TBH History: French Revolution (pt 1): The Birth of Left vs. Right | Kids Shows

The French Revolution gave the world liberty, equality, and fraternity—or did it? In this video, we explore how the French Revolution created a worse tyranny than the one it tried to replace.

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[BrazilianBikini]

"How do you know when its right to conserve tradition vs changing it?"--the answer is pretty simple, it uses another common saying: "keep your mind open--but not so open your brains fall out". In other words: some progress is necessary, some is good, but some is definitely bad, it is not progress, but regression. A lot of "progressive" ideas are random impulse thoughts thrown out into the ring, just to see if any catch. They are not thought out at all, and if enacted they will hurt and offend a lot of people, and result in serious harm to society as a whole, not just individuals.

[Rockhound]

Actual line of text from a National Assembly meeting.

"We have no rights."
"No!"
"We have no say!"
"No!"
"We have no dignity!"
"No!"
"We are so poor we don't even have a language. Just this stupid accent."
"She's right! She's right! We all talk like Maurice Chevalier. Haw haw haw."
"Haw haw haw."

[vk]

The answer to the question you pose is: “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” I did not coin that phrase; Winston Churchill did. We need to pay attention NOW to what the left is doing; we've ignored or misunderstood it far too long.

[meganlukes]

Ask why the wall was built before you tear it down. That’s my starting point for deciding whether something should be changed and what form that change should take.

[marvelacademy]

My kids love it when you become part of the paintings.

[xtradelite]

Don’t worry. The brave French would give us another revolution decades later called The Paris Commune. There’s a movie about that, too!

[johnstiles]

Hey Dennis
YouTube Closed Captions censored the word "crippled" at the 2:00 mark.
As in "cripple the British". A VERB .

[shdwbnndbyyt]

I took courses under a French Revolutionary Era specialist in the late 70's ear;y 80's while at college. THERE WAS NO GRAIN SHORTAGES!! France had BUMPER crops yields per the historical records!! What happened was that the national gov't institituted PRICE CONTROLS on domestically grown grain. No price controls on imported grain. So the major aristocratic & businessmen sellers shipped the over 75% of the grain out of France, landed in foreign ports, reloaded a lot of it onto foreign boats, and shipped it back into France, where they could sell it for 3-4 times the price. They could not afford to sell the grain at the price the domestic price was set... Only the smaller growers were forced to do so.

[revolutionariesoffreedom]

Long live the French Revolution, the heroes of Liberty fighting against tyranny and counterrevolutionaries! Long live the jacobins and radical heroes of liberty!

[chickweed]

To answer the question, I think the more violence involved in maintaining something the more wrong it is.

[mkgibertjr]

Conservatives in America conserve the social hierarchy like conservatives around the rest of the world. Whether the hierarchy is feudal or capitalist is only a marginal difference. The Left, which promotes political social equality, is the group that advances personal freedom for the most individuals. For the right, it's only for those at the top of the hierarchy. And that is also universal and international.

[lukedornon]

I'm on board with the JP maxim that it's much easier to break things than improve them, so the burden of proof always rests on the left to make a compelling case that society would actually improve with their proposed changes.

[marks]

So glad I clicked on this. I learned a lot about the French Revolution growing up because I was interested in it, but I was too young to make the political connections as presented in this video. Thank you guys!
Also just realized this is for kids 🤦‍♂️. Guess I’m still learning 😂

[cheese]

🎾 Because the Third Estate met in an indoor tennis court to defy the king's order to disband the meetings :3

Loved the video, it was hilarious and accurate. Keep up the good work, Prager U team!

[Mortalkindofman]

PragerU, please don’t go down the path of flamboyant and oversimplified videos like this.

[coachken]

When 'mom' attacked King Louie I spit out my drink!🤣 perfect! 🎾 because their first meeting was held on a tennis court

[Rockhound]

The lefties during the French Revolution got so out of hand they started executing each other as Robespierre found out. Oversimplified has a great video on it.

[PhilBagels]

🎾 There were a lot of rackets going on in the French Revolution.
🎾 Love means nothing in tennis. Nor in the French Revolution.
🎾 There is no tennis ball emoji by itself that I could find. Just this one of a tennis racket with a tennis ball. The French Revolution often went outside the lines.
Am I close?

[shdwbnndbyyt]

There are two grain harvests per year, one in the end of summer, one in the winter. One of the two is high in protein (gluten) and is good for bread, this is the type the French gov't instituted price controls on (for domestically grown grain). The other type was low in gluten and used in the making of cakes and pastry, and generally sold for 2-3 times the price as only the rich could afford it, most people not eating much meat needed the bread grains to get the needed proteins. When Marie said "Let them eat cake", what she was actually saying was to start letting the lower classes have the cake flour to make their meals... as there was no shortage of that. See my previous post, there was no grain crop shortages, only price controls on grains grown for bread and the rich and powerful creating a shortage by shipping most of their crop out of the country... and some of the exported back in on foreign ships as imported foreign grain so they did not have to sell if for near nothing.

[emoryrubyg]

The only thing I don't like about this video is that it's only 13:30. 😂 I could sit and watch you all talk about this forever. Great job!