Red states strike deals to show controversial conservative videos in schools | Educational material from PragerU is now offered to public schools in six states
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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?"