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ut. But I'm going to take it till lunchtime. So I'm on board for world peace. If we don't get it by lunchtime, well then I might have to eat something. But the rest of you, what are you doing? Nothing. The rest of you are doing nothing for world peace. Is that what I'm hearing? Nothing. Great, great. It's up to me and Cynthia Nixon to get this done. Watch me not eat. I'm doing it right now. I'm m…
← Previous segment →them. And they're consolidating the mosques so there's not even a place that's easy to go to if you want to do your religion.
So I'm not saying right or wrong. So I'm not agreeing with them or disagreeing with China. I'm just describing that they've decided to treat it like a mind virus, just like they treat COVID. It's basically the same thing they did with COVID, you know, just to starve it basically.
Now how does Israel treat Islam? I would say Israel treats it — at least the radical parts of Islam, because obviously they do live in peace with most of Islam — but the radical parts, they treat like a security problem. Now you could argue that China is also treating it like a security problem, but I think you see the point that the way they treat it is more like quarantine virus kind of a thing. You know, you can't let it touch anybody. Whereas Israel is not doing anything like that. It's more like we will put up walls and fences and we'll try to keep you out and we'll try to watch really carefully. Basically standard security stuff, self-defense.
Europe is treating Islam like what? Is Europe treating it the way China is treating it, like a virus? No. Is Europe treating it like it's a security problem where you've got to really check everybody carefully and don't let anybody in unless you know who it is? No. Europe is treating it like an advantage, like a benefit, like a feature, because diversity is generally considered a good thing.
So you've got China treating it like a virus, Israel treating it like a security problem or really an existential threat security-wise, Europe treating it like it's an advantage. What's America doing? Are we treating it like a virus, a security problem, or an advantage? And who will still be here in 100 years? Well, China's looking good. I think China will be here in 100 years. Europe maybe not so much. Well, I mean Europe will exist, but it'll probably be Islamic. And I would say that America is going to make its decision in November. So my take is that if you get a Republican it's going to go one way, and if you get a Democrat or Joe Biden it might go the other way. So America hasn't decided, but we've got three completely different models: virus, security problem, or advantage. How different are those? I've never heard of one religion that nobody knew what to do with. It's like, what is this thing? A virus? A security problem? An advantage? We'll find out. All right, America has to figure that out.
Jewish college students are, no surprise, seeing an uptick in on-campus anti-Semitism. Now I'm going to give you some numbers that I found shocking, but not for the reasons you think. All right, so it's also shocking for the reasons you think, but in addition to the reasons you think there's an extra level of shock. All right, so the reason you think is that nearly 73% of Jewish students say they've been victims of anti-Semitism just this year. Just this year, 73%. And that's — here's the second shocking part — it's an increase from 63% in 2021. What are you kidding me? That even before everything blew up in the Middle East, before that, if you were a Jewish student in a university in the United States, 63% of you in 2021 would have said you were victims of anti-Semitism. What does that include exactly? Is that mostly verbal? Like, isn't that the most? That's the most alarming number I've seen in a long time. That is alarming. 63% before there was an international issue. That's crazy.
But here, and then we go to this. By comparison, 44% of non-Jewish students have experienced or witnessed such acts. Wait, they've experienced them or witnessed them? Well, how do you add witnessed to experienced? Well, we're changing how we do the murder rates now. It's going to be the number of people who are murdered plus the people who saw it happen. What kind of data is that? That's crazy.
So that is an insane amount of anti-Semitism. But here's what I think. Do you think that maybe this is also a symptom of the level of wokeness? In other words, if you asked Black college students had they been discriminated in the last year, probably all of — well not all, many of them would say yes. If you asked a bunch of anything, you know, white Christian college students, hey, you white Christian college students been discriminated against in the past year, I'll bet they'd say yes. Conservatives, I'll bet they'd say yes.
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Democrats, Republicans, basically everybody's pretty sure they're a victim. But the Jewish numbers are crazy how high they are anyway. Somebody named Abigail Shrier wrote in something called Commentary, and then the Wall Street Journal picked it up for an opinion piece. And she asked this question: Why are the BLM supporters, climate extremists, academic feminists, and trans activists so quick to…
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