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
I had a right leaning family member suggest PragerU content for my kid. I said “the only way this will happen is if Jesus Christ himself comes down from heaven and logs me in”. I no longer get suggestions on content, bummer.
That’s not right “leaning”. That’s diving headfirst. I miss when conservatives were talking about private businesses and paying for everything instead of this shitfuckery. Makes them seem almost good guys.
When the fuck were conservatives like Ron? Ron was never a quasi-racist, fear mongering, rich asshole, who catered to hate groups, and facist Christian nationalist while pretending to be morally superior.
The closest the Republican party was to Ron was before the great switch.
He’s basically what right-libertatians always pretend to be but never are: a smart and confident self-sufficient guy who just wants to be allowed to live the life of his choosing without bothering anyone.
You see, Parks and Rec is a fictional show where it’s possible to be conservative without being abusive and completely heartless towards those that have to suffer for your childish notions of “absolute freedom, society be damned” 😉
Ron still has some real life conservative values
- Self centered, no humility (Ron trying to fuck Tim’s wife come to mind)
- Hypocrite (Talks a big game about honesty but he gets a full salary for being the laziest slacker in the whole office, basically a government handout.)
- Arrogant. Not listening to nurse’s advice, always believing everything else is intellectually lesser than him. You can earn him trust after many years but the starting point is not q neutral position. It’s a position of apathy or even sometimes disgust. I remember him trying to take all vegan bacon strips out of circulation instead of going about his day and letting others enjoy whatever as long as he isn’t harassed.
But all in all he’s not so bad. As long had you ignore him he’ll ignore you as well so you can both go about your lives most of the time.
Good points all. I admit that I’ve become a bit hazy on some of what happened on the show in the intervening years since my last rewatch, so thanks for completing the picture for me 😁
You know what, you’re 100% correct. I pulled up on the same person listening to something that said “if they call you racist for saying it they’re not well educated enough” . So I’m full supportive of that not being leaning.
Very soon red states will start showing Nazi videos as inspirational material. There’s no low these people will go to just to cling on to power.
WW2, Teach the controversy.
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Shit man, aren’t we still forcing kids to recite the pledge of allegiance?
I got a lot of shit for saying “if you make us it’s meaningless” as a kid.
But red states educations are about unquestionably following orders, they don’t want any free thought getting in he way of that.
When you step back and look at that whole process, it’s dystopian as fuck.
Here is an article with some good examples of the racist shit PragerU slops around like an incontinent hippo.
“Educational material from PragerU” is an oxymoron.
It’s a disinformation factory created to replace and undo education with idiocy disguised as authorative information with varying degrees of success.
I watched Dear Infidels and really most of the criticisms could also apply to Christian Nationalists.