#prager u

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Trump got rid of funding for PBS so he can indoctrinate toddlers into believing that slavery is good, actually. Which isn't surprising, but it's still frustrating.

The majority of their voter base in 2024 were young, stupid men who let themselves believed that they can't get pussy because they're not black (or whatever the fuck their delusions were) and not because they're shitty people and republicans want to keep people that fucking stupid and delusional.

[victusinveritas]

Uh....

So this bastard's depraved shit is going to replace Sesame Street? Because Sesame Street is corrupting the youth? This guy, though, no, he's fine, he just wants adult siblings to bang.

[transmasc-peoples-renegade]

Hello, TRFs. If this is really the tme website why is the "men can't get pregnant" PragerU tweet still going around and has NINETY THOUSAND (90.000) notes?

[yeoldecryptid]

Things I’ve noticed in conservative education/propaganda

Even the people they like are dehumanized.

Like, even aside from living people like Trump and Musk, historical figures who are almost completely uncontroversial are watered down into what they did.

Yes, I consider this a problem in academia in general, but especially in things like Pragur U and Joe Rogan, if they mention anything about these people’s personalities, it’s a quick, usually negative statement. For example ‘Isaac Newton was a major a-hole,’ in Joe Rogan. In those Prager U kids things, the historical figures only talk about what they did that we remember. No one mentions Isaac Newton’s mental illness or Shakespeare’s kids, it’s just their work.

Contrast that with a show like Xavier Riddle and The Secret Museum, (one of my favorite kids shows.) Yes, the people they visit talk about their work, but they’re also given space to show off their humanity. They play, talk about things they find interesting beyond their work, and we see their home and family members.

This is also a thing in art analyzations. Ben Shapiro only talks about Stephen and Jack in Master and Commander as far as they fill the story’s most basic message, and actually gets the characterizations in that film wrong a few times (such as victim blaming Hollum.) Prager U’s Divine Comedy video is only about the circles of hell, and one of the comments on that video asks why they didn’t talk more about characterizations.

It seems like kind of a lonely way to view art and history…

[voidingintotheshout]

Board dissolves Corporation for Public Broadcasting after funding cuts

Board dissolves Corporation for Public Broadcasting after funding cuts

The corporation announced in August that it would begin an "orderly wind-down of its operations" after Congress clawed back $1.1 billion in

Jeez, this feels like a death. This final paragraph in the article about how they’re using their final resources, I think hurt the hardest:

“The corporation said its “orderly closure” would include distributing remaining funds and supporting the American Archive of Public Broadcasting in its efforts to preserve “historic content.” It added that it has partnered with the University of Maryland to preserve its own archives, which the corporation said would be made publicly available.”

Not to be dramatic, but any right wing company that tries to buy up gut and monetize the corporation for public broadcasting should be firebombed.

I’m already sad that for kids now Prager U is going to be “their Sesame Street”. I just can’t think about this anymore.

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