A History Teacher Reacts to PragerU Videos for 7 Hours Straight

uh hello hello make sure it's working and folks are on here i wanted to do this live oh yeah so um my name is harry styles and i am actually no i'm kidding my name is matt beat and i am a history teacher and i you know i'm not just some schmuck in my basement although i also am some schmuck in my basement i you know i've taught history uh from seventh grade to to 12th grade in the classroom at multiple schools uh for more than 12 years um that was my main gig for so long and i also make these social studies videos in case you didn't know because you know who knows who's watching this because you're watching this right now on my channel but i i just want to make sure you know who i am and you should it doesn't mean you should trust me completely um although i think i'm more credible than uh than some when it comes to knowing about history especially american history american history is my specialty i'm an american but also is something i i've studied for a long time i've taught for a long time and uh there's this other organization out there called prageru uh it's not a university although it sounds like one when i first stumbled upon it i believe it was early 2015. i was trying to find a civil war video to show um my uh seventh graders and i found a pretty decent one actually and i ended up showing it to them um it was fine for the most part it was just fine and i later on found out that oh they have all kinds of history videos you know like uh they're trying it's like they're trying to cover it all just like i was trying to do with my own youtube channel that's cool and they have well produced videos you know crisp animations they're all brief easy to digest especially for middle schoolers you know um but then later i was teaching high school i was at tonganoxie high school at this point and i started to watch more of their videos the one that was a turning point was i watched the atomic bomb video where they basically at the end of the video they're just like the united states was completely justified dropping the atomic bomb there's no ifs ands or buts about it okay it was a no-brainer duh if you say that it wasn't smart to drop the atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki then you are an idiot basically is what the video was saying and then i was like oh maybe they're not so objective as i thought i mean everybody's biased i'm biased it's hard to not be biased well but at least we can try and it watching that video i was like they're not even trying to not be biased it seems like they have like an agenda here so i watched more and more of them then i realized oh this isn't what i thought it was and so i was kind of duped there for a year or two about prageru well thank you for the super chat uh hilton brandt here's something for the pain you're about to endure for the next seven hours greatly appreciate the content as a fellow history and social studies teacher oh thank you for your service yes um it's uh it's rough right now for social studies teachers so i really appreciate that i mean i feel like it's always been a little tricky um you always have parents or community members who are worried about indoctrination in the classroom i give generally give kids more credit than that i think kids um are are pretty capable of critical thinking usually by especially by the time they're in seventh and eighth grade they're like okay they can think more abstractly and consider multiple perspectives and analyze and corroborate and evaluate lots of sources of information that's typically what history teachers these days do is they give information from all kinds of sources and then they try to make it so that the students are the historian they're the ones who are the detective trying to find out what really happens you give them primary sources secondary sources whatever you can and you like for them to draw their own conclusions that's what i think most history teachers try to do but you wouldn't think that from some of parents and community members like oh they're just trying to like push their liberal agenda um honestly and this includes myself uh i would say most history teachers don't self-identify as liberal or leftist or whatever weird um meaningless term you want to apply to us i i think our views are generally all over the place because the more you learn about stuff the the lesser you are the less ideological you are so you're not going to find very many ideological teachers in the classroom myself included i used to be more ideological as a young man when i was a teenager and in my early 20s but i grew out of that you know i realized now that i was kind of an idiot for being ideological um thanks thanks dylan hey dylan and i oh yes dylan and i go way back dylan patton thank you hey matt as usual for your videos on friday i'll be at work in meetings most of the day we just want to say hello and hope you and your family are well sponsored by your book well thank you so much yeah i i had the day available i blocked it off well in advance i was like september 17 2021 i'm just gonna like knock a bunch of prageru videos out i get a lot of requests uh to do this so i was like maybe if i just live streamed it and they could see my process unedited uh unabridged just seeing my real-time reactions um but yeah back to what i was saying i mean most history teachers understand like uh they they don't have ideologies so how can they be like why would they push ideologies onto kids plus they know that the kids are a captive audience they have to be there we have to be careful with what we say we have to make sure this is what people think this is not what i think this is what others think but also these people think this and then these people think that and there's all kinds of a full range of perspectives on every single um not only issue but even interpretation of events in history but generally we we fall to the experts who are the historians um speaking of historians i mean it's not like i mean i i have a master's degree in history i i know the process i know i've studied history histography i uh it's not like i don't know that stuff as well or you're from one of those liberal universities no i got my master's at emporia state university which is i would say a more conservative leaning uh college here in kansas uh so like i i always laugh when so when people say like oh well you don't like prager you you just must be a lefty you know um no i just i i don't think we should be spreading lies that's all there is to it and it doesn't mean that prageru does nothing but spread lies they a lot of times they're telling the truth um i think most of the time they're just being misleading they're cherry-picking information deciding to leave part of the narrative out to fit their agenda man look at all the support thank you hear him thank you i think prager you started out with a decent pick yourself up by your bootstrap videos and then slowly change to monetary oligarch propaganda um si vlog hey how you doing buddy uh thank thank you something you said in a previous video was perfect i teach children how to think not what to think yeah that's really not just me though it's it's most history teachers um that's our goal we're not like if we just if everybody was able to critically think then like that would solve a lot of the problems that we're currently dealing with like people are not critically thinking when they encounter new information they're drawing conclusions too quickly i'll thank you hopped men herman musk great name love your content from the uk do you think the gop will suffer another power drought due to demographics and its ridiculously stubborn base um i really do they i really think they will um but i don't want to get into that now because i i i want to get into the videos here what i do want you to suggest in the comment in the chat here this is also another reason why i'm doing the live chat is if you have a video and it has to be a history video like not just you know policy or issue contemporary issue if you have a video that is clearly just a it's meant for the classroom please share it as a possible candidate for review a video for me to react to today i will be here until 3 p.m uh central time uh it's 8 11 a.m central time here now uh i've got caffeine uh cold brew um shout out to the merc here in lawrence kansas also i've got a cliff bar so i think i think i'm good for the day i will have to go to the bathroom at some point i did not bring any diaper or catheter so we'll just take a little break put my put a little picture up and then i'll be back eating is overrated for me though so i don't i think the clif bar should be sufficient for seven hours um otherwise yeah like again if you don't know who i am i make social studies videos i've taught in the classroom i have a history degree a master's in history also journalism background so i'm more of a communicator i communicate history i'm not i don't consider myself a historian i'm somebody who's trying to communicate what really happened and to me history is has always been what's the truth about the past and it's not what is the truth of the past with the capital t it's like you're constantly searching the um just like with science and it is a science you know uh it's a social science you're constantly trying to to um find out a better version of events that doesn't mean you're always going to get to the final conclusion like i just released a video about 9 11. it doesn't mean oh crap this video is demonetized now i said i said 911. uh well that that event happened 20 years ago it doesn't i mean we still have much to learn about it for example um the biden administration just declassified a bunch of documents about it so we're learning even more information so um i probably could have waited longer before i made it but i just figured the 20th anniversary was a nice time to make it but anyway um i'm not harry styles and mr b we're going to look at prageru videos from seven hours why not vox videos or now this videos huh they're clearly lefties and yes they are um there's no doubt about it that uh they have an agenda too um but i think with them it's more of a slant um and it's more on an individual basis like uh or vox is another one that's thrown out because so sometimes present history videos um i think vox now this i already said box uh what was the other one uh oh vice sometimes does but i think um you know with them it's they have a giant team of uh probably thousands of journalists and all of them probably generally lean to the left they all give their own spin it's with prageru there's a certain [Music] specific criteria here generally they are promoting um a certain brand of conservative not even all conservatives conservatism in fact uh i would say a lot of the populism that's so attractive right now in the republican party prageru is actually not necessarily for they're just playing the politics game because they want they want to get people on their side of the spectrum um i think also the the thing that troubles me the most about prageru and why i tend to target them more than the others because i could also um target the gravel institute the gravel institute um you know they're pretty clearly they have an agenda and it's propaganda but they don't hide that fact prageru has for many years has kind of hid that they try to present themselves as a uh objective um source of information especially when it comes to history because history is not supposed to be well it is political but people don't perceive it to be political um and they often are like oh we're just telling it how it was you know um and also there's been a push to get prageru in the classroom in front of captive audiences just like i played um i i've played prageru videos to my kids and they they didn't they didn't think critically about it they didn't like break it down what was this really saying i i also show them other stuff and i most of mostly you know stuff that came from classroom materials but regardless uh prageru seems to they're trying to push themselves as part of the curriculum and they are getting in the curriculum in many schools especially i noticed in the midwest and in this the american south that troubles me but also prageru um i don't know if uh well here let me just start to share my screen um make this a little bit bigger for you so if you see here prageru um they have 2.92 million subscribers currently by the way there's a plug-in i use called tubebuddy that you can kind of see that compared to mine like and to them like i i i got 1.96 million views on my channel in the past 30 days which is pretty freaking good that's amazing actually but they got one i can't see my oh 19.7 million so they have 19 times the audience that i do they have almost 3 million subscribers that you know look total views 1.37 billion with a b that's how many people have seen their videos so they are undeniably influential um i think they are largely responsible for this um resurgence of the republican party that we saw with beginning with um the donald trump campaign in 2016 um which i think there were some good ideas to come from that i don't even you know people say that i'm a lefty but i'm not i don't identify as that i have opinions on certain issues that would probably lean more towards the right i think most social studies teachers are actually mostly libertarian to be honest um so it's not like i'm even against everything what they're trying to do but i think it's troubling when they try to present themselves as like this oh we are a well even just putting freaking you prager you in the name like we're this legit university come on um and the videos are all short and you know bite size digestible accessible misleading and and it encourages just a superficial understanding of history and really everything um i think we i mean maybe that's fine as an introduction sometimes the things but they are just kind of they present themselves as like you don't need to dig further that's the truth okay that's that's my interpretation of it um judo joker hey uh thank you for this uh donation you should react to their ulysses s grant video all right i'm gonna write that down i'm gonna start writing these down i have and i haven't seen a lot of their more recent ones so i want to see what they've been up to i actually think that one's pretty good i think a lot of usgs negatives have been unfairly overseas i'm i'm gonna bet i'm gonna gamble that they have got their information primarily from that uh that grant uh ulysses grant book that came out uh recently well wouldn't that come out the ron chernow book that's the same dude who did the hamilton book um so i'm gonna i'm gonna say that probably they were influenced by that book but i'm not saying all their videos are bad no in fact today we might find out that i agree with a lot of their stuff um but i'm just gonna try to show you several examples of you know in real time how they slant things how they leave information out and mislead you i'm going to try and knock out as many videos as possible here also i the video i'm going to start out with is the history of slavery video which apparently the cynical historian he told me this uh he all he live streamed him react reacting to it as well on his uh twitch but by the way this is also simulcasting on twitch and facebook if you want to follow me on both those platforms i'm going to try to do more twitch stuff i've been really inspired by some of those channels i know i make fun of reaction channels but i think if you're reacting in this format with a live stream i think it's um more credible um so like yeah i plus the interactions is the most important part here because i uh all right angel amaz quit uh thank you for the support um matthew why did you go crazy over my comment on you're having a comma and you're short that wasn't cool and you ignored you ignored me on twitter please apologize i apologize angel i probably was joking he's talking about my decades apostrophe short video i released yesterday devon canada thank you for your support on patreon too and he's a local where i live all johnson county is considered left-leaning oh yeah he's talking about johnson county in uh uh kansas in the kansas city metro area look at that mrs b brought me a a drink from starbucks it's better than boxer thank you another cold brew now i have two cold brews thank you this will get me through the seven hours you can you can come on camera sometime it's gonna i mean it's a she still thinks i'm crazy i'm doing this thank you all right i got i got two cold brews and a cliff bar i'm i'm plugging in and so uh oh if i miss any super chats i apologize i try i'm sometimes bad about that she is right blah blah damir she's right okay um let me go to maybe this yeah let's try this okay so we're going to start off with the history of slavery video i've never seen it um a short history yeah well i started to watch it and i was like okay i better stop uh do this for this in fact this is one of the reasons why i decided to do the live stream all right is that big enough for you see i'm new to this is that big enough for you or should i go to the bigger all right all right i'm also getting comments from chris the legendary chris kinman anti-social studies on tick tock ooh interesting okay here we go a short history of slavery and now for a brief history of slavery here's the first thing you need to know slavery was not invented by white people it did not start in 1619 when the first slaves came to jamestown uh depends on what you mean by white people and but she's right it wasn't it didn't start with 1619 i'm assuming they chose that because their agenda is we want to present ourselves as against the 1619 project um but yeah it it started it's been around for thousands of years it existed before then it did not start in 1492 when columbus discovered the new world well um that's true as well but there what he did was a specific type of slavery um okay let me know if there's any audio issues i'm new to doing this in fact when the intrepid explorer landed in the bahamas the native taino tribe hoped that he would help them defeat their aggressive neighbors the caribs the carobs enslaved the taino and on occasion served them for dinner oh that's a that's uh wow i didn't know that i don't know if that's true or not but but yeah the taino um famously um this is the the the native group that um columbus and his his crew shout out to the columbus crew of the soccer team um how they um you know they interacted mostly with the taino uh when they first came to the the so-called new world yeah slavery existed in africa asia and the middle east the word slave act hold on a second here the word slave okay it existed everywhere it wasn't it wasn't just like she said okay africa asia and the middle east okay so it existed everywhere in the entire world like as far as i know i mean i'm not familiar with um maybe south america it didn't or maybe australia but it definitely existed in europe and uh all of asia so um and the americas like yeah um i don't know why she left that stuff out that's what i'm talking about like they they a lot of times they are telling you true information but they're just leaving out you know other stuff that might help you have a better understanding the word slave actually comes from the slavs of eastern europe millions of them that is i think i think i've heard a lot about that i used to think that that was 100 true but then i read something that that maybe that's not true that that's a myth so you might have to re like those of you watching you might like um do some more research on that because that's not like 100 all white by the way were captured and enslaved by muslims in the ninth century and later by the ottoman church okay so what she's trying to do i'm already getting the vibe here and this is candace owens she's a famous um uh african-american in case it wasn't obvious a conservative commentator pundit whatever you want to call him she does make a lot of money doing what she does and i'm i'm getting the vibes here that this video already has an agenda because she's trying to point out that hey it's you know why are we blaming white people for so many bad stuff you know white people used to be enslaved as well and so like i'm already getting like the vibe of instead of this being just like oh this is a true video explaining the history of slavery instead it's like stop being stop making white people feel so guilty about the sins of slavery of the past so i think that's the vibe i'm getting what do you think bosnian drunkard thank you prageru is nothing but neo-liberal conservative propaganda funded by oil executives it's the worst thing i've ever seen as being an education major i can say that they especially don't understand crt we could watch that video too maybe i'll write that one down i haven't seen that one um but i uh i will say that uh they're funded by the wilkes brothers and that's a red flag they are oil barons and uh they do get a lot of their money from uh nefarious sources it existed when the roman empire controlled the mediterranean and most of europe from the first through the fifth centuries slavery existed when alexander the great conquered persia in the 4th century bc yep it did it was so common that aristotle simply considered it natural the slave master model was just how the world operated in the great philosopher's day slavery existed during the time i mean yeah like hierarchies in general i mean we still have hierarchies that a lot of people would say are natural but yeah slavery or slaves were at the bottom of the hierarchy and then they did yeah um the ancient greek philosophers did justify it of course um all of what she just said uh just then was correct to my knowledge ancient egyptians 5 000 years ago as far back as we can go in human history we find slavery as renowned historian john steele gordon notes from time immemorial slaves john still gordon is he renowned let's um i've never heard of this guy he's a renowned historian just looking at his wikipedia page it says he is an american writer who specializes in the history of business and finance born and raised in new york city doesn't have much on his wikipedia page okay oh stephen dubner from freakonomics interviewed him once that's cool uh i don't know if he has a degree in history or what i don't think he's a historian maybe but what do you think okay watching from sweden thank you phillip for the support okay we're a major item of commerce as much as a third of the population of the ancient world was enslaved okay look at that they they put the source on the screen i don't remember them doing that in the past good for them uh cityjournal.org a short history of is that also in the description here um well they just put the transcript here oh for a complete script as well as facts and sources okay here we go yeah it opened up in a new window here so i'm looking at the um i don't see any sources oh here we go here i'm gonna i'm gonna share with you their actual page now that way you can see so this is here i might show it on bigger for you because this is this is their list to their sources um so it's always good to go here and oh yeah this is a lot better than it used to be i remember they didn't used to do this so um all right so oh well it's a little bear uh the guy they put the source on the screen though for i think this was it from oh gosh this is like a website from 1994. it looks like from the bbc okay well you know that's uh where's the other source though the dude who is the the writer that you know really well um well-respected historian um i always think of monty python oh this page cannot be found okay uh well you know what i'm just gonna we're not gonna worry about this let's go back to the let's go back to to the video on youtube all right john steele gordon was enslaved here's the second thing you need to know white people were the first to formally put an end to slavery in 1833 britain was the first uh because white people were in power like i don't think it's also what about the haitian revolution you know the haitian revolution was that was uh late 1700s or early 1800s so that was before um 1833 um hillebrand says looks like john still gordon is a journalist mostly writing op-eds for wall street journal and similar news sites okay yeah so he's not a historian all right uh but yeah that's just wrong so we found our first pretty clear just like making stuff up country in the history of the world to pass a slavery abolition act they were quickly followed by okay so they're the first country in the world to do this okay i'll give them that but that's okay that at the very least that's misleading they were quickly followed by france who in 1848 abolished slavery in her many colonies you know one thing she didn't mention is that we didn't have to they didn't have to go to a civil through a civil war to do that uh the united kingdom they just basically paid off they bought the slaves freedom that's a simple oversimplified way of putting it i'm not sure exactly what happened in france but quickly followed by france who in 1848 abolished slavery in her many colonies then of course came the 13th amendment in the united states constitution after centuries of human slavery well yeah that the 13th amendment was preceded by something uh 750 000 people dying in the civil war you might want to bring that up even in a short history of slavery like made like abraham lincoln said may those people not die in vain for what they were fighting for you know gettysburg address um after centuries of human slavery white men led the world in putting an end to the abhorrent practice that includes the 300 000 union soldiers overwhelmingly white who died during the civil war okay there we go good um 750 000 but yeah i good that you mentioned that people died for the civil war but it's it is amusing to me that the way she's framing this is like uh you know instead of just giving facts she's just like how dare you think have any negative thoughts about white men because because like that's the vibe i'm getting here it's not like just a history explainer video and i guess yeah you know maybe that's that's what they're known for getting more clicks for thank you ricochet for the the donation and um appellon uh as i add why america must lead to the list it's with former general secretary nato anders rasmussen museum i got a lot of hate from the prageru community interesting thank you for the suggestion why america must lead i'm writing it down right now okay so i already have a i'm going to be busy here for a while saying that this makes white people better than anyone else of course not my purpose here is to simply tell the truth and the truth is that human history is complicated no yes yes good job prager you human history is complicated i want to hear you say that every video regardless of skin color stands guiltless yet today we are never told to consider the murderous persian empire or the cannibalism of indigenous tribes of north and south america or the heinous actions under the imperialistic muslim chinese mongol or japanese empires to name just a few yeah um i'm pretty sure that you didn't know about any of that stuff um until right before this video candace because we're not taught about a lot of things in history because uh history is severely um restricted as far as like time spent learning it and k through 12 education in the united states and other countries like there's just most students don't get much of a history education even in college um a lot of times you're you're getting electives for uh to learn history at a deeper level so i'm not surprised they wouldn't know all this stuff um unless maybe they're watching youtube videos so yeah that's it's okay to to try to teach them but again like i'm not getting the vibe that you're just i feel like i'm being scolded right now for not knowing about this uh as an average viewer i guess instead we're told that slavery is a white phenomenon okay like all of this is a straw man that's a straw man who's saying slavery is a white phenomenon in case you forgot what the straw man fallacy is this is a this is ben shapiro's favorite straw fallacy is the straw man you basically um it makes it easier if you can debate something or criticize something if you make it if you misrepresent what it actually is so like if you're saying oh well mr beat he he wants uh you know he doesn't he likes dogs better than cats so he wants all cats to be euthanized um that's a straw man because i don't want all cats to be euthanized i think that's uh so you quote me on that by the way but that's a straw man um i don't think any historian has ever said that and like all persistent lies this lie spawns a bunch of other lies on social media i come across extraordinary depictions about how africans lived like pharaohs before europeans came and laid waste to their paradise oh this seems like this is going to go in a sinister direction here indeed um well i mean africa is the second largest continent and tens of millions of people lived there and like when europeans well millions of people lived there at the very least when europeans first encountered them um to to try to like generalize an entire continent like africa which typically happens let's let's admit it um so some of them probably uh i mean the richest person who ever lived uh was lived in africa um so i i don't know like some of them did live like pharaohs and kings uh she's trying to say that that none of them did i that's over simplification redway too has anybody ever claimed that slavery is a white phenomenon no they have i i just don't think they have that's a straw man i wish any of this were true but it's not it's a fantasy the truth is that africans were sold into slavery by other black africans and in many cases sold for items as trivial as gin and mirrors oh i didn't know about the mirrors but jen i didn't know about that um that's true what she just said whites didn't go into the interior and round up the natives they waited on the coast for their black partners to bring them black bodies the reason why they did this is because they were afraid to go inland because of disease diseases like malaria the stark reality is that our lives had very little value to our ancestors here's the third thing you need to know if you think slavery is a relic of the past you're wrong there are some 700 it's interesting that this video is called a short history of slavery and she's three minutes and 56 minutes in and she's already saying that she's getting ready to say that slavery still exists which it does it doesn't look the same as it used to but it does and a lot of people didn't need to know this but i feel like this is not much of a video about the history of slavery it's like even a short history um so she's probably gonna mention like you know especially in fact i'm gonna predict she's gonna mention the middle east although a lot of um enslaved folks are in india uh it's pretty pretty bad there a thousand slaves in africa today oh africa now uh oh yeah yeah i can see why they would spin it that way um yeah like uh it's i mean uh most of the slaves that exist today are kidnapped as children forced into slave labor which a lot of the unfortunately a lot of the young women are enforced or forced to be prostitutes that's the lowest estimate that i could find other sources say there are many more for context that's almost twice as many slaves as were ever brought to the united states there's something that happened over the years and that is has been the population has increased of the world um so when the united states first became a country for example um their uh let's see the popular world population world population in 1780 we don't know exactly um [Music] okay 1700 the the population of the world was around um 60 600 million 600 million so maybe when the united states first became a country it was like 750 million we didn't even have a billion people in the world so that's enough that's one of those misleading things i was talking about like twice as many slaves like yeah that this is um lacking context uh devin yes thanks for the support again in africa aren't you supposed to be working that's good uh and after africa tribes selling each other was a common tale definitely uh however however it increased heavily with the portuguese this is true because uh they're like hey the portuguese are they're giving us lots of good stuff and it wasn't just gin and mirrors i guess um there was a lot a lot of times it was uh stuff that was highly desirable and yeah so the slave trade definitely started in you know in africa um i it was caused primarily by the spanish and the portuguese though the spanish and portuguese created the demand for for slaves so um you know it that's the reason why it accelerated so much and the whole slave trade wouldn't it have existed it wouldn't have existed if it weren't for the europeans like they they created the uh you know the triangular trade to begin with child soldiers human trafficking forced labor these are the conditions that currently exist within the same sub-saharan region where the trans-atlantic slave trade originated um she might be surprised to hear that there's there are slaves um in the united states right now um same thing like uh forced um [Music] sex trafficking african bodies are being sold today like they were sold then and no they are not being purchased by any country of white men in fact slavery by any traditional definition is exclusively practiced today within non-white countries but we hear almost nothing that's not true well i mean most of the world is not white um most of the world is brown i'm not sure if she i mean i feel like this is stuff that she probably should already know um so like it slavery happens still on every continent in the world um it's in latin america like i said earlier it's still in the united states it's really bad in india um she mentioned sub-saharan africa because it's trying to help her her point of video which i assume this like the thesis of the video is basically that um how dare we only focus on europeans um practicing slavery when this is a worldwide phenomenon it's but especially it's an african phenomenon those dang africans enslaving people um so that's an interesting angle to take yeah nothing about that just like we hear nothing about how slavery was universal until good people in europe and america ended it two centuries ago why because our so-called leaders black and white wouldn't profit from it black victimhood is nothing not profitable oh boy that look at that so this is like we're getting to the nitty-gritty here so the real the real reason why we're they're trying to say hey we just want to educate you about the the history of slavery but they this is their crusade against um black victimhood um so i've heard this trope for a while um it's been around since uh the 1960s at the very least um that um and then like think of like the welfare queen that was um the reagan administration um tried to put like to push is a symbol of um but like a lot of times i think that i mean they're like hell blacks should pull themselves up by their bootstraps type of deal again like like the rest of us and stop just you know it's more complicated than that like like like candace said earlier in the video it's much more complicated than that um i probably should add to this list i think they have a video about systemic racism which is probably hosted by ben shapiro because he is their go-to expert on systemic racism only because he talks about it all the time um but i think this is um what we're seeing right now at the end of this video is just an another oversimplification here it elects politicians and i'm not talking about oversimplification like the youtube channel that's great who's self-aware who uh oversimplification with an agenda sorry i'll go back here black victimhood is nothing if not profitable it elects politicians and funds racial grievance groups and if black americans began to view themselves as partners in the american dream if we embraced the patriotic spirit that holds all the american dream the one you have to be asleep to to believe for to believe it is that what george carlin said um so here we're just getting into some like um flowery flowery language that is not really doesn't really mean much men are created equal the patriotic spirit that is our real heritage real heritage oh god it's like the real america that's that stuff is just meant to um essentially put down others like you're not a real american if you don't believe what i believe race hustlers would soon be out of business race hustlers who wants that i'm candace owens author of blackout for prager university okay uh she's not a historian um i don't think blackout is about this but maybe she mentions it in her book i have not read her book so there's the first video we made we made it through um so i'm gonna go to the second suggestion from the super chat um so thank you for your suggestions um hopefully the sound has been good i don't have to go to the bathroom yet so that's good too um somebody said candace is probably the closest thing to a race hustler there there is i was going to say that same thing um okay so you know a lot of stuff in the video was true um a lot of it was slanted some of it i only caught one thing that might have been kind of a lie when she's talking about britain like they're the first country to outlaw slavery is my interpretation of what they're trying to say all right so let's go to another video i'm they have this nixon video that seems interesting but i uh ulysses grant is the one so i'm gonna search on the channel here and actually listed like this the amazing life of ulysses s grant oh yeah yeah i think i'm gonna like this one actually all right and if i do like it i will hit that like button it has a pretty high percentage it looks like this is one of the better ones maybe um okay devon has a suggestion thank you for the sweep chat again you should get uh score points at the end of each video one to ten for accuracy unbiasedness and general content thank you i'm gonna do that i'm gonna take your suggestions so uh for 10 being the best one being the worst um that video the slavery video had i think for accuracy probably uh five unbiasedness i would say one general content a five yeah i'm gonna write that down too so i remember okay biasedness general and uh it was accuracy okay so ulysses grant here let's go ahead and do this one this one hopefully will be better the year was 1862. america was in the depths of the civil war it was looking back it's easy to believe that a union victory was inevitable the north had more money more popular this guy seems more credible he's a director of history and education at the civil war trump what's the civil war trust though what is what is that civil war trust okay what shows up is american battlefield trust which is a charitable organization whose primary focus is the preservation of battlefields of the american civil war good for them did you know that uh attendance at american civil war battlefields has been on the steady decline since the 1970s that is crazy to me like gettysburg used to be much more popular for example okay sorry back to the allen thank you for the super chat uh youtuber micah curtis calls you mr grifter and rants about you every day be careful because he tells people that he plans to find and confront you oh okay maybe i'll take him out to coffee i've never heard of him before but population more industry what am i drifting about like i just want to educate people that's pretty much my lifelong goal educate people about history so i get maybe he needs to look up the definition of grifter okay gary uh you're saying that the north had more money more troops that a union victory was inevitable the north had more money more population more industry but no one thought that at the time in the first year of the they did actually they did think that at the time and they also had better transportation better technology big reason why the the north was able to win the war was because of their superiority with railroads and telegraphs the war it looked as if the south would win a series of high-profile victories in the east convinced many that confederates were better fighters under better leaders i don't know okay let me play that again because i'm not sure what but no one thought that at the time in the first year of the war it looked as if the south would win a series of high-profile victories in the east convinced me yeah the summit definitely it definitely seemed like that yeah any that confederates were better fighters under better leaders where would president lincoln find a battlefield general who could do for the union what robert e lee was doing for the confederacy lead it to victory the man he found the man who saved the union was ulysses s grant he wasn't lincoln's first choice or second or third in fact when the war started in 1861 lincoln had no idea who ulysses s grant was yep hardly surprising since at the time grant was selling hats to farmers wives in a small town in illinois his right yeah yeah he uh well but he remember ulysses grant uh served in the mexican-american war as well i mean he had been a lifelong he had a you know a pretty well-established military career he also had some personal struggles um that he dealt with he was not very good with money um he tended to like alcohol a lot which most americans drank alcohol at that time but he drank a lot um all right so yeah this is uh this video or i can already tell you though is better than the last one rise to glory is one of the most amazing stories in american history yeah born in ohio on april 27 1822 grant had no ambition to be that was wrong he was actually born in 1622 i'm kidding this is there's not gonna be anything controversial here for a while i think soldier his father pushed him into it thinking he wasn't suited for much else grant's west point career wasn't especially distinguished either but during the mexican-american war 1846-1848 grant proved himself to be an officer of unusual ability he was cool under fire daring but rarely reckless even more important the men under his command trusted him yeah after that war grant returned to st louis to marry his fiance julia dent the dog yes i i have been to that house it's well preserved if you get a chance in st louis it's an amazing place potter of a slave-owning missouri farmer that's true grant was never happier than when he was with julia and he was never unhappier than when he was not right unfortunately in this period army life forced them to be separated sometimes for many months to assuage his loneliness grant started to drink while in a distant posting in northern california a thousand miles from julia his drinking got the better of him he resigned his army commission to avoid an embarrassing court-martial it was downhill from there i heard about that too but i want to know more details i don't know the details of that does anybody in the chat know exactly what happened with that like why he uh yeah i don't know one business venture failing after another by 1860 thoroughly humiliated and with no money and no prospects he was back working for his father in the small town of galena illinois then the civil war happened the union was in desperate need of experienced soldiers grant volunteered his leadership skills were immediately obvious he quickly advanced through the ranks in a little more than six months he scored two major victories at fort henry and fort donelson along the tennessee and cumberland rivers he followed these up with victory in the largest battle in american history up to that time the battle of shiloh making him a true union hero in a cause that was starved for heroes there was nothing flashy about grant's generalship all he did was win unlike the overly cautious generals that drove president lincoln to distraction grant's battle plan was to always move forward always put pressure on his foes any advantage the union had in technology well i hope he mentions total war here but um some some would say that grant's battle plan was at times reckless i should probably add that it's pretty clear that this video is meant to uh make him look like an amazing guy because it's even in the title amazing life but so far i'm i'm impressed with this video i like it dear manpower he employed to the fullest like napoleon grant was a superb reader of maps he could identify the enemy's vulnerabilities and exploit them as he did in his brilliant 1863 campaign for vicksburg a campaign that is still studied at war colleges yeah no that's i'm glad he mentioned that vicksburg he uh um a lot of their success was based on his his uh excellent planning and uh i'm glad they mentioned the maps too like um he was somebody who uh would study a lot like he he uh and it's funny because like earlier just just a few seconds before this in the video they're saying that he he uh kind of moved forward too much but other times he yeah he was actually um he planned pre he thoroughly planned for other battles vicksburg is a great example in march 1864 lincoln made grant commander of all the union armies it took more than a year of the war's hardest fighting before lee surrendered and the war finally came to an end by this point the president and his general had developed a close bond shortly after grant returned to washington lincoln invited the grants to join him and mary lincoln at ford's theater yeah grant accepted julia however had developed an intense dislike that's rarely lincoln and insisted that her husband get out of the commitment so they did embarrassed grant did that night in that theater lincoln was assassinated as the commander of all union armies grant was placed in a terrible bind having to walk a tightrope between new president andrew johnson's pro-south agenda which favored the old white aristocracy and protest i mean that's that's a little over i mean that's it is oversimplification here uh pro-south agenda andrew johnson hated uh the the old slave power that existed in the south like he was very against aristocrats you know he wanted to um he ended up like yeah eventually getting over it i guess and when they he kind of humiliated many many of them like having them apologize in person to him and all this uh some of some drama surrounding that but uh i think to say he was pro-south agenda i think he was just racist that's maybe the better way to put it like he was he was just racist uh he was against slavery he was cool with ending slavery but he wasn't cool with giving uh african-americans uh civil rights protecting as lincoln intended the newly won rights of the freed slaves grant had saved america once as a general could he save it again as a politician running as the republican candidate for president grant easily won election in 1868 and then again in 1872 during his tenure he fought to secure the pac a little bit closer to his tenure he fought to secure the passage of the 15th amendment which guaranteed all american citizens the right to vote regardless of race color or previous condition of servitude he created the department of justice broke up the ku klux klan and advocated for the rights of indians oh they mentioned the advocated for the rights of indians apart now like i'm not sure if he was able to get any legislation or like i mean there was still he may have personally um said some things but but american federal troops were still out west you know fighting in the indian wars uh during his tenure and as president um salah ken thank yous for the donation uh i thank you for being a decent center left channel i don't consider myself center left in fact if you were to know my political opinions on certain issues you'd be like oh so he presided over the completion of the transcontinental railroad and a rapidly expanding industrial economy he did but grant wasn't done one week before his death on july 23 1885 he completed his autobiography it became one of the best-selling books of the a big reason why he completed those memoirs the the autobiography um was so that he didn't leave his family in a bunch of debt because he continued to have financial struggles after he left the presidency um he was somebody who if was if he if he was alive today he would probably get duped by a pyramid scheme um he was duped to invest in and uh something that he shouldn't have been and so he didn't want to leave debt with his family so that was his like his mission at the very end of his life i've got to publish these memoirs to make money for my family all right the 19th century of grant's amazing life frederick douglass wrote a fitting epithet in him the negro found a protector the indian a friend a vanquished foe a brother an imperiled nation a savior i'm gary edelman director of history and education at the civil war trust man frederick douglass is so awesome and yeah like he that's a great quote um that video was a lot better than the last one so i would say uh as far as um accuracy um i would say it would be a nine i would say bias i would say i mean their their bias towards trying to make grant look good so maybe a seven and generally though i'm gonna give this video an eight so um that's a good video overall i would actually show that to my students and just kind of point out though before i showed it this is something that makes him look good there are legit criticisms of ulysses grant i think historians generally view him much better than they used to he used to not be so high in presidential rankings now i think he like for me he'd probably be up to a b-tier president at this point um the more i learn about him the more i like him i think ron chernow's book has greatly helped um the public perception of grant so maybe that's what was the catalyst for this video all right next up we got another suggestion from a um that was my second video oh gosh so why america must lead i'm going to do that one and then we're going to do the critical race theory video so prageru [Music] why america must lead this one came out four years ago and the super chat um who suggested this i forgot the name username i'm sorry but uh they said that this one was controversial with the usual prageru crowd um so oh look at this the world is on fire that's like a reaction okay let's go ahead and take this uh check this one oh i forgot to like the other one that's all right i'll like it later the world is on fire the middle east is being torn up by war and terrorism that have forced millions of people to flee that was four years ago and that's still the case um the war on terrorism some of the media wants you to think that it's over that it ended either at the end of iraq war or maybe the afghanistan war ending now that it's over no it continues drone attacks continue bombs are still being dropped on suspected terrorists so um when he says the world on fire though i'm automatically getting the vibe that like this is going to be a sensational video like they're trying to create fear um so i'm very uh like if i were to begin one of my videos saying the world is on fire i i don't think that would be um that's probably not advised i probably shouldn't start off a video that way syria looks like the disaster of a generation iran seeks to dominate the region and some contacts syria this is a the syrian civil war um which uh if this was 2017 2016 uh when this came out but yeah um it peaked a few years ago um has you know that's so kind of keep in mind when this video was made it declares its intention to wipe a sovereign nation off the map oh okay let's see play that part again here then off the map while in eastern europe a resurgence with nation of the map it's intentionally the region and syria looks like the disaster of a generation exaggeration iran seeks to dominate the region and openly declares its intention to wipe a sovereign nation off the map oh i think he's trying to say i know his accent is a little bit hard to understand but i think he's trying to say that wipe israel off the map and that was uh that that never was said that that's a quote that was made up they've never i mean i'm sure people have said that privately but no leader has ever been proven to say exactly those words um like that that's a very common myth actually it was first attributed to um ahmadinejad um but if you actually translate it um that was well that was way back in 20 or 2005. um yeah so i i don't think iran is this boogeyman that many people think it is like uh yes they have uh islamists a an islamist government um but it's more secular than you would probably think in terms of like local governments and um culturally especially culturally now it's still a very religious country but they're not imperialistic especially compared to the united states or uh china you know uh or russia like that's i don't think that i mean when you say dominate the region are you talking about the middle east i mean sure i'll give you that one but while in eastern europe a research in russia has seized ukrainian territory by so they're talking about crimea uh crimea however pronounce it uh so russia is still a fairly weak country economically i remember when a lot of people kind of were kind of afraid of russia after they seized ukrainian territory which the ukrainian territory largely uh welcomed the people that lived there welcomed russian the russian troops as they came in they're like yeah we wouldn't be part of russia so it wasn't really as controversial as you would think um russia is not a strong country compared to the united states or china it really isn't like the population has been declining there the life expectancy has been declining there it's also been declining in the united states uh but it's economically just so embarrassing embarrassingly weak compared to um most european countries and china and singapore and the united states it's yeah so i i don't think we really need to like place like create a new cold war based on fear of russia trying to take over the world at least not yet before so arms china is flexing its muscles against its neighbors it is around the south china sea and africa and the middle east yeah there's only one nation in the world oh here where are we going with this this seems to be a nationalism angle we're taking so let's see if that's where he where he goes there's only one nation in the world capable of putting out these fires that nation is of course the united states many americans will argue understandably that this is not fair it may not be fair i mean okay the united states by far has the largest military in the world by far it's not even comparable um and it's been this way for uh 30 years at least ever since the end of the cold war and we've kind of just taken the role because everyone's like well you got all the weapons you've got all the um capabilities you've got the uh you know intelligence we uh there are world organizations that are meant to kind of fill this role but they have not done that um the united nations has not lived up to its promise to um to to fill that role for various reasons that i won't get into right now but there's also nato but nato remembers a cold war relic that um unless they transform it into something more than that it still seems to be a reaction to the influence of russia and especially in eastern europe um i nato could potentially be that to take the place but i mean yeah like that that movie that the the south park guys made uh team world police or something like that whatever it's called that essentially yeah the united states is the world's policeman and yes many people don't say that's fair um i personally don't think we should be the world's police um that we should we should try to shift this to the united nations um it doesn't mean we can't heavily influence the direction it goes in terms of enforcement of um protecting um rights and around the world um but it's not an easy thing to do and obviously the united states i think i hope he mentions this in the video but it's pretty obvious that the united states picks its battles it chooses its battles what's the it ignores atrocities all over the place but then it decides to intervene sometimes when it's not smart to intervene afghanistan is the most recent example of like why did they intervene for so long it was a disaster but then they also ignored what was going on in rwanda north korea there are constant concentration camps right now in north korea um it's not a good situation there but the united states has not intervened well it's understandable why they haven't intervened especially since north korea has been developing nuclear weapons but the point is that it doesn't look good when the united states uh decides to put out fires some places and ignores fires in other places and then if you look historically a lot of times it's purely an economic interest in terms of who the united states decides to help and who they decide not to help rwanda was not a place where economically it was going to be beneficial for the united states to go in so they didn't i mean that's one theory i'm saying i know that's a bold theory to say but you know it's not too far-fetched when you really think about it but it is a fact only america has the diplomatic rich the financial resources and the firepower to lead the free world against the autocrats rogue states and terrorists that's all loaded i mean that's the assumption that the united states is the leader in the free world when you could when you look at the data um even in terms of economic freedom the united states is pretty far down the list um and that's that's from the heritage the conservative uh think tank um in terms of press freedom we're not we're not at the top of the list you'd think we would be but we're not in terms of uh other freedoms like religious freedom and all this stuff like we're not at the top of the list so uh the other thing is like to assume that there are not elements of well we don't have auto autocracy in the united states autocratic government we do have sometimes we seem like an oligarchy uh and then terrorists okay i would say [Music] that there are there is domestic terrorism there are people who are terrorists in the united states we saw that with oklahoma city in 1995. um some people call the people that raided the um the capital on january 6 they call them terrorists um i don't know if that's a fair term or not but insurrectionist might be a better way to put it but it's a loaded term regardless and so you got to be careful with this language here i think i had a super chat thank you devon again china has concentration camps yes china also has concentration camps that are trying to overwhelm it as a prime minister of denmark from 2001 to 2009 and the secretary general of nato from 2009 to 2014 i know how important american leadership is i've seen my first house i should have known that i i forgot this guy's with nato or he has experience with nato so yeah and i'm interested to say because like nato could potentially become like this world police force if they they transform it so that might be the direction to go but then that's also going to scare people you know the people who are like you know they're scared of one world government or the anti-globalist folks and uh that so i understand the concern for something like that uh chris stanley thoughts on vaccine mandates um i think at the local level it's constitutional but i think any kind of mandates uh state or federal level um state is technically constitutional federal it's not um i i generally think it should be decided at the local level as a good compromise anyway back to this video and what happens when america tries to leave from behind instead of leading from the front a case in point russia illegally annexed crimea in march 2014 the first gunpoint land grab in europe since the end of world war ii u.s secretary of state john kerry called it an unbelievable act of aggression he went on again that region let's go back to the map here i love their animations by the way uh except for when they do graphs graphs are really bad uh this region a lot of this region uh russians live there and they again they welcome the russian troops with open arms they wanted to be part of russia so it's not as cut and dry as they're making it seem he called it an unbelievable act of aggression he went on you just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on a completely trumped up pretext this yeah that's what the united states did too though but yeah i i get that quote um yeah it did look bad on russia's part the world definitely shared the same sentiment as john kerry i just got a super chat to check out the video what are kids being taught in school so i added that to my list zero zero productions thank you for the super chat this might be an admirable statement of principle but as a guide to policy it is dangerously naive because whether it was believable or not it happened the first half of the 20th century was the bloodiest in human history that was before america became a global superpower since america's ascetic became a global superpower well they became a global super superpower right before world war one i i would argue i know some historians debate exactly when that took place but since america's ascendancy the major world powers have coexisted in relative peace now that peace is threatened and americans i mean this video is not aging very well because what has russia done since then they haven't they haven't done anything similar since then it doesn't mean they can't in the future but um again this video is trying to make it it's a very fear-based video step forward again simply put no one else can do it europe is too weak and divided to lead the world the free nations have an essential role i mean you're europe is it's not as weak and as divided as you you would think i mean i i think a lot of times um europe can step up they just don't they choose not to so it's a choice not it doesn't mean that they can't well the free nations have an essential role to play and they must shoulder their full share at the cost but only america has the credibility to lead this is not just about money or manpower it's also about morality only america has the moral greatness to lead the free world that's quite a bold statement only the united st that's uh i would say that that is not true um morals are also different than ethics to quote the old movie election the uh morals is a personal convictions ethics as a society the norms of a society so i think uh when you use that term morals or morality i just like i always kind of roll my eyes not for the sake of power but for the sake of peace well i mean the problem is it's the united states typically hasn't done that like for the sake of we say it's for the sake of peace but oftentimes it is for the sake of power let's be honest you're like let's not sugarcoat what's going on um geopolitics is a thing um we were constantly worried about um losing our role of dominance in the world and so yeah like i think most people you know just say the quiet part out loud here you don't have to sugarcoat it like this yet the us will only be able to ensure peace if its leaders act with conviction if the world even thinks that america lacks the will to use force or enforce its red lines it leaves a vacuum that will be filled by corrupt autocrats rogue states and murderous terrorists i mean it's easy to say all this right but we all know i think most of you watching know this already that there are unintended consequences to intervention around the world um just because you're taking out one autocrat or just because you're defending democracy in one area doesn't mean that it's going to solve everything um i think afghanistan the last 20 years should be a great just lesson for everything else all the other interventions that the united states has found itself in over the past several decades um you know historically united states has taken out ruthless dictators only to prop up a new dictator that was just as ruthless if not more ruthless in their place but yeah they were economically friendly with the united states so that's how they justified it uh it used to be in the cold war it was like always in the name of fighting communism now it's in the name of preserving democracy but most of the time it's it's all about geopolitics and economics and you know a lot of what you're saying this guy is saying is that's frankly to me naive to think that you can just go in and put out all the world's fires and not ex not like look at libya look at what happened with libya we we took out gaddafi and there was a vacuum and now it's even worse there now slavery is on the rise in libya and it's been a mess ever since we intervened so you know what he's trying to say is the solution oftentimes is what's causing the problems to begin with all right thank you guys for the nick uh thank you for the super chat thoughts on the texas texas abortion law and some supreme court's ruling on it i think the supreme court we need to watch what they do with that jackson's women's health case in the fall and they announce it probably next year that's probably going to be the final i think they're probably going to end up it's not going to they're going to overturn the texas law probably um tommy vergetti the amount of endurance mr beat isn't presenting his record breaking god bless you thank you tommy okay as tempting as retreat might be it won't make america any other freedom loving countries safer or more prosperous history shows us well but that's uh what do you mean by retreating like i think there's a smart way to go about it it's not so simple as um like you're not retreating if you don't try to get involved with every war in the entire world like in fact i would think that would be reckless to try to prevent every other country from doing what they want like this is this guy advocating to to bomb the crap to drop nukes on north korea to free all those people in concentration camps or to drop nukes on china to free the ugrs that are in concentration camps in china i don't think so so it it's kind of i doubt this guy is consistent on this uh sash thank you for the super chat explain how general milly became the darling of the democrats yeah that's an interesting one i think it's generally pun not intended uh if if somebody's gonna say something that hurts the other side then they're gonna all of a sudden like them that's really what's gonna happen the bad guys don't stay in their own neighborhoods sorry bad guy anytime you hear someone say bad guys we're the good guys fighting the bad guys that just that's a red flag okay everybody's gonna say you're the good guys me and my posse my family my tribe my community we're the good guys them over there they're the other with the capital oh they're the bad guys what the heck does that even mean like and bad guys don't stay in their neighborhoods well sometimes they do maybe but i think just just to put the entire human race into good guys and bad guys categories that's ridiculous in itself stay in their own neighborhoods are you have any evidence we only need to look at or 911 to be reminded that the safety of americans is deeply connected to the rest of the world of course and the stability that has permitted the vast and worldwide economic expansion since world war ii an expansion that has lifted billions of people out of poverty so that's a whole that's a separate thing to talk about by the way as far as why billions have been lifted poverty it's not because the united states has come in and toppled governments or went to war um also he's talking about stability a lot here when you go to war that you are literally creating instability that's what's so could not have happened if america had not guaranteed it but freedom stability sometimes that's survivor survivorship bias sometimes it does work out um but okay let's take the example of vietnam uh the vietnam war you know that's a war that many argue that the united states we lost that war i mean you could say that it was yeah it it was truly the first war that the united states lost in its history and yet um while it ended up being a disaster as well similar to afghanistan vietnam after the communists took over they recovered and today actually vietnam has has embraced capitalism quite a bit um so they're not like truly communist in terms of economic like they're not a command economy um and they're one of the quick quickest uh growing economies in the world and they're catching up with china that's how i think how well things are going in vietnam um that wasn't because the united states invaded them or because france invaded them before that um it was because they made reforms within their borders that's why and prosperity don't come for free and they are not the norm that whole freedom is in free part um that that's a trope as well i you know here's another case where you're you're oversimplifying and um yes freedom isn't free um we have to defend our borders but what he's advocating for is going out and trying to put fires out all over the world and so you know they are the exception an american retreat will unleash a new plague of dictators and oppressors who seek to undo all the good america has done to secure peace and prosperity around the world so right here he's uh he's alluding to by showing pictures of hitler and stalin and uh what's his name the iranian leader um the he's basically saying retreating is not uh going to war with other countries like if you don't go to war with the countries that are bad doing bad stuff then you are retreating um now obviously what hitler was doing i think is a something that we definitely have learned from like if one dictator and one government is trying to take over not only an entire continent but as the late north macdonald said uh rest in peace um they wanted to take out over the entire world essentially they knew that it wasn't probably possible even hitler knew that but um the appeasement is that term that's still thrown around to get today by people that think they're experts on history like oh appeasement see when they appeased hitler see what happened chamberlain man freaking they appeased him and then they did germany just took right back over the nazis took over europe because of appeasement i don't think we can always like say that that's you know history doesn't repeat like that it it does rhyme as i've established in the video but it doesn't like you know don't assume that what's happening in uh uh crimea uh in 2014 with what russia did is the same thing as hitler it's not you can't conflate the two new plague of dictators and oppressors who seek to undo all the good america has done to secure peace and prosperity around the world for decades and that could lead to a fire no one will be able to put out you know how you did the fire analogy seems like a nice guy uh i would say this video is it's in terms of accuracy it's um i think it's mostly good i think it's probably a probably a seven bias definitely uh two remember ten is the best um and then generally i think it's it's probably a five so um we have another we have a couple more videos now to check out uh thanks for the super chat suggestions um oh man it's been an hour and a half already uh thank you for joining me this morning um we've knocked out three videos already this next one is uh let's look at some of the comments on this they oh we got 10 000 dislikes 15 000 likes so it's a very controversial video let's see what the top comments are saying only america has the moral greatness to lead i haven't laughed that much in a while good one [Laughter] yeah so it seems like even like the regular crowd of prageru crowd is against this one as well so perhaps we can all unite to say that this video is bad uh okay let's go to prageru uh what kids are being taught and then we'll do the critical race theory although i'm so sick of hearing about critical race theory what kids are being taught this is from six months ago it looks like so remember their earlier videos aren't as uh well locked down oh i think i started to watch this one um they are not oh i already disliked it because i was like what i heard from the beginning yeah so this is going to be bad um so the uh they do start to list sources in their more recent videos but their older videos you can't really find sources or if you if they do say the sources are there you click on it it's some random website that is not that credible um so yeah apparently i already started watching this video um i let me have an open mind again maybe this is not so bad the video is called what are your kids learning in school being a school teacher uh i might have good insight on this so thanks for suggesting this oh devon again man thank you so much it's important to note that what people are calling crt is racial identitarianism that's a good point yeah i'm a minority of schools are not teaching it for say but enacting in policy those enacting racial identitarian policies call themselves crt yeah see that that's the biggest problem i have with critical race theory is that nobody can really define it and they're talking about different things a lot of times they're talking about systemic racism all right but let's just tackle this one maybe they're going to mention critical race theory with this video so maybe that will reduce the need of the other video what's happening in our schools colleges have become leftist indoctrination centers it's not a new problem it's important to note that a big reason why prageru exists is because dennis prager the the guy who founded it uh whose name is named after a very uh popular radio pundit political pundit for many years before he started it um he wanted to indoctrinate kids that was really his goal like to because he in his minds he thinks that um schools particularly public schools are institutions of uh that are trying to indoctrinate um kids to to being lefties i guess um at the very least big government pro fans you know he's a small government guy so he says on most issues he probably is on some issues not so much but he this video perhaps encapsulates probably better what his views are in terms of why his mission why he started pregnancy to begin with so i'm glad we're watching this especially since i have experience in the classroom i've seen it i've been at many different schools uh before i was a regular teacher i was a substitute teacher so i've seen a lot of different what goes on in classrooms especially particularly social studies classrooms it's been going on for decades first behind the scenes and now out front that's how radical change happens it creeps up on us and when we finally figure out what's going on it's too late what radical change wow okay uh well prageru generally has the mission of promoting neo-liberalism uh economic policy generally that uh where you have free trade and do whatever you can to free up economies uh without get rid of government intervention and economies uh especially like in terms of with relation to other countries um they also promote traditional conservative values in terms of a lot of social socially conservative things they promote i would say if you look at the last few decades we've we have we've become probably more neoliberal as a country and i would say socially yes like things like uh uh drug use and gay marriage social issues the country has become more left is that because of indoctrination in schools um i don't think that's the full story i do think that schools influence kids for sure but i think the main thing there to remember here before we play any more of this video is and this is the point that uh my friend matt from useful charts the channel and he makes the posters he brought this point up on on one of my videos or and i think one of my tweets he said essentially that uh you going through the public school system you know like my daughters are in elementary school they have the same teacher the whole year but they also have a music teacher they also have a pe teacher and an art teacher they also interact with the counselors they also interact with the principal sometimes they have guest teachers that come in and then when they go to middle school they have eight different teachers every year plus a pe teacher uh then they have well that includes a pe teacher then they go to high school they also have like eight or nine different teachers every year they are not just like one teacher can't just indoctrinate a kid as effectively as you would think also curriculums a lot of times are put into place by uh school boards uh both at the state level but mostly at the district level and a lot of times who makes up the school boards parents uh people that don't have experience in the classroom other than when they were a student when they were a kid and so they don't have any education background formally they had never got an education degree they never taught they never were an administrator um and they think that they kind of have this idea of how it should be and when you think about what this video is probably going to make push the fear of like you know i think school boards is what you need to look at more than anything so if they bring if they bring up teachers that's a red flag okay teachers have very little control of what actually they can teach in the classroom if they go away from curriculum they're going to get in trouble teachers are held accountable to teach to certain curriculums um if you say that oh well these school boards are having these curriculums that are radicalized you need to provide evidence that that's the case because i have not seen that as she said especially in recent decades i have not seen that i do think that societies have become more open in general and so that's why you're seeing a change of like as far as particularly social issues but oh the super chat again oh no okay i got it all all right what's been happening on college campuses is now happening in elementary schools and high schools i know i'm now at the elementary school graphics they use here like it's that's kind of scary man that's going to give me nightmares and high schools i know i'm a mom of two school-aged kids oh you know you know she's an expert folks she's seen it with her two kids she has lots of anecdotes to share with you also she's founder of thefabmom.com so let's check this out thefabmom.com you can check it out as well all right um you can't see what i'm looking at here right now but i'm looking at the website and she looks like yeah she's from los angeles lives there says hi all his name jill right jill simonian uh welcome to fab mom.com i'm a tv host and entertainment journalist turns parenting lifestyle contributor on air and online my most recent long-running parenting gig was on cbs los angeles yadda yadda author of a book the fab mom's guide how to get over the bump and bounce back after a baby okay it seems like it's benign stuff here but um she seems like a very nice person but i don't think she's necessarily an expert on uh on on i don't know you know how prager you found her it's like um anyway i i don't want to judge she let's just listen to what she has to say before i um you know that's an ad hominem attack there that's a fallacy what i'm doing is attacking her don't attack her attack what she has to say or agree with it maybe parents are seeing it too thanks to the lockdowns and zoom we're getting a window into our children's classes okay you should have already been paying attention to what's going on in their classes like this is why you communicate with the teacher um anytime you want by the way you can you can and and what you're saying on zoom is not nearly it's not representative at all what typically happens in the classroom so i think if you really want to know what's going on in the classroom um talk to your the administrators and teachers and see if you can visit some sometime and you know it just doesn't have to be like some mysterious thing not a pretty picture kids really young kids are being taught stuff so beautiful so devoid of what real education is there's that word again that is real education you're not a real american we have the real education so they they're radical is always a loaded term it's anytime you want to try to make someone look bad you just call them a radical and that usually does the job it has the same effect as calling somebody racist like just call them radical oh okay like the radical left or the radical conservative donny thank you uh hello from your neighbor state of missouri kansas city suburb nice what's your views on libertarian socialism and corporations like mondragon i don't know anything about mondragon maybe i do but uh libertarian socialism i think vouch describes himself as that i'm familiar with him and his stuff those two words i mean on the surface it seems like an oxymoron so i don't know enough about it but i think generally um like my interpretation of it is it's like you don't want the government to step in much but when you do it should be purely for a social safety net so which to me like on the surface that sounds alright but i need to know more about it so i don't want to give too much of an opinion on it doll here are a few examples recently chicago public schools adopted an american history curriculum based on the 1619 project published and promoted by the new york times this the 1619 project is definitely controversial um the 1776 project was a reaction to it but that has that was a trump administration initiative that has been retracted by the biden administration but generally uh my criticisms of the 1619 project is it it tries to make everything all about um slavery it like overemphasizes slavery i mean it's literally in the name 1619 is the first year that slaves were brought over to jamestown uh when it was a first a colony virginia uh but generally i'm not the biggest fan of the 1619 project it doesn't mean like we can't teach them uh some of those ideas i mean if you're trying to prevent something like the 1619 project from being taught to me that censorship it's okay to compliment it with other stuff if that's the only thing they're being taught then that's a red flag i'm assuming that this american history book in chicago public schools i'm assuming it's only part of the story like it's not that's not the only thing they're being taught but i do need to look more into that cassius thanks for the donation oh man steve d uh do you have an opinion on the huge increase of school administrators over the past few decades is that a reason why teachers aren't getting raises you do see that a little bit uh it's more of a problem in college uh bloated administrations and colleges is one big reason why the cost of um education has gone up so uh but i uh generally i think that's the the biggest reason why teacher salaries um are not going up enough it comes down to school boards not prioritizing it for various reasons but if they really wanted to do it they could pull it off especially with all the bond issues that wealthier districts have [Music] okay is this the fourth video i've been watching okay let's go ahead and uh keep going with this 1619 project asserts that america's founding was not marked by the declaration of independence in 1776 but the arrival of the first african slaves in jamestown in 1619 historians from across the politics 19. i mean uh now they're oversimplifying what they're saying uh you probably should do a better job summarizing it um but i get the point they're trying to make historians from across the political spectrum have denounced this as a giant lie it's interesting when you say historians from across the political spectrum most historians don't like think of them on a political spectrum like especially when it comes to their research like they just kind of do their thing and then others label them on a political spectrum um especially with regards to their research like they may personally have political views and but they i think a lot of them try to separate that from their research but i digress a bit the new york times has walked back have denounced jamestown in 1619. historians from across the political spectrum have denounced this as a giant lie okay denounce it as a giant lie okay how about just turn it into a discussion with the kids like when did the united states when when was it truly founded was it founded when we officially became a country with the declaration of independence was it founded when the the the puritans first arrived uh on the way flower on the mayflower um what did it how about you know the 1960s maybe that's when the true america because then we truly saw like an expansion of immigration where instead of just select countries we got people from all over the world who got to participate in the dream of you know economic opportunity and civil liberties and all this um it's a good discussion but you know i i just think that uh i don't think we need to be that afraid of a teacher even if that teacher said the united states started with this slavery when the first slaves were brought over in 1619 that's when the united states really got started is that really going to be detrimental to your kids like do we you know is it really that big a deal the new york times has walked back many of the project's original claims still this malicious slander of america is now being taught in schools malicious slander of malicious slander like why is it a malicious slander like uh the whole point of the 1619 project is they're trying to uh redirect the narrative they're trying to basically put more emphasis on the uh the effects the long-term effects and systemic effects of slavery that's what they're trying to do and could they have done it in a better way of course but it doesn't mean it's like malicious i don't know that's a that's a bit harsh patriot raven don't give in to the propaganda but i congratulate you for having to suffer watching through six hours of this stuff seven hours i've been at it for a while okay of america is now being taught in schools as truth and what is that truth that america is was and always has been a fundamentally racist country okay and that's at the heart of maybe i won't watch that crt video because this is at the heart of it um the fact is that um racism has always been there throughout american history it is it's undeniable it doesn't mean that we hate our country it doesn't mean that what we hate what our country stood for um it doesn't mean that we want to teach kids to hate themselves um i think that a lot of what we're seeing is this is a reaction because you have a lot of people who are identify as white who uh they don't want to be having a finger pointing at them saying yeah well you need to feel guilty um for the sins of your ancestors um well i think it's better to direct our anger towards um unjust systems and you know it doesn't this doesn't have to be taught in a way to make kids feel guilty um i just think that like uh i'm going to play this part again because i really want to break down what you're saying here um licious slander of america is now being taught in schools as truth it's true and what i mean what truth like i said at the beginning of this live stream truth history is always seeking truth it's not you have the truth with a capital t here it is um so i don't think history teachers generally do that they they don't it's always a process like this is part of a process of trying to to analyze evaluate the past is that truth that america is was and always has been a fundamentally racist country i mean that's mostly a straw man i mean who's actually saying that even in the 16 19 project they don't say that that's an exaggeration sunflower socialist hey how you doing this is what the only socialist in kansas check out his youtube channel uh hey mr b coming to you from maine oh yeah he's in maine now yeah do you think that these guys don't really get what his geography is yeah his geography needs to be taught the history of history that needs to be taught cynical historian has a great video on that by the way uh carolina boy can you do the why the democratic south became republican video oh they deny the gop southern strategy occurred could also make a good solo video topic sure i'll add that to my list um why let them south the party switch they they actually deny the party switch i didn't know that my stomach is starting to make weird sounds all right well thank you for your support all and that white americans today bear responsibility for all current and historic racism i think that's also a straw man uh i'm white in case you didn't know i more peach but i i'm considered a caucasian um i definitely uh when people first meet me i think people are automatically making assumptions about me like based on my skin color and they call that white privilege um well what about somebody who has a different skin color do they have privilege too well sometimes they may you know but i don't think anybody that looks like me is being taught in schools that they are responsible for racism of the past or current racism that's just not true um maybe you can find an anecdote that that's happening um but i don't think that's generally happening so you just making stuff up here devon again thank you i have heard people claim that we are a racist nation um yeah but there that's not what they're people say that but i don't think they're being taught that in school i don't think there's a teacher saying you all are racist and you're you're the reason why there's racism like that's just not happening uh maybe it's happened before but this is an exaggeration i think generally a straw man this bleeds perfectly into another educational debacle diversity equity and inclusion okay this is how this might this is what devon was talking about too with the um uh so you see this mostly with workplaces um but this push to try to make workplaces um organizations in general more diverse and equitable inclusive um obviously i think most of us agree this is a good thing that they aim well but there's always unintended consequences of the stuff like this and i'm curious what sh the angle she's gonna say uh devin says again the party switch didn't take place until the early 2000s the racist like robert byrd stayed democrat during that time yeah it was a long process it took place over several decades i would say it started in the 60s and then it probably ended at the in the 90s late 90s sound innocent but don't be fooled it's a dangerous euphemism for something called critical racism oh there it is i didn't even know she mentioned critical race theory in this so good yeah uh so a lot of times when people are criticizing critical race theory they don't know what critical race theory is but i think what they think they're doing is they're attacking uh teaching kids about systemic racism which kids do need to know about systemic racism it's real it's a really a lingering problem now how you do that that's the trick you need to be careful with how you do that you don't need to make kids feel guilty for their skin color but i think they need to know that systems have been racist and they continue to to be racist uh the best example of systemic racism i always bring up is uh our prison system um if you look at in who's incarcerated overwhelmingly uh higher percentage of black and brown people of color in prison for drug use even though no evidence that they use drugs more than than whites so um that's a common example there are other examples oftentimes uh people counter those examples by saying well look at the opportunities they have now they never had before look at affirmative action um i i get critic criticism of affirmative action but you've got to remember that much of what we are fighting today is the momentum of the past affirmative action is is meant to hopefully be a temporary solution to the sins of the past because momentum has carried so much of that and so much of inequity is simply wealth inequity like wealth inequality and when i hear people say oh well you know if you work hard you work 70 hours a week like mr beat did and staying up late in his basement to make videos while he's teaching then you're gonna find success but the fact is i only found success because i had a middle class upbringing i mean my parents didn't have much money when i was little like they did struggle um we struggled when i was a little bit by the time i was uh in high school myself we were doing okay both my mom and dad were working full-time my mom was actually i think making more than my dad at that time and we you know i grew up within walking distance of a lake two and a half acres probably uh well it used to be a smaller house but they expanded to square footage so 2500 square foot house i never had to worry about being shot on the way to school or at school i um never had to worry about my house being bombed never had to worry about having enough to eat i always was able to take a shower every day never had a the water turned off or the power turned out i had a pretty good childhood and a lot of people don't get that type of childhood and it you can directly link it to slavery generational wealth because when slaves were freed they were not given wealth they didn't have the homestead act there was a handful of them that did but generally they they didn't and so when you look at like systems we're mostly talking about uh capitalism itself and we're talking about the prison system uh criminal justice system um those are really the big ones we're talking about um and that's what i think a lot of people are uncomfortable with their kids learning about let's be honest they don't want their kids learning about that because it might lead them to have thoughts i get it i get their concern uh supernova 428 says would the education system also be considered to have a pass to systemic racism due to property taxes funding school in the history of reliance oh yeah of course real estate uh education system as well because of redlining and property taxes largely determining funding for schools in the united states and then also districts for like where people go to school wealthier like look i've taught in poor districts i taught in kansas city missouri district substitute i taught and i taught in the richest district in kansas city which is the blue valley district and night and day in terms of access to resources um anyway i'm going on too long here let's continue with what she's saying here critical race theory says that racism is woven into the very fabric of american society well what i was saying was systems like not all of society most people are not racist the vast majority of people aren't racist especially younger people oh yeah uh i want to also note that the vast majority of trump supporters are not racist um so don't just simply say oh well they're all racist like not it does it's not so and then okay so maybe well they are they aren't explicitly racist but there's implicit prejudice well we all have prejudice okay so you can't really we all try not to have prejudice but we all have prejudice like people judging me and i judging them when i first meet them these thoughts are almost automatic we try not to have them but they're there it doesn't mean we act out on them and say stuff but they're there but i think it's important to say that they critical race theory um is more about systems um we're not placing blame pointing fingers at people or even necessarily groups of people we're just saying the systems themselves created by people yes but they have turned into racist systems or maybe they always were racist systems what does this look like in a school setting middle and high school students in wellesley massachusetts are being taught to be on the lookout for unconscious racial bias in their classmates we need your help an email to students reads your school leaders will be working with you this year on how to be proactive about preventing bias incidents and how to report them should they occur okay wes i don't know about this wellesley massachusetts look out for racist students so it looks like this is something that happened a couple years ago um so it looks like okay i'm just going to read a story from the wellesley report which is apparently the student newspaper at wellesley high school it says and i know you can't see this but you can look it up if you search wellesley report oh uh bubble gum gun everyone has quote bias that's racism but racism does not equal hate that's a good point thank you aiden irish as well for the super chat so well wellesley high school students walk out it appears that 300 out of a population of 1 500 students at the school led by a new school a student organization called young ethnic scholars chanted wake up wellesley uh the the goal was to take action against quote take action against the racial injustice rampant in your community um a lot of people in the group were a lot of students in the group were students of color and their allies um okay so this must be a reaction to or maybe this is what caused i'm okay i'm gonna go to a different news story here but okay so from the boston globe um looks like that there's a paywall but um dang it i hate this let me try dang it okay fox news says this is uh from 2020 uh may 20th 2020 massachusetts school districts racially segregated healing space explicitly excluded white students and they say critical race theory is prompting vigorous campaign against it okay a parent's group has filed a federal civil rights complaint alleging that a massachusetts school group group excluded white students from a healing space designated for other racial and ethnic groups okay um so basically a safe space for people of color is what this school had but that seems to be a separate issue like your school leaders will be working with this year on how to be proactive about preventing bias so it seems like wellesley uh is a pretty diverse school with some racial tensions still um but this seems actually fairly benign as well like what's the harm in like uh trying to oh they're the sources on the screen what are they learning.com okay what are they learning.com i see uh detail 123. i found that article hmm yeah that's the actual okay so it says welcome back to the school year we've all missed you we are so glad you you're back this appears to be like a suburb of boston yeah uh blah blah blah blah blah this summer in addition to the pandemic we witnessed the black lives matter movement propelled to the national scene following the violent deaths of brianna taylor george floyd jacob blake many of you practiced activism by being a part of the protest here at wellesley and elsewhere um we would love to hear your reflections about the summer please share them here this form is aimed to discuss the ways that wps can address matters of race and racism more prominently in our schools i just don't see anything oh here we go if you are oh it says one of the ideas we wish to explore this year is an advisory council if you're interested please contact us we also want to make you aware of our commitment to preventing bias-based incidents in our school communities a bias incident is any conduct speech or expression that has impact that may not involve criminal action but demonstrates conscious or unconscious bias that targets individuals or groups that are part of a federally protected class i.e race ethnicity national origin sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation religion or disability okay so i guess it depends on what the um the consequences um we don't want like this on the surface i can kind of see how some people might think this might turn into like a witch hunt you know like uh lead to some paranoia but you know i'm sure it's overblown i mean this is from uh a year and a half ago i don't think this is i must i didn't hear anything any follow-up from the school i'm sure it didn't go that badly this warped vision of america doesn't stop at race in colorado first graders are being taught that just because someone looks like a boy doesn't mean they are only they can know who they truly are well okay so one thing that a lot of people don't realize is that race is a social construct that it was invented by um mostly the spanish uh in the 1500s as a way to justify the hierarchy um that they had put in place um and then gender is also a social construct um now that's different from biological sex okay there's no doubt that sec like if you look at bio biology with sex um we have differences when you're born right sexual organs and then hormones and stuff like that um i think if they're taught in first grade this is too young to be learn learning about these things because it's too complicated like i'm not teaching i have a second grader and fifth grader maybe my fifth grader can start to handle this stuff but i think a first grader that's a little too young uh to stop start talking about gender as a social construct so i get that but still is this really is this going to screw up this kid forever if they learn this stuff at a young age i don't think so i don't think they're i think they're going to be fine i don't think you need to worry uh extremics mr b you should react to the public union public enemy video okay i'll add that to the list thank you i'm gonna have to go to the bathroom after this video [Music] i'm already losing my voice gender is something they choose for themselves based on how masculine or feminine they feel i mean yeah it's a social construct you can't biology is a separate thing but gender again is a social construct or maybe they're not fully a boy or a girl but something in between whatever that oh whatever that means that may be well okay well okay yeah that's if it's a social contract but actually even biology there's a spectrum even with bio biology like one percent of the population something like that uh has um you know what's the term like is the i don't want to use the wrong term that's like politically uh incorrect here but uh i guess it is yeah hermaphrodite is that the um the correct term intersex intersex is the better word uh yeah but so i mean this is something that is honestly is it really that big of an issue do we really need to be freaking out about this stuff it just seems like there's bigger things in the world to be alarmed about look how alarmed she is by the way in this video she's really upset about this um mecha messiah thank you there's a video about what's wrong with the 1619 project that could be a good follow-up if it wasn't suggested love your content okay well yeah thank you very much i'm already getting quite a list here so repeat that's what children are taught in first grade yeah and imagine what they're taught in second or third grade and of course the world faces imminent disaster from global warming the american federation of teachers has fully endorsed the most radical aspects of the green new deal okay but that's just one organization also the way she's talking about this i think she doesn't think that global warming is caused by humans so i mean that's unscientific i mean if you look at the experts it's pretty clear that humans contributed to it and the planet has been warming more than a one degree which has had significant consequences already so this is probably something we should be teaching in schools about now should we be promoting the green new deal that's not being promoted in the classroom that's another straw man i don't think that's that's a concern here that if you're trying to trying to indoctrinate the kids about the green new deal uh like she's mentioning this group like okay the warming the american federation of teachers has fully endorsed that's a teacher union right yeah that's the largest teachers labor union they've endorsed it but it doesn't mean that it's part of every curriculum in school of course it's not again school boards are the ones who determine these things the state level and district level first the most radical aspects of the green new deal which is already featured in california school curriculums oh okay uh i'm gonna have to look more into this here now so she is mentioning it's in curriculums uh it so i'm just gonna search it's green new deal parts of california's curriculums standards uh time magazine has a okay oh there's a bill here yeah there's an actual bill in the california legislature so let's check it out here actually i'm going to share the screen here with this let's go ahead and let's go ahead and show it i think this is important enough to share with you so so there it is uh a lot of this was crossed out the bill would enact oh it cr it looks like it had that originally and they changed the words okay well then this is all right um yeah but this isn't part of the classroom here so um public schools oh here we go maybe this is in uh hmm uh part two of these enjoying your taste in the video thank you extinguish x um i'm just not finding it um i don't know exactly what she's talking about here so maybe um maybe there's a let's see if there's a i'm gonna go to their sources and see uh if they have it there so let me share this instead with you okay so this is the page that gives their sources i probably should be watching all the stuff from here anyway but all right uh where's it at facts and sources um okay public schools are promoting left-wing left-wing political agendas including the far-left green new deal here's the source okay okay so that's in a new window so let me share that with you this is kind of a pain sometimes so this is the source where she got her information it's called science betrayed the propaganda infecting k-12 science curricula [Music] let me just do a keyword search here uh green new deal okay it only shows up once [Music] today school leaders encourage students to quit class stage sit-ins out outside congressional offices and join strikes to demand even more radical policies such as the greener okay but that's it there's no other mention of it here uh maybe search global warming okay um they teach about it yeah they should teach about it okay so i think what they're doing is they're completing conflating possible teaching possible solutions to fight global warming they're conflating that with um greener deal and i don't think so they're not actually i don't think any teachers are actually actively promoting as part of the curriculum you know aoc's green new deal i just okay all right let's go back to the video here we're getting off on this one has taken longer than i thought it would yeah we'll stick with good old youtube here all right already featured incorrect so that that's misleading that's definitely some many of our schools are teaching children that our past is terrible and that they have no future okay our past it can be terrible but they're not only teaching them that there's terrible things in our past uh it's not that simple um and then this is pretty crazy and that they have no future they have no future that so are there teachers right now in our schools across the country and the world for that matter just saying kids hey you have no future good luck like i don't think that's um that's pretty bleak so that's a pretty uh i would say bold and uh a bit crazy statement there i mean it's it's so important they felt like they had to put the text on the screen so that if they are white they are racist whether they know it or not again a straw man um i don't think this is generally what's being taught there's probably some anecdotes but if they're black they're victims whether they experience it or not all right um what about brown what about other colors uh i don't like this is this again another over simplification here i don't know what like everything's not black and white oh see what i did there that they should constantly question their sexual identity with all this being they're taught that they're not like i just think that um well when they're older when they're they can handle it they can learn that gender is a social construct and um that you know just because uh your sex is one thing doesn't mean you have to stay you don't have to do certain things you know in a society you shouldn't feel pressured to do certain things or that's i mean i think that's really what's what's happening um this is just this whole entire video is mostly a straw man here with all this being drummed into their heads no wonder today's kids have more psychological problems than any previous generation i would argue that like there is a problem today with there are a lot of psychological issues with um younger kids today um i just think part of the reason why that is is we're more aware than we used to be like it's similar to like something like autism we it doesn't i mean it probably was there all along we just were not able to diagnose it diagnose it as effectively the other thing that's going on is like um the modern world technology um has had effects like in particular social media definitely has had um negative psychological impacts um i don't think you can place all this blame on teaching about gender or systemic racism [Music] in schools i don't think that's what's causing it so it's quite a leap there maybe you think i'm cherry-picking examples to exaggerate my point you are yes or maybe you're one of the lucky ones who sends your kids to a school that has yet to be infected by this radical agenda i mean infected using that word infected is kind of revealing like she's like this is something that is a disease like that it's a it's a pandemic you know like when really uh we're just talking about ideas and she seems very threatened by ideas um i mean i i think kids can handle more than you give them credit for and i don't think they're just gonna automatically um believe something because one person tells them something anyway uh they a lot of times people will tell them many different things that all contradict each other and then they have to kind of reach their own conclusion um i don't think there's some nefarious agenda here from teachers in particular you notice she's she's not mentioning school boards throughout this entire video she did mention curriculum a little bit but then i try to look something up and i didn't find i mean basically she was kind of just making stuff up there but um i think if you really want to i mean i know that the school boards have been attacked lately because of the mask mandates and um the lockdowns or like sending kids home because of the pandemic still it's ongoing i get the they've been getting a lot of crap lately but the school boards are the ones mostly in charge of um what curriculums what standards are set and there are national guidelines there are national standards like common core but those are actually fairly benign again i keep using that word benign because if you actually read them it's not really something that is that controversial um and most of it is skills based it's not content based so a lot of the content is actually driven by school boards or states state governments districts have curriculum guides some smaller districts don't have that which i was fortunate to experience that in my career uh prairie fire says oh there's a couple here david mcclellan says destigmatizing mental health issues and needs increases accounts but mental health issues are not new yeah mental health issues are not new it is a concern um and yeah it's destigmatized i was going to say that actually i'm glad you brought that up because we've had issues for a while especially ever since technology really disrupted things and you know for thousands of years we were either hunter hunter gatherers as a species and then we began farming staying put but that's even relatively new as well so uh we're fighting um uh thousands of years tens of thousands of years of evolution with the modern world the of course you're gonna have some psychological um some negative effects of that prairie fire thank you for the super chat you would think children being taught to live in fear of the bomb from the 50s to the 90s would have caused more issues of dread than learning about climate change learning of climate change like the liking the stream drink water peace thank you very much um i do need to drink some water in addition to the i've been drinking cold brew all right let's finish this video so i can go to the bathroom maybe but if i were you i wouldn't take it on faith find out for yourself when i did take it down on faith i'm assuming this woman is religious by the way so she's um she probably has some faith in not only a religion but also in institutions i'm sure she believes a lot of things that she sees she probably even believes everything she sees on prageru so she's probably going to say you need to just do your own research now she's going to say that right i was shocked to learn that all of this didn't take it on faith find out for yourself when i did i was shocked to learn that all of this is happening in my school district right now so find out what's being taught in your kid's school take a good hard look at curricula ask administrators if they endorse the 1619 project are they pushing a diversity equity and inclusion agenda i mean go ahead look at the curricula it's like it's fairly boring actually you might fall asleep reading it um [Music] i think a lot of people that show up at these uh school board meetings they're not actually looking at the curricula they're seeing a prageru video like this one they may be watching maybe tucker carlson or something uh and then they're showing up at the meeting and uh i i i mean go ahead read the curricula uh if you ask the administrators if they endorse the 1619 project the administrator is probably just going to say first of all what second of all i endorse critically thinking is what they're going to say about any information they come across they endorse evaluating information and building up skills versus just like memorizing content anyway you shouldn't just like memorize something and just assume that's always the truth uh history is not static learning about history should not be static learning anything should not be static you're constantly learning new things working with all information that you received comparing it to new information evaluating are they pushing a diversity equity and inclusion agenda i mean that on the surface seems like okay well that isn't that agenda like she said earlier in the video that's not good we want a diver like the more diverse a team is in uh the corporate world generally the more productive it is like generally the the happier the team is i've seen this working in the private sector myself equity don't we want it you try to have equal opportunity not equal not equality of outcome that's that's another straw man that doesn't happen equality of opportunity and inclusion yeah we want everybody to be included so like that's that's the most disturbing part right there like like saying that these are red flag words words well i think this is something we should all agree with how we get there sure yeah we can disagree on that if so demand to see what materials the school is using at a minimum and get to know yourself look at like every teacher that i know has a syllabus of some sort or they put it on their google classroom on the you can see the resources they use they post everything i post everything for my students and their parents can see it easily like most parents don't see it though they're too busy like they they're working their jobs they're doing their thing they don't even care kids teachers and principals join the pta attend local school board meetings look for allies among reasonable like-minded parents you mean parents that agree with you yeah reasonable they're only reasonable if they agree with me you don't have to agree with each other on everything you just have okay well you redeemed yourself there very good to agree that the brainwashing of our children stops here i mean okay i tweeted this once when you use that term brainwash or even the term indoctrinate um it who do the kids spend most their time with uh yeah they spend a lot of time with their elementary school teachers like my daughters right now are in school shout out to their uh their teachers who are phenomenal they spend most of the day with them they spend a lot of time with them i don't think they're brainwashing them though i think if anyone's brainwashing them i think it's me especially because most of the way we are is is influenced by how we treat our kids when they are very young we're talking like from when they first come out of the womb to when they're a toddler like there's been lots of research on this like something as simple as not reading to your kid can have huge implications down the road when reading to them when they're a toddler or even when they're a baby not holding them giving them making sure all their needs are met like the maslow's hierarchy at the bottom taking care of their needs a lot of who they are as a teenager years down the road is directly linked linked back to how the parents treat them then in terms of kids believing stuff and not critically thinking about it i mean think of parents if you're watching this as a parent right now think of how many times you've told your kid just you just giving them an answer you didn't tell them how to find the answer you just gave them an answer because it was easier just to give them an answer i've been guilty of it you just want them to sometimes just be quiet because you know that that's the answer okay but as i've gotten older i've learned more to say hey maybe you should find let's find out together what the answer is or i don't know i don't know what the answer is that's okay but much of the indoctrination that takes place i would argue is in the home parents and i know this because every year in government class when i have my students take surveys as far as their political beliefs it aligns almost perfectly with their parents even kids who they think they're rebelling they're rebellious against their parents a lot of them actually have more or less the same values values are taught at a young age and even by the time that you're in kindergarten a lot of those values are already there okay also i would say back to my earlier point a lot of these kids are exposed to so many different um teachers but who's a bigger influence than their teachers it's their friends their friends are especially by the time you get to middle school are much more of an influence so are their friends brainwashing them indoctrinating them maybe we should go after their friends maybe they shouldn't have any friends unless they're hand-picked by the parents is that what we want uh prairie prairie fire thank you for your generosity uh i oh i already read yours okay good thank you i'm trying to keep up with super chats let's let's wrap this baby up fine stops now americans know what our children should be learning that they must take responsibility for their conduct that race is the least important aspect of another person uh i guess this is the colorblind uh ideal like that some say martin luther king jr push but and not really he never really did but uh i mean yeah the content of their character yeah race is a social construct um and we shouldn't really focus on it but we should focus on it in terms of um systems don't focus on it with people obviously skin color should it's just like anything else like hair color eye color whatever who cares just judge them by the content of their character like dr king said but you have to bring up race throughout history because throughout history it's had an effect and it's still inherent in organizations and systems as i said said earlier that hard work and rational thought are things we all value that there is nothing wrong with the bodies they were born into and that america was founded not to promote racism but to guarantee sacred liberties and opportunities to its citizens and i mean much of what she just said is is true uh kind of just like i mean mostly a distraction here like a red herring uh yeah like thomas jefferson when he wrote the declaration of independence uh he's not like writing it to to promote racism no uh a lot of the stuff though is like trying to i think make it seem like again a straw man attack like this like the opposite of this stuff is what the other side is promoting which is not uh angel again a mezcata thank you mr beat if you're going to stream all day how will you eat sleep and take the john i'm going to take the john here and shortly i'll just like i don't know i'll probably put a picture up and you could you can all take john as well punities to its citizens thank you for your concern and it wouldn't hurt if they learned reading and writing and math too i'm jill simonian founder of yeah but reading what reading marxist literature you call me okay anyway of thefabmom.com well we're glad to hear from that expert i'm gonna go to the bathroom now i think i have a picture i can put up so you're not seeing like an empty room maybe i should have done this earlier yeah i'll just keep it up here i'm gonna go the bathroom i know this is going to have to happen sooner or later fortunately it's nearby don't worry i washed my hands i think i should probably play some music when i do this uh i'm going to check something real quick and we can play someone yeah let's probably get me monetize the copyright strike better not do that alexia yeah says mr mr b i dare you to take this 20 and buy a classic mac for mcdonald's maybe i will okay that's going to give me a copyright strike uh [Music] i said earlier okay i can't believe i've been doing this so long okay the headphones back on uh i got i'm gonna start eating my clif bar here turn it down uh maybe i will get that big mac oh crap i'm gonna cop i'm caught all right okay come on we've been going at it for two and a half hours and we finished uh four videos that's it so that last video uh what the kids are being taught or what are your kids learning in school i give it a um maybe a three for accuracy um a one for bias is extremely biased and a four generally overall so the best video we've seen so far was the ulysses s grant video so props to prageru for that but let's move on based on the super chat suggestions now we're going to look at a very uh video actually i'm more excited to watch because this one is a topic um that is constantly brought up when looking at american history and that is the the party switch like when the republican party who used to be the liberal party became the conservative party and then the democratic party used to be the liberal party and then they became the conservative or i'm sorry republican party they swi the democratic party used to be the conservative party then they became the liberal party that's basically all right uh now the party switch is something that uh i think most historians it's like it's not even controversial like it's but apparently and i have not seen this video i haven't seen any of these videos by the way apparently prageru made the argument that the that party switch is a myth and i think uh candace owens who we watched earlier apparently also said that in a congressional testimony i think if i remember correctly last year so let's watch this one um why the dem why the democratic south became republican and that video had 2.9 million views this one has 8.2 million views the biggest video i've ever made has 4.2 million so uh they have a lot of influence i'm telling you and it's it's barely over five minutes long so it's gonna this is not a five minute video this is something that's complex enough once upon a time every student of history and that meant pretty much everyone with a high school education knew this the democratic party was the party of slavery and jim crow and the republican party was the party of emancipation and racial integration democrats were the confederacy and republicans were the union jim crow democrat that's a little bit of an oversimplification there if you teach a vanderbilt i think you would already know that um you know it was the southern democrats that were the confederacy it was the fire eaters you know there were many moderate democrats and northern democrats who did not want to join the confederacy that called for war against those rebels and those traitors and jim crow democrats were dominant in the south and socially tolerant republicans were dominant in the north but i hope hopefully she's saying that's an oversimplification um but honestly she's it's mostly right jim crow democrats were dominant in the south and i think oh i think i know where they're going to go with this though they're probably going to say see the republicans are the true progressive party today yeah i think that's the that's probably what they're going to say isn't it is that what they're yeah okay then in the 1960s and 70s everything supposedly flipped suddenly the republicans became the racist and the democrats became the champions of civil rights okay well that's not really what happened um it was a longer process it was uh it happened over several decades as i said earlier in the stream it was probably between the 60s and the 1990s where you saw this shift and you see this i mean look at who elected bill clinton even in the 90s um he did fairly well in the south um jimmy carter you know did fairly well in the south as well um so that's obviously yet again another oversimplification yet again another straw man attack and uh we're probably i don't know i'm curious to see exactly which which how she uh slants this here fabricated by left-leaning academic elites and journalists the story went like this republicans couldn't win so republicans the story went like you said fabricated by and the democrats became the champions of civil rights fabricated by left-leaning academic elites and journalists left-leaning uh academics elites academic elites and journalists they always throw that word elites in there i mean if you are in a prageru video you're probably one of the elite i'm just saying uh the story went like this republicans couldn't win a national election by appealing to the better nature of the country they could only win by appealing to the worst attributed to richard nixon the media's all-purpose bad guy this came to be known as the southern strategy it was very okay so those of you who don't know what the southern strategy is um it was a actual um electoral strategy among republicans and uh it basically was yeah during the the 60s when uh nixon by the time nixon was running for president um the second time um you know it they didn't call it the southern strategy it was there but it was basically the idea like okay you know we see an opening here there's a lot there's a lot of democrats going back to the dixiecrats that are disillusioned by the democratic party um sure they voted democrats for democrats for years their parents did their grandparents did it it goes back generations but they are increasingly frustrated with the direction that the democratic party has become her the direction is gone and so they uh they see um somebody named barry goldwater for example um who's saying things that oh i kind of agree with him and what happened that was the election of 1964 which yeah it was a blowout i mean uh lyndon johnson easily won the election of 1964. but barry goldwater did manage to get some former democrats many of them dixiecrats over to his side by being against the civil rights um like the civil rights act basically barry goldwater is not like he was more about like uh limited government very like lower case l libertarian who believe that um businesses in particular businesses should have the right to discriminate and say who who is uh allowed in their establishment or not that was his the main thing i'm kind of oversimplifying as well but uh he was against the civil rights act and principle and uh a lot of democrats went to his supported him for his presidential election race 1964 even though he heavily lost and so this was like kind of a wake-up call to many republican strategists they're like well we should tap more into this and um it's it's not so clear-cut the southern strategy is still debated by historians to this day and political scientists so it's not like you know this is like again i said earlier history is a process we're constantly learning new things there have been great scholarly debates about the southern strategy over the years but uh i think generally the southern strategy is something that you can't deny that there was something going on here like in terms of how nixon and other republicans begin to try to attempt to cater to southern voters beginning in the 1960s uh i think that's pretty uncontroversial just that is uncontroversial among most historians simple win elections by winning the south and to win the south appeal to races well i mean it's that second part is a little bit okay the first part yeah uh winning the south like if you really it's a appeal to racist republicans like hey uh we let's do what we can to appeal to uh to southerners now i would not call it like uh i don't think most of them were thinking okay how can we just promote racist ideas at least explicitly or like maybe it was you know i i don't think it's you can just say that that's it was uh purely nefarious you know like oh yeah we got to get those ku klux klan voters but just like the republican party today is seeing and seeing an opening you're seeing some democrats come to their side in terms of uh mass mandates and vaccine mandates i think a similar thing too they saw an opening they're like okay how can we appeal to some of these southerners who are disillusioned by the democratic party so the republicans the party of lincoln were to now be labeled the party of rednecks but this story of the two parties switching again i mean if you look at the republican party even like today there's plenty plenty of establishment elite types that are in the republican party and as a matter of fact a lot of the republicans who are the biggest donors are among the wealthiest people among the wealthiest americans out there okay um so like just like this stereotype of republicans being rednecks i mean you could say probably the same i mean i know that this stereotype exists i'm not denying that but that's quite again uh another oversimplification by prageru which seems to be a ongoing habit of them but this story of the two parties switching identities is a myth in fact it's three myths wrapped into one false narrative let's take a brief look at each myth in turn myth number one in order to be competitive in the south republicans started to pander to white races in the 1960s okay not not white racist they were just trying to pander to well whites in the south southern one i'll give you that um so if you're saying the part is the the racist part is the myth i'll give you some of that uh but let's see what else they say about fact republicans actually became competitive in the south as early as 1928 when republican herbert hoover won over 47 of the south's popular vote against democrat al smith hmm okay now al smith was a northerner al smith was wanting to end prohibition he was a catholic that turned off a lot of southerners who were mostly protestant um there are other variables here to look at also um something she's probably going to ignore here after herbert hoover there was somebody else named franklin roosevelt who was also a northerner but uh did quite well with the southern democrats so she's probably going to gloss over that in 1952 republican president dwight eisenhower won the southern states of tennessee florida and virginia and in 1956 he picked up louisiana kentucky and west virginia too okay a lot of times when people vote for president they're voting against the other candidate eisenhower was also a very popular candidate especially in 1952 he was a war hero he's a big reason why uh the united states was able to to defeat nazi germany in world war ii so of course he's going to be this i mean the the democratic party also courted eisenhower he easily could have ran as a democrat he chose to run as a republican he was a moderate republican i will say much of eisenhower's appeal was non-political actually um so this might be a bad example uh florida is not typically at this time what we identify florida being in later decades this is still before um the air conditioner not a lot of people down there virginia has always been kind of not quite completely south unless you're talking about uh in the 20th century like you have to go back to the 19th century and confederacy to like fully say that virginia's all in with that but even then like you know um you look at virginia today and you'll know what i'm talking about it's not it's more of a purple state electorally um but also i think overwhelmingly that what i have a problem with here is that she is lumping like these states all like in one category and thinking that they are all monolithic and have all the same views here people vote for different candidates for different reasons usually again it's out of fear of the other candidate the the fear was the um if you look at um both actually both 1952 and uh 1956 eisenhower's opponent uh was adelie stevenson the ii um who was a pretty liberal dude um has some pretty i mean he was pretty far left honestly uh he was definitely um for civil rights um more so than than eisenhower uh he called for a higher social safety net he was probably more similar to lyndon johnson um so it's understandable that that he would scare off a lot of those dixiecrats remember dixiecrats uh they became a party for the election of 1948 um and they won some states in the election 1948 um and their whole platform was segregation now segregation forever sorry to borrow a george wallace phrase but they were uh they were the jim crow party they wanted to keep racial segregation in place okay let's keep going and that was after he supported the supreme court decision in brown versus board of education that desegregated public schools and after he [Music] the little rock nine that that was 1957. i wonder if she's gonna mention that sent the 101st airborne to little rock central high school to enforce integration no no no no wait wait wait i was wasn't that yeah that was 1957. you made something up 1956 the election of 1956 was before the little rock nine what they got that wrong did they really get that wrong god damn they just made something up there all right that's a blatant lie there myth number two southern democrats angry with the civil rights act of 1964 switched parties fact of the 21 democratic senators who opposed the civil rights act just one became a republican the other 20 so her criteria for debunking this myth is um basically saying see who switched parties because of the civil rights act as far as people who are in power i've got news for you people who are in power um a lot of times they're going to do whatever they can say whatever they can to stay in power and so probably the one dude who switched switched because that's how he thought he can get reelected but senators are elected every six years and so i don't know the number exactly off the top my head but only a third of senators were up for re-election that year and so i take a gander to say that probably most senators that year were not up for re-election so that's that why would they change the party if they're already in power plus um there's probably more than one thing that's like we didn't really understand the full implications of the civil rights act until the following years and so this is not going to be like all of a sudden overnight i mean think about it now how many people actually watch c-span maybe some of you dorks because you're you subscribe to my channel but most people don't even pay attention to what their own senators and and congress uh people in the house of representatives are up to so uh they don't follow the news politically what's going on in dc a lot of times if they hear that a law is passed they may at first be upset because of what their a pundit tells them to think or whatever but a lot of times they don't know the full implications of what's going to happen afterwards and i can assume the same thing with the civil rights act i think a lot of people probably were not fully informed about what was going to be the true implications of it we started to see that later on i know one thing that was really something that was a catalyst to get people protesting was when they started busting white kids and black kids to different school districts to try to integrate public schools um so when that stuff actually happens like same with um a lot of people know about brown versus board of education but they don't know about brown two which is when the supreme court said okay here's how we're actually going to do it we're actually going to integrate the schools then all of a sudden people are like out protesting with those you know integrationist communism signs you know so i think it's it's never as simple as like right after they pass the law then people all of a sudden they're going to switch their parties switch parties fact of the 21 democratic senators who opposed the civil rights act just one became a republican the other 20 continued to be elected as democrats or were replaced by other democrats on average those 20 seats didn't go republican for another two and a half decades okay i don't know about all of them but let's take an example here like robert byrd is somebody who probably is a good example to take so i don't know so i'm looking up robert byrd as a senator from west virginia he was a senator for many many years uh oh the longest serving in u.s history okay so um you know he had ties to uh the ku klux klan considered a racist dude but he changed his views on things he was a democrat let's see i think he was a democrat until maybe is he the one that did switch early on um okay when did he switch to when did robert bird become trying to see when he returned or he okay so he he became a republican in the the 60s okay so maybe that's a bad example to bring up but even if you are with a political party it doesn't mean your views don't change and an example to bring up now is like look at look at what's happening with republicans now they are their views are changing in real time a lot of them um formerly who were not about uh interventionism for example military interventionism are changing their views on that um are changing their views on surveillance like we shouldn't be surveilling everyday americans well they used to be okay with that um but they often change their views in response to the direction society is going and so um i think that's a little misleading just to only go off by what they're registered as uh a lot of a lot of times it's more important like um saying like what they're saying you know what their platform is and it it's again this is not something that happened uh just like that this was over several decades this was a slow process you didn't really notice it until after um so i think uh in this video she's kind of ignoring the fact that you know this was uh she she tries to make it seem like this was the the other side the people who say there was a party switch that the switch happened very quickly myth number three since the implementation of the southern strategy the republicans have dominated the south fact richard nixon the man who is often credited with creating the southern strategy lost the deep south in 1968 and why did he lose the deep south because he didn't his platform didn't fully embrace like uh he in many ways richard nixon was was a big government guy i mean he was all about uh additional federal regulations um he was all about um keeping the status quo in terms of um you know uh government involvement with the economy and taxation and um essentially even to a point where he wanted to increase government involvement with stuff like like price fixing and stuff like that uh carolina boy thank you for the super chat says strom thurman was the democrat who switched to the gop maybe that yeah that's what i was thinking of uh but that's what i want like it's not it's very rare throughout american history that a politician changes parties when it happens it's like oh wow what's going on um so i think generally it's safer just to kind of stay within because you think about it why would you leave the political party that helped you get elected they provided the resources they were there to support your campaign early on you know you support other candidates in your same party it's it really is a tribal thing it's a very tribal thing so even i think a lot of times people will they'll forgive things within your own tribe i mean that's not i guess a profound thing to say but but yeah so anyway nixon uh i think the when we we talk about the southern strategy in terms of of nixon i think it's not we don't talk about it in terms of the the election of 1968 we usually start to think of it more with the election of 1972 which he did win more southerners than so let's see if she mentions that in contrast democrat jimmy carter nearly swept the region in 1976 12 years after the civil rights act of 1964. okay uh he's from the south he's he's a was a was a popular georgia governor so that's i mean that's what one reason why he's a similar to bill clinton as well southerners typically did better in the south um the other thing let's start look i'm going to open up a new window let's just look at the maps here um the i'll just go to the wikipedia maps is fine the ones that i have in my videos my presidential elections american history in case you've never seen them so election 1968 i'm gonna open that one up first okay oh not nebraska the whole thing okay so [Music] this is the election electoral result of 1968. what do you notice she didn't bring up george wallace does she george wells was a big reason why nixon was able to uh or why he didn't win the south because they had a viable alternative in segregation now segregation for uh forever whatever he's saying was uh george wallace was the pro uh segregation anti-integration dude yeah uh so that's she didn't bring up him um and then look at the states that he that he won now let's go to 1972. oh look at that nixon wins almost every single state when we talk about the southern strategy we're not talking about the election of 1968 we're talking about the election 1972. and uh the war on drugs which uh by this time is in effect um nixon had signed the control substances act and the policy of the war on drugs is a great example of that systemic racism that i uh talked about earlier the criminal justice system definitely became more racist afterward was it intentional i mean uh i would say some people said yeah yeah or say yeah it was intentional um i know nixon wanted to go after those darn hippies criticizing him about the vietnam war but he also uh was he didn't like the black panther party and he didn't like these african-american protesters that were making making him look bad either so that was a way to lock all these pot heads up you know doing drugs let's put lock him in jail um that law and order mentality too was a big another big reason why southerners went for nixon in 1972 and this is when uh the republican party became the law and order party which you might argue that it's going in a different direction now with uh recent events but regardless let's look at 1976. oh carter good job you won the south he's from the south um it's also a time when the two major political parties have a lot more in common but it's also a time when uh i think that something you need to bring up here is that uh this is after watergate okay uh most americans were were fairly upset with nixon and the republican party how they how the watergate scandal uh went about so uh you can't also deny the fact that ford was kind of a weak candidate as well um there's more variables is what i'm trying to say um and so but then we we uh beginning in 1980 i think everyone knows this is when the reagan revolution happened now we're seeing oh carter wins his home state but look at all the other southern states they've gone republican and it's been that way mostly ever since with the exception of bill clinton so let's jump to 1992. he won his home state of arkansas louisiana not too much of a surprise louisiana was more purple back then anyway still won georgia tennessee so but then let's look at 1996. did not win georgia florida was a swing state time um missouri swing state at the time yeah so i think we don't see it till 2000 um what we fully materialize to what we see today it was a long process over a period of 35 years let's go back to that video shall we i have so many tabs open yet now i can i'll hear you okay okay and in 1992 over 28 years later democrat bill clinton won georgia louisiana arkansas tennessee kentucky and west virginia the truth is republicans didn't hold a majority of southern congressional seats until 1994 30 years after the civil rights act this is true it's more than just the civil rights act it's more than just you know again it's it's a long process so as kevin williamson of national review writes if southern rednecks ditched the democrats because of a civil rights law passed in 1964 it is strange that they waited until the late 1980s and early 1990s to do so they say things move slower in the south but not that slow well it wasn't just the civil rights act so what really happened why does the south now vote over womenly republicans because they're racist no i'm kidding no because the south itself has changed its values have changed the racism that once defined it doesn't anymore its values today are conservative ones pro-life pro-gun and pro-small government and here uh yeah i think yeah i mean that's that's those are the big three ones there i think now pro-small government i think is more lip service or like they say it but they don't really mean it or really understand what they mean by that but definitely the two the first two pro-life and pro-gun so that was actually the other things i was going to bring up is that after roe v wade which happened in the early 1970s 73 i believe 1973 all of a sudden you have a movement and then you then abortion becomes a wedge issue and so republicans fully embrace the pro-life position although you had pro-life democrats and pro-choice republicans all the way up to the 90s and then same with the gun issue gun the gun issue became a more uh wedge issue beginning in the 1980s i would say uh you know the black panther party who were probably more in line with democrats i would say even though they were against both parties major parties um they were very pro second amendment um i would say that the second amendment was not so partisan until at least the 70s if not the 80s and afterwards so people just assumed that these have always been issues that people voted on no like and a lot of times their wedge issues which which which means they're meant to divide us they're not meant to like push for true reform or whatever um and so republicans yes since the the 80s especially have fully embraced the the pro-life and pro-gun uh now the pro-small government yeah since reagan as well like at least on the surface at least that's what they say even though reagan was in reality not that that pro-small government at all if you actually look at his actions his policies not really small government and here's the proof southern whites are far more likely to vote for a black conservative like senator tim scott of south carolina than a white liberal oh okay so she's making the assumption that people like you're not racist if you vote for a african-american politician that's interesting yeah i okay well i mean yeah like uh uh that's like saying like oh yeah i'm uh i'm not racist i have a black friend you know all right but history has moved on like other regions of the country the south votes values not skin color the myth of the southern strategy is just the democrats excuse for losing the south and yet another way to smear republicans with the labor races don't buy it i'm carol swain professor of political science and so i notice that she's african-american and they tend to have african-americans like you know make videos like this about anything to do with race um see we're not racist uh yeah no i mean most of what she was saying there at the end is true i would say like yeah they're not voting like the only exception something she didn't bring up that has become a big republican uh policy position has been uh securing our borders immigration restricting immigration or making it harder to become uh to immigrate here which i think has um subtle racial underlying uh under like subtle racism under underlying it doesn't mean that people who are uh you know let's build a wall to keep the immigrants out doesn't mean that they're racist but i think that there are some overlaps there um you know anything to do with like keeping the other out like um a lot of times it's implicit implicit underneath the surface you don't really realize it you don't really think about it or talk about in the open but it might be there underlying so i would say this video overall um as far as accuracy mostly got it right so i'm going to say eight as far as bias again it's like probably a three very biased and then generally speaking this is a better than most of the ones i've watched so far so we'll say we'll say uh a six so that that's uh now the thing i hate the most about this video though is that it it's clearly um in addition to having a clear agenda it's also leaving out a bunch to the story like and i get it it's five minutes it's supposed to be bite size but there's so much more to the party switch um the cynical story i think has a video about this and then i think step back history maybe but um others oh i know that knowing better has a video about this um actually check out knowing better's video is pretty good but i i think that the main thing is that this is a very complicated and gradual thing that happened uh and the southern strategy is only a small part of it of the party switch but it did happen undeniably now when we say undeniably i mean today the republican party is the more right-leaning party i think that's indisputable they're more generally conservative party democratic party is the more liberal or left-leaning party where it used to be the republicans that was the left-leaning and the democrats were conservative leaning so um but to nobody i think no historian no credible historian is completely throwing that on the southern strategy or on the civil rights act i think that's only part of it so i i'm finding another yet another video that relies a bit on the straw man fallacy but i i get it it makes it easier to make to improve your point if you can attack a straw man uh so let's let's move on to the next one here um thank you all for sticking around some of you have come and gone i'm done with my first cold brew yeah i would say that i just like the video overall just because it's a misleading oh yeah you know a lot of these comments like it's like a lot of the comments are actually genuine you know these people are good people you can tell they're not racist so that is a oh useful charts hey thanks for joining me seven hours watching forever you that definitely deserves seven dollars oh thank you that's really kind of you um i'm already starting to lose my voice i noticed all right the next video up is public unions public enemies this is the sixth video we're doing an educator um i've had conflicting uh views of teacher unions i've at times been critical of them personally i'm not in a union currently [Music] but i do understand their importance especially throughout american history i understand the problems that some people have with unions but to assume that they were never like to assume that they're evil which some people say uh today is i think uh doing a huge disservice to unions and they're not perfect and but i think the main thing is you you should differentiate the different types of unions that exist just the title of this video public union public enemy that's uh telling me that they're going to be just trashing unions in general here so i'm not going into this video with uh the i like thinking that this is going to be too accurate but i'm going to try to have an open mind here let's see how they do this one case close 93 thank you my take in 2021 gop is focused on ideology and dem's focus on identity oh yeah that's a hot take i like it that's why they need their opponents as racist socialist respectively that's a really good point really well put all right do some jumping jacks here keep the blood flowing it's only been three hours and 14 minutes okay all right i can do this stretch out a little bit here all right public union public enemy how would you like to fund politicians with whom you strongly disagree not interested how about if i forced you yes how would i do that well what if i said if you don't pay you lose your job for decades millions of state and local government workers police firefighters teachers and others have been forced to make that choice okay so what he's talking about is a right to work um debate here with with union so essentially um there are states now they have right-to-work laws which refer to state laws that basically say union agreements between labor unions and employers are not cool you can't have them um so the like right to work laws have been around like since uh the 1940s um essentially like i want to explain this in a way that like employees and union guys were unionized workplaces are banned from negotiating contracts like they can't separately it has to be like the union members that negotiate those things and everybody has to contribute to the cost of the union representation you don't get it you don't get out of it um and in terms of states that like uh kansas where i live is a uh we have a right to work law um there's i would say about half the states yeah 27 states have right to work laws um other states have no right right to work laws so essentially um i guess what like if you if you if you have a right to work law that means you can you can get out of a union and you can uh negotiate your wage and but essentially that like it's why like as a teacher i don't have to be part of the teacher union at my school i could just i can get out of it um so i think that's what this whole video is going to be about i believe like and so the union a lot of times unions politicians meet with unions because if they get their endorsements it really helps them get elected and so if you meet with the teachers union like uh bernie sanders in iowa getting the endorsement of the local uh teacher union it's gonna really help him in the primary in that state uh right way too says al smith and adley stevenson still won the deep south this is so cherry-picked oh yeah you could bring those up too but not all of the deep south uh and adley stevenson um okay let's bring that up here if you're gonna bring it up at least like like you're actually cherry picking as well there aren't you works both ways doesn't it so adley stevenson uh he lost louisiana lost texas lost uh oklahoma lost florida lost tennessee lost kentucky lost virginia uh didn't get all of alabama so what's your point and al smith 1928 i mean you can cherry pick stuff too just as much secondary paint um al smith lost tennessee lost north carolina lost virginia lost kentucky lost oklahoma lost texas lost florida that was the 20s anyway that was like you know that's a different time i mean the 50s is a better argument so your your argument against with adley stevenson is better actually okay back to uh so unions i'm probably not going to be as strong on this video oh jared mills maybe you should also rate the videos on kandar based on how forthcoming they are about all the facts oh like they leave out a lot of facts okay yeah i could i guess i could do that as well but i mean i'm thinking this video is not going to be that controversial to me actually now and who forces them public sector unions that is unions who represent public sector employees how it's pretty straightforward first they demand employees pay hundreds of dollars in union dues as a condition of employment meaning if they don't pay they get fired next they use that money to support and elect union-friendly politicians then they negotiate contracts with those same politicians kinda like negotiating with yourself it's a sweet deal unless you're a worker who doesn't agree with those union friendly politicians or the tax i don't know if they're trying to like negotiate like a contract next they use that money to support and elect union friendly politicians well that's not that's not the main reason why they they collect that money though they collect it also to do a ton of other things um i mean they uh mostly use it to support them like i'm assuming with negotiation purposes and when working with different uh no this is public sector though okay yeah like all right i kind of see what they're saying here it's a bit of an oversimplification but i get what they're saying i get their point then they negotiate contracts with those same politicians kind of like negotiating with yourself well the same politician not directly necessarily but who work underneath them yes it's a sweet deal unless you're a worker who doesn't agree with those union-friendly politicians yeah or the taxpayer who has to foot the bill for those union contracts this game plan is not a secret here's what the american federation of state county and municipal employees say on their website we elect our bosses so we've got to elect politicians who support us and hold those politicians accountable perverse incentives might help explain why for most of american history pretty much no one thought that unionizing government workers was a good idea well that's not true there's lots of examples of uh they counter that but uh pat mcclung thank you for combating prager your mr information you're awesome well thank you um and a lot of what this guy is saying actually so far is true um you know misleading but this includes liberal icon president franklin roosevelt roosevelt was a very strong supporter of private sector unions but a very strong opponent of public sector union so i believe this is true and generally this is uh i get this argument i i totally understand um public sector unions i go back and forth on i get the issue with them what he's describing is oversimplifying but to a certain degree he is right we have an issue with this there's lots of corruption here's what he said on the subject in 1937 all government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining cannot be transplanted into the public service roosevelt usually prageru's uh pretty critical of franklin roosevelt so it's kind of it's cool to see them uh you know uh agree with him on this recognized that public sector unions could hold the government hostage at will they could simply threaten to walk off the job if they didn't get what they wanted sanitation workers for example could put public health at risk by refusing to collect the garbage other public employees would have similarly disruptive power this was roosevelt believed unthinkable and intolerable i think he's probably going to mention reagan now in 1943 new york state's highest court agreed calling government unions not only incompatible with the spirit of democracy but inconsistent with every principle upon which our government is founded i mean it's very similar to crony capitalism corporate welfare what do you ever want to call it where you essentially have this um alliance this this uh between powerful organizations but in that case it's corporations uh with government and they kind of scratch each other's back and there's just you know this circular relationship that where they help each other out and uh but then the american people are left out so i get what they're saying with this it's related to that um ron dietz oh hey yeah ron deets for senate uh misinformation relies on half truth for half truths for believability cyber act shuts this down keep up the good work beat well thank you i have to check out cyberact but no uh late 1950s new york city and wisconsin defied this view and allowed their public employees to unionize but it was president john f kennedy who opened the floodgates in order to win the support of union leadership in the 1960 presidential election he promised to allow federal employees to unionize and fulfilled that promise with executive order 10 988 in 1962. it was a shrewd political move but a bad deal for the country and its consequences are still being felt today as public sector unionization spread rapidly in the decades that followed today unions wield tremendous power in government try to fire a poor person really not really that as much as you'd think now certain you police unions yeah uh some teachers unions uh not as much like uh i mean it's not really as they're probably gonna exaggerate here i imagine a worker in new york city or los angeles or almost any unionized government employee anywhere it's extremely difficult if not impossible it is possible it can be difficult there are hoops they have to jump through but if they really want to want to happen i think it's fun look at this lazy guy drooling and what a bum yeah what's that sticker say departure to don't a damn and what the heck no matter how incompetent they might be according to one union contract in michigan employees could be caught drunk at work five times before being fired and then there are the pension plans income paid out to government workers after they retire pensions barely exist in the private sector anymore they're much too expensive yep but they're standard for public sector unions and have bankrupted cities like detroit and have government union-heavy states like illinois on the brink of financial calamity unfunded pension obligations that is money that the government doesn't have but has promised to government retirees are anywhere from four to six trillion dollars nationwide over 250 billion of that belongs to illinois alone but fortunately there is some hope today 28 states caused right to work laws stating that no worker can be forced to join or pay a union as a condition of employment i mean i get this so far we're only hearing one side though i'm curious if he at least acknowledges why people are against right to work laws because i i want to know more from this other perspective because i generally lean towards being okay with right to work laws and it i think at a superficial level they sound just fine yeah freedom right you don't have to be forced to do this i just feel like we're not getting the complete story here um which what would you expect from one of their videos when joining and paying the union becomes voluntary the same thing invariably happens workers leave in droves okay and thus the union's ability to manipulate the system declines sharply all right so maybe they're kind of hinting at the reason why this would be bad because the unions lose their power but don't we need unions with with public sector jobs i mean isn't there a way to to do that um because i mean like these jobs firefighters police officers teachers that the big three i think of for public sector unions i feel like these are all careers where they are not paid enough i mean teachers aren't paid enough police officers firefighters aren't paid enough so i think they deserve to have a nice pension that's a big reason why i got into teaching is so i could have a good pension and it's not it wasn't for the pay but really it was for the kids come on now because i love work uh teaching students but i you don't go into it for the money is what i'm saying and so like to paint these public sector unions as well workers as greedy just i don't know that's that's uh not good now the us supreme court has extended this right to public employees in the other 22 states as well janus versus the american federation of state county and municipal employees the court ruled that that was i need to cover this for my supreme court brief series uh so that was that's a newer one uh 20 it was 2018 uh so they made this video right after the supreme court case janus versus a-f-s-c-m-e that's a mouthful public employees cannot be compelled to pay union dues against their will millions of public employees don't want funds for the union agenda thanks to this ruling they no longer have to be and we the taxpayers have a fresh opportunity to make sure that our politicians work for us not the unions i'm akash chogley senior policy fellow at americans for prosperity for prager university i just feel like we didn't hear any of the other side with this one um are there any good so there here's a top comment here alex says unionized workers make more money than non-unionized the union dues are for the protection of the workers so the employer can exploit them again for rank again more rank propaganda okay all right yeah i mean like okay the whole point of a union is leverage against um their employer to for worker rights not just pay but are benefits but for safe working environment like historically like so they can have they don't have to worry about dying on the job or if they also this is before legislation was passed like before uh osha was even a thing before the fair labor standards act in the 1930s um so i get like you know how why and how unions have declined over the years it makes sense um still i think a lot of this begs the question why is there still severely low wages like uh i generally i'm not a big fan of the minimum wage i think economically it doesn't make much sense but i get why we have it as a necessary evil also something i i don't think gets enough attention is that real wages and salaries have not gone up much at all in my entire lifetime uh i was born almost 40 years ago and and that entire top my entire existence real wages adjusted for inflation have not really gone up that much while simultaneously education costs health care costs housing costs have skyrocketed exponentially sure other things have gone down in price but it hasn't kept up and so no wonder we have such massive income inequality and i feel like the unions unions in general are one way to combat that they may not be the best way and there is corruption with public unions so i get what he's saying in this video i just feel like uh just saying get i mean get rid of unions completely is uh kind of the other extreme and it's hard it's still hard for like a with the public sector i don't know um i think that you could still have public sector unions and just have better regulations as far as like hey they can't uh give money to political candidates and they can't or maybe they can't endorse political candidate candidates to begin with can't we make those reforms instead of just saying get rid of these public unions because i feel like they're still important okay this is a super chat be thinkify says right to work is a classic tragedy of the commons some people individually choose not to contribute to the unions your terms of the unions and protections they offer are undermined long term yeah that's that's tragedy of the commons i'm glad you brought that up because everybody has to be all in the same thing with obamacare same thing with vaccines uh it's pointless unless you have everybody on board that's not pointless i shouldn't say it's pointless but it's much more effective if everybody's on board you can you like if everybody actually took the vaccine then like everybody would be better off like i'm not just saying like covet i'm just saying any vaccine like say polio uh like for the other example what was the other example i just said uh well with the unions like unions can't get much done if they're not getting many dues come in to support them so i i've seen some abuse by unions i've seen them not do much for teachers so i i can't i'm i'm too biased i feel like to have a better perspective on this but i think generally this video would have been more effective to at least acknowledge the arguments on the other side even if i can't think of the best ones off the top of my head right now because i frankly i'm too biased on this issue like i'm too biased to agree with this guy um yeah i know the public unions are much stronger in european countries and so if you're a european maybe you might share in the comments like yeah so to sum up this video uh public union public enemy i think by uh well accuracy i think it's mostly right eight bias uh say one because they didn't even really show the other side at all uh generally i think of a five um i think all of them i'm not gonna really give a cherry picky picking rate rating on all these because uh they all do that they're all cherry picking when you have a five minute video it's hard not to cherry-pick honestly i have five-minute videos but they're just not controversial topics like this so uh ron dietz again yes uh thank you sorry for stealing the chat you're fine i have a plan for that guaranteed minimum wage ubi and i have a plan to pay for it i'm already at 17.5 trillion i'm actually a fan of ubi i think it's actually a good thing that can unite conservatives and liberals but i won't go into that now all right we're on to well the next step on my list was somebody from the super chat wanted me to look at the 16 19 project video so we'll do that one first people we got watching wow the numbers went down they're getting bored with me i think i started to watch this one too yeah instead of slavery okay but i didn't get very far a lot of times i start watching then i'm just like so frustrated i stop i need to be more patient uh all right i'm still alive that's good been going three and a half hours so i'm probably gonna go a little quicker through this one because we've already that other video uh kind of touched on the 1619 project so i may not try to chime in as much on this one have you heard of the 1619 project yes it was published by the new york times in august of 2019. it won the pulitzer is this guy he's a professor a political science professor at kentucky state um all right oh wow when you search google images he's on there on fox news with mark levine okay and there he is with tucker carlson okay well um surprise for commentary in 2020 it's thesis the united states was founded in 1619 when the first slave was brought to north america wait that brings up okay so again that's like the other video said it's it's um that's not really its thesis it's the whole thesis is that uh slavery the 6019 project the slavery i'll even read from it maybe 16 19 pieces project fees thesis i mean they're just uh okay so it's here i'm going to quote what they're actually saying here okay quote aim it aims to refirm it aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black americans at the very center of the united states national narrative i mean it's not okay that's so he's misrepresenting them up some questions what happened to 1776 to july 4th the declaration of independence july 3rd actually was when the declaration of independence if you want to be i want to be that guy okay george washington thomas jefferson and james madison well they the whole point is all three of them were slave owners and we uh whitewash history generally we ignore that fact and even george washington i love george washington washington he's my favorite president but even me i'm biased like i i just don't bring it up much you know he had all these slaves i went to mount vernon a couple months ago holy crap so many slaves it doesn't matter even that he tried to free most of them after he died why do you wait till after he died goodness george i mean like okay so when i was taught american history growing up i was it was just something that we didn't even bring up that all these founding fathers that were so prominent um had slaves according to the 1619 project the founding fathers pushed for all that life liberty and the pursuit of happiness stuff to protect their slave holdings independence for me uh no it's a classic example for most of them especially thomas jefferson that uh you know it's like in my song i have a thomas jefferson song i have songs about all the presidents in case you didn't know but uh he was a hypocrite tough to talk but didn't walk the walk he you know he talked the talk he really did want freedom even for dare i say he wanted women to have more rights even eventually but no he was taught i mean he wanted slaves to be free and to have rights he just didn't act on it personally he never freed his slaves he may have had horrible like he may have done horrible things with his slaves we found we found out later on holy crap i mean so it doesn't mean like they're not saying necessarily that my understanding they're not saying that their words were only for to protect their slave hunting holding interests i think what they're just acknowledging is that they had all these slaves and they they didn't actually act on any of the stuff that's written down in the declaration independence or bill of rights england that was just a smoke screen to them everything that's wrong with america is tied to her original sin of slavery from segregation to traffic jams well this might be one of my legit criticisms of the 1619 project that he's hinting on here is that that yeah it in itself um over generalizes uh this so yeah yes traffic jam i mean remember it's an agenda they have an agenda as well just like prageru has an agenda so traffic jams that's and that's a bit of a stretch though for the 16 19 project authors racism is not a part of the american experience it is the american experience um i think that that's the way that prageru is interpreting it but i don't think that like they're making it seem like the fingers pointed at them when i think that 16 19 projects mostly pointing it like i said earlier in the stream that a bunch of things a bunch of mostly systems in society overall like it's almost like prageru's feeling personally attacked by what they're saying and i just don't view it that way is this true let's look at three of the project's major claims one preserving slavery was the real cause of the american revolution oh yeah this is something that i think they they actually redacted some of this when was this video come out this came out in uh november 2020 so not that long ago 1.2 million views of course um okay so did they actually make this claim think slavery was the real cause of the american revolution did they actually say it exactly like that i don't know if they actually i remember that oh yeah so that's the thing they did they did modify um and they modified it in march of 2020 saying that uh because that was the thing that was the most controversial saying that you know this is the main reason why um they went to war against britain in the american war of independence serving slavery was the real cause of the american revolution yeah if you asked the founders why they no longer wanted to be a british colony they would have given you a long list of reasons taxation without representation conflicts over debts from the french and indian war and the stamp act would be just a few probably most yeah that's literally what the declaration of that's the meat of it the declaration of dependence is all these grievances they have and all the folks that signed it that's they agreed with all those grievances so we have them there in writing why we officially why they officially declared independence important was the burning desire to be free to chart their own destiny as a sovereign nation protecting slavery slavery was not under threat from the british in fact britain didn't free the slaves in its overseas colonies until 1833. 57 years later after the declaration of independence yes the subject of slavery was hotly debated at the constitutional convention because representation was a big thing that they debated and they were you got to figure out like you got all these people that are not technically citizens by your definition and how we're going to represent them that's that that's why like how the three-fist compromise came to be remember the two biggest debates were debates between large states and small states over representation in the legislative body congress which is why we have two houses of congress the senate and the house representatives the senate represents the states meant they're meant to be there to protect the small states uh interests and the house representatives is based on uh the represent representation is based on population so that was how that came to be that's known as the great compromise and then the three-fifth compromise was like just a compromise on how to we count slaves for representation purposes if we have one person that has so many slaves three out of five of them are counted jack hammer cannon thank you so much for the kind words in the super chat appreciate it that was after the war was won two slavery made america rich slavery made some americans writ that's right some americans rich yep true enough eli yale for example made a fortune in the slave trade he donated money and land for the university that is named after him but yes i see what they did there so yeah see yale was built on slave well like slave labor institution of slavery didn't make america rich in fact the slave system badly slowed the economic development of half the country as economist thomas soul points out in 1860 just one year before the civil war began thomas soul is actually he's a pretty interesting economist yeah i recommend checking out some of his stuff the south had only one-sixth as many factories as the north almost 90 percent of the country's skilled well-paid laborers and professionals were based in the north banking railroads manufacturing all were concentrated in the north the south was an economic backwater and the cost of abolishing slavery economic back water that's kind of harsh three was enormous not merely in terms of dollars lincoln borrowed billions to pay for it but also in terms of human life 360 000 union soldiers died in order to free four billion slaves that works out to about one soldier in blue for every 10 slaves freed it's i never really thought about it like that surprisingly um that's an interesting way of looking at it hard to look at that butcher's bill and conclude that the nation turned a profit from slavery and many things have happened since 1865. in the almost 200 years since the civil war okay so i think uh 1619 project they didn't say that all of the country profited from slavery i just think that i'm not sure if they even use those right those words that it seems like again they're attacking a uh straw man here because a lot of what he's saying right now is is true i mean it's not it's so i don't think uh i don't know if anybody knows in the chat like exactly where they say that they only that the entire country profited from slavery like i just don't think that's exact that's misrepresenting what they're saying population of the country has grown almost 900 percent and our national gdp has increased 12 000 percent slavery did not make america rich three i mean they what they pro i'm assuming what they probably said was that it made some people rich or it's many profited from it i i don't see why they would just say like every american profited from slavery racism is an unchangeable part of america did they say this argument really say that they really say that holy crap i i've not heard that before hanging freaking paywall with new york times um i can't even look at it because of the uh i just don't does anyone in the chat know did they actually say that race you can't change racism okay i i read the 1619 project and i don't remember i read it you know a year and a half ago and uh it just seems like what they generally prageru does is like they take what was actually originally said and then they just exaggerate it that tends to be a theme i've noticed oh thank you hudson louis i appreciate that um i wish the paywall wasn't there but let me see if if anybody can quote exactly where they say that racism uh can't be um change i i just don't i did find an article here about from the atlantic that kind of goes into it looks like let me see if i can find here yeah i don't know like i i i do know the 1619 project um talked a lot about how slavery was you know ingrained in our institutions and and our systems so uh morsel of truth to make lies go down and says ron deeds okay yeah that's thanks for your support a lot we're on there uh yeah i just feel like uh a lot of times i find myself agreeing with what they're saying in the video because what they're attacking is just so ridiculous more philosophical than scholarly but it undergirds the entire 1619 project it's also pernicious because it suggests that the united states is an inherently racist country that can't overcome its flaws well they're saying some of the institutions and systems are inherently racist that's what they're saying so it's not not the united states not you watching this right now not like not all of us are inherently racist our institutions i think that's that's my interpretation of what they're trying to say yet that's exactly what it's done today america is the most successful multi-racial country in history the only white majority country to elect a black president twice okay yeah they always bring that up okay uh evs thank you so much and yes use a the incognito mode to get to the past the paywall i'm going to be doing that yes i i totally realize i can do that so thank you uh let me try that right now actually um 1619 project text let me see uh searching in another window here so i've got to i've got to it yes incognito mode worked okay yeah it didn't work dang it it didn't work for that let me try this other site let me just try to download it well maybe this side has it okay i'm so sorry about this i just trying to get to the download pdf okay here we go i got it and i'm downloading it to my hard drive so just searching the word racist shows up 10 times in it by the way yeah just looking through it here everything i said was true basically about it everything that it talks about being racist it's talking about public policies organizations institutions it's not talking about you or i or me any uh group of americans necessarily being racist it's so i think that's the the main thing of course progress has not always been smooth there have been terrible uh i didn't eat my clif bar thank you uh i don't know maybe something peanut butter and jelly sandwich might be good oh that's my color okay so you can come in here sorry it's mrs beat uh i uh i'm starting to lose my voice i yeah um cool made me a sandwich no sorry fight the patriarchy um no i make my own sandwiches thank you very much but thank you very much uh yeah i think i'm on my what video is this my well you only have three more hours right only three more hours okay this is my seventh video that's it okay i better pick up the pace then setbacks but to compare american attitudes about race today to america a hundred years ago let alone to 1619 is absurd here's a fact that should be of course absurd they're not doing that you better know two million black africans have come to america as legal immigrants from countries like nigeria in the last 50 years and have become one of the most successful groups in the country why would these folks move to what is often called an evil racist country because unlike many people well you notice he said last 50 years because before 50 years ago they were not allowed to immigrate from africa and much of the world enough to be born here they know that america is a land of opportunity for everyone it's also only fair to note that while blacks have heroically fought for our rights often against great odds we haven't done it alone a vast number of decent whites have also advanced the cause of racial equality to cite one of countless examples the us senate that passed the landmark civil rights act in 1964 contained 98 whites and two men of color and they were asian the great black leaders of the past harriet tubman frederick but why okay we had african-american senators and members of congress uh during the reconstruction era so um it was racist policies and organizations institutions that reverse that beginning in the 1870s and onward all the way to the civil rights era for crying out loud so you're yeah uh more more cherry-picking there rick douglas booker t washington martin luther king all people who um overcame odds i mean look at the first two examples harriet tubman and frederick douglass were runaway slaves booker t washington um it's amazing how he was able to his story is just ridiculously impressive so and same martin luther king jr yeah like i mean uh so to survivorship bias uh again like to say like oh see we've had great black leaders of the past um look at what they overcame to become leaders uh never lost faith in america's promise that all people are created equal none of them believe that i'm sure harriet tubman and frederick douglass is a when they were slaves that they were just like they never forgot that promise that that we were all created equal yeah i mean i think that they didn't really feel it maybe they thought about that promise if they were read about it in a book or something but racism was america's defining characteristic they were right shortly after the 1619 project was published a group of distinguished historians almost all on the left wrote a public letter condemning the work they called it a displacement of historical understanding by ideology yeah and i'm not sure if they were all left-landing but yeah they uh i i read those critiques and i agreed with a lot of what they had to say for sure they were right too i'm wilfred reilly associate yeah i mean it is driven 1619 project is driven by uh not necessarily i don't know if ideology is the right way to to to frame it but like definitely they have an agenda they have an agenda they're trying to change how history is taught and i get why people are threatened by that i just think again going back to earlier videos and things i said earlier in the live stream that much of their fears are fear of something that's exaggerated an exaggerated version of the 1619 project thank you uh tracking the core of stuff and more did the reconstruction era failed because of the federal government practice fiscal austerity um that's a complicated question i it mostly failed because of um we were just trying to keep the country together and uh there was a not enough political will in the north and i mean the compromise of 1877 uh we were at that time we were in danger of a second civil war the united states was so after that much of the south was was was uh left to their own to govern themselves and we saw what happened with jim crow laws and systemic racism so all right so that was uh oh wow i think i made it through all the suggestions i would rank that video in terms of uh accuracy i would say it was probably a probably a a nine maybe no not nine because they they exaggerated probably a seven bias i'd say two number ten being the best and generally i think it's probably a four um it's not as bad as some of these other ones i've seen uh it just exaggerates it's mostly fighting a straw man again so we've covered seven videos uh i'm gonna go to the bathroom again do some jumping jacks here again um the uh this is going by quicker than i thought it would thank you all for being here thanks for all the super chats um if you've just now joined i've been doing this since 8am this morning central time so i've been doing it for four hours um and i am exhausted i've only got seven videos um somebody just commented israel video please uh super chats get priority but i can put that on the list unless uh we uh so let me start another piece of paper here and uh start writing this down yes mrs beat was uh she's been taking care of me here checking on me making sure i don't die here in my basement but if you're just joining me i i had the available time um i'm a history teacher i i'm really upset with prageru over the years on mostly how teachers will show this stuff in their classroom and not have their kids think critically about it i don't like how prageru attempts to indoctrinate kids um it's not it's okay to show their stuff in class but um the fact that they are becoming parts of curriculums with curriculum materials and you're not critically thinking about um the stuff you're just consuming the content without critically thinking that's what troubles me um i could easily attack you know vox or i could attack now this or the gravel institute but i think those uh gravel institute is not i mean they're pure propaganda that's meant to counter prageru vox and now this um i don't just think are as guilty as being as uh driven to spread ideology sure there they have a liberal slant but i think prageru is particularly um you know uh nefarious frankly so anyway i'm gonna go to the bathroom keep the chats coming uh oh thank you tracking the core of stuff and more lol can you do alexander hamilton invented america sure i'll put that one up next i'll cue that one up next and then i'll go to the bathroom and if from two years ago huh okay uh yeah not even heard about this one so i will uh i'll be right back oh hudson louis thank you if it's not only prager how about oversimplified history uh oversimplified i think mostly is is concerned about telling the truth in an entertaining way and so yeah mistakes are made but it's not like as nefarious i'm mostly concerned about how malicious and nefarious prager you can be with trying to spread its agenda all right jumping jacks okay bathroom you oh thank you i'll probably hear you yeah they can hear me uh i did wash my hands my hands are clean thank you you can come on camera no no no no no i haven't gotten ready thank you sandwich no come here all right it's bothering me all right she fixed my collar i don't think i really fixed it but uh react to understanding nixon okay all right i'll put that one next as well here thank you thank you for the super [ __ ] uh hamilton nixon i do want to watch that nixon video actually it looks uh thank you for keeping me company work while i'm busy answering emails no problem david thanks for watching thank you all for watching watch time here in the central time [Music] this zone is falling apart come on all right i'm gonna go ahead and start playing the hamilton video it's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich thomas jefferson well thank you yeah mrs b she was just down here oh toronto transit channel great to hear from you can you do the war on cars video if you want to joke that i suggest dennis prager lives in a society okay well let me check out the wrong cars bid so i've got some suggestions lined up i appreciate that all right oh osborne's gaming's here yeah now the real fun dominic richardson thank you i learned a lot about ubi but i'm still convinced jobs guarantee is better thoughts oh i could go on a while for that um i think that first of all human value should not be tied to your job i think so many jobs are um that we do on a day-to-day basis are so much work that we do i should say uh is not valued by markets um think about somebody who takes care of a loved one like parents or taking care of like your sick mom or something you're working your butt off it's 24 7. you're not going to pay for that so tying value of a human being to market value work based on their labor i think is not ideal so i think ubi's better for that reason alone dragon tamer west peanut butter jelly time thank you uh why girls become boys prageru video rachel great to see you thank you for the donation i'll put that one on my list as well i've now got four lined up why girls become boys okay so we're gonna be here for three more hours i'm gonna try to knock out as many of these as i can all right it would only be a slight exaggeration to say that alexander hamilton invented the united states of america it's definitely definitely an exaggeration but uh hugely influential no no denying that george washington was the guiding star thomas jefferson the visionary benjamin franklin the sage but hamilton was the pragmatist the man who got it done this most self-made i mean that that would be james madison more than anybody i would say i mean a lot of times hamilton was not easy to get along with uh james madison was the one constantly compromising and bringing people together so uh and actually george washington come on you know he's the guy he was the glue eight of self-made men took a country with no past and planned its future yeah that whole i'm gonna make a video about this um what defines a quote self-made man or self-made person because i think it's a loaded term and it's a it's often a term that's misused um when you say self-made like i don't like if you say me building up my mr beat youtube channel empire me saying that's self-made i think that is misleading because i had lots of things that um lots of support networks and things put in place throughout my life to make me be who i am successful as an adult with whatever i pursued all of the founding fathers pretty much all of them were not self-made in terms of my true definition of it which is you literally had nothing no inheritance like the exception might mean benjamin franklin he would be probably exceptions probably somebody i admire more than most of them because of his life like truly going from rags to riches and whereas a lot of these other founding fathers they inherited a lot they at the very least had some kind of um life that was comfortable where they could get into a position of power later on so i think that's incredibly misleading when you whenever you use that term self-made i always question what do you mean by self-made um i think that's it's often overused to a point now where it's become meaningless he was born on january 11 1755 on the island of nevis this was not the caribbean of your cruise fantasy well hamilton i i did a video about him as well um he uh you know well let me just wait to see what they say first i don't want to like jump the gun here quite the contrary as ron chernow writes in his biography of hamilton while other founding fathers were reared in tidy new england villages or costed it on baronial virginia states hamilton grew up in a tropical hellhole sugar plantation slave auctions were a regular feature of island life the spectacle buyers swinging branding irons as they surveyed the human merchandise made a permanent impression on hamilton he was a fierce abolitionist his entire life abandoned by his father at an early i mean uh his if he was a fierce abolitionist his entire life i don't know if we have evidence of that but he definitely uh uh you know uh in the early days of the country we have evidence of him speaking out against slavery for sure no doubt um i'm not sure exactly when he started he first publicly started to say this but that's a bit of an assumption i'm not sure if ron chernow says that in this book or not i've not read that book believe it or not i have not read the hamilton book by churnout mother died of yellow fever when he was 14 leaving the teenage boy destitute a local judge had to buy him shoes so that he could attend her funeral he soon took a job as a clerk for a local merchant before long he was running the business coordinating shipments of mules and codfish calculating currency exchanges and advising sea captains on how to deal with pirates it was an unmatchable apprenticeship in trade credit and commerce in 1773 he arrived in new york to attend king's college the forerunner of today's columbia university yeah so so far yeah totally no doubt all this stuff is true he was something that the video is is implying that it hasn't straight up said he was very ambitious like uh somebody who was driven resilient and you're like man what drives this kid i don't know but he seems to reach for the sky no matter what swept up in the revolutionary fervor of his adopted country he dropped out to join the continental army he quickly came to the attention of george washington who made him a staff officer so this was a turning point in alexander hamilton's life for sure um and this is where connections come into play being at the right place at the right time come into play okay so we can't deny that um also you'll see that soon with uh well if it mentions him getting married and sunless washington called the fatherless hamilton my boy fellow officers later remembered call colonel hamilton as washington's instinctive utterance when important news arrived as washington's trusted aide he was involved in every aspect of running the war including actual fighting where he distinguished himself on multiple occasions but more than anything it was his dealings with the weak and indecisive continental congress that shaped his political views this video is pretty good i will say so far pretty good the problem with congress in hamilton's view was that too few members took the idea of nationhood seriously they quarreled over their narrow interests rather than uniting over the national interests this is true as the war was winding down hamilton laid out the choice before the country in a widely read six-part essay we could become a noble and magnificent federal republic he wrote closely linked in the pursuit of a common interest or we could stumble ahead as a number of petty states with the appearance only of union i mean that he is the the founder of the federalist party i mean for that reason he a big reason why the the country was able to unite um as one despite different interests and values was because of him no doubt thank you to the super chats coming in uh ref puck thank you thanks for everything you do mr b thank you thank you uh x tyrannics again please react to uh is fascism right or left i did already react to that in one of my videos or one of their fascism videos but i will try to hit that one as well that specific video so thanks for adding it it was clear where hamilton stood the speed by which the united states became a unified nation with a cohesive federal government is largely a result of his tireless efforts before during and after the constitutional convention washington named hamilton still only 34 to be the first secretary of the treasury he served in the post for almost six years his task was nothing short of herculean put the country drowning in war debt and teetering on the edge of bankruptcy on a sound financial footing he succeeded and in doing so set the course for america to become the world's most prosperous nation historian leonard white writes that hamilton was not only the greatest administrative genius of his generation but one of the great administrators of all time there's no telling what hamilton might have achieved had he lived a longer life instead he died one of the most pointless deaths in american history okay so they he got all the highlights for the most part uh didn't mention the federalist party also didn't mention um you know like it it said at the beginning of the video i thought they were going this direction that he was a self-made man i think that was the direction they were wanting to go i do think it's really important to mention that he married into some extra extraordinary wealth elizabeth schuyler uh his wife uh her family was very rich and powerful um she was the daughter of a continental army general actually phillip schuyler so i think that put him a leg up his connection with george washington put him a leg up so for him to even get to those positions where he had influence in the continental congress but then later in the washington administration i think we can't just discount that but also uh the federalist party and a big reason why there was these rifts and this division right off the bat the uh partisanship became a thing when george washington warned against it was because of his uh steadfast approach and like being stubborn and unwilling to work with people like thomas jefferson and even james madison but yeah he's going to talk about aaron burr here uh attracting the core of stephan moore wasn't lincoln and henry clay a fan of hamilton yes they were yes there's lots of evidence of that so as hard as it is to fathom today he was killed in a duel with the vice president of the united states aaron burr a man with whom he had a long and bitter political feud he did hamilton fired his pistol harmlessly into the air he never intended to kill burr to hamilton it was an affair of honor but to burr it was something else the vice president took careful aim shot and mortally wounded his rival who spent some 30 hours in agony before succumbing hamilton was 49. hamilton lived in a time when the great death not only that uh burr was like i like to see prager you make a video about burr he was i mean he was uh proud of what he he had done and went around and bragged about it even though he technically was a fugitive um and thomas jefferson uh denounced him immediately and said you're no longer my vice president bro so yeah uh but clearly this is a video meant to glorify hamilton so you know it's there's lots to admire about hamilton the national project was a government that was too weak we live in a time when many believe that the great danger to the nation oh here we go national government grown too strong the ideal hamilton would have told us is somewhere in between but perhaps america will have to wait for it that's interesting because like i think to if alexander hamilton was alive today i think it's a good good hypothetical uh i do think he would align more with probably the democratic party uh so i you know it's interesting i even think most of the founding fathers would actually they because things change you know uh technology society values uh cultures that it all changes so you have to adapt and you know uh no doubt the federal government has has more control now than it's ever had in the entire history of the country and that does start with hamilton so it's kind of funny that the channel that's known for like criticizing the federal government saying it's doing too much is glorifying the the man who got that all who started all that essentially hamilton to achieve that happy medium i'm joseph tarakovsky senior fellow at the claremont institute for prager university overall pretty good video i'd say uh as far as accuracy nine out of ten it's probably it's up there with the general grant or the ulysses grant video as far as bias uh you know probably seven um it was pretty pretty good video probably the best one i've seen yet generally so probably uh at nine for a video this is a video i would be comfortable sharing with my students and i uh the only caveat would be saying hey this there are legitimate criticisms of alexander hamilton and also maybe throw that hypothetical through the students saying hey uh what do you where do you think hamilton would align himself if he were alive today and why x generic says late leo and layla's history adventures with president ronald reagan as more children centered video you should react as well is that prager you if it's prague or you then i will totally do that i haven't heard that leo and layla have not heard of that uh all right ron veats for senate still there mediabiasfactcheck.com is a good researching tool i've heard of it thanks for uh suggesting that there are many tools there's also a media bias chart there's also ground news and news voice the apps that you can kind of aggregate news and look at the bias of each source remember that i'm biased as well watching this please know that please don't take everything i say as gospel as truth with a capital t that would be foolish i'm gonna like this video there you go prageru i give you a like and it looks like it has a pretty high ratio 1.6 point 1.6 million views too there you go american history it's not perfect but we learn from it that's right in his own words washington describing a staff officer my boy boi yeah that's a good video see prageru is not all bad next up we've got nixon this is a newer video this was just released i believe a few days ago four days ago wow okay looks like it's doing pretty well so far with the like to dislike ratio uh nixon of course is one of those presidents that in today's republican party would probably [Music] not fit in very well uh the republican party was much different when he was president so interesting to see their approach see if they're going to be more positive or negative about nixon i honestly don't know which direction they're going to be uh we'll find out here name this president richard nixon he created the environmental protection agency and put real teeth in the clean air act environmental has called him the most environmentally conscious national figure since teddy roosevelt he was admired sometimes revered by civil rights leaders including martin luther king and jackie robinson so it seems like this is already this is going to be a video that praises nixon that makes them look good the name of the video is called understanding nixon um now if you've watched me before you you know that i have my issues with nixon but it's it's complicated he's not all bad clearly the things that they just listed the clean air act the epa um the well what else did they mention oh just a you know environmentally conscious figure uh that's positive stuff to me yes definitely but let's see where else this video is sometimes revered by civil rights leaders including martin luther king and jackie robinson he desegregated southern schools and vigorously enforced civil rights laws often against his own political interests that's true his grasp of foreign affairs was acknowledged by both friend and foe to be unmatched i mean he opened up relations with china uh de taunt easing tensions with the soviet union in the 1970s early 70s all good things in my opinion he opened u.s relations with communist china that's right find the first nuclear disaster yeah look at this it's all the good things that nixon did and ended the vietnam war yeah okay he could have ended uh and ended the vietnam war he could have ended it sooner he he certainly was capable of doing that um i understand why he didn't also it's important to note that the cambodia bombings that were taking place in secret um remember the pentagon papers remember there were stuff that the nixon administration was not telling the public that he was doing that was uh not so great many civilians died cancer still the legacy of that stuff today uh bombings of civilians related all to the vietnam war so and he was slow to get out so like this here is a bit of a whitewash right here when the peace accords were signed it was clear that america was the victor in the conflict did you guess arthur [Music] no that's not true the victor in the con that they're making the claim that the uh the united states won the vietnam war is that am i understanding this correctly there was that they were the victor in the conflict okay that's a good one zane rosler says cared only for his legacy thanks for the super chat did you guess our 37th president richard nixon yes if not don't feel bad oh most people only know one thing about him this is yeah hugh hewitt is another uh similar i think he's probably friends with dennis prager because they're both radio talk show political pundits uh very similar backgrounds um known and conservative like basically hugh hewitt and dennis prager came out of the whole movement of rush limbaugh in the 90s of doing all like these prominent conservative radio hosts so i'm very familiar with you hewitt but he resigned from office following the watergate scandal looking back his offense covering up for overzealous subordinates who were caught trying to steal campaign secrets from the democrats almost seems quaint well i think it almost seems quaint because of the last administration let's be honest here uh the scandals of the trump administration have made nixon look better let's just get that out of the way um i mean a lot of the scandals on a day daily basis that we saw from trump's like oh did kim can you believe what he did or what he tweeted even it makes makes nixon seem more um professional noble hard-working uh got stuff done worked with people on the opposite side of the aisle was less divisive stuff like this so yeah i do agree that the watergate scandal doesn't look as bad as it used to uh we've had time to reflect more with recent events but it still is bad we can't deny that he still lied to the american people he still committed crimes three of them so can't whitewash that now be careful there hugh at the time it roiled the nation had he accepted responsibility apologized early on well he kind of did i mean he resigned like imagine trump resigning he didn't resign like he would never do that he would never apologize i don't think trump apologized once nixon apologized like okay it took him a few years to apologize on certain things uh and there's that the famous uh nixon frost interviews where he basically said well i am the president so i can do it you know like but i mean overall i think he was a bit more humble in terms of like that yeah his ego was pretty bad too like i i get it like uh a big reason why nixon was um so hated during his time in the 70s was he did act like he didn't do anything wrong and then he was trying to cover up stuff that made him look bad that would prove that he did stuff wrong and that got out and yeah of course uh of course you're gonna resign but i mean i don't know like i like i said earlier i think it's his reputation simply looks better now because of what we witnessed with the trump administration dominic richardson nixon empowered kissinger making him unforgivingly monstrous yeah kissinger deserves a video i think i'll make a video about him eventually uh still alive believe it or not but henry kissinger definitely had some pretty bad foreign policy initiatives we'll just leave it he almost certainly would have survived sadly he never considered really the political climate was a lot different back then i don't know if he would have survived when he felt cornered his first reaction was to counter attack not apologize nixon was first and always a fighter everything he ever achieved he had to fight for he was born on january 9th that's quite the statement there but uh 13 in yorba linda california in a small house his father built from a mail order kit yorba lita is now a bustling suburb of los angeles but then it was basically a lemongrave with a road running through it he grew up with no advantages if he wanted to escape he read he read well he grew up with some advan advantages like it wasn't like it was i mean if you want to talk about presidents who had bigger disadvantages i mean even ronald reagan was probably had a more modest childhood herbert hoover certainly did andrew jackson certainly did andrew johnson um so like he's not this rags to riches story i mean he was always ambitious and uh fought when they say fought like in terms of like fighting for to win uh to to get ahead i guess no matter like whether it be school or later on uh in politics yeah i get that but i mean like to say that he they're going back to this kind of this uh self-made narrative i guess is the kind of what they're kind of hinting at and alluding to here read a lot it's part of the nixon legend that he attended a local college whittier what isn't well known is that he was accepted to harvard he didn't attend only because his parents couldn't afford to send him there after i didn't know that i didn't know that it's fascinating they're volunteering for service in the navy in the south pacific during world war ii he returned home a small town law career not politics looked to be his future then fate took a hand the local republican party was searching for a fresh face to oppose a popular democrat congressman nixon passed the audition nobody expected him to win and nobody expected him to campaign as hard and as effectively as he did speaking of which like later he uh he he famously campaigned for president um visiting all 50 states um and ended up like it had a bad effect on his health for doing that so yeah he this is definitely in character for nixon he didn't have much of a social life uh kind of like me i don't have much of a social life but he uh what he sacrificed without having very many close friends uh he made up for by just putting himself out there and working long days and long hours yeah no denying how hard of a worker he was can't deny that he quickly became a fast rising political star also one of the smartest presidents we've ever had achieving national attention when he almost single-handedly exposed a major state department official alger hiss as a soviet spy you could argue this was all grandstanding and political uh you know aiming for more political power and recognition in dc and it certainly raised his profile and he wasn't as bad as you know joseph mccarthy of wisconsin but he definitely was one of the guys who was part of the red scare saying uh you know we need to watch out for communism it's lurking behind every corner so he was definitely guilty of red bidding at times this was everything nixon was not sleek or bane ivy league educated he was well known and well loved among the east coast intellectual and media elite no one in his social set believed the charges against him until nixon forced them to the liberal elites never forgave him for that or for beating the glamorous and very progressive whenever you say the liberal elites i i i mean uh if you are in congress you are no longer an outsider okay you're no longer you are now one of the elites that's how it works okay you're not like uh so i guess like he to assume that he's still this underdog figure at this time is misleading by the 19 by the end of the 1950s you could you could argue that nixon was certainly an elite maybe he was one of the cons conservative elites i don't know just that word elite you'll see it time and time again in prayer review videos and i think that it's just just like the word radical it's just a quick way to kind of like uh put somebody down just to categorize them in that way to put them down never forgave him for that or for beating the glamorous and very progressive hollywood actress helen gahegan douglas in the 1950 california senate part of the hollywood elite race in 1952 dwight eisenhower tapped him to be his running mate in just six years nixon rose from a small town lawyer to vice president of the united states yeah he rose quickly also i'm hoping they that that hugh mentions here that nixon was one of the most effective vice presidents that the united states has ever had he was one of the first vice presidents to actually do stuff to actually like help eisenhower run things if eisenhower was unavailable for example it wasn't just like a job where it was meaningless anymore completely it was still fairly meaningless but nixon expanded the role of the vice presidency he was only 39. ike sent his vice president on important diplomatic missions all over the globe he did good he was on these missions that nixon developed his mastery of international affairs after a heartbreaking loss to john f kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 this is a race where nixon would have been maybe justified in saying there was voter fraud and that the election might have been rigged in some places but he didn't he he became he stayed dignified and he conceded to kennedy uh this is i don't think people realize how close the the election of 1960 was it was freaking close jfk squeaked through uh if you forgot go back and watch my my video about it it was um that nixon uh he was the better man and he's like you know what i'm just going to accept the results uh even though it was frustr a frustrating loss for him one of the closest and most disputed elections in the modern era nixon returned to california there he lost another election an ill-advised run for governor in 1962. he should have been done as a politician he wasn't in one of the most unlikely comebacks in american political history nixon won the republican nomination for president in 1968 i mean it's just it goes back again to his his tire him tirelessly campaigning um he put in the hours like he really more than the other candidates republican candidates at the time and then defeated incumbent vice president hubert humphrey in the general election few presidents have ever walked into a more difficult president hubert history nixon won the republican nomination for president in 1968 and then defeated incumbent vice president hubert humphrey in the general election few presidents have ever walked into a more difficult situation the country was in turmoil bobby kennedy and martin luther king had both been assassinated within the years and you could say the same thing about 2020 uh it was a tumultuous year and it's we're still seeing it's a 2021 has been much better so biden i think he's had a really rough time mostly because it's it's not easy i mean being president anytime is is uh not easy so but yeah 1968 was one of the most chaotic years in american history so nixon taking over then was you know the thing about nixon is as soon as he was elected though he went to work before he even uh like barely like the day after election day he was already preparing and he didn't take any breaks between then and inauguration day and was well prepared because of it weeks apart the vietnam war was raging student unrest was out of control and the economy was floundering nixon expertly navigated the turbulent political waters steering a centrist course just what his devoted supporters the people he called the silent majority so when when he talked about the silent majority i think he was he had the centrist idea in mind i think this is the same thing for most like most of history the the real silent majority that we're talking i said real like i work for prageru but i think the oftentimes if you want to talk about what the silent majority is it is the people that are kind of in the middle the the horseshoes the horseshoe theory you could say like if if you are a proponent of that those are the loud ones like the ones on the the extremes the left and right whereas the people in the middle generally the centrists are you know well most of them are disengaged let's be honest certain and different but a lot of them are just like they're just you don't hear from them and so i think nixon it's good good for this video to point out that this was actually the people in the center um not people on the right uh i heard the silent majority term brought back for the 2020 election to describe trump supporters but i think it was inaccurate because many trump supporters were very vocal very loud they were not silent at all wanted him to do what he believed in a sense of duty common decency hard work the inherent greatness of america they believed in i mean i think you could say that with most americans right the press never liked nixon but the majority of the american people loved him ah loved might be too strong of a word uh remember in 1968 humphrey wasn't the most charismatic guy to run against it's not like he was you know nixon was no jfk in terms of charisma and having such a strong support or same thing with trump like trump supporters jfk supporters who are much more passionate and actually did love love their their guy i think with nixon it was more like they like they like him um he was re-elected in 1972 and one of the biggest landslides in american history well that's mostly because of fear of mcgovern who was seen as like this radical leftist you know i think mcgovern was a pretty uh weak candidate historically and uh i mean they were afraid of i mean it was still a chaotic time in 1972 so that it wasn't just because they passionately loved nixon that he won that election so decidedly he won it pretty decidedly one of the certainly one of the biggest landslides in american history winning 49 of the 50 states he ended the military drought brought the vietnam war to a close in early 1973 and later that year he saved israel by airlifting military supplies during the so-called yom kippur war yeah i don't know if that was politically like like i mean that's also debatable as far as is this something that we mark as that makes him a good president i don't know i haven't really heard that much from historians and then came watergate okay now you know why richard nixon truly shakespearean in both his attributes and his flaws may be america's most misunderstood and under-appreciated president i'm hugh hewitt for prager university all right so the thesis of the the video is that nixon was underrated if it weren't for watergate he would have been one of the best presidents we ever had i think that there's stuff they're missing they're living out uh in particular they're leaving out cambodia uh the airstrikes on civilians like the chemical warfare and uh bombs dropping civilians and vietnam cambodia that you can't ignore that also you can't ignore um the war on drugs that he almost single-handedly started with the controlled substances act and i uh it's one of the worst laws ever passed and the war on drugs has been extremely devastating for our country um just trillion spent um millions incarcerated unjustly uh you know very i don't think people realize the full extent of how horrible the war on drugs has been for the united states but additionally um he engaged economic policies that weren't necessarily the best um that were inflationary a lot of the inflation we saw in the 70s was because of him and his price fixing and too much intervention in the economy so he wasn't really as much of neoliberal as as people uh maybe think uh let's see what else i mean i think just generally yeah like uh he started to like his paranoia was not good like and his sometimes his foreign policy was misguided other times it was great opening up trade with china for example on dayton with soviet union i think i agree with that i i do think that he has a mixed legacy um i struggle more than anything with the war on drugs part with nixon uh so yeah but i do think that watergate has has taken up too much of his legacy now if you're gonna make that that argument prageru i i look forward to your upcoming video praising bill clinton oh yeah zane rossler brought up pinochet and chile uh yeah that's i mean he continued to overthrow dictators henry kissinger enable him to do these horrible things that's that's a whole video i need to get i needed i could probably make a long video about kissinger what his shenanigans and and i think he won the nobel peace prize right kissinger uh he he did holy crap that guy won the nobel peace prize that's like giving the nobel peace prize to obama okay overall this uh nixon video for um i think for accuracy i'm gonna give it a uh a nine it it left out a bunch of information so that's where the bias will come in uh so bias i'm gonna put down for four uh and generally i'll probably put it as a six it was it's better than than many other videos but they're ignoring all the the other bad stuff that nixon did i think they're not giving a complete picture all right now we're up on the war on cars i mentioned a war on drugs here's a war on cars this is my 10th video wow looks like we got a response video already here we're on boys that's poor boys all right uh so the response interestingly has almost as much as the original well a lot that's quite the ratio i should say um i've never heard of this one this came out four years ago okay dominic richardson thank you mr b are you seeing what cynical story is saying i'm in the chat seems to be debunking things left and right uh i don't i don't know i'm not i don't even know is he in the chat mm-hmm santa claus historian is oh there's probably things on that i'm catching and i'm not catching how did i see him in the chat thank you she brought me more food and a drink what did he say in the chat well thanks for watching uh thank you i got i got um uh chicks mix gardeners yeah how could i and and uh milk thank you so yeah we need to go grocery we need to go grocery shopping well we can we got some super chats so we can buy some food i like it okay so we're at to do some time stamps this is the tenth video i'm looking at let me do some jumping jacks here and uh get my blood moving i've been sitting for too long here here we go i've got two hours and 13 minutes left i can do this next the war on cars we may be witnessing the death of america's car culture okay um that is quite a claim there in 2017 too uh this is a very bold claim i'm i'm curious how they're gonna look at this this video has twelve thousand likes and twelve thousand dislikes wow okay and it's not dying of old age people are still buying lots of cars yeah but there's been a concerted push by government bureaucrats and environmentalists to transform car ownership from a source of pride to a source of guilt that is something i've never seen evidence for but i'm curious you've caught my curiosity ever since henry ford built the model t cars have been central to the american experience well i mean he's a big reason why the middle class was able to afford cars for sure they existed before him but yeah like you got to give him credit for making them more affordable that's because cars are more than just another way to get from point a to point b they allow us to go wherever we want whenever we want you know what else allows us to go wherever we want whenever we want our legs we can walk anywhere we want a bike also does the same thing and in fact a lot of trains and buses can do that um even planes can get us pretty far sorry i'm just being a little facetious here uh kr thank you can't can you say communism in a uh is a characteristic in a characteristic nixon way communism i don't know i don't know what exactly what you meant there i'm sorry with whomever we want think about it with trains planes and buses the routes are planned and the schedule is timed okay only cars allow you to be spontaneous will you get behind the wheel that's why i like driving so much also i love road trips although i've taken a train from chicago for from lawrence to chicago and back i also enjoy that experience i like not having to worry about driving honestly so there's there's benefits to both you are in control you are free the very reason but also driving cars is significantly more dangerous than being in a train or a plane so [Music] love cars personal freedom is also why regulators can't stand them government at all levels i mean uh so this seems to be a video that we're going to attack government regulations this is just kind of a way to kind of cloak that real intention here like really this i mean government sucks and their regulations suck so i don't know this seems like a stretch here with this but craves control and when it comes to your car i mean this sounds like me when i was like maybe 18 years old government at all levels craves control i would say human beings uh crave control and government is made up of human beings so i get that a lot of times though when we talk about laws or or ways to enforce laws i think a lot of those laws are put into place to prevent people from seeking control or power so they mean well it's not like a regulation is there to give control to somebody it's there to prevent somebody else from uh from controlling you so we need to think of it in terms of like that as well and when it comes to your car they want you off the road so to the environmentalists with whom they have made common cause this is quite this is quite a stretch here this antagonism toward america's car culture can be traced back to the 1970s in response to the arab oil embargo in the early part of that decade congress passed the national fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks these standards known as cafe short for corporate average fuel economy forced automakers to increase fuel efficiency well okay the reason mostly was we're trying to cut back on fuel emissions and so a lot of these regulations were put into place to uh sorry this is a salty snack gardenos uh they're put in place for environmental reasons and when we talk about regulations generally a lot of times it's like public interest is in mind like we're not just we're not there these regulations are not in place to enrich or empower but to protect the purpose of government is to protect and so if you're going to force a private company to do something the idea is it's in the public interest that we're breathing in cleaner air that maybe there's less emissions that uh that would create uh you know the the climate to change or whatever i don't know like uh which you know the 70s mostly was about clean air like that's why the aforementioned nixon uh signing the clean air act was put into place uh and the more uh fuel that you use the more bad air that's that's out there so it's yeah rather than let the free market decide what kind of cars customers wanted to buy the government it's just a free market video i mean it's we all know that in order to sometimes have a free market well not all of us know this but a lot of us know if you want a truly free market you want to empower the consumer just i mean instead of a lot of times the uh it's not like a perfect balance between consumer and producer the producers have too much power so if you want the market to be more free then you passed laws and regulations this is the whole idea for so many regulations throughout history is like you want the consumer to be empowered if there's a monopoly for example then they lose leverage and they don't get to as much i mean like what are you going to do go to a competitor there's no competitor um and so especially industries where there's just a few dominant forces where people don't have much choice um i think a lot of people misconstrue that like they think that automatically if there's a new regulation that it's hurting our freedom well a lot of times regulation is there to increase freedom for for us excited to do the dictating their regulations have cost car companies and consumers many billions of dollars but in the last decade or so the government's heavy hand has come down harder than ever beginning in 2009 the obama administration sought to dramatically increase cafe requirements these obama era standards make cars more expensive around 4 000 i mean yeah that's that's the point also uh you can bring up the example of the light bulbs you know like uh the the regulations and requirements to for led lights versus the old style uh lights that don't last as long so i mean this isn't something like that's that's uh you know crazy it's you see it for many things throughout history dollars per new vehicle according to economist celine firth and david kreutzer this prices millions of middle-class families out of the new car market the regulations also encourage the production of smaller lighter cars that are generally less safe than larger heavier ones the laws of physics are tough to argue with um is there evidence to back that claim up i don't think there's any evidence to say that these cars were less safe i'm going gonna go the evidence on this one um let me open up in a new window let's see here for a complete script and sources oh it's not listed it looks like that got deleted so they don't have sources listed for this one no sources for this video to make matters worse the new cafe standards push automakers to produce more electric cars a lose-lose for consumers and ironically the environment as well consumers lose because according to a study from the consulting firm arthur d little electric vehicles cost significantly more to operate over their lifetime than comparable gasoline look at that there's a pdf there um i don't know if i want to type that full thing in right now but like i i think that's it's fairly that's not a reasonable assumption that electric vehicles cost more to operate of course now this was from 2017 so the i know the cost of batteries have gone down uh it continues to go down and the cost of charging continues to go down um so i mean i think that she's kind of missing the point though that some things uh we justify making more expensive if they're harmful for all of us like if they're harmful for the environment or so i don't know if like i mean it's the same thing with well what you know the meat exp the meat inspection act uh when teddy roosevelt signed that he probably did know that yeah this is going to cause meat to possibly become more expensive but at the same time like you could say well if more and more people realize that the their meat is safe then uh they're maybe this will actually end up increasing the demand and then if the demand goes up enough then costs will uh will go down eventually as well anyway so like it's not a clear-cut argument there waffle dog thoughts on alex jones uh i used to i used to watch him and listen to him for entertainment purposes back in the day but i haven't really kept up with him in recent years to be honest so cars around 20 thousand dollars more and the environment loses because elections i'm just gonna take i'm just i'm not gonna trick that source now but i'm that seems a little high to me but uh around twenty thousand dollars i wish there was a link to this file am i going to type this whole thing in here let's look at the name of this thing here real what the heck is that really a downloads is this their their link to their local hard drive uh okay let me just look up arthur little electric vehicle is more expensive well the first thing that shows up when i search it is challenging article little study on electric car emissions so there you go i found it though okay so here is the uh i'm gonna go ahead and share the screen here with the this is the study that they apparently are referencing so it says here based on our study the ultimate environmental and economic reality of electric vehicles is far more complicated than their promise okay it does acknowledge that the prices of battery on lithium ion battery packs declining from one thousand one hundred twenty six dollars to in 2010 to just three hundred dollars in 2015. so yeah it's even acknowledging how the battery batteries are getting cheaper the multi okay let me zoom in so you can all see this the multi-faceted results let me make this bigger so with respect to environmental analysis and results adl determined that direct collateral impact to human life defined by human toxicity potential as secondary environmental impact is an important consideration to be balanced against greenhouse gas emissions the total cost of ownership over 20-year vehicle lifetime is that what's bef bef oh that's a electric vehicle oh my gosh what this is this not the right thing this is literally saying that it's cheaper it's cheaper to have an electric vehicle 44 cost advantage wait wait wait bev okay is it what's be the sample bev model am i mixing this up here oh no no no no okay i'm mixing it up i see what's i see oh internal con okay okay that's what they're saying so this is the electric vehicle they're saying sixty eight thousand four ninety two versus forty seven thousand four that's the traditional internal combustion engine so forty percent four percent cheaper that's excluding government subsidies so if you get government subsidies that they might make up for the difference for that um this is based on 2015 so this is six years old so it's probably gotten better since then okay yeah so this is the where they got the information i'll give them that i'm glad i looked this up though um the technology does get better continue to get better for the electric vehicles and cheaper and and so we can't discount that entirely but i'm glad there's evidence to back up what she's saying so good job with that i wish it was easier to find this information but all right let's go back to the my glasses are crooked now wait hold on share back to the video okay more and the environment loses because electric vehicles produce three times as much toxic pollution as gas-powered ones when you factor in the mining of rare earth minerals that electric car batteries require okay that's another bold claim there um i've also heard the argument that well they use so much electricity that comes from coal power or gas power so it defeats the purpose that's a more compelling argument to me um but i think that this this point here uh can be countered with they are finding new technologies uh in terms of the there's the new type of battery that's probably gonna take the place of lithium-ion um what's it called a replacement alternative uh what do they call it it's uh i forgot i was just watching the video on this the other day can someone in the comment say uh yeah lithium ion batteries are going to be replaced by is it solid state batteries is that what they're called solid state battery yeah solid state battery uh and toyota is a is actually leading the charge with this all of their electric vehicles will be uh will have solid state batteries so i think that might solve this issue but they do have good points here i mean about i just think it's a you know they're looking they're kind of the naysayers which is going to be annoying but they're and what they're saying doesn't include the environmental consequences involved in ultimately disposing of these batteries yeah injury a typical there's that guy who's uh he used to work for tesla that has started a company to recycle these batteries to prevent that problem but electric car gets fewer than 100 miles per charge and can take four to eight hours to fully charge the battery okay this this is clearly outdated electric cars these days yeah okay so most new electric vehicles uh are at least 250 miles per charge in fact many of them upwards to 350 miles per charge which is incredible that's like more than a full tank of gas for most cars out there with internal combustion combustible engines now uh 48 hours of fully charged i think uh the the supercharger stations are much quicker than that now it's it's the technology has gotten a lot better since this video came out just four years ago so i think that's uh so much for the freedom of the open road maybe that explains why consumers have shown scant interest in these cars despite hefty government subsidies and well that's this video has aged poorly in that term and i mean because the demand for electric cars has skyrocketed since then so privileges still the regulators bureaucrats and environmentalists persist urban planners are adding bike lanes reducing parking spots and pouring billions into more public transportation all to get people out of their cars no i think that it's not that they want people out of the cars because they hate cars i think they hate the pollution that the cars bring so that that's misleading shout out uh to gentile g thanks for the super chat said uh props for looking up this incredibly inconvenient source lol yeah of course former boston mayor tom menino once declared the car is no longer king before banning all cars in a popular downtown shopping district arlington virginia a suburb of dc actually encourages people to adopt a car-free diet and live in one of the county's urban villages i mean so what who cares like they're not forcing people to not drive cars though it's like it's they're encouraging behavior they're not forcing people to i mean it's seattle meanwhile plans to aggressively discourage driving by limiting parking spots even though cars are an unavoidable part of work and life for most people according i would say that most cities already do this because they this is one way they get revenue is uh parking tickets and then just charging for parking downtown so like this is not nothing new to the seattle times time will tell if these regulations and strategies will work americans are explorers we value our independence and we've never been i think some of us are explorers and some of us value our independence that's good at staying put or being told where to go and at what time i do think that she's right on the as far as the overall american culture we don't like to be told what to do generally it does it explains a lot about the last year and a half with mass mandates and vaccination mandates and stuff like this like uh compared to many countries around the world certainly there's no doubt that american culture is more individualist and um individualistic uh and i think that is largely because you look at you know the immigrants who have come here over the over the years and just the fact that we've had space we've had lots of freedom to kind of self-govern uh over the years as well uh they haven't had that in a lot of other countries maybe that's why despite the government's best laid plans sales of trucks and suvs are breaking records as low gasoline prices inspire people to drive more and buy bigger vehicles why shouldn't they personal car ownership is part of america's fabric it brings people together and makes this big country of ours seem a little smaller and more free i mean i would argue that cars can sometimes isolate us think about road rage i mean if you're walking around or biking around you're less likely to have road rage right a lot of what fuels road rage pun not intended is uh the fact that we don't see each other we just see the car and so we automatically get angry we don't think about the person in the car um and so i do think that her argument that cars connect us is a little weird considering that they can be same thing with a living in an apartment complex versus living in a house a lot of people live in in houses they don't even know their neighbors you know they pull into the garage they don't even say hi to their neighbors um so i uh apartments that you're kind of forced to know to get to know your neighbors so america's car culture isn't dead yet so as long as americans still want to live in the land of the free america's car culture will never die i'm lauren fix for prager university thank you for watching this video people are but there's been to transfer the car coach okay uh i guess this is just something that you know it seems like she's really worried about the car culture dying i just don't see that happening i i i don't we love our cars and even with electric cars i mean as we've seen with tesla like uh they're pretty impressive cars they they are they're more impressive frankly than a lot of non-electric cars to me so i think that's uh and a lot of car enthusiasts are just as excited about them as they are with i mean there's a whole movement i follow online several actually i do follow a lot of electric vehicle uh electric electric car youtube channels and you'd be amazed with how passionate some of these folks are about electric cars so i think that it's a little bit uh of a you know a fear that over something that really isn't that big of a deal okay so this uh accuracy i'm going to say this video was highly accurate as far as its cherry picked data that it chose to focus on so i'm going to give it a 8 for accuracy bias i'm going to give it a a 1 extremely biased and generally i'll just say i'll give it a i'll give it a four because it's bias is a little bit too too much for me it's like sometimes it's just so overwhelmingly biased you're just like man i at least want to know something about what the other perspectives are you know like but i get it um you got five minutes in the video all right so next up on the list we had let me see the top comment is on this by the way oh someone thought it was like the onion this has to be one of the dumbest videos i've ever seen heard car ownership brings people together is the biggest load of beep i've ever heard it literally segregates everyone into small little metal boxes where they don't interact or engage with anyone else that's what i said yeah okay um let's go to why girls become boys oh boy i did not think i'd be doing this one today this one is uh if i remember correctly suggested by by uh my regular viewer and twitter interact person i interact with on twitter rachel she's i think identifies as she uh fantastic uh why girls become boys out of context mr b why girls become boys um this one has a lot of dislikes as well uh fairly new came out earlier this year so it means we probably have some sources so that's good a lot of people uh hot girls chat oh my gosh what happened here oh my gosh where did i start okay i know nothing about this video i've never heard of it let's begin are we are we good here checking the chat okay why girls become boys this should be interesting if you know any middle or high school girls today or if you are one yourself i'm not it would not be surprising if you know someone who identifies as transgender i do i've had students that were identified as transgender most of them when i first met them didn't didn't weren't that way but then they came out as transgender later uh derek veterans we got boss in the chat mr b okay uh can i make you a derrick can i make you a moderator here will that help uh if who would like to be a moderator i'm going to make osbor's gaming a moderator if i can oh i can't on my mobile dang it um let me try going to here we go i'm going to make people moderators to handle this stuff oh what a mess i don't have enough moderators apparently [Music] oh okay i'm adding osbers too okay okay back to the video the latest statistics indicate that two percent of american high school students now identify as transgender so that is pretty high i would assume it was more like one percent but um i think prageru is going to i'm going to predict they're going to make the assumption that this is alarmingly high and the overwhelming majority of them are teenage girls between 2016 and 2017 alone the number of females seeking gender surgery in america quadrupled but if you graduated high school over a decade ago it was unlikely that you knew anyone who was transgender because according to the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders the condition underlying it afflicted roughly one in ten thousand people what the heck what is this the diagnostic statistical manual of mental disorders okay well let's look this up diagnostic never heard of this and statistical manual of mental disorders it's the uh so it calls it a mental dis disorder if you thought that you should be a girl and you're a boy or a girl if you thought you should be a boy and you're a girl is that like how it used to be like a mental disorder like where if you thought like if you were gay like they call that a mental disorder that used to be the case um okay that seems a little i mean here's the thing like we know more about transgenderism today than we've ever known before and as i mentioned earlier in this live stream um you know gender is a social construct um it's different than sex biological sex there's there is a thing known as gender identity and and when more people are aware of it of course they're gonna identify with with uh it you know um so i think that what this video is probably going to try to do is like say hey they wouldn't they wouldn't want to be a boy if they never knew about this whole transgender thing right put these uh liberal schools and teachers and parents putting these ideas in these poor girls head ron dietz thank you dsm's evolve and change over time needed need addition yeah i'm gonna say like i don't know what the addition is that she's referring to but so i'm assuming this is an older edition where they called it a mental disorder it's an interesting attacker the condition underlying it afflicted roughly one in ten thousand people or 0.01 percent of the population almost none of these cases were teenage girls in fact before 2012 there was no scientific or medical literature discussing adolescent girls who wanted to transition to the opposite sex yeah it's because it probably wasn't something that happened like i said just a little while ago this is uh this whole discussion of being transgender this is a new thing like this is this was not something that uh was common knowledge until recent years and so of course it wouldn't be um this yeah this is no surprise that doesn't mean that we didn't know about transgender individuals uh no most people didn't no she's as you can try is she gonna try to say it's mainstream before the last few years like it wasn't like if it was like it was something that people maybe whispered about like uh like i mean but and i think uh maybe she's conflating it with um you know like i don't know like uh just cross-dressing maybe i don't know like this is not something that was in common conversations until very recently trust me it this this is gender dysphoria the severe discomfort in one's biological sex has been studied for nearly 100 years it almost all gender dysphoria has been studied for 100 okay but that's studied on universities like uh you know this is something that is not something you heard in the mainstream most people didn't talk about gender dysphoria until very recently um okay so yeah i think but she's probably trying to paint this as a mental illness always involved boys who began feeling it between the ages of two and four and were strong and persistent in their assertions to everyone around them that they were really girls when a phenomenon that affects one half of a population boys suddenly begins affecting the other half girls and when its age of onset shifts from preschool to adolescence something significant is happening in 2016 brown university public health researcher lisa littman began studying the sudden spike in trans identification of teenage girls she concluded that pure influence and social media influence had a lot to do with this trans teen phenomenon after all based on parent reports none of these girls had exhibited symptoms of gender dysphoria at the age that it typically first presents early childhood youtube reddit tumblr tiktok and instagram all host popular social media influencers today's version of hollywood stars who insists that if you feel uncomfortable in your body you're probably trans many promise that if you start a course of testosterone all of your problems will go away did they really i mean i do i i think i understand like the angle of you know when you're a teenager you're trying to find your identity and you might find this as a way to like get positive attention maybe when you're not getting it otherwise i get that argument but um it's she's trying to make it seem here that i don't know like this is something that was pushed you know by like it's a top-down thing by these social media companies i don't that's just how people communicate these days to social media and uh i mean the ideas spread in different ways uh and these ideas have become mainstream um so yeah i'm curious what direction she's gonna take this there's every reason to believe that these girls are experiencing real psychological pain rates of anxiety depression and instances of self-harm are all at record levels for this generation a quick fix becomes very tempting so it doesn't take much a youtube video a friend's suggestion to get a troubled girl to buy into the fantasy the gender transition is the answer unfortunately for these girls who do not have typical gender dysphoria gender transition rarely offers relief and it's a catastrophic mistake for psychologists educators and the medical establishment to rush these teens towards a solution that will almost certainly harm rather than heal because here's what's not in dispute unnecessary medical gender transition causes irreversible damage high risk of infertility sexual dysfunction and the creation of a permanent medical patient tragically we've made it far too easy for kids to take this path long before they're ready psychologically or emotionally to make such a life-altering decision testosterone is easily obtained by today's teens in oregon a 15 year old can walk into a gender i mean uh steroids too it's pretty it's been easy to get steroids fairly easy for several decades so i mean we have we've had these hormone changing abilities clinic yes there are now gender clinics all over the country and walk out the same day with a prescription for gender clinic what's that gender clinic never heard of this sorry i mean being a kansas boy interesting uh well i think this is kind of more rare than she's making it seem to be um but generally i think i don't i i don't know if this is something where she's talking about teenagers here i think generally when we see you know operations and hormone treatment i think we're seeing that with full run adults i think it's mostly if you're worried about kids i mean i understand the concern when you're not fully developed to have these thoughts and want to make permanent change i think most people would be concerned about that but testosterone without her parents permission how old was she sixteen-year-old girls have been able to undergo double mastectomies the removal of both breasts without even a therapist's note is this true okay what what's the what's the source on this um i'm gonna go to the sources here oh there's a quiz for this one okay so this the uh it doesn't appear to be a source for that that claim the closest thing i think they have to it is okay let me see here i'm going to share the screen with this this is one of the sources they shared here it's from the oregon health authority hmm although miners age 14 and older can access outpatient mental health and chemical dependency services independently appearances are expected to be involved in their treatment at some point this is interesting i honestly don't know much about this uh this is stuff that to me um i don't feel like i'm very comfortable looking into a lot because i just need to learn more about it i don't feel like i have strong opinions on this stuff yet uh let me go back to the because i mean it's like yeah some of the stuff on the surface uh definitely seems like whoa i think parents should be more involved if they're 14 years old 15 16 17 maybe they should be more involved but i you know maybe in the comments somebody can i'm just yeah oh sorry let me get you back to the video i'm getting slower doing this you can tell i've been doing this for a while because i'm like okay why girls become boys predictably hasty gender transition remember we're talking about teenagers here is now leading to a lot of regret new testimonials appear on youtube almost every week from teens who acknowledge that they made a terrible mistake and warn others not to make the same one so how do you protect your daughter from being drawn into this dangerous and growing trend first limit their exposure to social media as much as you can several academic studies have already linked the alarming rates of anxiety and depression to young girls punishing experience on social media i do think in general that um there's been lots of evidence that social media causes anxiety and depression among particularly uh younger um teens and particularly female we've seen that there's lots of evidence back that up that's why i'm not having my own daughters on social media until at least they're in high school at least um i know i'm like i'm a controlling dad but a place that often makes them feel sad unattractive and alone it's true second oppose the teaching of gender ideology in your kid's school california gender identity education begins in kindergarten and proceeds through high school this is similar to the other theme is that kids gender identity is totally independent of their physical sex and something that only they can know schools can and should insist that every child be treated respectfully without sowing gender confusion in an entire student population third and most importantly remember that a teenager is still just a teenager you don't have to agree with every identity proclamation your daughter comes up with knowledge of her identity will develop over time until then being the adult in the relationship is the most loving thing you can do i'm abigail schreier author of irreversible damage i think this i think she was on joe rogan once i think i remember this lady uh so i you know that that last thing she said was not controversial at all i'm curious like it has a lot of dislikes i'm sure the uh transgender community has been attacking this video i just i don't know enough about this and frankly i don't think i should be really watching it for this uh live stream because i it's not even really a history video it's delving into something really brand new and so i'm not even gonna write rank it i'm gonna move on to the next video here so uh is fascism right or left that's the next one don't think i've seen this video before oh i have this is this the one with the oh yeah yeah uh i have seen this video but a long time ago this video is almost four years old um because i disliked it it's related there's another fascism video that i do reference in my fascism explained video that's pretty cringy um this is dinesh d'souza uh so i imagine it's gonna be probably pretty cringy as well but let's just go ahead and check it out again i don't remember it that that well to be honest he's a fascist yes i am for decades this has been a favorite smear of the left aimed at those on the finally hear it okay the left ben shapiro says that a lot what does that even mean the left uh it can mean many different things and so when you're just saying the left as like this boogie man uh to attack it's just not doing it for me it's not like it's kind of meaningless again uh so i you know i wish i knew what you were talking about exactly more so we could have a better conversation or you know right every republican left aimed at those on the right uh-oh sorry okay every republican president for that matter virtually every republican since the 1970s has been called your donations now more than ever this label is based on the idea that fascism is a phenomenon of the political right the left says it is and some self-styled white supremacists and neo-nazis embrace the label but are they correct to answer this question we have to ask what fascism really means i've already what if you i already made a video about about a lot of these points um fascism uh you could tie it to the left and right essentially long story short uh originally the original fat fascist uh like in italy um now it does go beyond italy of course but a lot of the the first uh fascist that were politically active and brought mussolini to power um were i guess right leaning and i guess that's where that's rooted like why it's associated with that but um the word is just like communism or socialism uh or even capitalism it's been misused so much that it's become meaningless and so uh i don't even know if i want to watch this video because i kind of already address all these points in my fascism video and so i feel like i'm going to be repeating myself is its underlying ideology where does it even come from these are not easy questions to answer we know the name of the philosopher capitalism adam smith we know the name of the philosopher of marxism karl marx but who's the philosopher of fascism yes exactly you don't know don't feel bad almost no one knows this is not because he doesn't exist but because historians most of whom are on the political left had to erase him from history in order to avoid confronting fascism's actual beliefs so let me introduce him to you his name is giovanni born in 1875 i mentioned him and he was one of them i mentioned him in my video as well like he's not the only one uh i think uh he's often considered like i guess the biggest promoter of fascism and remember the uh the whole idea of um well let me first see what he has to say about my reaction 1875 he was one of the world's most influential philosophers in the first half of the 20th century gentile believed that there were two diametrically opposed types of democracy one is liberal democracy such as that of the united states which gentile dismisses as individualistic too centered on liberty and personal rights and therefore selfish the other yeah uh but this is ultimately what i think is more in line with uh with with the united states uh so anyway the one gentile recommends is true democracy in which individuals willingly subordinate themselves to the state like his philosophy did he work that way trued him out i never heard him word it that way and i guess i've never read the original writings of gentilly so but that's an interesting way of putting marx gentile wanted to create a community that resembles the family a community where we are all in this together it's easy to see the attraction of this idea indeed it remains a common rhetorical theme of the left for example at the 1984 convention of the democratic party the governor of new york mario cuomo likened america to an extended family where through the government people all take care of each other all right so nothing's changing it appears to be that the the goal now this video is to say well the real fascists are the people on the left or the democrats so i get uh you know you can make arguments about anybody being a fascist based on what he's saying um i think the overall i i think that it's uh i mean fascism first of all like how i define it just simply for like my high school students is essentially it's conform or else a lot of times in order for fascism to actually be established you have to have authoritarianism they kind of go hand in hand you're not going to get to fascism without authoritarianism and so you know when he's talking about this way of like this is the democracy like i mean i think the real enemy that we all should be agreeing on is authoritarianism is autocratic regimes that um don't give anybody rights and it's funny that like so much of this debate is just like ah you're debating something that's really just uh they're just they're all just distractions here we all agree that we we're against authoritarianism right can we all disagree on that 30 years later a slogan of the 2012 democratic party convention was the government is the only thing we all belong to they might as well have been quoting gentilly now remember gentile was a man we belong to the government i i think what they really are saying we are the government that's really what they're saying i i we belong to the government that's that sounds uh kind of ridiculous the left he was a committed socialist yes there we go yeah so he's probably also going to bring up the fact that the nazis identified as socialists as well right for gentile fascism is a form of socialism indeed its most workable form while the socialism of marx mobilizes people on the basis of class fascism mobilizes people i did i did include that part in my fascism video that's the part i included i forgot um so i was mixing up my nationalism video with my fascism video but yes i did mention that i think further i'm not going to watch the rest of this video because you can see the rest of my my uh analysis of these criticisms here or these uh kind of reinterpretations of of history and in my fascism video so i'm just going to move on uh to the next one which is one i never even heard of because i want to make sure we have time to get as much as possible here we're running out of time believe it or not okay so this is a interesting this is a children's video it's actually geared towards children leo and layla apparently this is a series i had never heard of this so they have one for frederick douglass um no history adventures okay this only came out three months ago so they're they're aiming for the younger demographic on this one this should be interesting it's about rigging here oh a little bit longer hey leo hey layla um why are you pulling down our neighbor's fence today this is not a fence oh yeah then what is it it's the berlin wall and i'm ronald reagan our 40th president and i guess that means you're here to tear down the berlin wall you got it i'm going to set the east berliners free leo i'm pretty sure that our neighbors aren't from east berlin all right so this is kind of a reference to the uh oh wow look at the dislike ratio on this one uh this is a reference to uh the famous speech that ronald reagan gave in berlin i believe it was 1987. i mean look at the exact date um yeah june 12th 1987 the tear down this wall speech also known as the berwillian wall speech where he was essentially calling for you know like a reunification of berlin and germany and but really you know i mean it's a pretty iconic speech it's a good speech but i think they're trying to already paint him as the guy who was the catalyst the reason why berlin reunited like the the wall coming down wouldn't have happened if it weren't for the great ronald reagan so i'm assuming this is going to be like a similar to that nixon video it's going to be like a and the uh alexander hamilton video uh a glorification of reagan i imagine well they are today whatever you say leo did you know that ronald reagan was one of our most popular presidents of course i knew that uh yeah he still is he and in fact historians still rank him in the top 10 of presidents and did you know he was california's governor before he was president i know duh did you know that he started out as an actor yes i did he starred in over 50 movies yes yeah and he wasn't just an actor either he was in the military during world war ii hmm you know what he was actually great at a lot he was in the military during world war ii uh let me look up his military service in world war ii i don't know much about it honestly um yeah okay so he because he had poor eyesight he had limited service so uh and it was i was in 1942 so it looks like he was he stayed in the united states uh he never went overseas looks like he was he led a war lone drive in new york city though yeah i never knew much about his uh world war ii i think they're trying to paint it as if though he actually fought in iwo jima though is what they're trying to paint it is like stuff he played college football he was also on the swim team he ran track too plus he was student body president and he was totally handsome ew gross what the heck leo boy i sure wish i could have met ronald reagan this is a pretty cringy video i'm sorry i know it's meant for kids but i'm just like yeah well why can't you because he passed away in 2004 when he was 93 years old i wasn't even born yet and now i'll never get to meet him geez leo don't be so dramatic we can just use my new time travel app to go meet him really awesome you just tap here and away we go but let me get the settings right before you see that phone ronald reagan here i come [Music] we got to get one of those time travel yeah wow is this what west berlin looks like leela look at that wall it's huge hey wait where's layla what the heck where am i thanks leo i better go find him i can't believe i actually went back in time maybe i'll really get to meet ronald reagan did someone say my name wow you're really president reagan nice to meet you i'm leo and i came here from the future what are you doing here nice to meet you leo i'm here in berlin to stop the communists and end the cold war oh man all this talk about kami yeah that's uh i'm here in berlin to stop the communists and end the cold war i mean that's a big part of his legacy right is he he does get a lot of credit for uh ending the cold war and he he does deservedly should he should get a lot of credit for helping in the cold war for sure but i think uh we forget the details of how that came to be a lot of times we do remember him for this speech but there was so much more that happened before that also we forget the early years of the reagan presidency where he was talking a lot of trash and uh a bit more controversial with his foreign policy so nest is making me hungry well leo communism makes everyone hungry people living under communism are often poor and don't have enough money for food yeah i mean uh the soviet union of course uh was lots there was lots of evidence that um people were struggling um you did have long lines of people waiting for food i mean you see that in the united states too in capitalist societies too but i digress now when we say communism with the capital c that was their specific type of government as an economic system it's more accurate to say command economy uh which you know we did see that it had lots of problems and um but we talked in terms of communism with the capital c we're talking about a lot of times we're talking about the the actual government of the soviet union or maybe china as during the cold war that's why we have to stop it i guess you're right but can we have a snack first i brought jelly beans leo thank you that's my favorite snack he always had jelly beans uh on the desk of the in the white house famously it's too bad layla isn't here to have some too hey mr reagan can i ask you some questions of course you can leo why did they build the berlin wall in germany that's a good question we're in west berlin which is the free side of germany on the other side of the wall is east berlin which is occupied by the soviet union the soviet union well i mean it wasn't the soviet union that occupied it um i mean it was the soviet union heavily influenced it yes um but specifically if you're going to talk about um i mean sure that they're they're pulling the strings the soviet union but uh there was a local government um that actually was running things and but yeah i get for the sake of the video okay we'll give them that communist built this wall during the cold war to keep people locked in east berlin and stop them from going to freedom in west berlin we sure are lucky to be on this side you're right about that leo why is it called the cold war anyway it doesn't seem that cold it's not because of cold weather it's called the cold war because we were able to end the war without using any weapons a war with no shoe well you were able to fight the war without using weapons directly against the soviet union lots of proxy wars so kid you'll learn when you're older what a proxy war is but a proxy war or basically fighting wars indirectly with the soviet union aiding uh countries that are fighting communism in places like say korea or vietnam or overthrowing dictators that are communism like have communist governments uh you know that type of stuff so there was still some fighting going on just not directly with the soviet union also uh yeah to back up what he was saying before that west berlin was a yes a much more desirable place to be in the 60s 70s and 80s uh much more prosperous economically and free overall so it's not like you know this is this is a too much of an exaggeration here or too much of an oversimplification i mean i think it's pretty obvious shooting our bombs how did you do that well everyone was afraid that the united states and the soviet union were going to shoot nuclear bombs at each other but thankfully that never happened a nuclear bomb would have been terrible that's the biggest kind of bomb there is you're absolutely right leo that's why we signed the inf oh i see wait what's the inf the inf stands for intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty both our countries agreed to sign the treaty so we didn't have to use our bonds is that all it took to end the cold war well no leo we also used our economy to win economy isn't that money stuff that sounds really common i do have a video about how the cold war ended uh it's a very complicated question to answer and you can't just say because of our economy it's more complicated than that there are many reasons um i think yeah the economy uh overall was a big factor um ultimately because you know that's what the thing that people care about the most is being able to feed the families pay the bills stuff like that yeah um but there was a lot of things that kind of led to the downfall of the soviet union among you know it was mostly them shooting themselves in the foot you know afghanistan getting involved with a war in afghanistan that sounds familiar um they their restrictions on freedoms within their borders um especially when it came to like telling people what they could actually consume as consumers so that is that's related to economics yeah but uh there's a bunch of reasons and i think the main thing is that soviet union started to find by the 1980s is like it was running out of money it wasn't able to keep doing what it had been doing in previous decades um so that's ultimately why there were reforms that were made first not because of ronald reagan but because of within the country there were reforms that were made gorbachev kind of leading the way in the you know in the 80s located it's really very simple leo we used a program called reaganomics to make our economy strong we cut taxes so that the government took less of people's hard-earned money away from them and that led to more people getting jobs that's what end of the cold war here let's see i'm just trying to connect the dots here what we also used our economy to win economy isn't that money stuff that sounds really complicated we used it to win it's really very simple leo we used a program called reaganomics to make our economy strong we cut taxes so that the government took less of people's hard-earned money away from them and that led to more people getting jobs i don't want to okay uh [Music] i think so rekonomics in case you don't know what reaganomics is it's yeah like i mean he reagan himself in that in this video kind of explains it but it's basically supply side economics um his version of it a lot of uh opponents or critics of it call it uh trickle down economics but essentially the idea is like reducing taxes especially at the top leads to more benefits to an economy like less regulations less taxes means more entrepreneurs can have opportunity to build up their businesses and then therefore theoretically pay their workers more and if their workers are getting paid more than they're spending their money more and if they're spending their money more than the companies are making more money and then it creates this fur virtu virtuous cycle and yeah like you just all you got to do is just lower taxes uh especially at the top and it will generate more revenue supply aside economics basically that was the goals of the reagan administration pretty much throughout his entire presidency it's why corporate taxes went down income taxes went down for the wealthiest um you know most most economists today would say that it was it had mixed effects but i would say mostly negative in terms of trying to like you a lot of people say that the middle class has suffered overall since reaganomics and not just reaganomics but just neoliberalism as a whole it's not just like i mean income inequality uh has gotten much worse since then for example um you've you've seen deregulations continue after reagan kind of start got the ball rolling a lot although it kind of went back to jimmy carter um you also saw that you know as i've mentioned earlier in the stream that wages and salaries have not really gone up in my lifetime and that goes back when like when i was born reagan was president and we have not seen real wages adjusted for inflation go up in my lifetime much at all uh and many do blame reaganomics for that so to this for this video to propagandize that reaganomics is what not only it's not only a good thing but it literally ended the cold war and defeated the soviet union that to me is uh pretty bad so sam rowe do you think prayer you will have a seven hour stream debunking your videos no they don't even know i exist they never will buddy to them but that's okay job i hate work my sister layla has a job after school but i like support after school well leo when you grow up getting a job and working hard is part of being responsible i'm sure your sister is working hard to find you right now thanks to everyone working hard so her job is to find you is she getting paid for that is she getting paid to look for you the united states economy was so big that the soviet union couldn't keep up you are amazing i get what they're trying to really say here is like yeah i mean to be fair to give to to concede on this point that the soviet union's economy was on the steady decline in the 70s uh into the 80s and that's why they had to feel like they had to make reforms which ultimately led to the downfall of the soviet union so i get that argument but you're just trying to you're twisting it to give it all all this credit to reaganomics you saved everyone's lives and made them better at the same time well thank you leo but the job isn't done yet we still have one more thing to do mr gorbachev tear down this wall yeah freedom for everyone there you are leo i've been looking for you everywhere what have you been up to hi laila you just missed it president reagan and i tore down the real berlin wall ugh i can't believe i missed it you need to be careful when you time travel my phone battery is almost empty and we need to get back before it's too late okay layla let me say goodbye to ronald reagan first though bye mr president it was nice meeting you thanks for beating the communists goodbye leo and remember this it's never too late to fight for freedom here we go leo [Music] yay we're back layla you should have been there when ronald reagan told them to tear down the berlin wall it was super fun it's okay to do a lot of fun things in the past too like what glad you asked leo well i went to the white house and met nancy reagan the first lady and i learned all about their program to keep kids off drugs oh my god just say no [Laughter] just say no um that did not work um it did the dare program all those programs did not work just say no pro there's no evidence that it worked um drug use did go down though a little bit i think in the 80s and there's different theories as to why that is but uh uh it's funny that they bring that up it's pretty interesting they bring that up that just because she kind of kind of turned into a joke like a for the longest time like her just say no campaign like zane rossler thanks again just say no no just say no to the escalation of the war on drugs yes to that you got that right plus i went to the supreme court and visited one of my role models justice sandra day o'connor who was that she was the first woman on the supreme court she's proof that anyone can become what they want in america and guess who appointed her i have no idea i'll give you a hint he really likes jelly beans ronald reagan did that too man i'm so glad i got to meet him hey layla do you think that i could grow up to be like reagan of course you can when ronald reagan was your age his family didn't even have plumbing or running water but you'll have to work hard if you want to be like him this is true he was born poor but didn't know it as he famously said later bet i will great now why don't you start by fixing that fence before mom and dad get home yeah very cringy video um so it's interesting that prageru i didn't even know they were doing this that they are now catering towards a younger audience the comments are turned off so this is literally this is meant for youtube kids and i'm sure the algorithms are suggesting it i know that uh i have never come have my daughters come across this when they watch youtube kids but i'm curious to see if they've as have any of your kids actually come across these videos when they uh yes five hours live angel thank you for still being here can you can you believe you called in sick just to do a live stream hey maybe i already had the day off um um so now i got i want to get into some more history videos like i feel like the girls become boys video and we're on cars video we're not really oh as far as this video this is pure propaganda um you know it's as far as ranking it um i guess it was mostly accurate on a lot of things that the big thing about rekonomics was not accurate so i'll say a three for accuracy a one for bias so remember 10 being the best one being the worst generally probably a two that was a pretty bad video i would never show my kids that without also showing them a video that trashed reagan to get a better perspective because his his legacy is mixed okay we can't just heavily treat him like he's like abraham lincoln or george washington there was a lot of good from the reagan administration but i don't think there's a lot of bad as well and i think to give him so much credit for ending the cold war through economics is frankly that's doing a disservice prageru so i can't believe you really i still can't believe they said that um okay let's go to let's uh i'm gonna go to the bathroom again here and maybe in the chat if you want to keep recommending more videos created the environment we've got so many oh so many seven hours is not enough time wow okay i'm gonna go the bathroom here okay we got an hour left you ah sit down way too long okay you apparently you can the i went upstairs to go to the bathroom because the previous times i went to the bathroom you could hear me apparently so sorry about that if you accidentally oh boy i've gone through two [Music] two coffees one sandwich one cliff bar and some gardenos i'm still feeling pretty good got about an hour left of doing this i've been doing it for the last six hours my voice is almost gone um if you just joined us uh spread the word but i i've been reacting to prageru videos um i've watched 13 of them one on 14. it's it hasn't been all debunking i know it's a little misleading not all of them is debunking a lot of it's just me actually a lot of the stuff is is true i've watched some good videos the one about nixon was solid the one about hamilton was solid the one about ulysses grant was solid um i'd like to show you a more just straight-up history curriculum video now continue with those suggestions though uh in the chat i'm trying to check that as well um so let me see if i can find a good candidate here kid shows look at that holy crap the indoctrination begins i forgot candace owens has her show on there political science let's just go down do they just have history okay they don't no i kind of want to avoid another profile i've seen the watergate one yeah what do we do about the homeless i'd like to do one more about uh oh there is no a political classroom that's just more curriculum oh the 911 video i saw that was a fairly uncontroversial who's more radical the left or the right why are so many americans in prison interesting market will set you free that i've i've watched that one the myth of voter suppression i've seen that one goodbye america wow there's just so many well here's d-day maybe i'll just do d-day oh there's why you should be a nationalist i have that uh in my nationalism and patriotism video compared i i look at that one what was the cold war i have the oh a nation of immigrants is the one that i looked at in my i did a immigration video yeah they don't have as many his just straight up history videos as they used to there's so many here why did america fight the vietnam war let's do this one shut the door here i wanted to watch this one the vietnam war lasted 10 years cost america 58 000 lives and over a trillion dollars adjusted for inflation this guy sounds like he's asleep so i'm not uh imagining this to be that engaging but yeah uh we got some facts here yeah bad bad stuff here that i brought down a president stirred social unrest and ended in defeat no one in hindsight believes fighting a losing war is ever worth the cost consequently the vietnam war is usually written off as a colossal strategic blunder and a humanitarian disaster well mostly you know i would say that a lot of people well historians in particular will say that you know you can make the argument that going through these um these wars sometimes can make us better off in the end so it's not that quite you know it's not like you can have no positive come out of something like this yet historical appraisals might have been much different had the vietnam war followed the pattern of the korean war which the united states fought for almost identical reasons the defense of freedom in asia the u.s all right um i think there is a key difference though uh with in terms of comparing the korean war um and the vietnam war um first of all the korean war was uh more like i would say dramatic in terms of how it escalated um it was also the united nations on one side that was really fighting the war and the united states was just a big part of it and then on the other side he had not only north korea but china and the soviet union the vietnam war was mostly just the united states and uh kind of unilaterally they had some aid from other countries south vietnam of course was was who they were aiding but they you know a little bit of support from australia or stuff like that but generally it was not nato or not nato not uh the united nations um so i think that's the first distinction i think uh the the korean war just right off the bat is more justified from from that that it's a more worldwide thing that's uniting to um kind of help out this this uh nation that's been attacked which is similar to the uh the persian gulf war by the way uh the other thing is um i hope they get to this but the vietnam war was mostly started in on lies or really escalated on lies um the gulf of tonkin incident is generally what led to the the gulf of kankan resolution um after a couple of attacks one that was real one that was fake um and the one that was real wasn't even that big of a deal but generally it's the fact that um that was what caused congress to pass the gulf of tonkin resolution uh in 1964 that dramatically escalated the vietnam war um and then ultimately leading to 58 000 americans dead based on lies based on lies and this is a war mostly fought by poor people american well most wars are fought by the poor um but many people of of color um in particular high percentage and and people in poverty this is not a rich man's war rich man vote for it poor man fight it type of deal korean war you could say that to a certain extent my my grandpa fought uh in the korean war um also remember the korean war was right after world war ii was over and um i think the circumstances were different but ultimately both part of the cold war both part of this um grand this big fight globally against communism um those proxy wars that i told you about earlier um yeah it was never a hot war in terms of direct confrontation between the soviet union and the united states but proxy wars like vietnam and korea so anyway i'm already thinking this video is going to be an apologist video for the vietnam war basically saying it was justified we'll see where it goes had military advisors in vietnam during the 1950s but didn't become involved in a major way until 1963. president john f kennedy firmly believe i mean it wasn't that major uh until really after the gulf of tonkin incident um they were there but it wasn't really there wasn't a lot of conflict in fighting before 1964 really before 1965. believed in the domino effect the foreign policy theory that vulnerable nations without help would fall one after another yeah also eisenhower and and well mostly eisenhower had this this theory as well that um jfk also believed was a legitimate theory like dominoes to external communist aggression kennedy thus hoped to stop soviet and chinese-backed communist invasions in the manner president harry truman had in korea by taking a stand in vietnam as with korea was a war the united states did not seek as with korea vietnam presented no imperial advantages no natural resources or resources of any kind that united states needed to protect or wish to obtain as with i mean i it's interesting they bring that up it's uh when they say quote imperial advantages i mean a lot of imperialism is just geopolitical advantages like being able to you know have military bases built around the world which the united states still has military bases all over the world um including korea the korean peninsula um i just think that uh when they this is pretty pretty uh misleading here when it says no imperial advantages it doesn't have to be resources besides that i'm pretty sure resources uh i mean yeah there are still economic advantages to being in these countries for starters anytime you have control or are in a country you're going to have economic influence and that's going to open up trade more with that country and reduce barriers in that way um i mean i i think if you were just to dig into it i i don't know if i i think the byproducts of having access to resources is certainly in the minds of the uh the the gov the government officials when they make the decision to intervene in these countries i i think it's it's naive to assume that they wouldn't consider that oh yeah we could have access to resources if we're involved in these countries wish to obtain as with korea the aggressor was the communist government the north intent on taking control of the south and it's military crossing i mean uh they yes they were communist governments and uh versions of them in both cases and yes they wanted a united country um i think it's more clear-cut in korea than vietnam i think it was more justified to fight back in korea because in vietnam it was um there were there was a lot of persecution in south vietnam um if you are a fan of rage against the machine one of my favorite bands i'm actually making a video about them for my other channel the beat goes on their first album there's a the on the cover of the album there's a monk it's a famous picture who lights himself on fire and it's actually pretty disturbing to to see this there's actually video footage of this monk doing this i forgot his name but uh he did this not to retaliate against the communist north vietnamese he was retaliating he was protesting the oppression against buddhist monks in south vietnam by the dictatorship that we propped up in south vietnam so it's not so clear-cut who's the good guys and bad guys the gamunis are the bad guys the capitalists are the good guys i mean when we were supporting a pretty ruthless dictator in south vietnam i think um it's it's and then south korea same situation and not as brutal but it's not like it was a clear-cut picture of who was the good guy and bad guy it was just an oversimplification of like hey we're just going to go after communism in whatever form it is mostly the to protect american business interests more than anything let's be honest here an internationally recognized border to do so following kennedy's assassination in november of 1963 president lyndon johnson vastly escalated america's role in 1964 but even as he did so johnson prosecuted the war with deep ambivalence authorizing significantly more troops and money for the war but never pushing for total victory wow i mean okay so i i guess we're trying to make lbj look bad here and like say you know well if he really wanted to win this thing he could have i don't think it's that simple i i don't think that well i mean i i i also see the side like maybe he shouldn't have been pushing for total victory and like and just because you really ultimately just like with afghanistan they should be fighting their own war we we shouldn't be the ones doing all of the work for them um but also you notice how they lost over they didn't even say uh how the gulf of tonkin um was a lot was based on that that was a lie they made up events it was a lies based congress voted to escalate troop intervention in vietnam based on lies stuff that was made up and we even have robert mcnamara secretary of defense at the time who later admitted yeah we made the whole thing up in order to try to convince congress to have us escalate troop involvement in vietnam it's not hidden and this isn't like secret information it's well established at this point um and so prageru just ignores that it's really important information that every student learning about the vietnam war needs to know about in contrast the north vietnamese never wavered they ignored every one of johnson's many offers to negotiate a settlement by 1971 the war was at a stalemate neither side able to establish a clear advantage the president richard nixon pursued a two-pronged strategy to turn over combat operations to the south vietnamese and to bomb north vietnam the effort brought the communists to the paris peace talks and by 1970 doesn't mention cambodia doesn't uh count glasses over that too 23 the north agreed to a general settlement establishing two autonomous vietnamese nations one country talking it's already talking about the end of the war here but the video is called why did america fight the vietnam war i thought that it would go more into that um you know vietnam has a long history before the vietnam war uh you had before the uh the united states you had the french that was involved in um you know their in version of imperialism um and they declared independence from france before that um before france you had china that was um the imperial power um you had the portuguese also um that had gotten involved i mean like throughout much of vietnamese history you have these imperial outsiders coming in and trying to control the area and so this natural distressed of outsiders going back generations from ancestors before it's no wonder that they were all fired up to fight against the uh evil imperialists as they probably most of them would view the united states just another imperialist force is trying to take over i wish this video would go more into that but of course one non-communist in the manner of north and south korea however the watergate scandal the subsequent resignation of president nixon and the democrats sweeping congressional victory in the 1974 midterm election all helped to convince the north vietnamese that america would not enforce the peace agreement they were right without us air support and material aid the south vietnamese had no chance against the north well supplied by the soviet union the chinese the communists gained full control over the country in april 1975. the war proved far more costly than korea because the geography and landscapes of vietnam were far more conducive to insurgency operations there were also far more restrictions placed on american commanders and during the korean war and the united states in the 1960s was a far less conservative and cohesive country than america of the 1950s yet despite the long ordeal and terrible costs south vietnam was saved in 19 i mean uh harry truman who got us into the to the korean war uh with the rest of the united nations allies was a democrat left-leaning uh the one who got us out of the korean war was dwight eisenhower republican so um but he was pretty popular and like we said earlier he was a more moderate uh president who you know most people agree that and when the uh armistice deal was signed like we bring him home you know uh so i think that's also misleading in 73 only to be lost in 1975 the u.s defeat in vietnam was a political choice not a military necessity so they're going to say are they going to say the same thing about the war in afghanistan i wonder uh i was curious how they would they'll be framing this the u.s protected an independent framing the when they make a video about the afghanistan war or maybe they already have i don't know but vulnerable south vietnam in 1973 and four that country would have most likely followed the model of south korea millions of southeast asians would not have become vote people and refugees or have been sent to the gulags and re-education camps a viable u.s backed democratic vietnam would have stabilized the region and almost certainly prevented the neighboring cambodian genocide in which one-fifth of that country two million people were slaughtered by its communist leadership and much of the bitterness over the war on both sides of the american political spectrum still with us today would have vanished and for the communist vietnamese the instigators and aggressors wait it would have vanished if you just were to stay in vietnam and then have an armistice deal just like you did with korea then with us today wait what are they even saying right here okay much of the bitterness over the war on both sides of the american political spectrum still with us today would have vanished and for the communists that would have been there in fact that was a big reason why we didn't get involved with wars similarly uh for many years after that it was it took 9 11 for us to get involved in another war that was somewhat similar so that that's not true at all instigators and aggressors of the terrible conflict what was it all for today ironically the vietnamese government aspires to nothing more than the capitalist affluence that it once reviled i'm victor davis hanson of the hoover institution well i mean okay again i feel like a broken record here but when we're talking about type of government and economic system we're talking about two different things and so when we say communist um you know you can't just constantly go back and forth between ultimately it was an authoritarian government that we were fighting in vietnam we also propped up an authoritarian government in south vietnam um but yeah i don't think i mean vietnam has embraced capitalism for for many years and i don't think it's had this like i don't even know if it we would call it that even but i they've had markets okay they've had a lot of them were black markets um at the time but to assume like it wasn't like the soviet union where they just the government seized all private land um he mentioned the re-education camps uh that the north vietnamese did there yeah that did happen but overall i think this guy's just trying to he wanted us to stay in vietnam forever i think this guy would probably be okay with us building military bases there in a similar situation this south korea um i just don't think that i mean i think it was right to get out of vietnam i think it was never we never should have went it was based on lies to begin with um if you think the gulf of tonkin incident really happened you need to learn more about it all right so we're back to there's other suggestions but we'll go back to another video here i think uh overall as far as accuracy i would rank that one probably a four out of ten as far as bias probably a three out of ten generally probably a four out of ten that was a disappointing video but generally prageru was has it's been more pro-war i think i've noticed a lot of their videos they like you know interventionism is okay i i get there at least there's some consistency there with i'm getting tired it's not it's almost been seven hours thank you all has anybody been here the whole time i've got a lot of dislikes i think there's a lot of prageru fans out there oh boy politics has become a sport it's it's always been a sport let's keep going here how socialism ruined my country that's brazil yeah why america must sleep i watched that one earlier right yeah toolish video calvin coolidge no i might do that one income inequality is good i mean income inequality is um unavoidable i'll give them that oh case closed 93 do israel video okay i think i saw that one earlier we can do that one um is it is it uh israel the world's most moral army or is it why isn't there a palestinian state which one is it uh calvin coolidge was underrated i do i do enjoy i love calvin coolidge i've i've praised him in my best presence video actually uh okay oh the palestinian state one okay gotcha all right so this is my 15th video i'm going to try to do at least two more before i pass out here why isn't there a palestinian state if israel just allowed the palestinians to have a state of their own there would be peace in the middle east right that's what you hear uh oh that's what you hear i don't think you hear that do you that's another straw man i i think uh i i don't know uh if we'll ever have peace in the middle east no matter what a lot of the problems we have in the middle east are directly linked back to arbitrarily drawing up borders by the the british and the french at the end of world war one uh dividing up ethnic groups uh dividing up nations uniting nations that have nothing in common or hate each other uh what a mess the people who drew up the maps after world war one that's kind of how a lot of this stuff got started with israel in particular zionism is what kind of really got the ball rolling for before zionism in the late 1800s you had some israel in israel like the historic state of israel i should say it really was palestine at the time but um in palestine for hundreds of years you had you had jewish people muslims christians all living peacefully side by side for the most part uh even in jerusalem uh but zionism uh you had people you started to see a you know jews began to move back to israel um mostly because they were being persecuted everywhere they were everywhere they went everywhere they lived and it was there was this move for them to have this place where they would no longer be persecuted and discriminated against i do have a video about anti-semitism the history of it um it's my most popular video but it definitely has some pretty horrifying comments and lots of dislikes from anti-semitic anti-semites um but generally yeah zionism uh you know it meant well i think in many ways to try to find a place where jewish people could live peacefully and have their their uh uh ethnic state but also you know the whole thing not uh how tolerant would they be for non-jews was that was that was debated and uh lots of palestinians lots of muslims in particular lived there already you can't just go back and kick them out off their land but then we see the flash forward a few decades later you see the establishment of israel many people don't realize israel is a fairly young country it was uh after the united nations was existed it first recognized it and now the united states is one of the first countries to recognize it many countries did not recognize it it was too controversial but the late 1940s and so the the country itself is is uh relatively young um this whole time palestinians have been there um and they've many palestinians have been now mistreated and uh lost their land and lost their homes and and this is there's been wars a couple of big ones um but overall the last 30 40 years it's mostly been just um small conflicts smaller conflicts more more extreme groups like hamas on the palestinian side um attacking israel and then israel attacking back back and forth innocent people caught in between it's been a mess and the arab israeli conflict has been basically ongoing since israel became first became a country so but yeah i'm going to make the assumption that with dennis prager's background he's jewish uh he's always been pro-israel i'm going to assume this is going to be a pro-israel anti-palestine video we'll see what they say hear from you and ambassadors european diplomats and most college professors but what if i told you that israel has already offered the palestinians a state of their own and not just once but on five separate occasions okay well here's a history lesson here now i'm sure they're gonna leave out some details but go ahead don't believe me let's review the record after the breakup of the ottoman empire following world war one britain took control of most of the middle east including the area that constitutes modern israel 17 years later in 1936 the arabs rebelled against the british and against the jewish neighbors because their land was being taken from them the british formed a task force the peel commission to study the cause of the rebellion the commission concluded that the reason for the violence was that two peoples jews and arabs wanted to govern the same land the answer i mean that was the that was part of it as well but i think the peel commission might have been uh missing i don't know a lot about the appeal commission but uh you know it was the the british were just trying to they're kind of outsiders just like okay how can we make this go away in the best way we can i don't think they had actually many people on the ground there assessing things they really knew what was going on um so you know it's again like okay arbitrary borders to try to solve this um they can't co-exist you know which you know honestly uh never was there a solution like today there's some people that call for a one-state solution um with both palestinians and and jews that have uh percentage proportionally represented in government um i don't understand why that's not brought up brought up more i i mean i'm more privy to that but uh there's a lot i don't know about that i mean i'm not an expert on this i did take an uh arab israeli conflict class in college uh and my professor was from israel and my his his one of his best friends was from palestine and he came in as a guest teacher for a few classes it's one of the best classes i ever took it was amazing that was at the university of nebraska omaha when i got my education degree up there appeal commission concluded would be to create two independent states one for the jews and one for the arabs but how do you do that especially with jerusalem you know how do you do that a two-state solution the suggested split was heavily in favor of the arabs the british offered them 80 of the disputed territory the jews the remaining 20 yet despite the tiny size of their proposed state the jews voted to accept i mean okay uh i think a lot of this is down here is desert so i think a lot of that's misleading um [Music] i didn't know that was that lopsided though in terms of actual land area i'm but you notice how the area that was under bridge control still was the despite the tiny desire their proposed state the jews voted to accept this offer but the arabs rejected it and resumed their violent rebellion and he's not going to tell you why is he he's not going to say why they were why did arabs or palestinians reject peel commission okay says there was widespread public opposition including in the media by religious figures according to henry lawrence who is a french historian uh the arabs saw the publication of the plan as ringing disavow of every key undertaking the mandatory authorities had made since it's a inception that there would be no separate jewish state in the land ex expropriations and no expulsions so i guess like they the fact that people would have to be um they'd have to leave their homes that's what they didn't want um also the fact that jerusalem jerusalem was placed outside the palestinian palestinian state they didn't like that as well all right so yeah there's more to the story and rejection number one ten years later in 1947 the british asked the united nations to find a new solution to the continuing tensions this is more famous like the peel commission the u.n decided that the best way to resolve the conflict was to divide the land in november 1947 the u.n voted to create two states again the jews accepted the offer and again the arabs rejected it only this time they did so by launching an all-out war that's the section number two the first major war i was telling you about um so this one is uh this was the one that by the u.n general assembly um keep in mind that like the the original position is uh the palestinians were already there like they were already there so it's like think of it like this like um you you live in your home like um and then someone knocks on your door so you have to leave and you ask them why and they're like well we these other people have to move in and you need to share space with them or you need to go to this area while they move over here and well i don't want to go i've been here my parents were here my grandparents were here every you know um especially if you you're you know most of them were farming of some sort i am assuming so it's not like i mean the the uh the default position was the palestinians were already there it's like kicking you off your land um and the ones who are moving in it makes sense that they'd be more likely to be for it so that that makes sense um so uh there was i guess um okay let me find out exactly what was the official reason why they rejected it so the past palestinian arab leadership rejected the partition given the inequality inequality in the proposed population exchange and the transfer of one-third of palestine including most of its best agriculture land to recent immigrants that's why that's the part they're leaving out of the video they're leaving it out cowboy thanks for the donation super chat uh someone can make the the same argument about the adams brothers and ben franklin hated slavery but not necessarily pro-black can you discuss eisenhower's view on race okay uh he was it was kind of complicated uh he was slightly racist not as racist as others but most presidents were racist um but yeah we're running out of time here i wanna make sure i get to this video so we uh thank you for your support though so that's rejection number two jordan egypt iraq lebanon and syria joined the conflict but they failed israel won the war and got on with the business of building a new nation most of the land set aside by the u.n for an arab state the west bank and east jerusalem became occupied territory occupied not by israel but by jordan 20 years later in 1967 the act i actually have a friend i haven't talked to him for a while but his dad is one of those refugees palestinian refugees who was forced to move to jordan and then ultimately ended up moving to the united states so um he has very strong opinions about how this all went down arabs led this time by egypt and joined by syria and jordan once again sought to destroy the jewish state that's the yom kippur uh war this time yeah and this time egypt and these other countries are trying to uh they're all ganging up on israel here but doesn't go so well for them the 1967 conflict known as the six day war ended in a stunning victory for israel jerusalem and the west bank as well as the area known as the gaza strip fell into israel's house that's not that's 60 were not the government split over what to do with this new territory half wanted to return the west bank to jordan and gaza to egypt in exchange for peace the other half wanted to give it to the region's arabs who had begun referring to themselves as the palestinians in the hope that they would ultimately build their own state there i mean that had that began well before this it's my knowledge i think they're trying to make it seem like it was a brand new thing and like oh palestine it's a new thing now uh and it doesn't matter what you call it the bottom line is they didn't want to be part of the jewish state that's what they were afraid of neither initiative got very far a few months later the arab league met in sudan and issued its infamous three nos no peace with israel no recognition of israel no negotiations with israel again a two-state solution was dismissed by the arabs making this rejection number three oh okay they're they're saying that's the rejection number three okay that wasn't all the i mean that was mostly outside countries i thought um that's after the six day war though um i was mixing up the yom kippur and six day war but the uh how dare i um because yom kippur was a few years later right um yeah um so i think the uh bottom line is um you know the uh let's look at the yeah just just go into the wikipedia page here um this is where things really escalated here in the 60s and um like to a whole new level and i i think uh you know it's been building up it's hard to go back once you build up to a certain point um but okay so the afternoon it says right here on uh the wikipedia page about the six day war aftermath if you find that section like the aftermath of the war is also of religious significance under jordanian rule jews were expelled from jerusalem jerusalem and effectively barred from visiting the western wall um like i noticed that after this this is where you saw more aggres aggressive policies by not only um jews in israel but their allies um and it's understandable because this is at this point it's gotten more aggressive um from not only palestinians but all these arab countries that are allies with them and so i mean this is one where by this point i think he he says like okay rejected a third time yeah i mean i think it's one of those things where now it's it's escalated for now um generations and so you have people by this point on both sides that are more radicalized because they kind of grew up with this and this is kind of where it kind of brings us to even to this day in 2000 israeli prime minister ehud barak met at camp david with palestinian liberation organization chairman yasser arafat to conclude a new two-state plan barack offered arafat a palestinian state in all of gaza and 94 of the west bank with east jerusalem as its capital but the palestinian leader rejected the offer in the words of u.s president bill clinton arafat was here 14 days and said no to everything yeah instead the palestinians launched a bloody wave of suicide bombings that killed over 1 000 israelis that was hamas that was like the extremists that that did that in maine thousands more on buses in wedding halls and in pizza parlors rejection number four in 2008 israel tried yet again prime minister ahu dolmer went even further than ahu barack had expanding the peace offer to include additional land to sweeten the deal like his predecessor the new palestinian leader mahmoud abbas turned the deal down rejection number five in between these last two israeli offers israel unilaterally left gaza giving the palestinians complete control there well the gaza strip is basically uh it's heavily restricted um in some ways it's like an open-air prison some people have criticized so i i think that's pretty misleading there um i think like the bottom line is like yeah there is some stubbornness from the palestinian side here and uh you know it's uh i don't see this really changing sadly it's it's a mess still rhonda it's nothing like conservatives and pizza pearls all right yeah so um i just think that you know it is kind of sad to see how how much potential for a two-state solution there was uh even before israel became a state like that the appeal commission was probably the the best chance we had but ultimately you got to remember it starts with the fact that they were being forced to kick up they're kicked off they're trying to kick them off their land and ultimately they were pushed off the lane after the wars um the palestinians uh many palestinians the other thing that really i want you to realize is there's a lot of palestinians a lot of arabs muslims that are currently in modern israel that are still living peacefully there um it's not like you know it's all muslims and those these areas gaza strip and the west bank and then all jewish and the others in just in israel uh or golan heights so i i think that um i still get we should reconsider the one state solution just making sure that palestinians are you know have some political representation instead of developing this territory for the good of its citizens the palestinians turn gaza into a terrorist base from which they have fired thousands of rockets into israel i mean that's again like that's a minority of people that um who are desperate let's be honest they are desperate each time israel has agreed to a palestinian state the palestinians have rejected the offer often violently so if you're interested in peace in the middle of violently like there's there's two separate things going on the rejection of the offer was the diplomacy negotiations going on and the hamas and maybe other fringe extremist groups that are doing the violence mostly it's not like they are rejecting that like arafat it rejects the offer and then he gets out his machine gun and starts shooting everybody that's not at least maybe the answer is not to pressure israel to make yet another offer of the state to the palestinians maybe the answer is to pressure the palestinians to finally accept the existence of a jewish state i'm david bragg executive director of the maccabee task yeah i mean they most countries in the in the region now recognize israel um and have better relationships with israel egypt's a good example of that if you look at relations between egypt and israel um in recent years um i mean i think uh it's been more than 40 years since there's been hostilities like pretty much since the carter administration so and they used to be like bitter enemies and so uh there's been progress on that front it's just it's a shame to see the many palestinians just like uh treated the way they are and it's i think many uh people in israel also feel the same way that i do like you know they would they want them they want a solution they they they have sympathy and empathy even for these these folks um however the one shooting the rockets they're not getting much into the not much empathy for them uh thank you for the super chat oh my gosh oversized never mind thank you for that well we have 12 minutes shall we do one last video if you are just now watching i've been doing this since eight o'clock this morning i gotta leave here soon i gotta take my well i gotta pick up my daughters from school and take my dog to the vet she needs to get a shot shout out to mrs b who's been feeding me all day and she told me that i shouldn't pee in the bathroom next to this room because you could hear me also she's provided me with caffeine which is starting to wear off this has been a weird experience i can't believe i decided to do it but here i am thank you for all the super chats and the support uh i'm not skipping school okay i'm not skipping school do you print dennis prager's christmas video anyone else for the christmas video or something else last chance i appreciate the nice comments all right we'll do the christmas one that seems prageru christmas just the war on christmas or the amazing history of christmas i i think i found this one better it was the night before christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a mouse you probably know what happens next yeah my dog needs to know who wrote this poem and when i think rabies do you know where the tradition of the christmas tree comes from it's on the christmas tree stockings even the idea of gift giving no holiday has a richer and more varied tradition than christmas so let's look into its history and see if we can uncover some of that richness and tradition and if you don't celebrate christmas well at least you'll have a better appreciation of why so many people do here's what everybody knows christmas is when christians celebrate the birthday of jesus christ that in itself is a very big deal christianity you know yeah a lot of i'm going to make a video about the history of christmas too but um that a lot of the traditions of christmas was stolen from pagans um and the winter solstice traditions and so they kind of co-opted that holiday uh the christians did and jesus was not born on december 25th or around the winter solstice but they just decided oh well a lot of people are celebrating the winter solstice anyway the pagans are so we might as well have this this happened to around the same time and a lot of times uh winter solstice one of the main winter solstice traditions was lighting things up used to be you know fire today it's christmas lights cherry tops thank you for that donation uh all its many iterations remains the most popular religion in the world two billion people follow it yes aside from its obvious religious significance the first christmas stands as the great divide for the recording of human history until recently history was divided between bc before christ and a.d anno domini which is latin for ear of our lord now you'll often see bce before the common era and ce common era no matter i i use both interchangeably because i'm weird like that divide is still jesus's birth the great kings of the first millennium recognize the significance of the day and attach themselves to it charlemagne alfred the great and william the conqueror among many others were either baptized or coronated on december 25th the idea of christmas as a time of gift giving also goes back to the earliest days of christianity the story is told that a third century church bishop nicholas would anonymously throw bags of gold coins into the wind the original santa claus windows of the poor the coins supposedly landed in the shoes or stockings that were drying by the fireplace thus was the stocking stuffer born after nicholas died and was declared a saint his popularity and positive christmas message spread across europe each nation adding its own distinct contribution in germany the winter tradition of placing evergreens in their homes took on a new significance in the 16th century when protestant reformer martin luther put candles in the branches he told his children i thought they were going to mention krampus the horrifying the lights were like the sky above bethlehem on the night of christ's birth the idea that saint nicholas would judge whether you've been good or bad during the year stems from the book of revelation in the new testament which depicts christ returning to earth riding a white horse in the middle ages the legend sprang up that saint that might be a stretch there i'm not sure about that i've never heard that i have to look more into that suspend judgment about that revelations nicholas had been chosen as the savior's advance guard he wouldn't come at the end of the world but every year to check things out and give a report when this notion arrived in norway it encountered a problem there were no horses in norway but they did have plenty of reindeer and of course norway abuts the arctic circle and the north pole so saint nick found himself with a new domicile all these various european traditions came together in the great melting pot of america in new york in 1823 a professor at the protestant episcopal seminary clement moore wrote a poem for his children twas the night before christmas the stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that saint nicholas soon would be there the poem caught on and became that one poem is responsible for so much of our perception of santa claus and christmas it was hugely influential uh glad he brought it up came a christmas staple every school child could recite the holiday got another point thank you uh my ken i kokuru i appreciate the kind words in the super chat in 1843 when the great british writer charles dickens published his short novel a christmas carol another big turning point to popularize further popularized the um now remember it was mostly just a christian holiday up to this point but because it was quickly becoming more secular in the 1800s the redemption of ebenezer scrooge perfectly captured what we now refer to as the christmas spirit the idea that the holiday brings out the best in all of us as the new century turned hollywood got into the act almost as soon as there were movies there were movies celebrating christmas to this day a year doesn't go by without a new one madison avenue saw a big opportunity too in 1931 coca-cola hired artist hadden sunblum to create a christmas ad of santa claus which is dutch for saint nicholas drinking coke the jolly white bearded fellow in a bright red suit remains the person i knew that was dutch and that's that's an iconic image there yeah i didn't realize it was 1931 so sonification of old saint nick and in perfect melting pot fashion irving berlin the son of a rabbi wrote the definitive yuletide song white christmas that's right yeah many complained today that the religious aspect of christmas has been overwhelmed by commerce retail sales between thanksgiving and christmas well that that started probably especially after world war ii like used to be you know you might like like as late as the 1800s even like christmas wasn't necessarily like people wouldn't really exchange gifts that much it happened but it was a smaller thing but it really especially after world war ii really took off with um you know commercialism and buying each other more and more gifts especially with kids that's when it became a much bigger thing relatively new so your 1800s kids aren't going to really be asking for much for christmas versus your kids born after world war two are now one trillion dollars yeah this is not a new complaint the puritans refused to celebrate christmas because they thought it trivialized the holidays religious methods well hardly anybody really celebrated it that much back then i mean they celebrated it but it wasn't as big a deal as it is today and of course it was commercialized in the 1600s 1500s and 1600s yeah but this remains the minority view most people love christmas and all the things the lights the tree the songs the movies and yes the gifts i do too and who can deny that people tend to act a little nicer a little happier as the special day draws near in a world that feels so divided christmas still unites us for that we should all be grateful that's a nice video to end on yeah nice little video there um mostly harmless i you know so prager you can have videos that are like this you know that are not really controversial there's not a straightforward agenda well there's an agenda here but it's more of a lighthearted one um so yeah most of the videos i watched today i i was pretty brutal toward uh you know a lot of a lot of bias in the videos i have bias against them automatically i've been pretty vocal against my critiques against prageru over the the years but um but yeah there's been some good ones um so i think videos again that i would probably show i watched 16 believe it or not and the ones i watched uh i think the nixon one the hamilton one and the the grant one i would probably show to my students i would definitely not show them the vietnam war one uh the fascism one uh the ones that aren't part of the curriculum of course uh some of the like the 16 19 project i you know it seems like uh a lot of their stuff is actually fairly harmless um but to kind of reiterate points i made at the beginning of the stream seven hours ago holy crap if you've been here the whole time you're awesome you're amazing the pilot and gamer thank you mr beat how did you react to prager videos for almost seven hours by the way that you're epic thank you i'm really tired it's been rough uh i don't know if i'll ever do this again so if you caught this that's uh it's a once in my lifetime deal but i think to sum up my problems with prageru is that um they are trying to indoctrinate our kids and they're trying to whitewash history and they're doing that effectively a lot of young people have seen their videos again it's been and the billions of people that have seen their videos um they are now part of curriculums i am part of social media groups like facebook groups of where i interact with other history teachers and history teachers still post their videos say hey i want to use this in class tomorrow what do you think of this one like the 911 video that they just released um they are increasingly trying to to um i guess you know provide their version of history and social studies in general in the classroom and i don't think they should teach kids what to think i think that we should teach kids how to think we should teach them to critically think about all information i'm okay showing their videos in class as long as you are um having the kids analyze the video itself not just giving it to them as facts and that's it same with my videos i don't think any i mean any of my videos are good enough to stand on their own you need to say hey this is one history teacher's um version of what happened i always put my sources in the description so you can find them very easily prageru as we've seen does not do that i had to hunt down some sources a lot of times you click on a link and their source is no longer freaking there so they're not as transparent as you think or if they do provide sources they're really hard to actually figure out but a lot of times prageru gets things right a lot of times they give you right information but they're cherry-picking the information or they're spinning it and then in their way to make their agenda look good they focus on things that make certain conservative ideals look good and they ignore things that aren't make them look bad um so great example ronald the ronald reagan video was horrifying to me the fact that they're gearing that towards little kids like you know my second grader watching that that's the demographic that they're aiming for on youtube kids that's horrifying um so don't show that crap to your kids unless you're explaining exactly what it is and where they're coming from bottom line is get these kids to think for themselves and them to be the historians detectives don't just spoon feed them information um and you'll find that these kids end up in much better shape than we were when we were their age i wish we had i wish even me growing up in the 90s had access to youtube that would have been a game changer that's why i'm pretty optimistic about the future because i know this generation gen z and younger grew up on educational content um but at the same time it's also why i'm a little scared because i know a lot they've seen a lot of this this content that's purely kind of nefarious propaganda oh it's my dog come here patsy i'm gonna take you to the vet um so i'll and my cat too both okay so so thank you for joining me uh she needs a bat did you give her a bath no she smells how's that um you've been terrific oh thanks uh ron dietz again be gonna need a pbs mental cleanse after this yeah this has been rough uh but you know it's been fun still so thank you all um thanks for watching i just saw 587 of you here holy crap uh yeah so maybe we can like chunk these down and edit them down to smaller videos because who on earth would want to watch this whole thing okay we'll see you later patsy have anything to say all right thanks for watching everybody

Channel: Mr. Beat

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Length: 422min 26sec (25346 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 17 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/MutantPolarBear]

Isn’t posting self-harm banned on Reddit?

[u/Imperial-General]

I think I know what "decent" PragerU civil war video he's talking about in his intro. The one that was actually done by a real professor from West Point who made a point to emphasize how the Confederates were traitors who killed real soldiers who wore United States uniforms like his in order to preserve slavery.

It's like the one good PragerU video if you ignore they're only letting that guy say that stuff so they can call Democrats traitors and slavers in later videos, at least until they dropped all that to start calling the Confederates good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcy7qV-BGF4&t=24s

[u/tarkin96]

Vaush even gets mentioned at 1:39:57.

[u/LeDiamonddozen]

I once commented on a Mr. Beat video saying that Prager U was wrong about everything. He replied saying, "They get some things right". Now he's making this video? Sir I don't think the things Prager U gets right are significant enough to mention.

[u/boilerofdenim]

Based Mr. Beat

[u/Palabrewtis]

Sure has a lot of extremely right-wing fans in that chat REEEEing. Self-identified Libertarian, the American type Libertarian.

[u/StableExact]

Dude's a bit of a centre lib, but politics aside his videos are excellent, his preisdential election and geography vids are very educational

[u/The_Secret_V1ce]

What a legend

[u/G00bre]

It's my sleepover, I get to pick the movie