Oct. 15, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
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| Now, you guys have told me that Kamilaris last year issued a statement on Columbus Day, is that correct? | |
| So, let's hear it. | |
| I have not heard this, so I'm taking your word for it that it's worth hearing. | |
| It is an honor, of course, to be with you this week as we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, as we speak truth about our nation's history. | |
| Since 1934, every October... | |
| The United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas. | |
| But that is not the whole story. | |
| That has never been the whole story. | |
| Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease. | |
| We must not shy away from this shameful past. | |
| And we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on Native communities today. | |
| Okay. | |
| There are two issues here, if you want to be intellectually and morally earnest. | |
| One issue is the devastation. | |
| Visited upon the native peoples to the Americas by Europeans coming. | |
| And the other is that Western civilization, the highest moral form of civilization ever devised, made its way to the Western Hemisphere. | |
| She wants us to be honest about the past? | |
| Okay, that's honest. | |
| With truly meant, with great respect, the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, whether in North or South America or Central America, did not develop medicine, did not develop math, | |
| did not produce Shakespeare, did not create women's rights, equality, a constitution, or even a written language. | |
| When Saul Bellow, the great author who Didn't he win a Nobel Prize for Literature? | |
| Saul Bellow said that about Western civilization. | |
| He said, where is the Camus of Central Africa or something to that effect? | |
| He was called a racist then. | |
| That was probably the 1970s. | |
| That's right. | |
| You see, the squelching of honest dialogue is one of the... | |
| Most important characteristics of all leftism. | |
| So it's a gigantic lie. | |
| Oh, let's confront the past honestly. | |
| Then confront the past honestly. | |
| What was done to Native Americans must be honestly addressed. | |
| And the superiority of Western civilization needs to be honestly addressed. | |
| But you would never do that. | |
| The whole left is a lie. | |
| It's gigantic. | |
| It's an enormous lie. | |
| This is just another example of it. | |
| They don't want to address the honesty of the past. | |
| If you're honest, you're called a racist, sexist, and all the other names. | |
| So all they know is colonialism is bad. | |
| That's all they know. | |
| That is what they know. | |
| In other words, it's not even a mixed bag, but it is a mixed bag. | |
| India suffered colonialism. | |
| And India benefited immensely from colonialism. | |
| The only reason people in India can talk to each other across this gigantic subcontinent, as it is called, is thanks to the Brits bringing English. | |
| That's how somebody in West Bengal can speak to somebody in Trivandrum. | |
| That's the way it works. | |
| They have a judicial system. | |
| They ended settee. | |
| Widows throwing themselves into the funeral fires. | |
| No, I don't know if they were thrown. | |
| I think they jumped... | |
| The society expected them to do it, but I don't think they were actually thrown into the fire. | |
| They jumped into the fire, I believe. | |
| Yeah. | |
| The last thing that the left wants is an honest appraisal of the past. | |
| The last thing. | |
| What they want is an appraisal of the past that presents the West as despicable. | |
| Including America. |
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