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0:00hello my friends dennis prager here in
0:02my home my dog my fireplace the fireside
0:05chat
0:05this is unrehearsed unscripted which is
0:09by the way a drop dangerous because I
0:13talk about very sensitive banners and
0:15it's it would be easier to read from a
0:18teleprompter for example but I really
0:20want it to be as authentic and as
0:22heartfelt as possible so what is this
0:26about a 1:45 what what are we up to 140
0:30to 140 to fireside chats you know when I
0:34started I didn't even think this would
0:36go to like for like figured I'd give it
0:38a try
0:40142 by the way there's a very
0:43interesting lesson to be learned before
0:46I officially begin so to speak what you
0:51do regularly really mounts up that's a
0:56very important lesson you don't have to
0:59do a massive amount you just have to do
1:02something regularly whatever good I'm
1:07referring to something good obviously in
1:10your life but it works if you write a
1:14little every day if you write for 20
1:18minutes every day you will be stunned at
1:22how good you get at writing how
1:23expressive of yourself I mean even the
1:25diary or just thoughts anything that's
1:29done regularly so this this is once a
1:32week but already there are a hundred
1:33forty two of them and that's once a week
1:36for a half hour that's not every day 20
1:39minutes you play piano every day for 20
1:42minutes it doesn't matter what it is
1:44it's you read something that's deep for
1:5020 minutes a day you learn to pre the
1:52incredible numbers of books good routine
1:57is critical for a same with saving money
2:01a lot of you were young you start saving
2:04a little bit of money now you'll be a
2:07millionaire later in life it's hard for
2:12you to imagine but that's true it
2:13mounts up with compound interest and so
2:15on of course at the rate the government
2:18is printing money it may not matter
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3:18know we don't we begin with me it's got
3:20video questions so here you go yeah
3:22alright so I want to actually a rare
3:25case I did make a couple of notes
3:26because I want to make four points and I
3:29want to make sure I remember them so I'd
3:32like to offer you some pretty powerful
3:34arguments against the notion that
3:36America is a racist society as I have
3:38said all of my life that's the biggest
3:41libel of my lifetime libel means false
3:44charge and it's a horrific charge
3:47against the least racist society that
3:50has many races in it it's easy to be a
3:53non racist if you will in a country
3:57that's all one race whatever that race
3:59might be but there's nothing like
4:03America it is a land of opportunity for
4:05the vast majority of people but let me
4:07give you some specific arguments that I
4:10suspect you have not heard just logic
4:13this is pure logic these arguments
4:16against the belief of that to the
4:19country is racist argument number one
4:22I'm tempted to say proof number one but
4:25I'll I'll be modest
4:27and just say I'm not being modest about
4:29me I'll be modest about the arguments
4:31I'll call them arguments rather than
4:33proofs number one if America were so
4:37racist why would there be so many race
4:41hoaxes or even sometimes just mistakes I
4:47in my most recent column um can easily
4:52find it
4:52that is Prager calm and townhall.com and
4:57then it goes to American greatness and
4:58and Daily wire and many other places
5:02pick it up and in it I give date and
5:08time date and time is the same thing the
5:11the date of a hoax in other words the
5:15most famous is justice Millette where
5:18you have this black actor claims oh I
5:20was attacked by white racists and they
5:22put a noose around my neck but of course
5:24we have the we have a video of his
5:27colleagues buying a rope for him to make
5:31up this whole thing everyone knows that
5:33he made up the entire thing and why
5:36would why are there so many hoaxes I
5:39list 15 15 documented hoaxes from
5:43mainstream media why are there so many
5:46hoaxes if there's so much racism why
5:49would people have to make up a noose or
5:52a swastika or or being called the n-word
5:56out loud or scribbled on it and why
5:59would they make it up I'll give you the
6:02dramatic example in the 1930s in Germany
6:05you think any Jews made up an
6:08anti-semitic incident of course not
6:10because Germany was filled with
6:13anti-semitism
6:14so no Jew made up an anti-semitic hoax
6:19they would they would have been lucky if
6:21they had to make hoaxes up that means
6:23that there aren't any real ones or there
6:25are very few real ones
6:26I can't there of course there are
6:28anti-semitic or I should say anti black
6:31incidents in America they're just very
6:35rare that's why they're made up so often
6:38that's argument number one why are there
6:41so many
6:42wouldn't need them would you here's
6:44another one why are we talking about
6:48slavery so much think about that
6:53it ended let's see it ended 1865 it's
6:58thirty five hundred thirty five hundred
7:00fifty five years ago slavery ended in
7:04the United States one hundred and fifty
7:06five years ago why are we constantly
7:08talking about slavery if things are so
7:10bad today just talk about today right
7:16would that wouldn't that make sense
7:18this constant reference to things that
7:21happened a hundred and and what did I
7:25just say under the forty five years ago
7:27whatever it is and and and Jim Crow
7:29which ended in the 60s 1960s that sixty
7:33years ago because they're so little
7:37today that's why that's the reason for
7:39so much America is the racist past
7:41racist past racist past okay
7:48that's to me a pretty powerful statement
7:51about if you've got to go that far back
7:55more than half the country's existence
7:57back maybe it's because that's the only
8:01time you can really find all this racism
8:03number three is all the lies that are
8:05told like like a Ferguson we have a
8:09video out on Ferguson larry larry elder
8:12gives it you always hear about Ferguson
8:15and the the the white police officer who
8:23killed Michael Brown was Michael Brown
8:26correct and that the check check that
8:30make make sure that's the name and
8:31anyway it was it was black blacks on a
8:35jury who acquitted the officer he wasn't
8:38indicted see Larry elders video at
8:41Prager you he tells you exactly what
8:45happened in Ferguson Missouri it's all a
8:49lie Michael Brown that it's all a lie
8:54that it was very racism it had nothing
8:56to do with racism the officer was
8:58attacked by the way just out of
9:00curiosity how do we even know that the
9:02terrible incident with George Floyd was
9:05racist we don't know that those guys
9:09have bad blood between them from from
9:11the past they knew each other apparently
9:13well what why does it have to do it
9:16might be racist it might not be racist
9:18the case in Atlanta where the the did
9:22you see the officers talk to the guy for
9:24a half hour like there were his pals did
9:27they look like racist to you
9:28he then fought them and then turned
9:31around after stealing an officer's taser
9:33to tase them I don't know whether it was
9:35justified or not justified the shooting
9:38of the of the black man was running away
9:41but I don't remember his name but the
9:44but you can't say for sure this was
9:47racism so we have a whole often a lot of
9:54lies about this it's you know how rare
9:59it is I mean this whole thing the police
10:01are racist according to the Washington
10:04Post 15 the last year we have records
10:07for 15 unarmed blacks were killed by
10:09police 25 unarmed White's were killed by
10:12police police anti-white how about this
10:17oh well so many blacks are in jail
10:21disproportionate to their population
10:23well do you know what most nearly
10:26everybody who's in jail for violence is
10:28male
10:29are we anti male in this society or is
10:33it because males disproportionately are
10:36involved in violent crime just as blacks
10:38disproportionately are involved in
10:40violent crime why does that say the
10:42society is racist so we have to tell
10:44lies constantly here's another one
10:49microaggressions there were so little
10:51racism in the United States that they
10:53have to make up things as being racist
10:55when they're really not
10:58I'll give you an example this is
11:01official University of California you
11:04could check it out obviously to check
11:06anything I say out
11:08if you say there's only one race the
11:11human race
11:12that's called racist but there's only
11:15one race the human race is the most
11:17beautiful thing you could say that means
11:20you're not racist by definition if the
11:23only race you care about is the human
11:25race how could you be racist the whole
11:29microaggression thing is is nonsense and
11:33why because they can't come up with the
11:36real stuff is almost never said really
11:38racist stuff so they make up stuff and
11:41call it racist
11:42that's called microaggressions all right
11:46that's just another example of of this
11:50is it here's one more
11:51why did two million black Africans move
11:53to the United States in the last 50
11:55years according to a Gallup poll of 2018
11:59the country that most Africans want to
12:01more than any other not most everyone
12:04the country that more Africans want to
12:06move to than any other in the world as
12:08the United States whoa that's pretty
12:12powerful isn't it are they stupid or all
12:14these Africans black Africans 2 million
12:17of them came to the United States last
12:1850 years why would they move to a
12:20systemically racist country
12:23it's a giant lie America being racist of
12:26course there's racism in America there's
12:28anti-semitism in America and as a Jew I
12:30will tell you and was one who taught the
12:33history of anti-semitism on the college
12:35level at Brooklyn College and wrote a
12:38book on it this is the least
12:40anti-semitic country Jews have ever
12:41lived in of course they are anti-semites
12:44here there are bad people everywhere on
12:47earth doesn't make the entire country
12:49bad all right did I hit I think I did
12:54yeah pretty strong arguments but then
13:01then people are told all but every white
13:03is racist I mean that's particularly an
13:07incredible love charge to make all it is
13:09is projection any white who says all
13:12whites are racist is talking about
13:13himself or herself not all whites what I
13:18what a stupid idea all whites are
13:21in the history of the world has there
13:24ever been such as all the whites of
13:25France racist I mean why isn't that a
13:33racist comment as soon as you attribute
13:36any quality to all all the members of a
13:43race that is the definition of racism if
13:47you said all whites are brilliant
13:50that would be racism all whites are
13:52stupid is racism all whites are racist
13:56is racism the world is upside down and I
14:00try with all my heart and soul to turn
14:05it back right-side up okay there we go
14:09take it away hi my name is Kate I am 17
14:13years old and I just graduated high
14:15school I lived here in South Jordan Utah
14:18and I'm a member of pressure force and I
14:20was wondering what your best
14:21counter-argument is when someone brings
14:23up white privilege thank you pleasure to
14:27hear from you Kate why privileges is
14:30another one of these manufactured terms
14:33some whites have privilege some whites
14:35known that privilege some blacks have
14:37privilege some blacks don't have
14:38privilege there are so many privileges
14:40in the human race that are built in that
14:43this is if you're brilliant you have you
14:46have a brilliant privilege if you are
14:49athletic you have athletic privilege the
14:53do great athletes not have the privilege
14:56of their of their ability I couldn't be
14:59a great athlete I don't have that
15:00ability great pianists have built-in
15:03privilege too but they work very hard
15:05all of them athletes pianists anybody
15:08but you know what the greatest privilege
15:10is American privilege that's the biggest
15:12privilege you're in the freest country
15:13with the most opportunities on the face
15:15of the earth which is why so many people
15:17want to move here that's real privilege
15:19you want even a bigger privilege than
15:20that how's this father privilege you
15:24have a father in your life you have a
15:27father and mother in your life you're
15:28really privileged and if they're they're
15:32pretty normal every parent is
15:34a little screwy because every human is a
15:36little screwy but if you have basically
15:39good parents Wow
15:42are you privileged 80% of black kids are
15:45born to two women who were not married
15:47to the man who conceived them that's
15:50that's a bigger problem than anything
15:53having to do with racism anything but
15:58what can we say that isn't that
15:59demeaning to blacks if you go to the
16:03doctor and he refuses to tell you what's
16:05really wrong is he doing you a favor or
16:07is he hurting you
16:10well there are pleura SH all sorts of
16:12privileges in terms of median median
16:16income whites are hardly the highest
16:19group in the United States Asians
16:23certainly I think japanese-americans by
16:26the way that's particularly ironic
16:27japanese-americans were or in in a in
16:31prison camps during World War two and
16:35look at how well they have fared and by
16:38the way put there by an icon of the left
16:40Franklin D Roosevelt and I'm not blaming
16:43Roosevelt for it I mean it was wartime I
16:45don't think I think it was the wrong
16:46decision but that's his death but I I
16:49wouldn't take down a statue of Franklin
16:51Roosevelt because of the the internment
16:53camps for Japanese there is no perfect
16:55figure from the past none zero you'll
16:59have no statues to anybody but that will
17:02talk about statues another time white
17:08privilege
17:10why do i why do white men commit suicide
17:13proportionately more than any other
17:14group in the country i guess they missed
17:17the they got they didn't get the memo
17:18you're privileged life is hard for
17:22everybody or nearly everybody so you
17:25either rise above it you meet the
17:27demands and that the challenges of life
17:29or you blame society for why you're not
17:32doing well that's your choice but you'll
17:35never grow up if you blame society
17:37you'll never succeed you'll never grow
17:40up and just be angry okay nope
17:45Matthew 40 Seattle Washington
17:48hi Dennis I'm an airplane pilot and a
17:51gay man who has been married to my
17:52husband for ten years I used to consider
17:54myself left-leaning because I thought
17:56the left was an ally to gay people in
17:58the last two years I have started
18:01identifying more with the right thanks
18:04in large part to preview videos and
18:06fireside chats good my gay friends do
18:10not agree with me not as capitalised
18:12how can I help them see that the left is
18:14not the ally to gay people they claim to
18:15be well it first of all you know dave
18:20rubin
18:20is the person that they should really
18:23address this to it because he's a gay
18:25who was liberal as whole life and has
18:28realized whoa you know what the left is
18:31not my ally
18:31not if i want a free society I mean okay
18:36so now gays marry basically even
18:39conservatives don't care if you're gay
18:41all right now I happen to believe
18:44because I'm a religious person I do
18:46believe marriage should be defined as a
18:48man and a woman for the record I'm also
18:51my wife and I at dis despite my belief
18:54in that a gay couple that is married two
18:57men have asked my wife and myself to be
19:00the godparents of their children so if
19:03they die we rear them with our values
19:07now how could that be I don't even
19:09believe in in same-sex marriage but what
19:11I ever speak against the parents to
19:12these kids they know I wouldn't they
19:15know I would raise them with with with
19:17kindness and goodness as theirs the most
19:19important values of life and God
19:21centered I mean if these battles are
19:26over again American should ask what's
19:30best for America that's what everybody
19:32should ask and then and once they do
19:36it's impossible to stay on the left
19:38impossible now he's leaving
19:46he's not even gay he's walking the
19:52circuitous route see he is so thoughtful
19:55he is not walking out of the room via
19:59the camera I don't know what he's doing
20:04all right be that as it may a rare time
20:08that otto got up in the middle actually
20:09out has not been feeling well to be
20:12honest and he's on medicine and you know
20:15it's it has some effect so I will send
20:19all of your best wishes to otto who
20:22undoubtedly will be touched yes there
20:27are so many gay conservatives by the way
20:29just to tell you my friend it's it's
20:37very sad but again Dave Rubin would be a
20:40great person who I'm sure has addressed
20:42this Rosie ten years old in New Zealand
20:46how you doin Rosie dear mr. Prager I
20:50have you want to let Otto out there
20:53that'll be great
20:54Otto is Alex's if currently opening the
20:58door I'm giving you a blow-by-blow
20:59description and now a rare time I feel a
21:04little lonely
21:05Otto's not next to me people tuning in
21:08right now we're gonna ask what happened
21:10to Otto the comments will inform them
21:15that's adorable
21:15dear mr. Prager this is from Rosie who's
21:18ten in New Zealand I've been listening
21:20to the news lately and was wondering
21:21what your opinion is on why the media
21:23make things sounds scarier than they
21:25actually are I enjoy listening to you
21:26keep up the good work I'm regards Thank
21:29You Rosie
21:30gives me hope that a ten-year-old on the
21:32other side of the world is watching the
21:35fireside chats and Prager you so why did
21:41the media make things scarier well cove
21:45at 19 is a perfect example I was
21:48watching a one cable network and it was
21:54the headline 32 states this is in
21:57America but it would apply anywhere 32
22:00states he
22:01in kovat cases so what they're testing
22:05more so they'll see a spike anyway who
22:09cares how many cases there are to a
22:11certain extent the more the merrier
22:13because then more people are getting in
22:16and maybe you have heard immunity if
22:17there's a second wave the issue is how
22:20many are dying from it and and it's very
22:23few anywhere right now it's very few
22:26people Israel just went back into
22:30partial lockdown or most locked down so
22:33I just checked how many people died the
22:35other day or the day before in Israel
22:38died from Kovan one is that a spike
22:45spike in cases this thing's not going
22:48away some disappearing just like that so
22:52what we know much better how to treat it
22:56we know much better how to prevent it
22:59but the media has an agenda first of all
23:02if the media say don't worry you're not
23:06gonna watch them as much if it bleeds it
23:08leads it's an old problem with media
23:10television in particular but there's
23:12they have another agenda in the United
23:14States certainly because if the economy
23:17comes back it makes the re-election of
23:20Donald Trump more likely so they have an
23:24interest in suppressing the economy and
23:26that is the next election it's a tragedy
23:30what I just told you and it's actually
23:32evil but nevertheless I am there's no
23:35doubt in my mind that it is a factor III
23:43for the record as many of you know from
23:45fireside chats and my columns in my
23:47radio show I thought we overreacted from
23:50the beginning the the number of people
23:54in the world who are on the brink of
23:57serious hunger even starvation because
24:00of the the collapse of the world economy
24:03is going to dwarf the number of people
24:06who have died of this of kovat 19 am i
24:12checking am i checking with you on time
24:15we're good what the
24:18Caleb 15 to Sanh Arizona hi mr. Prager
24:21my question is if you were asked to
24:24define freedom what would your be your
24:26definition thanks for all the wisdom and
24:28insight you have truly changed my life
24:30good Caleb that's all I want to do it's
24:33why never ran for office I'm not
24:35interested in having power I'm
24:37interested in having influence because I
24:40I have important things and good things
24:43to say to make people's lives happier
24:45and better that's my business that's
24:49what I care about anyway
24:52freedom well I don't I don't think your
24:55definition and mine would would differ
24:57that much it's it's that you are allowed
25:00to do a great deal that until you
25:06inflict intentional harm on another the
25:10more freedom now good people could
25:14differs for example so job the freedom
25:16to use cocaine there are very good
25:19arguments on both sides should should
25:22there you be it should we should we make
25:25prostitution legal there that's fretts
25:28of freedom issue there are good
25:30arguments on both sides so good people
25:33can differ on certain issues with regard
25:38to liberty that's where you have people
25:43who are almost absolutist just let
25:46people do anything they want as long as
25:49they don't directly intentionally injure
25:52or I guess unintentionally injure other
25:54people okay that that's that I tend
25:59toward that with with with a handful of
26:03exceptions but I think the most basic
26:08freedom to be very specific there is
26:10there is one most basic freedom and that
26:14is free speech and the left has always
26:18suppress free speech there is no
26:20exception to that rule since Vladimir
26:22Lenin in 1917 when he took over Russia
26:25and became communist
26:28and there was less free speech under the
26:30Communists from 1917 to 1989 then then
26:37there was under the there was less than
26:39under the Tsar and the Tsar was a no
26:42piece of cake it's a bad guy or a bad
26:45series of guys free speech is the reason
26:51the left loathes free speech is as it
26:53will always be defeated whenever there
26:56is free speech that is why it is so
26:58important to suppress conservatives
27:00coming to campuses or conservatives on
27:03YouTube or Google or Facebook or Twitter
27:08because the more free speech the less
27:11effective the left is then they know it
27:18william 37 Santiago Chile or Chile was
27:24there a number of times I have a great
27:26time thanks for all your work by the way
27:30I just for the record I I have to
27:32believe Chile is the strangest
27:35physically strangest country in the
27:37world it is one gigantic ly long thin
27:40line it's good luck look on your maps
27:43it's fascinating Chile it's on the other
27:46side of the Andes Mountains to Argentina
27:50and it's that's that's why there's that
27:54story of the was that the Chilean rugby
27:57team I think it was that crashed into
28:00the Andes and the main that's where you
28:03have the famous case of where they ate
28:04some of the fellow passengers which they
28:06had to do I never understood why that
28:09was a moral dilemma they didn't kill
28:11these people to eat them but life is
28:14precious let me announce that if if I'm
28:18in an in an air crash and the only thing
28:21you have to eat till you get rescued if
28:24you do is me I volunteer what why is it
28:29better to deteriorate in in the ground
28:32than provide the ability of somebody to
28:34live who would otherwise starve I never
28:36run this that people ask Aude questions
28:39she was at moral it's a very famous
28:41story you should look at
28:42get up I saw the movie the movie is
28:44riveting I don't remember the name of it
28:47but it's just that the Chilean rugby
28:48team it's a true story and by the way
28:52when I spoke in the Uruguay many years
28:56ago the one of the members of that team
29:02who survived came to my speech
29:06I'll never I was very moved in month of
29:10a Dale and he asked how I could believe
29:13in God because he was angry at God for
29:16for the death of his of his comrades of
29:19his fellow athletes but of course God
29:23didn't kill them
29:25I told him that is it moving you're
29:29moving evening anyway thanks for all
29:32your work your clarity and calm are
29:34really an example to me that's good
29:37clarity income that's right could you
29:40please give us practical advice on how
29:42not to lose hope when we see that our
29:45region is kidnapped by leftist corrupt
29:47regimes thank you so much in advance you
29:52should never lose hope I mean the people
29:56in the worst circumstances on earth have
29:58had hope people in gulag or Auschwitz
30:01they they they had hope
30:03of course there's hope there are no
30:07guarantees but there is hope but life is
30:14is not does not exist to guarantee good
30:18results there are many bad results my
30:23task in America yours and joy is to
30:29fight for the good and then the rest is
30:34in God's hands or a man's hands but not
30:37in my hands I recognize that I I'm very
30:43worried about America freedom is fragile
30:46civilization is fragile standards are
30:49fragile
30:49opportunity is fragile affluence is
30:53fragile
30:56and it's all being challenged by the
30:58left so being hurt as they always do but
31:06my my question is not do I have hope
31:12my quest I never asked myself that I
31:14asked myself what do I have to do and
31:17that's what you have to ask yourself so
31:21with that thank you very very much for
31:23watching thank you for watching if you'd
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