12h ago

Jerry Seinfeld says people who say 'Free Palestine' are worse than the Ku Klux Klan

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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.

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9h ago

Jerry Seinfeld says people who say 'Free Palestine' are worse than the Ku Klux Klan

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12h ago

Jerry Seinfeld says people who say 'Free Palestine' are worse than the Ku Klux Klan

www.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/jerry-seinfeld-says-people-say-free-palestine-are-worse-ku-klux-klan-rcna230355

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i don't know if anyone worked as hard as Jerry Seinfeld to ruin his own reputation insistently for so long.
- I mean, he's doing a great job of it, but there are a lot of other sensational examples
  Musk, Russel Brand, Kanye, Gervais, Rogan, Rowling, Dilbert guy...
  You could argue none of them were as big a self inflicted fall I guess, but they were all, at times, thought of in pretty high esteem by a lot of of people, and then, well, you know.
  
  I'm familiar with the rest of them, what did Gervais do?
I love that Seinfeld says this stuff because I've always felt he was unfunny, smug, obnoxious, and basically I've just always hated him for no reason. Now he just keeps supplying reasons, and finally I can say I hate this fucker without being judged too hard for it
A guy who dated a teenager he picked up at a park in his 30s has bad opinions and is a terrible person? Say it ain’t so!
PDFs love Israel. How old is your GF Jerry?
That is NOT gold Jerry, NOT gold.
Gee, I didn't know not wanting genocide makes you a fucking genocidal hate filled kkk loser. Damn that sure is weird...
Ugh.
Fuck that POS.
I’m Native American free Palestine, fuck Jerry.
I like jews. Free palestine.
- Nail on the head. It's not that nuanced, Jerry!
So he really was Murphy all along.
From the river to the sea, fuck Jerry and Palestine will be free.
Good grief, Jerry, you stupid donkey.
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
Free Palestine and fuck Jerry Springer and his stupid bass line
- What did the former mayor of Cincinnati have to do with this other 90s TV star
This reminds me of Norm McDonald's bit, "People say the worst thing about the whole Bill Cosby thing is the hypocrisy. I disagree, I thought it was the raping that was the worst" apologies for butchering it, but I think it's very relevant, considering it was on an episode of comedians in cars with Jerry
- "Ya know, the more I read about that Hitler fella, the less I care for him."
Jerry once licked my taint. I'll never be able to figure out why. Pretty sure he just licks taint for a hobby or something.
He’s been overrated as a comedian his entire career, I feel zero sense of loss from continuing to ignore every syllable he produces.
- What is the deal with comedians who think their opinion matters because they are billionaires?
  
  laughs in pre-recorded laugh track
Oh Jerry, you geriatric, cradle robbing idiot.
Oh reminds me of a good video essay on recent Jerry from elephant graveyard.
https://youtu.be/c6692U1AD54
- you misspelled pedophile
  
  Sorry I should have said Republican.
  
  What did you think he's robbing from the cradle, the toys?
Seinfeld should stick to comedy and keep his shitstain personal opinions to himself
- He's not good at comedy either so maybe he should just fuck off entirely
  
  The show wasn't great but the worst part was the random standup bits in between.
Unpopular opinion but the guy's been out of "real life" for almost three decades now. His bubble is made up very heavily by the worldview of Jewish voices, specifically those from New York Money which is a thing, and it's not that surprising his take is what it is.
That said, yeah he probably shouldn't be talking publicly about it. Because that's ridiculous. For "regular" Jewish Americans, this time about this topic is incredibly distressing. Sort of like if your whole extended family, town, state, and media voted trump and think everything's difficult-but-good, when obviously it's beyond horrible.
“Just say you don’t like Jews.”
Yeah that makes total sense. Obviously, if I feel like a group of people deserve to not be genocided, that means I don't like Jews. So "liking Jews" = You must want to destroy another culture.
Jerry Seinfeld? The man who, at 39 years old, dated a 17 year old high school student?
- Jesus Christ. How are so many wealthy people pedophiles in this country?! I bet he's on the fucking Epstein list.
- *Raped
  
  As gross as this is, and clearly a 17 year old is not an adult by any real standard, but depending on the state it was legal. Just fucking gross and wrong immortal and he should be shamed into Oblivion for doing it.
  
  Did she claim she was raped?
"I don't care about Palestine," says the comfortable billionaire. He doesn't mean he doesn't care about the issue. He's just OK with genocide as a final solution, like the vast majority of Israel.
“I don’t preach about [the war]. I have my personal feelings about it that I discuss privately. It’s not part of what I can do comedically, but my feelings are very strong.”
His feelings:
- I mean, no one should be surprised. Seinfeld has been a zionist from day one. Most of the cast of the show Seinfeld were zionists. Zionists are unfortunately a lot more present in media than anyone would like to believe, in addition to having many positions of power.
Isn’t this the guy who raped an underaged girl?
- You are going to need to be way more specific than that in this day and age.
  
  He “dated” a 17 year old high school student when he was 39. He originally met her when she was like 15 or 16.
Fuck you, are you on his list? I seem to remember you dating someone significantly significantly significantly and grossly younger than yourself you pervert.
- Pretty sure he married her but could be wrong
  
  Nah, they never got married. He just dated her for four years, when she was 17-21.
  She was in high school when they started “dating.” He was 39.
  “Great guy,” thank god he still has a mouthpiece so we have to read the shit he spews out of his dumb fucking mouth.
It's amazing these people still think that all Jewish people agree with them. Or do they think a huge part of the global Jewish population just became "self-hating" or whatever term they'd use overnight?
- Jewish voices are deeply involved in Palestinian solidarity movements across the world and at almost every level, so statements like this are just fucking insane.
You mean the guy who spent decades rehabilitating his racist friend is racist?
Exactly what I'd expect from the billionaire leech class.
I wonder what he thinks about a thirty-eight year old man dating a seventeen year old? Oh wait we know already.
Dude's been fuckin' gross for years, nobody should take moral advice from this pedo.
The Klan lit churches on fire and killed people. He thinks some words are worse than that? What a psycho.
- Trivializing the KKK just adds another level of implicit racism to his explicit racism.
Seinfeld is a bigot piece of shit. No surprises there.
That's too bad, I liked his show back in the day, now I guess he'll be shown as often as the Cosby show
I never liked him with his canned laughter sitcom and his conformist suburban humor—a bit like a pop song that hasn't aged well, the kind that was successful in its day but is so unoriginal, boring, and unimaginative that no one wants to hear it anymore.
- In hindsight, it wasn't a show about nothing. It was the second best sitcom about friends in NYC.
This is what ethnonationalism does to a mfer
I can proudly say I never found this guy funny. Always seemed like an asshole to me.
- The bassline outros in his TV show were funnier than the man himself.
Yah suprise fucking billionaire is an asshole.
Fuck off rapist
I was expecting a joke. There was no joke.
- Yeah there was. It was the guy talking.
Honestly never thought much of the guy… guess he won, I’m going to go delete the Frogger episode. The only one worth pirating 😝🦜
Jerry Seinfeld is less funny than the Ku Klux Klan.
Hes been a racist piece of shit since sinfield. Probably long before.
Not to excuse him or anything—but I have to remind myself that high-profile targets of anti-semitism (or racism in general) are exposed to orders of magnitude more of it than private individuals, and are correspondingly more likely to interpret it as a cause of things that anyone else can see have other motivations.
- Being high profile has multiple aspects. One is that they're targeted. Another is that their public statements can get a lot of traction.
  So, I don't excuse him in any way to spread propaganda and misinformation, even if it's a result of his personal trauma.
  He has a responsibility not to do that as a long time high profile person.
This is the type of mass murder Jerry likes.
He's a comedian. Leave him alone. I'm like 100% certain he's not a total socio retard that doesn't see a starving child and understand that something is wrong. He's probably just pulling your leg so that we have the conversation.
Please don't go orange turd! Jerry!!!
- Jerry is now just another billionaire collecting Porsches. Ferdinand Porsche was made Oberführer by Adolf Hitler in WWII.
  So he's jew -ish.
  
  And Adam Sandler?
- This guy and his comedy has sucked for a long time.
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Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!