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- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
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
They’re good to show, so that they can teach students to dissect it and learn how propaganda works.
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?”
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, 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
Founder is also batshit crazy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Prager
Mr the kids yearn for the mines
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