致, 走在仇恨之路上的你

阿诺德·施瓦辛格的12分钟演讲 Arnold Schwarzenegger has a powerful message for those who have gone down a path of hate.

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Hello everybody, I want to talk to you today about the rising hate and antisemitism we have seen all over the world.

In a few months ago, I toured Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives. Almost all of them were ruthlessly murdered simply because they were Jewish.

When you walk through a place like Auschwitz, you feel a tremendous weight 走在一个像奥斯维辛这样的地方 你会感受到巨大的沉重. There are reminders everywhere of the horrors that happened there:

The suitcases never claimed by the prisoners who were told to remember exactly where they'd left their belongings so they could retrieve them after they were finished with their showers. The shoes and the gold teeth and the hair they were taken from the murdered to be reused by the murderers to fund their evil. The log books with thousands of names crossed out as if a cruel accountant only measured death. The gas chambers with scratches in the walls from the fingernails of people who tried to hold on to life. The crematorium where the Nazis tried to erase all of their atrocities.

Let me tell you something.

The weight on your back hits you at the very beginning, heavier than any squat I've ever done. And it never goes away.

It's the feeling of history, of millions of voices that were silenced decades ago, begging you, begging you, not just to look at their shoes, but to spend a few hours in them, to imagine you were there.

Because once you imagine that you arrived on that train, and you were sorted into those lines,

and you smelt the smoke that didn't smell like any wood you've ever burnt before, and you never saw your families coming out of those showers. And then you broke your butt off while getting almost nothing to eat, until they looked more like a ghost than a person. And then when you couldn't work anymore, and they considered you useless, they send you to the showers too.

Once you've spent the time to really think about all those things, then your imagination has no choice but to start the real work.

How do we stop this from ever happening again? 我们怎样能阻止这样的事情不再发生

You know, after a trip to Auschwitz you will never question why 'Never Again' is the rallying cry of all of the people who fight to prevent another Holocaust.

You will never question that.

But today, I don't really want to talk to those people. I don't want to preach to the choir here. Today, I want to talk to the people out there who might have already stumbled into the wrong direction into the wrong path.

I want to talk to you, if you have heard some conspiracies about Jewish people or people of any race or gender or orientation, and thought 'ah, That makes sense to me.'

I want to talk to you if you found yourself thinking about anyone as inferior and out to get you because of their religion, or the color of the skin, or their gender.

I don't know the road that has brought you here, but I've seen enough people throw away their futures for hateful beliefs, so I want to speak to you before you find your regrets on the end of that path.

I've talked a lot about my father, and the broken man that I was surrounded by when I grew up in Austria after the Second World War. You know, they drank to numb the pain. Their bodies were riddled with injuries and shrapnels from the evil war, and their hearts and their minds were equally riddled with guilt. But besides the guilt and the injuries, they felt like losers, not only because they lost the world but also because they fell for a horrible, loser ideology.

They were lied to and misled into a path that ended in misery. Some of them joined the Nazis because they were filled with hate. Some of them joined because they thought they deserved more in their lives and they bought into that idea that the only way to make their lives better was to make other lives worse 他们信奉的想法是 让自己生活更好的唯一办法就是让别人生活的更糟. Some of them joined because they were frustrated with the government, and some of them just joined because everyone else was doing it.

In the end it didn't really matter why they joined. They were all broken in the same way. That's the bottom line here.

I mean if you find yourself at the crossroads wondering if that 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.

I want you to see very clearly in front of you, in your mind.

Because throughout history, hate has always been the easy path, the path of least resistance 愤怒永远是最容易走的路 一条需要最少的自我抵抗的路. I get it.

It's easier to find a scapegoat for a problem than to try to make things better ourselves, right?

But let me be clear: you will not find success on the end of that road. You will not find fulfillment or happiness, because hate burns fast and bright, and it might make you feel empowered for a while, but it eventually consumes whatever vessel it fuels. It breaks you. It's the path of the weak. And that's why there has never been a successful movement based on hate.

I mean, think about that. The Nazis? Losers. The confederacy? Losers. The Apartheid Movement, losers. And the list goes on and on.

I don't want you to be a loser.

I don't want you to be weak.

See, I've spent most of my life helping people find their strength. This is where the action is.

Strength.

And despite all of the things that we might disagree about, and all my friends who might say 'Arnold, don't talk to those people. It's not worth it.' I don't care what they say.

I care about you. I think you're worth it. 我在意你 我想你值得我对你说

I know that nobody is perfect. I can tell you this firsthand.

And I can understand how people can fall in the trap of prejudice and hate. Whether you grow up surrounded by hate, or got sucked in by some of Big Tech's algorithms that push you to the extreme.

I can see how it can happen.

I think all of us hold some prejudice. There's no two ways about that. And we have to fight it our whole lives.

I know this is not the path of least resistance.

It's easier to just throw around some bogus science claiming that you're superior to someone else, than it is to actually work on becoming better yourself. It's easy to make excuses that the Jewish people conspired to hold you back, than it is to admit that you just needed to work harder. It's easier to hate than it is to learn 比起学习提高 仇恨更容易. It's easier when someone challenges you to get hurt feelings, and to go and find some echo chamber that will tell you, that you are right and they're wrong.

But remember easier isn't better.

It isn't.

When you spend your life looking for scapegoats, you take away your own responsibility.

You remove your own power. You steal your own strength.

Nobody who has chosen the easy path of hate has gotten to the end of that road and said, 'oh what a life.'

No. They die as miserably as they lived.

No matter how far you've gone, I want you to know that you still have the chance to choose a life of strength.

But you have to give up you war against everyone that you hate.

Let's give up that war.

Whether you hate them because of the color of their skin, or their religion, or their gender, or their sexual orientation, it doesn't matter. Give it up.

Give up that war.

You know, the war that you have to really fight is the war against yourself.

You have to fight the war against yourself.

Now, it's not easy to look in a mirror and to change your own life. It's hard as hell. You have to take responsibility. You have to learn new things. You have to feel uncomfortable. 正视自己 改变自己的生活并不容易 艰难至极 你必须负起责任 你必须学习新东西 你必须感到不舒适

Good. Because discomfort is how we grow. That's how we become strong. If you run away from discomfort and resistance your whole life you will always be weak. 很好 因为不舒适我们得以成长 我们因之变得强大 如果你从不舒适逃离 一生都在抗拒 你永远都会是弱者

Just think about the gym, for instance. And that's where I learned most of my lessons, right?

The muscles only grows from resistance. You have to struggle. You have to build strength.

The more I force my hands against that steel bar, the bigger the biceps get, and the stronger they get. When I was trying to squat 600 pounds and bench press 500 pounds and deadlift 700, it didn't feel like a walk in the park. It wasn't easy. No. I was uncomfortable. It was painful. I mean, look at those photos. I was struggling. I was crying out loud in pain.

You know something? Your mind and your character are no different than your body and your muscles.

If you want to grow as a person, you really have to make friends with pain.

Embrace the discomfort. Enjoy the struggle.

You have two paths in front of you right now. One of them is going to be the harder one today. It's going to be downright painful. You would have to force your brain to think in new ways. You may lose some friends who want to hold on to their weak beliefs.

But as you pull yourself away from that anger and that hate, eventually you will start to feel empowered. You will realize that you have the greatest power of all: the power to change your own life. You'll be stronger than you've ever known.

The other path is easy, much easier. You don't have to change anything. Everything in your life that you aren't happy about can be someone else's fault. You can keep fueling yourself on the sugar high of hate, but the end of that road isn't pretty. I've seen it in my own eyes. You will end up broken, searching for ways to numb your pain and your misery.

See, I don't want you to go through all of that. It's unnecessary.

Let me tell you something. When I walked through that camp in Auschwitz, and I put myself in the shoes of those people herdedit into those gas chambers, it was horrifying - one of the darkest moments of my life. But in that darkness, a woman who survived the horrors of Auschwitz helped me find the light.

I spend some time with her and had a wonderful conversation with her, and she told me that the Nazis could conquer cities and countries, they could take her freedom, her friends, her family, even her life, but they could never conquer her mind.

What strength that woman had. Wow.

So the bottom line is, I don't care how many hateful things you may have written online, I don't care how often that you have marched carrying that hateful flag, or what hateful things you may have said in anger, there's still hope for you. 你依然有希望

There's still time for you.

Choose strength.

Choose life.

Conquer your mind.

You can do it.

Thank you very much for listening.