Speaker 1: Life Audio. In today's episode of Timeless Wisdom.
Speaker 2: I am going to discuss today political correctness. What is
Speaker 2: it and why does it exist? 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 or.
Speaker 2: Being called a bad name.
Speaker 3: That's right, yes, right, or even prolin a president like
Speaker 3: in Europe.
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Speaker 2: I am going to discuss today political correctness. What is
Speaker 2: it and why does it exist? The term is used
Speaker 2: regularly and it is an extremely important subject. Hence it
Speaker 2: qualifies for the Ultimate Issues Hour. So what is it?
Speaker 2: Political correctness is and I'm giving my own my own
Speaker 2: understanding of it. If you have a different one, you
Speaker 2: are certainly welcome to offer it. But it is essentially
Speaker 2: the inability to state certain things, certain truths. See that's
Speaker 2: the key thing here, certain truths because they may offend
Speaker 2: certain people or certain groups. Or There are two elements
Speaker 2: to political correctness. It might be deemed offensive by some
Speaker 2: members of some groups. And the other definition is it
Speaker 2: might be painful for some people to recognize. There are
Speaker 2: two separate categories. They may be related. One is hurtful,
Speaker 2: the other is or offensive if you will, and the
Speaker 2: other is just painful. And I will give you examples.
Speaker 2: Please understand that political correctness must entirely be a matter
Speaker 2: of truth. That can't be said lies that are offensive,
Speaker 2: lies that are painful, can't be said not because they're offensive,
Speaker 2: not because they're painful, but because they're lies. All right.
Speaker 2: That's the issue here, and that is instrumental to the
Speaker 2: whole discussion. It's going to be a difficult hour to
Speaker 2: do because by definition I am going to offend certain sensibilities.
Speaker 2: My intent, let me say, at the outset is zero
Speaker 2: to offend. Why would I want to do that? It's pointless,
Speaker 2: it is, it just increases tension. I have no desire
Speaker 2: for it. It is not the way I conduct my
Speaker 2: life or my show. But it is inevitable to talk
Speaker 2: about political correctness that if you give examples, somebody who
Speaker 2: is politically correct will be offended. So let me tell
Speaker 2: you in advance, that is the last thing I wished
Speaker 2: to do. I gave an example. We talked about this
Speaker 2: once when I spoke about stereotypes. So the issue about
Speaker 2: there are two issues about stereotypes, not whether they're offensive,
Speaker 2: whether they are true, and whether you apply it to
Speaker 2: every member of that group. All right, that's that's the question.
Speaker 2: And number one is it true? And number two is
Speaker 2: the general Is the generalization true? But number two, do
Speaker 2: you apply it to every member of the group. That's
Speaker 2: totally wrong. That's totally wrong. That's the that's the reason
Speaker 2: you can live with stereotypes and not be a bigot.
Speaker 2: You can say in general X or Y about a group,
Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean that every time I meet a
Speaker 2: member of that group that applies. That's everyone is an individual,
Speaker 2: So I don't know if that applies, all right, So again,
Speaker 2: let me let me make something clear. Political correctness. The
Speaker 2: reason it is damaging is that it fights truth. It
Speaker 2: is meant or designed to stop people from being offended.
Speaker 2: And that's good. I don't there is no good in
Speaker 2: needlessly offending people, of course not. But on the other hand,
Speaker 2: it is a world built on lies if you can't
Speaker 2: say certain things just because somebody or someone will be offended.
Speaker 2: All right, So again there were two. Let me begin
Speaker 2: with not the offensive part, but the hurt, the painful part,
Speaker 2: all right. As an example, The best example of painful
Speaker 2: truths that cannot be said and therefore become politically incorrect.
Speaker 2: Has to do with the differences between men and women.
Speaker 2: In the nineteen sixties nineteen seventies, a lid was put
Speaker 2: on truth telling about the sexes. The only thing you
Speaker 2: could say about the sexes you could say really two things.
Speaker 2: One you could criticize men all you like, patriarchy, sexism,
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera, machismo, anything you like. The other
Speaker 2: is that you can say that there are that you
Speaker 2: had to say. Essentially, there are no differences inherent between
Speaker 2: the sexes. The moment you spoke about inherent differences, then
Speaker 2: you were then entering a painful truth. When the president
Speaker 2: of Harvard, Lawrence Summers is now a major economic advisor
Speaker 2: to President Barack Obama, when Laurence Summers at Harvard as
Speaker 2: president spoke about the question, which he did interestingly enough,
Speaker 2: as one who wanted to advance women, why are there
Speaker 2: so many fewer women in the sciences and in math,
Speaker 2: and he offered as a theory, said, well, it is
Speaker 2: is we need to study whether or not there are
Speaker 2: certain inherent factors in the way the brains of a
Speaker 2: man and the brain, the brain of a man in
Speaker 2: the brain of a woman function. That may be a
Speaker 2: part of the reason that accounts for a fewer women
Speaker 2: in the sciences, and especially in math and engineering. And
Speaker 2: I'm paraphrasing here. For that, he was essentially removed for that.
Speaker 2: Essentially he was removed from the presidency of Harvard University.
Speaker 2: The politically correct professors could not tolerate what he said
Speaker 2: a woman. I'll never forget the MIT professor who was
Speaker 2: present in the room, who said she felt nauseous, she
Speaker 2: wanted to throw up. An MIT professor, she wanted to
Speaker 2: throw up when she heard that. Why is this political correctness?
Speaker 2: Because he was talking about a truth that was painful
Speaker 2: to hear that perhaps the brain of women militated against
Speaker 2: their pursuing math and engineering or some of the sciences.
Speaker 2: I don't find it painful. It doesn't mean a thing
Speaker 2: to me. The question that I have is only is
Speaker 2: it true or false? It has nothing to do with inferiority.
Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with superiority. I'm awful at math,
Speaker 2: I'm awful at science and engineering. I don't feel inferior
Speaker 2: My brain is not registered in that arena. So what
Speaker 2: so I didn't pursue it, but the idea that it
Speaker 2: might be. We know that men's brains and women's brains
Speaker 2: are different. We know it. I mean, it's it's a
Speaker 2: physical fact. So why would it be odd if somebody
Speaker 2: had said, if a Harvard president had gotten up and said,
Speaker 2: women are inherently more intuitive than men, would anybody have demanded?
Speaker 2: Would men have demanded that he resigned? Would a man
Speaker 2: say and wanted to throw up? He'd either say, well,
Speaker 2: he's either right or he's wrong. Fine. Now, of course
Speaker 2: that's not provable because intuitive is a subjective term, and
Speaker 2: therefore it's not provable. Like the question about math science engineering,
Speaker 2: it's not as empirically establishable. But there are many, many truths,
Speaker 2: and there were many opinions that can't be cited because
Speaker 2: they are things that people don't want to hear. They're painful,
Speaker 2: not offensive, painful. For example, if I were to go
Speaker 2: on a college campus and say, ley, young women, women here,
Speaker 2: I just want to tell you that I strongly advise
Speaker 2: that if you find a wonderful guy while you're in
Speaker 2: your twenties, get married, even if you're not ready with
Speaker 2: your career, that you anticipate having because it is easier
Speaker 2: to attract a man at twenty five than at fifty five.
Speaker 2: I would be booted out of the college auditorium, even
Speaker 2: though what I said was demonstrably true. Okay, because it's
Speaker 2: painful to hear. So one aspect of political correctness is
Speaker 2: is it painful? The other aspect is is it offensive?
Speaker 2: I'll talk about that when we come back on the
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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Dennis Prager Show, the Ultimate Issues Hour.
Speaker 2: The ultimate issue today is what is political correctness? And
Speaker 2: it is so difficult because by nature, if I'm going
Speaker 2: to be honest, some people will be offended. It is
Speaker 2: the last thing I want to do. But it has
Speaker 2: to be grappled with. We have to try to understand it.
Speaker 2: If you differ with my understanding of it, then please
Speaker 2: do call one eight Prager seven seven six. There are
Speaker 2: two aspects to review here. One is that it is
Speaker 2: a politically incorrect statement. Is a something true that is painful?
Speaker 2: True that is painful is especially especially within a male
Speaker 2: female context, about the differences between men and women, and
Speaker 2: it drives a lot of people crazy who have a
Speaker 2: vested interest, for whatever reason, and I don't know what
Speaker 2: that reason is, to believe that men and women are
Speaker 2: essentially the same. And so when you speak about certain
Speaker 2: truths that men are far more likely to see women
Speaker 2: as sex objects than men to see than women to
Speaker 2: see men as sex objects. As an example, not amen,
Speaker 2: but men. It's so obviously true, yet it's for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: it is painful for some people to hear. I would
Speaker 2: think it would be painful for men to hear, because
Speaker 2: it doesn't speak so well about men. And yet it
Speaker 2: is women who have been taught to find that objectionable.
Speaker 2: And so any mention of differences that girls play with
Speaker 2: tea sets and and dolls more readily than boys do,
Speaker 2: that is politically incorrect statement. Is it true? Of course
Speaker 2: it's true, but it runs against it runs against what
Speaker 2: is called political correctness, a way of seeing the world
Speaker 2: that people wish were true. It's wishful thinking. It's political
Speaker 2: correctness is a form of immaturity. It is wishful thinking
Speaker 2: that a childlike person would have, and adults should grow
Speaker 2: up and realize that these differences, These truths are there.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's almost politically incorrect to say that people
Speaker 2: are not basically good because it shatters a child like
Speaker 2: and childish view of humanity. Is basically good. So again,
Speaker 2: though I have to emphasize it, it has to be true.
Speaker 2: If something is not true, then of course it's going
Speaker 2: to be offensive. Of course, and even if it's true,
Speaker 2: some people may do it to offend and' but that's
Speaker 2: a separate issue. The other is is so one is
Speaker 2: painful and the other is hurtful. It shouldn't be hurtful,
Speaker 2: but or and maybe the distinction between painful and hurtful
Speaker 2: is a subtle one. Maybe you can just combine them
Speaker 2: and that's fine. I'll give an example there, if one
Speaker 2: speaks about the greater rates of criminal violence among African Americans.
Speaker 2: All right, now, the issue there becomes really whether or
Speaker 2: not it is offensive. It is it should be clear
Speaker 2: within context. If the purpose of a person is racist,
Speaker 2: meaning that somebody wants to make a charge that blacks
Speaker 2: are inherently more violent, that is offensive. And it's a lie.
Speaker 2: So it's got a double whammy. So it's and it's
Speaker 2: offensive because it is a lie. It means you just
Speaker 2: want to say something bad about blacks. But if one
Speaker 2: wants to make a better society for both black and
Speaker 2: white Americans or any other any other national group that
Speaker 2: has blacks and whites in it, and where you have
Speaker 2: this particular problem, then acknowledging the greater rates of violence
Speaker 2: among among black males, and of course it's black males,
Speaker 2: not black females, then that that's not it shouldn't be offensive. Rather,
Speaker 2: a serious black says it's true, and we got to
Speaker 2: work on it, instead of calling such a person names
Speaker 2: like Uncle Tom. Look, it is to say truths that
Speaker 2: are painful is very hard because you get you get
Speaker 2: mulled for it. But nevertheless, my deepest belief is society
Speaker 2: crumbles under lies more than any other single bad thing.
Speaker 2: Lies make society disappear, and so we have to fight
Speaker 2: political correctness with all of our weapons. And our weapons
Speaker 2: are truth. But truths that are stated with a noble purpose,
Speaker 2: not to offend. Get that truth stated with a noble purpose.
Speaker 2: The only purpose of pointing out the greater rates of
Speaker 2: violence among black males than among non black males is
Speaker 2: to help society and to help blacks. That should be
Speaker 2: the only reason you pointed out. If you point out
Speaker 2: because you are just angry or you want to hurt blacks,
Speaker 2: well then that is offensive. There is such a thing
Speaker 2: as offensive. The fact that I find political correctness to
Speaker 2: be a lie and dangerous doesn't mean that there aren't
Speaker 2: offensive statements you could make. Even within jokes. There are
Speaker 2: ethnic jokes that are just funny, and there are ethnic
Speaker 2: jokes that are cruel. It is not possible to tell,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, you cannot tell a joke that's funny
Speaker 2: about lynching. Lynching is beyond the pale. There is no
Speaker 2: funny joke. There is no funny Holocaust joke. You can
Speaker 2: tell funny jokes about Jews, and by golly I have
Speaker 2: in private. That's that's a separate issue. That's why you
Speaker 2: have to know does the person wish to offend? And
Speaker 2: there were certain things that are gratuitously cruel? You don't
Speaker 2: you don't. You don't mock suffering, human suffering. You can
Speaker 2: mock traits, but you can't mock suffering with me. That's
Speaker 2: a big deal. That's where there is ethnic humor I
Speaker 2: can laugh at, and there is ethnic humor I cannot
Speaker 2: laugh at the fact that there I mean the political correctness.
Speaker 2: I mean, the most obvious one right now is you
Speaker 2: can't tell the truths about Islamic terror. You can't even
Speaker 2: use the word Islamic ad terror. You can't yet yet.
Speaker 2: Are are you more likely if you are hit by
Speaker 2: a terrorist in the West world today, or for that matter,
Speaker 2: outside of Sri Lanka essentially, or outside of Columbia. I
Speaker 2: mean there are there are non Muslim terrorist groups, obviously,
Speaker 2: but internationally, the the the only international terror organizations are
Speaker 2: are Muslim. I'm not saying their mainstream. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: it's inherent to Islam. Those are separate issues entirely. But
Speaker 2: you can't even say that even though it's true. That's
Speaker 2: the it's the war on truth about political correctness that
Speaker 2: is dangerous, all right. I will take your calls when
Speaker 2: we come back. This is a rather significant subject. Remember
Speaker 2: the war against political incorrectness, the war on behalf of
Speaker 2: political correctness, is really a war against truth. And you
Speaker 2: can't you can't make a good and decent society based
Speaker 2: on Lawes's an it advocates lying, that's what political correctness
Speaker 2: in its essence is about. One eighth Prager seven seven six.
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Speaker 2: All right, everybody, Dennis Prager here, and I hope you
Speaker 2: have been listening carefully. And is that right for a
Speaker 2: talk show host to say, even because it's such an
Speaker 2: important subject and so rarely clearly defined, And that is
Speaker 2: political correctness. And the issue, remember, is ultimately not offense
Speaker 2: or painful. The ultimate issue is truth. It's a war
Speaker 2: against truths in the guise of not wanting to offend anybody.
Speaker 2: And even if the person really is politically correct, as
Speaker 2: they're afraid of offending anybody, it's still a war against truth.
Speaker 2: Lies about groups are lies, and they are defamatory in
Speaker 2: their libels. That's a separate issue that's truly bad. Lakewood,
Speaker 2: New Jersey and Mark Kello, Mark, Dennis.
Speaker 8: Prager, Hi, Dennis, Hi. What I wanted to say was,
Speaker 8: I think that one element besides the blocking out of truth,
Speaker 8: I think there's an element that's very negative for the
Speaker 8: victims because they tend to what happens is is that
Speaker 8: they tend to start defunding themselves in the terms of
Speaker 8: the people who offend them, and they don't get a
Speaker 8: chance to develop their own self positive self definition.
Speaker 2: That's a very intelligent point, very intelligent point. That's such
Speaker 2: an important point, as if the person's truth about the
Speaker 2: group means it's about me, right, right, yes, very good.
Speaker 2: Back to the example that I gave, and please forgive
Speaker 2: me if you don't like this example. But if you
Speaker 2: want me to use a different one, I'll use a
Speaker 2: different one. But if one is talking about making a
Speaker 2: better America and about crime, and one mentions that there
Speaker 2: is a disproportionate amount of violence committed by blackmails, then
Speaker 2: why would a black be offended? Now, if the person,
Speaker 2: as I said, if the person intends to hurt blacks,
Speaker 2: then it's offensive. If the person intends to help blacks
Speaker 2: and help America, it's not offensive. It's just a sad truth.
Speaker 2: But my caller makes a very interesting point. He said,
Speaker 2: maybe it's because the person hearing it internalizes it as
Speaker 2: if you're saying it about all of us. But of
Speaker 2: course not, of course not. And by the way, I
Speaker 2: know he's right because so often I am misquoted as saying, oh,
Speaker 2: Prager said, all as for example, the men, women thing. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, all women can't be good engineers. I happen
Speaker 2: to know a young woman who will probably be a
Speaker 2: brilliant engineer. She's brilliant and uh, and she probably will
Speaker 2: make a spectacular engineer. But it doesn't negate the truism
Speaker 2: that most women don't don't for whatever reasons, and I
Speaker 2: don't believe they're cultural want to win to engineering. Why
Speaker 2: did so many women enter enter medicine? It was cultural
Speaker 2: to be only only men went into medicine two generations ago.
Speaker 2: All right one eight Prager seven seven six, Tampa, Florida, David, Hello, David,
Speaker 2: Dennis Prager, Okay, thanks.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. What is political correctness to mean? The ultimate
Speaker 3: definition of it is tyranny with.
Speaker 2: Manners, 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 or.
Speaker 2: Being called a bad name that's right, yes.
Speaker 3: Right, or even thrown in prison like in Europe.
Speaker 2: So is what of the manners the manners are among
Speaker 2: the tyrants or what is that? What you're saying right.
Speaker 3: They use these niceties as manners, as good manners, pass
Speaker 3: it off as good manners, when actually it's, 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 2: Oh, that's an interesting subject, and I think there's a
Speaker 2: lot of truth to that, since you can say anything
Speaker 2: about the white male, and for whatever reason, there are
Speaker 2: no politically correct problems with regard to him. That is correct.
Speaker 2: You can say he's racist, you could say he's imperialist,
Speaker 2: you could say he's macho, you could say he loves violence,
Speaker 2: you could say he's patriarchal, and you're fine, that's right,
Speaker 2: that is true. So there is a political correctness the very.
Speaker 2: The very doctrine has an agenda, of course it is,
Speaker 2: But my biggest anger is not its agenda. My biggest
Speaker 2: anger is the war on truth that you are held
Speaker 2: back from it. A reminder, by the way, that you
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Speaker 2: the Ultimate Issues Hour. Every week at this time I
Speaker 2: discuss some great issue of life. I wish I had
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Speaker 2: take some more of your calls. I'm talking about political
Speaker 2: correctness and this is so important. It is truths that
Speaker 2: cannot be said, that is in a nutshell what it is.
Speaker 2: If it's a lie, then of course it shouldn't be said,
Speaker 2: whether it's offensive or not. Lie shouldn't be said. But
Speaker 2: if it's offensive, first of all, we should really do
Speaker 2: a show on when people take offense. Maybe that's a
Speaker 2: happiness hour. I don't know, but maybe it's a just
Speaker 2: any hour, but we should put that down. People take
Speaker 2: offense too easily, and it is It is a real problem,
Speaker 2: and it depends on what your what you want to
Speaker 2: do with what you're saying. Do you want to hurt
Speaker 2: the group or do you want to help the group,
Speaker 2: or do you want to just make a truth? These
Speaker 2: are all factors in what we say. Let me take
Speaker 2: some examples here from your calls in Ocean excuse me,
Speaker 2: in Long Island, New York, it's Rachel. Hi, Rachel, Dennis Prager.
Speaker 9: Hi, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 9: I just wanted to say that I agree one hundred
Speaker 9: percent with everything that you say about politically correct and
Speaker 9: it's being the truth and people being afraid to hear it.
Speaker 9: My question is when I have intellectual friends who are
Speaker 9: on the left, and they would say, when when you
Speaker 9: say that you have to ennoble, you have to when
Speaker 9: you say something, it has to be for a noble reason.
Speaker 9: How could you know that? I think that's what they
Speaker 9: would counter. They would say, how do you know if
Speaker 9: someone is being noble? And I'm wondering how you would
Speaker 9: suggest answering.
Speaker 2: That, well, you know it the same way you would
Speaker 2: know it. First of all, you don't always know it,
Speaker 2: but you know it. A lot of the time, you
Speaker 2: ask the person, why are you making the point? I'll
Speaker 2: give you an example. There are people who have called
Speaker 2: up my show knowing I'm Jewish, and they have said,
Speaker 2: you know, Jews are disproportionately represented in the media, to
Speaker 2: which I immediately answer, you're right, what is the point?
Speaker 2: And they they then they they have no answer because
Speaker 2: in most cases, though the people who make that point
Speaker 2: are angry at Jews for whatever reason. So that's not
Speaker 2: a point to a noble that's because I'm just angry
Speaker 2: and I want to lash out. Of course, it means nothing,
Speaker 2: It has no effect. Do any of them use it
Speaker 2: to further Jewish causes? I wish you know. It's the
Speaker 2: last thing that they care about is to promote Judaism
Speaker 2: or or or help Israel. That's that's the last thing
Speaker 2: that most Jews in the media care about. So that's
Speaker 2: an example, or or a whole host of example. But
Speaker 2: if somebody says, uh, but by the way, it remains
Speaker 2: a truth. Jews are disproportionately represented in the media. The
Speaker 2: question is why, why is the point being made? Just
Speaker 2: as if somebody would call up and say, you know, Dennis,
Speaker 2: blacks are disproportionately represented black males and violent crime, I'll
Speaker 2: say that is true. What is your point? Now, if
Speaker 2: they have no point, they're just lashing out. But if
Speaker 2: they have a point, therefore, what we need to do
Speaker 2: is X, Y and Z to work within the black community. Uh,
Speaker 2: to to uh, I don't know, to further fatherhood there,
Speaker 2: uh to to bring good values into the inner city.
Speaker 2: Then that's a good reason. So that's so you you
Speaker 2: know the answer, Rachel. To answer your friends by asking
Speaker 2: the question why are you making the point?
Speaker 9: Well, they would say, why is the person who's politically
Speaker 9: incorrect making them?
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. So if the person making the politically
Speaker 2: incorrect point needs an answer, here is why I'm making
Speaker 2: the point. If they're just doing it to lash out
Speaker 2: at some group, then it is just anger.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 9: But if if there's an ulterior, a positive ulternation.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's exactly right.
Speaker 9: Yes, that's right, okay, because that's that's always Their claim
Speaker 9: is that there's no.
Speaker 7: Way of nothing.
Speaker 2: Well, well, but so ask that's all. There is a
Speaker 2: way of knowing. Ask why do you make the point?
Speaker 2: It's as simple as the great question. And I hope
Speaker 2: it was a great answer. Let's go to uh, let's
Speaker 2: go to Ron in Oceanside, New York. Hello Ron, Dennis Praeger.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Dennis, this is Oceanside, California. But uh, but uh right, idea, Listen,
Speaker 7: I'm the Ocean Side Gangbuster. I run a side on YouTube,
Speaker 7: and I have been involved in Neighborhood Watch reducing the
Speaker 7: ethnic gang terrorism we're subjected to. And for many years,
Speaker 7: the police would show up and if the person calling
Speaker 7: them was a white person, the police would shrug it off, like,
Speaker 7: you know, you need to be more reasonable and cooperative.
Speaker 7: You need to stay inside or you might get hurt,
Speaker 7: and then they would leave as well. I had confronted
Speaker 7: the chief of police about that. He had me give
Speaker 7: a presentation. I said, look, you don't give a break
Speaker 7: to people because of their skin color. And I said,
Speaker 7: what you do is you deal with the people causing
Speaker 7: the problems regardless of their skin color. And crime is
Speaker 7: down forty two percent in the last four years because
Speaker 7: people are prepared to be more honest. Well, I go
Speaker 7: to the city hall meetings. I raised my hands up.
Speaker 7: I said, raise your hand if you've been terrorized because
Speaker 7: you're white, and a lot of people look at me.
Speaker 7: Some people raise their hands. People come up to me
Speaker 7: later go look, I'm glad someone's bringing this up because
Speaker 7: I can't. I got kids in the school. My wife
Speaker 7: works for the city.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well that's what I'm saying. You're saying
Speaker 2: because people have been able to say people need to
Speaker 2: be free to shay things without at the same time
Speaker 2: wanting to hurt. If your point is to hurt, then yes,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's not worth making. But if your point
Speaker 2: is to say what appears to you to be true
Speaker 2: and may not be true, let's find out. When Jesse
Speaker 2: Jackson said that if somebody is walking behind him in
Speaker 2: certain parts of big cities, he hears footsteps and he
Speaker 2: turns around, he sees it's a white man, He's relieved.
Speaker 2: Was he being anti black? Was he being? Was he being?
Speaker 2: What was he being? He's being honest. It's a it's
Speaker 2: a sad honesty. But it's not anti black. It's anti black.
Speaker 2: If somebody ridiculously infers that to that black means violent,
Speaker 2: that is idiocy. Not to mention bigotry and everything else,
Speaker 2: but to say that there is that specific problem, it's
Speaker 2: a good thing. It's a good thing. If Muslim leaders said, yes,
Speaker 2: we do have a problem, God, the world would reach
Speaker 2: out to them with and embrace them with respect and love.
Speaker 2: We'll be back at a moment.
Speaker 1: This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this.
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Speaker 2: All right, everybody, you're listening to the Dennis Prager Show.
Speaker 2: This has been the ultimate issues hour defining political correctness,
Speaker 2: and the whole notion is a war against truth in
Speaker 2: the guise of a war against offending anybody. We shouldn't
Speaker 2: defend gratuitously and people should not take offense easily, although
Speaker 2: of course there are offensive comments that can be made
Speaker 2: that are made Elgin, Texas, Tommy, Hello Tommy, Dennis Prager.
Speaker 4: Hello, Dennis, how you doing.
Speaker 2: Hi?
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Speaker 4: tell you the truth about the Roman Catholic Institution and
Speaker 4: how the Muslim religion actually is a offshoot of it.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, right, don't sneak in other points
Speaker 2: when you had another one to make.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Hey man, hey, listen, I'm out from the north.
Speaker 4: I'm from the Chicago area and I moved to the
Speaker 4: south here and I noticed the people down here don't
Speaker 4: have a good sense of humor, they get offended, really
Speaker 4: easy Northerners that kind of like to cut up and
Speaker 4: crack jokes and stuff. And I had a guy at work,
Speaker 4: Puerto Rican from New York, and we hit it off,
Speaker 4: I thought, and we would tell we'd tease each other
Speaker 4: when we came on duty, and you know, he would
Speaker 4: tease me and I tease him right back, and I,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean a fake was a lighthearted joke
Speaker 4: about Puerto Ricans being clouset homosexuals, which I was just
Speaker 4: didn't mean it.
Speaker 2: You know, it was just a joke, it's all it was, okay,
Speaker 2: and he got offended. Let me just quickly because of
Speaker 2: the time factor. We just have one minute to go
Speaker 2: here on these jokes. Here is my view, generally speaking,
Speaker 2: it is not worth telling people of other groups jokes
Speaker 2: about their group. Okay, we can tell a in private,
Speaker 2: that's fine. It's like, you know, it's my view of
Speaker 2: like using swear words, I'm against it in public. I'm
Speaker 2: also against it primarily generally in private. However, you talk
Speaker 2: to your wife, you know, pillow talk, and you use
Speaker 2: an expeltive, I don't think it's a pardicularly big big
Speaker 2: deal when you're just emoting about something likewise, with these jokes,
Speaker 2: it doesn't make you a bigot if you confine it
Speaker 2: to your home table. All right, where I remember there
Speaker 2: was a time when they told school children report the
Speaker 2: class if you're paying and told an ethnic joke, that
Speaker 2: doesn't make anybody a bigot. It is, but it is
Speaker 2: not a wise thing to tell people at the workplace
Speaker 2: jokes about their own group. Okay, if they invite it,
Speaker 2: it's one thing. If you swap jokes, it's quite another.
Speaker 2: But you know, look, there's wisdom to in life, but
Speaker 2: political correctness and jokes are separate issues. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: truths about male female differences as an example, where it's
Speaker 2: a very bad thing for kids to grow up thinking
Speaker 2: it's the same thing to be a male and to
Speaker 2: be a female. This has been the Ultimate Issues Hour.
Speaker 2: Thank you for.
Speaker 1: Listening tomorrow on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prieger.
Speaker 2: All right, here goes, my friends. The topic is when
Speaker 2: one spouse has an affair. Those of you who have
Speaker 2: listened to me over the years have heard in different
Speaker 2: context when we've discussed micro subjects, and this is one
Speaker 2: program that discuss discusses both the micro and the macro
Speaker 2: the personal and the social, global, philosophical, political, et cetera.
Speaker 2: I have said on many occasions that I think it's
Speaker 2: a very big mistake for a marriage to automatically end
Speaker 2: because one of the spouses had an affair.
Speaker 5: I'm coming in, Dennis, because just yesterday I found out
Speaker 5: my wife was having an affair for three weeks, so
Speaker 5: I know that was that was that long. I found
Speaker 5: out she met him through some kind of activity that
Speaker 5: she had a work, and.
Speaker 6: The way she met him through through what at work, well,
Speaker 6: they had they had like a small employed party and stuff,
Speaker 6: and she met him and they went into a bowling
Speaker 6: place and she met somebody around there, and you know,
Speaker 6: she actually ended up kissing the person and she I
Speaker 6: found out that she went out a couple other times.
Speaker 2: You were told this by colleagues of hers. Is that it?
Speaker 5: No? She told me herself.
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