Sept. 21, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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| Strangely, not only in America, not in the way we approach our civic society, but in the arts, there's reasons and there's an opportunity where things are reopening that never closed ever before to re-dedicate yourself to first principles. | |
| Yeah, and white people are the ones who need to hear it. | |
| So, Mockingbird... | |
| You know, with Aaron Sorkin and Harper Lee, it's a white point of view. | |
| And it certainly is the story of Atticus coming to grips with the fact that one of the big central questions of the play is there's goodness in everyone. | |
| You just have to care enough to look for it. | |
| And is that true today in 2021? | |
| Is there goodness in everyone? | |
| Not so sure. | |
| But you have to choose now. | |
| You have to decide whether you're for eliminating or at least marginalizing systemic racism. | |
| Or are you against that? | |
| You have to choose. | |
| You can't just sit back and go, please cut my taxes, and I'm going to look the other way. | |
| Well, there's also a choice before that, which is to acknowledge it exists. | |
| Acknowledge it exists, yeah. | |
| Amazing, amazing stuff. | |
| Now, before we get into commentary on that, I want to give a quick shout-out to my Uncle Jerry and my Aunt Lisa. | |
| It's my Uncle Jerry's birthday, and he watches Dennis Frager and listens to him all the time, so I'm sure he's delighted to hear me on here today. | |
| Never thought I'd be doing this. | |
| But shout-out, Uncle Jerry and Aunt Lisa. | |
| Now, Jeff Daniels. | |
| We've, you know, come to the conclusion that he's dumber from Dumb and Dumber. | |
| This commentary is ridiculous. | |
| And to hear two elite white males talk about my oppression and the oppression of people of color in this country is just ridiculous. | |
| And it's as I said before in the previous segment, if you can convince somebody of their own oppression and victimhood, you've done all the work you need to do. | |
| Because what they will do after that is go around and convince everybody else about how oppressed and how victimized they are. | |
| And to hear people fall. | |
| And so adamantly for the structures of critical race theory and to just soak in the bath that is white guilt is just baffling to me. | |
| And the thought that we should somehow be punished by the crimes of our ancestors and for the transgressions of our ancestors is a claim that should never be made. | |
| Do you know countries that do that, that punish people for the transgressions of their ancestors? | |
| One country that does that is North Korea. | |
| If your uncle from eight generations ago committed a crime, guess what? | |
| Eight generations down the line, you're being punished. | |
| And the idea that just by virtue of being white that you should hold some sort of guilt for the transgressions of your ancestors, even if your ancestors did nothing wrong, is just unfounded. | |
| It's unreasonable. | |
| It's unlogical. | |
| But we've allowed this to carry on. | |
| We've allowed this narrative to soak through our media. | |
| And Stephen Colbert is a great example of that. | |
| He's a great facilitator of this huge propagandized lie of white supremacy and systemic oppression. | |
| And to people who listen to him and who love what he has to say, I ask you this. | |
| Do you want to be in support of somebody that is trying to convince you of your own victimhood? | |
| Now, there's a side on this country that is telling you you're not a victim. | |
| You can do whatever you want to do. | |
| This country has opportunity for you. | |
| You simply need to work hard and you will get there. | |
| And there's another side of the country that says no matter what you do, just because you were born the way that you are, things are going to be harder for you and there will be barriers set in place for you. | |
| Do you want to be on that side? | |
| Because I don't, and I realize that after a long time of not knowing that. | |
| And once you do realize that, you are so full of fulfillment. | |
| You have this unbridled... | |
| This unbridled motivation for life to go out and do what you need to do. | |
| And that's what we preach and teach at PragerU. | |
| Will and I have a show that we do daily called Will and Amala Live at 2.30 PST, 5.30 Eastern on PragerU's YouTube and Facebook. | |
| And you can listen to us talk more about that. | |
| You should also consider supporting PragerU by going to prageru.com slash donate. | |
| Now, in the next hour, we'll be back to talk about some American history. | |
| The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studio. | |
| Awesome. |
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