What is PragerU? Supercut

[@Gamingpandacat]

Ah yes, the good old "there's sonic smut in my conservative hastag" approach, never change furries, never change

[@karameru_xd]

*laughs manically in furry* WE SHALL INFECT ALL OF THE CONSERVATIVE HASHTAGS!!!

[@juniperrodley9843]

@@karameru_xd get their asses

[@seekingabsolution1907]

Never fails.

[@remyrichardson8614]

@@juniperrodley9843 shit like this makes me proud to be a 100% american furry, gotta love the land of the free and horny

[@juniperrodley9843]

@@remyrichardson8614 god bless america land of the furs

[@samh3805]

Below this I saw an ad of Charlie Kirk arguing with a “smug leftist kid”, this is the level they’re at. They have to argue with literal children.

[@Hiya8partyz]

You too?!

[@dragonslayer101]

Dude saaame!

[@danopticon]

I don’t know if it’ll make a difference, but it may be worth reporting all those ads as being in violation of KZbin ad policy - specifically for 1) advertising in a restricted category (politics), 2) although if they veer into transphobia, bigotry, and/or sexism, you can report them a second time for hate speech, and 3) if they go into anti-vaccine nonsense or global warming denial you can maybe report them a third time for scams… …and like I wrote, it may not result in the ad being removed, but it DOES create a record somewhere of the fact that someone saw through their ruse and objected to it. After Pinochet was removed, after the Third Reich lost W.W.II, after apartheid was beaten back in South Africa, after Idi Amin lost power, the written records left behind by officials and civilians alike - records often regarded as inconsequential at the time - in the aftermath proved crucial in piecing together what had happened, and even in prosecuting crimes. Even if an ad speaks in dogwhistles, if the ad *points* to a site such as PragerU, or the Daily Wire, or the Epoch Times, you can still report it as pointing to a site promoting restricted products, hate speech, and scams. Again, it may not get the ad removed, but having placed your objection on the record, and having created a massive record of such objections, could well prove vital down the line.

[@data_expunged97]

I saw this comment and then scrolled down and BAM there it was

[@lucasallen5792]

I saw the ad to and boy it is just sad like they are literally arguing with a child and the child is more knowledgeable then them

[@-Lepidoptera-]

My journalism teacher showed us a PragerU video during his lesson on propaganda and broke down everything wrong with it, shout out to him

[@MA69Supra]

Only valid way to use a pargerU video in class

[@DIVING_BELL]

that's an amazing teacher

[@Mojo__]

Based

[@builderbosc]

Holy shit what a fantastic way to show students how propaganda has never left and can still affect you

[@oshy3385]

Had me in the first half, ngl

[@havenm6181]

Honestly homeschooling should be way more supervised than it is. What i went through should be a crime

[@Allthatwasmagichan]

I feel you man. I was in the system for 2 years and I learned nothing. I had to take extra courses afterwards to catch up.

[@universal_stupidity]

I don't understand how it's not a crime when it's literally a form of neglect, and a bad one

[@theanswerisa3758]

@@universal_stupidity I’m curious, how is it a form of neglect? Not doubting at all, genuinely want to know what you mean :P

[@universal_stupidity]

@@theanswerisa3758 Homeschooling without oversight is a form of neglect because it drastically limits kids opportunities (since you don't have the same education as peers and will often have to spend years catching up, and a lot of clubs and sports for kids are only for kids in school, and a lot of colleges are only open to you with a degree, not a GED), it socially isolates them (since the majority of kids friends are made at school), it stunts them developmentally (because all the core social and mental development you get from interacting with peers in school, you don't get), and, it just leaves massive gaps in your education and life skills you will spend your whole life trying to find and fill. this is from a former homeschool kid now in college for early childhood development and elementary education, because I don't want other kids to go through what I did.

[@theanswerisa3758]

@@universal_stupidity Yeah that tracks. I was also homeschooled but my parents made an effort to give me opportunities to have social interaction. Summer camps and church mostly, a homeschool co-op later on. I was also a very curious kid who would do my own research about things so I sort of supplemented my own education. That said, I know what you’ve listed is absolutely the case most of the time. In fact only now (a few years after graduating high school) am I actually learning about evolution, sex, non-religious world history before 4000bce, and whatever else wasn’t included in my learning.

[@jjanon2371]

The first I heard about the transatlantic slave trade was in grade 4. There are age appropriate ways to talk about horrific things. We weren't exposed to all the depths of cruelty in the slave trade (yet) but we definitely saw diagrams about how slaves were transported in terrible conditions and abused with whips.

[@somewhat-blue]

It also doesn’t take a lot of details to convince a kid that being taken away from your home and forced to work without pay is a bad thing. Our imaginations are powerful, too, so even saying something as broad as “slaveowners treated them very badly” and letting them fill in the blanks will keep the conversation age-appropriate while still getting across what’s important.

[@rambbler]

I swear people who claim children are too young to learn about slavery have never seen little girls play dolls with each other. They will somehow make a soap opera, a crime show, and mean girls before having ever seen one of those. I'm pretty sure boys are the same way but I don't have personal experience with that, I've only seen the chaos not understand what was going on.

[@dracocrusher]

@@rambbler We just sort-of remake Dragonball Z, although I remember also doing some weird romantic BS, too. Although I also ended up being trans, so hard to really say how that factors into things.

[@zachbrown9580]

@@dracocrusheridk why this cracked me up💀

[@wynchiella]

⁠​⁠@@dracocrusheras a kid i played out this college romance with my friend and it ended up turning into the main girl murdering the love interest’s current gf and wearing her skin like a costume just so she could date him??? idk man i just think kids are hungry for blood

[@hajopluess8671]

As a former Social Studies teacher, hearing only 8% of HS students connect slavery to the civil war is disturbing. Also, Preger U stop grooming our kids!

[@GaySatanicClowns]

PreygerU

[@phatmanjake4336]

Say that last part louder for those on Facebook

[@EvTheBadConlanger]

When I reached midway through the last sentence, I audibly stopped breathing for a moment.

[@breab379]

I was shocked to hear that. I'm Canadian, and even I learned that in my history class

[@Brandon-mo4nh]

In school they only said it was part of the reason. I graduated 2 years ago and I remember my teacher let us debate all subjects and there was a lot of “states rights” speakers. I was in the South tho for context

[@jayfrank1913]

As an almost 60 year old dude, your channel provides me with more hope for the younger generation. Hang in there!

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

Bruh, you have a video in your favorites defending Hilter. Why lie like this?

[@SianaGearz]

Why does this phease always conjure the image of a noose for me...

[@jayfrank1913]

@@SianaGearz Yikes. Great rhetorical question.

[@lunalesombras1150]

​@@SianaGearzassuming this is not rhetorical, it may be due to a Halloween thing you don't consciously remember. Putting the two ideas together, I can totally see "hang in there" being attached to a hung skeleton (Not sans)

[@sarafontanini7051]

you gota laugh at the idea of "you can't teach kids the horrible parts of history!" because...that's the REASON th Horrible Histories books were so popular. Kids LOVE horribleness and edginess!

[@madeline6951]

that's the problem for conservatives: they don't care for the kids, they just want people to be ignorant of the horrible shit that their coveted civilisation has committed

[@lexi1031]

Weelll … your not wrong.

[@salmonmuncher5672]

yes! i still love going back to those books and experiencing that nostalgia all over again. if i could stomach those books at 7 years old, and actually enjoyed them, why can't 7 year olds learn about slavery, the civil right movement, gay people, etc? in fact, those topics seem more palatable to a young kid than a horrible histories book.

[@emzetkin1100]

Also, I'm just saying, it's accepted truth that anyone who wants to hide the truth from you is your enemy. We shouldn't lie to ourselves about the evils of our history, even if it "makes people feel bad", or whatever. We need history to be taught as unvarnished and ugly as it can be, not this watered down propaganda PragerU wants to feed us.

[@bladeofgrass216]

They also argue the liberals are trying to “erase history,” but then try and stop kids from learning about slavery and systematic racism

[@kilotango6726]

Dennis Prager seems like a real life Moral Orel character

[@hellspawn32x66]

But less entertaining lol

[@uhhhhhdellie]

yeah, definitely. Especially on that one video where he says, "I want mommy, I want milk, I want to be held, I want to be comforted" with a deadpan tone

[@staticaleel5068]

Honestly now that we’re mentioning moral oral, I know that clay puppington was an evil son of a bitch. but somehow he’s more likable than prager because he at least wasn’t in support of neo nazi’s and racists, additionally clay didn’t decide he needed to make a shitty home school program for indoctrinating kids into his shitty beliefs.

[@emofurryboyfriendasmr]

nah fr 💀

[@pastelcatnip]

That show will always be ahead of its time

[@weknekdae1013]

the health teacher at my school uses prageru as his primary source and also runs the tpusa club its so awesome (his wife is my english teacher and im trans help me)

[@weknekdae1013]

thank god i took health online and got a pe credit from marching band lmfaooo

[@wajmgirl]

Might wanna pull some clips of all their anti semetic content and send it to the principal.

[@mygills3050]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@wajmgirl Secondary Method (Do not try -at home- ) 1. Ask him what the smartest teacher in the school is. Make sure to record it. 2. He will invariably answer, “me, bc I make the most and play ball all day.” This is his downfall. 3. Send the recording (optimally anonymously) to the principal. 4. Either the health guy is fired (stop here) or the principal says some form of “idc” -5. Learn coding, develop worm virus- 5. Mass email campaign, claiming the principal/school board openly admits to wasting money on sports. 6. ??? 7. Profit.

[@danopticon]

@@weknekdae1013- May I ask in which -hellhole of the union- state of the union you live?

[@justinberry6411]

Get your English teacher to ban the Bible by just listing all the atrocities in it and not naming the book first

[@CaptainZaimon]

"Called Anne Frank a coomer" Do these right-wing "thinkers" just have a random "phrases they dislike" generator in their heads and say the results of each randomization or something?

[@QUEST-FOR-POWER]

Also how do you think that but also deny the holocaust

[@Kyrieleis_]

the 4chan is leaking out

[@derekpayneszubliminals7723]

They also like to use the word “hypocrite” when they themselves are more hypocritical than the very people that they claim are hypocritical.

[@MsZsc]

@@Kyrieleis_dont give 4chan a bad name

[@Kyrieleis_]

​@@MsZsc no im going to that place is the worst shithole on the internet

[@chilljelloton2089]

How is celibacy a fucking sin when monks and nuns throughout christianity were required to take a vow of celibacy and im pretty sure still do.

[@yungmuney5903]

Control

[@crazybeatrice4555]

If Im recalling correctly Jesus was celibate too.

[@LezbeOswald]

to be fair, dennis prager is jewish so i don’t think he’s necessarily considering what christian monks and nuns do. that being said, i don’t know much about judaism, so if there are also faithful jews who take celibacy vows, then he’s definitely a hypocrite.

[@Gloomdrake]

In Prager’s mind, celibacy is a sin because he wants white people to breed aggressively

[@TheThiccestChungus]

​@@crazybeatrice4555The VIRGIN Mary was celibate at least as far as the mythology goes.

[@raezersharp]

When I heard they named that one thing Prep I nearly choked on my water since Prep is also something being widely advertised a lot in my city (super advertised w/ the LGBTQ+ community) to help prevent the possibility of contracting HIV. The fact that Prager U has the same name and probably doesn't know makes this hilarious to my lil' queer soul 😂

[@plutolichen]

dude I was picking up my testosterone prescription and there were PREP fliers EVERYWHERE. (the anti-HIV kind, not the prager kind)

[@tjenadonn6158]

Conservatives and unintentional homoeroticism are one of the most iconic duos of all time.

[@JaneFleesTexas]

@@tjenadonn6158Such as that ridiculous anti-trans DeSantis ad which was extremely homoerotic…

[@Awesomeblossom7016]

I like their ads (the medicine not prageru)

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

That's the first thing I thought as well. I guess Prager U is going to have to come up with a different acronym for their propaganda package for parents and to be forced onto educators. No legitimate teacher acting in good faith would use a Prager U thiing for their students unless they had to or they would be fired, which is probably what they do in Florida and Texas. "Mainstream media group think" and "gender ideology" just means "facts I don't like."

[@dirkturtle3354]

"How do we fix it?" Tax the wealth hoarders so they're only very rich, not uber-rich.

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

OOOORRRRRRRRR, we remove the people who neglect us to death, from power. Tho my preference is to unalive them. Y'know, unalive the unalivers?

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

I keep seeing this and I don't understand how anyone could possibly view that as an acceptable compromise. no, take every last dime. then they can work like everyone else.

[@dirkturtle3354]

@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 fair

[@TheD736]

Taxing the rich doesn't work when the rich can use money to influence political mobility. Who goes to Congress and who doesn't? The person who's supported by the dollar, not the person people like most. 10/11 times there's an American presidential election it's the candidate with more money that wins. Advertising budget is a huge factor of political success, a lot of people just vote for the name they see the most. If the people with money choose who gets the biggest budget, and thus who is most likely to get power, then why would that politician tax the people who just put him in charge? Diabolical, isn't it?

[@dirkturtle3354]

We haven't done it, so we wouldn't know. Sure, it may be classic Adam Smith liberalism -but using the tax system to moderate wealth hoarding is big step to a better functioning economy. @@TheD736

[@Tsukishyy]

Fun fact: the U in PragerU stands for urine

[@MrGoldfish8]

"Urine and faeces, yes, URINE AND FAECES," - Dennis Prager.

[@rulerofzeuniverse]

@@MrGoldfish8 “I want mommy, I want milk,” - also Dennis Prager

[@howlinghellgar2214]

This is offensive to anyone with a piss kink

[@thisperson102]

It also stands for ‘U need to stop watching and do something productive with your life’

[@disgoop]

​@@MrGoldfish8He's a big fan of urine and fasces

[@badartwineaunt]

lmao my friend used to be a prager force guy and now he is a communist so it is so funny to see him in the prager force group pic you put up at 32:53

[@JDM-is-my-name]

That's amazing, good in 'em

[@MsZsc]

i never change my beliefs. the grifters outgrow ME

[@squibble08]

thats amazing. tell em theyre cool

[@UnwashedRascal]

@@MsZscthats some duke nukem shit

[@dderpderp9000]

As someone who used to be mutuals on twitter with you from the PragerU replies, it makes me super happy to see you blow up in the algorithm. Keep up the good work

[@JustA-Person]

In my high school history class a bunch of videos covering WW2 were banned on the school’s internet but for some reason a PragerU video on it wasn’t. The teacher even said he didn’t like PragerU but couldn’t find a better video because it was in the middle of class.

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

wait the teacher lazily played the video for class? thats actually inexcusable

[@SenbonZakura467]

@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 Most of the time, teachers cant see when somethings blocked and have no way to tell unless they have a student check. we had many cases in high school where websites and sources were blocked for us and the teacher didn't know. Especially since school blockers on subjects like WW2 can be extremely aggressive and constantly change what is and isn't blocked.

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

That's a terrifying story. I guess they are going ahead with showing "both sides" when teaching the holocaust, so anything that only criticizes the nazis but makes no mention of the nonsensical "Hitler did some good things" propaganda strategy.

[@Callie_with_a_bible]

​@@SenbonZakura467 Oh yeah my filter blocked Twitter because it's Twitter.... I mean thank you, but....that's dumb as hell.

[@PROPAROXITONO]

man, if I knew my wife has sex with me by obligation, that would be the biggest hit to my ego in my entire life, and, boy, my life beats my ego on a daily basis...

[@Gchildwarrior]

And some people really argue for a contract like that... Gross af.

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

That's because you're healthy. Alt. right types have such fragile egos they couldn't handle it if life gave their ego a dirty look.

[@coolbugfacts3953]

"you''re amazing mr reagan! you saved everyones lives" the aids pandemic:

[@justcallmekai1554]

It gives off "We did it Patrick! We saved the city!" vibes lol

[@thomasoates3003]

Not to mention he widened the wealth gap and cut funding to programs that helped ethnic minorities.

[@choporchubbzda1]

Not to mention the “war against drugs”

[@TheThiccestChungus]

​@@thomasoates3003he saved all the rich white folk which is good enough for conservatives.

[@breab379]

@@TheThiccestChungusfr

[@jacqueshardin4601]

Having been been raised Mormon, I was suckered into PragerU after seeing an ad one day. Thankfully, my sister saw the obvious bullshit and called it out. Some time later, I found the many videos people make of debunking this think tank that calls itself a university. I am not sure of my exact position, but I have a fondness for Anarchism. And when I am able, I will leave the church. Speaking of which, I found out General Conference tends to shatter the faith of the members of the church. So I hope something similar is happening with PragerU and all other think tanks and will continue to happen.

[@dang1099]

Yeah, the more I learned about the church the more my shelf started to crack and eventually it just broke.

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

welcome comrade!

[@MrMarinus18]

As someone who was raised catholic I still struggle how people of the faith can believe in the PraerU garbage. The most important things jesus taught us was mutual love and mutual dependence. Forgiveness of sin, giving aid to those that need it, be aware of vices of idolitry and deception and that all men are equal under god and no man should stand above another. The greatest man is the one that works for others and if we all did that we could live in a great society together. While I no longer consider myself Catholic my Catholic upbringing greatly informed my later socialist beliefs. Especially my rejection of the notion of "personal responsibility" which mostly just exists to shield the rich and powerful from accountability for their decisions.

[@haileygermain5740]

PragerU and GC feel very similar to me: people pretending to be experts tell you confirmation bias and say "if you disagree, you're wrong and you need to correct yourself to match us" I got sucked into PragerU too as a Mormon teen. It gets easier, I promise

[@eviebuggs886]

You and me have gone through the same thing. I hope you come out of this ok. I know that Utah public education has had prageru in curriculums for years. ❤

[@ellicurus]

This video hits a different note now that, in 2023, the Florida department of education is using PragerUkids videos in their public school curriculum, so that’s fun.

[@Maple_creature]

I randomly whent to my library and got the Tuttle twins books and the guy who was giving them out really wanted me to read it. He didn't think that i would bring up all the problems with the metaphors in the book. He tried to shut down the discussion at every turn.

[@Dan280974]

Very good job my friend

[@UltaFlame]

Don't think, shut up and uncritically accept! -that guy

[@yungmuney5903]

1:55:15 "It's just an opinion, for as exactly as long as it takes to make it law." This needs to spread more.

[@cencent2189]

The "no member of the school community will be asked or required to publicly or privately select and/or confirm their gender identity" could backfire so hard

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

How

[@botondhetyey159]

​@@cdogthehedgehog6923Non-cis people mass brigading I guess. Probably not worth giving them the money, but it would be pretty funny.

[@JDM-is-my-name]

​@@cdogthehedgehog6923there is ofc the fact that if implemented, there shouldn't be any employment diffrences based on sex or gender, but imagine someone who is cis, who has one of the faces or bodies that those "I can tell" people would point out, is trying to go to the bathroom and since they cannot correct or explain, they might be labeled a certain way by people whom are transphobic. And ofc, those that are not cis would never be able to ask people to respect their identity or pronounce, because there is an assumption that isn't allowed to be explained, challenged or corrected

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

@@JDM-is-my-name who cares

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

​​@@JDM-is-my-name there is no face or body type, those people called scarlet Johansen a secret trans because she was too feminine. they are genuinely just delusional also saw them say the same about Henry Cavil because he was too masculine.

[@madeline6951]

God dammit, every time I see Leo and Layla I'm majorly freaked out by their under-animated mouths.

[@heavenly2k]

This is the best video about PragerU I've seen. Respectful and concise. It could literally be used in a court case against Dennis honestly. The stochastic terrorism is at unprecedented levels.

[@Tralfazz74]

What a great background. Giving her sunglasses & eyebrows gives more personality, and seating her in an empty classroom feels like she's both giving a lecture, and is one of the attendees. There's also room for the eyes to wander while still paying attention. It's serving the same role as a well-animated sprite, but without the several dozen hours of actual animating. Whether or not it was intended, well done.

[@bsmith8166]

This channel is amazing. Why isn't it blowing up yet?

[@tatertotbobaandpieck]

I have no idea either. Maybe because the audio isn't *perfect*? I'm not sure but his content slaps. I hope he gets some more traction soon!

[@martynabieniok9669]

Yessss, I've been looking for something new to watch and his content is perfect

[@dragonslayer101]

Because it's left leaning and youtube is a right leaning platform.

[@bsmith8166]

@@dragonslayer101 I wouldn't call youtube right wing.

[@Ironsuaba]

​@@bsmith8166It certainly isn't explicitly, but right-leaning content tends to get more and better sponsorships - therefore getting more promotion on the platform, and the right is pretty good at gaming the algorithm to their advantage while the left is less so. Therefore, while YT isn't explicitly right-wing, it sure isn't left-wing, and the result of the way it works is that it is better for right-wingers than for left-wingers. Not to say lefttubers can't succeed, but that they have it harder compared to their rightie counterparts.

[@tibbind]

I live in constant embarrassment and regret that I used prager U as a source in a highschool paper. I was just an indictrinated kid trying to hold onto unsubstantiated beliefs

[@brokentilebench]

I used to be so invested in their bullshit as well. It was my introduction to American politics in Middle school; it turned me into a sad, angry, reactionary, bigoted asshole. Also, cringe.

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

Right wing beliefs have a certain appeal to immature 14-year-old boys, but you are supposed to grow up, not hang on to the glory days of adolescence into middle age like the alt. right does. There is no need to apologize or be embarrassed because you are obviously capable of self-reflection and correcting errors, making you unsuitable for the right wing mob--they are certain that they are never wrong, even when they are talking about things they know nothing at all about. That's why their claim s of wanting discussion or debate are so absurd. If you reject facts you can't be taught anything. When they complain that "both sides": are not covered, it really means "you have to say my lies are true."

[@howlinghellgar2214]

Hey, the fact that you’re embarrassed means you’ve grown, and that’s what’s really important. Doubly so since you were a kid who I’d wager wasn’t taught how think critically, hence you being indoctrinated

[@atlasthewolf1508]

I was swept into the conservative bullcrap by my extremely conservative history teacher. I’m happy to have gotten out of that and to be my actual self.

[@tibbind]

@@atlasthewolf1508 I'm happy we've both gotten ourselves out of that nonsense

[@danieljames1868]

"But an argument built on mostly lies with one or two facts, is like a table where half the legs are spaghetti - bad." Pfft.

[@spongeintheshoe]

If the non-spaghetti legs can’t support the table on their own, then the table collapses. And if they can, then why do you even need the spaghetti ones?

[@maxwelldupier6901]

Spaghetti table legs are for the aesthetics, you can't get rid of them...

[@The_Fourth_Queen]

Earlier this month, I was just vibing on KZbin, and I clicked on one of PragerU's sponsored creators making reaction videos to The Little Mermaid 2023, and then it ended up reaching 'Representation Doesn't Matter' and then it got really weird with a lot of transphobia, and I eventually went from 'okay, this is different' to 'this is NOT the content I want to be ingesting'. After that, I was a bit wary of any 'PragerU' sponsored content, and thank goodness you made this video. It really shows how it's meant to pull people in with another agenda. I learned so much and can now better understand why I got that red-flags vibe from their videos. Thank you so much for making this!!!

[@MsZsc]

why they talk about transness outta the blue for no reason :raised eyebrow:

[@jefferyjones8399]

They have that corporate minimalist animation style, like you see at a job orientation.

[@lilypaigeham]

I love that this is a really good, well put, and well researched video and then it cuts to Natsuki with sunglasses

[@Stereo6400]

funny that that pragerforce guy said it was his peter parker story when peter parker fights facists regularly and would absolutely despise that guy and see straight through his bs because he’s heard it a million times before

[@JDM-is-my-name]

I am convinced he had only seen a random picture of spiderman and Peter Parker and thought he understood the whole thing instantly, just like too many of the right leaning commentators

[@alim.9801]

Also Peter Parker was working class and gave a crap about the interests of his fellow poors 😭

[@alim.9801]

​@@JDM-is-my-name maybe he's only seen the Bully Macguire part of Spiderman 3 and really identified with it

[@LiminalAlice4417]

Came because “Doki Doki Discourse” is a banger username, stayed because video good. Might have to watch all of them. Or at least most of them, I’m very busy

[@stephendavis5530]

From the company that brought you the hugely intellectual, "is Disney grooming your kids?"

[@chidy9699]

I would agree that meeting Ben shapiro and getting bitten by a radioactive spider are similar, but for different reasons.

[@TheD736]

My favorite part about the Peter Parker PragrU comparison is definitely the ending. "It doesn't happen to just anyone." Wasn't that the whole point? The radioactive spider was a total happenstance, it could've happened to anyone?

[@xenon8927]

Did you expect them to understand themes at all?

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

It's telling that they can't use real life examples for anything, just comic books. It should be a red flag.

[@guyferrari8124]

Not according to the spiderverse

[@braindeadporter]

15:45 I don't get how Paris stops being Paris because there are french people living there

[@akhnatenpage4854]

When he says Paris, he means white majority area. It's a dogwhistle. Insinuating Paris is only great if it stays white.

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

I'm pretty sure Paris had rats prior to the rise of the "woke mind virus." In fact, rats spread the bubonic plague in the thirteenth century, where a third of the population of Europe died, in part because they relied on the church and ignored what little scientific knowledge existed then. BTW you could literally be burned at the stake for saying the church might be wrong at the time. People should be learning about feudalism and what it was like to be a serf because corporate feudalism is the goal for the right. They want 99.9% of people to be a natural resource like coal or lumber and serve to be used to make money for the tiny and opulent ruling class. Anyone who can't work productively for any reason isn't worth keeping alive. No need for health care, education, infrastructure or anything gov't does and the serfs are kept in line by a small class of brutes who are free to do as they wish with them and kill them as needed. There isn't really a law as such, since the penalty for doing anything is probably death unless you survive, but then you can't work so you die anyway.

[@taylor6528]

hey! i've been binge watching some of your videos! it's nuts to me that you don't have more views. keep up the good work!

[@pipisochkaaaa]

I love the "disappointed preganforser" section BTW preganforser sounds like a breeding fetish thing

[@drywhall]

3:17 this graph is just do fucking funny to me. How can it be so vague???? What point are they trying to make??? And then the dick size joke was hilarious. Good shit 👍

[@zedbags]

I can't believe I unironically watched Prager U at one point. I was about 14 at the time and didn't really know what politics were and just agreed with whatever my dad said. I now am a very left leaning person mainly because I am capable of feeling compassion and understand that class divide is the true divide in this world

[@unknowngod8221]

just don't be a tankie i hate those people

[@unknowngod8221]

for various reasons you probably know or not

[@zedbags]

@@unknowngod8221 a tankie?

[@lucyla9947]

​​@@zedbags Tankies are a particular type of Leftist who in their attempt to oppose the Western Capitalist Hegemony of the US and it's Allies, wind up supporting dictatorships such as the Soviet Union despite their human rights violations because they oppose the capitalist hellscape that is the United States. Which is a problem for an obvious reason. The US being a capitalist hellscape does not mean you should go support nations like the USSR.

[@xenon8927]

Communist war crime apologists

[@dantecase4810]

it looks like this video is showing up in recommended for a lot of people, hope it blows up, you clearly put lots of work into this

[@cloaker]

58:00 I love how PragerU for they're THB History just dropped the budget and you can easilly spot the greenscreen artefact like they didn't care.

[@Cuhriss]

how is this only now reaching my reccommendations this was a great breakdown and deserves much more attention

[@soulfer2342]

An interesting addition to this video is that PragerU is now officially in public schools in Florida and Texas. Yet another way for them to target kids and younger people.

[@Rossoneri2]

But remember, they're completely against indoctrination

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

The right wing accuses teachers of indoctrination with no evidence for their accusations. Of course, if you know the alt. right , you know that every accusation is a confession.

[@emubeepboop]

my history teacher used pragerU videos to explain different political systems. I called him out for it and he was like "whattt this isn't biased at all..." but mind you this teacher was very biased. He docked a mark from one of my assignments because I mentioned that the wealth gap was rising, his stated reasoning was "don't be so depressing :(" and made the least original sexist jokes. (he has finally retired now and is now in politics) I could rant about this teacher for ages...

[@joelsytairo6338]

Honestly in a vacuum “craftory” sounds like a really cool idea and something i absolutely would have loved as a kid.

[@thelunaticcultist5157]

In the section where you talk about being green, you give it a brief mention but don’t really say that this sort of “individual action” campaign has been a strategy for diverting climate action for decades. It’s been used by the top polluters to put responsibility onto the consumer instead of the system that made the products. Not that the consumer isn’t free of fault, of course they chose to buy the product but a little man isn’t going to convince a C.E.O to change their entire production chain to be more eco-friendly.

[@hmnhntr]

It's such a (frustratingly) effective talking point because, like so many Conservative misdirects, it is based on a core premise that is, technically, true. It then uses that to paint any opposition to the idea as being 'unreasonable' or 'avoiding responsibility'. Thus, they effectively stop the conversation at the very start, because they offer a solution that is very simple and seems obvious. It's hard to disagree with. Because the second part goes unstated: Individuals should improve their consumption habits (so that companies don't have to do anything)

[@spongeintheshoe]

The thing is, _all_ the products do this stuff.

[@ffejpsycho]

Not even Dennis Prager would have a hope in hell, of offering a satisfactory answer to "What Is PragerU?"

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

he could very easily answer that! "my own personal propaganda machine that I use on behalf of whoever pays me and my own Christian fascist ideals."

[@ffejpsycho]

Yeah, but if you'd ask him 5 different times, you'd get 5 *wildly, unrelated* and different answers....@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305

[@LunaGladius]

I never knew I needed Natsuki to do a video essay on PragerU until now

[@vexywexypoo]

I used to think prageru was educational so Id leave the ads on but then I actually listened to it and was like "what is happening??"

[@moonbunny24]

I kid you not, the ad under the video for me is "Charlie Kirk takes on smug liberal kid who has a lot to learn." Why on earth there are people who think that conservatives are the scrappy underdogs taking on the "liberal elites" is a mystery to me.

[@Nhblubird]

I got the same ad lol. And underneath is a caption reading "communication is key", which is incredibly ironic 💀

[@dontinsultmyprevioushandle]

Same

[@MrMarinus18]

But also the whole idea of a weak state being beneficial to industrialization is a lie. A powerful centralized state capable of mass mobalization, enormous construction projects, massive beaurocracy and powerful companies and institutions is essential for capitalism. The industrialization of Britain, France, Germany, America and Russia did not happen organically. It happened due to state coordination and investment. There is a reason why Italy and Germany didn't industrialize until they were united and why Japan industrialized the way that it did. The whole idea that you can just give the rules of capitalism and industry will build itself is a lie. Nothing will just build itself, industrialization was a political decision that countries make.

[@computerhardware2063]

I thought this peter parker story dude was pulling up some sick satire, bro i laughed my ass dead off

[@Hiya8partyz]

Seeing 1984 and Animal Farm on that list makes me think that either they wildly misinterpreted them so as to fit their ideologies, or they haven’t actually read them at all and are just obsessed with the ideas they have about the books. I mean, 1984’s protagonist literally fantasizes about the grape of a woman and then he starts having an affair. Dunno how many conservative parents would want their kids reading even implied sexy times. Could probably go more in depth with the book contents and whatnot, but I’m very tired. Also, with the most superficial searches and research, you find out Orwell was a socialist. Oof.

[@MrMarinus18]

1984 is about fascism and is kind of a "what-if" of fascism winning and being taken to it's logical extreme.

[@Hiya8partyz]

@@MrMarinus18True, 1984’s whole premise is living in a world dominated by fascist totalitarianism, but it takes a very strong stance against those ideologies. Winston dreams about overthrowing the Party and seeking the truth (even if his job, one of his few pleasures, is covering up that exact thing) and is in constant fear about being found out by the Thought Police for those anti-Party sentiments. *Spoilers for the ending below* It is only when he is literally tortured for weeks, months, however long because his perception of the passage of time becomes broken, that he accepts the Party and loves Big Brother. 1984 does just about everything it can to say ‘totalitarianism is bad’, and it baffles me that some conservatives don’t see how so many of the ideas presented conflicts with their beliefs. But you know. Doublethink.

[@burnforeverandever]

1:11:28 Aside from being a screenwriter for Turning Red, I wonder what other contributions Dennis Prager has made to the creative industry

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

Without the alt. right, the porno industry would be in real trouble.

[@justanidiotmk2749]

29:53 if anyone near me wore a Prager u tshirt to my school they would actually have been found in the dumpsters. My former school had a pretty large (and slightly violent) LGBTQIA+ membership, and honestly, id be there beating the guy up as well.

[@MsZsc]

you’re better than them dude,

[@justanidiotmk2749]

@@MsZsc I appreciate the hopefulness but I don't plan on being better, my plan is to make sure they don't even get the chance to be worse.

[@doritos4956]

They do believe that to teach kids, you need to beat them so ig you and the other people in your school are following prager and other conservatives' rules

[@danieljames1868]

... wait. Okay, so. By the logic of dennis prager's heirarchy of sexual immorality, if chastity is more sinful than premarital sex... doesn't that mean that if you're not married and can't for whatever reason you should be participating in premarital sex avidly? I think he missed something there. Also, the chastity thing is a bit of homophobia too, albeit maybe unintentionally - because by it, even homosexual folks who don't participate in homosexual acts are still living a life of sin because they're chaste. (It's also acephobic, but nevermind that for now)

[@purplesky2369]

this belief of theirs is like really really disturbing as soon as you put more than 2 seconds of thought into it

[@KreaterK]

29:12 I nearly choked on a chicken nugget. Dude thinks he's Peter Parker??

[@Blackheartzero]

From what I remember of Spider-Man, no one in their right mind would ever want to be Peter Parker- _not even Peter Parker!_

[@dr0g_Oakblood]

1:12:49 - I don't know if I would even call that a bad Italian accent, it sounds like he's trying to play the Counting Vampire from Sesame Street. Also historical note here, why is Ferdinand given such ridiculous prominence here (front and center, with a ridiculously larger crown and Isabela adopting a meek submissive pose) compared to Isabela considering that Isabela ruled Castile, the much larger kingdom and more relevant to the concept of "Spain", as opposed to her husband and cousin Ferdinand of Aragon? I mean the answer is probably sexism, but this is just obscene.

[@shadowgloria]

Looking at the "Chuck Wilson" Twitter bio kills me as someone who went to Central Michigan University. 😂

[@worm_eater93]

this is such a huge and well-researched video! love your channel keep it up!!

[@justinbremer2281]

the worst thing about moments like 1:43:52 is finding out I've already hit the Like button

[@LadyDoomsinger]

Honestly, the whole concept of home schooling is absolutely bonkers to me. My mother is a teacher, I remember her studying 4 years on the specific subjects she would teach and *how to teach it* properly to young people. I remember her sitting up late at night studying this, supported by my father's job (which didn't pay all that well), for those four years, while we weren't dirt poor, my parents were keenly aware of how strained their budget was, and we could only afford the cheapest food and clothes for that 4 year period, because my mom didn't have the time to work even part time with all the studying involved with becoming a teacher. Even afterwards, when she was hired at a private school (a Christian school, btw), she had to work long hours every day and weekends just to prep for the next lessons, grading homework, etc. And she only teaches 3 subjects. And she freaking loved her job. Now imagine some average parent, who doesn't have a passion for teaching, like my mother does, who hasn't had even a rudimentary education in how to teach - and no proper education in the subjects being taught - while also not having the time because they're working a regular job (or running the household, if it's "that" kind of conservative home) - while ALSO having to teach EVERY SINGLE SUBJECT on the curriculum. The SHEER F*CKING ARROGANCE of thinking any lay person, with a 20 year old high school diploma and a couple of KZbin videos can do what my mother worked and still works herself ragged doing is absolutely insane, and frankly infuriating to me. It's as absurd as some schmuck deciding he wants to perform his own surgery because he doesn't trust the "elite" doctors at hospitals with their "evolutionary indoctrination" and "woke sterile operating environment". Teachers are professionally TRAINED to TEACH. It's literally what they have dedicated their lives to doing. And someone comes along thinking, they can not only do the same thing they do with a fraction of the work put into it, but do it BETTER?! Give me a f*cking break.

[@00080001]

This is an excellent video, it needs more views

[@maxp9347]

As someone around that followed the Owen Benjamin saga he said the nazi things long before the pragur u incident

[@xibalbalon8668]

Owen is a bizzare loon and not enough people talk about it

[@maxp9347]

@@xibalbalon8668 definitely the alt right was talking about him more then any leftist

[@xibalbalon8668]

@@maxp9347 I only know razorfist who happily went on his stream like he wasn't some neo-nazi who doesn't believe in dinosaurs

[@astabaker9421]

I appreciate that you left Shinigami Eyes on for screencaps lol

[@DokiDokiDiscourse]

i keep telling myself i'll remember to flick it off but it's not happening, too useful of a browser extension to not have running

[@Lexithepoptart]

I’m so glad that despite being in a private school, and having to watch a fair few PraegerU videos in my day, I still had some good and honest educators. I will forever respect my history teacher who broke down common disinformation about the events we were learning about, and made America’s wrongdoings crystal clear. Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it yadda yadda

[@rurii8_1]

I just wanna say, this was AMAZING background audio and I have no clue why

[@galasidan]

The amount of scorn on the phrase" but they were not courses they're KZbin videos" is incredibly funny coming from somebody who makes 2-hour long KZbin videos that are way more informational and easy to listen to than any classroom setting I have ever been in

[@hannahjones5196]

I am loving the picture for the convergent evolution, humming bird moths my beloved

[@sophia-helenemeesdetricht1957]

25:55 - this is one of the reasons I make the controversial statement that Denis Prager is not meaningfully Jewish. Because there is a very famous story in the Tanakh where a Jewish woman kills a man rather than has sex with him per his demand and she's a hero, and a less famous but still prominent passage from Talmud where a man claims his "lovesickness" will kill him if he is not allowed to lay with a woman, and the Sages' reponse was "lol then perish. She doesn’t want him, this is forbidden."

[@taiwanisacountry]

My college experience spans over 3 different universities, getting challenged on my current world view, and learning to speak Chinese and getting to meet my now wife. Ow yeah and I also learned how to spot BS. But hey maybe his videos are as exciting as standing in Shanghai's Fudan university and singing the original university song in a protest against the removal of the phrase "freedom of thought" and as a china studies bachelor getting to explain to my German and Swedish classmates what "thought control" is. They were blissfully innocent on the idea of actual thought control. So I explained it to them the psychology behind. If you know that your actions and voice has no impact at all, as if you are screaming in an empty room, then you won't do those actions. To preserve your mental sanity and capacity you will be begin to block out thoughts that can never according to your mind be realized. Who here spends time thinking about how they would plan for how to spend 24 million dollars. Yeah nobody. That is the same state of dream scenario that standing up to the CCP is. If just then.... And then you go on with your life. The German guy still did not understand, so I kept on explaining it to him.

[@Femyoz]

Just discovered this channel, you're incredibly underrated.

[@WordsofHeresy]

PragerU is like a radioactive spider because, once it bites you, it gives you cancer

[@vadym-beep1241]

PragerU IS cancer. It's also infectious and it's just a giant cult

[@antonkraghpaaskesen5050]

The best part of the PragerU package is the box, is a better backhanded compliment than i could ever give

[@Ludumm]

One thing of note that wasn’t highlighted on was micheal Knowles mentioning how the native Americans as a “different race”. He goes out of his way to unnaturally add in that the objects of the atrocities committed were of a different race. I’m assuming here, but I can only think this is done to lessen his atrocities because he committed them against an out group that weren’t like him. It’s so ghoulishly supremecist vernacular.

[@samuelkuhn4067]

It must be a pretty fragile civilization if all it takes is two dudes kissing to collapse it.

[@dang1099]

Dude, great video man! Youre giving me Shaun vibes and i love it!

[@LuchaLLibro]

Given Steve Ditko's tendency to jam Randian screeds into Peter Parker's mouth, it wouldn't have been the first time someone's tried to puppeteer Spider-Man into conservative agitprop.

[@DarianTrinity]

Got this video in my recommendations. I don't know what this channel is. Clocked out of sheer curiosity without seeing the channel name. Needless to say, the first frame of the video shocked me more than it should have

[@SirSealIII]

I just had a PragerU ad saying that they have the facts. Thank you PragerU for teaching us about Irony.

[@cherrycolareal]

I got one talking about how appealing JFK was, and the first thing that was listed was how good he looked.

[@toadallyhuman]

this is a great video! it really is just EVERYTHING prageru is. its great coverage and an example of why you shouldnt take everything at face value ‼️

[@Emel_unlegit]

wow didnt expect a ddlc vid owning prageru

[@Theexpectatior1745]

Hope this gets recommended more

[@lonedragon3261]

Clicked on this video because I receive a lot of spam email from Prageru and had no clue what it was.

[@thegreatBarbossa]

To be fair, one should not understate the ways Thatcher has helped the UK. Her death was one of the best things to happen to the country, after all.

[@lottakoiravili]

perfect family night movie!!! hehe tysm for this video! was gonna watch all the lil vids but realized theres this :)

[@tomasxfranco]

This just feels like parodies that are too real 😂

[@bradentheman1373]

I’m not even kidding, i just got a prageru ad while watching this video. LMAO

[@rootbeerrain]

prageru is just evil crash course

[@bluebobsqurepants]

This is an incredible video. Hope you start getting more views!

[@bigbeefscorcho]

This was a difficult watch because so much deliberate misinformation makes me furious, but you present things excellently and also have a very cute voice :)

[@zenheretic]

hey man, great well thought out video. more people should see it

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

8:33 Now that is so far beyond any possible semblance of reason that I am speechless, that is to say, without words or comment.

[@alextheferret5674]

My grandpa loves pragerU, and when i was 10-ish, he gave me a Rush Limbaugh book about the native Americans lmao, I'm gay now so I don't think the converting worked lol

[@renaigh]

Prager-Man, he was bitten by a radioactive Dennis Prager.

[@LiverpoolReject]

"to bad Paris isn't Paris"... Let me describe Paris exactly how Paris has always been described 😂