Ok there is no way you didnt know he was hiring someone to write stories like this for him. I'm so disappointed.

It took only one minute to see that you are the so called education specialist who would claim "Let's teach 7 years old Critical Race Theory". I doubled checked your other content and validated my assertion. Whatever, you claimed that 7 years old are way more capable in their cognitive and intellectual skills than we expected and claimed that we should believe you because "you know". Sorry but this is a very poor argument, demeaning even. This claim would not even pass for the gifted ones, it is a lost cause to expect a 7 year old to understand concepts of liberty and what really attracts people in other countries to immigrate to U.S. or to any other Western Country. I suspect that you do not even get the reason as the adult you are. So, yes as a result you indoctrinate the 7 year old with your simple propositions as facts. Difference is that PragerU does it in the orthodox way where the country you live in is a nice place, you on the other hand push the statement that it is necessary flawed and racist. It does not matter which one you is right, since it is not actually my point. I stop taking you seriously when you propose 7 years old children should discuss on the abstract concepts of liberty, freedom etc. You can only go with the validity of the message being pushed and this is another discussion. But indeed it is the message PragerU pushed that caused you make this video in order to defame them to begin with, is it not? It is not their typo of "wrap" (warp) or failing to see the abstract thinking potential of those kids. By the way, this is the first time I saw PagerU education content, and I have no affiliation with them. But, in hopes of acting as an education specialist for audience, for deluding yourself even you came up with "their content's not taking kids cognition and intellectual skills seriously". And I can easly say that motivating them on how to decorate the statues is more fun and engaging for their age, make them discuss on what liberty really is and you totally lost the 7 year audience and put them into void and purgatory. I really wonder about your teaching performance of 7 years old children, if you really have any of course.

Just wait. The worst is yet to come under president smooth brain and the numbskulls in his administration and a conservative congress.

What is really strange to me, is that 90% of adult US citizens still have a driver's license, despite roughly 50% of US americans seemingly not having the literacy to pass the written part of the test. Very curious indeed, especially considering that both data sets come from roughly the same age group. Are the literacy levels not an actual indicator for the ability of performing tasks as passing tests? Maybe a lot of people just cheat during the test? I don't know, it's just a fascinating discrepancy.

Regarding the call to action: There are several reasons why I comment, but I seldomly do. 1. For the algorithm. When I have nothing of value to say, but still want to boost the video for being great. 2. Because I thought of a funny thing to say or I got a reference. That might fall into the "getting attention" category. 3. I wanna thank the creator for making a got point or giving me something to think about. For instance, I never (directly) thought about media literacy from the point of the creator. Thank you for that! And additionally: I like the interview format. Especially considering all the bloopers. :D

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I did NOT expect 52%, I assumed it would me more like 0.5%. That really shocked me.

PragerU counters state indoctrination. You're stuck with it, so get use to the idea.

This reminds me of the book I am reading Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant and he also sought to identify time and space. Along with associations made from one concept to another even if one does not proceed or infer the other.

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2 minutes in and im SOBBING

I don’t know if this is necessarily a metaphor but I actually find it so strange and offensive when USians call illegal immigrants “illegal aliens”. Um hello those are legiterally human beings you guys are talking about they’re not so alien to you. They’re other human beings.

I guess I’m confused about this particular critique of Romney’s language. Like you said it reduces women to a resume… but isn’t that like the entire point in this context? Would you still make that critique if he said “binders… of women’s resumes”? I guess I was just expecting the clip to be more shocking based on how you set it up, but I’m not entirely unconvinced he’d use the same phrasing for “binders full of men” if we happened to live in a world where it was men being overlooked Idk

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I'm baffled by the choice of "belief" when talking about climate change. Earth's ever changing state is a fact of it's very existence, a fact that shifts and morphs with time, that can be readily observed IN REAL time. We acknowledge or ignore climate change, we don't "believe" or "disbelieve". Climate change isn't a fictional thing, and framing it that way only gives power to those willfully ignorant, which allows them to spread misinformation and disinformation regarding the topic. While I do appreciate the discussion of the very western, modern world metaphors for different things, and how those may impact things, I do think it is important that in a video which seems to suggest one should be careful about their word choice, thr creator of said video should be, well, careful of their word choice.

I truly didn't know how much of a light in the lives of religious children(I volunteer in my church preschool every couple weeks) I've been until I found out that a LOT of homes, specifically religious homes, are like the one I grew up in and still live in. Rather than punishment or snapping at the kids, I will ONLY use gentle guidance and distraction to resolve conflict or to handle wayward kids who struggle with direction following. I was that kid and grew up to expect shame directed at me because of those mistakes. And I stick to my word most of the time, too. If I say another kid will get a turn in 5 minutes. I'll set a timer. If I say it's playtime after the lesson, it'll be play time after the lesson. I know what it's like to feel bullied by the adults in your life and I don't want to grow up to be a part of that. Respect kids, godammit. It could very well be the kindest treatment they get all day. I still vividly remember some people in my life who treated little me like I mattered and like I had autonomy, because it was so foreign to me that it was some of the most deeply effective kindness I've experienced.

I guess it's probably not a coincidence that Christian nationalists and other conservative evangelicals also view God as a strict father, while the more progressive Christians often emphasize the loving, forgiving, nurturing interpretation of God. Their worldview matches how they view the Creator of the world

PragerU having a monopoly on alt-right content on KZbin is not the problem, alt-right content being on KZbin is the problem.

I hope someone else pointed this out already, because if I'm the only one that thinks about this....... (momentary existential dread). When you have to put forth a big warning about how a book from 2008 has "dated ideas", as if simply stating the book is from 2008 could not automatically infer that. Its a book from 2008. Written from a perspective of someone in 2008 or prior, because thats what people were thinking at the time. I'm concerned that anyone feels the need to instruct this to a large audience in the first place. Which adds to the pile of the problem. Being wrong at one point, and allowing that mind set to be different later on, is no longer allowed. We now retroactively persecute opinions of the past, as if they are held in the present.... with no regard that the current day opinion/beliefs may as well be later proven to be just as ignorant, as today finds the yesterday's opinions/beliefs to be ignorant. I'm pretty sure thats called Irony; and I'm not confident people of today can easily recognize that. At first I thought it might be a younger generation thing; but I've witnessed my predecessors fall into the same mind set. This is terrifying.

Listening to this while i do my statistics homework

I understand the appeal of the idea of making the difficult decisions, accepting the uncomfortable facts, and doing what isn't pretty but is necessary. But if you're wrong you're just being an asshole.

26:51 As someone who has played a lot of Dwarf Fortress, the existence of a black female dwarf without a beard isn't odd to me. Dwarves of all skin colors exist, even the elves. Although female dwarves don't have beards in general.

One thing I think we all need to understand is that we are not two sides, we are not two nations, but we are one and we are all in this together. I think I actually got through to my conservative friend earlier as he stopped taking what I was saying as personal attacks and insults, but genuine concern

The Ukrainian people didn't give up and fought back when their homes were being bombed and their children being murdered. Half of Americans panicked into sniveling cowardice because they were paying a few cents more for gas and they were terrified of drag queens and M&Ms. It's time for the other half of Americans to show what an American is supposed to be. Real Americans: Never let a Trumpie open their mouth in your presence without loudly calling them a coward and a traitor.

This video is making my anarchist sympathies flare up again. Thank you, it's exactly what I need in this time

I think you need to follow your own advice

"Des, why are you like this?" He's orange, he's an orange cat

hi, commenter here leaving a comment after your call to action. i usually leave a comment if a video left me feeling a positive emotion. my comments usually aren’t to start a dialogue but rather to give kudos and appreciation to the video’s author. i like to sit with my feelings after so i usually don’t leave a comment because i feel like my comment will get lost in a sea of voices that are louder and “more correct” than mine.

The only predictors I’ve encountered have been republican men.

I think this video went over my head. Can someone explain like I'm five? What I'm currently getting from this is: Don't trust cozy games; capitalism/consumerism bad. However, none of that matters as long as it's fun? I don't think this is what I was meant to take away from this and would appreciate it if someone would take the time to help me understand better. Thank you!

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Woah, woah, woah. But it’s not an issue when valuable school time is wasted talking at kids about race & sexuality? That is beyond a waste of time/money, it’s twisted degeneration.

7:40 but "history" is a story, in Greek or French. English just dropped the initial vowel in the word "story" when it got borrowed from French... 14:49 Some of these metaphors aren't coincidental. Like we associate friendliness with heat, because when you're intimate with someone, you're literally sharing body heat; and serious things literally weigh on your chest...

looking back at it, teaching media literacy has similarities to a subject i learned in university's english class which is "teaching creative thinking in class". the gest of it is that creative thinking is not easy to grade or measure, nor is it one thing or tied to specific formulas. so while its impossible to grade, it is absolutely possible to teach and learn about alongside things like math.

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Public education sucks. Families deserve alternatives. Public schools are not entitled to own your children and the money they bring, if they fail the students, they deserve to lose them to a superior alternative. Abolish the department of education entirely.

FUCKING RHONDA SANTIS LMFAO xD i jumped out of my fucking skin when i first heard that

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Nah girl! Why you making me feel empathy for that dude? Hahahahaha I hate you (nah, I love you, and totally get you, gosh, wtf...)

I wanna see more of it. Thank you.

I leave comments mostly to support, and maybe, hopefully, small channels. Not your case I suppose, still, thank you. I usually say "thank you".

This honestly explains so freaking much... we need to stop making fun of people for struggling.

This is how new conspiracism works. Where conspiracy theories were once dependent on some kernel of plausibility and truth, new conspiricism relies entirely on repetition and nothing else. That should be terrifying to us all

I feel like the way to fix media literacy is probably more important to encourage a fondness for learning and research, to look into problems from multitude of angle and positions of what a piece of media is trying to tell you. it also requires deep introspection and questioning of the self.

i'm so glad this wasn't some big video mocking adults who can't read that well or even adults who don't like to read "more mature" books as often. i've seen so many people act so unnecessarily mean towards anyone who they percieve as having less education than them as if it's a moral failing and it sucks. it doesn't even just stop with people who can't read well, it's also done to people who read but just happen to enjoy reading and finding value in what others consider to be "lesser" works (usually books meant for younger audiences), & it's genuinely so hurtful seeing people dismiss not only a lot of great works but also their own kindness towards people who've done nothing to deserve their ire thank you

Hi! I'm a A-Level sociology student. It's crazy how many of the ideas brought up in this video correspond with the content I'm learning int my lessons. Here are some of them: 1.The role of education is to produce a passive, subservient workforce (Bowls and Gintis) - happens through the 'Correspondence Principle': education is the 'long shadow of work', the social relationships and structure of work is mirrored in school (eg. the 5 day work week), education thus prepares students to become workers 2. Education instills the myth of meritocracy (Bowls and Gintis) - meritorcracy refers to the idea that the people who work hard will succeed (think American dream) - the education system is supposedly meritocratic, it is not: students of the middle/upper class succeed way much more than students of working class

I think I agree with you in a lot of stuff... I do think the school system in various countries should be more flexible and rely less on grades, punishments, etc. However, at the theoretical or conceptual level, I think you have a lot of things mixed up. "Motivation", "reward". "reinforcement", "punishment", etc., have technical definitions in psychology, and Behaviorism isn't necessarily controlling in the sense that it doesn't necessarily look to control society. It, however, does state that there´s no such think as free will, and that everything depends either on the biological characteristics of an organism (such as humans mostly liking sugar or fat), or to the environment. "Intrinsic motivation" is just a process of reinforcement which occurs after something has been conditioned to function as a reinforcer for certain individual, or because it satisfies some of his specific biologically determined necessities or taste. And some things are even situational, too much salt or sugar at one moment might make on crave different flavors, but that doesn't mean one has stopped liking chips, chocolate, etc.

I feel like you can always tell a lot from a person by what language they choose to use. When Trump uses words like the flood, it’s easy to deduce that in some level, he doesn’t think of immigrants as people (or at least that’s how he wants people to think he thinks). Even in this video, it’s easy to tell that despite generally framing this topic in an objective manner, you’re clearly very left leaning judging by the language you use for certain topics and the examples you choose to use to illustrate your points.

I leave comments as an emotional response. Sometimes it helps me, and sometimes I just say something hoping it reaches someone.

Never trusted you in the first place because I never trust women /s