 Год назад +6

      honestly that must have been a terrifying gamble for her, i know i'd be scared

  • @TheLacedaemonian300
    @TheLacedaemonian300 4 года назад +430

    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

    • @GameGod77
      @GameGod77 4 года назад +27

      @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.

    • @GameGod77
      @GameGod77 4 года назад +13

      @Glühfunke It wasn't for his benefit, it was for the benefit of anyone who may have asked that question in good faith.

    • @samduhy5554
      @samduhy5554 3 года назад +8

      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.

    • @mr.peanut2096
      @mr.peanut2096 3 года назад +6

      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.

    • @racheljwallace
      @racheljwallace 3 года назад +2

      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!

  • @isaacdalziel5772
    @isaacdalziel5772 2 года назад +3

    Damn, I know this comment is late, but this is a bloody brilliant video. This is a really complex subject and you talked about it really well. I didn't agree with everything but you said a lot of things about this subject I've never heard before, and everything was intelligently spoken about