Comments by "JI80" (@ji8044) on "Thomas Sowell" channel.

  1.  @dunexapa1016  Calm down Adolf, there are plenty of other indignant neo-Nazis here who agree with you.
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  2. I watched both of these videos now and they are just hilarious. Only Thomas Sowell could go through two hours about the history of Judaism and hardly even touch on the 1500 years of organized Christian destruction and hate directed towards them. I loved it when he said they were expelled from Spain for "whatever reason" as if nobody knew for sure. In the real world of course it was part of the celebration of Ferdinand and Isabella's victory over the last Islamic outpost in Spain. They were hard line Catholics, especially Isabella and wanted to purify Spain of all non-Catholic people (there were no Protestants as of yet) The Spanish Inquisition, not the only inquisition but the most terrible, was begun by F&I in 1478 specifically to target Jews and those called conversos, who had converted from Judaism to Catholicism but were suspected of being secret Jews. If you want to read a real history of Jews, written by one, try "The Story of the Jews" by Yale professor Simon Schama. It's detailed, but yet very readable.
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  3. Clarence Thomas was talking about himself , the ultimate affirmative action baby who never would have gotten on to the Supreme Court or into Yale if he was not black as Thomas himself has admitted. "As much as it stung to be told that I'd done well in the seminary despite my race, it was far worse to feel that I was now at Yale because of it." In fact, during Thomas's time at Yale the students there were graded only on pass/fail and Thomas managed to pass without distinguishing himself in any way academically.
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  4.  @justicewokeisutterbs8641  I was making the point that Marx's ideas are NOT relevant to today's economics. Keep up as best you can and I know I'm not the first person to tell you that.
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  5. That's hilarious!
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  6. This is just hilarious. Sowell tries to somehow rationalize the feelings of his followers with an economic basis. His followers then respond with dozens of comments all essentially saying no, they just hate Jews. LMFAO
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  7. It's really the opposite. How a man who knows so little about history manages to get this many subscribers is a mystery. LOL
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  8. It's a despicable charge to make, being "anti-American". It's a label which has been used against every immigrant group to the US in the last 200 years. It was used heavily against Roman Catholics, even to the point where JFK in 1960 had to battle accusations of owing allegiance to a foreign power. Here is an excerpt from a speech which Sowell would no doubt label as "anti-American": "Our nation was born in genocide, when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population." That was written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963. Of course Sowell never liked King anyway.
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  9. If you hate the 1st Amendment so much, why don't YOU leave?
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  10. This is going to be hilarious. Whatever points Sowell tries to make will be met from stiff pushback here in the comments, because Sowell's follower really, really hate Jews.
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  11. You have no idea what you're talking about, sorry
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  12. Only in the board of a Sowell video can you see dozens of comments and replies about exactly how terrible Jews "really are". Are they Satanic or just grasping and conspiratorial? LOL When your followers are mostly a mix of KKK and neo-Nazis, like Sowell, that's just how you roll.
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  13. The number of police in any given area has very little to do with the amount of crime. The availability of jobs and economic growth are the leading indicators of criminal activity.
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  14. Then why did Martin Luther 500 years ago tell Christians to kill Jewish leaders, burn their books and homes and make them into slaves?
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  15. Sowell has always had the back of right wing extremism Even I'm a little surprised about how open the hatred for Jews is among Sowell followers, as reflected in these comments.
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  16.  @black-hunter.4423  Recognized yourself in my comment did you?
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  17. This is really hilarious. While Sowell pretends not to notice, his followers fill the comment section of every one of his videos with racist and anti-Semitic bigotry/hate. Read some of these comments Sowell, and then tell your KKK friends to stop. (but then you wouldn't have any followers at all, now would you)
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  18. "How The Goverment Subsidizes Nonesense: " If you can't even spell two of the words you use in a sentence; I can see why you're not only a Sowell follower, but an employee. LOL
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  19. It's actually very easy to explain how Sowell is wrong here. In the US, the population has always grown through individual immigrants who wanted to come voluntarily to make a success of their lives as Americans. (this excludes those who arrived as slaves of course) In the Austrian Empire, the population grew because the Habsburg family acquired whole provinces and even nations through marriage or force. Those populations did not voluntarily join the Empire and never wanted to become "Austrians".
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  20. You don't seem to understand that "indoctrination" was the very idea behind the public school system in the first place. LOL
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  21.  @ohm7876  Thanks for confirming what I wrote about the basic anti-Semitism of most Sowell followers.
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  22. This is the kind of thing that "anti-American" idiocy from Sowell encourages: "A 71-year-old Illinois man was charged Sunday with a hate crime, accused of fatally stabbing a young boy and seriously wounding a woman because of their Islamic faith and the Israel-Hamas war, authorities said. Officers found the 32-year-old woman and 6-year-old boy late Saturday morning at a home in an unincorporated area of Plainfield Township, southwest of Chicago, the Will County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on social media."
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  23. What on earth are you talking about?
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  24. Never in any universe would I be a Sowell follower. LOL
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  25. You're the typical Sowell follower, filled with hate.
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  26. Laughable.
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  27.  @reggieorabuena6242  No, that's conspiracy bullshit. LOL
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  28. The Germans and Soviets made great soldiers too, so that suggests it doesn't matter whether the culture itself is right or wrong.
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  29. Buffoonery of the highest order. LOL
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  30. Where do you find that idiotic idea in the Constitution? LOL
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  31.  @beaupierrebondurant5651  Both of you don't seem to accept the Constitution. That's ok, I think Sowell isn't crazy about it either!
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  32.  @beaupierrebondurant5651  I'm not French, so that charge has nothing to do with this. Try another strawman. I'm sure you have dozens ready.
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  33.  @apscreditcards  You don't like the word Democrat? Wow I know you would probably prefer to be called a Nazi, but we don't live in your fascist ideal state.
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  34.  @beaupierrebondurant5651  Why do you think you're in France? Have you heard of the 1st Amendment? It's very popular here, except among fascists of course.
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  35. The Republican Party is heavily anti-Semitic. In fact there are only two Jewish Republicans in Congress. Majorie Taylor Greene is famous for having stated that California wildfires were started by Jewish space lasers. Eric Cantor who was the first Jewish Republican Majority leader lost his seat when an anti-Semite ran a successful primary challenge to him.
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  36. You know how many Jewish Republicans are in Congress? TWO! Think about why that is.
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  37. Mass immigration brought your own ancestors here.
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  38. You are very myopic. As British immigrants remind the old snobs all the time: "We are here because you were there".
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  39.  @planzed.2  You have great difficulty with reality. I understand and won't trouble you with it again.
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  40.  @planzed.2  You're the typical myopic Brit and on top of that apparently a misogynist too.
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  41. Typical racist bigot, Sowell follower. LOL
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  42. Laughable nonsense for the poorly educated.
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  43. What does that mean? LOL
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  44. Spoken like the true racist Sowell follower who believes that only white people CAN be real Americans.
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  45. Sowell never knew his father and his mother dumped him on an aunt early in life. Want to try that one again? LOL
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  46. @@user-jc4sf7gr2g His comments on history are laughed at by any genuine historian.
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  47. Why not just say you're an open racist and anti-Semite directly? You're among your own kind here in Sowell's videos.
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  48.  @freedom_aint_free  The reason that there are Muslims in France is because France had colonies in Muslim countries for centuries. You don't know very much, but that doesn't seem to stop you.
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  49.  @larrybrock6811  Sowell is reflexively against any movement involving black people. He hated Obama. He hated the civil rights movement. He's spent most of his adult life in a white ivory tower.
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  50.  @user-iu1ru1qz7u  You're a Sowell follower so your own racism is a given.
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  51.  @briantoplessbar4685  I understand the conversation was on too high a level for you. LOL
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  52. The Republican Party is extremely anti-Semitic. All of the attacks on Jews and synagogues in this country have come from right wing conservatives. Trump blamed the attack on Netanyahu and called Hezbollah "very smart".
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  53.  @artformnation  You're a poorly educated Sowell supporter, as usual.
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  54. The ignorance is your own. Israel exists because of the Balfour Declaration and because Harry Truman decided to immediately recognize and support Israel despite being personally anti-Semitic.
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  55. In that case, sell your house, max out your credit card loans and move to Australia. What do you have to lose, right? LOL
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  56.  @doliver5447  I would agree with that.
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  57. He was wrong about literally everything. I've never head a more clueless description of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was cobbled together mostly through marriage and spent its entire 115 year history barely surviving internal strife and division. The Austrian Army was for most of that time, a failure on the battlefield because the officer corps was mostly German but the troops spoke FOURTEEN different official languages
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  58.  @chrissingletary2876  It's not of course. As I wrote above, the Empire had 14 official languages. Also they had no immigration in the Empire. They did they exact OPPOSITE of the US. The Hapsburgs took over whole provinces and countries by marriage and incorporated them into their empire. It a completely ignorant video on a historical basis.
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  59.  @SuperMikado282  What an idiotic response. LOL Are you promoting the idea of a 93 year old man getting in a fight somehow?
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  60.  @chrissingletary2876  Laughable nonsense, why do you think major areas of this country have names like Chinatown, Germantown, Little Italy, etc.? It was this way from the very first days of this country.
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  61. I hope you're right, because whomever wrote this video is historically speaking an idiot.
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  62. LMFAO
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  63. That's what people already here said when your own ancestors arrived.
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  64.  @danpress7745  That's only AFTER they experience combat. "Before Doss faced the enemy, he had to overcome his fellow soldiers first. “They really downplay him getting beat up,” Foss said about the movie. “They only show him get beat up once. It happened every day. It wasn’t just one or two doing it, it was his entire company. [In the film], they had someone friending him. In reality, nobody friended him.” Jeannie Foss is the grandniece of Desmond Doss. I can't use links here but you can google it.
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  65. Why do you think Sowell spent the last 50 years living in an exclusively white world? He is the ultimate affirmative action case for conservatives.
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  66. You might want to read about Desmond Doss, a pacifist bleeding heart who was drafted and despite being beaten and abused by his own unit became a Medal of Honor winner as a medic in Korea.
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  67.  @paulrevere5197  He's right. You're just an anti-Semite.
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  68. Then how comes the comments are so filled with racism, bigotry and anti-Semitism?
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  69. Clarence Thomas was part of an affirmative action program at Yale, or he never would have been admitted. Sorry to puncture your balloon.
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  70.  @skinnywhitemanx9842  Wow is your thinking upside down and backwards! When the government says it can't be sold THAT IS WHEN the government has control over it. LOL
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  71. Thomas believes you have no right to birth control of any kind. Do you agree?
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  72.  @jeffreyforeman5031  Sowell is their champion because he does too. He saves his most unhinged and lunatic rants for Obama.
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  73. Martin Luther was the First Nazi.
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  74. Hilarious who would know less about this situation than Thomas Sowell? He hasn't even left a college campus except to vacation in over 50 years. No one has called for a cease fire in positions of power. There are 2.3 MILLION people living in Gaza, which is slightly smaller than Manhattan Island, but has 50% more people than Manhattan. It's the most densely populated piece of land on earth. So Israel's response is limited by demographics, not by calls for peace. Sowell is the dumbest supposedly smart person I have ever read.
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  75. Christians have been hating them for 1600 years based in theology Muslim hatred for them only goes back about 150-200 years based in Middle Eastern politics The fact that Sowell doesn't even mention Christianity in this video shows how absolutely comical his grasp of history is.
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  76. Sowell almost never gets reality right. For instance his point about Chinese being killed by mob action exceeding all the black people ever lynched is spontaneously made up and random. There is no legitimate comparison between Armenians killed in Turkey and Chinese people killed in China with blacks lynched in the US. It's just part of his 50 year long crusade to diminish the history of racism in this country on behalf of his exclusively white conservative sponsors.
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  77. Most Sowell supporters are anti-Semites, so you're in the minority.
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  78. Being black has been a business for Sowell for 50 years. He's made a tidy sum being the black person that conservative white people go to when they want black on black criticism, or pseudo-history in which black people held themselves in bondage and white people freed them.
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  79. Thank you for illuminating the fact that the majority of Sowell followers are anti-Semites.
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  80. Wow, you're a bigot's bigot!
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  81. Martin Luther was a virulent anti-Semite and would have been part of the Nazi inner circle himself.
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  82.  @justicewokeisutterbs8641  Yet none of you conservatives can explain what it is that isn't taught in schools today, despite my giving you ample time to explain.
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  83. If you were a historian, you would know that he was talking about Sowell. Washington hated the idea of black intellectuals and academics. He wanted them to only work with their hands. However one thing he and Sowell had in common is that neither of them believed in integration. Washington's willingness to accept and promote segregation made him the go-to black celebrity for white conservatives of his time, just like Sowell has been for his lifetime. "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house."
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  84. No, it's religiously based. Christians have been persecuting Jews for 1500 years.
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  85. Difficult to understand problematic interactions with police, when you have spent most of your adult life working on college campuses like Sowell. As you say there are bad citizens and bad cops.
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  86. Sorry nearly all the anti-Semites are Republicans.
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  87.  @carlpolen7437  Sowell never presents data. He presents anecdotal information. For instance you mentioned the first two minutes. Almost none of that video is from San Francisco, the city discussed. On one police car you can see "Santa Monica" which is a suburb of Los Angeles and 400 miles away from San Francisco. So it's simply an emotional appeal, having little factual basis.
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  88.  @timothytakang5407  San Francisco, like many big cities globally, has been hit hard by the pandemic. Any stats involving the last three years would have no comparative validity because office space has emptied out in all cities. When that happened, all the businesses which depended on those workers suffered and closed too. I would bring up one point on which SF is wrong though. You have to eliminate the open air drug mixed with the homeless in all cities. Nobody has figured out an effective way to do that yet though.
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  89.  @carlpolen7437  No he really isn't well regarded outside the extreme right wing of conservatism, but you wouldn't know that because most likely you are one.
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  90.  @timothytakang5407  There has been an increase in violent crimes in the last two years, but it's much safer than most cities of a similar size: "San Francisco recorded 56 homicides each in 2022 and 2021, up over 36% from 2019, when there were 41 homicides, according to police department data. Despite the increase, the number of homicides in San Francisco is well below that of other cities of a similar size, data from the Major Cities Police Chiefs Association shows. Indianapolis, for example, witnessed 271 homicides in 2021 and 226 in 2022. Jacksonville, Florida, meanwhile, saw 129 homicides in 2021 and 154 in 2022, while 204 homicides took place in Columbus, Ohio, in 2021 and 140 in 2022. Violent crimes in San Francisco, including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, reached a high in 2013 with 7,164 violent crimes, according to California Department of Justice data. But they have tapered off significantly in the past couple of years. San Francisco now falls in the lower middle of the pack when compared with several cities of a similar population, according to data from the Major Cities Police Chiefs Association."
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  91.  @redseagaming7832  Crazy wrong, but really funny. LOL You don't even know that the Spanish Empire didn't exist until AFTER the Jews were expelled from Spain. It was even before Columbus sailed in March of 1492. This why Sowell can get away with saying anything in these videos because his followers are completely clueless.
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  92. You're just the typical clueless Sowell follower. Did you know that Martin Luther wrote an essay urging Christians to murder Jewish leaders, burn their books and houses and enslave them? No of course your didn't . It's called "On The Jews and Their Lies". The Nazis used Luther in their propaganda campaign because his hatred for Jews was so well known. Sowell doesn't know any of that by the way, or if he does, he's not going to tell you. LOL
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  93. Funny, some people in this comment board are disputing what I said about Sowell's follower hating Jews. I'm going to quote your comment.
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  94.  @thepatch228  Of course you don't hate them. You just SOUND like the people who hate them. LOL
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  95. That's false, all of the Nazi leadership was Christian. In fact Hitler was a Roman Catholic who went to Catholic schools where he was taught by priests. In Mein Kampf, he said he was doing God's work.
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  96. You're the typical Sowell follower an anti-Semitic neo-Nazi to the core.
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  97.  @finance7120  Pick any video he has made including them and read the comments.
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  98.  @carolwq  Baloney, his following is mostly white racists. All you have to do is read the comments. Here is a good one for you: "They got expelled because of usury and perversion. Pay attention today. the same thing is happening"
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  99. Sowell's idea of a supposed golden age when Christians got along with Jews has no basis in reality. In fact Christian hatred for Jews started as early as the late 4th Century when St. John Chrysostom, then Bishop of Antioch, delivered a series of sermons known Adversus Judaeos. These basically laid the theological groundwork for 1600 years of Christian hatred direct toward Judaism. You would never know that Christianity was the root and branch of anti-Semitism from listening to Sowell.
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  100. 100% upside down and backwards, Republicans are the biggest anti-Semites in the country by far. Marjorie Taylor Greene said CA wildfires were started by "Jewish space lasers"
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