NEW: Florida just approved PragerU Kids’ right-wing propaganda videos for use in public school classrooms. There's copaganda, celebrations of colonialism, and more. Follow along for some lessons DeSantis et al are foisting on students.
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One video tells the viewer that embracing climate denialism is akin to participating in the Warsaw Uprising
Another has a fictional Booker T. Washington telling two children: “Future generations are never responsible for sins of the past”
One responds that she "won’t feel guilty about historical stuff"
The kids later travel to meet Christopher Columbus, who tells them: “The place I discovered was beautiful, but it wasn’t exactly a paradise of civilization, and the native people were far from peaceful”
You'll never guess PragerU Kids' take on Canada's government-funded healthcare system
The overriding theme of PragerU Kids is that schools have made white children feel uncomfortable by teaching them about forms of oppression, and that that anxiety must be alleviated by alternately burying and sanitizing the past
The goal is to render history and its inheritances invisible, inert, and incapable of inspiring young people to seek a more equal and more just world.
There’s lots more in the piece. And PragerU is trying to expand to more states as we speak. /END
Thanks to @lawton_sophie & @jacktwheatley for the help watching and documenting all those (and many more) videos
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