Feb. 17, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
07:02
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| Letting you know again, as I do almost every day, how teachers are corrupting education. | |
| Do you have a better way of describing it? | |
| Are teachers protesting in Oregon that math should be taught in the way to depict that there is a correct answer as white racism, as a form of colonialism, etc.? | |
| By the way, here's a funny one. | |
| But it's not funny. | |
| It's just, it's absurd. | |
| I think that's better. | |
| You ever see, you know the three wise men? | |
| The three wise monkeys? | |
| See no evil, hear no evil, do no evil. | |
| Officials at the University of York in the United Kingdom. | |
| There is a contest between Canada, the U.S. UK, Australia, and New Zealand, the English-speaking countries, there's a contest about which can commit suicide fastest. | |
| That is the contest. | |
| I don't know who's winning. | |
| Every time I think America is committing suicide faster, I look at Canada, and they may be going faster. | |
| Then I look at the UK. So here's a UK example. | |
| Officials at the University of York in the United Kingdom removed the depiction of three wise monkeys from the school's website. | |
| After organizers of an upcoming history conference complained, the image could be deemed offensive to minorities. | |
| So I'm curious. | |
| There's a picture of it on their website, the three wise monkeys. | |
| One holding, covering his mouth, one covering his ears, and one covering his eyes. | |
| Oh, speak no evil, not do no evil. | |
| That was the third one, right. | |
| This is a very famous thing. | |
| And it doesn't even originate in Western culture, as you will hear. | |
| How many people look at that and think, oh, look at that, non-white? | |
| The answer is the left. | |
| That's the only answer. | |
| I just think it's three monkeys. | |
| What do you say to that? | |
| Radical. | |
| Upon reflection, we strongly believe that our first poster is not appropriate as its iconology promulgates a long-standing visual legacy of oppression and exploits racist stereotypes. | |
| You must understand, if there's racism in The Three Monkeys, and if there's racism in mathematics, do you not understand my point how little racism there is? | |
| The left invents it. | |
| They've always invented foes. | |
| In order to suppress liberty. | |
| That's what they do. | |
| They invent foes. | |
| They invented an insurrection. | |
| There was a riot, but there was no insurrection. | |
| They invented collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin's Russia. | |
| They invent things. | |
| It's Jussie Smollett exponential. | |
| The three wise monkeys were supposed to represent the Japanese proverb, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, which describes people who turn a blind eye to wrongdoing. | |
| But the organizers worried the imagery could be offensive. | |
| We bring this to your attention so that we may be held accountable for our actions and our privileges. | |
| Do and be better. | |
| The move to remove the image caused confusion among some scholars in Japanese history. | |
| With the former curator of the British Museum's Japanese collection, Tim Clark, saying he had, quote, no idea, unquote, why people would find the image racist. | |
| Japanese Buddhism expert Dr. Lucia Dolce echoed Clark's sentiment, arguing that the monkeys would not be used to insult other cultures or races. | |
| Quote, because the monkeys is a sacred being, they are vehicles to the deities. | |
| How do you like that? | |
| Now, to be honest, when I see the three monkeys covering one, his mouth, I assume it's a he, but it could be a she. | |
| One covering its, I'll use, eyes, one covering its ears. | |
| I don't think vehicles to deities either. | |
| I don't see vehicles to deities, and I don't see non-whites. | |
| I see three monkeys depicted in a way of saying people don't want to fight evil. | |
| Right? | |
| The word is evil. | |
| Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| Boredom and affluence is a bad combo. | |
| These people are bored and wealthy, or at least very materially comfortable. | |
| All right, everybody. | |
| JR in Columbus, Ohio. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hey, Dennis. | |
| So, wow. | |
| Every day I listen to you, I learn something new. | |
| But here's what's going on in Columbus, Ohio. | |
| My son is an engineer at OSU. I'm very proud of him. | |
| If my son told the professor that there's no wrong answer in mathematics, I think he'd be asked to leave. | |
| And my daughter, this is the saddest part, 17 years old, both my children are wonderful young adults, My daughter's 17 years old. | |
| I just found out a week ago my wife has been taking her to therapy. | |
| She is a four-point student, varsity athlete, and this staying-at-home stuff is killing these kids. | |
| It is killing them. | |
| That's right. | |
| And I can't say it strongly enough, and here's what I've come to acknowledge. | |
| Where is the backbone of this country? | |
| Because we're not going on a month or two months. | |
| That's right. | |
| We're going on a year, and we put up with it every day. | |
| That's right. | |
| Well, that is the reason. | |
| Remember, I substituted the land of the free and the home of the brave with better safe than sorry at the end of the national anthem. |
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