“Nazis? Losers. The Confederacy? Losers. The apartheid movement? Losers. I don’t want you to be a loser. 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.’
That’s Arnold Schwarzenegger in his new YouTube video, warning against the rise of antisemitism in the US.
At one point he tells viewers “there has never been a successful movement based on hate”.
Schwarzenegger continued: “It’s easier to make excuses that the Jewish people conspired to hold you back than it is to admit that you just needed to work harder.
“It’s easier to hate than it is to learn … Nobody who has chosen the easy path of hate has gotten to the end of the road and said, ‘What a life.’ No. They die as miserably as they lived.
“No matter how far you’ve gone, I want you to know you still have a chance to choose a life of strength. You have to fight the war against yourself … The [hate] path is easier – you don’t have to change anything, everything in your life that you aren’t happy about can be somebody else’s fault … [But] you will end up broken. I don’t want you to go through all that.”