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Speaker 6: Ultimate Issues Hour. Every week this hour is devoted to
Speaker 6: some great issue of life. I hope we have gathered
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Speaker 6: These are great issues, whatever whatever arena you come from.
Speaker 6: I am going to discuss today political correctness. What is
Speaker 6: it and why does it exist? The term is used
Speaker 6: regularly and it is an extremely important subject. Hence it
Speaker 6: qualifies for the Ultimate Issues Hour. So what is it?
Speaker 6: Political correctness is? And I'm giving my own, my own
Speaker 6: understanding of it. If you have a different one, you
Speaker 6: are certainly welcome to offer it. But it is essentially
Speaker 6: the inability to state certain things, certain truths. See that's
Speaker 6: the key thing here, certain truths because they may offend
Speaker 6: certain people or certain groups. Or there are two elements
Speaker 6: to political correctness that it might be deemed offensive by
Speaker 6: some members of some groups. And the other definition is
Speaker 6: it might be painful for some people to recognize. There
Speaker 6: are two separate categories. They may be related. One is hurtful,
Speaker 6: the other is or offensive if you will, and the
Speaker 6: other is just painful. And I will give you examples.
Speaker 6: Please understand that political correctness must entirely be a matter
Speaker 6: of truth that can't be said, lies that are offensive,
Speaker 6: Lies that are painful, can't be said, not because they're offensive,
Speaker 6: not because they're painful, but because they're lies.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 6: That's the issue here, and that is instrumental to the
Speaker 6: whole discussion. It's going to be a difficult hour to
Speaker 6: do because by definition, I am going to offend certain sensibilities.
Speaker 6: My intent let me say, at the outset is zero
Speaker 6: to offend. Why would I want to do that? It's pointless,
Speaker 6: it is it just increases tension. I have no desire
Speaker 6: for it. It is not the way I conduct my
Speaker 6: life or my show. But it is inevitable to talk
Speaker 6: about political correctness that if you give examples, somebody who
Speaker 6: is politically correct will be offended. So let me tell
Speaker 6: you in advance, that is the last thing I wished
Speaker 6: to do. I gave an example. We talked about this
Speaker 6: once when I spoke about stereotypes. So the issue about
Speaker 6: there are two issues about stereotypes, not whether they're offensive,
Speaker 6: whether they are true, and whether you apply it to
Speaker 6: every member of that group. Right, that's the question, and
Speaker 6: number one is it true? And number two is the
Speaker 6: general Is the generalization true? But number two, do you
Speaker 6: apply it to every member of the group. That's totally wrong.
Speaker 6: That's totally wrong. That's the reason you can live with
Speaker 6: stereotypes and not be a bigot. You can say in
Speaker 6: general X or Y about a group, but that doesn't
Speaker 6: mean that every time I meet a member of that
Speaker 6: group that applies. That's everyone is an individual. So I
Speaker 6: don't know if that applies. All right, So again, let
Speaker 6: me make something clear political correctness, that the reason it
Speaker 6: is damaging is that it fights truth. It is meant
Speaker 6: or is designed to stop people from being offended.
Speaker 2: But and that's good.
Speaker 6: I don't there is no good in needlessly offending people,
Speaker 6: of course not. But on the other hand, it is
Speaker 6: It is a world built on lies if you can't
Speaker 6: say certain things just because somebody or someone will be offended.
Speaker 2: All right, So again there were two.
Speaker 6: Let me begin with not the offensive part, but the
Speaker 6: hurt the painful part.
Speaker 2: All rights.
Speaker 6: As an example, the best example of painful truths that
Speaker 6: cannot be said and therefore become politically incorrect, has to
Speaker 6: do with the differences between men and women. In the
Speaker 6: nineteen sixties nineteen seventies, a lid was put on truth
Speaker 6: telling about the sexes. The only thing you could say
Speaker 6: about the sexes you could say really two things. One
Speaker 6: you could criticize men all you like, patriarchy, sexism, et cetera,
Speaker 6: et cetera, machismo, anything you like. The other is that
Speaker 6: you can say that there are that you have to say. Essentially,
Speaker 6: there are no differences inherent between the sexes. The moment
Speaker 6: you spoke about inherent differences, then you were You were then.
Speaker 2: Entering a painful truth.
Speaker 6: When the president of Harvard, Lawrence Summers, who is now
Speaker 6: a major economic advisor to President Barack Obama, when Laurence
Speaker 6: Summers at Harvard as president, spoke about the question, which
Speaker 6: he did interestingly enough, as one who wanted to advance women,
Speaker 6: why are there so many fewer women in the sciences
Speaker 6: and in math? And he offered as a theory said, well,
Speaker 6: it is we need to study whether or not there
Speaker 6: are certain inherent factors in the way the brains of
Speaker 6: a man and the brain the brain of a man
Speaker 6: in the brain of a woman function. That may be
Speaker 6: a part of the reason that accounts for a fewer
Speaker 6: women in the sciences and especially in math and engineering.
Speaker 6: And I'm paraphrasing here for that, he was essentially removed
Speaker 6: for that essential he was removed from the presidency of
Speaker 6: Harvard University. The politically correct professors could not tolerate what
Speaker 6: he said.
Speaker 2: A woman.
Speaker 6: I'll never forget the MIT professor who was present in
Speaker 6: the room, who said she felt nauseous, she wanted to
Speaker 6: throw up. An Mit professor, she wanted to throw up
Speaker 6: when she heard that, why is this political correctness? Because
Speaker 6: he was talking about a truth that was painful to
Speaker 6: hear that perhaps the brain of women militated against their
Speaker 6: pursuing math and engineering or some of the sciences. I
Speaker 6: don't find it painful. It doesn't mean a thing to me.
Speaker 6: If the question that I have is only is it
Speaker 6: true or false? It has nothing to do with inferiority.
Speaker 6: It has nothing to do with superiority. I'm all at math,
Speaker 6: I'm awful at science and engineering. I don't feel inferior.
Speaker 6: My brain is not registered in that arena. So what
Speaker 6: so I didn't pursue it, but the idea that it
Speaker 6: might be. We know that men's brains and women's brains
Speaker 6: are different.
Speaker 2: We know it.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's a physical fact. So why would it
Speaker 6: be odd if somebody had said, if a Harvard president
Speaker 6: had gotten up and said, women are inherently more intuitive
Speaker 6: than men, would anybody have demanded? Would men have demanded
Speaker 6: that he resigned? Would a man say and wanted to
Speaker 6: throw up? He'd either say, well, he's either right or
Speaker 6: he's wrong.
Speaker 2: Fine.
Speaker 6: Now, of course that's not provable because intuitive is a
Speaker 6: subjective term, and therefore it's not provable, like the question
Speaker 6: about math science engineering, it's not as empirically establishable. But
Speaker 6: there are many many truths, and there are many opinions
Speaker 6: that can't be cited because they are things that people
Speaker 6: don't want to hear. They're painful, not offensive, painful. For example,
Speaker 6: if I were to go on a college campus and say, ley,
Speaker 6: young women here, I just want to tell you that
Speaker 6: I strongly advise that if you find a wonderful guy
Speaker 6: while you're in your twenties, get married, even if you're
Speaker 6: not ready with your career that you anticipate having, because
Speaker 6: it is easier to attract a man at twenty five
Speaker 6: than at fifty five. I would be booted out of
Speaker 6: the college auditorium, even though what I said was demonstrably true, Okay,
Speaker 6: because it's painful to hear. So one aspect of political
Speaker 6: correctness is is it painful? The other aspect is is
Speaker 6: it offensive? I'll talk about that when we come back
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Speaker 6: Need you're listening to The Dennis Prager Show. The ultimate
Speaker 6: issues hour. The ultimate issue today is what is political correctness?
Speaker 6: And it is so difficult because by nature, if I'm
Speaker 6: going to be honest, some people will be offended. It
Speaker 6: is the last thing I want to do. But it
Speaker 6: has to be grappled with. We have to try to
Speaker 6: understand it. If you differ with my understanding of it,
Speaker 6: then the police do call one eight Prager seven seven six.
Speaker 6: There are two aspects to review here. One is that
Speaker 6: it is a politically incorrect statement. Is a something true
Speaker 6: that is painful? True that is painful, is especially especially
Speaker 6: within a male female context, about the differences between men
Speaker 6: and women, and it drives a lot of people crazy
Speaker 6: who have a vested interest, for whatever reason, and I
Speaker 6: don't know what that reason is, to believe that men
Speaker 6: and women are essentially the same. And so when you
Speaker 6: speak about certain truths that men are far more likely
Speaker 6: to see women as sex objects than men to see
Speaker 6: than women to see men as sex objects. As an example,
Speaker 6: not amen, but men. It's so obviously true, Yet it's
Speaker 6: for whatever reason it is painful for some people to hear.
Speaker 6: I would think it would be painful for men to
Speaker 6: hear because it doesn't speak so well about men, and
Speaker 6: yet it is women who who have been taught to
Speaker 6: find that objectionable. And uh so, any any mention of
Speaker 6: differences that uh that girls play with tea sets and
Speaker 6: uh and dolls more readily than boys do, that is
Speaker 6: politically incorrect statement.
Speaker 2: Is it true?
Speaker 6: Of course it's true, But but it runs against it
Speaker 6: runs against what is called political correctness, a way of
Speaker 6: seeing the world that people wish were true. It's wishful thinking.
Speaker 6: It's political correctness is a form of immaturity. It is
Speaker 6: wishful thinking that a childlike person would have and adults
Speaker 6: should grow up and realize that these these differences, these
Speaker 6: truths are are there. I mean, it's almost politically incorrect
Speaker 6: to say that people are not basically good because it
Speaker 6: shatters a childlike and childish view of humanity is basically good.
Speaker 6: So again, though I have to emphasize it, it has.
Speaker 2: To be true.
Speaker 6: If something is not true, then of course it's going
Speaker 6: to be offensive. Of course, and even if it's true,
Speaker 6: some people may do it to offend. But that's a
Speaker 6: separate issue. The other is so one is painful and
Speaker 6: the other is hurtful. It shouldn't be hurtful, but or
Speaker 6: and maybe the distinction between painful and hurtful is a
Speaker 6: subtle one. Maybe you can just combine them and that's fine.
Speaker 6: I'll give an example there. If one speaks about the
Speaker 6: greater rates of criminal violence among African Americans, all right, now,
Speaker 6: the issue there becomes really whether or not it is offensive.
Speaker 6: It is It should be clear within context. If the
Speaker 6: purpose of a person is racist, meaning that somebody wants
Speaker 6: to make a charge that blacks are inherently more violent,
Speaker 6: that is offensive. And it's a lie. So it's got
Speaker 6: a double whammy. So it's and it's offensive because it
Speaker 6: is a lie. It means you just want to say
Speaker 6: something bad about blacks. But if one wants to make
Speaker 6: a better society for both black and white Americans or
Speaker 6: any other any other national group that has blacks and
Speaker 6: whites in it, and where you have this particular problem,
Speaker 6: then acknowledging the greater rates of violence among among among
Speaker 6: black males, and of course it's black males, not black females,
Speaker 6: then that that's not it shouldn't be offensive. Rather, a
Speaker 6: serious black says it's true, and we got to work
Speaker 6: on it, instead of calling such a person like Uncle Tom. Look,
Speaker 6: it is to say truths that are painful is very
Speaker 6: hard because you get mulled for it. But nevertheless, Yeah,
Speaker 6: my deepest belief is society crumbles under lies more than
Speaker 6: any other single bad thing. Lies make society disappear, and
Speaker 6: so we have to fight political correctness with all of
Speaker 6: our weapons, and our weapons are truth. But truths that
Speaker 6: are stated with a noble purpose, not to offend. Get
Speaker 6: that truth stated with a noble purpose. The only purpose
Speaker 6: of pointing out the greater rates of violence among black
Speaker 6: males than among non black males is to help society
Speaker 6: and to help blacks. That should be the only reason
Speaker 6: you pointed out. If you point out because you are
Speaker 6: just angry or you want to hurt blacks, well then
Speaker 6: that is offensive. There is such a thing as offensive.
Speaker 6: The fact that I find political correctness to be a
Speaker 6: lie and dangerous doesn't mean that there aren't offensive statements
Speaker 6: you could make. Even within jokes. There are ethnic jokes
Speaker 6: that are just funny, and there are ethnic jokes that
Speaker 6: are cruel. It is not possible to tell, in my opinion,
Speaker 6: you cannot tell a joke that's funny about lynching. Lynching
Speaker 6: is beyond the pale. There is no funny joke. There
Speaker 6: is no funny Holocaust joke. You can tell funny jokes
Speaker 6: about Jews, and by golly, I have in private. That's
Speaker 6: that's a separate issue. That's why you have to know
Speaker 6: does the person wish to offend? And there were certain
Speaker 6: things that are gratuitously cruel. You don't you don't. You
Speaker 6: don't mock suffering, human suffering. You can mock traits, but
Speaker 6: you can't mock suffering with me. That's a big deal.
Speaker 6: That's where there is ethnic humor I can laugh at,
Speaker 6: and there is ethnic humor.
Speaker 2: I cannot laugh at.
Speaker 6: The fact that they're I mean the political correctness. I mean,
Speaker 6: the most obvious one right now is you can't tell
Speaker 6: the truths about Islamic terror. You can't even use the
Speaker 6: word Islamic ad terror.
Speaker 2: You can't yet yet.
Speaker 6: Are are you more likely if you are hit by
Speaker 6: a terrorist in the Western world today, or for that matter,
Speaker 6: outside of Sri Lanka essentially, or outside of Columbia. I mean,
Speaker 6: there are there are non Muslim terrorist groups, obviously, but internationally,
Speaker 6: the the the only international uh terror organizations.
Speaker 2: Are are Muslim.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying their mainstream I'm not saying it's inherent
Speaker 6: to Islam. Those are separate issues entirely. But you can't
Speaker 6: even say that even though it's true. That's the it's
Speaker 6: the war on truth about political correctness that is dangerous.
Speaker 6: All right, I will take your call when we come back.
Speaker 6: This is a rather significant subject. Remember, the war against
Speaker 6: political incorrectness, the war on behalf of political correctness, is
Speaker 6: really a war against truth. And you can't you can't
Speaker 6: make a good and decent society based on lawes. It's
Speaker 6: an ad it advocates lying. That's what political correctness in
Speaker 6: its essence is about. One eighth Praguer seven seven six,
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Speaker 6: All Right, everybody, Dennis Prager here, and I hope you
Speaker 6: have been less I mean carefully.
Speaker 2: Was that right for a talk show host to say?
Speaker 6: Even because it's such an important subject and so rarely
Speaker 6: clearly defined, And that is political correctness. And the issue, remember,
Speaker 6: is ultimately not offense or painful. The ultimate issue is truth.
Speaker 6: It's a war against truths in the guise of not
Speaker 6: wanting to offend anybody. And even if the person really
Speaker 6: is politically correct because they're afraid of offending anybody, it's
Speaker 6: still a war against truth. Lies about groups are lies,
Speaker 6: and they are defamatory, and they're libels. That's a separate
Speaker 6: issue that's truly bad. Lakewood, New Jersey and Mark Kello,
Speaker 6: Mark Dennis.
Speaker 4: Praeger, Hi, Dennis Hi. What I wanted to say was
Speaker 4: I think that one element besides the blocking out of truth,
Speaker 4: I think there's an element that's very negative for the
Speaker 4: victims because they tend to What happens is is that
Speaker 4: they tend to start defunding themselves in the terms of
Speaker 4: the people who offend them, and they don't get a
Speaker 4: chance to develop their own self positive self definition.
Speaker 6: That's a very intelligent point, very intelligent point. That's such
Speaker 6: an important point, as if the person's truth about the
Speaker 6: group means it's about me, right right, yes, very good.
Speaker 6: Back to the example that I gave, and please forgive
Speaker 6: me if you don't like this example, but if you
Speaker 6: want me to use a different one, I'll use a
Speaker 6: different one. But if one is talking about making a
Speaker 6: better America and about crime, and one mentions that there
Speaker 6: is a disproportionate amount of violence committed by by black mails.
Speaker 6: Then why would a black be offended? Now, if the person,
Speaker 6: as I said, if the person intends to hurt blacks,
Speaker 6: then it's offensive. If the person intends to help blacks
Speaker 6: and helps help America, it's not offensive. It's just a
Speaker 6: sad truth. But my caller makes a very interesting point.
Speaker 6: He said, maybe it's because the person hearing it internalizes
Speaker 6: it as if you're saying it about all of us.
Speaker 6: But of course not, of course not. And by the way,
Speaker 6: I know he's right because so often I am misquoted
Speaker 6: as saying, oh, Prager said, all as for example, the
Speaker 6: men women thing, you know, all women can't be good engineers.
Speaker 6: I happen to know a young woman who will probably
Speaker 6: be a brilliant engineer. She's brilliant, and she probably will
Speaker 6: make a spectacular engineer. But it doesn't negate the truism
Speaker 6: that most women don't don't for whatever reasons, And I
Speaker 6: don't believe they're cultural want to winter engineering. Why are
Speaker 6: so many women into medicine? It was cultural to be
Speaker 6: only only men went into medicine two generations ago. All right,
Speaker 6: one eighth Prager seven seven six Tampa, Florida. David, Hello, David,
Speaker 6: Dennis Prager, Yeah, hey Dennis, Okay, thanks?
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 3: What is political correctness?
Speaker 2: To me?
Speaker 3: The ultimate definition of it is tyranny with manners.
Speaker 2: Tyranny, tyranny with manners. What does that mean?
Speaker 3: Well, what I mean by that is people really don't
Speaker 3: believe in the niceties of political correctness. They're basically forced
Speaker 3: to be politically correct out of fear of lawsuits and
Speaker 3: being fired.
Speaker 2: Or being called a bad name that's right, yes, right.
Speaker 3: Or even thrown in prison like in Europe.
Speaker 2: So what is it?
Speaker 6: What of the manners the manners are among the tyrants
Speaker 6: or what is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: They use these nice of these as manners, as good manners,
Speaker 3: pass it off as good manners when actually, like you said,
Speaker 3: a war against truth. But it's more than that, because
Speaker 3: the only victims of political correctness are the white males.
Speaker 3: It's basically a war against the white male.
Speaker 6: Oh, that's an interesting subject, and I think there's a
Speaker 6: lot of truth to that. Since you can say anything
Speaker 6: about the white male and for whatever reason, there are
Speaker 6: no politically correct problems with regard to him, that is correct.
Speaker 6: You can say he's racist, you could say he's imperialist,
Speaker 6: you could say he's macho, you could say he loves violence,
Speaker 6: you could say he's patriarchal, and you're fine, that's right,
Speaker 6: that is true. So there is a political correctness. The
Speaker 6: very doctrine has an agenda, of course it is. But
Speaker 6: my biggest anger is not its agenda. My biggest anger
Speaker 6: is the war on truth that you are held back
Speaker 6: from it. A reminder, by the way, that you can
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Speaker 6: take some more of your calls. I'm talking about political correctness,
Speaker 6: and this is so important. It is truths that cannot
Speaker 6: be said that is, that is, in a nutshell, what
Speaker 6: it is. If it's a lie, then of course it
Speaker 6: shouldn't be said, whether it's offensive or not. Lies shouldn't
Speaker 6: be said. But if it's offensive, first of all, we
Speaker 6: should really do a show on when people take offense.
Speaker 6: Maybe that's a happiness hour. I don't know, but maybe
Speaker 6: it's it's just any hour, but we should put that down.
Speaker 6: People take offense too easily, and it is. It is
Speaker 6: a real problem. And it depends on what you're what
Speaker 6: you want to do with what you're saying. Do you
Speaker 6: want to hurt the group or do you want to
Speaker 6: help the group or do you want to just make
Speaker 6: a truth? These are all factors in what we say.
Speaker 6: Let me take some examples here from your calls in
Speaker 6: Ocean excuse me in Long Island, New York. It's Rachel Hi,
Speaker 6: Rachel Dennis.
Speaker 7: Hi, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to say that I agree one hundred
Speaker 7: percent with everything that you say about politically correct and
Speaker 7: it being the truth and people being afraid to hear it.
Speaker 7: My question is when I have intellectual friends who are
Speaker 7: on the left, and they would say, when you say that,
Speaker 7: you have to ennoble. You have to when you say something,
Speaker 7: it has to be for a noble reason. How could
Speaker 7: you know that? I think that's what they would counter.
Speaker 7: They would say, how do you know if someone is
Speaker 7: being noble and I'm wondering how you would suggest?
Speaker 6: Answering that, well, you know it the same way you
Speaker 6: would know it. First of all, you don't always know it,
Speaker 6: but you know it. A lot of the time you
Speaker 6: ask the person, why are you making the point. I'll
Speaker 6: give you an example. There are people who have called
Speaker 6: up my show knowing I'm Jewish, and they have said,
Speaker 6: you know, Jews are disproportionately represented in the media, to
Speaker 6: which I immediately answer, you're right, what is the point?
Speaker 6: And they they they Then they they have no answer
Speaker 6: because in most cases, though, the people who make that
Speaker 6: point are angry at Jews for whatever reason. So that's
Speaker 6: that's not a point to a noble that's because I'm
Speaker 6: just angry and I want to lash out. Of course,
Speaker 6: it means nothing. It has no effect to any of them.
Speaker 6: Use it to further Jewish causes. I wish. I mean,
Speaker 6: you know, it's the last thing that they care about
Speaker 6: is to promote Judaism or or or help Israel. That's
Speaker 6: that's the last thing that most Jews in the media
Speaker 6: care about. So that's an example, or or a whole
Speaker 6: host of examples. But if somebody says, but by the way,
Speaker 6: it remains a truth, Jews are disproportionately represented in the media.
Speaker 2: The question is why. Why is the point being made?
Speaker 6: Just as if somebody would call up and say, you know, Dennis,
Speaker 6: Blacks are disproportionately represented Black males in violent crime, I'll
Speaker 6: say that is true. What is your point? Now, if
Speaker 6: they have no point, they're just lashing out. But if
Speaker 6: they have a point, therefore what we need to do
Speaker 6: is X, Y and Z to work within the black
Speaker 6: community uh to, uh to, uh I don't know, to
Speaker 6: further fatherhood there uh to, to bring good values into
Speaker 6: the inner city.
Speaker 2: Then that's a good reason. So that's so you you
Speaker 2: you know the answer, Rachel. To answer your friends by
Speaker 2: asking the question why are you making the point?
Speaker 6: Well, they would.
Speaker 7: Say, why is the person who's politically.
Speaker 8: Incorrect making Yes, that's right.
Speaker 6: So the person making the politically incorrect point needs an answer.
Speaker 6: Here is why I'm making the point. If they're just
Speaker 6: doing it to lash out at some group, then it
Speaker 6: is just anger.
Speaker 7: Right, but if if there's an ulterior, a positive ultnation.
Speaker 2: Yes that's exactly right.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's right, okay, because that's that's always Their claim
Speaker 7: is that there's no way of nothing.
Speaker 6: Well, well, but so ask that's all. There is a
Speaker 6: way of knowing. Ask why did you make the point?
Speaker 6: It's as simple as that great question, and I hope
Speaker 6: it was a great answer. Let's go to let's go
Speaker 6: to Ron in Oceanside, New York. Killo Ron, Dennis Prager.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Dennis, this is Oceanside, California. But right, idea, listen,
Speaker 8: I'm the ocean Side gangbuster. I run a side on
Speaker 8: YouTube and I have been involved in neighborhood Watch reducing
Speaker 8: the ethnic gang terrorism we're subjected to. And for many years,
Speaker 8: the police would show up and if the person calling
Speaker 8: them was a white person, the police would shrug it off, like,
Speaker 8: you know, you need to be more reasonable and cooperative,
Speaker 8: you need to stay inside or you might get hurt,
Speaker 8: and then they would leave as well. I had confronted
Speaker 8: the chief of police about that. He had me give
Speaker 8: a presentation. I said, look, you don't give a break
Speaker 8: to people because of their skin color. And I said,
Speaker 8: what you do is you deal with the people causing
Speaker 8: the problems, regardless of their skin color. And crime is
Speaker 8: down forty two percent in the last four years.
Speaker 2: Because people are prepared to be more honest.
Speaker 8: Well, I go to the city hall meetings. I raised
Speaker 8: my hand up. I said, raise your hand if you've
Speaker 8: been terrorized because you're white, and a lot of people
Speaker 8: look at me. Some people raise their hands. People come
Speaker 8: up to me later go, look, I'm glad someone's bringing
Speaker 8: this up because I can't. I got kids in the school.
Speaker 8: My wife works for the city.
Speaker 2: Yeah all right, Well that's so, that's that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: You're saying because people have been able to say people
Speaker 6: need to be free to say things without at the
Speaker 6: same time wanting to hurt. If your point is to hurt,
Speaker 6: then yes, it's it's it's not worth making. But if
Speaker 6: your point is to say what appears to you to
Speaker 6: be true and may not be true, let's find out.
Speaker 6: When Jesse Jackson said that if somebody's walking behind him
Speaker 6: in certain parts of big cities, he hears footsteps and
Speaker 6: he turns around, he sees it's a white man, He's relieved.
Speaker 6: Was he being anti black? Was he being was he
Speaker 6: being what was he being? He's being honest. It's a
Speaker 6: it's a sad honesty. But it's not anti black. It's
Speaker 6: anti black. If somebody ridiculously infers to that black means violent,
Speaker 6: that is idiocy. Not to mention bigotry and everything else,
Speaker 6: but to say that there is that specific problem. It's
Speaker 6: a good thing. It's a good thing. If Muslim leaders said, yes,
Speaker 6: we do have a problem, God, the world would reach
Speaker 6: out to them with and embrace them with respect and love.
Speaker 6: We'll be back at a moment.
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Speaker 6: defining political correctness, and the whole notion is a war
Speaker 6: against truth in the guise of a war against offending anybody.
Speaker 6: We shouldn't defend gratuitously, and people should not take offense easily.
Speaker 2: Although of course there are.
Speaker 6: Offensive comments that can be made that are made Elgin,
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Speaker 6: Right, all right, right, don't sneak in other points when
Speaker 6: you had another one to make.
Speaker 9: Go ahead, Hey, man, hey listen. I'm not from the North.
Speaker 9: I'm from the Chicago area and I moved to the
Speaker 9: south here and I noticed the people down here don't
Speaker 9: have a good sense of humor. They get offended, really
Speaker 9: easy Northerners that kind of like to cut up and
Speaker 9: crack jokes and stuff. And I had a guy at work,
Speaker 9: Puerto Rican from New York, and we hit it off,
Speaker 9: I thought, and we would tell we would tease each
Speaker 9: other when we came on duty. And you know, he
Speaker 9: would tease me and I tease him right back, and
Speaker 9: I you know, I mean a fake joke. I was
Speaker 9: a light hearted joke about Puerto Ricans being clouds, clouset homosexuals,
Speaker 9: which I was just didn't mean it. You know, it
Speaker 9: was just a joke, it's all it.
Speaker 2: Was, okay, and he got offended.
Speaker 6: Let me just quickly because of the time fact that
Speaker 6: we just have one minute to go here on these jokes.
Speaker 6: Here is my view, generally speaking, it is not worth
Speaker 6: telling people of other groups jokes about their group. Okay,
Speaker 6: we can tell a in private, that's fine. It's like,
Speaker 6: you know, it's my view of like using swear words,
Speaker 6: I'm against it in public. I'm also against it primarily
Speaker 6: generally in private, however, you talk to your wife, you know,
Speaker 6: pillow talk, and you use an expletive. I don't think
Speaker 6: it's a particularly big big deal when you're just emoting
Speaker 6: about something. Likewise, with these jokes, it doesn't make you
Speaker 6: a bigot if you confine it to your home table,
Speaker 6: all right, where I remember there was a time when
Speaker 6: they told school children report the class if your parent
Speaker 6: told an ethnic joke, that doesn't make anybody a bigot.
Speaker 6: It is, but it is not a wise thing to
Speaker 6: tell people at the workplace jokes about their own group. Hey,
Speaker 6: if they invite it, it's one thing. If you swap jokes,
Speaker 6: it's quite another. But you know, look, there's wisdom to
Speaker 6: in life, but political correctness and jokes are separate issues.
Speaker 6: I'm talking about truths about male female differences as an example,
Speaker 6: where it's a very bad thing for kids to grow
Speaker 6: up thinking it's the same thing to be a male
Speaker 6: and to be a female. This has been the Ultimate
Speaker 6: Issues Hour. By the way, I mentioned that I'm teaching
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Speaker 6: you for listening.
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