Dennis Prager Show - Why You Should Pull Your Kid Out of College
Aired: 2021-06-07
Duration: 08:00


=== Money Over Liberty (05:13) ===

[00:00:02]  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.
[00:00:10]  And I have never been known as a conspiratorial thinker or as a hysteric.
[00:00:16]  I am the opposite.
[00:00:17]  I hate hysteria.
[00:00:18]  My life has been devoted to opposing it.
[00:00:22]  However, what Democratic governors and mayors have done is...
[00:00:29]  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.
[00:00:45]  The college-educated are the greatest supporters of the idea that rulers could tell you what to do.
[00:00:52]  Isn't that interesting?
[00:00:54]  That really is interesting.
[00:00:57]  Worthy of its own hour.
[00:01:00]  Why are the college educated the most ready to give up liberty?
[00:01:06]  Why do they have the most contempt for liberty?
[00:01:08]  The better your education, the more contempt you have for liberty.
[00:01:12]  It's a fact, not an opinion.
[00:01:17]  The only people who really think free speech should be curtailed are overwhelmingly college educated, not to mention graduate school.
[00:01:28]  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.
[00:01:39]  It doesn't even have to be permanent.
[00:01:41]  What if everybody, I know it's not going to happen, what if everybody took their kid out of college for a year?
[00:01:49]  You understand colleges have two interests.
[00:01:53]  Wokeism slash leftism is one, and the other is money.
[00:01:58]  Money is actually even more important.
[00:02:01]  I'm not sure.
[00:02:02]  I take that back.
[00:02:03]  It's one of those times that I'm contradicting myself in mid-sentence.
[00:02:07]  Not contradicting.
[00:02:09]  Opposing.
[00:02:11]  I don't know that money is more important to them than leftism.
[00:02:15]  Leftism is a religion.
[00:02:16]  People sacrifice for religion.
[00:02:19]  Is money more important to a believing Christian than Christianity?
[00:02:24]  No.
[00:02:24]  Is money more important to a believing Jew than Judaism?
[00:02:27]  No.
[00:02:27]  Is money more important to a believing Muslim than Islam?
[00:02:31]  No.
[00:02:33]  So I wouldn't say that money is more important to leftists than leftism.
[00:02:42]  But I do know that colleges yearn for money.
[00:02:48]  They have to, after all, hire more diversity deans.
[00:02:55]  Remember the data I read to you?
[00:02:57]  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.
[00:03:04]  That's redundant.
[00:03:05]  I don't repeat them.
[00:03:06]  I don't state them again.
[00:03:09]  Because I already did, but more or less everybody forgot them, including me.
[00:03:15]  I only know, I don't know the data, but I know the fact that they exist.
[00:03:20]  How much more money is being spent now on deans of diversity than on professors?
[00:03:28]  It is more important to be left than to teach.
[00:03:31]  Anyway, leftism and teaching are in contradiction with one another.
[00:03:38]  So the man announces back to Governor Newsom of California, hey, I want to retain emergency powers.
[00:03:45]  In other words, untested powers.
[00:03:49]  Why have they not, in a year and a half, gone to court?
[00:03:52]  Have his powers gone unchallenged?
[00:03:56]  Do you know the answer to that?
[00:03:58]  Have they been tested in court?
[00:04:01]  Mr. Producer?
[00:04:03]  Yes, the emergency powers.
[00:04:05]  The ease with which liberty is killed must be shocking.
[00:04:16]  Shocking to me.
[00:04:20]  The land of the free.
[00:04:22]  Liberty, one of the three.
[00:04:26]  Mottos of this country.
[00:04:30]  How many years ago did I say that the American Trinity was liberty, pluribus unum, and God we trust?
[00:04:36]  Twenty years ago?
[00:04:38]  And what is it that the left loathes?
[00:04:41]  Liberty, pluribus unum, and God we trust.
[00:04:47]  May I make an appeal to read my book, Still the Best Hope?
[00:04:52]  It's the best explanation of the left and America that I... I know of in one book.
[00:04:57]  There are many wonderful ones, but this is the best.

=== Caitlyn Jenner's Candidacy (02:59) ===

[00:05:01]  It was a New York Times bestseller, but if everybody read it, the country would be different.
[00:05:10]  It's called Still the Best Hope.
[00:05:14]  It explains the left.
[00:05:15]  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...
[00:05:25]  Have for the development of his or her mind and sense of what it means to be an American.
[00:05:33]  Caitlyn Jenner is running for the governor of California, right?
[00:05:41]  She has said that she is one of the candidates in the recall election of Governor Newsom.
[00:05:52]  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.
[00:06:09]  He, she is cheating.
[00:06:13]  Caitlyn Jenner has said that.
[00:06:15]  Caitlyn Jenner is exactly that, a biological male who is a female, identifies as a female.
[00:06:21]  That's fine.
[00:06:22]  I don't have any argument with that.
[00:06:23]  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.
[00:06:40]  But I will not lie, and it takes a liar to deny, and lying is the essence of leftism.
[00:06:48]  If there are no lies, there's no left.
[00:06:51]  There's liberalism and there's conservatism.
[00:06:53]  There's no leftism.
[00:06:55]  You have to lie to say that it's fair to biological women for biological men to compete with them.
[00:07:01]  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.
[00:07:12]  So a biological male will compete in weightlifting, one of the more obvious areas where women cannot compete with them.
[00:07:21]  So of course there is an answer, but people are not fighters.
[00:07:25]  The answer is for no women weightlifters in the world to go to Tokyo.
[00:07:30]  Or go to Tokyo and then not show up.
[00:07:33]  And embarrass this narcissist.
[00:07:36]  He's a narcissist.
[00:07:38]  That's all he is.
[00:07:43]  That too is essential to leftism, narcissism.
[00:07:47]  How you feel is all that matters.
[00:07:50]  How it affects others is irrelevant.
[00:07:53]  So here is Caitlyn Jenner, whom I have just honored for taking that position, making a truly stupid statement.