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A lot of people have spoken up against the actions of neo-Nazis and President Trump’s response to those actions over the past week.
Not many, however, have had the reach and influence as the former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had his say on Thursday.
.@Schwarzenegger has a blunt message for Nazis. pic.twitter.com/HAbnejahtl
— ATTN: (@attn) August 17, 2017
Schwarzenegger released a nearly four-minute video through ATTN: and he doesn’t hold his opinions back.
The 70-year-old talks about being born in Austria in 1947 and how he grew up surrounded by broken men who had fought for Adolf Hitler during the second world war.
“Growing up, I was surrounded by broken men who came home from the war filled with shrapnel and guilt, men who were misled into a losing ideology,” he said. “And I can tell you: these ghosts that you idolize spent the rest of their lives living in shame. And right now, they’re resting in hell.”
While many of his comments were aimed at those participating in these rallies, he didn’t hold back on the 45th president of the United States of America, Donald Trump.
“As president of this great country, you have a moral responsibility to send an unequivocal message that you won’t stand for hate and racism.”
Schwarzenegger also compares stereotypes about racism, religion, gender or anything else to cancer, claiming that you wouldn’t just sit around and let a tumour grow but instead you’d try to fight it and get rid of it.
Finally, the former governor encourages people to join him by supporting an anti-hate organization and finished with this comment.
“Let’s all commit, right now, to leaving the terrible ghosts of the past in the trash heap of history. That’s where they belong.”