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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 145 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Prageru is strictly a propagandist conservative YouTube channel, with no connection to formal education at all(until now, I guess). Is that right?

[–] adroidBalloon@lemmy.ml 95 points 1 year ago (1 children)

correct. this move by Florida is terrifying

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

and yet they project the left is indoctrinating kids.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

How ELSE do you explain how my SON went off to COLLEGE where he was no longer DEPENDANT on ME and came back without any of my HOMOPHOBIA.

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Projection. Every accusation is a confession.

[–] adroidBalloon@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

every accusation is a confession

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of all the actually educational content on YouTube, this is what they pick.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is bizarre, it's like trying to decide on a new car and finally choosing an opened bag of moldy potato chips instead.

[–] mPony@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

When asked which flavour of potato chips they enjoyed, they replied that they enjoyed damaging peoples' lives the most. When informed that wasn't actually a flavour of potato chip, they screamed and started punching the camera.
Now here's Dave with the sports.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but the chips are named "Jack C (c stands for car, trust me)", and that's basically the same thing

[–] stempo@lemmy.ml 113 points 1 year ago (16 children)

This is horrifying. This is fascism. Teach them an alternate reality from birth. Gotta make sure those white kids keep feeling special. Gotta make sure the black kids know they were better off enslaved. Perfect. Our country is soooooo fucked.

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[–] ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago (6 children)

"In a video message, an “ecstatic” PragerU CEO Marissa Streit announced the “move into schools,” claiming “parents have been frustrated, teachers have been frustrated,” because “schools have been hijacked by the left"

Assuming there's any truth at all to it, why is the go-to solution to schools being hijacked by the left for them to now be hijacked by the right?

[–] Valdair@kbin.social 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By trying to present themselves as the center instead of the far-right, they slowly move people’s’ conception of what the “center” is further and further right. It’s been happening for decades.

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 27 points 1 year ago

Because it's parent's rights to enforce certain learnings UNLESS it's progressive teachings apparently.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They should just close the schools and tell kids to do their own research, cons love that shit.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just close Florida at this point.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Turn it into a giant national park that people aren't allowed to live in.

[–] taylus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

people aren’t allowed to live in

global warming will take care of that soon

they can’t even get insurance anymore, just wait for the hurricanes in a few months

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[–] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 year ago

If the state of Florida continues to fuck around it won’t be long before degrees are not recognized outside of the state because of the low quality of the education. You can’t have a curriculum that is all propaganda and expect anyone with half a brain to recognize it as valid.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jesus fuck, really? DeSantis and his pet legislators are going to do generational amounts of damage to Florida.

[–] DannyMac@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Yup, Republicans need dumb breeders to prop their party up. They're banning critical thinking.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

How else will they secure future voters for the Republicans?

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[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The end goal is to have a completely separate educational system free from federal overview.

"Pretty soon people won't accept Florida university degrees."

That's missing the point. New York and California may not accept them but Texas and Alabama will. These cretins need a way to keep their kids from running away to "liberal shit holes" so they're going to keep them ignorant and useless for anything more than basic factory and warehouse work.

Long term planning? Competing with emerging powers? Who has time for that? They expect the world to end any day now. Fuck it.

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

which has taken a sharp conservative turn

Wht the fuck do they still call these fascists "conservative"?

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They mean the same thing now.

[–] murky_man@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They really don't. Words have meanings and the US is not the only country in the world. Other countries still have actual conservative parties. The GOP used to be a conservative party but really should not be called conservative any more. It is a right wing populist party with a shrinking centrist wing (that still has some old school conservatives in it) and a growing right wing extremist wing (which has actual fascists in it).

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

It seems to be a standard at the moment. Look at the UK conservatives. Their policies and rhetoric of become increasingly fascist over the last 15 years. But boy do they blow a fuse if you point it out.

The big difference being they don't have a big dedicated voter base.
It's where does it in the US they do have one.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because that's a scary word and using it would mean history can get them.

Really. They would say it's "polarising" or "not constructive" or something, but that's their way of saying "scary to the people in the conversation". I'm honestly not sure what it will take to burst the imaginary bubble these guys live in.

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[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Were doomed if PragerU gets screentime in classrooms.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

We've been doomed longer than ive been alive.

[–] Didros@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, thank God Pearson is in charge of all SOL testing in America and a lot of the other testing too. /s

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pearson sucks but PragerU is straight up fascist propaganda

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[–] bentsea@lemmy.mrm.one 34 points 1 year ago

Any organization that uses this curriculum could call themselves a "Prager Youth" program!

[–] DharkStare@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Florida really needs to stop tipping itself with how bad it can be. It seems like Florida is rapidly getting worse with each new headline I read

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Conservatism is metastacizing in the U.S. Historically, such unchecked conservatism has not been cured by pacifism. Aggressive work will be needed to extinguish this deadly plague.

[–] Dantpool@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm sure France has some guillotines we could borrow.

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[–] HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Lol Dennis Prager is one of the dumbest idiots out there. I can’t believe he shared a platform with Hitchens at one point.

[–] slicedcheesegremlin@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How the fuck was that channel able to recover from the "I want mommy, I want milk, I want to be held" meme

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[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oh God someone please get me the fuck out of Florida

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and do some insider trading.

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[–] keet@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add this to the list of reasons why I'm glad I don't teach in Florida. I just hope my own red state doesn't follow suit soon.

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Ron Howard narration: They would, however, follow suit.

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