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Chapter 1: What are the internet debates discussed in this episode?
All right, guys, happy Tuesday. Well, at least I'm happy. People on the internet are not happy. They never seem to be happy. Right now, we have two great internet debates that are waging. First and foremost, I'm sure you have seen this, but was the Trump administration correct in deporting a student Palestinian activist from Columbia University. Did you agree with that?
Are you following the story? I'm very interested to hear your guys' perspectives. Also, should we now begin feeling bad for Blake Lively because she appeared at her Simple Favor 2 premiere and people are noting that she seems increasingly uncomfortable and anxious and maybe it really is just a lot for her to deal with. So we should discuss that. Should we be more compassionate toward Blake Lively?
Let's jump right into this. Welcome back to Candace. I already know that I'm gonna upset a lot of people in this podcast. It's this thing that I do. I just try to be ideologically consistent. And sometimes that means that you're defending people on the left. Sometimes it means you're defending people on the right. And the people in the middle are always like, well, why don't we just defend ideas?
Before we get into the meats and potatoes of today, which is the pro-Palestinian student protester that is being deported by Trump's DOJ, I very quickly want to at first give you my opinion on Blake Lively's appearance at the Simple Favor 2 premiere. South by Southwest premiere. There she is alongside Anna Kendrick.
And I should say, first and foremost, regarding Anna Kendrick, we already knew that she was somewhat upset leading up to this premiere for obvious reasons.
I mean, you imagine you work your butt off, you're in this movie, you're fighting with Blake Lively about who should be more prominently featured on all the materials and the advertisements, because I guess that's a thing, like where you're featured on the movie poster. And And Blake Lively wants to be prominently featured. And then she gets herself into this huge situation worldwide.
She is sort of despised alongside her husband. And now you've got to recognize that this movie is probably not going to do so well because people are just not going to watch a movie with Blake Lively in it. And the rumors were that she felt that Blake Lively didn't do anything to dispel that. She didn't come out and make a statement.
She didn't come out, you know, with her heart in her hand or say anything. She just kind of allowed this movie to be like an innocent bystander to everything that went on with It Ends With Us. It ends with us, pardon. So leading up to this red carpet, all eyes were kind of on Blake. People were wondering if she was going to bring Ryan. I said, definitely not. That's not going to happen.
Obviously, she's adjusting and she's realizing what a bad decision SNL was. People don't like Ryan Reynolds, especially. So she did show up alone. And when Anna Kendrick was asked about Blake Lively on the red carpet, she was a bit pithy. And I would say... Maybe trying to be funny, but definitely made a statement when she was asked about working with Blake. Take a listen.
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Chapter 2: Should we feel bad for Blake Lively's public behavior?
And obviously, people are then going to look into this person because this is an example of the policy. You said illegal protesting. So I thought, OK, this is going to be pretty simple. I abstained yesterday from all the chatter about it because I knew I just knew in my gut that this person had to have been arrested for doing something that was illegal, engaging in an illegal protest.
He must have been arrested on a campus. And therefore, because he was on a student visa, he had to leave. And I was OK with that. But something else was presented to the public. OK, here are the facts. Yes, he is a Palestinian activist. His name is Mahmoud Khalil. He was, in fact, detained by ICE over Columbia University protests.
He had completed work on his master's degree from Columbia University in December. But he is a legal resident of the United States. OK, he is a green card holder. That is very different from somebody who is here on a student visa. OK, that means you essentially have all of the rights that are afforded to you. You can't vote, but you can have legal green card residency for a very long time.
So he was arrested and detained by federal agents after his lawyer said that his green card was revoked by the Trump administration, despite the fact that he hadn't been arrested. For engaging in illegal protests. So that made me go, OK, wait, what's this? What's going on?
His attorney, a woman named Amy Greer, said that Khalil's wife, who is in fact an American citizen, was also present during his arrest. And she's eight months pregnant. She finds out her green card holding legal permanent resident husband is about to be kicked out of the country and he hasn't been arrested yet. So I'm going there must be something here that we're missing.
OK, clearly, I got to kind of get through all of the fodder on social media because, you know, you're going to get he was a Hamas supporter. I've been called a Hamas supporter for pointing out that I don't like dead children that are Palestinian, like truly survive my last year here. Everything that I was called. That's why I don't react when I hear these names. I actually look for the truth.
I look for the source. I want to hear what he said. I want to see what he did. I no longer believe in smears and libels and name calling ad hominid attacks. Just show me the video of what this individual did, what he said that showed that he was supporting a terrorist group overseas and you will have me committed to your beliefs. But 24 hours later, we couldn't find this. We could not find this.
Nobody was able to present anything other than ad hominem attacks, okay? We looked into it a little bit further in an interview with CNN last spring. Khalil Khalil said that he was born a Palestinian refugee in Syria. OK, so he is Palestinian. That's why he obviously is going to have some feelings about what's happening to Palestinians. The innocent Palestinians.
OK, people who think that innocent children and women being bombed is wrong are not necessarily Hamas supporters. We're conflating. OK, we are conflating and we're doing it because it's disingenuous. Then we learned that his family is from Tiberias, an Israeli city that was once known for its mixed Jewish and Arab population. He grew up in Syria.
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