I will never EVER believe Christianity is under attack in America until I can walk 5 feet in a retail store in December without seeing a thousand Christmas decorations.
Constantinople, 1054 Because outside of Israel Jews make up a minority of most countries population. Thus they can easily be used as scapegoats by the larger ethnic groups and religions.
„Racism doesn’t exist and if it does it’s not us who are racist it’s the left and if some of us do it’s because some races actually are better than others.“
Manmade global warming is unproven failed "science." "Global warming" has been changed to "climate change," which means nothing. None of the dire predictions by Al Gore and other decades ago have come true. Moreover, if therewere global warming, it has positive effects, which are ignored by the hysterical, fascist left.
Any time people argue about "The Left is intolerant." I can only think of the images of Captain America punching Hitler or Red Skull with a speech bubble saying "So much for the Tolerant Left!"
“If you want a better role model,look at captain America.” -Frank castle,the punisher,responding to police officers putting his logo on their cars. Even the superhero that weirdos like this idolize the most agrees that captain America sets a much better example.
@@liambrown500 Oh... my... GOD! THAT IS THE FINAL TIME I WILL HAVE SOMEONE INSULT MY HOBBY OF LEGOS! WHAT THE FUCK DOES MY HOBBY OF LEGOS HAVE TO DO WITH YOUR FUCKING ARGUEMENT.
When "the left" says "it's equally ok to be straight or lgbtq, to be Christian or to not be Christian" the right are like "SEE THEY SAY EVERYTHING IS THE SAME"
They can't handle the absence of rigid hierarchy. They want it to be known that it's more okay to be them. That's why they'll always hate equality. Good point.
"the left" is not a hivemind and neither is the right, whether you see it as the loud minority or not, the leftists that right-leaning people know are those that just oppose everything the right says/wants, for example the louder portion of leftists (whether that's the minority or not) is strongly accepting and generally all for white guilt/demonizing white cisgendered people as it's a common thought for you (leftists) that the majority can't be oppressed because there's either too many of them or that none of them get killed for their sexuality/skin color, which is wrong. (Also has minor genocidal undertones when the "too many of them" thing is said) Another thing is the strong presence of pretentious atheists in the left, attacking people for their beliefs whether through social media or in public as a show of superiority over christians by making fun of them and explaining why what them and possibly several past generations in their family are objectively wrong and therefore stupid for believing in a higher power. If you think bullying or other actions done online have no severe repercussions and essentially has no effect on the victim's thoughts then you would be wrong, a majority of what used to be public attacks on gays are now online and an equal if not greater amount of hate is pushed towards straights and whites and the perpetrators (generally left-leaning gays/transgenders/colored folks/self-hating white guilt people) through the mainstream media, tumblr, lefty twitter(aka most of twitter) and the less rational transgender side of youtube, all actively bashing what are now considered by a lot to be right-wing values(pride or atleast not being ashamed of being a white person, being straight and being a man) my point being that denying online bullying for straight whites also negates most of the modern(atleast past 2 decades) "oppression" towards minorities unless you're a firm believer that "there's too many straight white men" essentially cementing yourself as someone who would possibly think "there could afford to be less of those" too. But the vocal part of the left wouldn't see that as racism or genocide, because it's getting rid of the majority. Note that everything I said "the left" does is also something that "the right" does too, only for the opposite things, other examples of similar or opposite behavior in both camps is treating the political opponent as if they were an NPC(mostly coined by the more narcissistic right wingers) or a russian AI(coined by the more narcissistic left), follow strong capitalist values, earning your money even if little of it by working for corporations that, need you be reminded, are what makes things like the internet work(for right wingers and most moderates left-leaning or otherwise) or follow strong socialist, communist or anarchist values because sometimes laws are too hard to follow or you just want to receive a thousand dollars deposit in your account every month regardless of whether you have legal status or not(for the vocal and far left) I'm sure you'll find it obvious what my views are and think I'm disgustingly biased but I only mentioned most problems(not often believed to be problems by those who are causing them) caused by the vocal left because things like homophobia and racism against ethnic groups(non whites) are already discussed and acknowledged and even sometimes exaggerated severely whereas people deny heterophobia as even a word and coined the term "reverse racism" for hate attacks against whites when all it is is just plain racism, but the truth is while I don't believe socialism and admitting entrance to ILLEGAL immigrants(those who enter the country without the proper paperwork) is the right way to go and I do feel offended when I see people (notably LGBTQ members or people that have white guilt) encouraging the idea that straight whites are eligible for bullying due to there being so many or even sometimes worded as too many of us, regardless of those beliefs, I see that right wingers and left wingers are more often than not acting just the same, blaming eachother for stupid shit that some people in that specific camp do and treating it as though it was a completely left-leaning or right-leaning thing to believe. (examples such as liberals and progressives all believing that orcs and goblins are racist caricatures of black people and jews respectively or the belief that all right wingers are nazis and worship god) Thank you for reading my essay, I hope it opened your mind on the unpopular idea that believing the other side of the political compass is a hivemind is objectively moronic and thought limited, I understand if not, it's hard for some right wingers to believe left wingers aren't all closeted racists and lazy communists just like it's hard for some left wingers to believe right wingers aren't all sexually attracted to guns and that they don't all secretly worship toothbrush moustache man as a god while wearing white hoods.
@@noahsylvester1754 Thanks man for giving light to more non mainstream view I agree that yes both more often than not act very much alike blaming each other for a group of vocal minorities, conflating them with the entire left/right wing. But man does the SJW activist type annoyed me no end, they're typically the one to blatantly promote segregation and be really childish when anything comes their way
@@dean_l33 Obviously most of the negative online activism comes from the vocal left, ADL's attack on Steam defaming it as enabling white supremacy and transphobia is a recent example, another one would be the No Pixels for Fascists movement, the issue being that "fascist" in that specific case refers to all people who play videogames, be it a normal person that enjoys gaming or a youtuber that makes money off of it, however I think more specifically they refer to "straight white men who enjoy gaming", I don't believe it's too far fetched to see their message that way considering the "diversity" activists' core values have been to bash all semblance of straightness and male "toxicity" in entertainment, videogames or movies. Funnily enough while it is still obviously left-leaning activism, cries for diversity are almost always done by white guilt allies of the LGBTQ+ who are often straight.
Prager University: Hitler was a socialist because Nazi means national socialist party! Also Prager University: Hitler was no nationalist because Nazi means natio. . . . . uh, because reasons.
@Afmm People use the same argument to argue against communism/socialism using Chinese Communist Party as a negative example, ignoring the fact that today's China has nothing to do with communism and even US has more "socialist-ish" policies than China.
Dude the alt-right one is far better. Because the alt in alt-right means alternative, means it's an alternative to the american right. Just like the left.
Pragur u doesn’t care about truth. They’re just greedy billionaires who want workers to become obedient and complacent so they can keep making their billionaire overlords money.
I'm really dumbfounded that anyone listens to Prageru. When I was a right-wing Christian fundamentalist in college, I came across Prageru and my first thought after watching it was, "Wow! This is garbage! This was written for me, but it's so lazy I can see the holes in the argument. How dumb do they think I am?" Friends of mine I don't consider stupid actually agree with Prageru. Why?! It's stupid! It's cartoon logic presented through cartoons to the voiceover of a cartoonish presenter!
Yes, this is exactly why the popularity of that channel baffles me. When I first encountered it, I was like, how can conservatives take this seriously, even if they largely agree with the conclusions the videos end up at?
which makes for powerfully effective propaganda, the production style alone convinced a dumbass (more than 60% of the population ez) that the information is extremely credible
What's funny is that I agree with that statement...in a complete vacuum. The issue with the term "conservative" as a political identity is that it's completely dissociated from what it means environmentally. Are they about conserving energy? Conserving natural resources? Captain obvious will then say that their policies on the unbridled free market creates high demands for resources doing the complete opposite.
@@cuckoophendula8211 People who care about saving the environment are called conservationists, not conservatives. Not making a political statement there; just saying those words are not interchangeable.
For all the people pointing out self-plagiarism is a thing in academia, yes, I should have been clearer on that point. It was an aside, but I'll try to be more careful in the future. I appreciate the feedback! You can now resume commenting ;)
I was going to comment about self-plagiarism, but now i don't have to. Still, self-plagiarism is also very dishonest, possibly dangerous, if you do it outside of academia. You can trust me on this, because this sentence said that you can trust me on this.
speaking as a trans person... its difficult to be tolerant of someone when they aren't tolerant of me, and their insistence that I am the intolerant one because I don't want my rights removed is hardly endearing. Also, I've really gotten in to "Will Wood and the Tapeworms" as of late
I was thinking that too when that guy was saying that we should treat people as equals. I really wanted to confront him and ask if he thinks gay people are his equals, if trans people are his equals, etc... because I highly doubt that he does. making essentially every point he made in the video invalid because he, himself, does not see people as equals.
Why do you even care what somebody else you don't care about thinks about you? Why does their opinion of you matter so much? If they don't like you because you're trans, just laugh in their face and carry on walking. No need to get offended just because some idiot doesn't like you. If they don't, fuck em. It's a person you don't need to know or give any time to.
@@BradLad56 It doesn't hurt to know your enemy, because it's not just one person, there are a large group of these people out there, actively working, actively undermining, actively lobbying, actively working within politics and their elected officials to undermine the rights of trans people, and other marginalized groups.
"The word 'transphobia' only serves to shutdown discussion", says the man shutting down conversation about trans issues. Edit: lol I preempted the end of the video here 😅
El-ahrairah I see what your saying. I feel that now most of us trans people finally have a voice online and otherwise, a lot of pent up anger is being released, which, unfortunately, gets in the way of a lot of conversation.
El-ahrairah But I mean, in my experience most of the time the person complaining about getting their conversation shut down by being called a transphobe or other “-phobe” was definitely being transphobic or bigoted. Especially on Twitter.
@@frocco7125Incorrect. Only if one believes themselves to have authority over others. Conservatives and religious people tend to be that way. To some people, their identity becomes a religion.
@El-ahrairah Calling you a mean name doesn't actually make you stop the conversation. Hence, it doesn't shut anything down, unless you get butthurt and shut down the conversation yourself. And if EOT chooses not to "calmly and rationally sit down and discuss a topic", so fucking what? They aren't obligated to do that, and there is no shortage of civility-scolding liberals who will never get tired of doing it and never figure out their interlocutors are liars and bad faith actors. So let _them_ do it, instead of whining about the people who don't want to.
When I was little, a girl in my family’s circle used to always tickle me. I hate being tickled so I didn’t like it. I finally got fed up and decked her in the face when she kept doing it. She cried about it; I got spanked for punching her. Then, when I saw her again a couple weeks later, she was upset because I refused to acknowledge her. Today’s right-wingers remind me of her. They antagonize, cry about it when people fight back, and then wonder why nobody likes them.
My favorite counter-argument to that is always that the official name of socialist East Germany was "German Democratic Republic", so by that logic, East Germany was a beacon of democracy.
In regards to the transphobia talk, I have an online friend, who is a neoliberal, who thinks he's not transphobic because he's not afraid them and just doesn't want to use their preferred pronouns and instead the pronouns they were born as, thus misunderstanding the real definition of being transphobic.
So many people are real pedantic about how you can’t have a phobia if you’re not afraid of something, but they don’t understand that phobia can refer to things other than fear. It also refers to distaste and aversion.
@Thalassa Oceanphrite To be honest i don't even know what half this terms mean. There is heterosexuals, gays and bisexuals, ok i understand that. Beyond that is completely alien to me.
@Thalassa Oceanphrite Watch some Contrapoints or Vaush to learn more about transgenderism. But to answer your question, no, you can be transgender without experiencing gender dysphoria.
I admit i'm intolerant of racists, lgbtq haters, islamaphobes and many other people like him. I fully admit it and i'm proud of it. I'll happily call a duck a duck.
I can't help but notice that at 0:42, the "Chinese" dude is literally yellow. I'm sure that doesn't mean anything though, just an artistic rendering gone slightly awry. Pure coincidence.
It always irritates me when the right whines about the left being mean and name calling and shutting down "honest exchanges of ideas", because it's all bunk. Before I was even a leftist, it was always people on the right that would be dishing out the names. "Delusional", "sheeple", some form of a slur depending on the conversation, whatever floats their boat. It's all projection with them. Honestly, while not every leftist treated me well on my path to leftism (in retrospect, I can forgive many of these, with myself unintentionally repeating talking points they probably heard a million times and rebutted with no avail, why put effort into responding to another rando), it's not difficult to pause, try to understand why what your saying comes off as bigoted or whatever, and reevaluate. But self-reflection isn't really a thing on the right, not when it comes to ideology, and definitely not with their thought leaders. Anyway, long winded rant over, well done on the video, and much love from your eastern provincial neighbour.
I find it really just a shame that both sides are represented by the idiots of said group which the other side uses to criticize the whole group to undermine them without a good argument or some kind of understanding
me: *spends way too long meticulously laying out my position to someone who will never listen* conservative: "explanation long and therefore bad, ur so triggered haha" ~later~ conservative: "WHY WONT ThE LeFt ENGAGE WITH NEW IDEAS THEY JUST CALL ME *RACIST* BECAUSE I SAY RACIST THINGS"
Bruh you 7 years old or something? I hate that anyone both in the Right and left generalizes and stereotypes the other when most people dont think that way. Both cases of what you said happen on both sides.
I will not use the "explanation long and therefore bad, ur so triggered haha" to anyone who makes an overly political youtube comment for no apparent reason
Look, you're entitled to say your ideas, but we're allowed to dislike them, and we are most certainly allowed to be "uncivil" about it. If someone proposes an outrageously racist/transphobic notion, we are allowed to respond with outrage. Of course, we can't respond with violence or threats of violence, but we are allowed to get angry. Politics is not an emotionless subject, and we are allowed to express emotion. And no, nobody's party believes that all ideas are equal. No one believes that. That would be stupid. That would be like saying 2 + 2 = 5 is just as reasonable as saying 2 + 2 = 4. Some ideas are just wrong. Even though its legal and no one can force you to not say "2 + 2 = 5", that doesn't mean everyone else should accept your statement. No one should tolerate all ideas. But EVERYONE should not only tolerate, but respect all people. When you say something transphobic, you are not treating other peoples problems as real. You are attacking their identity, not their ideas. When you bring up some bullshit statistic on how black people commit more crimes to justify racism, you are attacking people, not their ideas. And while it is not illegal to say these, and free speech permits you to say these atrocious ideas, no one is required to believe these ideas or respect them.
I do actually think I've heard conservatives say things like "liberals want us to believe that 2+2 = 5 or banana, or whatever you want it to be because feelings matter more than facts. I'm just willing to call a spade a spade and tell it like it is."
@Kathy Kat the free speech hypocrisy that really surprised me was the reaction to Colin Kapernick. What happened to supporting free speech there? Or engaging in debate even if you thought his method of protesting was offensive or wrong? So much for simply wanting ideas to be heard. Also the St Louis Police Union wanted punishment when Rams nfl players took the field with hands up dont shoot pose. Why was there no outrage from the right over a government union (that forced all police to pay dues whether they wanted or not) trying to silence people for simply "speaking their mind." This is one of the police departments that used the Punisher on their cars according to another Jose video.
“Treating all people as equals,” yeah, on that point If we refuse to call out Rowling’s transphobia in spite of the harm it might do to some trans ppl out of some misplaced notion of “respect,” aren’t we perhaps valuing Rowling’s feelings over the lives and wellbeing of trans people who might be hurt by what she’s perpetuating? Are we not coddling a public figure and treating her better than trans people just because you’ve decided that that’s what warrants “civility”? Oh, and if you REALLY wanted all people to be treated equally, I’ve got some news for you about wealth inequality and this nifty little thing called means redistribution.
J. K. Rowling says things like "Dumbledore is gay" and Hermione is black" just to get positive media coverage. It should annoy everyone regardless of political leanings.
@@christiangamer1752 This is an argument about Authorial intent and whether or not we should give a shit about it more, one supposes and how much that goes into how one consumes media. In this case. Later Authorial word of god is given that contradicts at least in the second part aka Hermione black. Which creates huge disconnect due to public fandom perception and the way she's described typically in the book abd shown in the much more widespread movies. Thus creating dissonance and resentment between reader and author.
I remember breadtube videos that called her out. And equality is not a good political goal for the left. That should become clear if you read Marx but here is a video explaining it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pzQZ_NDEzVo.html
I do not think it is in anyones interest to be *unduly* disrespectful, nor do I think you can change anyone's mind via any form of (aggressive, for lack of a better word) rethoric. Here is something which often works to combat hatred or fear of others: Get the person who experiences hatred to get to know a good person which otherwise would be arbitrarily hated. In argumentation, patience, careful attention and a willingness to concede to parts of a argument you may find you actually agree with yourself, is the most important thing to consider when trying to change minds. When you write on the internet, try to only engage seriously with those who themselves argue from a serious position. That being said, I doubt I always follow these rules (or maybe more correctly, I do not always apply them when I should, in the sense that I do not always engage with those who might need to be engaged) yet I believe it is the best option. Hope I have been useful somehow. Have a great day whomever read this!
My mom is always watching this stuff at full volume with no headphones on. She says it's because she "wants us to think" and "not be a communist" but it's really just completely annoying
PragerU : Liberals get offended over everything Also PragerU : Let’s Dennis Prager moan about people saying “happy holidays” instead of “merry christmas” for 5 minutes
While it's true that when we use words like "transphobic" and "racist" we are not shutting down the conversation, conservatives still feel shot down nonetheless. Obviously this is because conservatives often have laughably thin skin, but it may be useful for us to understand why they perceive the reaction to their bigoted views as dismissive.
Maybe don't associate an entire group who share a common political position with a single behavior. Over generalizations and hasty generalizations are trouble.
Ad hominem isn't an argument; it's an insult. Digressing from the discussion is the same is shutting it down. I think you're misinterpreting frustration with non-arguments as thin skin.
@@tyranttitanium5721 Do you really think it's that unreasonable to say people who think the same may feel the same? Also really talk to a conservative, within minutes they'll be crying about some pc bullshit they made up
@@nealdesai8779 Here's the issue: How similar are people who hold a few common beliefs with each other? You have no way of determining. If person *a* holds position x and person *b* holds position x that doesn't tell you *anything* about weather they agree on anything else. All anyone who makes blanket statements like that do is make unjustified hasty generalizations or over generalizations. it's just trouble.
@@tyranttitanium5721 these aren't people each with their own coherent world philosophy, though. I mean, talk to them. They have talking points and patterns of thought that reflect their leaders, and that's basically it. They don't analyze their beliefs or think. They feel through their world and follow leaders who make them feel things. Conservatism, especially in it's modern form, did not arise naturally, with millions of people independently analyzing their world and forming an ideology they believe is fruitful. It's just a tribe to them. Don't pretend they have actual convictions.
my stepbrother gets his info from prageru. he told me and there was a silence. i thought he was joking. but he sincerely likes prager. i felt bad for him. ngl
I saw one of their ads and subscribed to them many years back. I don’t think I watched any of their videos after that point though, eventually I unsubscribed after remembering they existed, and figuring out what they were.
"True tolerance is treating all people as equally valuable" ...which is why we're not allowed to call someone out for treating some people as less valuable?
Popper said it best, but I have seen it easy to digest as "if you let wolves and sheep into your community equally, it's only going to be good for the wolves".
But who gets to decide what is tolerant and intolerant? It's so generic and vague that it could apply to anyone you disagree with and it would still be valid.
@@sunkenobi1501 I don’t know, sunkenobi1501, how do we decide anything? You’re right, human decision is fallible. We should all lay still on our backs for as long as we live, perpetually afraid to make a judgement and be wrong.
He should do a video on Memeology101 next, he was a youtuber I used to watch when I was brainwashed into blindly following the right just because most of my family does.
There's so much privilege in the idea that we have to be nice to people who disagree with us. Like they've never come across a disagreement high-stakes enough that they get the exceptions. Sure, if you don't like Buffy I disagree but I'm not going to be "uncivil" about it. If you think an entire group of people don't exist, or refuse to acknowledge their suffering, or are actively trying to make things worse, that deserves some dramatics. Also they're definitely, whether deliberately or not, confusing "any way you can be as a person is valid" with "all ideas are valid". Like yeah we're cool with whatever (or whomever) you want to do if you're not hurting anyone but we still don't like Nazis.
Amen 💅🏻 Harmful opinions that perpetuate marginalization, discrimination, and violence don’t deserve respect. You can respect the person, but not their opinion.
I like to believe there are liberals working on that team that just silently sabotage some stuff. Like when Bloomberg bought up staff all across the country but since they supported Bernie they made terrible ads.
The thing is, there are plenty of right wing arguments that aren't considered intolerant. Lower taxes, deregulation, small government, support for the military, basically any right wing policy that isn't specifically aimed at promoting a particular lifestyle and punishing those who deviate from it.
Exactly! There are plenty of opinions that are shared between both sides! How can PragerU say that the left considers all of the right's opinions to be "bigoted" and "intolerant" when that is such an easily debunkable claim?
and in those instances, i disagree with those opinions (or at least what some on the right mean with them), but I'm not intolerant of those opinions and people who hold them. hell, I'm not even intolerant of people who are homophobic, racist or transphobic assuming they are willing to see the error of their ways and change. if you were once any of those things and are not anymore, that's great. i think everyone has the ability to change and their evolutions should be welcomed (as long as its genuine).
Agreed, both the left and the right have good arguments and ideas to them, that’s why I’m personally a mix of the best of both worlds, with a bit of libertarian in me
but you get that "lower taxes", "small government" etc. in a rw/conservative context don't actually mean those things materially, right? (e.g. "small government" means less government involvement in white guys buying guns, but _more_ government involvement in people being allowed to have abortions; "lower taxes" doesn't just mean "poor people pay lower taxes", it also means "rich people pay _much lower_ taxes, and also spending has been cut for public services that poorer people are reliant on"). these things aren't "intolerant" based on a superficial reading of the language that right-wing political orgs have specifically chosen to refer to them, but they sure as shit are intolerant (of poor people, of black and minority ethnicity people, of women, of queer people, etc.) when you scrape the paint off and actually look at the effects such policies have in the real world. just look at "war on drugs" (read: disproportionately targeting black people for weed possession while secretly funnelling crack into the ghetto) or "tough on crime" (read: ignoring scientific analyses of prisons and recidivism; giving cops free reign to harass or murder black people)
There's a comment on the intolerance video saying "'No one is more hated than the one that speaks the truth' - Plato", and all I could think is how almost universally hated Hitler is.
The other response conservatives can have to their views being labelled as transphobic, racist, etc. is simply accept that they are and say they are okay with it. However, they can never do that because they don't want these labels. Instead they make videos claiming, their ideas being called transphobic, racist, etc, does not actually mean anything and actually proves others are intolerant of them. The only other response is for them to learn why what they believed or said is transphobic, racist, etc. and change point of view or understanding. (This change can happen slowly sometimes but even giving up a little ground immediately is a good sign the person is only not full educated on the topic) I think the left has trouble talking with people less educated on topics of 'wokeness' because we, as the left, are so defensive and cautious of those with intolerant view points. We know how dangerous these ideas are and that those who hold them truly are okay with consequences spreading that view point can cause. However, many people simply don't have the same education on leftist ideas and philosophies. This is why it is better to label a person's idea as intolerant not the person themselves. Calling people intolerant can turn away those who just do not know why what they said is harmful. But if we say that view is transphobic because x,y,z, it keeps communication more open. Obviously, once you learn someone is educated on the facts and simply does not care it is fine calling them transphobic, racist, etc. because there is no way to change their mind.
Anyone who claims to be able to sum up any single topic, especially political ones, in 5 minutes should be insulting to the viewer. Anyone with half a brain cell knows nothing is that simple. And yet, people watch and agree with it.
I liked this one, didn’t find it rough at all. I like the short videos just fine. Sometimes you see a new video from a fave youtuber and you’re like yay, something to watch! But then you realise it’s 40 min long, and you can’t devote that time in that moment to fully commit your focus for 40 minutes and you end up forgetting to watch it. So short vids are cool. That being said, I can’t wait for your next long deep dive, it sounds awesome. Can’t wait for that book review either. In summation, you do you, and I’ll continue to love all your vids and like, comment, the youtube usual as you put it 😀
I've noticed that a lot of arguments made by the right about what "the left" believes are things that the right just decided the left thinks that we actually really don't lol
SSSSSSHhhhhhhiiiiieeeeeet. I'm a center-right Atheist and they even strawman me.. it's like how are we suppose to be "Allies" if I can't even sit down and have an honest conversation.
Yeah, when I first saw PragerU, I ate it up, because I consider myself to be an independent, so I was willing to listen, and I almost fell victim to some of their more "aggregious" videos, but I was able to realize that they are not so accountable.
Yeah I know dunking on PU is basically the equivalent of eating salt and vingar chips. But goddamn it sometimes I just want a bag of unhealthy snacks. Oh I don't have a favorite song but I do have favorites songs from specific genres. My favorite country song is Wildwood Flower by the Carter Family, specifically the original 1920s version but Maybelles 1972 version is also great. Favorite folk song is Circle Game by Joni Mitchell or anything she's done. Favorite Broadway song is anything by Paige O'Hara, but especially her version of Before the Parade Passes By and A Wonderful Guy. Hope you like that.
@@xamp_exclammark I'll absolutely agree. Favorite horribly unhealthy snack. Don't know why I read that as disgusting. Guess the quarantine has finally broke me.
The Asian PragerU character at 0:45 is literally yellow. He is a bright yellow. Not to mention his eyes are the smallest of the three. Racism, my friends, racism.
In a similar way that, there is no point in kindness if you are kind to the cruel. There is also no point in tolerance if you are tolerant to the intolerant.
I often worry about doing to the right what prager does to the left, by lumping them all into the same hateful group. Prager U does not make it easier to see people on the right as individual human beings who might have a few bad takes. They’re pretty much making themselves into strawmen by confirming everything I feel represents the right.
I actually really agree with that statement. I too try to not lump Republicans into one group, cause that would obviously be wrong and hypothetical, but when they have guys like PragerU or Paul Joseph Watson being their main advocates, it can be hard to note see them as such. This is why I support the Lincoln Project, cause they have showed me that not all Republicans follow Trump, and that we should work together.
@Afmm Thought y'all were talking about Pop Arena because of his voice cameo and was like, yeah, agree. Watch Pop Arena, folks. He does Nick Knacks, a series of documentaries/reviews of every show ever aired on Nickelodeon which by proxy form a histy of cable television, as well as retrospectives on Goosebumps, Animorphs, Doctor Who novels with a lefty perspective.
Dennis Prager on the other hand... is it the rule if you’re a reactionary to have an annoying voice or is it because I disagree with them? I can’t decide.
The new conservative strategy had become “say as many lies as you can within the shortest amount of time” so that no one can really debunk them without the common man losing interest or losing faith in the debunker.
And undeclared self-citation, while not formally a problem, is generally ground upon in all but the strictest of sciences. You cant just be like “experts agree with me” and then agree with yourself to make it look like consensus is on your side
Old video, but I just wanted to comment about one thing stated here. Self Plagiarism is actually a thing in academia and it is just as serious as general plagiarism. The issue with plagiarism is not just in stealing other people's work, but in not creating something new/novel to be critiqued. My brother recently wanted to copy a forward that he himself wrote in a dissertation and discovered that he would be in deep trouble for doing so. All this to say that, PragerU isn't just being lazy by copying their own work, they are doing something that academia would throw them out for. Not really surprising considering the logic they attempt to use to prove their points.
Yep - you have to make it clear where the work comes from, and if it isn’t from the current work, then it must be cited as such, INCLUDING prior work from the person doing the research. People rarely understand all of what plagiarism is and why it’s such a huge problem.
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. [...] We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.” - Karl R. Popper
They can do this because the Reps. do not question or investigate the sources of whatever the right tells them. And they know that if you tell them, they will just ignore you.
that article citing Rowling's defense of Depp as a bad move hasn't aged well. But tbh, I definitely wasn't making any judgments there myself until the case was over, it always seemed weird to me
Though doesn't saying this defeat the point? for if both sides just shit talk the other and make straw men of what they think the other's ideas are ,wouldn't it shut down civil discussion to where people of opposing ideas will not debate with others on the basis of that they both think that they are right and that they already know the oppositions claim and argument before they say it? Which would cause people on the right and left to say the same thing about the other.
@Verdant Mischief Yeah, both parties without a doubt exploit the marginalized with their own benefit. Is it possible one party may do it more then the other? Perhaps, but that’s up to the individual. Mindless confrontation isn’t going to change anyone’s mind.
