Feb. 20, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
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| Alexis Wilkins is a country music singer, artist, and thinker. | |
| How's that? | |
| I like it. | |
| And she is one of the latest, if not the latest, presenter at PragerU. | |
| So we're discussing her generation and her experience at a Christian college in Tennessee. | |
| Now if I told any of you... | |
| That somebody is attending a Christian college in Tennessee, you would bet that they were getting traditional Christian, Judeo-Christian, religious, Bible-based values. | |
| And here we are, you are in a minority with your traditional values. | |
| Is that correct? | |
| It is. | |
| So, the way I put it, Is a lot of churches and synagogues have the symbols of their faith, but not the values of their faith. | |
| Would you assent to that? | |
| Does that resonate with you? | |
| I think that that's fair. | |
| I think that's completely fair for, especially for what Belmont and some of these Christian universities promote, but don't carry through to the education or to really anything that they actually promote within the school. | |
| Give an example of something, what we call woke, that you would have encountered at Belmont. | |
| I was given an F for my ideologies. | |
| And I had to fight it. | |
| And I speak about it in my Stories of Us video, if you've seen it. | |
| But it was... | |
| It was a comparative politics class. | |
| You should all watch it. | |
| Is it Weekly Stories of Us? | |
| It's periodic. | |
| It's very frequent. | |
| Okay. | |
| So they did a Stories of Us with you. | |
| Yes. | |
| Who interviewed you? | |
| Marissa. | |
| Marissa did. | |
| She does a great job. | |
| She's the CEO of PragerU, folks. | |
| And you said what in the Stories of Us? | |
| So I took comparative politics as I was a political science major and did all of my reading, did all of my assignments, did everything I was supposed to do. | |
| I love school. | |
| I love reading. | |
| I have made good marks my whole life because I love it. | |
| And I took this comparative politics class, and this professor was, in my opinion, and the few other conservatives in the class's opinion, he was working too slowly. | |
| Manipulate the class into believing what he believes and he was allowing the class environment to foster conversations that were definitely not conservative and would move in that direction. | |
| Give some examples. | |
| That's critical. | |
| It was a lot during the 2016 election and kind of the rise of that. | |
| And we were talking about, you know, AOC. We were talking about, I remember there was a conversation where students were saying that the squad was fantastic and, you know, all of the, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib and everyone was just really great. | |
| And I dissented on that and I said, I don't, you know, I don't agree. | |
| And I said it nicely and I said it constructively and really how you would expect to learn debating in college kind of what you go for is to learn to interact with other people who don't agree with you or do agree with you. | |
| And he allowed the class or members of the class to yell is a strong word, to raise their voices at me in response. | |
| These were the things that he was saying that the president of the school was a dictator and that, you know, his wife, all she did was pick out the flowers, which is not true. | |
| His sweet wife volunteered her time for the school. | |
| Your professor attacked the president of the school? | |
| He did. | |
| So he was trying to turn the kids against the institution, which to me felt very much like he was radicalizing the class against the place where they were going, which trains a personality trait. | |
| Did LGBTQ come up? | |
| In that class, less so. | |
| It was more about political structure. | |
| Anywhere on campus. | |
| Yes. | |
| When I was going, it was more... | |
| I feel like the trans thing hadn't come up as much yet. | |
| It wasn't quite as hot a topic. | |
| How long ago were you there? | |
| I was there from 2016 to... | |
| Well, I graduated in 2020, but whenever we left for COVID. So everyone... | |
| I think spring break of my... | |
| I want to say senior year, everyone didn't go back to school. | |
| What do you think has happened in the four years since you've graduated? | |
| They've switched university presidents, and I think that that was a decision to advance progressive ideas and agendas. | |
| I think that the student body has become increasingly liberal. | |
| In my paper that I wrote about it when I was doing research, what I found when you can go to see websites, you go to the Wayback Machine and you can see what websites used to have on them. | |
| And I was looking at Belmont's faith page to contrast how it is now versus how it was when I went versus a decade ago. | |
| And besides what the website looked like, the only thing in the verbiage on how it's changed is they're slowly stripping faith from the verbiage. | |
| You know, it's no longer this is a place where you can sharpen your faith and your morals and the things you believe and, you know, you're going to take Religion 101 and you're going to learn about it and you're going to be in, you know, all of those good things. | |
| They started to take out. | |
| I mean, I could pull up what it says now, but it says just more, you know, you're going to learn these things, but we're not trying to impress them upon you. | |
| Did they have preferred pronouns when you were there? | |
| Some professors had them in their syllabus, but it wasn't something that was required. | |
| Now, as far as I'm aware, you have to put pronouns in your syllabus. | |
| You have to have a certain amount of social justice agenda. | |
| At Christian college, you have to have preferred pronouns. | |
| In self-description. | |
| And in my digging, what I found is that there's a panel that decides if your syllabus and your class plan is woke enough, essentially. | |
| Of course, they don't say that. | |
| But there's a very abstract panel of just other professors and seemingly other professors who teach gender studies that decide if... | |
| Your syllabus, even if you're in, say, economics or something completely unrelated to social justice or any of the woke-isms, they have to make sure that your syllabus is woke enough. | |
| How do people see you in general? | |
| Do you have a podcast of your own I heard? | |
| I have a show that I host a weekly update on Fridays on Rumble called Between the Headlines, where we recap the weekly events. | |
| And then, of course, you can find me on PragerU. | |
| We're putting out content all the time. |
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