This might be the biggest jagoff in right wing media
The competition is intense, and takes place on an hour by hour basis, but I think there is a strong case to be made that Dennis Prager is the winner in the race to be the biggest jagoff in right wing media (and thus in all media).
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The Left Doesn't Want Young Americans to Be Taught about Evil!
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Dennis Prager on Aug 29, 2023
Most of our schools teach almost nothing of importance, and nothing is more important than the study of good and evil. In the United States today, nearly all schools, from elementary through graduate, concentrate on teaching about racism, sexism, preferred pronouns, homophobia, transphobia, LGBTQIA+, climate change, diversity, equity, inclusiveness and white guilt. In other words, most of our educational institutions, including the most prestigious, do not educate.
Here are a few proofs.
It is almost certain that the great majority of American high school and college students (with the obvious exceptions of Christian students) could not name the Four Gospels (presuming they even know what they are); five of the Ten Commandments (presuming they know what those are); or the names of two Shakespeare plays. Most American students know little about the American Revolution, let alone about the French or Russian Revolutions. The same holds true for the Constitution and every other American founding document. It is doubtful that, other than Washington and Jefferson having owned slaves, American students know anything about these men or could name two other Founders.
When it comes to evil, the ignorance is enormous, often almost total. For example, according to Pew, about half of Americans ages 18-39 cannot identify Auschwitz or any other Nazi death camp. And there is every reason to assume that much fewer than half could identify the Gulag Archipelago (20 million-plus murdered); the Ukrainian forced famine (5 to 6 million murdered in a little over a year); Mao's Great Leap Forward (about 60 million murdered); or Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (about one in every four Cambodians murdered).
As noted, almost no one outside of Russia has ever heard of the Russian Civil War, let alone knows anything about it. One reason is that the winners, the communists, had no desire that people know about it. Yet, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, about 10 million people, the great majority noncombatants, were killed.
Why don't students know about evil?
The first reason is that nearly all the genocides of the 20th century were committed by communists, and the Left, which runs virtually all educational institutions, has always had a soft spot for communism. If people were to recognize that communism has been the greatest source of evil in the modern age in terms of numbers murdered, number of lives destroyed, liberty stolen, and the sheer amount of human suffering inflicted (greater by those metrics than those of the Nazis before they were forcibly stopped), the Left would lose much of its appeal.
Another reason is the foolish notion that people are basically good. This has been a left-wing belief since the French Enlightenment leader Jean-Jacques Rousseau came up with the idea. As he wrote in his book, "On Philosophy, Morality, and Religion," "Man is a naturally good being, loving justice and order; there is no natural perversity in the human heart... All the vices imputed to the human heart are not natural to it."
This nonsense had been foreign to the Western mind. Its view of humanity was rooted in the Bible, and neither Bible-based religion -- Judaism or Christianity -- affirmed the goodness of the human heart. As Genesis states, "The will of man's heart is evil from his youth," and the rest of the Bible repeatedly warns us against following our hearts.
However, as the West began to abandon the Bible, including belief in the God of the Bible, Westerners began to believe in man. As Marx put it, "Man is God." People had no choice. For if there is no God to believe in, one must believe in man -- or one has literally nothing to believe in. Therefore, belief in man's inherent goodness became both psychologically and philosophically necessary.
A third reason follows from the second. With the exception of the mass murder of the Armenians (which was committed by Muslim Turks), the genocides and the other horrors of the 20th century were committed by secular regimes. Given the centrality of secularism to leftism, this fact has been kept from young people. Likewise, the fact that all these genocides were committed by big governments is not taught to young people because big government is also central to left-wing ideology. In other words, a true depiction of the evils of the 20th century would mean the end of the two pillars of left-wing ideology: secularism and big government.
If you want to make a more moral world, you must begin with the study of evil. But, for the reasons enumerated here, the Left is not -- and cannot be -- interested in fighting real evil. So, the Left fights made-up evils: American systemic racism, transphobia, capitalism, carbon emissions, sexism and former President Donald Trump, to name a few.
This is why young people know almost nothing about evil. The Left doesn't want them to know about it. Because knowledge of evil inevitably leads directly to rejection of the Left.
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Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His commentary on Deuteronomy, the third volume of "The Rational Bible," his five-volume commentary on the first five books of the Bible, was published in October. He is the co-founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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In Pragers world, racism, misogyny, climate change denial, homophobia , transphobia, and economic injustice are not real evils, but students not knowing the Christian gospels and the Ten Commandments is.
Dickheads like Prager are always insistent to see that students know details of the founding fathers accomplishments , but are opposed to teaching history that does not lionize those same founding fathers.
Prager is beside himself with the thought that "the left" believes that people are "basically good", he wants everyone to have fear of hellfire and divine retribution constantly in mind.
Prager literally objects to human beings behaving non judgmentally , but worse, he says the judgments delivered on others need to based on Judeo-Christian dogma as defined by the political right.
In Pragers world, are slumlords evil? are corrupt cops evil? are corporations that pollute our rivers (the Koch Bros. ) evil? is putting migrants in cages evil? separating children from their parents evil? is trying to overthrow the US government evil?
He doesnt mention anything like that. Non Christians are evil because they dont want God involved in our secular government. And that because children are not taught biblical principles in public schools.
There is no shortage of assholes to criticize in right wing media, but none can top the bold stank that emanates from Dennis Prager.
Isn't Prager Jewish? Then why the hell would he give a shit about the Four Gospels?
Prager is one of those Jews For Jesus nitwits.
Oh....I get it now. He's not really a Jew, he's a Christian
Prager is a jack-off, no doubt and with his jack-off buddy, Ron DeSantis they make a wonderful couple. After all Prager Univ (LOL calling it a university) has been ok'd to have its material (material, more like indoctrination tools) used in Florida public schools.
But there are right-wing jack offs everywhere even on NT.
"In the United States today, nearly all schools, from elementary through graduate, concentrate on teaching about racism, sexism, preferred pronouns, homophobia, transphobia, LGBTQIA+, climate change, diversity, equity, inclusiveness and white guilt. In other words, most of our educational institutions, including the most prestigious, do not educate."
Nope, they indoctrinate little children with Marxist ideology and pornography and teach hate and intolerance toward those whose views and values differ from their own, if they "teach" anything at all. Parents of all races and economic levels are starting to rebel against this radical progressivism that is hell bent on destroying our country.
There are left-wing jack offs everywhere, even on NT.
You should move to Florida it's where intelligence goes to die, compliments of your hero, DeSantis.
Prager states that they are indoctrinating kids, so there you go, your kind of indoctrination. It's called ignorant and stupid.
Hell, all of the NT jagoffs* should move to Florida...but not near you.
*I haven't heard that word in years
Where? What school is indoctrinating children with any of those things?
I can't indoctrinate my own kids to clean up their rooms. You think a teacher is making little marxists out of other people's kids? You think kids are watching pornography in school? Have you been in a school?
I wrote more than I anticipated. Sorry about that.
TLDR: Dennis Prager is a regressive, reactionary, political blowhard who is dumber than he will admit.
Much of this rant is very familiar. "These kids today!" You get the idea. Every old generation thinks the younger generation is too stupid to get themselves dressed in the morning.
There's a strong liberal arts bias in his attacks on education. None of the critical knowledge he thinks young people should have comes from the sciences. It's all religion, literature, and history. Not that those things aren't valuable, but they aren't the only things people care about learning.
It's snobby to judge someone because they are ignorant of things you care about. They probably know about things that are a complete mystery to you.
Prager has done a phenomenal job of marketing himself as an intellectual person, and I won't dispute that he is educated, but perhaps much less than his fans understand. He has a bachelor's degree and has done some graduate work, but his only graduate degree is the honorary JD he got from Pepperdine. This bugs me a little because I got the real thing from the same school. That basically puts him in the same class as Bill Nye, the Science Guy - another mouth who opines on all-things-science from astrophysics to chemistry to infectious diseases to climate change, even though he only holds a BS in mechanical engineering. (Disclaimer: Yes, you can learn things outside of college).
None of this makes Dennis a thoughtful person. A lot of the stuff he says and writes - to me - are expressed with very little thought behind them. I see more tribalism than critical thinking.
In this article, he makes an awful lot of unsupported claims - too many, though, to go after them all.
Gosh, if that's true, where do our doctors, lawyers, engineers, and astronauts come from?
I don't think Dennis has a clue what schools concentrate on. "Nearly all schools" is public school. In America, about 91% of kids who are enrolled in school, attend public school . Dennis never attended public school. He went to Yeshiva (private Jewish school). So why would he know anything about it?
"Almost certain?" All he had to do was a quick Google search. But he's either too lazy for that, or fears the truth might derail the narrative. A Pew Research poll found that 45% of respondents could name all four gospels. An additional 6% could name 1-3 of the Gospels. So, while a majority can't name all four, a simple majority (51%) can name some of them. Either way, I wouldn't call 55% a "great majority."
Interestingly, the same poll found that only 17% of Jews could name all four Gospels, so if there is an ignorant population in this country . . . just sayin . . .
More importantly, he doesn't seem to understand that American public schools are not charged with teaching knowledge of religion. "Religion" is not one of the "Three Rs." If you want your kids to learn about religion, there are private religious schools for that.
Again, not that there is no value to learning about the events he lists, but there is a good reason why most Americans would be ignorant about several of them. None of them happened to us . An American education is primarily going to be about stuff that impacts Americans.
He mentions Nazis and people do know about them because we fought a war against them (I really don't care if they can name a concentration camp).
In any event, it's probably not reasonable to expect Americans to know about a Russian civil war any more than you would expect Russians to know about the American civil war.
Truthfully, any genocide could only be perpetrated by a strong, militaristic government. It doesn't need to be communist.
Worse, by limiting it to the 20th century, he's cherry picking. What the empires of Europe, and later the United States, did to Native Americans was arguably genocide. They weren't communists, but because it was pretty much over by the 20th century, he gets to exclude it. He also gets to exclude slavery, which is at least as evil, if not technically genocide.
Did he just defend the Nazis? Am I the only one who sees that? Does he need to hate Communism so much that he has to make it worse than being a nazi?
More 20th century cherry picking. Anyway, aren't most regimes basically secular? The business of governing is, by necessity, a totally different activity than worshipping God. But if not, the most religious regimes I can think of are in the Middle East, and most of them - if given half a chance - would gladly commit genocide against the Jews in Israel.
But why limit it to Muslims? One word for you Dennis: Crusades.
With the possible exception of capitalism, aren't all of those things evil? We can disagree about how urgent they are, but just take systemic racism, transphobia, and sexism. Aren't those evil???
The Left cannot touch the Right in this country when it comes to limiting what young people know about. The Right has been on a book banning spree in the last few years. Additionally, state after state - run by conservatives - has passed legislation prohibiting the teaching of this or that subject.