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Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU

Fireside Chat Ep. 5 - On Students Recording Leftist Professors

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager | PragerU

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🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Join Dennis Prager from his home study for another Fireside Chat! Recorded on Feb. 16, 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here, welcome to my house and my fire sign chat, which I try to have every week.

0:06.8

What's the story guys about next week? I'll be in Japan, I guess I can't really do next week.

0:12.5

But I would like to, I would like to figure out a way.

0:16.6

Anyway, I'll be lecturing in Japan, Korean, China. Let you know all about it when I return.

0:23.0

Thank you for being with me. My trusty bulldog, who is now lying down next to me,

0:28.3

will make an appearance undoubtedly, if he gets up at some point during the broadcast.

0:35.5

So this is what I want to open up with and I'm going to take your questions.

0:39.2

I don't know how many of you know this, but there is, again yet another recording of a professor at some college.

0:47.7

I don't remember which, it's completely irrelevant, which one.

0:50.9

And she is just standing in front of the class and saying terrible things, awful things, negative things about President Trump.

1:02.8

And it she goes on and on, it wasn't even a side comment. It was just, basically it seems like it's the essence of the class that day was how terrible President Trump is.

1:16.5

First of all, I was thinking, is there any equivalence on the right?

1:23.5

How many professors devoted a chunk of their class or repeated classes to speaking ill of President, former President Obama?

1:35.6

I would be surprised if the number is two, because you always allow for one outlier.

1:44.1

But this is common now, but that's not what I want to talk about. It's not my subject. My subject is this.

1:51.6

The student who recorded this may be up for disciplinary charges on having recorded the professor and then making it available to the public.

2:05.0

Now, this is the subject I want to talk to you about teachers opposing being recorded in their classrooms.

2:15.0

Now, I taught college when I was in my early 20s, I taught at Brooklyn College and believe it or not, we had recorders in those days.

2:26.2

They were called tape recorders and kids would ask me, students would ask me, is it all right?

2:33.8

If I record you and I remember my first reaction, why would I not want you to record me?

2:42.8

I thought I kept thinking, because whenever you asked something, you obviously wonder or immediately infer what the reason for the question is, correct?

2:55.3

If somebody says, you know, should I take an umbrella out, the assumption is it's raining.

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