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Radio whiner Dennis Prager has a new hobby, a website called Prager University. There are a few youtube courses, which everyone passes. PU has one other test, Are You a Liberal? PG is always wondering which label is right correct for him. He decided to take this test.
The test is 21 statements, that you agree or disagree with. The way it is set up, liberals agree with the statements. I don’t know, more information please, or other choices are not available. It is black or white, agree or disagree. Here are the statements.
1 Because of past and present racism in America, standards for admission to public universities, and governmental institutions such as fire departments, should be lowered for people of color.
2 Bilingual education for children of immigrants, rather than immersion in English,
is good for them and good for America.
3 Marriage should be redefined from male-female to any two people.
4 Colleges should not allow ROTC programs,
and the military should not be recruiting on college campuses.
5 Assuming equally loving and competent adults, adoption agencies should not favor a husband and wife over two men or two women.
6 In the Israeli–Palestinian dispute, either both parties are equally at fault or Israel is more at fault.
7 The United Nations is a force for good in the world, and therefore America should not engage in international behavior opposed by the United Nations.
8 No abortions can be labeled immoral.
9 Cities should ban smoking everywhere – i.e., outdoors as well as indoors — except in one’s own home.
10 High schools should make condoms available to students and teach them how to use them.
11 Racism and poverty – more than, for example, a lack of fathers and a crisis of values — are the primary causes of violent crime in black America.
12 No speaker should be permitted to say “God bless you,”
to students at a public high school assembly or graduation ceremony.
13 No culture is morally superior to any other.
14 There are more similarities – moral and otherwise – than differences between fundamentalist Christians and fundamentalist Muslims.
15 The earth is rapidly warming. The consequences are dire. And man, not nature, is mostly responsible.
16 Since World War II, America has made war in foreign countries such as Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, and Iraq primarily out of economic and imperialist concerns.
17 “Merry Christmas” should be replaced with “Happy Holidays,” and “Christmas Party” should be replaced by “Holiday Party” because “Merry Christmas” and “Christmas Party” offend non-Christians.
18 If a male employee decides to wear women’s clothing at work, his employer has no right ask him not to, and if the employer fires the man, the employer should be heavily fined.
19 Most Tea Party members, and most conservative opposition to President Obama,
are animated by racism.
20 No identification should be demanded of anyone who comes to vote at a voting place.
21 Capital punishment should be abolished,
meaning that no one found guilty of murder should be put to death.
PG looked at the list, and saw that while he might agree with some of these issues, the way the question was worded forced him to disagree. The semantics can obscure the genuine discussion.
There are some issues that PG simply has a conservative outlook. This is a problem with tagging people with labels. Several of the statements addressed more than one issue. Sometimes, you can agree with part of the statement, and disagree with another part. PG has long felt that liberal and conservative are meaningless phrases, meant to divide and confuse.
Another problem is the divide between what people believe, and what they do. Lets take driving. Is a conservative driver one who obeys the speed limits, and watches out for others? How many people are proud of their conservative ideology, but are flaming liberals behind the wheel? This is a matter with immediate life or death consequences, but is seldom discussed. PG has always wondered why safe driving is not considered a moral issue.
The answer for PG was You may not be a Conservative yet, but you’re not a liberal.
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