Arnold Schwarzenegger took to social media today with a 12-minute video addressing the rising instances of hate crimes in America and, specifically, addressing those committing or considering committing them or anyone who hates others because of “their religion, or the color of their skin, or their gender.” His message is blunt, calling those who embrace hate “losers,” but also telling those same people, “I care about you,” and urging a different path. “If you find yourself wondering if the path of hate might make sense to you for one reason or the other, or even wrapping yourself in the flag of hate, I want you to know where that path ends,” he said in the video. “I’ve seen enough people throw away their futures for hateful beliefs,” the actor and former California Governor says in the video, “so I want to speak to you before you find your regrets at the end of that path.” Observing his own experience growing up in post-WWII Austria and also using the examples of the Civil War and Apartheid, Schwarzenegger contends, “There has never been a successful movement based on hate…Throughout history hate has always been the easier path.
I mean it’s easier to find a scapegoat for a problem than to try and make things better ourselves, right? But let me be clear: You will not find success at the end of that road.” The Terminator star described his own father and the other former German soldiers he saw growing up who, he said, turned to alcohol to try to soothe their pain: “They were all broken.” “They fell for a horrible, loser ideology,” Schwarzenegger said. “They were lied to and misled into a path that ended in misery.
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