Dennis Prager Show - What is being celebrated on Indigenous Peoples' Day?
Aired: 2021-05-05
Duration: 03:23


=== What Am I Celebrating? (02:25) ===

[00:00:00]  With all respect, and this truly is meant respectfully, what is being honored on Indigenous People Day?
[00:00:07]  Are Indigenous people being honored?
[00:00:11]  Now, if one wants to teach about the suffering of Indigenous people at the hands of Europeans, whites, our ancestors here, that's history.
[00:00:24]  That should be taught.
[00:00:27]  I was talking to Bill O'Reilly yesterday about his latest book on killing the mob.
[00:00:32]  He wrote a book, Killing a Crazy Horse.
[00:00:34]  I read it.
[00:00:35]  And it's a very dark chapter in American history, The Treatment of the Indian.
[00:00:40]  I fully acknowledge that.
[00:00:42]  But I don't know exactly what there is to celebrate.
[00:00:46]  I celebrate Columbus Day because I celebrate Western civilization.
[00:00:52]  The first place in the history of the world.
[00:00:56]  To believe in universal human rights.
[00:00:58]  We didn't get universal human rights from indigenous peoples.
[00:01:03]  We didn't get women's rights from indigenous peoples.
[00:01:08]  We didn't even get an alphabet from indigenous peoples.
[00:01:12]  This is not a knock in any way, God forbid.
[00:01:16]  But I think I'd like to just understand, what are you celebrating?
[00:01:22]  That is...
[00:01:23]  I know what I'm celebrating on Martin Luther King Day.
[00:01:25]  I know what I'm celebrating on July 4th.
[00:01:27]  I know what I'm celebrating on Thanksgiving.
[00:01:29]  I know what I'm celebrating on Christmas.
[00:01:33]  What am I celebrating on Indigenous Peoples Day?
[00:01:40]  You don't have an answer to that either.
[00:01:44]  No, no, no.
[00:01:46]  What does it mean to celebrate a people?
[00:01:48]  You celebrate an achievement.
[00:01:55]  Needless to say, if I were at a university and said what I just said, I would be fired.
[00:02:04]  I would be picketed.
[00:02:05]  I would be cursed.
[00:02:07]  One of the last places in America that you can actually say anything that the left differs with is talk radio and some of the programs on Fox.

=== Threat To Free Speech (01:13) ===

[00:02:21]  I'm talking about electronic media.
[00:02:24]  And of course, podcasts.
[00:02:26]  Although they suppress them.
[00:02:28]  Didn't you send me something about Facebook today?
[00:02:31]  Oh, that it shut down former President Trump?
[00:02:35]  It's keeping him shut down?
[00:02:37]  Isn't that astonishing?
[00:02:40]  The last President of the United States cannot have a Facebook account?
[00:02:47]  And Facebook is allowed to continue like that?
[00:02:51]  In business?
[00:02:54]  There is no threat to free speech from the government.
[00:02:58]  The threat to free speech is from private enterprise.
[00:03:05]  Lenin is quoted as having said that Western businesses will compete with one another to sell the Communists the rope with which they will hang them.
[00:03:19]  You are seeing that phrase every day.