Arnold Schwarzenegger shared on his social media a powerful speech against hate crimes and anti-Semitism. A 12-minute video in which the former governor of California wanted to make an appeal to all those who have chosen, or they are about to choose the wrong path, the one that leads to a life without light and hope.
"It doesn't matter how far you've gone, I want you to know that you still have the option to choose a life of strength", begins the star, 75 years old, underlining how it is "It is easier to hate than to learn". No one who has taken the easy path of hate has come to the end of the road saying, ‘What a life. No. They die as miserably as they lived".
His speech begins recalling the visit he made last autumn to the Auschwitz concentration camp where "More than a million people, including women and children, were brutally killed just because they were Jews." The actor then urged the anti-Semites and other groups racists a stop spreading hatred, thus touching on a issue that is dramatically current in America, where crimes of a discriminatory and persecutory nature are on the rise.
This is my message to anyone who has chosen the path of hate. Please listen. pic.twitter.com/P0VCDqPeb6
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) March 6, 2023
Schwarzenegger also recounted the experience of his father and the other German soldiers at the time of Nazism, recalling: “They allowed themselves to be convinced by a horrible loser ideology. They had been told lies that led them down a path that ended in misery. Convinced of the idea that the only way to improve their lives was to make those of others worse." And then he reiterated:
There has never been a successful hate-based movement. The Nazis? Losers. The Confederacy? Losers The apartheid movement? Losers I don't want you to be losers too. I don't want you to be weak… despite all my friends who might say, ‘Arnold, don't talk to those people. It's not worth it', I don't care what they say. I care about you. I think you are worth it. I know that no one is perfect… I can understand how people can fall into the trap of prejudice and hatred.
And then he concluded:
If you find yourself wondering if the path of hate might make sense to you for one reason or another, or even wrap yourself in the hate flag, I want you to know where does that path end. (…) I have seen enough people throw away their future for hateful beliefs. So I want to talk to you before you find your regrets at the end of that path. There is still a chance to change.
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