Jane Belinda - Golem [Video] - The Good Men Project

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Jane Belinda, performing at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX.

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white supremacist richard spencer gave a
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speech in washington dc in which he said
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the following about jews
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one wonders if these people are people
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at
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all or instead soulless golems animated
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by some dark power to repeat liberal
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talking points
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richard if you are going to use our
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folklore against us at least get the
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details right
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the golem is made from clay like adam
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and brought to life
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by a rabbi to protect jewish people
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becomes unstoppable in its pursuit of
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vengeance the golem
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is a traumatic creation a monster molded
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to be scarier than genocide
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its body lurches always forward in
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search of safety and never finding it
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and yes they are human if
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only in the ways they can suffer and
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this
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is what frightens you how they refuse to
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crumble
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how they are too well intentioned and
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bursting with clumsy anger to be
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soulless
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the golem has the word truth in hebrew
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written across
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its forehead take away one letter and
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you get the hebrew word for death
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this is how you turn a golem back into a
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statue you take
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away the truth it’s only reason for
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existing i know this must be confusing
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for you
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because you have never known the honesty
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of being hunted
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tell me what is more human
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more foolish than knowing the inevitable
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thunder of your
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body when it meets earth again and still
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standing
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what is more human and jewish
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than to die and remain a monument
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you

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