Louisiana Superintendent of Training Cade Brumley announced Tuesday that public faculties might be allowed to make use of the unaccredited, right-wing nonprofit PragerU “edu-tainment” youngsters’s movies.
PragerU’s billionaire-backed, Islamophobic, homophobic, local weather denialist, racist, and finally revisionist content material was born out of the repugnant minds of right-wing radio present host Dennis Prager and screenwriter Allen Estrin. PragerU is a propaganda project designed to focus on youngsters with far-right concepts and alternate info.
The movies vary from animations for very younger youngsters to hosted informationals for younger adults, with titles like “Born to hate Jews,” about how Muslims are raised to be antisemitic. There’s additionally “Would you rather be colonized by Aztecs or Christians?,” which is hosted by Christian conservative extremist Michael Knowles.
Throughout his announcement on Tuesday, Brumley claimed that PragerU’s content aligns with the state’s new social research requirements, which he calls the “freedom framework.”
Need to educate your youngsters about Christopher Columbus crossing the ocean blue? PragerU has a video the place youngsters journey again in time to learn from an animated Columbus that “being taken as a slave is healthier than being killed!” There’s additionally a video the place abolitionist Frederick Douglass says the Founding Fathers of our nation were also abolitionists (they weren’t) and takes a swipe on the Black Lives Matter motion.
However PragerU isn’t nearly Islamophobia and revisionist U.S. historical past. There are several climate denialism videos, too. There’s even an eight-minute video titled “How To Embrace Your Masculinity” that explains that there is no such thing as a such factor as “poisonous masculinity” and that it was “masculinity that defeated the Nazis in World Warfare II.”
Louisiana now joins Oklahoma, Florida, Montana, New Hampshire, and Arizona in including PragerU supplies to their public training curriculum. These supplies embrace books for younger grownup readers like “Sofia Survives The Border,” which is a couple of younger lady who “learns why sturdy borders are important for conserving communities secure and affluent.”
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne described the addition of PragerU sources to the state’s curriculum as a strategy to “current another” to “the acute left facet” of training.
In different phrases: Republicans need to current another actuality to the info being taught in faculties.
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