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Louisiana Superintendent of Training Cade Brumley <\/span>announced<\/a> Tuesday that public faculties might be allowed to make use of the unaccredited, right-wing nonprofit PragerU “edu-tainment” youngsters’s movies.<\/span><\/p>\n PragerU\u2019s <\/span>billionaire-backed<\/a>, Islamophobic, <\/span>homophobic<\/a>, local weather denialist, racist, and finally revisionist content material was born out of the <\/span>repugnant minds<\/a> <\/span>of right-wing radio present host <\/span>Dennis Prager<\/a> and screenwriter Allen Estrin. PragerU is a <\/span>propaganda project<\/a> <\/span>designed to focus on youngsters with far-right concepts and alternate info.<\/span><\/p>\n The movies vary from animations for very younger youngsters to hosted informationals for younger adults, with titles like <\/span>“Born to hate Jews,”<\/a> about how Muslims are raised to be antisemitic. There\u2019s additionally <\/span>“Would you rather be colonized by Aztecs or Christians?,”<\/a> which is hosted by Christian conservative extremist <\/span>Michael Knowles.<\/a><\/p>\n Throughout his announcement on Tuesday, Brumley <\/span>claimed that PragerU\u2019s content<\/a> aligns with the state\u2019s new social research requirements, which he calls the <\/span>\u201cfreedom framework.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Need to educate your youngsters about Christopher Columbus crossing the ocean blue? PragerU has a video the place youngsters journey again in time <\/span>to learn<\/a> from an animated Columbus that \u201cbeing taken as a slave is healthier than being killed!\u201d There\u2019s additionally a video the place abolitionist Frederick Douglass says the Founding Fathers of our nation <\/span>were also abolitionists<\/a> (they weren\u2019t) and takes a swipe on the Black Lives Matter motion.<\/span><\/p>\n However PragerU isn\u2019t nearly Islamophobia and revisionist U.S. historical past. There are <\/span>several climate denialism videos<\/a>, too. There\u2019s even an eight-minute video titled <\/span>\u201cHow To Embrace Your Masculinity\u201d<\/a> that explains that there is no such thing as a such factor as \u201cpoisonous masculinity\u201d and that it was \u201cmasculinity that defeated the Nazis in World Warfare II.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Louisiana now joins <\/span>Oklahoma<\/a>, <\/span>Florida<\/a>, <\/span>Montana<\/a>, <\/span>New Hampshire<\/a>, and <\/span>Arizona<\/a> in including PragerU supplies to their public training curriculum. These supplies embrace books for younger grownup readers like <\/span>\u201cSofia Survives The Border,\u201d<\/a> which is a couple of younger lady who \u201clearns why sturdy borders are important for conserving communities secure and affluent.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne <\/span>described the addition<\/a> of PragerU sources to the state\u2019s curriculum as a strategy to \u201ccurrent another\u201d to \u201cthe acute left facet\u201d of training.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In different phrases: Republicans need to current another actuality to the info being taught in faculties.<\/span><\/p>\n Day by day brings a brand new prognostication that’s making President Joe Biden’s marketing campaign operatives fear or freak out. Is Donald Trump operating away with the election? No. Not even shut.<\/p>\n