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Right-wing media outlet PragerU is known for its misleading viral videos that it has long created for teens and adults. The operation is increasingly seeking to reach children, hoping to fill the Sesame Street–sized hole left by the defunding of PBS.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

It's already happening. As usual, Americans ignoring reality until it's too late.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 23 hours ago

I just watched 30 seconds of two different videos on PragerU and I felt dirty.

This shit is pure brainwashing propaganda hellbent on warping worldviews and controlling people.

It's disgusting.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago

Matt Parker and Trey Stone need to make education animation to inform kids and adults, oh wait they already do, play South Park in the schools.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Do you remember when the right complained about indoctrination in the schools? Great times!

That projection is real!

Edit: Fucking auto correct!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

in the schools

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] devolution@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

America needs more Projections.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If there is anyone at all who has not gone to their website at some point to see the things they put out (or image search for them) so you have an awareness, you really must do so.

It would have been really great if more people knew project 2025 was real before it was too late, and more people need to see this before Trump turns it into the new Dept of Education or something.

I haven't even clicked the article above yet, and I can tell you from past experience that in my opinion, no matter how sincerely it might try to convey the comic book villany peddled from PragerU, the article in OP will not adequately do so. You need to expose yourself to some of their material to really get it.

If you were going to choose a curriculum for your brownshirt boarding school, this would be it.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

It would have been really great if more people knew project 2025 was real before it was too late

So many people knew about it but refused to believe it was real. The denial was insane.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, PU is so pernicious. I even wonder if the shit posts and memes made out of it help cover for how bad it really is for a certain audience who otherwise isn’t informed.

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

I wanna see dennis pragur in a new video preaching how God punishes the wicked in his wheel chair and breathing tube