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Their US immigrants claim less welfare. /s
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Did PragerU just says that South Asians (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshi, etc) is much better than Europeans?
Now that sends mixed feelings.
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Dennis Prager is officially a Modi Gang.I guess Prager U is now shifting their focus to Pro-China and India demographic.
Hindu No. 1.
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I do find it weird how white nationalism seems to admire South East Asians, I guess it's the racial homogeneity and all(in their own countries) but they seem to accept their anti immigration arguments get dismantled by them because they tend to be Superior in all the measures compared to whites that they hold dear.
Not that I would accept anything from a study that is made by a think tank founded by a White nationalist.
Not that I would accept anything from a study that is made by a think tank founded by a White nationalist.
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The UK situation is an entirely different thing though, America has deep rooted White nationalism that has morphed into it's own thing.Ironic since racism against south east asian pakistani, indians was a (one of many) factor in Brexit and ofcourse the Chinese being the first ethnicity who have been discrimated by name and in US law. How things have changed
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I find it funny though that following PragerU rhetoric american born people are freeloaders compared to europeans and especially south asians.
Interesting assesment. White nationalists always get upset at minorities who just want "equal" rights. How dare they!
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This is absolutely insane. PragerU just posted a video claiming that over 33% of American millennials now "support communism". Yes, really. Supposedly, the number of Millenials who "support communism" is attributed to rising "communist" figures such as AOC, Omar, and Tlaib, and "liberal indoctrination" in schools that downplays the horrors of communism and makes it seem not that bad at all.
And mind you, PragerU sees supporting universal healthcare, wealth redistribution, climate change reversal, and tuition-free college as "communistic".
I know it may seem like I have a personal vendetta against PragerU, but seriously, this is something that is ought to be spoken up about. This think tank cannot be called a scholarly, reputable source for information while pumping out this type of propaganda. PragerU is only getting more and more blatant these days.
And mind you, PragerU sees supporting universal healthcare, wealth redistribution, climate change reversal, and tuition-free college as "communistic".
I know it may seem like I have a personal vendetta against PragerU, but seriously, this is something that is ought to be spoken up about. This think tank cannot be called a scholarly, reputable source for information while pumping out this type of propaganda. PragerU is only getting more and more blatant these days.
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Im sorry, but wealth redistribution is communistic. Using taxes to fund social programs like college and universal healthcare I personally can get behind. These are, I believe, positive socialist programs. Wealth redistribution on the other hand is absolutely communistic in nature and very much a bad idea. Part of striving to be successful in a career is to earn some amount of wealth. Having what you've earned stripped from you will not go far too motivate people to be successful.
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How so? It doesn't have to be. Raising the minimum wage, setting a UBI, and cracking down on multi-billionaires doesn't sound like communism. Even under the most ideal form of government, there's going to be both rich and poor people, not a classless society. But the goal is to increase the quality of life for poor people as much as possible while also limiting corruption of the rich.
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Ok, this is going to get off topic. I am going to reply in the appropriate place.
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The issue is that the video is trying to create the narrative that any notion of those ideas is extreme leftist Stalinistic communism. Which it obviously isnt. I compare it with leftist calling Trumps immigration policy as "Nazi".
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The issue is that that's not the issue I was addressing. Which is why I created the economics thread, so as not to muddy the waters here, which is a topic I general agree with. PragerU is some pretty **** propaganda. I am shocked in fact that google hasn't shut down their channel.
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This is an actual tweet posted by PragerU yesterday.
Shameless propaganda like this really goes to show the extent of which money corrupts.
Shameless propaganda like this really goes to show the extent of which money corrupts.
Nice.
I think the idea of 'wealth redistribution' is such a vague concept, its pretty disingenuous to call it 'communistic'. I mean, you could label the fight against inequality as 'communistic' in the same way to and it'd just be as disingenuous.
Communism goes FAR beyond taxes and physically takes possession of everything you own and claims it for the state. Comparing say, taxes to help make the the gap between the top 1% and the rest of a nation smaller to Communism, is the very definition of hyperbolic.
I think that entities like this 'PragerU' use these types of tricks to push their hard Ayn Rand dystopian politics, to discredit any progressive moves to stem the insane wealth inequality that exists around the world. The sad thing is, is that it works and instead of the conversation being about how we can make the world a better place, it's about how this is, or isn't communism.
And you can see it in posts like the one above. Where they justify people living in poverty as a befit of being free, while people born into obscene wealth claim that it's not fair that their hard earned money should be used to help grow the rest of the country. And arguments like yours ring out; "how would I be motivated to earn more if it's going to be stripped from me?!" as if you will be left naked and poor for taking that promotion...
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If I read that Twitter by the letter I don't disagree. Income inequality is a consequence of liberty, in a broad sense. But I get it when people take the bait with PragerU.
Not to confuse income inequality with poverty, unjustice or unfairness.
A millionaire can complain about "income inequality" when he looks at a billionaire. Doesn't make much sense though.
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More things I've learned from PragerU lately:
- All criticism of Israel is anti-semitic. Yes, all of it. Because Israel is the only Jewish nation in the world.
- Israel has the right to be an ethnostate and should be one.
- Corporate bribery is first-amendment protected free-speech
- The alt-right has more in common with "radical socialism" than the right itself.
- 33% of all millennials subscribe to "communist ideologies".
- If a major historical event cannot be completely explained by scientific evidence, that itself is proof that God exists.
- America entering the Iraq War was actually a great idea.
- Socialism is completely to blame for Venezuela's crisis, nothing else.
- There is a war against masculinity and more men are becoming "feminine" which ultimately makes society weaker and softer.
- FDR's "radical socialist" New Deal programmes only made America worse off, and we would've recovered from the Depression faster if the market regulated itself, rather than the government creating programmes.
- There is a war on Christmas in the name of not offending Muslims.
- Despite there being only a few hundred cases of it in the 2016 election, voter fraud is a massive crisis sweeping the nation.
- Because of liberal indoctrination, public schools teach children that America was a cruel, hateful nation, which ends up making the students become liberals later on.
- Climate change simply isn't real and instead is a massive hoax devised by leftist politicians to force people to pay more in taxes. Their justification for this is because the temperature of the Earth has always been changing, human-caused climate change isn't happening.
- Greenhouse gasses trapped in the atmosphere have no effect on the climate.
- Leftists who are "tolerant" to people of all genders, races, and sexualities are actually intolerant.
- There should be no minimum wage law in the US. Corporations have the right to pay their workers whatever the hell they want with no government interference.
- Separation of church and state is actually a bad idea, and the lack of religion in society causes immorality and higher crime.
- Privately-run healthcare will always be a better alternative than a single-payer system.
- Feminism is a vile ideology that has achieved nothing for women.
- Net neutrality laws should be repealed.
- Climate change and sex-ed should not be taught in public schools.
- Get this. The wealthy are actually taxed too highly, and taxes for them need to be lowered.
- Crony capitalism doesn't really happen much in the US.
- The civil war was never about slavery.
- No, big corporations don't buy politicians.
- Getting money out of politics would actually cause MORE corruption, not less.
- Atheism is a completely irrational ideology, and if you trust science, that means you'd believe in god.
- The Enlightenment had very little influence on reason, science, and the advancement of society.
- Conservatives are the real environmentalists since they want to "hold China and India accountable for the world's pollution" and don't subscribe to radical leftist BS like "climate change" or the "green new deal".
- Mainstream Media is completely propagandistic and uses soviet-tactics, except for Fox. PragerU, of course, praises Fox News.
- The reason why young people are so unhappy is not that the cost of living for them is so high, but because leftist ideologies promote hate and bring them down.
