Arnold Schwarzenegger comes out against anti-Semitism, racism and hate organizations.
In a 12-minute video that he uploaded to YouTube, the Austrian actor preaches to choose the good path and attacks "any person who heard conspiracy stories about Jews or any race and gender and thought to himself 'this makes sense to me'".
Schwarzenegger, photo: AP
"There has never been a successful movement based on hatred," said Schwarzenegger, who recalled visiting the Auschwitz extermination camp last year and confronting his father's Nazi past. "Nazis? Losers. The Confederacy? Losers. The apartheid movement? Losers. I don't want you to be losers. I don't want you to be weak. Despite all my friends telling me 'Arnold, don't talk to these people, it's not worth it and I don't care what they say' - I care about you. I think you're worth it. I know nobody's perfect. I can understand how people can fall into the trap of prejudice and hatred.'
The Austrian star also says in the video: "It's easier to make excuses that the Jewish people conspired to harm your success than to admit that you simply didn't work hard enough."
It is easier to hate than to learn... There is no person who chose the easy path of hatred and reached the end of the road and said to himself 'what a life'.
No, they die as miserable as they lived.
"No matter how far you have come (in the context of hatred), I want you to know that you still have the opportunity to choose a life of strength. You must fight the war against yourself. The path of hatred is easier, because you don't have to change anything in it. Anything in your life that you are not happy about Could be someone else's fault. But that's how you'll end up broken. I don't want you to go through all this.''
Schwarzenegger, photo: Reuters
This is not the first time that the former governor of California has made social and political statements, years after retiring from public activity.
Exactly one year ago, last March, the bodybuilder addressed the Russian soldiers attacking in Ukraine and called on them not to believe the propaganda machine of their leader Putin and to avoid repeating the mistakes made by his father, a Nazi soldier who fought in Leningrad and returned from the battlefield broken in body and soul, after he realized that he believed the lies of his leaders.
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