How the Left Sees the World: Power, Race, and Class
How do those on the Left determine right from wrong? Since Marx, they’ve relied on a formula based on status, skin color, and wealth. But is that the way to reach a moral conclusion? Dennis Prager uses Israel and the United States to provide an illuminating perspective on this question.
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Script:
Why does the left hate Israel? On the surface, it doesn’t make sense. Israel is a liberal democracy. It extends full rights to women, to gays, and to its many Arab citizens. Like all countries, which are made up of flawed human beings, Israel is flawed. But compared to most countries, not to mention its neighbors, it is a civil rights paradise.
So, why does the left hate Israel? The reason is that the left — and as I always emphasize, I am talking about the left, not about liberals — is not guided by a moral compass. It is guided by three other compasses:
A power compass, a race compass, and a class compass.
Let’s begin with the power compass.
Instead of evaluating people and nations on the basis of right and wrong or good and evil, the left evaluates them on the basis of weak and strong. If you’re weak, you’re good. If you’re strong, you’re bad. Israel is strong. Therefore, it is bad. America is strong. Therefore it is bad. The Palestinians are regarded as weak. Therefore, they are good.
When you are guided by a moral compass, you don’t ask, “who’s strong and who’s weak?” You ask, “who’s morally right and who’s morally wrong?”
Fifty years ago, Israel was not a big issue for the left. Why? Because it was perceived as weak. But after the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel achieved a stunning military victory, it all changed. Israel became strong, so Israel became bad. And the Palestinians were weak, so they became good.
So, no matter how much terror Palestinians engaged in — hijacking airplanes, murdering eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympics, blowing up Israelis in pizza parlors and at weddings — the left’s position never changed:
Palestinians good. Israel bad. Because the Palestinians were weak. And Israel was strong.
That’s one of the three ways the left judges the world. You can test this theory in other ways. Why is the United States bad? Because it’s strong. And Third World countries that oppose the United States are good.
Cuba, for example, has been adored by the left for decades. Never mind that Cuba’s communist party has ruined Cuba, that Cubans have no civil rights, and Cuba is one of the poorest countries in the world. Since Cuba is weak, to the left, Cuba is good.
The same was true with North Vietnam in the 1960s. It was considered weak, so it was good. The US was strong, so it was bad. It didn’t matter that America was trying to preserve the freedom of the South Vietnamese, exactly as it had preserved the freedom of the South Koreans. The US was strong. So it was bad.
Which brings us back to Israel. The stronger Israel gets — as it effectively defends itself, as its economy grows, and its diplomatic position improves — the more the left hates it.
The second of the left’s compasses — the race compass — is another reason the left hates Israel.
Just as it substitutes weak and strong for good and evil, the left substitutes non-white and white for good and evil. The left doesn’t judge people by their actions, but by their race. That’s why, for example, the left asserts that a black person cannot be a racist, only a white person can be s racist.
And that provides the second reason Israel is labeled evil: Israelis are considered white and Palestinians are not white. Never mind that more than half of Israel’s population is not white.
The result: the left essentially ignores Palestinian terror and loudly condemns Israel’s responses to terror.
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Thats why deadbeats steal from other people, they think people with "more money are bad" because they themselves have less.
You forgot another one leftist principle. The majority of the population is always good and the ruling elites are always the bad ones. Even though the majority of one population might have bigoted opinions, and thus support a bigoted society, the left can't accept that. Like in Islamic countries, where polls have shown that the majority of Muslims hate gays and hate freedom of expression, but the left doesn't want to express it's hate on them, because you know the people are always good and whether denies that is racist.
Exception: When the country is one of the strong ones, which means bad country. The left calls all the time Americans who disagree with them as racists and bigots (And in my country Greece too) and dare to call all Israelis as colonisers and chauvinists. Their "antifascism" is so hypocritical.
And as soon as the strong become weak the left keep them weak, so does this mean that lefties are weak right want-a-bes? ❤
AND the Left is now CONSTANTLY defending islamic regimes, thinking they are innocent, saying we are the bad guys and supporting immigration of muslims – never considering the problems that will cause. The Left is dangerous – and the liberals are dangerous because they support the left when election day comes.
where does the power come from and its economic background? Yes, you have the answer, from the poor 🙂 (you called them the weaks) :).
You are trying to blind people by presenting a very arbitrary definition on the left. Classic left is about fighting class gaps towards equality and solidarity among people, defending their own rights, could be against geneder apartheid, racism, poverty and capitalism.
This petty political mud slinging is so childish. Why are you people always talking about how the other side thinks and feels as if you all have some mystical mind reading capabilities. Unlike you there are many of us who are perfectly capable of thinking for ourselves and are able to distinguish right from wrong without verifying the consensus of our political team. Anybody who devotes blind allegiance to any political party is a moron whose forfeited opinion should have no contribution towards how the rest of us must live our lives. This nation was supposed to be built upon the principles of freedom, liberty, opportunity and equality. An offense against any of those principles should be the only circumstances where government has the power to act. You people want government to intervene in every single aspect of our lives just so you can turn around and bitch about government meddling around in your peraonal affairs. Treat everyone with the same courtesy and respect you expect from them and mind your own business….. those are the only 2 rules that each and every person needs to follow for us all to get along and live our lives but you all cant even do that.
Great video!
Don't forget those "evil" British. The third leg of the "evil" chair.
wtf Vietnam wasnt weak it beat the Hell out of the US so therfore they must be the "Strong and bad", but no
"Why does the left hate Israel?"
I don't know, why are you always beating your wife? There are better ways to sound like you're being objective and fact-based than starting your video with a loaded question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Cuban_constitutional_referendum
O agree,but now China are rich too.
"STRONG = BAD"?
Fhqwhgads confirmed
ARE YOU PEOPLE
SERIOUS LMFAO
Remember when people consider middle easterns white and when North Vietnam has supporters in the US
I’ve seen the same issue on the right:
Russia is “strong” (given what they display in their Victory Day parades), so 45 praised Putin. China is strong, and 45 congratulated Xi Jinping for insuring that he could remain president for life.
Norway is predominantly white, so 45 praises their immigration. The population of Africa is mixed, so 45 calls every country on the continent a shithole.
Saudi Arabia buys weapons from the US, so Trumpty whole-heartedly supports murdering journalists and bombing school buses.
Also, doe anyone realize that this boomer called the entire Caribbean (including Puerto Rico) “Cuba”? 🤣
Bro he’s just lying at this point
'' Israel STRONK is BAD. America STRONK is BAD. Palestine WEAK is GUD. '' Seriously who is your audience PragerU? 3 year old babies? Or is it because you are a stupid right wing propaganda channel?
Let me give you a tip. Strong is not 'bad' , imperialism is what makes things 'bad' and thats what left stands against for.
Can't beleive the amount of fools proving themselves on this
Actually the USA is owned by Ephraim/English and Israel is owned by Judah/Hebrew and everything you said kind of contradicted itself. I would imagine it is why you have so many dislikes on this video to contradict is to be wrong.
I don’t think he sees himself as evil which is confusing to me
Ah yes, Israel, the civil rights paradise actively committing war crimes based on race.
PregerU logic: Hitler was bad because he was strong not because he killed 6 million Jews.
This is such an insane commentary. He might as well be claiming that the left hates pedophiles not because of harm done but because of power enacted.
Who dosent understand that abused power is abuse?
Just got this as an ad and I’m here to say it’s laughable to say Israel extends “full rights” to its gay citizens when gay marriage is effectively illegal aside from niche cases. It’s not like there’s an obvious solution to the problems Israel as a state has caused, but lying outright about the opposition and the state of their political situation is a clear shot at avoiding criticism. It literally borders on ethno-nationalist at times, let’s not suck their dicks too much for right-wing brownie points.
I'm FARRR from the left and I DESPISE Israel.
workers are based
They are weak and stupid.
Already Dennis Prager begins the video with a lie. Leftists don't hate Israel, they're just more likely to criticize the Israeli government when they do something bad. And leftists don't measure countries as good or bad based on their strength, but based on how they treat people. And unlike the right leftists don't condemn an entire people based on what some individuals are doing. We condemn the atrocities by Hamas, but not the entire Palestinian people, just as we condemn the atrocities by the Israeli military, but not the entire Israeli people.
Dennis, like other right-wing hacks, are so determined to demonize and straw-man anyone who doesn't belive the same as he. That is why he continue to lie in order to promote his agenda.
Leftists also judges people on their actions, but they also want to bring attention to relevant issues, such as why people do what they do. It's not a simple black and white good vs evil issue, like many right-winger wants to belive.
Marxist ethics is a doctrine of morality and ethics that is based on, or derived from, Marxist philosophy. Marxism–Leninism holds that morality, like other forms of ideology, is of a class character and is manifested in people’s behavior in different ways in different historical conditions in accordance with the interests of what classes or social strata a person occupies.[1]:47
The main methodological principles of Marxist ethics are materialism and dialectics. Marxist–Leninist ethics is materialist: the ideals, standards and virtues prevailing in society are interpreted as a reflection of actually existing interpersonal (value) relations, an expression of interests and requirements of social groups and classes. Morality is not reduced to an ethical ideology that has isolated itself from the world and lays claim to absolute value. Marxist ethics describes morality as a property of one's behavior conditioned by social and historical existence as those moral values that bring together (or force apart) living individuals.
Marxist–Leninist ethics is dialectical: it maintains that like morality as a whole, each of its manifestations, each standard, and virtue, is in perpetual motion, emerging, developing, disappearing, passing from one qualitative state to another. Torn out of the concrete historical process, morality in general simply does not exist. Each type of morality is socially and historically conditioned—this is the fundamental tenet of Marxist ethics. The objective core of morality conveys the character of definite social relations—relations of ownership of the means of production, the interaction of the various classes and social groups and the forms of distribution and exchange. It follows from this that morality has class content. If the nature of social bonds determines the essence of morality (and in a class society these bonds manifest themselves, first and foremost, in the relations between classes), then the morality reflecting them has a class stamp.
Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_ethics
I hate Israel because they stole Palestinian land. And Eastern European Jews are not indigenous to that land.
No, i do not look at who is strong and Who is weak, i look at how is a USA ally, and A russia ally
USA – Bad
Russia – Good
3:32 They replaced weak with non white and said they were related, not sure if this is a mistake but if it isn't it's outright racist
"I am talking about the left, not liberals."
"like many countries that consist of flawed human beings"
how do people manage to watch this?
I don't mean to be rude, but anyone who considers themselves leftist should look up what socialism did to countries like Russia, Venezuela and my home country, Romania. It's very easy to judge and position yourself on a certain side, but if you haven't experienced it firsthand, you don't know what you're really talking about. The left makes everything sound perfect; it's how it started here as well: equality between men and women, eradicating any kind of injustices, the government doing everything for its citizens. But then, after some time, women turned into baby making machines, men were FORCED to work away from their families in horrible conditions, not to mention the police brutality, lack of Food and education. Just look it up, leftism and its consequences. Then declare your belonging to the left.
First of all prager u it's the Arab Israeli conflict. "Palestine" is not a country, as you incorrectly portrayed in this video. Second none of Israel's population is white, because Israel and the Jews are a Middle Eastern people. Third, we don't need support from your racist, far right, channel.
Good video
The title of this video should be "If Homer Simpson became conservative".