• Thanks4Nothing@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Along the same lines, but not to this level:

    A few years back, we had a family member who is at a very extreme end of the political spectrum give my kids a book set that they “saw in a facebook ad” that said it was all about wholesome family values. It was called the “Tuttle Twins.”

    Not knowing what it was, we started reading them with our kids. The first book we read was fantastic(we read out of order). It talked about pencils, and followed the entire supply chain. Very informational, entertaining, and educational. It wasn’t until the 2nd book, and on that the agenda crept in. Funny how when they talked about crime, all of the cartoons of criminals were diverse. When they talked about landscapers and gardeners, they were all depicted as hispanic. It kept getting worse and worse. Talking about education being corrupt, about how much immigration impacted people, and tried to justify a lot of things. We stopped reading early on, but I browsed them all to make sure I wasn’t imagining it. Then I googled them, and I realized how bad the propaganda was.

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    1 year ago

    These videos are approved to be shown to children in Florida.

    I am honestly scared for the next generation of children who believe that slavery wasn’t that bad, and whatever other bullshit Prageru preaches

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      The divide between those who eat this bullshit and those who were responsibly raised will be fucking wild. Like think about that one dude in your life that hadn’t heard about ‘X’, a thing that’s common knowledge, and how baffling that was but now it’s nonstop bafflement with a certain percentage of population.

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        You mean kind of like science deniers like flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers and regular people?

        The divide already happened.

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    I think this article( and by extension you guys) are misrepresenting the pragerU clip. All its said was at the time, slavery was prevalent across the globe and it was “no big deal” for their societies of their time.

    Who is to say that we arent going to look back and treat the prison system the same way or we would classify terminal online as slavery to corporations. Obviously slavery was inhumane but the people at the time didnt see it that way.