Sam Harris thinks Nazis are better than Hamas
If you know any Holocaust survivors, let them know it could've been worse
Podcaster and philosopher Sam Harris came out with a new take this week that the Nazis were actually better than Islamic Jihadists, mainly Hamas. So if you know anyone who survived the Holocaust, you can tell them that they really didn’t have it that bad.
This racist and absurd opinion stems from the crazy idea that Hamas is analogous to Nazis in the first place: we might remind Mr. Harris that in Germany in 1941, the Jews were not occupying the Germans. The Jews were not keeping Germans in a concentration camp. The Jews were not putting Germans on a diet. The Jews were not “mowing the lawn” of Germans.
The Jews, like the Palestinians, were, as Norman Finkelstein said in our interview last week, “refusing to accept the fate that has been meted out to them: to languish and die in a concentration camp."
The fact that people like Sam Harris are considered thought leaders in our country is a scary thing.
But that’s not all there is to throw down this week. Biden is telling new lies that the way to end the war in Ukraine is to give them another $61 billion of weapons. Chuck Schumer is calling out the Republicans for not being hard enough on Russia while Ted Cruz is claiming the Democrats are too soft on Israel. Antony Blinken is very sad that no one has ever condemned Hamas. A Berkeley law professor assaulted a student protesting for Palestine. And you’ll never guess how Fox News brought the eclipse back to the border.
It’s a week jam-packed with awful… Stick with Katie and Aaron, they’ll make sure you laugh instead of cry at it all. It’s our Thursday bonus episode. Let us know in the comments what corporate media monologues, interviews, or anything else you want to see on the next Thursday Throwdown.