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Despite the name, PragerU is not an academic institution and does not hold classes, does not grant certifications or diplomas, and is not accredited by any recognized body.
Do NOT call prageru a “university”.
Shouldnt it be illegal for them to call themselves a university? Its kinda like if i would call my hypotetical tea shop a hospital
Prager is to “University” as North Korean is to “Democratic People’s Republic”
I don’t understand PragerU… they put out all of this fascist propaganda, but they still have this video up on their YouTube channel that spells out in no uncertain terms that the cause of the civil war was slavery and the south’s want to defend a “morally repugnant institution”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcy7qV-BGF4
Is this just the one thing they keep out there to point at and say that they’re “fair and balanced”?
They just sell content to education institutions, nothing more, nothing less. They don’t care what that content is for or against, only that someone finds it valuable. It’s not about being “fair and balanced”; it’s about playing both sides to make as much money as possible.
I mean their founder guy or whoever did a rant about how it’s ok for siblings to fuck and that inbreeding isn’t real, just to give you an idea of what kind of people they actually are…
Damn, PragerU was a different place 8 years ago.
Honestly Youtube sucks. I get flagged for “supporting criminal gang activity” because I had a video about Randy Stair that didn’t even paint him in a positive light, most youtubers have to say “unalive” because mentioning death gets them demonetized yet PragerU can just straight up say we need to re-enslave black people and the response is “aww shucks”
The problem is that social media companies have completely capitulated to fascists, with absolutely zero attempt to put up a fight.
Everyone knows, and I mean literally everyone, that if the rules were enforces fairly on social media then something like 60% of conservatives would have to be banned. They regularly say things that are openly racist, sexist, and incite violence on the reg.
But social media companies only care about money, and to make money they want as many people as possible to show up. So while they know these cesspools exist on their platforms where people say the most heinous shit imagineable, they tolerate it because it makes them money and avoids the big fascist rage party if they fairly enforced their rules.
The fucked up part is, I have been banned or suspended from a few social media platforms for completely innocuous reasons. Which is just frustrating when I get a 3-month band on Facebook for racism for making a self-deprecating joke about being white, but white supremacist groups are allowed to just openly operate and the people who gave me death threats for being transgender “were found not to be in violation of policies”
Right before the API changes I got a 1 week ban from reddit for “report abuse.”
I reported a post on r/Ukraine that SHOWED A BEHEADING. When I reported that shit it was a full on, uncensored beheading video.
Apparently that’s “report abuse” for some fucking reason. But the antisemites who sent me blatant racism? Not enough to bet them banned.
That’s what got me banned but theh decided to make it permanent
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That’s the video they point at when they say the Democratic Party was the party of slavery.
They’re just hypocrites.
Historically, it was the democratic party pre 1960s that were the defenders of slavery. Lincoln was a Republican at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the ideologies basically switched around the time of the Civil Rights Act.
I mean yes its a technicality but its also a pointless argument seeing as most political parties aren’t the same after 100+ years. Hell even in a span of 20 years, it is quite crazy to see progress since for a while the democrats basically avoided the whole lgbt topic entirely but now is one of its “pillars” for party ideals.
Exactly, just as conservatism has changed and gotten more extreme in the last 40ish years. My point though is that far too many people treat the political parties as constant throughout their history, and it’s worth pointing out that modern iterations of a given party are a stretch from even 20 years ago, almost to the point that they’re different parties entirely today.
The ideologies did not switch. The Republican party was more appealing to Protestants, was largely anti-union, etc many other things, but largely was the party of “individualism”. The Democratic Party has always been more interventionist- but started to ideologically evolve after FDR. Barry Goldwater and certain other Republicans opposed the 1964 Civil Rights because they argued it was federal overreach. This attracted some Democrats who just went with what ever party they saw as letting them keep being racist, as for actual politicians who switch IIRC Strom Thurmond was the only one(but I may be wrong). But a big part of the “switch”(Carter won in the south the first time, Bill Clinton won a few states in the South, Reagan won traditionally blue areas) is that anti-government interventionism(especially after Reagan) switched from being a more urban thing to a more rural thing. Thats not to suggest that a lot of Republicans didn’t pitch their policies in a way to appeal to voters(who may be racist), they did. But the ideologies of the parties didn’t swap. Republicans stayed more or less the same, Democrats evolved.
“Did you know that Lincoln was a Republican?”
Ignore that Southern Strategy behind the curtain.
Beat me to it lol. Recognized the art style immediately.
I fucking knew it… Read the headline and came to the comments thinking “it’s definitely that shithole PragerU isn’t it…”
Conservatives LOVE projection and they use their victim complex as ammunition. “Libz own the colleges and indoctrinate our youth so it’s totally fine now to have our own propaganda university teaching real history!”
I hate PragerU so much…
Yeah - they don’t seem to understand that there is a massive difference between “having biases” and “being biased.” It’s how they’ve excused the purposeful slant of FoxNews all these years.
the title is from he article— I didn’t pick it! (Rule 1)
Would simply changing
conservative universitytoPragerUnot be more context/more descriptive? I can’t even see it being called editorializing if it’s more accurate.
It’s a goddamn pasta sauce.
If slavery ‘was no deal’ and ‘actually beneficial’ to those enslaved because of some skills or whatever, why not enslave those that are pro slavery and that keep spreading this bs?
I mean, if it’s so beneficial… 🤷🏻
Would love to see Robert E. Lee working at the cotton fields while chained tbh
Wait for the “war was fought to protect them from the north”…
Anyone claiming that should have to try it for a few months.
It’s better than being killed after all
I’m gonna start keeping a whip in my glove box for such an occasion. Slavery was no big deal? Clean my fucking interior.
Conservatives won’t be happy until they’ve depicted Moses as a villain who deprived the pharaoh of his hard-earned Jewish slaves.
and how “beneficial” that would be compared to what they tried to do last time…
And apparently this is approved curriculum for Florida.
I’ve seen pictures of Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass did not look like he thought slavery was “no big deal”.
He looked like he’d have beaten your ass to a pulp for even thinking it.
You didn’t like that? Maybe you would appreciate my up and coming Puppet show featuring Mitch McConnell as an abortion eating transgender with her lover Donald Trump the illegal immigrant from some shithole country.
Can we just kind of get that state off the books somehow? Like, just give it to cuba?
I’d say my country had some kind of treaty that Florida must be returned but I don’t want that shithole to be part of my country
Yeah, seems like we have a sort “No you!” on our hands lol
Prager isn’t even good by the standards of fake youtube universities.
I watched some clips of a couple of these videos. I said “Ok, I’m sure it’s conservative, but it can’t be that bad, can it?” Surely, the Democrats are using at least some hyperbole in describing these videos, right? Right?
Nope. If anything, they’ve understated it. These videos are awful. The ones on climate change are particularly brutal, outright saying that because China and India are pollution leaders too, that makes it perfectly OK.
Subjecting Florida’s children to 13 years of this drivel is going to turn out a generation of young adults that are going to make Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene look like Mitt Romney by comparison.
I went in with the same expectation, but holy-fucking-shit that is some WILDLY racist and delusional propaganda bullshit.
Yup. While you and I may be preaching to the choir, I don’t think a lot of people truly see how bad these videos are.
It’s not even just the disinformation, though that’s terrible enough. The blatant racism is off the charts. If you thought the “blacks benefitted from slavery” thing was bad, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. They weren’t just saying that. Their main talking points in the few short minutes I saw were:
- Black people benefitted from slavery as it was better than the tribal warfare back home that got them captured in the first place.
- Every major civilization was built on the backs of slaves
- In some places, white people were used as slaves.
- Somebody had to do it, and they looked good for it.
- Even if it was bad, it was how 'Murica was built and the ends justify the means.
- Nobody alive today was born a slave so hey, it’s all good now.
And I only watched a clip that I saw on one of either the CNN or MSNBC videos on the subject. I can’t imagine what sitting through an entire video would be like.
I truly feel sorry for Florida’s students who are going to have to learn this bullshit only to go out into the real world, find out that a Florida education is now worthless and that the real world isn’t Florida.
PragerU is a think-tank, not a university.
It’s a septic tank.
You’re just proving that you’re immature and can’t have intelligent discussions about it.
Okay “EatMyDick2”.
When the people in your think-tank have shit for brains…
A white Christian nationalism propaganda factory.
Lol of course its PragerU. I remember they had a similar video defending slave-owners a couple years ago, but at least that one was taken down pretty quickly.
Come on, guys. It’s just a bit of cultural genocide, abuse, mind control and forced labour. It’s not that bad. /s
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