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June 7, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
08:00
Why You Should Pull Your Kid Out of College
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I wrote over a year ago that we were living through a dress rehearsal for a police state, and I stand by that to this day.
And I have never been known as a conspiratorial thinker or as a hysteric.
I am the opposite.
I hate hysteria.
My life has been devoted to opposing it.
However, what Democratic governors and mayors have done is...
As un-American as any act that I can think of in American history by any group of people, it is frightening that they got away with it.
The college-educated are the greatest supporters of the idea that rulers could tell you what to do.
Isn't that interesting?
That really is interesting.
Worthy of its own hour.
Why are the college educated the most ready to give up liberty?
Why do they have the most contempt for liberty?
The better your education, the more contempt you have for liberty.
It's a fact, not an opinion.
The only people who really think free speech should be curtailed are overwhelmingly college educated, not to mention graduate school.
My column this week comes out tomorrow, my weekly column, is the best single thing Americans could do to save this country, and that is to remove their children from schools.
It doesn't even have to be permanent.
What if everybody, I know it's not going to happen, what if everybody took their kid out of college for a year?
You understand colleges have two interests.
Wokeism slash leftism is one, and the other is money.
Money is actually even more important.
I'm not sure.
I take that back.
It's one of those times that I'm contradicting myself in mid-sentence.
Not contradicting.
Opposing.
I don't know that money is more important to them than leftism.
Leftism is a religion.
People sacrifice for religion.
Is money more important to a believing Christian than Christianity?
No.
Is money more important to a believing Jew than Judaism?
No.
Is money more important to a believing Muslim than Islam?
No.
So I wouldn't say that money is more important to leftists than leftism.
But I do know that colleges yearn for money.
They have to, after all, hire more diversity deans.
Remember the data I read to you?
So one of the dilemmas of doing the show is I bring extremely important data to you, and then I don't repeat them again.
That's redundant.
I don't repeat them.
I don't state them again.
Because I already did, but more or less everybody forgot them, including me.
I only know, I don't know the data, but I know the fact that they exist.
How much more money is being spent now on deans of diversity than on professors?
It is more important to be left than to teach.
Anyway, leftism and teaching are in contradiction with one another.
So the man announces back to Governor Newsom of California, hey, I want to retain emergency powers.
In other words, untested powers.
Why have they not, in a year and a half, gone to court?
Have his powers gone unchallenged?
Do you know the answer to that?
Have they been tested in court?
Mr. Producer?
Yes, the emergency powers.
The ease with which liberty is killed must be shocking.
Shocking to me.
The land of the free.
Liberty, one of the three.
Mottos of this country.
How many years ago did I say that the American Trinity was liberty, pluribus unum, and God we trust?
Twenty years ago?
And what is it that the left loathes?
Liberty, pluribus unum, and God we trust.
May I make an appeal to read my book, Still the Best Hope?
It's the best explanation of the left and America that I... I know of in one book.
There are many wonderful ones, but this is the best.
It was a New York Times bestseller, but if everybody read it, the country would be different.
It's called Still the Best Hope.
It explains the left.
If your kid didn't go to college next year and read that book, that would be one of the best years that your child could possibly...
Have for the development of his or her mind and sense of what it means to be an American.
Caitlyn Jenner is running for the governor of California, right?
She has said that she is one of the candidates in the recall election of Governor Newsom.
I have nothing but goodwill to this person, who at least had the courage, which the vast majority of Americans do not have, to say that when a biological male competes against a biological female, he's cheating.
He, she is cheating.
Caitlyn Jenner has said that.
Caitlyn Jenner is exactly that, a biological male who is a female, identifies as a female.
That's fine.
I don't have any argument with that.
You take a female name, you look like a female, and otherwise appear to the world as a female, I am not going to denigrate your change, your choice, your transition.
But I will not lie, and it takes a liar to deny, and lying is the essence of leftism.
If there are no lies, there's no left.
There's liberalism and there's conservatism.
There's no leftism.
You have to lie to say that it's fair to biological women for biological men to compete with them.
I don't know if the Tokyo Olympics will take place, but I have told you that New Zealand appears to be ready to send a transgender female to the weightlifting competition.
So a biological male will compete in weightlifting, one of the more obvious areas where women cannot compete with them.
So of course there is an answer, but people are not fighters.
The answer is for no women weightlifters in the world to go to Tokyo.
Or go to Tokyo and then not show up.
And embarrass this narcissist.
He's a narcissist.
That's all he is.
That too is essential to leftism, narcissism.
How you feel is all that matters.
How it affects others is irrelevant.
So here is Caitlyn Jenner, whom I have just honored for taking that position, making a truly stupid statement.
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