Regarding race and much else, America&#8217;s students are not taught history. In fact, they are not taught; they are indoctrinated. With anti-Americanism.
The purpose of all teaching about race in American schools is to engender contempt for America. They are, therefore, &#8220;taught&#8221; the lies of The New York Times&#8217; &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; — that the United States was founded to preserve and protect slavery — and of such works as Robin DiAngelo&#8217;s &#8220;White Fragility.&#8221;
So, then, what should American schools teach about race?
They should, of course, teach students about slavery and racism.
But, if truth and moral clarity are to matter, students must also learn that slavery was universal. They would therefore learn about Muslim-Arab slavery, slavery among Africans, slavery among Native Americans and Native South Americans, and slavery in Asia and India.
They would learn that it was the West, beginning with England and America, that abolished slavery. And they would learn that the abolitionists were overwhelmingly religious Christians, animated by the Bible and Judeo-Christian values.
They would learn that, unlike the slaves under Arab-Muslim rule, most black slaves in America were allowed to have children and form families. They would read Herbert Gutman&#8217;s &#8220;The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925,&#8221; about which The New York Times wrote when it was published in 1976: &#8220;Gutman has performed an immense service in burying the idea that slavery destroyed the black family.&#8221; For the record, Gutman was a professor of the Left and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
They would learn that the tens of millions of African slaves under Islamic-Arab rule were not allowed to form families (most males were castrated). They would learn that while about 340,000 African slaves were transported to America, 12 million were transported to Brazil. They would learn that far more blacks — about 3 million from Africa and the Caribbean — have come to America willingly than came as slaves. They would read a 2005 article from The New York Times called &#8220;More Africans Enter U.S. Than in Days of Slavery,&#8221; in which they would also learn how much less racist America is than any other country: &#8220;Agba Mangalabou, who arrived from Togo in 2002, recalls his surprise when he moved here from Europe. &#8216;In Germany, everyone knew I was African,&#8217; he said. &#8216;Here, nobody knows if I&#8217;m African or American.'&#8221;
They would learn about white slavery, too, from one of the greatest economists of the last half-century, Thomas Sowell, who wrote: &#8220;More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States.&#8221;
None of that would be taught to diminish the evil of the transatlantic black slave trade, let alone to justify it. America&#8217;s schoolchildren should, of course, be taught about the horrors of the slave auctions, of the separation of many families, of the rapes, the beatings and the lynchings. But nothing in history is understandable without perspective.
As regards the Arab-Muslim slave trade, students should read Ghanaian professor and minister John Azumah&#8217;s book &#8220;The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa,&#8221; in which he said:
&#8220;While two out of every three slaves shipped across the Atlantic were men, the proportions were reversed in the Islamic slave trade. Two women for every man were enslaved by the Muslims.
&#8220;While the mortality rate of the slaves being transported across the Atlantic was as high as 10%, the percentage of the slaves dying in transit in the trans-Saharan and East African slave market was a staggering 80 to 90%.
&#8220;While almost all the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were for agricultural work, most of the slaves destined for the Muslim Middle East were for sexual exploitation as concubines in harems and for military service.
&#8220;While many children were born to the slaves in the Americas, the millions of their descendants are citizens in Brazil and the United States today, very few descendants of the slaves who ended up in the Middle East survived.
&#8220;While most slaves who went to the Americas could marry and have families, most of the male slaves destined for the Middle East were castrated, and most of the children born to the women were killed at birth.&#8221;
They would read some of the Left’s favorite &#8220;America-is-racist&#8221; books, such as the national bestseller &#8220;White Fragility.&#8221; But, unlike any school in America that assigns that book, they would also assign a black professor&#8217;s review of it. In The Atlantic, John McWhorter, a Columbia University professor of linguistics, wrote that &#8220;White Fragility&#8221; &#8220;is actually a racist tract. &#8230; the book diminishes Black people in the name of dignifying us. &#8230; White guilt and politesse have apparently distracted many readers from the book&#8217;s numerous obvious flaws. For one, DiAngelo&#8217;s book is replete with claims that are either plain wrong or bizarrely disconnected from reality.&#8221;
They would read and listen to a variety of black thinkers and authors, not just those who detest America. Here is a partial list, in alphabetical order, including one of their books:
Larry Elder, &#8220;What&#8217;s Race Got to Do With It?&#8221;
Ward Connerly, &#8220;Creating Equal&#8221;
John McWhorter, &#8220;Losing the Race&#8221;
Deroy Murdock, any of his many columns
Candace Owens, &#8220;Blackout&#8221;
Jesse Lee Peterson, &#8220;The Antidote&#8221;
Jason Riley, &#8220;Please Stop Helping Us&#8221;
Thomas Sowell, &#8220;Intellectuals and Race&#8221;
Shelby Steele, &#8220;White Guilt&#8221;
Carol Swain, &#8220;Abduction&#8221;
Clarence Thomas, &#8220;My Grandfather&#8217;s Son&#8221;
Walter Williams, &#8220;Race and Economics&#8221;
That these brilliant thinkers are unfamiliar to most Americans is proof of the bias and superficiality that pervades American academic and intellectual life.
If they read these books and are taught the truths about race outlined in this article, it is perfectly acceptable for them to read black and white leftists on race. In fact, it would be advisable.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: What American Schools Should Teach About Race, Racism And Slavery

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As far as HuffPost and the rest of the American Left are concerned, no non-left-wing idea should be allowed to enter an American school. Not even for five minutes.
This past month, Maumee High School, a high school near Toledo, Ohio, offered its students a way to receive some extracurricular credit. In the words of the Maumee City Schools administration office — released before the HuffPost-induced uproar:
&#8220;Students were offered an extra credit assignment intended to challenge their critical thinking skills &#8230; A second option in the extra credit assignment asked students to view a video from a conservative website, analyze it and explain what they may have learned from it, and how it may have challenged or supported their own beliefs. &#8230;
&#8220;We believe that students deserve a balanced presentation of materials and we support our educators in using a variety of instructional tools and materials in their teaching, expecting them to always exercise good judgement.&#8221;
In an open and liberal society, the stated aims of Maumee High School are not only not controversial but also laudable. They are exactly what good parents and educators would want for students.
So, who finds these aims revolting?
Only an anti-liberal ideology. Namely, the Left.
It all started with one — yes, one — parent. She so objected to a PragerU video being offered as a conservative option that she withdrew her child from the class. And then she contacted HuffPost.
Thus began a national left-wing uproar over students being offered extra credit if they chose to view a five-minute conservative video.
The HuffPost headline: &#8220;Videos From Right-Wing Site That Preaches &#8216;The Left Ruins Everything&#8217; Assigned In Ohio School.&#8221;
A few observations about the headline:
First, on the Left, everything non-Left is &#8220;right-wing.&#8221; The reason? Because &#8220;conservative&#8221; is not inflammatory enough.
Second, the video &#8220;The Left Ruins Everything&#8221; was never &#8220;assigned.&#8221; No specific video was assigned.
Third, the HuffPost writer, Rebecca Klein, chose the most controversial title she could find out of approximately 450 PragerU videos.
Fourth, the video makes clear that it is about leftism, not liberalism.
Fifth, ironically, this whole story validates the video: Look at what the Left is doing to schools, to liberal education and to open inquiry.
As the HuffPost itself reported:
&#8220;Andrea Cutway, the mother of 16-year-old student Avery Lewis, brought the assignment to the attention of Maumee City Schools administrators and immediately pulled her daughter out of the class. &#8230; Lewis was immediately alarmed when she started her extra credit assignment last week. The assignment asked her to watch PragerU videos and then answer questions about how the videos challenged her beliefs. &#8230; Cutway, Lewis&#8217; mother, was similarly shocked when her daughter showed her the assignment. &#8230; &#8216;It&#8217;s ALT RIGHT propaganda,&#8217; Cutway said in the email to the school principal.
&#8220;Lewis met with school administrators soon after to discuss the issue. Together, they came up with a solution — that the student could also include viewpoints from the opposite side, Cutway said.
&#8220;For Cutway, though, this ignored the larger issue — that PragerU videos be assigned at all and that school administrators did not see a problem (italics added) &#8230;
&#8220;&#8216;When I talked to the principal and vice principal, they acted like this was just another assignment,&#8217; said Cutway, who works as a juvenile parole officer for the state. &#8230; &#8216;This really is some scary stuff,&#8217; Cutway said of PragerU. &#8216;I do feel like they have found a way to get into the public school system.'&#8221;
As a result of the HuffPost article, mainstream media went nuts, contemplating the possibility that American students might watch five minutes of non-Left thought.
NBC TV in Toledo tweeted:
&#8220;HuffPost reports that a Maumee High School class is offering students extra credit for viewing videos from a right-wing source. Are you a Maumee parent? How would you feel about this?&#8221;
ABC TV in Toledo headlined:
&#8220;Maumee parent raises concerns over controversial assignment.&#8221;
And the station broadcast a report on &#8220;Maumee High School alumni petition politics in the classroom&#8221; about more than 200 alumni objecting to the use of any PragerU video. The broadcast featured a 2001 graduate of the school, Catherine Wood, the organizer of the petition, who told the ABC-TV station, PragerU videos &#8220;kind of deny the humanity of many groups of students: people of color, women, LGBTQ members.&#8221;
Catherine Wood lied. There is nothing in any PragerU video that demeans or in any way &#8220;denies the humanity&#8221; of people of color, women or LGBTQ members. Not to mention that we have women, people of color and gays presenting videos. Her libel exemplifies something I have said all my life: Truth is not a left-wing value.
But left-wing lies often work. Within days, the inevitable took place. As The Toledo Blade headlined: &#8220;Maumee Removes Conservative Content From Class Syllabus.&#8221;
For the record, here is a small sample of PragerU presenters:
Four Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists.
Three former prime ministers — of Denmark, Spain and Canada.
Professors at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Vanderbilt and many other universities.
The late Charles Krauthammer.
At least four &#8220;Never Trumpers&#8221; (George Will, Bret Stephens, Jonah Goldberg and Michael Medved).
Liberal Democrat Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz.
Jewish historian Rabbi Joseph Telushkin.
Wall Street Journal columnists Kimberley Strassel and Jason Riley.
Economists Lee Ohanian (University of California, Los Angeles) and Walter Williams (George Mason).
British historians Paul Johnson, Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson.
Mike Rowe of &#8220;Dirty Jobs&#8221; fame.
Philip Hamburger, the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
Peter Caddick-Adams, fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Five-time Emmy award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson.
Dr. Stephen Marmer, psychiatrist and clinical faculty at UCLA Medical School.
Would any of these people join PragerU if it were a &#8220;right-wing, ALT-RIGHT demeaner of people of color, women, and LGBTQ&#8221;? (Incidentally, PragerU has a video titled &#8220;What Is the Alt-Right.&#8221; Those of the Left accusing PragerU of &#8220;alt-right propaganda&#8221; would do well to watch it.)
Moreover, PragerU has videos on happiness, forgiveness, the ethics of speech, the Ten Commandments, anger management and raising good children, among many others that have nothing to do with politics.
But none of this matters to HuffPost or to the 200 alumni of Maumee High School.
All that matters to them is that an effective, responsible, thoughtful conservative voice never be heard at Maumee or any other high school.
Probably a thousand teachers have shown PragerU videos, and many more are refusing to be intimidated by the bullies of the Left.
Leftists fear that five minutes of conservative thought will undo four years of left-wing teaching.
Their fear is justified. Their opposition isn&#8217;t.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: What Happened When A High School Offered A PragerU Video

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There are conservatives who lie, and there are liberals who lie, but both conservatism and liberalism hold truth to be a supreme value.
This is not true for leftism.
Truth is simply not a left-wing value.
Lying is to the Left what breathing is to biological life. That is why the father of modern leftism, Vladimir Lenin, named the Soviet communist newspaper &#8220;Pravda,&#8221; the Russian word for &#8220;truth.&#8221; Truth is what a leftist says it is. It is not an objective reality.
The Left has always relied on lies to gain and retain power. This is as true today in the United States as it was in the Soviet Union.
Here are examples of lies Americans are told they must hold lest they be removed from social media, shamed, ostracized and even fired from their jobs.
In no order of importance:
Men menstruate. ACLU tweet, Nov. 19, 2019: &#8220;Men who get their periods are men. Men who get pregnant and give birth are men.&#8221; If this is not a lie, the word has no meaning.
It is fair when males who identify as females compete in girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sports. In Connecticut, two biological men who are trans women have combined to win 15 girls state indoor or outdoor championship races since 2017. According to The Wall Street Journal, &#8220;19 state athletic conferences &#8230; allow athletes to compete based solely on their expressed gender identity.&#8221; No one with a passing acquaintance with truth could say this is fair.
To be colorblind is to be racist. This left-wing assertion is the opposite of the basic liberal ideal to end racism: to have everyone colorblind, meaning we are all to view and judge people solely as individuals irrespective of race. &#8220;Colorblind is racist&#8221; is not just a lie; it is an Orwellian lie. But it is actually normative on the Left. See, for example, &#8220;Color-Blindness Is Counterproductive&#8221; (The Atlantic, Sept. 13, 2015) or the book &#8220;Colorblind Racism&#8221; by Meghan Burke, associate professor of sociology at Illinois Wesleyan University.
The Trump 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to win the election. This lie has permeated the American media for more than three years. There was never any truth to it. But those on the Left — the Democratic Party and the mainstream media — found it a very useful claim, and they are doing so again in the 2020 campaign.
President Donald Trump said there were &#8220;very fine&#8221; Nazis. This is &#8220;the Charlottesville lie.&#8221; First, the media spread it, and now Joe Biden has run with it, claiming repeatedly that this was the reason he decided to run for president. Of course, what Biden said is a lie; he has wanted to run for president all his life. At Trump&#8217;s press conference on Aug. 15, 2017, right after the Charlottesville march and demonstrations, Trump made it clear he wasn&#8217;t referring to the neo-Nazis when he said there were &#8220;very fine people on both sides.&#8221; He told the press, &#8220;I&#8217;m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.&#8221; He was referring to the two sides at the protest over statues. See the video &#8220;The Charlottesville Lie&#8221; by former CNN reporter Steve Cortes at <a href="http://PragerU.com">PragerU.com</a>.
Donald Trump is a dictator. This lie has been told since before Trump was elected. It is repeated by virtually every left-wing commentator and politician. See, for example, &#8220;10 Ways Trump Is Becoming a Dictator, Election Edition&#8221; by Harvard professor Stephen M. Walt (Foreign Policy, Sept. 8, 2020) or &#8220;Donald Trump Wants To Be a Dictator&#8221; by Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian, July 5, 2019). It is a lie. The fact is no conservative American politician is a likely dictator because one of the fundamental goals of American conservatives is to shrink the power of the government. A dictatorship in America is far more likely to come from the Left, which seeks to massively increase government power. For example, as reported in Politico on Aug. 21, 2020, Biden has already pledged, &#8220;I would shut it down,&#8221; referring to the American economy and Americans&#8217; freedom of movement to combat the COVID-19 virus.
America is a racist society. This is the greatest national lie since the medieval blood libel, in which Christians accused Jews of slaughtering Christian children to use their blood to bake matzo for Passover. America is, in fact, the least racist country in history. That&#8217;s why, for example, there are so many race hoaxes; the real thing is so hard to find. Jews didn&#8217;t need to concoct anti-Jewish hoaxes to prove there was widespread anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s.
Ferguson was an example of racist police brutality. The Ferguson lie is frequently cited by the Left as an example of police racism, including by figures as prominent as Barack Obama. Yet, a grand jury, which included black jurors, declined to indict the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, a black man, because Brown had attacked the officer, sought to steal his gun and was in the process of a second attack when he was killed. The claim that Brown had said, &#8220;Hands up, don&#8217;t shoot&#8221; was also a left-wing lie. Brown never said it. See the PragerU video with Larry Elder.
America was founded in 1619, not 1776. This is the infamous New York Times lie for which the Times was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. This is the same prize awarded to the same newspaper in 1932 for its horrific lie that there was no famine in Ukraine when, in fact, Joseph Stalin was deliberately starving about 5 million Ukrainians to death. Leading liberal scholars of American history have condemned the Times&#8217; rewriting of American history — that the American Revolution was fought in order to preserve slavery — as a lie.
These are just some of the left-wing lies increasing numbers of Americans believe. America&#8217;s survival depends on Americans — especially young Americans — recognizing them as such.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: America Is Drowning In The Lies Of The Left

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Attention readers: Dennis Prager co-authored this column with Tim Groseclose, a professor of economics at George Mason University, where he holds the Adam Smith Chair at the Mercatus Center.
Exponential growth. It&#8217;s why plagues are so dangerous and compound interest is so wonderful.
It&#8217;s also why the Democrats&#8217; flirting with court packing could destroy the Supreme Court and, with it, America as we know it.
The following is a reasonable scenario:
Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, which gives conservatives a 6-3 advantage (or 5-4, given that Chief Justice John Roberts has essentially become a swing vote).
Then, in January, having retained the Democrat-majority House, a President Joe Biden and a newly Democrat-controlled Senate decide to undo the advantage. Congress passes and Biden signs a new law expanding the Court to 15 members. Biden appoints six new liberal justices, handing the Left a 9-6 majority—a 60% advantage.
What happens when the Republicans regain power and they want a 60% conservative advantage? As a bit of algebra shows, to reverse the Democrats&#8217; 9-6 advantage, they&#8217;d have to expand the Court by 7.5 members. Of course, they can&#8217;t nominate half a justice, so they&#8217;d probably round up to eight. Regardless, the Republicans, to gain a 60% advantage, must expand the Court by more than the Democrats did—by eight, as opposed to six.
The parties would surely continue to insist upon a 60% advantage, meaning that, with each switch in power, they&#8217;d have to expand the Court&#8217;s size by 50%. The key thing to note is that they would have to expand the court not by a constant number but by a constant percentage. This is what would cause exponential growth. If, for example, one side insisted on a 65% advantage and the other followed suit, they&#8217;d have to expand the Court by 86% at each switch in power.
How often would such switches in power occur? One occurred in 1992, when Democrats won the House, Senate and presidency. Others occurred in 2000, 2008 and 2016. And if the polls are right, another will occur in 2020. Such power switches occur about every eight years, perhaps slightly more frequently.
Let&#8217;s err on the side of being less alarmist and assume that the switch would only occur every 10 years. Let&#8217;s similarly assume that the parties would only insist upon a 60% advantage.
Under these minimal parameters, the Court would expand by 50% every 10 years. In 100 years, the Court would grow by a factor of approximately 58 (1.5 raised to the power of 10), and instead of nine justices, the Supreme Court would consist of 522 justices.
Surely, one would be tempted to think, voters and the two parties would see these problems, and accordingly, such growth wouldn&#8217;t continue. But why not? Imagine the following scenario: In the year 2120, the Court comprises 522 justices (313 conservatives and 209 liberals). That November, the Democrats retake the House, Senate and presidency. Following precedent, they decide to regain their advantage and expand the Court to 783 justices (470 liberals and 313 conservatives).
Some voters might say, &#8220;Enough is enough.&#8221; However, Democrats could reasonably counter that (1) &#8220;It&#8217;s what the Republicans did last time. It&#8217;s our turn now&#8221;; (2) &#8220;Is 783 really that much larger than 522?&#8221;; (3) &#8220;Only by expanding the Court can we do things such as guarantee a woman&#8217;s right to choose and ensure racial and social justice. Do we really want to sacrifice those goals just to keep the Court a smaller size?&#8221;
Further, in such a scenario, no voter would be able to remember when the Court was smaller than 40 justices, much less just nine. Would they really care if it were expanded a little more?
Of course, the scenario would continue to repeat.
In other words, if the Democrats do as many of their leading members want them to do (including Gov. Jay Inslee, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor Pete Buttigieg), as The Atlantic urges them to do, as vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris told The New York Times she is &#8220;absolutely open to,&#8221; and as at least one New York Times columnist advocates, we will no longer have a legislature and a supreme judicial branch. We will essentially have two legislatures (at least when Democratic appointees—justices willing to read left-wing political and social goals into the Constitution—hold the majority of seats).
It will be the end of the Supreme Court as we know it, the end of the balance of power among the three branches of government and, therefore, the end of America as we know it.
Would the Democrats do it? Given the Left’s record of destroying whatever it touches—most obviously, the universities, high schools and journalism, and most recently, sports and the sciences—if you are a betting person, you should bet on it.
This is yet another reason everything is at stake in this election.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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PRAGER: What Will Happen If The Democrats Pack The Supreme Court

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&#8220;I vote for the man (or woman), not the party&#8221; is what millions of Americans say and what, in fact, many do. It is intended as a noble sentiment: &#8220;I am not one of those Americans who votes blindly by party; I measure each candidate and then decide which one to vote for.&#8221;
If there were ever a time when this was a noble sentiment, it would have been when Republicans and Democrats shared basic moral and American values and differed only on what policies would lead to the two parties&#8217; shared goals.
For example, though they never ran against each other, one might argue that the differences between the Democrat John Kennedy and his Republican predecessor, Dwight Eisenhower, were not particularly great. But that was very rare. The fact is that, since the inception of the Republican Party, which was founded to counter the Democratic Party&#8217;s defense of slavery, there has almost never been a time when the philosophical differences between the parties were not great.
And since slavery, there has never been a time when the two major parties differed as much as they do today. Therefore, the notion that one should vote &#8220;for the individual, not the party&#8221; has never made less sense. It would be as if someone in the mid-1800s had said, &#8220;I strongly oppose slavery, but the Democratic candidate is a much finer and more likeable individual than the Republican candidate.&#8221;
Fine Democrats who defended slavery did as much harm to blacks and to America as disreputable Democrats. And elected officials vote with their party more often than in principled opposition to it, however fine they may be as individuals.
Nevertheless, a great number of Americans still vote for &#8220;the individual.&#8221;
The most obvious examples are Republican &#8220;Never Trumpers.&#8221; They say that they would vote for any Republican except Donald Trump because they find his character so objectionable.
My friend, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, is one prominent example. He believes in a strong American defense, supported Trump&#8217;s withdrawal of the United States from Barack Obama&#8217;s agreement with Iran, credits Trump with the Israeli peace agreements with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, saluted Trump&#8217;s moving of the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and presumably supports other Trump policies, such as the president&#8217;s extraordinary success with regard to the American economy prior to the lockdowns that crushed the economy.
Yet, he so loathes the president that he will vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
He and many other Americans (we will soon know how many) who support the president&#8217;s Republican policies will vote for the party that stands for almost everything they oppose because they will &#8220;vote for the man, not the party.&#8221;
I find nothing admirable in this position—morally or rationally. At this time in American history, to care more about an individual candidate than the party is to support the unraveling of America. It is so irrational as to be incredible.
Voting for any Democrat—whether for mayor, district attorney, state legislature, state governor, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate or president—is to vote for someone who will enable the Left to destroy America as we know it. (That is their wording, not only mine.) The Democratic Party was once largely liberal. But today, it is Left, and the Left readily acknowledges it wishes to &#8220;transform&#8221; America, which means to destroy America as we have known it.
To vote for any Democrat is to vote for the party that believes America is &#8220;systemically racist,&#8221; that it is rotten to the core, vile from its inception (in 1619, they claim, not 1776).
To vote for any Democrat is to vote for the party that will renew the Obama agreement with one of America&#8217;s and the civilized world&#8217;s greatest enemies, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It is to vote for undoing every economic policy that led America to its greatest economic boom in memory.
It is to vote for Kamala Harris, the most left-wing member of the U.S. Senate, for vice president (and, given Biden&#8217;s age and health, perhaps soon president).
It is to vote for the party that wants to allow millions more illegal immigrants into America and grant them benefits heretofore reserved for Americans. Democrats don&#8217;t use the words &#8220;open borders,&#8221; but they support this country-wrecking policy.
It is to vote for the party that supports the Green New Deal, or something very close to it, which will further ruin an economy already in ruins from Democrat-supported lockdowns.
It is to vote for the party that seeks to nationalize American health care (&#8220;Medicare for All&#8221;).
It is to vote for the party whose mayors, governors, and district attorneys allow violent riots and seek to &#8220;defund&#8221; police, a policy even most blacks oppose.
It is to vote for the party that supports the unprecedented suppression of free speech by Big Tech and universities.
It is to vote for the party that insists that men menstruate and that biological men must be allowed to compete against biological women in sports, no matter how often the biological men defeat them.
It is to vote for the party with the only anti-Semites, not to mention Israel-haters, in Congress.
It is to vote for the party that, for the first time in American history, openly identifies with socialism more than with capitalism.
It is to vote for the party that Big Pharma, big corporations, and radical teachers unions support.
All because many Americans like their Democratic candidate for a Senate seat (as in Arizona) or the Democratic candidate for president more than the Republican candidate. They do not appreciate a likeable Democrat will do as much harm to our country as any other Democrat.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: To All Those Who ‘Vote For The Man, Not The Party’

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Yesterday was Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. It is meant to be a time of intense self-examination. In light of that, I offer this column.
The question I receive more than any other from non-Jews is: Why are so many Jews on the Left?
Before addressing it, I should note that the same question could be asked of Christians and other non-Jews. Why have so many mainstream Protestants and Catholics (up to and including the pope) embraced the Left? Why have nearly all blacks, the majority of Hispanics and Asian Americans, the most successful ethnic group in America, embraced the Left? And outside of the United States, why have most Germans, French, Canadians, Australians and others in the West embraced the Left?
This question could be asked about almost every group in the world.
Nevertheless, it is valid to ask it about Jews because, if any group should be wary of dismantling a society, especially a decent one, it is the Jews. The moment civilization begins to disintegrate, the Jews are the first victims — never the only, but always the first. That&#8217;s why Jews have so often been likened to the proverbial canary in the mine. Miners take canaries down with them because when there are noxious fumes, canaries die, and when the miners see the dead canaries, they know there are toxic fumes they must fight, or they, too, will die.
That&#8217;s why decent non-Jews who don&#8217;t fight anti-Semitism are fools. They don&#8217;t understand that anti-Semitism represents a mortal threat to them. Tens of millions of non-Jews were killed because decent non-Jews ignored Hitler early on, dismissing him and Nazism as a Jewish problem.
It is often asked how the most culturally advanced country in Europe, perhaps in the world, could produce Nazism and the Holocaust. Or, as it is often put, &#8220;How did the country that gave us Bach, Beethoven, Heine and Schiller give us Auschwitz?&#8221;
One answer is that advanced culture and advanced morality are not the same. The Nazis loved classical music.
The other, more important, answer is that civilization is fragile.
It is fragile because civilization consists of human beings, and human nature is profoundly flawed. Exceptional evil is as common as exceptional good. It takes a great deal of effort and a great deal of time to make a decent society. But it takes little effort and little time to destroy a society.
That most American Jews do not appreciate how extraordinarily decent America is — compared with other countries, not compared with some childish utopian vision — only proves the lack of relationship between education and wisdom and between intelligence and wisdom.
The Left is tearing down America because the Left in America is what the Left has been everywhere: a purely destructive force. Conservatives and liberals build everything, and leftists destroy everything: music, art, universities, high schools, elementary schools, economies, late-night comedy (for that matter, all comedy), journalism, sports and, now, the sciences. In addition, everywhere the Left gains power it suppresses personal freedom, beginning with the most important freedom, freedom of speech.
Every violent demonstration (also known as &#8220;riots&#8221;) over the past six months has been a left-wing riot.
Why, then, does this left-wing destruction not frighten America&#8217;s Jews? Do they not know the more power the Left has, the less freedom they and all other Americans will have? Do they not know how much Black Lives Matter, antifa and the rest of the Left loathe Israel? Or do they not care? (The answer is that, increasingly, many American Jews do not care — especially young Jews, who have been raised by left-wing teachers and left-wing media.) How do they not recoil when statues of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are violently removed?
Do American Jews not know that the unique esteem in which they (and Israel since 1948) have been held in American society has been entirely due to the Judeo-Christian roots of America&#8217;s values and its Judeo-Christian identity? Do they not know that in a post-Christian America, they will be just another minority and that, as the Left gains influence, nonleft Jews (specifically religious and pro-Israel Jews) will be singled out for opprobrium? (Just look at how Jewish students who publicly identify as Jews, let alone as pro-Israel Jews, are treated on many American campuses.)
We conservatives know the answer to the question, &#8220;How did the country that gave the world Beethoven give the world Nazism?&#8221;
The answer: Civilization is fragile.
That was true in Germany, and it is true in America.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: A Reminder To American Jews: Civilization Is Fragile

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All of my life, I have said that the Left’s moral compass is broken.
And all of my life, I was wrong.
Why I was wrong explains both the Left and the moral crisis we are in better than almost any other explanation.
I was wrong because in order to have a broken moral compass, you need to have a moral compass to begin with. But the Left doesn&#8217;t have one.
This is not meant as an attack. It is a description of reality. The Left regularly acknowledges that it doesn&#8217;t think in terms of good and evil. Most of us are so used to thinking in those terms — what we call &#8220;Judeo-Christian&#8221; — that it is very difficult for us to divide the world in any other way.
But since Karl Marx, the Left (not liberalism; the two are different) has always divided the world, and, therefore, human actions, in ways other than good and evil. The Left, in Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s famous words, has always operated &#8220;beyond good and evil.&#8221;
It all began with Marx, who divided the world by economic class — worker and owner or exploited and exploiter. To Marx and to Marxism, there is no such thing as a good or an evil that transcends class. Good is defined as what is good for the working class; evil is what is bad for the working class.
Therefore, to Marxists, there is no such thing as a universal good or a universal evil. Those of us still in thrall to Judeo-Christian morality believe that good and evil are universal. In other words, whether an act is good or evil has nothing to do with who committed the act — rich or poor, male or female, religious or secular, member of one&#8217;s nation or of another nation. Stealing and murder are morally wrong, no matter who stole or who murdered.
That is not the case for Marx and the Left. In Marx&#8217;s words in &#8220;Capital&#8221; (&#8220;Das Kapital&#8221;):
&#8220;Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and the cultural development thereby determined. We therefore reject every attempt to impose on us any moral dogma whatsoever as an eternal, ultimate and forever immutable moral law.&#8221;
Fifty-three years later, Marx&#8217;s foremost disciple, Vladimir Lenin, architect of the Russian Revolution, proclaimed:
&#8220;We say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat. &#8230; We do not believe in an eternal morality. &#8230; We repudiate all morality derived from non-human (i.e., God) and non-class concepts&#8221; (Address to the Third Congress of the Russian Young Communist League, Oct. 2, 1920).
As professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith, director of Harvard University&#8217;s Center for the Study of World Religions, wrote in 1957: &#8220;For Marxism there is no reason (literally no reason: our universe, the movement posits, is the kind of universe where there cannot conceivably be any reason) for not killing or torturing or exploiting a human person if his liquidation or torture or slave labor will advance the historical process.&#8221;
This is how Marx&#8217;s ideological heirs, today&#8217;s leftists, view the world — with one important difference: Morality is not determined only by class, but by race, power and sex as well.
RACE
It is left-wing dogma that a black person cannot be a racist. Only whites can be racist. And, indeed, all whites are racist.
It is increasingly a left-wing position that when blacks loot, they are only taking what they deserve, or, as the looters often put it, looted goods are &#8220;reparations.&#8221; A Black Lives Matter organizer in Chicago, Ariel Atkins, recently put it this way:
&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy&#8217;s or a Nike store because that makes sure that person eats. That makes sure that person has clothes. That is reparations. Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance&#8221; (Chicago Tribune, Aug. 17, 2020).
POWER
Another nonmoral left-wing compass concerns power. Just as right and wrong are determined by class (worker and owner/rich and poor) and race (white and people of color), good and evil are also determined by power (the strong and the weak).
That explains much of the Left’s hatred for two countries in particular — America and Israel. America is wrong when it does almost anything in the world that involves weaker countries — assassinates the most important Iranian terrorist, builds a wall between itself and Mexico, opposes unlimited immigration. It is wrong because it is much stronger than those other countries.
The Left’s antipathy to Israel derives from both the power compass and the race compass. Because Israel is so much stronger than the Palestinians and because Israelis are classified as white (despite the fact that more than half of all Israelis are not white), the Left deems Israel wrong. So, when Israel justifiably attacks Gaza for raining rockets over Israel, the world&#8217;s Left vehemently attacks Israel — because it is so much stronger than the people of Gaza and because whites have attacked people of color.
SEX
When a woman accuses a man of sexually harassing or raping her, the Left’s reaction is not, &#8220;Let us try to determine the truth as best we can.&#8221; It is, &#8220;Believe women.&#8221; One must automatically &#8220;believe women&#8221; because, on the Left, it is not only morality that doesn&#8217;t transcend race, power, class or sex; truth doesn&#8217;t either. That&#8217;s why leftists protest and riot whenever a confrontation between a police officer and a black person ends with the death of an unarmed black person. The police officer is automatically racist, and the death is automatically deemed murder. On the Left, the concept of objective truth is increasingly deemed a form of white supremacy.
So, then, it turns out I was mistaken all my life. The Left’s moral compass is not broken. The Left simply rejects such a compass.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: The Left’s Moral Compass Isn’t Broken …

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As long ago as the 1970s, I came to a major realization. While watching fellow students at Columbia University demonstrate not just against the war in Vietnam but against America — &#8220;Amerika,&#8221; as many spelled it, the &#8220;imperialist,&#8221; &#8220;colonialist,&#8221; &#8220;mass-murdering&#8221; country — I kept wondering what made these people so hostile to the freest country in human history.
Then, one day, as a result of my having attended a yeshiva (an Orthodox Jewish day school) through high school, the reason became clear. Half of each school day was devoted to religious studies in Hebrew, and the other half was devoted to secular studies in English. This meant that I had been immersed in a religious worldview until college.
Though it was Jewish, this worldview could also be called &#8220;Judeo-Christian.&#8221; Students at traditionally Christian schools were immersed in essentially the same worldview. We were all taught that the most important battle we need to wage in life was with our own nature. Jews and Christians learned from the same Scripture that &#8220;the will of man&#8217;s heart is evil from his youth&#8221; (Genesis 8:21).
Therefore, being a good person involved a constant battle with our flawed human nature: our urges, appetites and innate weaknesses. This battle was also the only real route to a better world. Every individual had to work on him or herself to be decent, strong, courageous and self-controlled, and every parent had to work, first and foremost, on raising such people.
One day, I came to realize that this was not how the vast majority of my fellow students were raised. They were raised to believe that the great battle in life was not with one&#8217;s nature but with outside forces — with parents, in many cases, but most of all with society, i.e., America.
All of us, whatever our political outlook, have to confront personal failure, loss, disappointment and unhappiness. When confronted with these challenges, religious Jews and Christians are taught to look inward for both the primary source of their problems and the primary solutions to those problems: What have I done wrong? What can I change in my life to solve my problems?
Of course, some nonreligious liberals and conservatives also have this attitude. But most of them likely inherited it from religious parents or, at the very least, from parents who were raised in a religious home or a home that retained the remnants of such an upbringing, which was common in pre-1960s America. (It is therefore questionable how many secular parents will succeed in passing this attitude on to their children.)
The Left, which proudly rejects Judeo-Christian values, has adopted the opposite of the Judeo-Christian view regarding pain in life. Leftists (as opposed to liberals) hold outside forces responsible for their pain. That is the reason for the litany of left-wing enemies: capitalism, patriarchy, misogyny, systemic racism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, sexism, xenophobia.
So, then, if you are an unhappy American woman, you can work on yourself and your nature, or you can blame sexism and patriarchy, i.e., men, for your pained state.
If you are an unhappy gay American, you can work on yourself, or you can blame society&#8217;s homophobia for your unhappiness.
And, most significantly, if you are an unhappy black American, you can work on yourself and your life, or you can blame systemic racism and whites for your anger and unfulfilled life.
All this explains why the Left encourages every group except for white, Christian, heterosexual males to regard themselves as oppressed. The more oppressed women, gays, blacks, etc., see themselves, the more they are alienated from America and its values, and the more they gravitate Left. In light of this, I came up with a riddle:
Q: What do you call a happy black person?
A: A Republican.
Without an exception I can recall, over the course of decades, I have guessed the political affiliation of every black caller to my radio show within a minute of talking to them. If they sounded happy, I knew they were a Republican; if they were angry, I knew they were a Democrat. This has held true for male and female callers.
America has been a great country because it was built on the belief that we must all fight against our natures (and fight for our country). It is difficult to overstate the damage the Left is doing to this country by abandoning the fundamental Judeo-Christian teaching that we must fight our natures in order to lead a more decent and happy life and replacing it with the belief that we must battle America instead. This replacement inevitably leads to a population of unhappy, ungrateful and mean-spirited human beings — precisely the type of individuals you see rioting and looting, the type of elected officials who do nothing to stop rioters and looters, the columnists and academics who devote their lives to spewing hate-filled lies about America, and the Twitter mobs who comprise the toxic cancel culture.
It will lead to what the Left acknowledges it seeks: the end of America as we have known it.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: Leftists Blame America. Decent People Blame Themselves.

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Four months ago, I wrote a column titled &#8220;The Worldwide Lockdown May Be the Greatest Mistake in History.&#8221; I explained that &#8220;&#8216;mistake&#8217; and &#8216;evil&#8217; are not synonyms. The lockdown is a mistake; the Holocaust, slavery, communism, fascism, etc., were evils. Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.&#8221;
Regarding the economic catastrophe in America and around the world — especially among the world&#8217;s poor who are dependent upon America and other first-world countries for their income through exports and tourism — I wrote, &#8220;It is panic and hysteria, not the coronavirus, that created this catastrophe.&#8221;
Unfortunately, I was right.
The world should have followed Sweden&#8217;s example. That country never locked down and has even kept children under 16 in school the entire time. As Reuters reported on July 15, the number of Swedish children between 1 and 19 years of age who have died of COVID-19 is zero. And the percentage of children who contracted the illness was the exact same in Sweden as it was in Finland, which locked down its schools.
As regards teachers, Sweden&#8217;s Public Health Agency reported that &#8220;a comparison of the incidence of COVID-19 in different professions suggested no increased risk for teachers.&#8221; Nevertheless, with few exceptions, teachers in Los Angeles and elsewhere refuse to enter a classroom that has students in it. Their disdain for their profession has been superseded only by that of the Los Angeles teachers union, which announced that teachers will not resume teaching until the police are defunded.
People who defend lockdowns and closing schools point out that Sweden has the eighth-highest death rate per million in the Western world. But, needless to say, this has no bearing at all on the issue of whether Sweden was right to keep schools open or whether our country was wrong to close them, let alone keep them closed now. The overwhelming majority of deaths from COVID-19 in Sweden were among people over 70 years of age, and most of those were people over 80 and with compromised immune systems.
Reuters reported that three separate studies, including one by UNICEF, &#8220;showed that Swedish children fared better than children in other countries during the pandemic, both in terms of education and mental health.&#8221;
For more than a month, Sweden has had almost no deaths from COVID-19 while the entire society remains open and almost no one wears masks. (In Holland, too, almost no one wears masks.) For all intents and purposes, the virus is over in Sweden.
I live in California, a state governed by that most dangerous of leaders: a fool with unlimited power. Despite the fact that California ranks 28th among the 50 states in deaths per million, Gov. Gavin Newsom has destroyed and continues to destroy tens of thousands of small businesses and untold numbers of livelihoods. His continuing to forbid — a half-year after the onset of the pandemic — indoor dining in restaurants is leading to a projected permanent closure of approximately 1 in every 3 restaurants in the state. The same catastrophic destruction will likely affect retail businesses and services such as hair and nail salons. But all this human tragedy — not to mention increased depression and suicides among the young and increased abuse of children and partners — means nothing to Newsom, to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti or to the Los Angeles Times, whose editors and columnists continue to advocate for the lockdown while they receive their salaries.
Why can people eat with no mask in an airplane — inches, not six feet, from strangers — but cannot eat in a California restaurant, which is so much bigger than the inside of an airplane, while sitting six feet from others? Because Newsom ordered it, the Los Angeles Times supports it and, like sheep, Californians have accepted it.
According to the California Association of Museums, &#8220;Museums are losing over $22 million a day due to the statewide quarantine. As of August 1, 2020, California museums have lost more than $2.9 billion in revenue. Museums have a $6.55 billion financial impact on California&#8217;s economy, support 80,722 jobs, and generated $492 million in tax revenues for the State of California in 2017 and over $1 billion in federal taxes.&#8221;
And the American Alliance of Museums issued results from a survey on July 22, 2020, that warned 1 out of every 3 museums may shutter forever as funding sources and financial reserves run dry.
On Aug. 3, The Wall Street Journal wrote, &#8220;In March &#8230; There was broad public support for the prudent goals of preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed and buying scientists time to develop therapies.&#8221; But the Left — the media and Democratic governors and mayors — immediately moved the goal posts to &#8220;bending the curve&#8221; and &#8220;saving one life,&#8221; enabling them to get away with destroying lives and livelihoods.
I conclude with the words of a Swedish medical doctor, Sebastian Rushworth:
&#8220;Covid is over in Sweden. People have gone back to their normal lives and barely anyone is getting infected any more. I am willing to bet that the countries that have shut down completely will see rates spike when they open up. If that is the case, then there won&#8217;t have been any point in shutting down in the first place &#8230; Shutting down completely in order to decrease the total number of deaths only makes sense if you are willing to stay shut down until a vaccine is available. That could take years. No country is willing to wait that long.&#8221;
The lockdown is a crime. But even more upsetting is that it is supported by so many Americans. This country is unrecognizable to those of us who lived through the 1968-1970 pandemic, which killed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 100,000 Americans — the 2020 equivalent of 170,000 Americans. Nothing shut down. Not one mask was worn.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on Sept. 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: The Lockdown Has Gone From A Mistake To A Crime

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On the day Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, I announced on my national radio show that, &#8220;While I did not vote for Barack Obama, he is my president, and I wish him well.&#8221; I added that I was delighted a black man had been elected president of the United States, that perhaps this would not only help black-white relations get even better than they were but also help put to rest the notion of a racist America.
As it turned out, neither hope was achieved. In fact, in large measure due to Obama, race relations deteriorated during his presidency. Obama turned out to be Black Lives Matter Light. As Politico wrote in 2014, Al Sharpton, perhaps the most consistent race-baiter of the last half-century, &#8220;became Obama&#8217;s go-to man on race.&#8221; According to The Washington Post, Sharpton visited the Obama White House 72 times.
Obama is idolized by liberals and leftists because he was an activist liberal whose goal, in his own words, right before he was first elected, was &#8220;fundamentally transforming the United States of America.&#8221; And because they love his cool, even-tempered, regal style.
That style masks a demagoguery that far surpasses our current president. It was on display last week when he spoke at the Democratic National Convention.
Obama: &#8220;I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously; that he might come to feel the weight of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care. But he never did. &#8230; Donald Trump hasn&#8217;t grown into the job because he can&#8217;t.&#8221;
These ad hominem attacks by a previous president on his successor are unique in my lifetime. Perhaps they are unique in modern American history. George W. Bush, for example, never said a critical word of Barack Obama, despite the latter&#8217;s frequent attacks on Bush&#8217;s presidency.
Obama: &#8220;And the consequences of that failure are severe. 170,000 Americans dead. Millions of jobs gone.&#8221;
America ranks tenth in deaths per million. Are the greater proportion of deaths per million in countries such as Belgium, Spain, the U.K., Italy and Sweden the result of corrupt and/or inept leaders? Was President Donald Trump responsible, for example, for the decision made by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to order nursing homes to accept COVID-19 cases, causing the virus to sweep through the elderly in those facilities, resulting in at least 6,000 deaths (and likely many more that New York is hiding from the official count)?
Regarding &#8220;millions of jobs gone,&#8221; they are gone overwhelmingly because of the lockdowns ordered by state governors and mayors, not the virus. Lockdowns, we were told, would last two weeks to &#8220;flatten the curve,&#8221; but they continue six months later in many Democratically controlled cities and states.
Obama: &#8220;And our democratic institutions threatened like never before.&#8221;
Obama offers not one example of this or of his many other attacks on Trump. There is a reason. Obama has always attacked straw men. During his presidency, I analyzed about 20 of his speeches. They and his off-the-cuff comments were always characterized by straw-men arguments.
Even The New York Times, in 2009, when it still published occasional articles that deviated from the Left, featured an article by Helene Cooper (who is black), its then-White House correspondent, titled &#8220;Some Obama Enemies Are Made Totally of Straw.&#8221; In it, Cooper cited example after example of statements ostensibly made by others, but actually made up by Obama — which he then proceeded to shoot down. This characterized his approach to discourse throughout his presidency and continued with last week&#8217;s speech at the DNC.
Obama: &#8220;Joe and Kamala will restore our standing in the world — and as we&#8217;ve learned from this pandemic, that matters.&#8221;
Obama, like all on the Left, equate America&#8217;s &#8220;standing in the world&#8221; with its president&#8217;s standing with the Left. Nonleftists do not. Last year, when the courageous Hong Kong demonstrators waved a flag representing liberty, they waved the flag of the United States of America. Apparently, America&#8217;s standing with them is pretty high.
Obama: &#8220;(Joe and Kamala) believe that in a democracy, the right to vote is sacred.&#8221;
Another straw man. Who doesn&#8217;t believe &#8220;the right to vote is sacred&#8221; — those who insist on people having an ID when they vote, as voters do in virtually every other country? Or is it those who don&#8217;t believe in sending tens of millions of ballots to people who never signed up to receive an absentee ballot?
Obama: &#8220;I understand why a new immigrant might look around this country and wonder whether there&#8217;s still a place for him here.&#8221;
Really? What new legal immigrant thinks that way? Or is Obama dishonestly conflating legal with illegal immigrants? The answer is, of course, he is (though even illegal immigrants apparently believe there&#8217;s a place for them here; isn&#8217;t that, after all, why they come?).
Obama: &#8220;This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that&#8217;s what it takes to win.&#8221;
How has this administration shown that? Why didn&#8217;t Obama provide a single example to sustain this extraordinary charge? Anyway, it seems to many Americans that those who lie to the country for two years about Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, impeach a president solely for political reasons, dedicate all news reporting to the removal of a president, smear and lie about a decent man nominated for the Supreme Court, corrupt the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act system for political ends, and politicize the CIA and FBI are the ones who &#8220;will tear our democracy down if that&#8217;s what it takes to win.&#8221;
Obama&#8217;s speech offered very little of substance about the man it was directed against, but it said much about the man who delivered it.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: A Demagogue Named Barack Obama: His DNC Speech

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More than two years ago, I wrote a column titled &#8220;Whatever the Left Touches It Ruins.&#8221; I listed eight examples:
— The universities.
— The arts: music, art and architecture.
— Sports.
— Mainstream Judaism, Protestantism and Catholicism.
— Race relations.
— Women&#8217;s happiness.
— Children&#8217;s innocence.
— And, perhaps most disturbingly, America&#8217;s commitment to free speech.
One should now add the sciences.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hastened the Left’s ruining of science. This had already begun with the Left’s attacks on &#8220;objectivity,&#8221; the most essential value in science — the very thing that makes science possible. The Left declares objectivity, which it now puts in quotation marks, a characteristic of white supremacy.
One example is that science departments in universities throughout America have declared their intention to hire physicists, biologists and other scientists based on gender and race, not scientific expertise. A few years ago, all five candidates on the shortlist of applicants to the physics department of the University of California at San Diego were females, &#8220;leading one male candidate with a specialty in extragalactic physics,&#8221; reported Heather Mac Donald, &#8220;to wonder why the school had even solicited applications from Asian and white men.&#8221;
Mac Donald updated her findings in a piece published this week: &#8220;The dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, pronounced himself &#8216;absolutely dedicated&#8217; to turning the engineering school into an &#8216;anti-racist organization.'&#8221;
A recent example was the declaration by more than 1,000 doctors and other health care providers that despite all their previous warnings against public gatherings as health risks: &#8220;As public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings (mass protests against racism) as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health.&#8221;
Yet another example of leftism overwhelming medical science is the medical profession&#8217;s denial of the benefits of hydroxychloroquine and zinc in the early days of a COVID-19 infection.* That physicians, including the Food and Drug Administration, would label a drug dangerous that has been used safely for more than half a century, and by many thousands (such as those with rheumatoid arthritis or lupus) every day for decades, is a medical and moral scandal. The medical profession has placed politics not only ahead of science but also ahead of saving lives. The medical profession, the FDA and the CDC have lost the faith of half of the American people and, over time, will lose the faith of the majority of Americans. It is difficult to envision the medical profession regaining its credibility in this generation.
One of the world&#8217;s most prestigious medical and scientific journals, The Lancet in the U.K., withdrew an article it had published that dismissed the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 patients. The article contained made-up data. As The New York Times reported, Dr. Richard Horton, the editor in chief of The Lancet, called the paper retracted by his journal a &#8220;fabrication&#8221; and &#8220;a monumental fraud.&#8221;
The journal published the fraudulent study about the alleged dangers of hydroxychloroquine because of pressure from pharmaceutical companies, which have nothing to gain financially from widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a cheap, generic drug, and because the journal loathes President Donald Trump, who, when the first reports of successful treatment with hydroxychloroquine surfaced, had announced use of the drug could save lives. Horton had labelled Trump&#8217;s withdrawal of U.S. funding of the World Health Organization &#8220;a crime against humanity&#8221; after the WHO&#8217;s politicization of the coronavirus, including behaving as a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party when it condemned Trump&#8217;s Jan. 31 ban on travel from China.
The number of Americans killed by the medical boards, the pharmaceutical boards, the FDA and the CDC for not allowing doctors to prescribe hydroxychloroquine in the early days following a patient&#8217;s diagnosis with COVID-19 and outside of a hospital setting, and the number killed by the doctors who could but would not prescribe hydroxychloroquine, is likely in the tens of thousands. On my radio show, Yale University epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch said, &#8220;Because we were blocked from using it (hydroxychloroquine) in the United States to the present point, probably at least 100,000 people have died.&#8221;
Based on the retracted study in The Lancet, The Washington Post headlined &#8220;Hydroxychloroquine Drug Promoted by Trump as Coronavirus &#8216;Game-Changer&#8217; Increasingly Linked to Deaths.&#8221; And social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter immediately remove any citation of a scientist who promotes hydroxychloroquine.
A fourth example is the American Psychological Association, or the APA, choosing leftism over psychology in declaring, &#8220;40 years of research (show that) traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly.&#8221;
The one good thing to come out of the APA&#8217;s pathologizing masculinity is that people searching for a competent psychotherapist for themselves or their child now have an easy method by which to identify the incompetent: Simply ask the prospective therapist if he or she agrees with the APA statement. If they do, or if they merely hesitate to distance themselves from it, you know you want another therapist.
Forthcoming columns will deal with more areas of life ruined by the Left, including, most troubling of all, America itself.
As seen in their treatment of the statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the Left can tear down, but it cannot build.
*Editor&#8217;s note: The debate over the potential efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in treating and preventing COVID-19 has continued throughout the pandemic, with some studies suggesting it can be effective while other studies found &#8220;no evidence to suggest hydroxychloroquine saved lives,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/21/fact-check-hydroxychloroquine-hasnt-helped-covid-19-studies-show/5407547002/">USA Today</a> details. The U.S. National Library of Medicine&#8217;s <a href="https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a601240.html">Medline Plus</a> provides the following summary on hydroxychloroquine as it relates to COVID-19: 
<blockquote>The FDA had approved an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) on March 28, 2020 to allow distribution of hydroxychloroquine to treat adults and adolescents who weigh at least 110 pounds (50 kg) and who are hospitalized with COVID-19, but who are unable to participate in a clinical study. However, FDA canceled this on June 15, 2020 because clinical studies showed that hydroxychloroquine is unlikely to be effective for treatment of COVID-19 in these patients and some serious side effects, such as irregular heartbeat, were reported.
The FDA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) state that hydroxychloroquine should ONLY be taken for the treatment of COVID-19 under the direction of a doctor in a clinical study. Do not buy this medication online without a prescription. If you experience irregular heartbeats, dizziness, or fainting while taking hydroxychloroquine, call 911 for emergency medical treatment. If you have other side effects, be sure to tell your doctor.</blockquote>
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on Sept. 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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PRAGER: Everything The Left Touches It Ruins. Now Add Science.

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Americans have long been proud of the fact that, unlike European countries, America never went the route of totalitarianism as embodied in communism, fascism and Nazism.
This achievement may be coming to an end.
In order to understand why, it is first necessary to understand why European countries embraced — or fell victim to — totalitarian doctrines.
Until World War I, the primary beliefs that gave life meaning, both on a national and personal level, were Judeo-Christian religions and patriotism (love of one&#8217;s nation). What gave people moral guidance were Judeo-Christian values.
For most Europeans of the younger generation, World War I, with its seemingly senseless slaughter of millions, ended belief in Christianity and, in many cases, ended the people&#8217;s faith in their nations. God was deemed absent; religion was deemed unnecessary; and national identity was widely seen as a cause of the war.
That left a void that was almost immediately filled by communism, fascism and Nazism.
In Russia, World War I led directly to the Russian Revolution. Even before the war ended, in 1917, the czar was overthrown, and later that year, the Bolsheviks (the Russian communists) took over. As awful as the czar was, there was far more freedom under him than there was in the Soviet Union until the fall of communism 72 years later, not to mention the murder of more people — 20 to 40 million — under the Soviet regime.
In Italy, the rise of fascism followed World War I. And in Germany, the Nazis came to power just 15 years after the end of the Great War. Nazism conquered most of the European continent during WWII, and after Germany&#8217;s defeat in 1945, the Soviets imposed communism over all of Eastern Europe.
Though there were communists, communist fellow travelers, Nazi sympathizers, racists and anti-Semites in the United States, neither communism nor fascism nor Nazism took root here. The primary reason was that, unlike most Europeans, Americans did not lose their faith in Judeo-Christian religions and values or in America after World War I. America remained so religious that, in 1954, the words &#8220;under God&#8221; were inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance recited daily in American schools.
However, by the 1950s, faith in America, Christianity and what we call bourgeois middle-class values was largely limited to older Americans. The post-World War II baby-boomer generation was already being indoctrinated in secularism and anti-Americanism. As early as 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school prayer was unconstitutional.
By the late 1960s, vast numbers of baby boomers were attending demonstrations that were as much against America — routinely characterized as an imperialist and colonialist aggressor country with an evil military — as they were against the war in Vietnam. It was not uncommon to see America spelled &#8220;Amerikkka&#8221; or &#8220;Amerika&#8221; at protests and in graffiti.
When I was in graduate school at Columbia University in the early 1970s, I was taught that men and women are not inherently different from one another and that the Cold War was between two superpowers (equally at fault), not between freedom and tyranny.
Another generation has passed, and the post-Christian, left-wing baby boomers have come close to achieving complete success. The mainstream print and electronic media, universities, high schools and elementary schools, the arts and now sports have all been conquered by the Left. Except for sports, from the beginning of the 20th century, they were almost all liberal, but now they are Left.
We now have the answer to the question: What will happen to America if Americans lose faith in God and country as the Europeans did after World War I? What will happen to America when Christianity dies as it did in Europe after World War I?
The way things now look, America may have its bout with some totalitarian doctrine — almost surely some form of leftism. Liberty has never been a left-wing value. From Lenin on, wherever the Left has come to power, it has suppressed liberty, beginning with free speech. Already, despite a Republican president and a Republican Senate, America has less free speech than at any time in its history. Exactly one year ago, I testified before a Senate subcommittee and wrote an op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal about YouTube (owned by Google) placing more than 100 Prager University, or PragerU, videos on its restricted list.
And things have gotten much worse. Last week, PragerU was locked out of its Twitter account for retweeting a press conference of eight physicians in Washington, D.C., which had already received 17 million views, and Facebook has just informed us that if we even cite studies that show possible benefits of hydroxychloroquine (with zinc) in the early stages of a patient with COVID-19, we will lose our Facebook account.
And then there is the &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; — which is merely a euphemism for leftist suppression of dissent. People are booted from internet platforms, fired from their jobs or have their reputations smeared and their businesses ruined for differing with the Left — on anything.
We are also undergoing a nonviolent (as of now) version of Mao Zedong&#8217;s Cultural Revolution, with individuals forced to issue humiliating public recantations of their beliefs and attend reeducation sessions (we don&#8217;t yet have reeducation camps, but they should not be ruled out as a possibility if the Left is in control).
Another communist norm taking root in America is the rewriting of the American past. We are living a famous Soviet dissident joke: &#8220;In the Soviet Union, the future is known; it is the past that is always changing.&#8221;
On almost all social issues and many economic ones, the American Left is more radical than the Left in Europe. Europeans across the political spectrum are more wary of ideological fanaticism because of the vast scale of death and suffering that resulted from communism, fascism and Nazism.
One might say that Europe was inoculated against fanaticism. Europeans are more preoccupied with working less, traveling more and being taken care of than with ideological movements. But America, which has not suffered under fanatical, irrational, liberty-depriving ideologies, has not been inoculated.
Without such a vaccination, what replaced Christianity in Europe may well do the same in America.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: Why America Is In Real Danger

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What are the two most hated countries in the world?
America and Israel.
Who hates both America and Israel?
The left (and Islamists).
And why is that? Why does the left (not liberals, the left) hate America and Israel?
In &#8220;Why the Jews; The Reason for Antisemitism,&#8221; a book I co-authored with Rabbi Joseph Telushkin in 1983 (the latest edition was published in 2016), we compared hatred of America with hatred of Jews.
This is what we wrote. It precisely explains what is happening in America today.
&#8220;Perhaps the best way to understand the admiration and resentment elicited by the quality of Jewish life is to compare the reactions of the world to America&#8217;s quality of life. No other country has so many people seeking to move there. At the same time, no country, with the exception of Israel, is the target of so many hateful and false attacks.
&#8220;The United States, because of its success and its ideals, challenges many people throughout the world. How did America, a nation composed largely of those rejected by other societies (&#8216;The wretched refuse of your teeming shore&#8217; declare the words at the base of the Statue of Liberty), become the most affluent, freest, most powerful, and most influential society in the world? Americans generally attribute this success to the values of America&#8217;s founding generations (such as individual liberty, religious tolerance, Judeo-Christian morality, and secular government), to a work ethic, and to the subsequent waves of immigrants who embraced these values. Enemies of America attribute it to the country&#8217;s natural resources, just as many people attribute Jewish success to their natural resource, alleged greater innate intelligence. Others claim that through capitalist exploitation, America cheated poorer countries, paralleling charges that Jewish success has been attained through economic &#8216;bloodsucking.&#8217; Still others develop an imperialist version of America&#8217;s past and present, similar to the anti-Jewish charge of a world Jewish conspiracy.
&#8220;But the United States is hardly the only society with great natural resources, and it has been the least imperialistic of the world&#8217;s powers. America&#8217;s values, not unfair resource distribution or world exploitation, have made the United States better, just as Judaism and its values, not genetic advantage or economic conspiracies, account for the quality of life led by Jews. The two people&#8217;s quality of life has provoked similar reactions — many admire them, and many resent them.&#8221;
Just like the Jews, America is hated because it is successful. For over a century, it has been the most successful country in the world — in virtually every way. If having had slavery was a real issue in the left&#8217;s anti-Americanism, the left would hate the Arab world and Latin American countries such as Brazil more than it hates the United States. While The New York Times and other left-wing institutions are preoccupied with slavery in America, they ignore — out of ideological nonconcern or out of sheer ignorance — the vastly larger number of Africans enslaved by Muslim and South American nations.
Of the more than 12 million African slaves shipped to the Western Hemisphere, only about 3% — between 306,000 and 380,000 — were sent to the United States. The other 97% were sent to the Caribbean and Brazil. And the slaves in the U.S. South lived longer and made larger families than the slaves of Latin America. Yet, the U.S. is singled out for hatred. Why? Because the left doesn&#8217;t resent Brazil. Brazil is not an object of envy.
Likewise, there is no left-wing hatred of the Arab world, which enslaved far more blacks than the North and South Americas combined did. The internationally recognized expert on African history, Senegalese anthropologist Tidiane N&#8217;Diaye, wrote: &#8220;Most people still have the so-called Transatlantic (slave) trade by Europeans into the New World in mind. But in reality the Arab-Muslim slavery was much greater. &#8230; The Arab Muslims were the most murderous of all those involved in the slave trade.&#8221; Part of that murderous treatment of African slaves involved castrating the males so they could not reproduce. And the women and girls were traded as sex slaves.
Where is the leftist anger at the Arab and Muslim world? There is, of course, none. On the contrary, the left protects the Muslim and Arab world against moral criticism.
The left hates America for its success and influence on the world, just as anti-Semites hated Jews for their success and influence on the world.
The left doesn&#8217;t hate America because it is bad. It hates America because it is good. If the left hated evil, it would love America and hate its enemies.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; came to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: Anti-Americanism: The New Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism

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If you take black and white left-wing rhetoric seriously, blacks are not human beings like members of other races. They are first and foremost black; they are human beings defined before anything else by their color — not their humanity, their personality, their character, their mind or their heart. So much so that, according to white and black leftists, if you dissent from this racist view, you are now labelled racist.
The idiocy and inhumanity (literally) of this, the &#8220;progressive&#8221; view of black people, is easily demonstrated. Do any blacks see themselves first as black? When a black man, let&#8217;s call him James, looks into the mirror, does he first see a black person, or does he see James? When a white woman, let&#8217;s call her Karen (I&#8217;m playing with the left here), looks into the mirror, does she first see a white person, or does she see Karen? Does any human being first see his or her color?
Of course not. Yet, we are supposed to believe that the most important thing about a black individual is that he or she is black. And if we do not honor that fact — if we aim to be &#8220;colorblind&#8221; — then we are labelled racist.
This dehumanizing nonsense goes for racial truth these days. Thus, for example, we who are not black are supposed to acknowledge that we cannot possibly see the world the way a black person sees the world; we cannot possibly understand what it is like to be black. This is part of the dogma the left imposes on society through the media, through cancel culture (say that you are colorblind and you might lose your job and your reputation), and through racial sensitivity training seminars at colleges and in the workplace.
But all this does is promulgate the view that blacks are inherently different from all other people. As a result, the only way the left&#8217;s view of blacks differs from that of white supremacists is that the latter believe blacks are inherently inferior, whereas the left believes blacks are inherently different. But both the left and the white supremacists agree that race contains immutable characteristics.
Aside from its inherent racism, the progressive view of blacks is pablum. No one can see the world through another&#8217;s eyes. No one can fully understand what it is like to be any other human being. Do all whites understand how other whites see the world? One of the ongoing jokes in the public dialogues I have with Adam Carolla around the country is how much we think alike despite the fact that our backgrounds could hardly be more different.
Other than being white and male, we have essentially nothing in common. He is an atheist; I am a religious believer. He is Italian; I&#8217;m a Jew. He grew up poor and on food stamps in Los Angeles; I grew up in a solid middle-class home in Brooklyn. He had little formal education and never went to college; I grew up in a house of intellectuals and went to an Ivy League graduate school. Even though I cannot &#8220;relate&#8221; to his experience or he to mine, we are nevertheless very close because, in addition to that intangible thing that creates friendships, we have the same values.
On the other hand, I am a Jew, and George Soros is a Jew. Other than the same ethnic ancestry, we have absolutely nothing in common. I have far more in common with the black conservative intellectual Larry Elder. The notion that race or ethnicity bonds people is both stupid and racist.
The prominent black conservative John McWhorter, a Columbia professor, just wrote a review of &#8220;White Fragility,&#8221; the book the left most frequently recommends to explain America&#8217;s alleged systemic racism. The title? &#8220;The Dehumanizing Condescension of &#8216;White Fragility.'&#8221;
McWhorter writes:
&#8220;One of America&#8217;s favorite advice books of the moment is actually a racist tract.&#8221;
&#8220;The book diminishes Black people in the name of dignifying us.&#8221;
(I suspect it was The Atlantic&#8217;s choice to capitalize &#8220;black&#8221;; the syndicators of my own column once changed &#8220;black&#8221; to &#8220;Black&#8221; because they follow the Associated Press&#8217; rules for English.)
&#8220;&#8216;White Fragility&#8217; is the prayer book for what can only be described as a cult.&#8221;
&#8220;A corollary question is why Black people need to be treated the way DiAngelo assumes we do. The very assumption is deeply condescending to all proud Black people.&#8221;
&#8220;Few books about race have more openly infantilized Black people than this supposedly authoritative tome. Or simply dehumanized us.&#8221;
&#8220;Her answer to white fragility, in other words, entails an elaborate and pitilessly dehumanizing condescension toward Black people. The sad truth is that anyone falling under the sway of this blinkered, self-satisfied, punitive stunt of a primer has been taught, by a well-intentioned but tragically misguided pastor, how to be racist in a whole new way.&#8221;
McWhorter understands that to see blacks the way the white and black left want people to see them is to dehumanize blacks. If blacks are black before they are human — if no nonblacks can relate to blacks, disagree with blacks or want to see past color to the person&#8217;s heart — black-nonblack relations will have been set back a half-century.
Incredibly, beginning this coming year, thanks to progressive teachers, there will be mandatory reading of racist tracts like &#8220;White Fragility&#8221; to dehumanize blacks. That any black would see this as progress is worthy of tears.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; came to theaters in the fall of 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: The Dehumanization Of Blacks

African American community

White Fragility

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The left-wing charge that America is a racist country is the greatest national libel since the Blood Libel against the Jews. America is, in fact, the least racist multiracial, multiethnic country in world history.
Neither the claim that America is a racist society nor the claim that it is the least racist country can be empirically proven. Both are assessments. But honest people do need to provide arguments for their position. I have found every argument that America is racist, let alone &#8220;systemically&#8221; racist, wanting. For example, the police almost never kill unarmed blacks, and on the rare occasions they do (about 15 times a year), there is almost always a valid reason (as in the infamous 2014 case in Ferguson, Missouri); police kill more unarmed whites than blacks; the reason there are proportionately so many more blacks in prison is that blacks disproportionately commit violent crimes; and so on.
There are very powerful arguments against the charge that America is a racist society.
I offered one in my column last week:
No. 1: If there is so much racism in America, why are there so many false claims of racism and outright race hoaxes?
I offered 15 recent examples. Moreover, there were probably no racist hoaxes when America really was racist, just as there were no anti-Semitic hoaxes in 1930s Germany, when there was rampant anti-Semitism. You need hoaxes when the real thing is hard to find.
No. 2: The constant references to slavery.
If there were a great deal of racism in America today, there would be no reason to constantly invoke slavery and the Confederacy. The very fact that The New York Times, the leader in racist dishonesty, felt it necessary to issue its &#8220;1619 Project,&#8221; which seeks to replace 1776 as the founding of America with 1619, when the first African slaves arrived in America, is a perfect illustration of the point. The fact that &#8220;The 1619 Project&#8221; was labeled false by the leading American historians of that era (all of whom are liberals and at least one of whom led a campaign to impeach President Donald Trump) adds fuel to the argument. Even regarding the past, the promoters of the &#8220;America is racist&#8221; libel need to lie to paint America as bad as possible.
No. 3: The reliance on lies.
&#8220;The 1619 Project,&#8221; which will now be taught in thousands of American schools, is based on lies. All Americans who care about America and/or truth should inquire if their children&#8217;s school will teach this and, if so, place their child in a school that does not.
Two of the biggest lies are that preserving slavery was the real cause of the American Revolution and that slavery is what made America rich.
Even the charge of endemic racist police brutality is a lie. There are undoubtedly racist police, but racism does not characterize police interactions with blacks.
No. 4: The large African immigration to the United States.
Nearly 2 million black Africans and more than 1 million blacks from the Caribbean have emigrated to the United States in just the last 20 years. Why would so many blacks voluntarily move to a country that is &#8220;systemically racist,&#8221; a country, according to the promoters of the &#8220;America is racist&#8221; libel, in which every single white is a racist? Are all these blacks dumb? Are they ignorant? And what about the millions more who would move here if they were allowed to? How does one explain the fact that Nigerians, for example, are among the most successful immigrant communities?
No. 5: The preoccupation with &#8220;microaggressions.&#8221;
According to the University of California&#8217;s list of racist &#8220;microaggressions,&#8221; saying, &#8220;There is only one race, the human race,&#8221; is a &#8220;racist microaggression.&#8221; This is, of course, Orwellian doublespeak. Anyone who believes there is only one race is not, by definition, a racist. If everyone in the past had believed there was one race, the human race, there would never have been racism, let alone a slave trade based on racism.
The very fact that the left came up with the intellectual farce known as &#8220;microaggressions,&#8221; like the race hoaxes, proves how little racism there is in America — because the entire thesis is based on the fact that there are so few real, or &#8220;macro,&#8221; aggressions.
The race riots, the ruining of people&#8217;s careers and lives over something said or done at any time in their lives, the ruining of professional sports (especially basketball and football), the tearing down of America and its history, the smearing of moral giants like Abraham Lincoln — all of this is being done because of a lie.
As I wrote in a column three years ago: &#8220;The Jews survived the Blood Libel. But America may not survive the American Libel. While the first Libel led to the death of many Jews, the present Libel may lead to the death of a civilization. Indeed, the least oppressive ever created.&#8221;
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; came to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.
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PRAGER: 5 Arguments Against ‘America Is A Racist Country’

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As I wrote nearly three years ago: &#8220;Perhaps the second greatest libel — and certainly the most widespread — is that America is a racist country that oppresses its minorities and women. We can call it the American Libel.&#8221; (The greatest libel was the infamous blood libel, the fabricated charge spread in Europe for hundreds of years by Christian anti-Semites that Jews kill Christian children to use their blood to bake matzos — unleavened bread — for Passover.)
But if America is so racist, why are there so many race hoaxes? Virtually every time we read about a swastika painted on a door, or a noose hanging from a tree to taunt blacks, it turns out to be either a false alarm or, more frequently, a hoax.
Here are a dozen examples:
No. 1: The Duke lacrosse team (2006): Three white members of the Duke University lacrosse team were falsely accused by Crystal Mangum, a black student at North Carolina Central University, with having raped her. The charges were all fabricated, but the American media and Duke University faculty rushed to judgment and devoted months to smearing the three lacrosse players and Duke University itself as racist.
No. 2: UC San Diego library noose (2010): &#8220;Student apologizes for noose in UC San Diego library&#8221; (Los Angeles Times). A &#8220;minority student&#8221; was responsible for placing the noose in the university library. Previously, the Associated Press had reported, &#8220;Anger boiled over on the University of California San Diego campus today, where students took over the chancellor&#8217;s office to protest the hanging of a noose in a campus library.&#8221;
No. 3: Truck at Oakland&#8217;s Corporation Yard (2014): &#8220;A reported &#8216;noose&#8217; tied to the back of a city truck in August, which stirred already simmering racial tensions at Oakland&#8217;s Corporation Yard, was not an intended act of racial harassment, a city-commissioned report has found&#8221; (Mercury News).
No. 4: University of Delaware (2015): &#8220;&#8216;Nooses&#8217; Found Hanging on University of Delaware Campus Were Lanterns&#8221; (NBC).
University President Nancy Targett had earlier announced, &#8220;We are both saddened and disturbed that this deplorable act has taken place on our campus.&#8221;
No. 5: The LSU noose (2015): It was widely reported that a noose was sighted at Louisiana State University leading to protests against racism there. It was later reported, &#8220;LSU said a picture of what appeared to be a noose hanging from a campus tree Thursday was not what it appeared to be&#8221; (WBRZ).
No. 6: University at Albany (2016): &#8220;A state appeals court has upheld the University at Albany&#8217;s expulsion of a woman who along with two friends falsely claimed to be the victim of a racially motivated attack on a CDTA bus in January 2016&#8221; (Times-Union). The three black women had attacked a white woman and then claimed they had been racially attacked.
No. 7: Bowling Green State University (2016): &#8220;Bowling Green police say student lied about politically driven attack&#8221; (ABC).
&#8220;The day after the 2016 election, Eleesha Long, a student at Bowling Green State University — about 90 miles west of Oberlin — said that she was attacked by white Trump supporters, who threw rocks at her. Police concluded that she had fabricated the story&#8221; (City Journal).
No. 8: Dreadlock cutting hoax (2019): &#8220;A black student at a Christian school in Virginia who accused three white sixth grade boys of cutting her dreadlocks and calling her ugly now says she was lying about the attack&#8221; (NBC).
No. 9: Jussie Smollett (2019): In one of the most notorious hoaxes, actor Jussie Smollett claimed he was attacked by white racists in Chicago on a freezing night. The story was a hoax. The &#8220;noose&#8221; was a rope his two co-conspirators had purchased for staging the &#8220;attack.&#8221;
No. 10: Oakland&#8217;s Lake Merritt (2020): After the city of Oakland launched a hate crime investigation regarding a noose hanging from park trees, Victor Anari Sengbe, a black man, tweeted: &#8220;It&#8217;s not a noose, this guy climbed the tree and put up the rope for a swing months ago, folks used it to exercise&#8230; ITS NOT A NOOSE.&#8221;
Nevertheless, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf then tweeted, &#8220;Intentions do not matter. We will not tolerate symbols of hate in our city. The nooses found at Lake Merritt will be investigated as hate crimes.&#8221;
No. 11: NASCAR (2020): A &#8220;noose&#8221; was found in the Talladega, Alabama, racetrack garage assigned to black NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace. FBI investigators determined it to be one of several such ropes placed sometime the year before in Talladega garages as door pulls, long before that garage was ever assigned to Wallace. But Wallace continued to maintain it was, in fact, a noose.
No. 12: University of La Verne (2020): &#8220;Racist Threats and Attacks that Rattled a California University Campus Were Faked, Police Say&#8221; (Newsweek).
There is not enough space in a column to cite all the hoaxes and mistaken charges of racism in recent decades. Interested readers can also look up: a hoax perpetrated by Fynn Arthur, a black student at Goucher College in 2018; Samantha Wells, a black student activist, who was responsible for a racist threat she left on her own car at St. Olaf College in 2017; and the hoax perpetrated by three black Oberlin students, Jonathan Aladin, Endia Lawrence and Cecelia Whettstone, who claimed racial profiling at Gibson&#8217;s Bakery, which, after serving Oberlin for over 100 years, was nearly put out of business by the false claims.
Here&#8217;s why this is so important. If there were a lot of racism, there would be no need for hoaxes. No Jew in Germany in the 1930s made up an anti-Semitic hoax. No Jewish shop owner ever made up a charge that a Nazi hurled a rock through his store window. The reason? None was needed. Nazi hatred against Jews was real. It didn&#8217;t have to be faked. To convince people that America is racist, you have to fake it.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; came to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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PRAGER: If America Is So Racist, Why Are There So Many Race Hoaxes?

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According to the make-believe world of the left, we are experiencing a great moment in American racial history. For the first time, the story goes, more whites than ever are coming to realize how racist America is, how racist cops are and how systemically racist everything in America is. Only now do many Americans understand just how racist Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, Ulysses Grant, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, &#8220;whitening&#8221; agents, meritocracy, Western culture, Christianity, jailing Blacks and the NFL are. The bestselling book in America is about alleged &#8220;white fragility&#8221; — the term for any rational response to the irrational charge that all whites are racist.
All this is supposed to be good for America&#8217;s Blacks.
But none of it is. In fact, it is all destructive.
Take the movement to defund police departments and the incessant charges of &#8220;police brutality&#8221; and &#8220;racist police.&#8221; Only those who don&#8217;t care about Blacks other than using them to advance their power — Democrats and the rest of the left, both Black and white — argue this war against the police is good for Blacks. Already the increase in the number of Blacks murdered, not to mention injured, is reaching levels unseen in decades. And there is every reason to assume, as police pull back from high-crime areas, it will get worse.
Take the left-wing mantra that all whites are racist. If I wanted to obstruct Black progress, and especially damage Black children, I couldn&#8217;t come up with a more effective idea. To believe from early childhood that you walk through life held in contempt by all of your fellow citizens who are white is to walk through life with much more than a chip on your shoulder. It is more like a heavy boulder.
It means that you will walk through life with two paralyzing burdens: anger and victimhood. Either one is enough to ruin your life. Combined they&#8217;re devastating. It gives one an idea of how cynical the left is that it would want to cultivate both of these life-ruining emotions in as many Blacks as possible.
Anger and victimhood not only ruin the individual&#8217;s life but also destroy one&#8217;s relationships with others. Everyone who has an angry individual in their family knows not only how unhappy that person is but also how much havoc they wreak on the rest of the family. The same holds true for the relative who sees him or herself as a perpetual victim. Such people are both miserable and miserable to be around. And since victimhood is a major cause of evil — people who see themselves as victims usually think they are not nearly as bound by moral rules as others are — they are more likely to hurt others.
The &#8220;protesters&#8221; who destroy and loot think their victim status allows them to destroy and loot. The man identified as the president of the greater New York Black Lives Matter, Hawk Newsome, recently told Fox News: &#8220;If this country doesn&#8217;t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking &#8230; figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It&#8217;s a matter of interpretation.&#8221;
In a report yesterday on a police shooting of a robber who resisted arrest and reached for an object in his waistband, the San Diego Union-Tribune quoted a protest organizer: &#8220;If this young man was robbing, that means his state and his government failed to provide him with the resources he needs.&#8221; When you feel you are a victim, you are allowed to rob.
Take the constant, often absurd, charges of racism at the most benign comments. If you say, for example, that you see nothing wrong with the picture of Uncle Ben on a box of rice, you will be accused of racism. As a result, most whites understand they can no longer speak truthfully or from the heart in the presence of a Black American. It is hard to imagine a worse recipe for genuine relationships between the races. Whereas the great majority of whites, and even most Blacks, thought white-Black relations were good and improving when Barack Obama assumed office, a minority of both groups think so today.
Take the assault on merit-based advancement in the name of racial equality. Will this help or hinder Blacks? It will obviously help some Blacks in the short run. But over the long term, telling any group they needn&#8217;t meet a universal standard of excellence can only harm that group — not to mention harm the way their success will be viewed by others. Moreover, it is difficult to imagine a more condescending view of a group than to argue that standards must be lowered for them to succeed.
The damage the left is doing to America may be mortal. When it is widely deemed OK to destroy statues of Abraham Lincoln, society is experiencing a moral earthquake which may eventually destroy it. But the damage the left is doing to so many Blacks — to their moral compass, to their happiness and to their relations with their white fellow citizens — is not in the realm of &#8220;may do.&#8221; It is done.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; came to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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PRAGER: The Present Moment Has Set Blacks Back A Half-Century

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If you are a Jew or Christian in America, the seriousness of your Judaism or Christianity is now being tested.
People look back in time and wonder how religious people, especially religious leaders — specifically, the clergy — could have failed in times of moral crisis. The failure of most rabbis, priests and pastors to speak out today — when the risk to personal safety is so much less than it was in communist and fascist countries — should provide the answer: Religion doesn&#8217;t have all that much impact on most religious people. During comfortable times, it provides two essentials to a happy and fulfilled life — community and meaning — but when tested, it often fails like an umbrella that fails to expand just as it starts to rain.
America is being taken over by violent mobs; a vast amount of destruction and stealing has taken place (with little police intervention and the apathy of our political leaders). Why aren&#8217;t all clergy delivering thundering sermons about the Seventh Commandment, &#8220;Thou shalt not steal&#8221;? Does it now come with an asterisk?
A central part of a major American city has been seized and occupied by people who hate America and its values, including its Judeo-Christian values. Heard any clergy (aside from some evangelical Christians) speaking out against it?
And most ominous by far, for the first time in American history, free speech — the mother of all freedoms — is being widely suppressed, not by the government but by the press, the universities, the high schools, the elementary schools, all the giant internet media, Hollywood and virtually every major business in America. Christians and Jews place repentance at the center of their theologies, yet there is no place for repentance if you did or said one insensitive thing — real or alleged — even if it was 20 or more years ago. Yet all we get from American religious leaders on this matter is &#8230; silence.
The freest, least racist, most opportunity-providing country in history — &#8220;the last best hope of earth,&#8221; in Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s words — is smeared as &#8220;systemically racist&#8221;; all white people are declared &#8220;racist&#8221;; and the statues of the greatest Americans, including George Washington and even Abraham Lincoln, are toppled and/or defaced. And all we get from most American religious leaders is either agreement or silence.
It leads this religious American to ask the question the anti-religious ask: Of what use is religion?
Take the claim that being &#8220;colorblind&#8221; is racist.
If you are a religious Jew or Christian — let alone a rabbi, priest or minister — do you believe that? Do you believe that the human ideal is not to be colorblind? Do you believe that the ideal is to see every person, first and foremost, as a member of a race? Is that what you learned at seminary? Is that what you have taught from your pulpit all of your life?
I doubt it. I assume that, until as recently as a year or even six months ago, you have always believed and preached that we are, in Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s words, to measure people not by &#8220;the color of their skin but by the content of their character.&#8221;
Isn&#8217;t it fundamental to all Bible-based religions that we are all created in God&#8217;s image, that God has no race and that Adam and Eve, from whom we all descend, had no race? If you are a Christian, do you see Christians of other races first as fellow Christians or first as members of their race? If you are a Jew, do you see Jews of other races as anything other than fellow Jews? Does God?
So, why the silence? Why aren&#8217;t all rabbis, priests and pastors telling their congregations and telling America — in tweets, on Facebook, in letters to the editor, on television and radio, in opinion pieces — that there is one race, the human race, and that the only antidote to racism is to deny that race determines our worth, not to affirm its significance?
Does an ideology that affirms the significance of race have an honorable pedigree? Has it ever led to anything good? Isn&#8217;t that exactly what Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan advocated?
So, how are we to explain this tragic failure of religious Jews and Christians — and their clergy — to speak up against looting (aka stealing) and for freedom, for America, for Western civilization and for being colorblind?
The answer to this question also goes to the core of what it means to be religious. At the center of our two religions is the notion of fear of God: &#8220;Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man&#8221; (Ecclesiastes 12:13). But what is now apparent is that most Jews and Christians fear the left, fear The New York Times, fear being shunned by &#8220;friends&#8221; on Facebook and mobbed on Twitter more than they fear God.
That&#8217;s what this moment comes down to. Jews and Christians who fail this test will not only lose their freedom, lose the great American hope for mankind and lose the West; they will have also lost their souls.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; came to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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PRAGER: America’s Jews And Christians Are Failing The Test Of Their Lives

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&#8220;Do not follow the majority to do evil.&#8221; — Exodus 23:2.
When I went to yeshiva day schools, America was celebrated. America was regarded, in the description of Menachem Schneerson (the Lubavitcher rebbe), the most influential rabbi of the 20th century, as a &#8220;medina shel chesed&#8221; — &#8220;a country of kindness.&#8221;
He knew, as all American Jews knew, that there were many anti-Semites in America, that America should have done more for the Jews of Europe, that universities like Harvard limited the number of Jewish students, that prestigious law firms and country clubs barred Jews, etc. So, then, why did he describe America as a country of kindness? Why did my yeshiva in Brooklyn put on plays honoring George Washington? Why did my Orthodox Jewish day school utilize texts not only celebrating America but affirming America as a &#8220;melting pot&#8221;? Why did a Jew, Irving Berlin, write &#8220;God bless America&#8221;?
The primary reason was that these Jews knew what the rest of the world was like. They had the wisdom to compare America with other countries, not, as the foolish, nihilistic left does, to utopia. Compared with the rest of the world, America was — and remains — a medina shel chesed.
Was it such a country for every one of its citizens? Of course not. At the time Rabbi Schneerson described America as a &#8220;country of kindness,&#8221; the southern half of America enforced immoral and degrading Jim Crow laws, and racism was common in the North as well. I have noted the anti-Semitism in American life at that time. And gays were often ostracized and degraded.
But the Torah teaches us that we are not to compare the past with the present. That is why Noah, the man God saves from the Flood, is described in Genesis as righteous &#8220;in his generations.&#8221; If Noah were to be compared with people in later generations, he would be found wanting. Abraham, the man chosen by God to be the father of His People, had a concubine and lied about his wife to save his own life. But only fools — like all those who want to tear down monuments to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — would dismiss Abraham&#8217;s greatness. Jacob, the man God renamed &#8220;Israel,&#8221; owned slaves. Should Jews cease calling themselves the &#8220;children of Israel&#8221;? Should the State of Israel change its name?
That is what Jewish — and all religious — schools should be teaching when discussing Washington or Jefferson having slaves. If we are to dismiss the greatness of two of the founders of the freest country in human history — not to mention the best non-Jewish country Jews have ever lived in — then we should do likewise to the Jewish patriarchs. Moses had a fellow Israelite executed for publicly violating the Sabbath. Should his sculpture be removed from the Supreme Court? Will Jewish day schools start dismissing the greatness of all our ancestors? If they start doing this to Washington and Jefferson, they should be consistent.
Or should they do what the Torah does? While never ignoring the flaws of giants, remember why they were giants.
Will Jewish and Christian schools — there is no hope for wisdom in secular schools — teach that every society in world history, including African, Native American and Arab societies, all practiced slavery? If not, why not? Isn&#8217;t it morally and factually dishonest to teach only about slavery in America?
What should be taught is that America&#8217;s and the Western world&#8217;s uniqueness did not lie in having slaves. Slavery was universal. Therefore, the morally serious person asks who abolished slavery, not who practiced it. But the left — as opposed to liberals and conservatives — is not now, nor ever has been, morally serious.
When you ask the only morally significant question — who abolished slavery? — the answer is America and some other Western countries. And then you should teach the reason: because of Western values rooted in the Bible. One would think that fact would be central to the curriculum of every Jewish and Christian school that takes their religion seriously. But much of contemporary Christianity and Judaism — including Jewish and Christian schools — has been influenced more by the left than by Christianity or Judaism.
If your school cares about truth, it should try to teach all the facts while acknowledging the history of racism and including the history of police racism. One such fact is that in August 2019, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded there is &#8220;no significant evidence of antiblack disparity in the likelihood of being fatally shot by police.&#8221;
A Jewish school might also wish to note that, according to a 2016 Anti-Defamation League survey, &#8220;&#8216;anti-Semitic views&#8217; among black respondents were materially more common than among whites.&#8221; The Washington Post reported two years earlier, &#8220;&#8216;entrenched anti-Semitic views&#8217; are far more common among African Americans and Latinos than among others.&#8221;
Indeed, in 1991, black attacks on Jews in Crown Heights, New York City, were so violent that former Mayor Ed Koch, New York Times&#8217; executive editor A.M. Rosenthal and others called it a &#8220;pogrom.&#8221; Brandeis University historian Edward S. Shapiro wrote it was &#8220;the most serious anti-Semitic incident in American history.&#8221; Will Jewish schools smear American society as &#8220;systemically&#8221; racist while making believe blacks are the only victims?
One reason this is important is so students will understand that &#8220;all whites are racist&#8221; is as vile a charge as &#8220;all blacks are anti-Semitic.&#8221;
Finally, will Jewish and Christian schools teach the central teaching of both faiths — that Adam had no race? As the sages put it: &#8220;Why was only a single specimen of man created first? To teach us that &#8230; no race or class may claim a nobler ancestry, saying, &#8216;Our father was born first.'&#8221; In other words, the Bible&#8217;s demand is that we be colorblind.
&#8220;There are only two races,&#8221; Viktor Frankl wrote, &#8220;the race of the decent and the race of the indecent.&#8221;
No Jewish or Christian parent should send their child to a Jewish or Christian school that teaches otherwise.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; came to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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PRAGER: Will Jewish And Christian Schools Teach The Truth About America And Racism?

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It takes a lot to build a civilization, and though it is much easier to destroy a civilization, it takes a lot to do that, too.
But now we have four roots of evil that are guaranteed to do so.
No. 1: Victimhood.
The first is victimhood. The more people who regard themselves as victims — as individuals or as a group — the more likely they are to commit evil. People who think of themselves as victims feel that, having been victimized, they are no longer bound by normal moral conventions — especially the moral conventions of their alleged or real oppressors.
Everyone knows this is true. But few confront this truth. Every parent, for example, knows that the child who thinks of him or herself as a perpetual victim is the child most likely to cause and get into trouble. And criminologists report that nearly every murderer in prison thinks of himself as a victim.
On a societal scale, the same holds true — and being on such a larger scale, the chances of real evil ensuing are exponentially increased. One of the most obvious examples is Germany after World War I. Most Germans regarded themselves as victims — of the Treaty of Versailles; of a &#8220;stab in the back&#8221; German government; of the British, Americans and French; and, of course, of the Jews. This sense of victimhood was one of the most important factors in the popularity of the Nazis, who promised to restore German dignity.
That millions of black Americans regard themselves as victims — probably more so today than at any time in the past 50 years — can only lead to disaster for America generally and for blacks specifically. While victims generally feel free to lash out at others, they also go through life angry and unhappy.
No. 2: Demonization.
The second of the four ingredients of this civilization-destroying witches&#8217; brew is demonization — demonizing a group as inherently evil.
That is being done now with regard to the white people of America. All — again, all — whites are declared racist. The only difference among them is that some admit it and some deny it. The notion that whites are inherently evil has long been associated with Louis Farrakhan. But it has apparently migrated out from his relatively small following to many blacks, even those who might consider Farrakhan a kook. Former President Barack Obama, hardly a Farrakhan follower, described America as having racism in its DNA. That is as close to inherently and irredeemably evil as it gets; you cannot change your DNA.
In that sense, not only are whites demonized, but America is, too. Unlike traditional liberals, the left regards America as a moral cesspool — not only racist but, according to The New York Times, founded to be so. The New York Times has created a history of America that declares its founding not in 1776 but in 1619, when the first black slaves arrived. The American Revolution was fought, according to this malign narrative, not merely for American independence but in order to preserve slavery, a practice the British would have interfered with. This &#8220;history&#8221; will now be taught in thousands of American schools.
The combination of victimhood and demonization alone is dangerous enough. But there are still two more horsemen galloping toward the looming apocalypse.
No. 3: A Cause To Believe In.
Most Americans throughout American history found great meaning in being American and in being religious — usually Christian. Since World War II, we have lived in a post-Christian, post-nationalist age. Until very recently, Americans would have found the expression &#8220;for God and country&#8221; deeply meaningful; that term today, on the left, is risible and execrable.
But people need something to believe in. The need for meaning is the greatest human need after the need for food. Leftism, with all its offshoots — feminism, environmentalism, Black Lives Matter, antifa — has filled that vacuum. In Europe, communism, fascism and Nazism filled the hole left by the demise of nationalism and Christianity. Here it is leftism and its offshoots.
No. 4: Lies.
The fourth and most important ingredient necessary for evil is lies. Lies are the root of evil. Ironically, slavery itself was made possible only because of the lie that the black was inferior to the white. Nazism was made possible thanks to the lie that Jews were not fully human. And communism was built on lies. Lenin, the father of Soviet Communism, named the Soviet communist newspaper &#8220;Truth&#8221; (&#8220;Pravda&#8221;) because truth was what the Communist Party said it was.
The New York Times, CNN and the rest of the mainstream &#8220;news&#8221; media are becoming our version of Pravda.
Objective truth doesn&#8217;t exist on the left. The universities have already declared &#8220;objective truth&#8221; as essentially an expression of &#8220;white privilege.&#8221; See what happens to a student who says in class, for example, that &#8220;men cannot give birth.&#8221;
The public self-debasement demanded of anyone who differs with the left — like New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees just did when he said not standing for the national anthem desecrated the flag and those who have died for it — happens almost daily. The only difference between this and what dissidents underwent during Mao&#8217;s Cultural Revolution is that the self-debasement here is voluntary — thus far.
Last week, when this Jew saw a store in Santa Monica with a sign reading &#8220;black-owned business&#8221; so as to avoid being destroyed, it evoked chilling memories.
That&#8217;s how bad it is in America today.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; came to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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