Replies to post #454919 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[newmedman]

sesame street showed me this

[blackhawks]

Despite the name, PragerU is not an academic institution and does not hold classes, does not grant certifications or diplomas, and is not accredited by any recognized body.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PragerU#:~:text=Despite%20the%20name%2C%20PragerU%20is,accredited%20by%20any%20recognized%20body.

PragerU's videos contain misleading or factually incorrect information promoting climate change denial. Historians and political scientists have also criticized PragerU's videos for containing misleading or inaccurate claims about topics such as slavery and racism in the United States, immigration, and the history of fascism. PragerU has been accused of promoting anti-LGBT politics.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/prageru-buys-takeover-ad-x-part-1m-campaign-promote-polarizing-detrans-rcna123351

The 21-minute film focuses on two people who have detransitioned, meaning they previously identified as transgender and later decided they were not. Though both of them began transitioning when they were adults, their stories are part of the film’s larger criticism of transition-related care for minors, which has recently become the target of Republican state legislators, who have passed laws to restrict puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery in 22 states over the last three years.

Kelley Robinson, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ rights organization, condemned Musk and X for “prioritizing their bottom line over the lived experience and humanity of transgender people.”

“So-called documentaries like the one peddled by PragerU do nothing more than spread misinformation and stigmatize transgender people,” Robinson said in a statement. “Given the growing threats of violence faced by the transgender community, offering a platform to this type of hate-filled propaganda is not just immoral—it’s dangerous. Today’s timeline takeover is another stain on the platform.”

[fuagf]

conix, You were clued in on Prager (not a university, but a far right propaganda pusher) months ago ..

That's the kind of detail about PragerU that detail-minded conix should be very
appreciative of. Detail of the type she has claimed to be always interested in.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171047076 .

blackhawks being the generous chappie he is has today serviced you yet again.

One other you should have read: Right-Wing Views for Generation Z, Five Minutes at a Time

[...]

To the founders and funders of PragerU, YouTube is a way to circumvent brick-and-mortar classrooms — and parents — and appeal to Generation Z, those born in the mid-1990s and early 2000s.

[...]

The way PragerU presents that “alternative voice” is in the measured tone of an online university, carefully avoiding the news cycle and President Trump .. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/prager-university . That is part of its power.

“They take old arguments about the threat of immigration but treat them as common sense and almost normative, wrapping them up as a university with a neutral dispassionate voice,” said Chris Chavez, the doctoral program director at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication.

[...]

Mr. Prager is 6-foot-4 and imposing, in a white button-down shirt, hunched over the microphone.

He read some promos for his sponsor Blinds.com. He took calls from listeners. He talked about the importance of children respecting parents (very important) and about how parents should not want their children to be the smartest in the class, but rather the most moral.

[That's a good position. Though the PragerU efforts in respect of that seem more a 'do as i say thing' rather than the other we all know.]

He carefully threaded the needle for listeners as he made the argument for Mr. Trump as a values leader.

[OUCH]

https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=172413136

And i thought you were in favor of more parental involvement in education. And that
you disliked Trump. Prager not a U is in opposition to you on both those counts.

And you told us clearly you were leaving here, what the hell are you doing back. How about keeping your word for once.

[sortagreen]

My sister just showed me this

Do they show you their naughty bits too? Do you like that, you sick old lady?

[Hanibal]

Conix, once again you conservatives exaggerate and create bigoted propaganda over something that's not an issue. Studies have shown that on average about 1% of people who transition regret that decision. 1%!!

And you choose to focus on that 1% and somehow turn that into the topic du jour.

Pathetic, sad and out of touch. No wonder today's youth are abandoning the conservative platform in droves.

Source:

https://apnews.com/article/transgender-treatment-regret-detransition-371e927ec6e7a24cd9c77b5371c6ba2b