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Per the article:

Critics say PragerU lessons distort history and facts to serve a conservative worldview. Some scientists have said PragerU videos lack context and downplay climate change as climate alarmism, while the Council on American-Islamic Relations alleges some videos are anti-Muslim. Other complaints center on the nonprofit’s portrayal of slavery.

PragerU is literally paid by billionaires to push their far-right science denial

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 108 points 4 months ago

Funny how they're the first ones to accuse others of child grooming.

It's just constant projection with them, isn't it?

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago

I’ve never known the Republican Party to not be a bunch of hypocrites. At least they’re consistent.

[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Every accusation is a confession

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I was just thinking about how Trump co-opted the term “Fake News”. The term gained traction in reference to the Republican backed “fake news“ about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

If we keep heading this way, the US is going to fucking balkanize.

[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

Every accusation is an admission.

[-] thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 58 points 4 months ago

From the people that brought you Fake News, we now present.... Fake School.

[-] Lightrider@sh.itjust.works 45 points 4 months ago

Preparing the kids for trump university.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

That's after they've proven themselves in the trump youth. Or better said Drumpfjugend.

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

So, what’s the end goal? Are they trying to make “Idiocracy” a documentary? What happens when the US public no longer has the understanding or knowledge of basic science? Who will invent and innovate? Who will advance technology? Technology that all these people enjoy every day. That they stand on top of to try and control the public. That they are using to make people dumber. How short sighted are these people?

[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago

They need consumers. It's not some long game, master plan-type of thing. It's a short term thing that's just being pushed by a bunch of different lobbies/interests.

American politicians, lobbyists and general population are all drinking the same low-IQ Kool aid.

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I get that… but it’s kinda like China with the one child law…. No one said “hey, eventually this will make our population decline.”? It’s mind bottling that none of them thinks further than the next yacht.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

Population decline was the point of the one child policy. To help stop, among other things, environmental collapse.

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

The point of one child was not to decline the population, but to level it off, to help with resources. They left it in place waaaaaay too long and have reached a point where reversing it will be a Herculean effort.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Every advanced country is going to have population decline, as most women don't actually want to have kids. Or at least have enough kids to maintain the current population levels.

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Umm, I’d like to see statistics or data on that. Sounds more like an opinion.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Yes. It's exactly this. Just think about your friends/coworkers/family who have no idea what goes on politically that directly affects them and don't care.

Now double or triple that number. That's the uneducated, apathetic group Republicans need to try and hold onto power.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For those curious about why PragerU's raison d'être is to push Islamophobia; here is how the CEO starts off her introduction page:

Marissa Streit

Marissa Streit, CEO of PragerU, was born in Los Angeles and moved to Israel at a young age, where she completed her primary education and served in military intelligence unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Forces

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago

Founder is also batshit crazy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Prager

Mr the kids yearn for the mines

[-] gerbler@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Dennis "Adult incest" Prager

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Damn everything is just Zionists top to bottom.

His initial political work starting in 1969 concerned Refuseniks, the Soviet Jews who were unable to emigrate.

Had to look up what a Refusenik is following that link

Refusenik (Russian: отказник, romanized: otkaznik, from отказ (otkaz) 'refusal'; alternatively spelled refusnik) was an unofficial term for individuals—typically, but not exclusively, Soviet Jews—who were denied permission to emigrate, primarily to Israel, by the authorities of the Soviet Union

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago

Remember that DEMOCRATS are the ones Indoctrinating Kids!

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

It's always projection. They want to indoctrinate, so they project it on others.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Not just indoctrinating, but grooming... It's so stupid

[-] eltrain123@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

This is the DARE program all over again. No quicker way to lose any trust in your government than getting fed garbage programs before you’re mature enough to understand them. As soon as you realize what’s going on, they lose all credibility…. and it’s hard to get it back once it’s gone.

[-] downhomechunk@midwest.social 12 points 4 months ago

Yeah, but I bet an alarmingly high proportion of kids exposed to this crap never realize what's going on.

[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Wait, so cool t shirts?!

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Don’t you hate those fire alarmists?? Always making a big fuss when your house is on fire and your family is in danger. Like, let me sleep bro!

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah all reasonable people just call it fire change

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

in schools

Converting schools to forced ad watching auditoriums, no Skip button.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

Just look up some prageru textbook images on your search engine of choice. Some of them are so nuts you will think they are satire.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago
[-] kofe@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

And for those just curious which states: Louisiana, Florida, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Montana and Arizona

[-] xylazineDream@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

With a tin foil fitted on to the side like T.I used to do it

as a country with illiteracy rates & propagandized historical literature more prevalent then its ever been, this is a tough Uniparty play

who will read & write the laws of the future ?

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 months ago

The kids of billionaires of course — that's the whole point of this kind of move.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago

INDOCTERNATION!

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