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He kept him going the tight, you know, all that tiger blood. He kept him filled with tiger blood for an extra couple weeks. But these people can only keep this up for so long. So Kanye West in all likelihood will remain a provocateur. He will remain someone who pops up every once in a while to suck up all the air in the media environment for a little while. However, I think this shtick is short lived and anyone who's trying to engage on the substance of the shtick. Once again, whether it's some, whether it's a conservative who thinks he really, you know, stuck to the Libs with his commentary on George Floyd or BLM or someone who's just absolutely outraged and fearful and bothered by what he's saying about Jews in his anti-Semitic bio. I think if you can just take a deep breath, not take the bait, not play into his game, that is the ideal way to respond to this. Obviously, some people do not agree because I got a lot of heat from my post and, you know, the suggestion that I am enabling or excusing his anti-Semitism. I mean, guys, you got to be able to be a more nuanced thinker than that when saying don't take the bait and play into it is not the same as saying it's okay or that much I can to zones is trying to say, oh, that is actually not anti-Semitic. No, that is not the same thing. Saying just because there is something bad out there saying you does not mean that you are or that you can benefit or that anybody can benefit from engaging on it directly. I know it's a nuanced argument, but I think it is the correct one. In terms of connecting terrible ideas and some of the hate that Kanye West is spewing to actual incidents of violence, that accusation comes in a lot of different shapes and forms from a lot of different directions, right? Various other ethnic groups, anytime something offensive is saying they try to tie a public figure saying something offensive to a random act of unfortunate racism or violence towards their group. I think that causal nexus is pretty flimsy, right? By that definition, you could go around to any corner of the internet or any corner of the media, find a public figure who said something bad and try to tie any act of violence to that to that negative commentary, right? And these are things that are unfortunate, unfortunate pieces of reality that people that people, there are people who are stoking group, ethnic and racial hostilities and animus. There are unfortunately some people who will act on those things and we need to make the punishment and the consequences of acting on that and actually perpetuating or committing violence to be as stringent and as significant as possible. That's the way, if you want, for instance, building on my conversation of a couple of weeks ago with Armin Rosen regarding some of the violence against Jews in New York, you happen to see it's an interesting, interesting parallel that the drop in anti-Semitic violence seemed to coincide with the overall drop in violence and the increase in anti-Semitic violence seemed to coincide with the increase in violence overall, right?