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Conservative video giant PragerU is trying to get into schools

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Looking at PragerU's site is a trip. And you get about a paragraph down before there is a funding nag banner.

> The conservative media nonprofit makes short, well-produced videos crafted to appeal to college students and young people. It has polished animations and titles like "What Radical Islam and the Woke Have in Common" and "Is There Really a Climate Emergency?"

> Educators have voiced alarms about the tone and accuracy of some of PragerU's videos, such as one that features an animated Christopher Columbus saying: "Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I don't see the problem."

Wow, that's some bold choice of words they've used.

That's not really the correct metric. It seems bold by today's standards, but is it something Columbus would have likely thought at the time? It doesn't seem that far off to me given the prevailing mindsets of the time.

Oh NPR. Notice how the headline characterizes an adversarial relationship. Alt headline “PragerU is introducing diversity into schools that’s more than skin deep.”

How important is it to teach and model unkindness, right alongside kindness?

Socialism and its more authoritarian affiliates are not kindness. They bear false witness in economics, consolidate social power, crush the human spirit, and typically end in nihilistic, untethered depravity.

Capitalism as practiced by the US has included selling humans to the highest bidder; I can think of nothing more soul-crushing than that.

Capitalism and freedom live in union. All forms of socialism involve slavery.

> All forms of socialism involve slavery.

They don't.

Get a grip, you've drunk the Kool-Aid.

Odd phrasing here, given the allusion to Jim Jones, the avowed Socialist.

Delibrate phrasing.

Doesn’t make sense.

Why not? It’s not like PBS isn’t in schools.

Have you actually seen their videos? They are far from the quality you get from PBS. Fact checking Prager U videos often takes 30+ min to go over a 5-10 min video.

Assuming, of course, you trust the fact checkers.

Not just in what they flag in Prager or whatever online source (I don’t really care), but also in what they don’t flag PBS or VOA for.

Well, do you believe in an external reality?

I love PragerU's infamous graphs: https://twitter.com/BadConservart/status/1058136695974039555

It's like they don't actually understand graphs. But they've seen graphs used to explain things.

Good for them and the parents.

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