Oct. 15, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
02:29
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| Time | Text |
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| Are We Living on Stolen Land? | |
| It's given by a professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. | |
| Jeff Finn Paul. | |
| An American who is teaching at the Dutch University. | |
| Let's start it. | |
| If you attended college, this is what you were likely taught. | |
| America was founded through acts of genocide, accompanied by larceny on the grandest scale. | |
| Columbus and the Europeans who followed him sailed to the New World with the intention of exploiting whomever they found, and if necessary, enslaving or exterminating them. | |
| Soon afterwards, they began importing black bodies from Africa. | |
| They then built the world's richest country out of a combination of slave labor, stolen land, and environmental destruction. | |
| Did I miss anything? | |
| As an historian, I can assure you this view is inaccurate in most particulars. | |
| But getting the story wrong is only part of the problem. | |
| The bigger problem is this. | |
| If you teach generation after generation that their country, their society, and their history are uniquely awful, they are likely to believe you. | |
| This is a sure route to societal failure. | |
| This has consequences not only for America, but the entire world. | |
| Many in the U.S. seem to have no clue just how much of a city on the hill the U.S. is still perceived to be, and how important that American beacon is to millions of people living under autocratic regimes. | |
| If the image of the U.S. is fundamentally delegitimized, if its entire raison d'etre, its reason for being, is tainted, then increasing numbers of people will wonder whether democracy itself is worth the trouble. | |
| So let's correct the record before it's too late. | |
| Alright, we'll stop there. | |
| You should see the rest. | |
| Are we living on stolen land? | |
| It's a PragerU video. | |
| It's an important one, obviously. | |
| So Columbia is keeping its name, as I pointed out, named after Columbus, Columbia University. | |
| Columbus, Ohio is keeping its name. | |
| But the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins, they couldn't keep their names. |
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