"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.

  • arsCynic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I think you have a rather unfortunate bias here. You’re not going to win anyone over to the argument that"almost a paedophile is fine" concept. The vast majority are going to find it morally reprehensible. They’re going to say barely legal is not morally nominal.

    You have an opinion, it’s yours. It’s not an opinion that you’re going to defend and change people’s minds on, though. They’re going to see you as a paedophile supporter, whether you consider that to be your situation or not.

    “that “almost a paedophile is fine” concept”

    That’s not fine, and a loaded argument.

    “They’re going to say barely legal is not morally nominal.”

    At what point would it be morally nominal? Should there be a different cutoff age? Should there be a maximum age disparity? How do we even decide on this stuff objectively? And I’m not asking this rhetorically. As far as I know most things human are normally distributed and such ages were decided by looking at what age the majority of people are cognitively mature enough to make their own decisions without being easily manipulated. If, supposedly, most people think Seinfeld was morally reprehensible, then perhaps we should decide upon an age where it wouldn’t have been? Or use different metrics altogether perhaps. I don’t know.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 days ago

      ohh, i’m not here to argue with you, and you’re not about to change my mind.

      I’m just pointing out that no matter how much you write, you’re not winning anything in the court of public opinion here.

      • arsCynic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 days ago

        ohh, i’m not here to argue with you, and you’re not about to change my mind. I’m just pointing out that no matter how much you write, you’re not winning anything in the court of public opinion here.

        Well in that case, no matter what the popular opinion on anything is, it in itself remains an argumentum ad populum fallacy:
        “In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum is a fallacious argument that asserts a claim is true, or good or correct because many people think so.”