Arnold Schwarzenegger tries to reason with xenophobes: “There is still hope for you”

Last September, Arnold Schwarzenegger published that he visited Auschwitz, the most famous of the Nazi concentration camps where millions of Jews died. He was criticized at the time for signing his guest book with the phrase his character of him in ‘Terminator’ is known for, accusing it of disrespect. Months later, the actor posted a video on his YouTube channel where brings his experience visiting Auschwitz to reflect on the hatred that is still latent in society. “The weight on my back [cuando visitas Auschwitz] it hits you at the start harder than any other squat I’ve ever done. And it never goes awaysays the actor.

“How can we prevent it from happening again?”he wonders, as have hundreds of people around the world. To answer this question, he is not addressing the victims of the Holocaust, but the many xenophobic people who continue to exist in our society. “I want to talk to you if you think someone is inferior and is looking out for you because of their religion, skin color or gender”. The actor admits he can “understanding how people can fall into the trap of prejudice and hate”but he asks you to stay strong and not take the easy route. “Throughout history, hate has always been the easy way out, the one with little resistance. It’s easier to find a scapegoat for a problem than to make things better yourself, right?”.

The former governor of California assures: “No one who has taken the easy path of hate has come to the end and said, ‘What a life.’ No. They die as miserably as they lived”. He uses his figure as the world’s most famous bodybuilder to compare the mental toughness that someone who wants to stop hating must exert with the physical strength that drove him to exercise, and says it’s been to the gym where he learned more than the lessons of he. : “If you run away from discomfort and resistance all your life, you will always be weak”.

There’s still time

Arnold Schwarzenegger argues that it’s not too late for people driven by hate to get their lives back on track: “No matter how far you’ve come, you still have the option to choose the path of strength, but you must give up the war against everything you hate”. For him, the real battle they have to fight is against themselves. “I don’t care how many awful things you wrote on the internet. I don’t care how many times you went out with that hateful flag or what hateful things you might have said out of anger. There’s still hope for There’s still time for you” Choose the fortress . Choose life. Conquer your mind. You can do it”concludes.