Thread by @johnknefel

The crew at @mmfa watched 258 PragerU Kids videos. The content is even worse than you think. The dominant themes are denying climate change, celebrating capitalist exploitation (& demonizing socialism), and distorting the histories of Black & indigenous people in the US. Thread:

The piece was written & researched by @lawton_sophie, Jacina Hollins-Borges, @jacktwheatley, & me. mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/…

@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley Here’s Lincoln preparing his 2nd inaugural, saying he’s “very disappointed in the Confederacy” but that “yelling and scolding the South for the harm they caused” is “not going to get me or the nation anywhere.” Layla adds that it would “probably end up pushing them further away.”

@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley Here’s U.S. Grant talking about Robert E Lee’s surrender, saying “We were just caught on the opposite side of things.”

@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley In fact, Grant wrote in his memoir that Lee’s cause was “one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley In “How To Think Objectively,” the hosts say of climate change: “If someone tells you that the world is going to end in 12 years because of global warming…get other opinions on the matter and look at the data for yourself.”

@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley There’s too much anti-communism / red scare material to cover, but suffice it to say that PragerU finds much to praise of Czar Nicholas II, with the caveat that he was insufficiently neoliberal.

@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley You can find more examples and my original blog here

https://twitter.com/johnknefel/status/1684647089270075392

@lawton_sophie @jacktwheatley We all hope that journalists covering PragerU’s expansion into public schools (FL and now OK) find this research useful in informing the public about what’s contained in these videos. It's right-wing propaganda with bad-to-nonexistent scholarship. Trust us – we watched it all.