Home Cultural Issues Other Cultural Issues Prager 5 Minute Videos So, You Think You’re Tolerant? | 5 Minute Video
Prager 5 Minute Videos

So, You Think You’re Tolerant? | 5 Minute Video

32
82
0



Are you tolerant? You probably think so. But who is tolerant in America today? Is it those on the left, or those on the right? In this video, Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report analyzes this question and shares his experience.
Donate today to PragerU! http://l.prageru.com/2eB2p0h

Get PragerU bonus content for free! https://www.prageru.com/bonus-content

Download Pragerpedia on your iPhone or Android! Thousands of sources and facts at your fingertips.

iPhone: http://l.prageru.com/2dlsnbG
Android: http://l.prageru.com/2dlsS5e

Join Prager United to get new swag every quarter, exclusive early access to our videos, and an annual TownHall phone call with Dennis Prager! http://l.prageru.com/2c9n6ys

Join PragerU’s text list to have these videos, free merchandise giveaways and breaking announcements sent directly to your phone! https://optin.mobiniti.com/prageru

Do you shop on Amazon? Click https://smile.amazon.com and a percentage of every Amazon purchase will be donated to PragerU. Same great products. Same low price. Shopping made meaningful.

VISIT PragerU! https://www.prageru.com

FOLLOW us!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prageru
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prageru
Instagram: https://instagram.com/prageru/
PragerU is on Snapchat!

JOIN PragerFORCE!

For Students: http://l.prageru.com/2aozfkP
JOIN our Educators Network! http://l.prageru.com/2aoz2y9

Script:

Tolerance.

It’s a word we hear a lot these days. So, let’s define it.

Tolerance is “the ability to live with people whose opinions and behavior you don’t agree with.” That’s essentially how Oxford defines it, how Merriam-Webster defines it, and how we, as a society, have always defined it.

You might be for the death penalty, and your cousin might be against it. You might be against a $15 minimum wage, and your coworker might be for it. Your dad might have voted for Trump, your mom might have voted for Clinton, and your brother may not have voted at all.

Whatever differences we have, tolerating others’ opinions is a prerequisite to a functioning and free society.

America itself was built on a foundation of tolerance. The Declaration of Independence guarantees us life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But there’s an implicit contract there: To have your life, your liberty, and your pursuit of happiness, you have to be tolerant of somebody else’s life, their liberty, and their pursuit of happiness.

This contract, though, seems to be breaking down.

If you listen to the mainstream media, only one side is living up to this deal: the left. The right, according to the media, is intolerant of everyone…except those darned white, heterosexual, Christian males.

There’s only one problem. It’s just not true. Incredibly, the left isn’t even tolerant of the very people they say they’re tolerant of!

If you’re gay, or black, or an immigrant, and you’re not in lockstep with current leftist orthodoxy, you know exactly what I’m talking about.

If you believe we should judge people on the content of their character and not the color of their skin, the left calls you “racist.” If you believe that America is a nation of immigrants, but that our country should also protect its borders, the left calls you a “xenophobe.” If you believe that men and women are equal but fundamentally different, the left calls you “sexist.”

Here’s the thing: those who only tolerate people they agree with or like…aren’t actually tolerant.

So, who is tolerant?

Is it the organizers of the Women’s March, who had to apologize for the “hurt and confusion” they caused when they invited a man—leftist icon Bernie Sanders—to speak at their convention? Is it the Antifa thugs, who caused UC Berkeley to spend $600,000 on security when mainstream conservative Ben Shapiro showed up to give a talk? Or is it democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters, who scolded Kanye West for “talking out of turn” when he dared suggest that blacks should think for themselves?

These aren’t isolated examples. I’m guessing that you—person watching this right now—have silenced yourself because you don’t want to suffer the wrath of the outrage mob.

So, let me ask the question again: Who is tolerant?

For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/videos/so-you-think-youre-tolerant

source

Click to rate this post!
[Total: 0 Average: 0]
Post Views: 82
Tags Americadave rubindennis pragerleftpoliticspragerurightThe Rubin Reporttolerance
Previous Post
1729782471_maxresdefault.jpg

Special Announcement

Next Post
1701354605_maxresdefault.jpg

What Does It Mean for Jesus to Be Affirming?

Related posts

Leave your comment

32 Comments

  6. Whether you agree or disagree with me as long as you are tolerant. I really miss the good old days when American democrats and American republicans used to get along with each other without hating each other & without being politically biased towards each other. Take for example the most tolerant American democratic former president Jimmy Carter and also the most tolerant American republican former president Gerald Ford. As for the most intolerant American democratic president is Joe Biden and the most intolerant American republican president is Donald Trump, shame on both of them absolutely disgraceful. Presidents regardless of their political views are meant to unite their country together not divide it. I understand we all have different beliefs and different political views on how we see society, however at the end of the day we are obviously all human beings period.
    2 Tolerant American President Video:
    https://youtu.be/y4D2F89rFWU
    2 Intolerant American President Video:
    https://youtu.be/5ycmyML195c

  15. tolerance is about being tolerant to people not ideologies, you should not enable racism, fascism, all the potentially dangerous beliefs. you conservatives are critical of progressive beliefs, we are critical of your beliefs then you call us intolerant for disagreeing with you, Trump is a horrible politician and he believes Mexicans are a whole bunch of criminals which makes him intolerant because it is towards a group of people, a whole group of people, most progressives are not complete assholes to anyone who voted Trump in 2016, the M.A.G.A. beliefs suck, boarders don't do anything if people keep crossing, besides Mexicans are a great group of people bringing with them lots of great culture when they do cross the boarder.

  30. From the video: "Believe it or not, the right, these days, actually welcomes diversity of thought. I can tell you that in the last few years of my political evolution, I’ve consistently found conservatives to be tolerant and open-minded. Don’t take my word for it, though."

    This is the perfect quote for this video, as the right found out Rubin is gay and don't want to associate with him anymore. That's very tolerant, lmao.

    Any conservative reading this: you can't properly think your way out of a wet paper bag, and that's because you watch videos like this