In the video, Arnold talks about his recent visit to the German extermination camp Auschwitz. “How can we prevent this from happening again?” he wonders. The actor addresses the group of people who are prone to hate speech theories or who may have already fallen in love with them. “I don’t want to preach to my congregation,” he explains in the 12-minute video. “Some of my friends say I shouldn’t talk to you because you don’t deserve to be talked to. But I think you deserve to be talked to.”
“I want to talk to you if you’ve heard reports of Jewish people or people of any race, gender or orientation and you think those reports are accurate,” he says in the video. their religion, skin color, or gender.”
Arnold reminds viewers that hate-based movements such as the Nazi regime, apartheid South Africa, or the American Confederation never won. “Throughout history, hate has always been the easiest path, the path of least resistance,” he said. According to him, it always seems easier to find a scapegoat for a problem than to make things better yourself. “But to be clear, you will never find success at the end of this path.”
Finally Arnold called on his viewers to “stop the hate”. “Stop that battle. The only battle you have to fight is against yourself.” He says it won’t be easy, but it’s worth doing. “Nobody has spent their entire life hating others looking back on a great life. They died as bad as theirs. But you still have a chance to make something of your life.”
