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

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
    102·
    5 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?

  • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
    31·
    5 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
      32·
      5 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
        51·
        5 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.

          • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
            2·
            5 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·
              5 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.

    • Gerudo@lemm.ee
      5·
      5 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
    22·
    5 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

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
        42·
        5 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

  • eltrain123@lemmy.world
    18·
    5 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.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 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!

  • octopus_inkEnglish
    5·
    5 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.

    • kofe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

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

  • xylazineDream@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    5 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.netOPM
      9·
      5 months ago

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

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    211·
    5 months ago

    They’re good to show, so that they can teach students to dissect it and learn how propaganda works.

          • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
            2·
            5 months ago

            I’ve never seen so many people miss the point. Schools should teach people to dissect propaganda. They should teach how propaganda uses fallacies and preys on anger. Geez.

            • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
              2·
              5 months ago

              Sure. The state isn’t going to do that though, because it wants kids to obey first and believe in human rights (with a deliberately vague understanding of such) and democracy (managed) second.

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
      14·
      5 months ago

      That will only work if the teacher accompanies the videos with critical thinking skills including fact checking using multiple sources and asking “who stands to profit from these messages?”