Dennis Prager Show - How do I Announce to my Colleagues that I'm Conservative?
Aired: 2020-09-11
Duration: 03:47


=== Socially Ostracized (03:44) ===

[00:00:02]  Well, you shouldn't even use blacklisted.
[00:00:05]  That alone would render you fired.
[00:00:08]  Just the term itself, right?
[00:00:10]  Blacklisted is a negative, and it has the word black in it.
[00:00:13]  But you would be ostracized socially, clearly.
[00:00:22]  Are you ostracized socially now, or do they have no clue as to how you think?
[00:00:28]  They have absolutely no clue.
[00:00:31]  I mean, I keep my head down.
[00:00:33]  So you are truly what I call a Murano.
[00:00:36]  You're like the Jews in medieval Spain who acted Catholic and practiced Judaism at home.
[00:00:41]  You are this modern Murano.
[00:00:46]  Well, if it helps, I'm an art teacher, so it's even rarer than that.
[00:00:49]  That's right.
[00:00:51]  In your profession.
[00:00:53]  So, are you married?
[00:00:57]  I am.
[00:00:58]  Does your wife share your values?
[00:01:01]  And she's a teacher too.
[00:01:05]  What percentage of teachers do you think are in your position?
[00:01:12]  You know, it's hard to say because I really do think there's a lot of groupthink.
[00:01:16]  On this side of the river where I live, I do think that there's a lot of people who just kind of keep their heads down or, you know, it's just not something that they talk about at work.
[00:01:26]  Today alone, there were two or three people who had mentioned Trump.
[00:01:29]  Ugh, it's Trump and Trump.
[00:01:30]  It's like, I don't feel safe to have any conversation there that's actually meaningful.
[00:01:35]  And if I just don't nod my head and agree, I do feel like I'll be personally ostracized.
[00:01:46]  Well, you have to, and I'm not telling you what to do.
[00:01:50]  It's not right for me to.
[00:01:52]  Because I don't have the same situation as you.
[00:01:55]  I'm hated by many people, but I don't have a threat to my work.
[00:02:01]  At a given point, you just have to figure out what you can do without being fired and then ask, can I handle the ostracization and hate?
[00:02:22]  Because you will find allies that you didn't know you had.
[00:02:26]  I just want you to know that they do exist.
[00:02:30]  I have friends in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the last orchestra in the country you would imagine it would be okay to state that you're a conservative.
[00:02:42]  And they have been bold about it.
[00:02:45]  Their colleagues don't like their views, but they're doing okay.
[00:02:52]  It's something you have to weigh.
[00:02:54]  I will just say this.
[00:02:57]  I can handle being hated.
[00:03:00]  I'm not sure I can handle being fired because I want you to have an income.
[00:03:07]  So if I were him, if I were he to be actually correct grammatically, I would speak out.
[00:03:22]  In as non-emotional, non-adjectival, fact-based way as possible, and then see what happens.
[00:03:38]  But I'm not telling him to do that.
[00:03:40]  I'm only saying what I think I would do, but I certainly would not want to get fired.