Dennis Prager Show - Will the NYT Review Candace Owens' New Book?
Aired: 2020-09-19
Duration: 07:51


=== Why They Won't Review (07:50) ===

[00:00:01]  I mean, to think that the New York Times...
[00:00:04]  I wonder if they'll even review your book.
[00:00:07]  You know, Candace Owens, of course, is my guest.
[00:00:10]  Do you think they'll review your book?
[00:00:12]  I mean, it would be so poignantly absurd if they didn't.
[00:00:16]  And, I mean, there's just no tricks they can pull.
[00:00:18]  Some people were like, oh, they might try to lead you off the list.
[00:00:21]  I was like, 90,000 copies sold on Amazon alone.
[00:00:24]  I mean, that's not even separate from Barnes& Noble or anywhere else.
[00:00:28]  So I feel pretty optimistic that they will, and that they just, you know, at a certain point, at a certain amount of number of books, they just have to do what's right if they want to be taken seriously.
[00:00:40]  Not that anyone's ever accused the New York Times of wanting to be taken seriously.
[00:00:45]  Right.
[00:00:46]  Well, they do want to be taken seriously.
[00:00:48]  They have no reason to expect it, but they do.
[00:00:51]  So, yeah, well, in any event, I could actually...
[00:00:55]  Do you know Candace?
[00:00:56]  I'm not kidding.
[00:00:58]  If somebody paid me, and I don't mean an exorbitant sum, but I'd have to be paid for my time, write the review that you expect the New York Times to write on Candace Owens' book, I could write the review.
[00:01:14]  No, I would, because I know what they would, it is not possible to think that you and Ta-Nehisi Coates or Zandi, Ibram Zandi, If I have his name right, or the White Fragility folks, you can't both be right.
[00:01:31]  Either two and two is four or it's five.
[00:01:35]  Have you read, and I don't expect that you have, but have you read or know about White Fragility?
[00:01:41]  I know about the book White Fragility, but I have not read it because I'm trying to maintain my brain cells.
[00:01:47]  Okay, fine.
[00:01:48]  So this notion...
[00:01:51]  First of all, how do you react to the notion all whites are racist?
[00:01:55]  I mean, it's just, even that sentence is racist.
[00:02:00]  I mean, think of it again, going back to the definition of racism, assigning attributes to the ties for people based on their race.
[00:02:07]  So a statement like all whites are racist is actually a racist statement.
[00:02:12]  All whites are privileged is a racist statement.
[00:02:15]  And it's just so frustrating that it just took a couple of decades for people to completely forget what racism is.
[00:02:22]  And to think that somehow, flip it on its head, it's no longer racism, and it is.
[00:02:27]  You know, that is the exercise.
[00:02:29]  If you said a sentence, I always say remove the word white and put blacks.
[00:02:34]  And how does that sentence make you feel, right?
[00:02:36]  All blacks are racist.
[00:02:39]  That's right.
[00:02:40]  People would freak out, you know?
[00:02:41]  When I see these articles in BuzzFeed, white people need to just shut up.
[00:02:45]  Imagine if that same article said black people need to just shut up.
[00:02:49]  The world would explode.
[00:02:51]  They would say it was racist.
[00:02:52]  So why have we suddenly arrived into a society that permits that sort of language if it's spoken against white people?
[00:03:00]  This is supposed to be some what?
[00:03:01]  what some retribution from the times of slavery.
[00:03:05]  I'm demanding white people that never held slaves pay, black people that were never slaves, and that's supposed to make you feel good, and that doesn't feel like an injustice.
[00:03:15]  People miss the forest for the trees here.
[00:03:17]  And it's almost not their fault because there is a mass brainwashing going on, the psychological conditioning that's happening because of the media, which is working with the politicians.
[00:03:29]  Who can no longer discern between right and wrong, right?
[00:03:32]  We used to agree, but left in the right, on some basic concepts of right and wrong, right?
[00:03:37]  This was never up for debate.
[00:03:38]  It's wrong to lose.
[00:03:40]  It's wrong to riot.
[00:03:41]  It would be crazy to say defund the police.
[00:03:44]  Now, we don't agree on those things.
[00:03:47]  They always have a, but it can be right.
[00:03:49]  It's okay to lose in right if you're just feeling emotional and upset.
[00:03:54]  It's okay to attack a business owner's door because of past depressions that you never lived through.
[00:04:00]  And that's a scary place to be in, when adults and people in places of power can no longer discern between basic concepts of goodness and righteousness and wrongness.
[00:04:11]  That's right.
[00:04:13]  So you are leaving Black exit from the Democratic Party.
[00:04:18]  Let me tell you my reaction and have you react to it, if you would.
[00:04:24]  I think you're making headway, and I don't live in a world of rose-colored glasses.
[00:04:31]  But I have a sense that there is more openness to the question, has the Democratic Party been good for me?
[00:04:43]  And for other Blacks, it is more capable of being heard today than at any time in my life.
[00:04:51]  Yes, and that's exactly right.
[00:04:54]  And, you know, I really do think that I've made an impact there because I was extremely strategic.
[00:04:59]  People didn't understand what I was doing when I first arrived on the scene.
[00:05:03]  Not everybody is PragerU who understood the importance of the, you know, the cultural war and the battle that I was fighting.
[00:05:08]  But I was very intentional.
[00:05:11]  Each of my actions.
[00:05:13]  And there were times people were like, you know, this is not the way to be a conservative.
[00:05:18]  You know, I've been loud, I've been in their face, and I've been questioning their narrative unapologetically.
[00:05:23]  And that's the difference between some older generations who are much brighter than I. Dr. Ben Carson, he's a literal neurosurgeon who separated conjoined twins.
[00:05:31]  You've got Dr. Connelly's wife, but they were so polite.
[00:05:35]  That it allowed people to just, they would never respond when somebody called them an Uncle Tom or Coon.
[00:05:40]  They'd just take it.
[00:05:41]  And I realized that that was the mistake, is that we have to fight back as black conservatives.
[00:05:46]  We have to show them that we're not here to apologize for being right.
[00:05:50]  And I've done that.
[00:05:52]  I've pushed back because I also realized that the black American condition...
[00:05:57]  For many people, when we're talking about a group of people that have a 77% rate of father absence, father absence leads to a disrespectful group of people who don't respond well to authority.
[00:06:08]  You've never had that staple in your life, right?
[00:06:11]  So being kind and trying to show them statistics doesn't really work.
[00:06:15]  I've approached this with a different attitude.
[00:06:19]  You know, they don't respect me and I'm not here to try to earn their...
[00:06:23]  Friendship or their respect.
[00:06:25]  I'm here to say the facts, and I'm not going to apologize for saying facts.
[00:06:28]  And in the process, I happen to have earned a lot of their respect for standing up there and saying it and not backing down.
[00:06:35]  Have you made any offers to the Ta-Nehisi Coates types to debate?
[00:06:42]  Yes.
[00:06:43]  I mean, please, I have offered up me, and then they say, oh, you're just, the clout chasing is their thing now, the favorite thing to say.
[00:06:50]  You're just trying to become puss.
[00:06:51]  You know, get into the room, and I say, okay, I'm going to take someone else.
[00:06:54]  Take Larry Elder.
[00:06:54]  If no one would do, I wouldn't do that.
[00:06:56]  I would never try to debate Larry Elder.
[00:06:57]  We're on the same side, right?
[00:07:00]  That's right.
[00:07:01]  Man, as I walk in, it's like, with you, you stay away from that debate.
[00:07:04]  That's right.
[00:07:05]  And Larry's been doing that his whole life, trying to debate the Alistair.
[00:07:09]  They don't do it because they know they're lying.
[00:07:11]  And if you know you're lying, it's not wise to step into a room with the truth.
[00:07:16]  Lies need to hide themselves.
[00:07:17]  The truth doesn't.
[00:07:18]  There's not a single leftist that I am afraid to debate.
[00:07:23]  I've had some of my shows that weren't willing.
[00:07:25]  I mean, I had Mark Lamont Hill on the show.
[00:07:28]  I watched that, yeah.
[00:07:30]  People were saying, oh, you embarrassed us.
[00:07:32]  This didn't make sense.
[00:07:33]  But that's the reason.
[00:07:35]  I'd love to have the conversation because I want to expose their lies, but they're not willing to because they're platform guys once they get exposed.
[00:07:42]  Alright, let's have one more segment.
[00:07:44]  I could do this for a long time.
[00:07:48]  She's remarkable.
[00:07:50]  The book is remarkable.
[00:07:51]  Blackout.