Dennis Prager Show - Protesting Gives Meaning To Unhappy People.
Aired: 2024-05-03
Duration: 09:34


=== Meaninglessness And Protest (09:12) ===

[00:00:00]  This is quite a time in America.
[00:00:02]  This is exactly like the post-George Floyd riots.
[00:00:07]  There is a percentage of American young people that want to riot.
[00:00:14]  It gives their meaningless lives meaning.
[00:00:18]  That is all it is about.
[00:00:19]  It gives them community.
[00:00:20]  They have no community.
[00:00:22]  They have nothing.
[00:00:23]  Virtually none are married.
[00:00:26]  They don't have anything.
[00:00:28]  They don't have religion.
[00:00:29]  They don't have marriage.
[00:00:32]  They don't have meaning.
[00:00:34]  They don't have a country that they adore or even identify with.
[00:00:42]  I read to you yesterday about how many campuses they substituted the Palestinian flag for the American flag and cheered.
[00:00:52]  And some foolish non-Jews think it's a Jewish issue.
[00:00:57]  It's like foolish non-Jews thought Hitler was a Jewish issue.
[00:01:01]  They hate you, dear American Christian, dear American who loves America.
[00:01:09]  They hate you just as much as they hate Israel.
[00:01:15]  It has nothing to do with Israel.
[00:01:17]  It's an excuse to riot and give their empty lives meaning.
[00:01:24]  That's what it is about.
[00:01:27]  The search for meaning is the greatest search in human life.
[00:01:32]  People need meaning more than they need anything but food, even more than sex.
[00:01:39]  As powerful as the sexual drive is, there are people who have little or no sex and are happy.
[00:01:47]  There is no one with little or no meaning who is happy.
[00:01:53]  The left has created this chaos and the meaninglessness.
[00:01:57]  People with meaningless lives are leftists because the left fills the void.
[00:02:04]  That's what I have spoken about all of my life.
[00:02:08]  It was obvious to me when I was at Columbia in the 1970s, a half century ago, the same stuff.
[00:02:20]  They're just more brazen today.
[00:02:22]  They used to take over dean's offices and president's offices.
[00:02:26]  Now they take over whole campuses.
[00:02:30]  And the faculty, or many in the faculty, support them.
[00:02:35]  One of the reasons that presidents and deans are cowards is because they're afraid of their faculty.
[00:02:42]  There's already a push to get rid of the president of Barnard College because she has Demanded that they disband their encampment at the college.
[00:02:57]  And I believe she has called in the police.
[00:03:02]  It's so amazing how you can desecrate our university.
[00:03:09]  You can do all sorts of damage to Hamilton Hall at Columbia.
[00:03:18]  But we can't call in the police for reasons that I'm not quite sure.
[00:03:24]  About half of the protesters, by the way, are not even students.
[00:03:28]  They're the people who, in many cases, organized George Floyd riots.
[00:03:40]  Let me read to you from this New York Times piece, because this is a big giveaway.
[00:03:47]  For many, the issues are closer to home and at the same time much bigger and broader in their eyes.
[00:03:56]  The Gaza conflict is a struggle for justice linked to issues that seem far afield.
[00:04:05]  They say they are motivated by policing, mistreatment of indigenous peoples, discrimination toward black Americans.
[00:04:16]  And the impact of global warming.
[00:04:20]  That's right.
[00:04:22]  That's what's motivating them.
[00:04:27]  Wow.
[00:04:30]  So the Palestine cause is a cause of loathing of America and the West.
[00:04:37]  That's what it is.
[00:04:41]  You can deny it because it's...
[00:04:46]  Easy to believe what one wants to believe as opposed to what is true.
[00:04:53]  Struggle for justice.
[00:04:56]  Discrimination toward black Americans.
[00:04:59]  Wow.
[00:05:01]  It's really rough to be a black American because of white supremacy.
[00:05:08]  Right?
[00:05:10]  Really rough.
[00:05:12]  So four million blacks who moved here from Africa to the Caribbean in the last few decades must be just stupid.
[00:05:23]  Moved to a place where you will be discriminated against.
[00:05:33]  It's a gigantic lie.
[00:05:36]  The left is the world of the lie.
[00:05:39]  For men give birth.
[00:05:42]  To discrimination toward black Americans as some endemic feature of black American life.
[00:05:51]  Let me ask you a question.
[00:05:53]  If you were to apply to almost any job in this country and you could put down race and thereby maximize your chance of being hired.
[00:06:09]  Do you think it would be better to put down black or white?
[00:06:17]  In interviews, the language of many protesters was also distinctive.
[00:06:22]  Ah, this is so important.
[00:06:25]  Students freely salted their explanations with academic terms like intersectionality.
[00:06:34]  A victory for the left, my friends.
[00:06:37]  This is perfect.
[00:06:39]  They are brainwashed, frightening, zombie-like, loathsome creatures.
[00:06:46]  That's what the left has produced.
[00:06:49]  These are the dead walking, or the walking dead.
[00:06:55]  Intersectionality, colonialism, and imperialism.
[00:07:01]  Yes, where exactly is imperialism taking place today?
[00:07:06]  Try and think.
[00:07:10]  Hmm.
[00:07:11]  Colonialism.
[00:07:12]  Wow.
[00:07:14]  All to make their case that the plight of Palestinians is a result of global power structures that thrive on bias and oppression.
[00:07:30]  Nothing beats feeling oppressed.
[00:07:37]  Yeah.
[00:07:41]  You know how often I will ask Sean in the morning, how are you, Sean?
[00:07:45]  And he'll say, feel great, I'm oppressed.
[00:07:50]  The delight in his eyes, there's a light in his eyes over being oppressed.
[00:08:03]  The birds are singing, the sun is shining, and he's oppressed.
[00:08:07]  I am repeating his words.
[00:08:12]  Quote, they quote Katie Roof, a female, shocking, a first-year student at Cornell University.
[00:08:22]  As an environmentalist, we pride ourselves on viewing the world through intersectional lenses.
[00:08:30]  Woe unto the parent whose child says intersectional lenses.
[00:08:37]  You have lost your beloved child.
[00:08:41]  Your child has become a zombie.
[00:08:47]  No normal human being uses the term intersectional lenses.
[00:08:55]  Climate justice is an everyone issue.

=== A Happier Human (00:36) ===

[00:09:05]  It affects every dimension of identity.
[00:09:10]  God, is she pathetic?
[00:09:12]  Oh, it's so sad.
[00:09:16]  Yeah.
[00:09:18]  75 years ago, she'd be preoccupied with her studies and getting married.
[00:09:27]  Might have attended church that Sunday.
[00:09:30]  Would have been a happier, much happier human being.