Desantis Approves PragerU Propaganda for K-12 in FL

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https://time.com/6301287/florida-prager ... n-schools/

From the article: (underlining mine)

"PragerU is going through the process of becoming an approved educational resource in other states, but would not reveal which ones. Streit says the company is not trying to write curriculum; PragerU Kids videos are supposed to be supplementary—and boost the company's sales along the way. Streit says: “The grand vision is that parents on the weekends will sit with their kids and watch our videos and order our books and order our magazines and have really great conversations with their families that can be supplemented with the work that's being done in school.” "

In other words, once Desatan has gutted school curriculum, Prager propaganda will fill in the gaps with the Approved Version of history, and hopefully turn a tidy profit in the process. Perhaps some of that money ends up back in Desatan's pocket.

Wouldn't be the first time he's ran a grift like this - like when one of the heirs to the Publix fortune donated a heap of money to him, and by TOTAL COINCIDENCE, Publix was given the exclusive rights to distribute the first run of Covid vaccines in FL.

Wow! That's really bad. Many kids are subjected to more than enough misinformation in their homes; they shouldn't also be hearing it at school.

florida has become a fascism development laboratory.

Prager, personality wise, is a right wing jackass.

he's just so full of himself, so willing to shove things down our throats and force square pegs through round holes like so many other right wingers tend to do.

Prager U curriculum in a nutshell:

1. If you're white, straight, cis, male and Christian, you're being persecuted.

2. Anything other than (a) completely unfettered corporatism, (b) being allowed to own a personal arsenal of whatever weapons you want, and (c) being allowed to say what you want, when you want, and on whatever platform you want, with total impunity...is Communism.

3. Law enforcement can do no wrong, and it is not ok to criticize them.

4. If we don't have one-party rule by the MAGAs, we will become China or Venezuela.

5. All of society's problems began after we took prayers out of the schools.

6. Sex ed: anything outside of marriage, and not for procreation (anything other than vaginal, missionary sex), is evil and should be a crime.

7. Anyone who isn't a Christian nationalist is a pedophile and/or human trafficker.

are people like him just self-justifying sociopaths, or something else?

Anyone actually seen any of this material?

The more I remember about PragerU, the more this deal feels like a grift.

PragerU has long tried to posture itself as an educational institution. They formerly called themselves Prager University, before they were hit with a cease and desist on the grounds that they weren't one, and therefore couldn't call themselves one.

They also previously had a temper tantrum when youtube decided that their content required age verification to be viewed. This is why they now stream in-house.

This deal with desantis seems like a power move to both gain some false credibility as a source of "educational material", and to gain the exposure to kids that youtube previously denied them.

I wonder how much prager donated for this privilege. I recall desantis' campaign is having money troubles. Guess he better shill faster.