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Dennis Prager, a far-right Jewish radio host who markets himself to fundamentalist Christians, is out with one of the most un-self-aware columns I've seen in a long time.

https://stream.org/why-many-conservativ ... christmas/

Ask almost anyone who has come out of the closet as LGBT or left an ancestral faith and chances are, they will tell you many tales of being shunned and hated by their church-going relatives for their supposed wickedness. But now, as religious fundamentalism hastened its own collapse by openly aligning itself with the loutish criminal Donald Trump, far-right Christians are now realizing that people don't like hearing their horrible nonsense constantly.

But instead of understanding that it's their conduct and opinions that drive others away, Prager and his audience want to blame the people who just want normal conversations.

It's a prolonged and nasty version of this Simpsons GIF:

Joke: What's the difference between an Atheist and an Evangelical?

Answer:The Atheist is honest about not honoring God.

I know of this firsthand. Parent after parent calls my radio show, often close to tears, sometimes actually sobbing, pouring their heart out to me about being alone on holidays despite having children and grandchildren.

I wish I would have heard that so that I might have laughed at the pain of those parents. (assuming they weren't just making up the stories)

In virtually every case, the parent is conservative, and the child is on the Left.

That's because all the people who listen to his show are 1) stupid and 2) conservatives. It would make sense he only heard from conservatives with this problem.

Interestingly, in my family I'm aware of a single case where holidays couldn't happen because of politics. The PragerU QAnon grandparents disinvited the children and grandchildren from holiday gatherings for getting vaccinated. The children aren't even liberals -- well, they were for getting vaccinated.

I'd wager in every single one of these instances that is real, that the problem isn't the children canceling the grandparents for being conservative, but cancelling the grandparents for being a member of the class of conservatives who, like Dennis Prager and my right-wing friend, can't shut their mouths about politics for 15 seconds, and literally can't structure the world outside without seeing every subject and experience in terms of right-wing politics.

Dude, if the subscribe to Prager U or other such historical revisionist, racist, misogynist claptrap then you deserve everything G of d gives you.

DaveIsHere wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 24, 2022 8:35 pm

Dude, if the subscribe to Prager U or other such historical revisionist, racist, misogynist claptrap then you deserve everything G of d gives you.

Can someone translate Mike’s strokespeak into English?

- Doc

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 24, 2022 8:52 pm

DaveIsHere wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 24, 2022 8:35 pm

Dude, if the subscribe to Prager U or other such historical revisionist, racist, misogynist claptrap then you deserve everything G of d gives you.

Can someone translate Mike’s strokespeak into English?

- Doc

It's simple, fool, if you give credit to anything Prager or his fake uni has to say then you are dumber than a sack full of doorknobs.

Gadianton wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 24, 2022 8:14 pm

I'd wager in every single one of these instances that is real, that the problem isn't the children canceling the grandparents for being conservative, but cancelling the grandparents for being a member of the class of conservatives who, like Dennis Prager and my right-wing friend, can't shut their mouths about politics for 15 seconds, and literally can't structure the world outside without seeing every subject and experience in terms of right-wing politics.

Every conversation with such people devolves into one of 3 conclusions: 1) Why the heretic needs to repent, 2) why liberals are evil, or 3) why Trump is the best.

Under these circumstances, there's really no point to having a conversation. You know what's going to happen each and every time. And since that's the case, why subject yourself to the abusive nonsense?

In a lot of cases, my guess is that these people are doing their kids a favor by keeping them away from their grandparents. It would keep them from finding out their ancestors have gone nuts.

Prager blames politics, and never once does it occur to him that few people want to listen to his idiotic religious talk, or are bound by his idiotic religious ideals.