This is a classic display of Ivy League idealism that mistakes polite dialogue for a solution to deep-seated systemic conflict. It is easy to preach "understanding" when your own fundamental rights are not the ones up for debate.
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*WTF*HARVARD STUDENT GOES VIRAL AFTER SAYING THIS ABOUT TRUMP
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Got a little reaction here for y'all today, man. This one title is Harvard student goes viral for stunning speech on Trump's midfield.
You know what I'm saying? So, um this came across my desk.
I heard some good things about it. They say he had did a very good speech. That this was type of leaders that we need in our country. So, let's see what he has to say, man. Make sure y'all subscribe to the channel, like the video, share the video. Make sure you guys comment on the video. Without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into it. Let's see uh Let's see what he talking about.
>> My life begins with something that could be the start of a joke.
>> No, what?
>> It goes like this.
A Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew walk into a bar.
>> So, Christian, Muslim, and a Jew walk into a bar.
>> Muslim, and a Jew walk into a bar.
I know historically the setup is a little bit dicey, but this time this time was a little bit different. This time the Christian married the Muslim, and they had a daughter.
That daughter grew up Christian until she met the Jew, converted to Judaism, married the Jew, and had a son.
22 years later, that son is standing here with all all you graduating from Harvard University.
>> Woo!
>> [cheering] >> I am a proud Jew.
I'm also the proud grandson of a Christian and the proud grandson of a Muslim.
But, that isn't a contradiction in any sense of the word. It's proof of a concept, and that concept is what I want to talk to you all about today because my family taught me something I think this world could really use right now.
Which is that the counter to division isn't necessarily agreement.
It's understanding.
Our world today, all the way from the global stage to right here at Harvard, has been split into two sides. There are two sides to every story, of course, only two sides. Two sides to every conflict, argument, disagreement.
Good and bad.
Give and take.
Right and left.
Progressive and conservative, capitalist and communist, oppressor and oppressed, rich and poor, US and China, US and Russia, Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, Israel and Iran, US and Iran, US and Israel and Iran.
All in binaries. At least they're presented to us in terms of binaries.
Here's this issue. What do you think?
What side do you want?
Come on. Where do you stand? Who do you stand with?
In my family, well, my family wouldn't exist with that kind of approach.
My grandfathers, one a Pakistani Muslim who grew up in the middle of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, the other, a Jewish refugee of the Holocaust, met many times over the course of their lives.
As you might imagine, they disagreed on a great many things.
And yet, one of the main memories I have of them growing up was seeing them sitting together at a coffee table discussing everything under the sun.
And when they weren't in close proximity I remember hearing their voices on the phone as they called my parents.
Always remembering at the end of each call to ask about the other.
How they were doing, what were they up to.
Of course, there are many differences that they never resolved.
But still they acknowledged each other, they cared for each other, they stayed in contact and they debated with each other. Their vast disparity in life experience, viewpoints, ideology, faith and beliefs a point of contention, yes, but not a point of division.
And yet somewhere between their generation and ours something in the conversation shifted.
The debates got louder, the noise got louder, the listening stopped, it got harder.
On the news, on your timeline, at the dinner table people speaking without listening, people arguing having already decided their own allegiances, people debating not to listen, understand or to learn but to win.
To humiliate.
To be right.
And somewhere along the way the person sitting across the table stopped being a person and became an obstacle.
Now, some would say that there are in fact people in this world for whom understanding is neither owed or even worth the attempt. People whose very irredeemable actions or beliefs place them beyond the reach of dialogue.
People who indeed have become nothing more than obstacles to the greater good.
And maybe that's true.
Well my grandfathers survived the atrocities of war and worse.
And they knew better than anyone that people can do monstrous things.
They also knew the most terrifying fact of all.
Which is that the people doing those monstrous things?
They were human.
Not forgivable, not necessarily redeemable, but human. Terrifyingly so.
And it's precisely because of that human capacity that understanding them mattered. Dialogue still mattered.
Not in the sense of dialogue in the sense of extending grace or providing a platform, but again, understanding.
Asking, how did they get to this point?
How did they reach this conclusion? Why do they believe this?
Asking these questions in this context holds a light up to the darkest parts of what it means to be human. And as such, we have to grapple with them.
But, such questions, necessary questions, important questions are not only reserved for the darkest parts of human history.
If such questions of understanding, why do they believe this? If such questions of understanding matter that much at that extreme of humanity, how much more do they matter for the people sitting around you right now?
For that family member at Thanksgiving that you stop bringing certain topics up around.
For that person on the internet that says things from a viewpoint that seems kind of unimaginable sometimes.
For that student in the section that you smiled at once and said, "Interesting point." And then went back to your dorm and complained about your roommate.
Or for that one friend that you started to phase out because they said some things once that just didn't sit quite right with you.
Take about 8 billion of those people, put them together, and you get our world.
Many of us who come to Harvard have dreams of changing the world, of leaving an impact.
But, you cannot change a world that you refuse to understand, to talk to. You You convince someone of something if you do not >> Man, that's Listen, you cannot change the world if you not willing to understand and talk to.
Like that was perfectly said. And that's the truth. How you going to change something if you don't even understand it?
You know what I'm saying?
>> They refuse to understand, to talk to.
You cannot convince someone of something if you do not understand them first.
Peace through understanding can survive conflict.
While peace through agreement lasts only as long as everyone keeps agreeing.
In most cases understanding is difficult.
Sometimes you have to fight for it.
Sometimes you have to fight yourself and your own beliefs first before you can truly achieve it.
It takes effort.
My grandfathers knew that but they chose to try anyway.
So as we all go out into an increasingly troubled world and divided world I want to leave you all with one simple practice.
Whenever you meet someone you disagree with, state your case, yes.
Stand up for what you believe in, absolutely.
But also ask the other person about their beliefs. Ask them how they got there.
Place yourself in their shoes and ask, "Why do I believe this?" Listen like you might be wrong.
That is not a weakness or betrayal of your own ideals.
That is the hardest >> That was a cold punch line right there.
Listen like as if you were wrong.
You know what I'm saying? Like if you wrong about a Let's say a math problem.
You know you wrong about it. So now you got to listen to whoever's trying to teach you on how to do it correctly.
I like that line right there. Listen like you might be wrong.
That was nice. I like that.
>> their shoes and ask, "Why do I believe this?" Listen like you might be wrong.
That's not a weakness or betrayal of your own ideals.
That is the hardest and most important thing you can do in a world that is constantly telling you pick a side.
>> Right.
>> I told you my life begins like a joke.
Well, my Muslim grandfather was buried facing Mecca.
My Jewish grandfather was buried in accordance to Jewish law.
My Christian grandmother was buried with a cross.
In a way, the punchline never really came. There was no resolution to the setup. They were all very stubborn and they held on to their own ideals and traditions until the very end.
But still, they respected each other.
They chose each other.
And at the end of the day, they were proud to be of one family.
Look around you right now. Look at the people around you.
The person to your right, the person to your left.
You're sitting now amongst people of every belief and every background.
A family that we have built over the years here at Harvard.
Do we agree on everything?
>> No.
>> Ask the section kid.
Will we ever agree on everything?
Certainly not.
The world beyond these walls, it has all the same disagreements, the same differences of opinion, the same divisions that we have.
But I urge you, see the people in your class for who they are as people. Fight to understand them and their beliefs just as much as you stand up and fight for your own.
And after you walk through the gates of this yard for the first time as Harvard graduates, do the same for the people of our world.
Because in a time this complicated and this divided, understanding and a genuine willingness to look a little bit deeper is how those divisions start to heal.
Thank you all and congratulations to the class of '26.
>> [applause] [applause] >> That was an amazing speech by that young man.
Amazing. Basically, he's saying that we don't have to be divided based off of a person's religion, a person's belief, you know, whatever the case may be. He had a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew.
All family.
Had him, he's a proud Jew. His grandmother, I believe was a was a proud Christian, and somebody else was was a Muslim.
Three different beliefs.
Three different opinions on what they believe in and what they stand for.
He said one of his favorite moments of that that they can sit at a coffee table and talk about whatever under the sun.
They may not agree with every single thing, but they still came back together with love and understanding.
And that's what it's all about. You have to listen like you might be wrong.
Or as if you were wrong.
You know what I'm saying? Like And like he said, there's too much division in this world. They It's like It's like they want you to pick a side.
You know what I'm saying? Like Like they want you to pick They They want us to be divided. If you don't understand that by now, you will never understand that.
Whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asian, this, and that, and woo. It's like they want us to be divided.
Why? I have no clue.
When we're all human beings. We're all here for the same reason.
You know what I'm saying? To raise our kids, to raise our family, to have a peaceful life, and to all live the American dream.
That's what we're here for.
So, why does it matter what color you are? Why does it matter what religion that you believe in? Why does it matter about any of that?
At the end of the day, why? Why does it matter? We all grew up on different sides of the world.
We all got taught different things.
So, just cuz I got taught something different from you, I don't like you?
Because you don't believe in the same thing that I believe in?
Or because you are different pigment than I have?
So, I don't like you?
It's like, come on, people.
Like, what are we really doing?
Like, what are we really doing?
I love that statement that he made, "Listen like you might be wrong."
Because if you're not listening, then you're not hearing the other person out. And my mom used to always tell me, "God gave you two ears and one mouth for a reason. You're supposed to listen more than you talk."
Why you ain't got two mouths?
He could have He God could have gave us two mouths, one eye, half a nose.
You know what I'm saying?
Whatever. But he gave us two ears for a reason.
Because we're supposed to listen more than we talk.
But the way this world is nowadays, we don't even want to listen.
We don't even want to hear the other side.
You know what I'm saying? If it's not in a line with how you feel or what your belief is.
You know?
And that's not right.
It's not right. Because I don't want you to agree with everything that I got going on.
Because now you're being fake.
You know what I'm saying? It's okay to disagree.
But it's just a conversation.
Why you Why we got to hate each other after that?
We shouldn't have to. We should still be able to sit down after we have that conversation and continue on with our day.
In peace.
My personal opinion.
You know, but anyway, I thank you guys man for stopping by. Appreciate it. Um, hope you guys enjoy the rest of your day. Make sure you all stay safe.
Stay blessed. Make sure you guys always keep God first.
And I'll catch you guys in the next reaction video.
Peace.
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