WEBVTT - Timeless Wisdom - Ultimate Issues Hour: Political Correctness 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:24.200 Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here thousands of 0:00:24.240 --> 0:00:27.880 hours of Dennis's lectures courses in classic radio programs had 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.560 to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles. Go to Dennis Prager 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:43.959 dot com. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:48.960 To be or not to be? That is the question? 0:00:50.239 --> 0:00:50.880 Where was God? 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.160 Isn't God supposed to be good to love us? 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:55.880 Does God want us to supper? 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.560 Ten years? 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I hope we have gathered 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:39.160 them up into some CD or downloadable thing because it's 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.600 a real course in life, and whether you agree with 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.319 me or not on any given subject, it's truly secondary. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:50.720 These are great issues, whatever whatever arena you come from. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:55.480 I am going to discuss today political correctness. What is 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.560 it and why does it exist? The term is used 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:05.040 regularly and it is an extremely important subject. Hence it 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.880 qualifies for the Ultimate Issues Hour. So what is it? 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:15.640 Political correctness is? And I'm giving my own, my own 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.040 understanding of it. If you have a different one, you 0:02:18.079 --> 0:02:21.960 are certainly welcome to offer it. But it is essentially 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:30.359 the inability to state certain things, certain truths. See that's 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:35.239 the key thing here, certain truths because they may offend 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:41.799 certain people or certain groups. Or there are two elements 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:47.000 to political correctness that it might be deemed offensive by 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:51.880 some members of some groups. And the other definition is 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:58.000 it might be painful for some people to recognize. There 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:02.160 are two separate categories. They may be related. One is hurtful, 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.760 the other is or offensive if you will, and the 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.800 other is just painful. And I will give you examples. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:17.400 Please understand that political correctness must entirely be a matter 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:22.919 of truth that can't be said, lies that are offensive, 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:27.440 Lies that are painful, can't be said, not because they're offensive, 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.320 not because they're painful, but because they're lies. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:32.920 All right. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:37.360 That's the issue here, and that is instrumental to the 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:45.720 whole discussion. It's going to be a difficult hour to 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:52.480 do because by definition, I am going to offend certain sensibilities. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.920 My intent let me say, at the outset is zero 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:02.559 to offend. Why would I want to do that? It's pointless, 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:07.600 it is it just increases tension. I have no desire 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.680 for it. It is not the way I conduct my 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:14.400 life or my show. But it is inevitable to talk 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.880 about political correctness that if you give examples, somebody who 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.160 is politically correct will be offended. So let me tell 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.359 you in advance, that is the last thing I wished 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:29.480 to do. I gave an example. We talked about this 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:34.960 once when I spoke about stereotypes. So the issue about 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.480 there are two issues about stereotypes, not whether they're offensive, 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:44.040 whether they are true, and whether you apply it to 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:50.280 every member of that group. Right, that's the question, and 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.760 number one is it true? And number two is the 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:57.320 general Is the generalization true? But number two, do you 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.279 apply it to every member of the group. That's totally wrong. 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.839 That's totally wrong. That's the reason you can live with 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.200 stereotypes and not be a bigot. You can say in 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:12.279 general X or Y about a group, but that doesn't 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.760 mean that every time I meet a member of that 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:19.279 group that applies. That's everyone is an individual. So I 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:26.280 don't know if that applies. All right, So again, let 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:32.120 me make something clear political correctness, that the reason it 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:39.400 is damaging is that it fights truth. It is meant 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:44.479 or is designed to stop people from being offended. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.080 But and that's good. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:52.279 I don't there is no good in needlessly offending people, 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:57.880 of course not. But on the other hand, it is 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.320 It is a world built on lies if you can't 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:06.960 say certain things just because somebody or someone will be offended. 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.280 All right, So again there were two. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.479 Let me begin with not the offensive part, but the 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.640 hurt the painful part. 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:17.440 All rights. 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:26.479 As an example, the best example of painful truths that 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:32.120 cannot be said and therefore become politically incorrect, has to 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:37.840 do with the differences between men and women. In the 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:43.279 nineteen sixties nineteen seventies, a lid was put on truth 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.680 telling about the sexes. The only thing you could say 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.919 about the sexes you could say really two things. One 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:56.560 you could criticize men all you like, patriarchy, sexism, et cetera, 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:02.720 et cetera, machismo, anything you like. The other is that 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.680 you can say that there are that you have to say. Essentially, 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:11.200 there are no differences inherent between the sexes. The moment 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:17.120 you spoke about inherent differences, then you were You were then. 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:18.960 Entering a painful truth. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.480 When the president of Harvard, Lawrence Summers, who is now 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:31.200 a major economic advisor to President Barack Obama, when Laurence 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:37.840 Summers at Harvard as president, spoke about the question, which 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.360 he did interestingly enough, as one who wanted to advance women, 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.880 why are there so many fewer women in the sciences 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:49.680 and in math? And he offered as a theory said, well, 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:54.600 it is we need to study whether or not there 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.200 are certain inherent factors in the way the brains of 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.120 a man and the brain the brain of a man 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.560 in the brain of a woman function. That may be 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.880 a part of the reason that accounts for a fewer 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:11.000 women in the sciences and especially in math and engineering. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:17.360 And I'm paraphrasing here for that, he was essentially removed 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.400 for that essential he was removed from the presidency of 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:27.840 Harvard University. The politically correct professors could not tolerate what 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:28.400 he said. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:30.040 A woman. 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.920 I'll never forget the MIT professor who was present in 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.679 the room, who said she felt nauseous, she wanted to 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:42.320 throw up. An Mit professor, she wanted to throw up 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:48.480 when she heard that, why is this political correctness? Because 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:53.560 he was talking about a truth that was painful to 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:59.680 hear that perhaps the brain of women militated against their 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:06.280 pursuing math and engineering or some of the sciences. I 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.520 don't find it painful. It doesn't mean a thing to me. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.520 If the question that I have is only is it 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.000 true or false? It has nothing to do with inferiority. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.679 It has nothing to do with superiority. I'm all at math, 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.679 I'm awful at science and engineering. I don't feel inferior. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.880 My brain is not registered in that arena. So what 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:34.680 so I didn't pursue it, but the idea that it 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.199 might be. We know that men's brains and women's brains 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:38.720 are different. 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:39.560 We know it. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:44.120 I mean, it's a physical fact. So why would it 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.560 be odd if somebody had said, if a Harvard president 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:52.679 had gotten up and said, women are inherently more intuitive 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:57.360 than men, would anybody have demanded? Would men have demanded 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.840 that he resigned? Would a man say and wanted to 0:09:59.920 --> 0:10:04.320 throw up? He'd either say, well, he's either right or 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:04.880 he's wrong. 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:06.400 Fine. 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.640 Now, of course that's not provable because intuitive is a 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.120 subjective term, and therefore it's not provable, like the question 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:20.080 about math science engineering, it's not as empirically establishable. But 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.040 there are many many truths, and there are many opinions 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:30.839 that can't be cited because they are things that people 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.360 don't want to hear. They're painful, not offensive, painful. For example, 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.080 if I were to go on a college campus and say, ley, 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:42.199 young women here, I just want to tell you that 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.840 I strongly advise that if you find a wonderful guy 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:49.000 while you're in your twenties, get married, even if you're 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:53.079 not ready with your career that you anticipate having, because 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.720 it is easier to attract a man at twenty five 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.760 than at fifty five. I would be booted out of 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:05.120 the college auditorium, even though what I said was demonstrably true, Okay, 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:09.560 because it's painful to hear. So one aspect of political 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:14.840 correctness is is it painful? The other aspect is is 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.520 it offensive? I'll talk about that when we come back 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.320 on the Ultimate Issues hour on the Dennis Prager Show. 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:26.000 This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.079 Now back to more of Dennis Prager's Timeless Wisdom. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:12:00.440 Need you're listening to The Dennis Prager Show. The ultimate 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:06.320 issues hour. The ultimate issue today is what is political correctness? 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.880 And it is so difficult because by nature, if I'm 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.360 going to be honest, some people will be offended. It 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:16.120 is the last thing I want to do. But it 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.199 has to be grappled with. We have to try to 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.880 understand it. If you differ with my understanding of it, 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.960 then the police do call one eight Prager seven seven six. 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:28.839 There are two aspects to review here. One is that 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:34.680 it is a politically incorrect statement. Is a something true 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:41.400 that is painful? True that is painful, is especially especially 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.719 within a male female context, about the differences between men 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.520 and women, and it drives a lot of people crazy 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.079 who have a vested interest, for whatever reason, and I 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.800 don't know what that reason is, to believe that men 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.560 and women are essentially the same. And so when you 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.360 speak about certain truths that men are far more likely 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.920 to see women as sex objects than men to see 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.800 than women to see men as sex objects. As an example, 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:17.400 not amen, but men. It's so obviously true, Yet it's 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.400 for whatever reason it is painful for some people to hear. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.000 I would think it would be painful for men to 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.480 hear because it doesn't speak so well about men, and 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.600 yet it is women who who have been taught to 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:36.160 find that objectionable. And uh so, any any mention of 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.000 differences that uh that girls play with tea sets and 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:44.880 uh and dolls more readily than boys do, that is 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:46.800 politically incorrect statement. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:47.400 Is it true? 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.440 Of course it's true, But but it runs against it 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.760 runs against what is called political correctness, a way of 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:59.520 seeing the world that people wish were true. It's wishful thinking. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.880 It's political correctness is a form of immaturity. It is 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:07.320 wishful thinking that a childlike person would have and adults 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.720 should grow up and realize that these these differences, these 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:17.800 truths are are there. I mean, it's almost politically incorrect 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.080 to say that people are not basically good because it 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:27.560 shatters a childlike and childish view of humanity is basically good. 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:32.080 So again, though I have to emphasize it, it has. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:32.600 To be true. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.560 If something is not true, then of course it's going 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:41.160 to be offensive. Of course, and even if it's true, 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.800 some people may do it to offend. But that's a 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:49.200 separate issue. The other is so one is painful and 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:56.400 the other is hurtful. It shouldn't be hurtful, but or 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.760 and maybe the distinction between painful and hurtful is a 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.400 subtle one. Maybe you can just combine them and that's fine. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.200 I'll give an example there. If one speaks about the 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:13.080 greater rates of criminal violence among African Americans, all right, now, 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.960 the issue there becomes really whether or not it is offensive. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.440 It is It should be clear within context. If the 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:27.800 purpose of a person is racist, meaning that somebody wants 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.560 to make a charge that blacks are inherently more violent, 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:35.840 that is offensive. And it's a lie. So it's got 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.920 a double whammy. So it's and it's offensive because it 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.000 is a lie. It means you just want to say 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.680 something bad about blacks. But if one wants to make 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:51.000 a better society for both black and white Americans or 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.760 any other any other national group that has blacks and 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.160 whites in it, and where you have this particular problem, 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:03.120 then acknowledging the greater rates of violence among among among 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.240 black males, and of course it's black males, not black females, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.800 then that that's not it shouldn't be offensive. Rather, a 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.120 serious black says it's true, and we got to work 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:21.680 on it, instead of calling such a person like Uncle Tom. Look, 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:27.560 it is to say truths that are painful is very 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:34.160 hard because you get mulled for it. But nevertheless, Yeah, 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.520 my deepest belief is society crumbles under lies more than 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:43.440 any other single bad thing. Lies make society disappear, and 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.920 so we have to fight political correctness with all of 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.800 our weapons, and our weapons are truth. But truths that 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:55.840 are stated with a noble purpose, not to offend. Get 0:16:55.880 --> 0:17:00.480 that truth stated with a noble purpose. The only purpose 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.959 of pointing out the greater rates of violence among black 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:09.639 males than among non black males is to help society 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.640 and to help blacks. That should be the only reason 0:17:12.679 --> 0:17:15.160 you pointed out. If you point out because you are 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.560 just angry or you want to hurt blacks, well then 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.880 that is offensive. There is such a thing as offensive. 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.359 The fact that I find political correctness to be a 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.480 lie and dangerous doesn't mean that there aren't offensive statements 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.800 you could make. Even within jokes. There are ethnic jokes 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.960 that are just funny, and there are ethnic jokes that 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:38.320 are cruel. It is not possible to tell, in my opinion, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:42.280 you cannot tell a joke that's funny about lynching. Lynching 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.520 is beyond the pale. There is no funny joke. There 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:49.840 is no funny Holocaust joke. You can tell funny jokes 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:54.080 about Jews, and by golly, I have in private. That's 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.879 that's a separate issue. That's why you have to know 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.359 does the person wish to offend? And there were certain 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:04.520 things that are gratuitously cruel. You don't you don't. You 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.280 don't mock suffering, human suffering. You can mock traits, but 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.440 you can't mock suffering with me. That's a big deal. 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.720 That's where there is ethnic humor I can laugh at, 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:18.440 and there is ethnic humor. 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:19.800 I cannot laugh at. 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:28.320 The fact that they're I mean the political correctness. I mean, 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.600 the most obvious one right now is you can't tell 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.320 the truths about Islamic terror. You can't even use the 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:34.600 word Islamic ad terror. 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.360 You can't yet yet. 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.639 Are are you more likely if you are hit by 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.400 a terrorist in the Western world today, or for that matter, 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:46.760 outside of Sri Lanka essentially, or outside of Columbia. I mean, 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:51.080 there are there are non Muslim terrorist groups, obviously, but internationally, 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:56.960 the the the only international uh terror organizations. 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.120 Are are Muslim. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.040 I'm not saying their mainstream I'm not saying it's inherent 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:07.440 to Islam. Those are separate issues entirely. But you can't 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:11.600 even say that even though it's true. That's the it's 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.320 the war on truth about political correctness that is dangerous. 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:19.920 All right, I will take your call when we come back. 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:27.560 This is a rather significant subject. Remember, the war against 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:33.080 political incorrectness, the war on behalf of political correctness, is 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:38.440 really a war against truth. And you can't you can't 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.720 make a good and decent society based on lawes. It's 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:47.320 an ad it advocates lying. That's what political correctness in 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:52.120 its essence is about. One eighth Praguer seven seven six, 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.600 The Ultimate Issues Hour on the Dennis Prager Show. 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.919 This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:15.000 Now back to more of Dennis Prager's Timeless Wisdom. 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.239 All Right, everybody, Dennis Prager here, and I hope you 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:19.720 have been less I mean carefully. 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:21.880 Was that right for a talk show host to say? 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:26.480 Even because it's such an important subject and so rarely 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:31.920 clearly defined, And that is political correctness. And the issue, remember, 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:37.879 is ultimately not offense or painful. The ultimate issue is truth. 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:43.920 It's a war against truths in the guise of not 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:49.199 wanting to offend anybody. And even if the person really 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:53.520 is politically correct because they're afraid of offending anybody, it's 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:59.320 still a war against truth. Lies about groups are lies, 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:02.320 and they are defamatory, and they're libels. That's a separate 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:08.800 issue that's truly bad. Lakewood, New Jersey and Mark Kello, 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:09.720 Mark Dennis. 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.879 Praeger, Hi, Dennis Hi. What I wanted to say was 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.520 I think that one element besides the blocking out of truth, 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:18.920 I think there's an element that's very negative for the 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:24.520 victims because they tend to What happens is is that 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.600 they tend to start defunding themselves in the terms of 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:29.760 the people who offend them, and they don't get a 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.960 chance to develop their own self positive self definition. 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:39.600 That's a very intelligent point, very intelligent point. That's such 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:44.399 an important point, as if the person's truth about the 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:49.680 group means it's about me, right right, yes, very good. 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:52.879 Back to the example that I gave, and please forgive 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:57.560 me if you don't like this example, but if you 0:21:57.560 --> 0:21:59.040 want me to use a different one, I'll use a 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:03.080 different one. But if one is talking about making a 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:07.360 better America and about crime, and one mentions that there 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:13.320 is a disproportionate amount of violence committed by by black mails. 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:19.359 Then why would a black be offended? Now, if the person, 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:21.639 as I said, if the person intends to hurt blacks, 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.520 then it's offensive. If the person intends to help blacks 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:28.119 and helps help America, it's not offensive. It's just a 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:34.280 sad truth. But my caller makes a very interesting point. 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.800 He said, maybe it's because the person hearing it internalizes 0:22:37.840 --> 0:22:40.080 it as if you're saying it about all of us. 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:44.760 But of course not, of course not. And by the way, 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:47.719 I know he's right because so often I am misquoted 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:53.760 as saying, oh, Prager said, all as for example, the 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:59.000 men women thing, you know, all women can't be good engineers. 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:00.879 I happen to know a young woman who will probably 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:08.600 be a brilliant engineer. She's brilliant, and she probably will 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:12.840 make a spectacular engineer. But it doesn't negate the truism 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:17.520 that most women don't don't for whatever reasons, And I 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:21.359 don't believe they're cultural want to winter engineering. Why are 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:24.199 so many women into medicine? It was cultural to be 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:33.360 only only men went into medicine two generations ago. All right, 0:23:34.160 --> 0:23:38.240 one eighth Prager seven seven six Tampa, Florida. David, Hello, David, 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:42.080 Dennis Prager, Yeah, hey Dennis, Okay, thanks? 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:42.760 Hey. 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:44.840 What is political correctness? 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:45.600 To me? 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:50.760 The ultimate definition of it is tyranny with manners. 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:54.480 Tyranny, tyranny with manners. What does that mean? 0:23:54.800 --> 0:23:57.040 Well, what I mean by that is people really don't 0:23:57.040 --> 0:24:00.960 believe in the niceties of political correctness. They're basically forced 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:04.280 to be politically correct out of fear of lawsuits and 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:05.800 being fired. 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:08.640 Or being called a bad name that's right, yes, right. 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:10.720 Or even thrown in prison like in Europe. 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:11.480 So what is it? 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:14.120 What of the manners the manners are among the tyrants 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:15.960 or what is that what you're saying? 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:16.960 Right? 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:21.120 They use these nice of these as manners, as good manners, 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:25.080 pass it off as good manners when actually, like you said, 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:28.639 a war against truth. But it's more than that, because 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:32.480 the only victims of political correctness are the white males. 0:24:32.760 --> 0:24:34.840 It's basically a war against the white male. 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:38.040 Oh, that's an interesting subject, and I think there's a 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:40.880 lot of truth to that. Since you can say anything 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:44.000 about the white male and for whatever reason, there are 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:51.520 no politically correct problems with regard to him, that is correct. 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:55.160 You can say he's racist, you could say he's imperialist, 0:24:55.240 --> 0:24:57.840 you could say he's macho, you could say he loves violence, 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:03.600 you could say he's patriarchal, and you're fine, that's right, 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:09.840 that is true. So there is a political correctness. The 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:13.800 very doctrine has an agenda, of course it is. But 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:17.359 my biggest anger is not its agenda. My biggest anger 0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:20.720 is the war on truth that you are held back 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:24.400 from it. A reminder, by the way, that you can 0:25:24.480 --> 0:25:29.280 get all of my shows in pristine clarity through prager 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:31.400 Topia back. 0:25:31.200 --> 0:25:31.720 In a moment. 0:25:45.880 --> 0:25:48.040 You're listening to the Dennis Prager Show. This is the 0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:51.720 Ultimate Issues hour. Every week at this time I discuss 0:25:51.920 --> 0:25:55.720 some great issue of life. I wish I had the 0:25:55.760 --> 0:25:57.600 list in front of me. Give you examples of what 0:25:57.640 --> 0:25:59.639 we've done, and they're all available. By the way, if 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:02.360 you subscribe to prager Topia, you get all my shows 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:07.040 downloaded a beautifully commercial free, highest fidelity. Just go to 0:26:07.080 --> 0:26:10.760 Dennis Prager dot com, Pragertopia dot com, or prager Radio 0:26:10.840 --> 0:26:15.240 dot com. That's pretty easy. Now, all right, let me 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:18.159 take some more of your calls. I'm talking about political correctness, 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:21.880 and this is so important. It is truths that cannot 0:26:21.920 --> 0:26:25.560 be said that is, that is, in a nutshell, what 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:29.680 it is. If it's a lie, then of course it 0:26:29.720 --> 0:26:33.880 shouldn't be said, whether it's offensive or not. Lies shouldn't 0:26:33.880 --> 0:26:38.840 be said. But if it's offensive, first of all, we 0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:41.600 should really do a show on when people take offense. 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:45.080 Maybe that's a happiness hour. I don't know, but maybe 0:26:45.160 --> 0:26:48.359 it's it's just any hour, but we should put that down. 0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:53.800 People take offense too easily, and it is. It is 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:58.960 a real problem. And it depends on what you're what 0:26:59.440 --> 0:27:01.600 you want to do with what you're saying. Do you 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:03.359 want to hurt the group or do you want to 0:27:03.400 --> 0:27:05.160 help the group or do you want to just make 0:27:05.200 --> 0:27:10.160 a truth? These are all factors in what we say. 0:27:10.520 --> 0:27:14.000 Let me take some examples here from your calls in 0:27:14.119 --> 0:27:18.280 Ocean excuse me in Long Island, New York. It's Rachel Hi, 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:19.320 Rachel Dennis. 0:27:20.080 --> 0:27:21.040 Hi, how are you. 0:27:21.240 --> 0:27:22.080 I'm well, thank you. 0:27:25.040 --> 0:27:26.919 I just wanted to say that I agree one hundred 0:27:26.920 --> 0:27:30.760 percent with everything that you say about politically correct and 0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:33.760 it being the truth and people being afraid to hear it. 0:27:34.200 --> 0:27:38.920 My question is when I have intellectual friends who are 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:43.240 on the left, and they would say, when you say that, 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:46.119 you have to ennoble. You have to when you say something, 0:27:46.160 --> 0:27:48.720 it has to be for a noble reason. How could 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:51.359 you know that? I think that's what they would counter. 0:27:51.400 --> 0:27:53.040 They would say, how do you know if someone is 0:27:53.080 --> 0:27:55.520