Dennis Prager Show - The Left's Takeover of Language
Aired: 2021-02-26
Duration: 09:50


=== Combination of Affluence, Boredom, and Secularism (06:49) ===

[00:00:00]  Combination of affluence, boredom, and secularism.
[00:00:05]  It's lethal.
[00:00:09]  One of the reasons that I stay religious is because I am a skeptic by nature.
[00:00:16]  That's why my Bible commentary is called The Rational Bible.
[00:00:20]  Incidentally, Deuteronomy, the third of the five volumes coming out.
[00:00:25]  In, I believe, September or October, you can pre-order it on Amazon.
[00:00:32]  And it turned out to be the toughest of the five books.
[00:00:36]  Genesis and Exodus are done.
[00:00:39]  There were 200 laws in the fifth of the five books.
[00:00:46]  So you will find explanations for things that are either never commented on or not made.
[00:00:54]  Understandable and relevant.
[00:00:57]  My intention is to have all of this as life-changing.
[00:01:03]  The Rational Bible, and the next volume, has been written.
[00:01:10]  I could spell Deuteronomy in my sleep.
[00:01:15]  Yes, indeed.
[00:01:19]  One of the things that keeps me religious, I said I'm a skeptic and I got onto the Rational Bible because I use reason, is seeing the idiocies that pervade the secular world.
[00:01:33]  You realize that the most foolish institution in the country is the university.
[00:01:44]  There is more drivel.
[00:01:47]  Nonsense and dangerous pathology taught at college than at any other institution.
[00:01:53]  And that is the most secular institution in the West.
[00:01:59]  So if the center of secular learning is the place where the most foolish and dangerous ideas develop, why don't you put two and two together?
[00:02:11]  Ah, because there's no answer to two and two.
[00:02:14]  See?
[00:02:14]  That comes from the secular world too, right?
[00:02:17]  The Oregon Education Department has announced that there is no such thing as one right answer in math.
[00:02:29]  Right?
[00:02:30]  To believe that there is one right answer is white supremacy.
[00:02:35]  Which is exactly what the Ku Klux Klan would say.
[00:02:40]  The left and the Ku Klux Klan on race are almost indistinguishable.
[00:02:46]  Both have a deep view of black inferiority.
[00:02:53]  So I am kept religious by the fact that the religious world has been the most sane world morally and intellectually in my lifetime.
[00:03:05]  It has been the only organized resistance to the left's takeover of language.
[00:03:15]  The only skeptics of this idiocy of universal masking.
[00:03:21]  Most people, not all by any means, most people know it's largely a farce.
[00:03:34]  And If it weren't a farce, they would have allowed people to visit their dying parents, correct?
[00:03:41]  In nursing homes with a mask on.
[00:03:44]  Why didn't they?
[00:03:45]  They're either cruel, which I have no doubt.
[00:03:48]  I think there's a serious dimension of cruelty in the medical profession and in the health services.
[00:03:53]  I do believe that.
[00:03:56]  I would not have allowed, as a doctor, my dying patient to die alone.
[00:04:02]  Okay?
[00:04:04]  That act is such a condemnation of the medical profession in this country as to make one weep.
[00:04:14]  And if my loved one were dying, I would get arrested because I would walk in and defy all of them.
[00:04:22]  F-U, you pieces of S, is what I would have said, but I would have spelled out the words.
[00:04:31]  You are not going to allow my dying parent to have a loved one present?
[00:04:37]  Even with a mask on?
[00:04:39]  Then stop your God forsaken.
[00:04:42]  Lies about masks.
[00:04:45]  Which are we to believe?
[00:04:49]  What we have witnessed and half of America has supported the lying, deceptive, mendacious, corrupt Democratic Party and voted for it?
[00:05:02]  Nice people vote for a despicable party?
[00:05:06]  These are very bad omens.
[00:05:13]  Yes, so it's one of the reasons I stay religious, because the only place I find moral and intellectual sanity is in the religious world.
[00:05:25]  Non-Orthodox Jews, and I'm not even Orthodox, non-Orthodox Jews and non-evangelical Protestants or non-traditional Catholics, they have been corrupted.
[00:05:42]  For the most part.
[00:05:43]  Not all.
[00:05:44]  Not all, of course not.
[00:05:50]  And by the way, I might add, it's not like Orthodox rabbinate has, you know, donned the robe of courage.
[00:06:01]  You know, we won't meet, we won't meet.
[00:06:03]  They should have met like some churches did.
[00:06:07]  But the...
[00:06:08]  Even in religious life, there is more fear of the media than fear of God.
[00:06:18]  Brett Stevens, who lives, I know exactly where he lives, in the state of cognitive dissonance.
[00:06:28]  New York Times brought him over.
[00:06:30]  By the way, Brett Stevens and I are friends.
[00:06:32]  Brett Stevens and I have done programs together.

=== Abigail Koffler Defends Hamantashen (03:15) ===

[00:06:35]  Brett Stevens is a New York Times columnist.
[00:06:38]  Brett Stevens has done a number of PragerU videos.
[00:06:42]  Just full disclosure here.
[00:06:46]  I haven't talked to him about his cognitive dissonance.
[00:06:49]  I don't really want to because it would be too painful.
[00:06:53]  And I mean that totally, sincerely.
[00:06:56]  He works at the New York Times, which just nixed his last two columns ago.
[00:07:02]  They wouldn't publish their own columnist's column because he criticized the New York Times.
[00:07:07]  How do you like that?
[00:07:08]  Their own columnist.
[00:07:10]  Brett Stevens has his latest column is, Woke Me When It's Over.
[00:07:20]  I did not know about this Bon Appetit thing.
[00:07:25]  This is what I mean.
[00:07:27]  The left is crazy.
[00:07:29]  It's crazy.
[00:07:31]  In 2015, Bon Appetit ran an article by the food writer Dawn Perry.
[00:07:36]  About hamantashen.
[00:07:39]  Hamantashen is the triangular cookie that is traditionally eaten during the Jewish festival of Purim.
[00:07:47]  Purim is in fact tonight and tomorrow.
[00:07:49]  So this is perfectly apt time-wise.
[00:07:55]  It's usually a dough and in the middle is some sort of jam.
[00:08:02]  You know, strawberry, apricot, prune, prune.
[00:08:06]  Whatever it is.
[00:08:07]  Okay.
[00:08:08]  So listen to this.
[00:08:11]  It was headlined, and he writes, Brace Yourself for Outrage, How to Make Actually Good Hamantaschen.
[00:08:21]  Six years later, a woman named Abigail Kuffler found the article while researching hamantaschen fillings.
[00:08:30]  She was not amused.
[00:08:34]  Dawn Perry, Abigail Koffler wrote on Twitter, isn't Jewish.
[00:08:44]  Now you will say, correctly, if you're not on the left, so what?
[00:08:50]  A non-Jew wrote about a Jewish pastry?
[00:08:56]  So what?
[00:08:58]  But, this Abigail Koffler, Is on the left.
[00:09:06]  There's no such thing as, so what?
[00:09:11]  Perry's husband, that's Don Perry's husband, Koffler added, had been forced out of his job at Condé Nast last year based on accusations of racial bias.
[00:09:24]  Therefore, what?
[00:09:26]  First of all, racial bias means nothing today.
[00:09:29]  We don't even know what it means, right?
[00:09:30]  Correct.
[00:09:31]  But let's say he was, so what does that have to do with her writing about hamantashen?
[00:09:36]  Above all, Koffler objected, traditional food, quote, traditional foods do not automatically need to be updated, especially by someone who does not come from that tradition.