Dennis Prager - Wow!

[EnergizedLib]

This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever, ever heard.

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‘Dennis Prager: "Albert Einstein was not a particularly bright man outside of science.”

You know, in my time on this planet, I’ve heard dumb things, I’ve seen people of all backgrounds say different things, but I’ve never in my years on the planet insinuate Einstein wasn’t smart.

And *Florida* is using *PragerU* to teach kids in its school curriculum?

In case you were needing motivation to vote, their side winning leads to people like this crafting curriculums for schoolchildren.

[calimary]

1. And Dennis Prager has any credibility because...

???

[leftieNanner]

8. Well, the Florida education folks like him

Planning to put his "curriculum" in public schools. As I understand it.

[calimary]

10. True. And what does that say about THEM?

If they approve of him, and support his “leadership”, then that’s pretty much all I need to know about them.

I still fondly remember the “Sorting Hat” from the Harry Potter story. Turns out HE is kind of a “Sorting Hat” for me as to my assessment of the people around him and supporters around him. All in a negative context.

[leftieNanner]

15. Astounding

That the "Parents Rights" people think they know more about educating their children than teachers who have advanced degrees.

SMDH.

[keithbvadu2]

31. Advanced degrees? We don't need no steenking degrees.

Apologies to Blazing Saddles.

[leftieNanner]

34. Oh lordy!

That's nuts.

When I think about the teachers my children had.

[paleotn]

13. Because he's a fascist apologist. Nothing more.

And not a particularly bright one at that. Then again, that goes without saying for someone who's an out and out fascist, authoritarian scumbag.

[leftieNanner]

16. Yep! Nt

[Butterflylady]

17. Actually, Prager is almost right.

Einstein left school when he dropped out
of school at the age of 15 because he did poorly in French and history. In fact he flunked those 2 subjects.
Of course he excelled in math and science. He did go college and earn a doctorate degree.

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. He left school because he was uninterested in rote learning

which is pretty much what history and foreign languages are in high school. He did eventually learn French as well as English, Italian and Latin.

[Quixote1818]

25. Not sure where you got that? He was near the top of his class in High School

1. THE MYTH: HE WAS A BAD STUDENT.
Though the German-born prodigy’s parents were concerned when he didn’t start speaking until the age of 2, he would go on to use his words (and his numbers) very wisely in the classroom. In fact, he graduated high school near the top of his class. So why do many biographers claim he was such a lousy pupil? There was a confusing change in the grading system at Aargau Cantonal School. (He finished high school at the Swiss academy after leaving his Munich school at age 15 with the help of a doctor’s note citing a “nervous breakdown.”) In the first semester, a “1” was the best possible grade, but in the second semester, the scale flipped and “1” became the lowest mark. Einstein earned ones in mathematics and physics in the first semester and sixes in the second.

He also failed his university entrance exam to the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School—though historians note that Einstein took the exam two years earlier than most students, and was tested on Swiss history, something that the German secondary school he attended wouldn’t have prepped him for. Still, “his performance on the entrance examination for the engineering department was good enough that, had he stayed in Zurich rather than go to Aargau, the physics professor would have allowed him to audit his courses in spite of age,” according to An Einstein Encyclopedia.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70684/10-inventive-myths-about-einstein-debunked


More here as well: https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/life-and-times/the-early-years#:~:text=According%20to%20popular%20lore%2C%20Albert,had%20to%20cram%20for%20exams.

[brush]

2. How ridiculous. And what does Praeger know outside his area of expertise?

[lastlib]

3. He HAS an area of expertise??

(Oh, yeah--SCAMMING stupid people with his STOOPID "instructional" material..... sorry, my mistake.....)

[brush]

4. Check. Exactly.

[EnergizedLib]

5. The problem is

His material is taught in classrooms.

[malaise]

18. THIS

Rec😀

[paleotn]

14. Other than spouting crazy shit, he's not known for anything.

[brush]

20. Check. And he talks as if he knew Einstein. Einstein wouldn't have had anything to do with that creep.

He died in 1955. Prager didn't know him as he was a 7-year-old child then. What makes morons think they can vomit up such idiocy without challenge/laughter?

[paleotn]

33. Absolutely. His barfing is meant for the base. They hate elites like Einstein, as any good fascist would.

Americans have always had an anti-intellectual, anti-elite bent. In my mind, that makes us particularly vulnerable to populist, fascist demagogues like Trump and their nutty theorists like Prager.

[brush]

35. Your whole second paragraph is so on the money.

Magats are so vulnerable to demigogues. Good thing we outnumber them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Prager cares what the Stable Genius says, rather than scientists

Prager worships him.

He is wrong about Einstein's pacifism and about pacifism. Einstein advocated developing the atom bomb knowing that it would kill many people. Einstein expected it would be used against German Nazis because he did not know they had stopped work on it due to German physicists intentionally downplaying chances of success. The letter was in 1939, before Japan had attacked.

https://www.theatlantic.com › politics › archive › 2016 › 09 › what-supporting-donald-trump-did-to-dennis-pragers-principles › 498905
What Supporting Donald Trump Did to Dennis Prager's Principles
The most straightforward example: his 2011 column, " F-Word Laced Speech Disqualifies Donald Trump From Presidency ," where Prager declared that Trump's public utterances of profane words...

https://www.cbc.ca › news › canada › calgary › dennis-prager-manning-centre-prageru-calgary-alberta-1.5472734
It's 'idiotic you can't say the N-word,' says radio host Dennis Prager ...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com › opinion › dennis-pragers-delusional-defense-of-trump
Dennis Prager's delusional defense of Trump - Washington Examiner
Prager seems to have finally worked out a way to justify dissociating Trump, the implementer of GOP policies, from Trump, the man accused by dozens of women of sexual harassment and assault....

When a CONservative has lost the Washington Examiner, they are truly lost. The Washington Examiner media bias has been analyze and is reich wing, a little on the extreme right side of "right wing".
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-examiner/

[calimary]

12. Stinks too bad even for the Washington Examiner, 'eh?

That tells you something, right there.

I remember when he was on the local ABC affiliate in Los Angeles, and I listened to him like I sampled most of that AM station’s talent since I worked at their FM sister station across the hall. It was the AM’s audio that was heard all over the building, so you couldn’t help but listen. And at the time I didn’t get too riled up by him because he wasn’t quite “there” yet. But as he blossomed into a flaming CON, I totally lost interest.

[JHB]

7. Prager is another ranting crank who discovered demogoguery paid damn well...

...and has since "enhanced" his brand (and revenue stream) through the "they're educational materials, not indoctrinating propaganda" grift.

Someone probably quoted Einstein at him, and of course he can't counter-argue, so he simply denies.

[bmichaelh]

9. Wrong-Einstein could play the violin

Prager is wrong again.

Einstein was also a violinist.

His interests were not limited to just science.

There are recordings of him on YouTube playing.

Also, I remember one picture of him at a Berlin synagogue with his violin.

[Carlitos Brigante]

11. So says the grifter with the fake university. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

21. Einstein didn't speak until age 4.

When he did speak, his parents were incredulous. They asked him, "Why didn't you say anything before now?" and he answered, "I didn't have anything to say."

Genius, right there.

[Grins]

22. Einstein managed to catch the eye of Marilyn Monroe!

Marilyn even said to her roommate that if she had the chance she’d “do him.”

Dennis, at the other end of the universe..,

Prager is on his 3rd wife. The great Tbogg once speculated that on his 3rd marriage the first two could stop faking they were lesbians and move on with their lives.

[Quixote1818]

23. Dennis Prager is not a particularly bright man period. nt

[Walleye]

26. Exactly, outside of sitting on his ass and running his mouth

[KPN]

43. Beat me to it! First thought I had after watchig that moron iun this video. "Einstein was a pacifist.

Pacifists are stupid." Whoa ... can't get any stupider than that statement.

[Quixote1818]

24. 10 Inventive Myths About Einstein, Debunked. 1. THE MYTH: HE WAS A BAD STUDENT.

1. THE MYTH: HE WAS A BAD STUDENT.
Though the German-born prodigy’s parents were concerned when he didn’t start speaking until the age of 2, he would go on to use his words (and his numbers) very wisely in the classroom. In fact, he graduated high school near the top of his class. So why do many biographers claim he was such a lousy pupil? There was a confusing change in the grading system at Aargau Cantonal School. (He finished high school at the Swiss academy after leaving his Munich school at age 15 with the help of a doctor’s note citing a “nervous breakdown.”) In the first semester, a “1” was the best possible grade, but in the second semester, the scale flipped and “1” became the lowest mark. Einstein earned ones in mathematics and physics in the first semester and sixes in the second.

He also failed his university entrance exam to the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School—though historians note that Einstein took the exam two years earlier than most students, and was tested on Swiss history, something that the German secondary school he attended wouldn’t have prepped him for. Still, “his performance on the entrance examination for the engineering department was good enough that, had he stayed in Zurich rather than go to Aargau, the physics professor would have allowed him to audit his courses in spite of age,” according to An Einstein Encyclopedia.

Link: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70684/10-inventive-myths-about-einstein-debunked

[BlueIdaho]

27. Prager isn't smart enough

To clean Einstein’s chalk board erasers.

[TheKentuckian]

29. He may be smarter than you think. He is pretty damn evil

and in these times you have to say a lot of really stupid shit to sell it.

That said, your statement holds true.

[TheKentuckian]

28. Pretty low on the Prager says stupid stuff index.

We all have a variety of strengths and weaknesses.

Just because someone is a true genius in one area doesn't necessarily mean it crosses into all or even many other areas. Even somewhat related ones.

Maybe Bob Dylan might not be the guy to split the atom.

Maybe Ken Griffey never was going win that many dunk contests.

Maybe your doctor would struggle or flat out fail to rebuild your transmission.

Maybe your favorite author can't balance a checkbook without hiring an account.

Maybe Alexander would be lost organizing a kid's birthday party.

Albert may have indeed been a crap Geologist, a very poor submarine commander, or a comedy of errors in the kitchen, not out of the realm of possibility.

I'm sure in context it was more asinine than it appears because that is the way Prager rolls but on the surface this one of the least ridiculous things he has ever said.

[budkin]

30. JFC

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[keithbvadu2]

32. Christian moral lessons from Dennis Prager... Masturbating To Animated Child Porn

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218181391

The PragerU goal: "Indoctrinate kids at a young age into a far-right belief system"

"far-right belief system"

Christian moral lessons from Dennis Prager... Masturbating To Animated Child Porn

Dennis Prager: What's Wrong With Masturbating To Child Porn?

This is the guy providing “educational resources” to Florida’s children.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218172133

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017854024

Apparently, a pedophiliac is A-OK at PragerU, so long as you’re a conservative. Good to know.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/dennis-prager-whats-wrong-masturbating

[EnergizedLib]

36. That's horrific

Here are your real groomers and indoctrinators, but I guess it’s okay if they’re the ones who indoctrinate.

[Kid Berwyn]

37. Dennis Prager is no authority on any subject., apart from fraud.

Einstein used his time here to learn and share as much as possible. For instance:

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom
this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

Source: https://www.ime.usp.br/~vwsetzer/jokes/Einstein-Quotes.html

[flashman13]

38. The Repug credo is; Get 'em stupid and keep them that way.

[dlk]

39. Does Prager have any actual facts or evidence to support his silly allegation?

Or is he just blowing smoke out of his nether regions?

[dalton99a]

40. Yep. And Trump knows more about physics than Einstein

[NickB79]

41. I've got a degree in biochemistry, but can't rebuild a V8 transmission

Unlike my grease monkey, pedophile, high school dropout brother. Clearly I'm the absolute moron 🤔

[Initech]

42. And Dennis Prager is not a particularly bright man outside of anything.

What a piece of shit.