WEBVTT - The Truth About Political Correctness | Ultimate Issues Hour 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:08.119 Life Audio. In today's episode of Timeless Wisdom. 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:12.280 I am going to discuss today political correctness. What is 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.560 it and why does it exist? To me? 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:20.640 The ultimate definition of it is tyranny with manners. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.439 Tyranny tyranny with manners. What does that mean? 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.040 Well, what I mean by that is people really don't 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.920 believe in the niceties of political correctness. They're basically forced 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.240 to be politically correct out of fear of lawsuits and 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.040 being fired or. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:37.160 Being called a bad name. 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.120 That's right, yes, right, or even prolin a president like 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:40.880 in Europe. 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:45.919 That's coming up on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Welcome 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:50.200 to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. 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These are great issues, whatever arena you come from, 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.400 I am going to discuss today political correctness. What is 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:19.480 it and why does it exist? The term is used 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:24.960 regularly and it is an extremely important subject. Hence it 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:29.800 qualifies for the Ultimate Issues Hour. So what is it? 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:35.560 Political correctness is and I'm giving my own my own 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.960 understanding of it. If you have a different one, you 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.920 are certainly welcome to offer it. But it is essentially 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:50.280 the inability to state certain things, certain truths. See that's 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:55.200 the key thing here, certain truths because they may offend 0:02:56.000 --> 0:03:01.720 certain people or certain groups. Or There are two elements 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:07.040 to political correctness. It might be deemed offensive by some 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:12.280 members of some groups. And the other definition is it 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:18.079 might be painful for some people to recognize. There are 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:22.080 two separate categories. They may be related. One is hurtful, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.680 the other is or offensive if you will, and the 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.680 other is just painful. And I will give you examples. 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:37.320 Please understand that political correctness must entirely be a matter 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:42.880 of truth. That can't be said lies that are offensive, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:47.360 lies that are painful, can't be said not because they're offensive, 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:52.839 not because they're painful, but because they're lies. All right. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:57.280 That's the issue here, and that is instrumental to the 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:05.680 whole discussion. It's going to be a difficult hour to 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:12.400 do because by definition I am going to offend certain sensibilities. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.839 My intent, let me say, at the outset is zero 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:22.880 to offend. Why would I want to do that? It's pointless, 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:27.520 it is, it just increases tension. I have no desire 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.599 for it. It is not the way I conduct my 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:34.360 life or my show. But it is inevitable to talk 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.880 about political correctness that if you give examples, somebody who 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:43.080 is politically correct will be offended. So let me tell 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.279 you in advance, that is the last thing I wished 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.400 to do. I gave an example. We talked about this 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:54.880 once when I spoke about stereotypes. So the issue about 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:59.400 there are two issues about stereotypes, not whether they're offensive, 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.960 whether they are true, and whether you apply it to 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:08.839 every member of that group. All right, that's that's the question. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.599 And number one is it true? And number two is 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.120 the general Is the generalization true? But number two, do 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.479 you apply it to every member of the group. That's 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:24.040 totally wrong. That's totally wrong. That's the that's the reason 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.520 you can live with stereotypes and not be a bigot. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.920 You can say in general X or Y about a group, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.120 but that doesn't mean that every time I meet a 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.560 member of that group that applies. That's everyone is an individual, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:45.720 So I don't know if that applies, all right, So again, 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:50.920 let me let me make something clear. Political correctness. The 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:58.480 reason it is damaging is that it fights truth. It 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:04.400 is meant or designed to stop people from being offended. 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.720 And that's good. I don't there is no good in 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:16.159 needlessly offending people, of course not. But on the other hand, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:21.240 it is a world built on lies if you can't 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:26.880 say certain things just because somebody or someone will be offended. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.000 All right, So again there were two. Let me begin 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.120 with not the offensive part, but the hurt, the painful part, 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:44.800 all right. As an example, The best example of painful 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:50.800 truths that cannot be said and therefore become politically incorrect. 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.919 Has to do with the differences between men and women. 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:02.520 In the nineteen sixties nineteen seventies, a lid was put 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.159 on truth telling about the sexes. The only thing you 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.200 could say about the sexes you could say really two things. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:15.400 One you could criticize men all you like, patriarchy, sexism, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:21.840 et cetera, et cetera, machismo, anything you like. The other 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.320 is that you can say that there are that you 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.600 had to say. Essentially, there are no differences inherent between 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.600 the sexes. The moment you spoke about inherent differences, then 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:40.680 you were then entering a painful truth. When the president 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:45.720 of Harvard, Lawrence Summers is now a major economic advisor 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:54.480 to President Barack Obama, when Laurence Summers at Harvard as 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:59.280 president spoke about the question, which he did interestingly enough, 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.440 as one who wanted to advance women, why are there 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.440 so many fewer women in the sciences and in math, 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.240 and he offered as a theory, said, well, it is 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.720 is we need to study whether or not there are 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.280 certain inherent factors in the way the brains of a 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.160 man and the brain, the brain of a man in 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.120 the brain of a woman function. That may be a 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:27.200 part of the reason that accounts for a fewer women 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.800 in the sciences, and especially in math and engineering. And 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:38.280 I'm paraphrasing here. For that, he was essentially removed for that. 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.359 Essentially he was removed from the presidency of Harvard University. 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:48.319 The politically correct professors could not tolerate what he said 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.280 a woman. I'll never forget the MIT professor who was 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.880 present in the room, who said she felt nauseous, she 0:08:56.080 --> 0:09:01.679 wanted to throw up. An MIT professor, she wanted to 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:07.199 throw up when she heard that. Why is this political correctness? 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:13.360 Because he was talking about a truth that was painful 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:19.280 to hear that perhaps the brain of women militated against 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:24.479 their pursuing math and engineering or some of the sciences. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.160 I don't find it painful. It doesn't mean a thing 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.280 to me. The question that I have is only is 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.920 it true or false? It has nothing to do with inferiority. 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.600 It has nothing to do with superiority. I'm awful at math, 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.600 I'm awful at science and engineering. I don't feel inferior 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.800 My brain is not registered in that arena. So what 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:54.640 so I didn't pursue it, but the idea that it 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.120 might be. We know that men's brains and women's brains 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.240 are different. We know it. I mean, it's it's a 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:05.360 physical fact. So why would it be odd if somebody 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:09.200 had said, if a Harvard president had gotten up and said, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:15.880 women are inherently more intuitive than men, would anybody have demanded? 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.000 Would men have demanded that he resigned? Would a man 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:23.000 say and wanted to throw up? He'd either say, well, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.160 he's either right or he's wrong. Fine. Now, of course 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:32.000 that's not provable because intuitive is a subjective term, and 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.679 therefore it's not provable. Like the question about math science engineering, 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:42.480 it's not as empirically establishable. But there are many, many truths, 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.480 and there were many opinions that can't be cited because 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:52.120 they are things that people don't want to hear. They're painful, 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.520 not offensive, painful. For example, if I were to go 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:59.680 on a college campus and say, ley, young women, women here, 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.880 I just want to tell you that I strongly advise 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.400 that if you find a wonderful guy while you're in 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.520 your twenties, get married, even if you're not ready with 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.840 your career, that you anticipate having because it is easier 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.000 to attract a man at twenty five than at fifty five. 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.200 I would be booted out of the college auditorium, even 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:25.760 though what I said was demonstrably true. Okay, because it's 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:31.160 painful to hear. So one aspect of political correctness is 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:35.479 is it painful? The other aspect is is it offensive? 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.680 I'll talk about that when we come back on the 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.240 Ultimate Issues Hour on the Dennis Prager Show. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.040 This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:12:16.319 Now back to more of Dennis Prager's Timeless Wisdom. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.720 You're listening to the Dennis Prager Show, the Ultimate Issues Hour. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:26.280 The ultimate issue today is what is political correctness? And 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.280 it is so difficult because by nature, if I'm going 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.800 to be honest, some people will be offended. It is 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.600 the last thing I want to do. But it has 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.080 to be grappled with. We have to try to understand it. 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.000 If you differ with my understanding of it, then please 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.040 do call one eight Prager seven seven six. There are 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:48.880 two aspects to review here. One is that it is 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:55.199 a politically incorrect statement. Is a something true that is painful? 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:02.600 True that is painful is especially especially within a male 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.960 female context, about the differences between men and women, and 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.600 it drives a lot of people crazy who have a 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.880 vested interest, for whatever reason, and I don't know what 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.640 that reason is, to believe that men and women are 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.920 essentially the same. And so when you speak about certain 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.240 truths that men are far more likely to see women 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.079 as sex objects than men to see than women to 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.560 see men as sex objects. As an example, not amen, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:38.200 but men. It's so obviously true, yet it's for whatever reason, 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.960 it is painful for some people to hear. I would 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.800 think it would be painful for men to hear, because 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.280 it doesn't speak so well about men. And yet it 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:51.200 is women who have been taught to find that objectionable. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:58.320 And so any mention of differences that girls play with 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.640 tea sets and and dolls more readily than boys do, 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.040 that is politically incorrect statement. Is it true? Of course 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:11.720 it's true, but it runs against it runs against what 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.920 is called political correctness, a way of seeing the world 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:19.560 that people wish were true. It's wishful thinking. It's political 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:23.200 correctness is a form of immaturity. It is wishful thinking 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:27.320 that a childlike person would have, and adults should grow 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:32.720 up and realize that these differences, These truths are there. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.840 I mean, it's almost politically incorrect to say that people 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.400 are not basically good because it shatters a child like 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:48.400 and childish view of humanity. Is basically good. So again, 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.880 though I have to emphasize it, it has to be true. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.840 If something is not true, then of course it's going 0:14:55.880 --> 0:15:00.480 to be offensive. Of course, and even if it's true, 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.000 some people may do it to offend and' but that's 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:07.320 a separate issue. The other is is so one is 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:14.360 painful and the other is hurtful. It shouldn't be hurtful, 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.600 but or and maybe the distinction between painful and hurtful 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.040 is a subtle one. Maybe you can just combine them 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.680 and that's fine. I'll give an example there, if one 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:29.359 speaks about the greater rates of criminal violence among African Americans. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:37.280 All right, now, the issue there becomes really whether or 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.920 not it is offensive. It is it should be clear 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:44.680 within context. If the purpose of a person is racist, 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.520 meaning that somebody wants to make a charge that blacks 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:53.840 are inherently more violent, that is offensive. And it's a lie. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:58.240 So it's got a double whammy. So it's and it's 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.160 offensive because it is a lie. It means you just 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.160 want to say something bad about blacks. But if one 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.280 wants to make a better society for both black and 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:12.400 white Americans or any other any other national group that 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.840 has blacks and whites in it, and where you have 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:19.600 this particular problem, then acknowledging the greater rates of violence 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:24.600 among among black males, and of course it's black males, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:30.040 not black females, then that that's not it shouldn't be offensive. Rather, 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.160 a serious black says it's true, and we got to 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:38.560 work on it, instead of calling such a person names 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:43.480 like Uncle Tom. Look, it is to say truths that 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:49.080 are painful is very hard because you get you get 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:56.080 mulled for it. But nevertheless, my deepest belief is society 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.480 crumbles under lies more than any other single bad thing. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:04.040 Lies make society disappear, and so we have to fight 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:08.160 political correctness with all of our weapons. And our weapons 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.640 are truth. But truths that are stated with a noble purpose, 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:18.080 not to offend. Get that truth stated with a noble purpose. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.320 The only purpose of pointing out the greater rates of 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:27.159 violence among black males than among non black males is 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.199 to help society and to help blacks. That should be 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.159 the only reason you pointed out. If you point out 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.520 because you are just angry or you want to hurt blacks, 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.480 well then that is offensive. There is such a thing 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.359 as offensive. The fact that I find political correctness to 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.720 be a lie and dangerous doesn't mean that there aren't 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:50.200 offensive statements you could make. Even within jokes. There are 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.800 ethnic jokes that are just funny, and there are ethnic 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.400 jokes that are cruel. It is not possible to tell, 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.719 in my opinion, you cannot tell a joke that's funny 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.520 about lynching. Lynching is beyond the pale. There is no 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:08.200 funny joke. There is no funny Holocaust joke. You can 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.399 tell funny jokes about Jews, and by golly I have 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:15.600 in private. That's that's a separate issue. That's why you 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.960 have to know does the person wish to offend? And 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:23.200 there were certain things that are gratuitously cruel? You don't 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.360 you don't. You don't mock suffering, human suffering. You can 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:31.080 mock traits, but you can't mock suffering with me. That's 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:35.280 a big deal. That's where there is ethnic humor I 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.320 can laugh at, and there is ethnic humor I cannot 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:47.359 laugh at the fact that there I mean the political correctness. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.440 I mean, the most obvious one right now is you 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.320 can't tell the truths about Islamic terror. You can't even 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:56.640 use the word Islamic ad terror. You can't yet yet. 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.919 Are are you more likely if you are hit by 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.680 a terrorist in the West world today, or for that matter, 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:05.879 outside of Sri Lanka essentially, or outside of Columbia. I 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.800 mean there are there are non Muslim terrorist groups, obviously, 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:16.240 but internationally, the the the only international terror organizations are 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:21.480 are Muslim. I'm not saying their mainstream. I'm not saying 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:26.199 it's inherent to Islam. Those are separate issues entirely. But 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:30.520 you can't even say that even though it's true. That's 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.600 the it's the war on truth about political correctness that 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:38.560 is dangerous, all right. I will take your calls when 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:46.000 we come back. This is a rather significant subject. Remember 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:50.919 the war against political incorrectness, the war on behalf of 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:56.560 political correctness, is really a war against truth. And you 0:19:56.600 --> 0:20:00.240 can't you can't make a good and decent society based 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:06.359 on Lawes's an it advocates lying, that's what political correctness 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:11.400 in its essence is about. One eighth Prager seven seven six. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:13.880 The ultimate Issues hour on the Dennis Prager Show. 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.800 This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:33.760 Now back to more of Dennis Prager's Timeless Wisdom. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:36.919 All right, everybody, Dennis Prager here, and I hope you 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.560 have been listening carefully. And is that right for a 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:43.320 talk show host to say, even because it's such an 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:47.359 important subject and so rarely clearly defined, And that is 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:52.480 political correctness. And the issue, remember, is ultimately not offense 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:58.400 or painful. The ultimate issue is truth. It's a war 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:04.080 against truths in the guise of not wanting to offend anybody. 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.080 And even if the person really is politically correct, as 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:13.399 they're afraid of offending anybody, it's still a war against truth. 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:19.560 Lies about groups are lies, and they are defamatory in 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:25.000 their libels. That's a separate issue that's truly bad. Lakewood, 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.480 New Jersey and Mark Kello, Mark, Dennis. 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.520 Prager, Hi, Dennis, Hi. What I wanted to say was, 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:34.159 I think that one element besides the blocking out of truth, 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:37.760 I think there's an element that's very negative for the 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:43.280 victims because they tend to what happens is is that 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.280 they tend to start defunding themselves in the terms of 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:48.439 the people who offend them, and they don't get a 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.639 chance to develop their own self positive self definition. 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:58.280 That's a very intelligent point, very intelligent point. That's such 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:03.080 an important point, as if the person's truth about the 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:08.320 group means it's about me, right, right, yes, very good. 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.520 Back to the example that I gave, and please forgive 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:16.200 me if you don't like this example. But if you 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:17.720 want me to use a different one, I'll use a 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:21.760 different one. But if one is talking about making a 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:26.040 better America and about crime, and one mentions that there 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:32.879 is a disproportionate amount of violence committed by blackmails, then 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:38.080 why would a black be offended? Now, if the person, 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:40.320 as I said, if the person intends to hurt blacks, 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.159 then it's offensive. If the person intends to help blacks 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:47.560 and help America, it's not offensive. It's just a sad truth. 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:53.280 But my caller makes a very interesting point. He said, 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:56.760 maybe it's because the person hearing it internalizes it as 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:59.000 if you're saying it about all of us. But of 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:03.720 course not, of course not. And by the way, I 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:07.280 know he's right because so often I am misquoted as saying, oh, 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:14.160 Prager said, all as for example, the men, women thing. Uh, 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:18.080 you know, all women can't be good engineers. I happen 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:19.720 to know a young woman who will probably be a 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:27.280 brilliant engineer. She's brilliant and uh, and she probably will 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:31.520 make a spectacular engineer. But it doesn't negate the truism 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:36.159 that most women don't don't for whatever reasons, and I 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:39.920 don't believe they're cultural want to win to engineering. Why 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:42.560 did so many women enter enter medicine? It was cultural 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:46.320 to be only only men went into medicine two generations ago. 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:56.840 All right one eight Prager seven seven six, Tampa, Florida, David, Hello, David, 0:23:56.880 --> 0:24:00.960 Dennis Prager, Okay, thanks. 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:05.000 Oh yeah. What is political correctness to mean? The ultimate 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:08.040 definition of it is tyranny with. 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:13.120 Manners, tyranny, tyranny with manners. What does that mean? 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:15.720 Well, what I mean by that is people really don't 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:19.560 believe in the niceties of political correctness. They're basically forced 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:22.960 to be politically correct out of fear of lawsuits and 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:24.639 being fired or. 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:26.920 Being called a bad name that's right, yes. 0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:29.320 Right, or even thrown in prison like in Europe. 0:24:29.600 --> 0:24:32.119 So is what of the manners the manners are among 0:24:32.160 --> 0:24:35.640 the tyrants or what is that? What you're saying right. 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:40.040 They use these niceties as manners, as good manners, pass 0:24:40.080 --> 0:24:43.760 it off as good manners, when actually it's, like you said, 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:47.320 a war against truth. But it's more than that, because 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:51.160 the only victims of political correctness are the white males. 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:53.520 It's basically a war against the white male. 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:56.720 Oh, that's an interesting subject, and I think there's a 0:24:56.720 --> 0:24:59.560 lot of truth to that, since you can say anything 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:02.639 about the white male, and for whatever reason, there are 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:10.160 no politically correct problems with regard to him. That is correct. 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:13.800 You can say he's racist, you could say he's imperialist, 0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:16.480 you could say he's macho, you could say he loves violence, 0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:22.280 you could say he's patriarchal, and you're fine, that's right, 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:28.840 that is true. 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Now, all right, let me 0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:31.920 take some more of your calls. I'm talking about political 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:35.800 correctness and this is so important. It is truths that 0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:41.080 cannot be said, that is in a nutshell what it is. 0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:45.320 If it's a lie, then of course it shouldn't be said, 0:27:46.280 --> 0:27:49.600 whether it's offensive or not. Lie shouldn't be said. But 0:27:49.760 --> 0:27:54.000 if it's offensive, first of all, we should really do 0:27:54.080 --> 0:27:57.399 a show on when people take offense. Maybe that's a 0:27:57.440 --> 0:28:00.399 happiness hour. I don't know, but maybe it's a just 0:28:00.480 --> 0:28:04.520 any hour, but we should put that down. People take 0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:09.400 offense too easily, and it is It is a real problem, 0:28:10.359 --> 0:28:14.479 and it depends on what your what you want to 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:16.680 do with what you're saying. Do you want to hurt 0:28:16.720 --> 0:28:18.440 the group or do you want to help the group, 0:28:18.520 --> 0:28:21.880 or do you want to just make a truth? These 0:28:21.880 --> 0:28:25.880 are all factors in what we say. Let me take 0:28:25.960 --> 0:28:29.840 some examples here from your calls in Ocean excuse me, 0:28:29.880 --> 0:28:34.200 in Long Island, New York, it's Rachel. Hi, Rachel, Dennis Prager. 0:28:34.520 --> 0:28:35.480 Hi, how are you. 0:28:35.680 --> 0:28:36.520 I'm well, thank you. 0:28:39.440 --> 0:28:41.320 I just wanted to say that I agree one hundred 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:45.200 percent with everything that you say about politically correct and 0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:48.200 it's being the truth and people being afraid to hear it. 0:28:48.640 --> 0:28:53.320