NYT on Prager U

[Alma]

This should set off alarm bells

...on the right because it veers toward tinfoil hats and fashionable obstinacy.

...on the left because our media and campus culture has so morphed into a liberal funhouse that it makes...Prager U...palatable.

I somehow doubt either side will pay much attention.


Right-Wing Views for Generation Z, Five Minutes at a Time

 

[Songbird]

Eh, it'll spawn something called Ferragamo Tech which spawns something called Bastion State which spawns ...

 

[Inky_Wretch]

“Media and campus culture” is not a homogeneous thing. The campus culture from Harvard to Howard to UCLA to UAFS varies wildly. Same for local media.

And hucksters have always preyed on idiots.

 

[garrow]

It would be shocking if someone like Prager became POTUS after this.

 

[Alma]

Eh, it'll spawn something called Ferragamo Tech which spawns something called Bastion State which spawns ...

You got a problem with early 80s Rams or sumthin?

 

[Songbird]

You got a problem with early 80s Rams or sumthin?

Yeah, Waddy was wide ****ing open.

 

[Severian]

I've seen PragerU commercials on YouTube and always find them amusing. They must
pay good money in hopes of red-pilling viewers with five-minute "commercials"
for their bat-**** crazy ideas.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

This should set off alarm bells

...on the right because it veers toward tinfoil hats and fashionable obstinacy.

...on the left because our media and campus culture has so morphed into a liberal funhouse that it makes...Prager U...palatable.

I somehow doubt either side will pay much attention.


Right-Wing Views for Generation Z, Five Minutes at a Time

It’ll also set off alarms at Cleveland State.

 

[Big Circus]

“They are taught the bad parts of American history before the good parts.”

What the **** universe do these people live in? Public schools pretty much only teach the good parts.

 

[tapintoamerica]

This should set off alarm bells

...on the right because it veers toward tinfoil hats and fashionable obstinacy.

...on the left because our media and campus culture has so morphed into a liberal funhouse that it makes...Prager U...palatable.

I somehow doubt either side will pay much attention.


Right-Wing Views for Generation Z, Five Minutes at a Time

Nothing says Trumpism quite as much as the PragerU dictum “Give is five minutes and we’ll give you a semester.”

 

[Alma]

“They are taught the bad parts of American history before the good parts.”

What the **** universe do these people live in? Public schools pretty much only teach the good parts.

It seems like both sides are taught with much more consistency. (As it should be.)

College campuses are consistently liberal and there’s no reason to argue it. Especially English departments and journalism departments

 

[Liut]

It seems like both sides are taught with much more consistency. (As it should be.)

College campuses are consistently liberal and there’s no reason to argue it. Especially English departments and journalism departments

Regarding your first sentence, Alma, I hope you're right ... but I'm not so sure. For example, my understanding is the United States' genocide of native-Americans is still virtually ignored in elementary, middle and high school history classes. Hope I'm wrong.

 

[garrow]

My favorite PragerU course is all about how the Klan used to be full of Democrats.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

 

[Azrael]

College campuses are consistently liberal

It's literally referred to as a liberal arts education.

 

[Severian]

Especially English departments and journalism departments

What's your source on this?

 

[Alma]

Regarding your first sentence, Alma, I hope you're right ... but I'm not so sure. For example, my understanding is the United States' genocide of native-Americans is still virtually ignored in elementary, middle and high school history classes. Hope I'm wrong.

The middle school social studies teachers I know cover the Trail of Tears pretty extensively.

School in general is fixated on STEM, because those are the skills useful to make tech companies lots of employees who make CEOs lots of money.

 

[Alma]

What's your source on this?

Personal experience. What I’ve heard and seen.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

My favorite PragerU course is all about how the Klan used to be full of Democrats.

It’s always fun to point out to Republicans that Southern Dems were conservatives. Most of them can’t grasp that philosophy did not fall on strict party lines back then.

 

[Smallpotatoes]