Feb. 12, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
02:46
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| Raised a leftist, so we don't have a lot of time. | |
| I wish we did, actually. | |
| And we'll have to do a part two. | |
| But I said to you, the moment you asked, do I have to hate the white part of myself? | |
| I said, that's over for the left. | |
| So is there a date? | |
| Is there a moment? | |
| What happened? | |
| There was multiple moments that I sort of fought back against in my mind and tried to reassert myself as a leftist, and it just did not work for me in the end. | |
| So that conversation went very poorly. | |
| It was not received well. | |
| That question was not received well. | |
| And I essentially got the response that I needed to understand that people were angry and that they had a right to be angry. | |
| And yes, that did apply to my white family. | |
| And there's something wrong with you if you're not angry. | |
| Yes. | |
| That's really important. | |
| So when did you discover... | |
| Whatever you discovered that was not leftist, intellectually. | |
| It was a long road for me, so when those questions were not well received, I sort of went and did my own research to try to answer them, and I found PragerU, I found Thomas Sowell, I found Larry Elder, I found Michael Knowles, and I started falling down this rabbit hole of going through all these conservative videos where they were going through all the leftist talking points and debunking them one after the other, and... | |
| You couldn't have convinced me any better than that. | |
| I knew I was doing the wrong thing. | |
| Well, it's a pretty good diet. | |
| PragerU, Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, and Michael Knowles, I must say. | |
| It's an all-star team. | |
| No, I know them well. | |
| They're in my life. | |
| I'm in their lives. | |
| That makes sense. | |
| So how has that affected your relations with your mother? | |
| We steer clear from politics, and she knows what I'm doing now, and she knows that I'm... | |
| You know spouting conservative ideology and trying to influence people and she's not happy about it She sort of told me before I left for this trip out to LA that I'm glad that you're using your powers I'm proud of you that you're chasing your dreams, but I wish you were doing it for good instead of evil Wow I Wish I could meet your mom Tell your mom, by the way, she has a standing invitation to come on my show. | |
| Okay. | |
| I'm very serious. | |
| I'm sure she'll take you up. | |
| Good, because very few people on the left do, and I promise you I will treat her very civilly. | |
| I'm sure. | |
| And my first question would be, what do we spout that's evil? | |
| I'd be very interested to know. | |
| Turns out we're nice people, isn't that right? | |
| Very nice people. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And it amazed me at the time. | |
| I'm sure it did. |
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