"I'm against slavery, but..." -Fredrick Douglas, The FORMER SLAVE, in the pragerU cartoon.

@billc5433

2 жыл бұрын

"Things should be done within the system!" - Fredrick Douglas, a former slave who made TWO illegal escape attempts.

@IGotNoJam

2 жыл бұрын

@@billc5433 that's the cherry on top bruh I can't. Who are these people who blatantly put this bs out there?

@blitzir

2 жыл бұрын

@@IGotNoJam prageru workers

@johnfitzgeraldkennedy5076

2 жыл бұрын

@@blitzir and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself

@SirBlackReeds

2 жыл бұрын

Not nearly as bad as what Cosmopolitan and other outlets rued, but don't expect BJ to talk about it.

The cartoon version of Frederick Douglass saying "I'm certainly not ok with slavery, BUT..." has probably made Douglass roll in his grave so much that we can use him as an infinite energy source

@sycanide

2 жыл бұрын

he's rotating at a rate so fast that he's gained nuclear levels of energy, if we open his casket the explosion would shatter space and time

@ashtoncommittedarsonbutina131

2 жыл бұрын

@@sycanide after seeing this cartoon I'd certainly be ok with that

@CAPSLOCKPUNDIT

2 жыл бұрын

A CLEAN ENERGY SOURCE FOR MURICANS? NOT ON MY WATCH, PINKO!

@zab416

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I wish people who were good at writing and/or making speeches could come back just to throw a little shade in their personal style. Actually, any historical figure featured in this series would probably have some good roasts.

@Bisquick

2 жыл бұрын

This leads to an interesting moral paradox. That being that this horrifically stupid bullshit propaganda...has in the end created a source of infinite energy. So it...good actually?! Also, is it like Santa in that as soon Douglass's corpse essence no longer finds the situation absurd, the rotating black hole/Fredrick stops rotating and thus the perpetual energy produced from it dissipates along with it? In a way, we do need to trust the process guys, *_*puts on shades_** the Penrose process. *_*YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHH_** ...anyone remember that? CSI:Miami...CSI...Miami...yep... So Ukraine's in the news-- *_*dodges infinite tomatoes_**

The fact Prageru uses Galileo to support their ideas is ironic considering Galileo is pretty famous for going against the church, and Prageru is very supportive of religious authority

@quantumfall9930

Жыл бұрын

For real, the Church tried to destroy Galileo as a heretic because he dared to go against established doctrine.

@Aeivious

10 ай бұрын

@@quantumfall9930 thats the reason they are using him, they dont want the dirty lib teachers teaching their children that the guy who discovered gravity was some sort of anti church man, they want them questioning those filthy libtards

@officialtoddhoward69

9 ай бұрын

You think PragerU does any actual research? Nah they just use their third grade education level and throw in historical figures to support their backwards ideals

@superfluo6249

6 ай бұрын

He was a christian.

@Krystalllyne

6 ай бұрын

​@@superfluo6249You can be a Christian and go against a corrupted church

- Can travel back in time - Can't get a baking soda volcano to work

@commanderdemonno9819

10 ай бұрын

if he can travel back in time he could have just tried traveling back a few minutes every time he screwed it up

@THE_TRAPPYMAN

3 ай бұрын

They could have traveled before the existance of the show to not suffer

"Slavery is a stinker. But you know what's worse than slavery? Burning paper with rules written on it!" - Fredrule Douglaws, famous lover of authority

@oliverhunt6813

2 жыл бұрын

Fred Idiglaws, 'man'

@gandalfforpresident4676

2 жыл бұрын

Fredrule Douglaws I can't. You sir are a genius!

@whitewilliam9786

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but what if those papers allow people to be bought and sold like cattle?

@SkyknightMu

2 жыл бұрын

Didn’t Douglass burn a copy of the Constitution once?

@PvblivsAelivs

2 жыл бұрын

There are a lot of lovers of authority. In order to get rid of slavery, abolitionists also removed the idea of government deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed. If nothing else, the fact that several states endeavored to remove themselves from the Union indicates that they did not consent. Forcing them to stay was, itself, an authoritarian act. And it doesn't matter how you vilify the southern states. It doesn't matter how awful you imagine them to be or even how closely that reflects reality. This is government saying "you will be ruled and you have no real say." Now, no one in a position of prominence publicly makes such an observation. All the people who have come to prominence in recent times want to wield that power and will only object to their opponents having it.

HUGE red flags whenever someone follows up "I'm certainly not okay with slavery" with a "but" right after.

@LeBatteur

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously. There’s no “but” after that. Because there is no justification for slavery. It’s just WRONG, and if someone disagrees with that.. I don’t know how I’m supposed to explain to someone that slavery is wrong if they can’t figure it out themselves based on the evidence.

@Crispman_777

2 жыл бұрын

@@LeBatteur I'm sure you could reason it out with some effort and imagined hypotheticals. The first thing that comes to mind is "What about work animals?" but that's kind of weak. Something something utility... something something stupidly extreme bad outcome for not doing it. You get the idea.

@mynaemismoos

2 жыл бұрын

It is "I am not a racist, but..." with different words. No good sentence will come from it.

@teal_m_101

2 жыл бұрын

'I'm against slavery, but... THE ECONOMY DEMANDS BLOOD FOR THE GEARS!'

@Riolupai

2 жыл бұрын

I'm certainly not okay with slavery, but I'm also certainly not okay with slavery

As a gay man, I think it's hilarious that PragerU has put forth a product called PREP.

@xij3505

Жыл бұрын

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@arcqx9676

Жыл бұрын

💀💀💀

@ramsesses5509

Жыл бұрын

💀💀💀

@im4ft622

Жыл бұрын

I don’t get it :(

@WildCard-ze3tm

Жыл бұрын

@@im4ft622 PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis) is the use of various drugs to prevent the contraction of HIV. It is commonly used among sexually active gay men.

They literally tell children that slavery was a worthwhile compromise. That cracked me up hard.

@Saibellus

Жыл бұрын

i always find that such an interesting point to lean on. like slavery bad, BUT america good! so its all a wash really. but what is slavery a compromise WITH? what were the two endpoints that slavery was the middle ground of? cuz one end is no slaves, and the other is….everyone slaves…?? and the middle ground is only SOME slaves….?

@Maggerama

Жыл бұрын

@@Saibellus Ha, it's exactly that absurd. But hey, after a few videos about these schmucks, it's easy to see they never even plan to go anywhere with their surface bullshit. Just throwing their dubious dogmas around.

@spongeintheshoe

Жыл бұрын

It _would_ be funny, if there weren't parents and teachers _actually_ using this to teach children.

@Maggerama

Жыл бұрын

@@spongeintheshoe It still is, just morbidly.

@achyuththouta6957

Жыл бұрын

Based on what I've seen on social media even USA seems to be seriously religious. You'd think a country responsible for such huge scientific and technological advancement wouldn't make laws and politics centred around religion but doesn't seem to be the case

“I’m certainly not ok with slavery… but- “ - Said Frederick Douglass

@knutthompson7879

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I mean, wow.

@Doctor-Infinite

2 жыл бұрын

@@knutthompson7879 literally made me say “Yikes 😬”

@c0ttage

2 жыл бұрын

not pragerU making a black puppet to say whatever they want jfc

@somerandomgoblin2583

2 жыл бұрын

It's honestly disturbing

@ddjsoyenby

2 жыл бұрын

"i'm not saying c0lumb1ne was based............however........" - definitely the survivors for real trust me bruh.

"Boy I sure wish I could've met Ronald Reagan." - No kid ever

@billmozart7288

2 жыл бұрын

I bet Ben Shabeebo said it

@graeme8866

2 жыл бұрын

@@billmozart7288 Only because he got told that that's a very mature thought for a boy his age. It seems like that effect started wearing off later in life.

@ThatPazuzu

2 жыл бұрын

His sister then talks about how hot Reagan was.

@JackedThor-so

2 жыл бұрын

@@graeme8866 That was literally me as a kid

@graeme8866

2 жыл бұрын

@@JackedThor-so Yeah same but i started hating the way people saw me and then basically started not ever being serious and saying dumb shit using the fast talking saying big words. Kinda killed my ego by pushing boundaries on the dumb shit i could convince people are intelligent vocabulary. Well looking back on it it was so stupid but also fun. Well im still a kid in my eyes so its ok to be cringe.

Just had a look at their channel and they've produced *_so many_* gems: 'Has Feminism Ruined Work?', 'Why I Sued My Daughter's Woke School', 'Save Your Child's Mind With PragerU', 'Is Stealing Wrong?' But my personal favourites have to be: 'Who Would Hide A Jew?', 'What Even Is Abortion?' and the absolute *best* of all 'Healthcare Is Not A Right.'

@winterviveca5976

Жыл бұрын

they have a new one called "Why is denying Holocaust bad?" and comment section there is truly insane

@rootfish2671

Жыл бұрын

No way you made that last one up shut up

@barrackobama2216

Жыл бұрын

​@@rootfish2671 no really they do kzread.info/dash/bejne/iH6uu8asp9DKZZc.html

@ssjcrafter8842

Жыл бұрын

@@rootfish2671 I searched for it and it's a thing... Prageru is insane. straight up lunacy.

@Vpentrov

Жыл бұрын

That Jew one sounds nice..

I learned about slavery from Liberty's Kids when I was in preschool, and they took so much care into teaching kids about difficult parts of history. I learned about how slaves needed a special document to be free, and if they ever lost it, they could be recaptured and sold in an auction. There was a character who looked after the kids as a mentor, and he was forced to watch his long-lost brother be auctioned off in one of the southern states. This show didn't pull any punches, and they definitely didn't sugarcoat the pain REAL people endured in that time period. Downplaying slavery is just an extra slap in the face for everyone who was forced to live that way

@its.evviii

Жыл бұрын

absolutely agreed.

@thevioletbee5879

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure Liberty Kids has a shit ton of problems, but there were a lot of things that really stuck with me and made me think.

@birdie8006

Жыл бұрын

I think there's several subjects we can't sugarcoat when teaching to students. They're often horrifying or confusing to learn about, but completely important. These are the ones that really changed me, from memory, in my schooling (keep in mind I'm 24 years old and have gone to private Catholic schools until college): -Black slavery in America (grade school) -The Holocaust (grade school) -The Trail of Tears (grade school) -False incarceration and the death penalty (high school) (surprisingly, we learned more about being pro-life with the death penalty than we did about abortion) (I'm now pro-choice but anti-death penalty) -9/11 (grade school) -Christopher Columbus (high school) -Bloody Sunday & the Civil Rights Movement (grade school and high school) -General racism topics, including authors Frederick Douglass and Maya Angelou. "Each Little Bird that Sings" changed my life and made me cry and feel so sick but I am so, so grateful for the understanding of the horrors of the underprivileged and I wish every white student had the chance to read it (high school)

@killedbycrit

7 ай бұрын

Liberty’s kids is infinitely better than PragerU, but thats barely saying anything

Lmao. Why do conservatives always get Galileo wrong. He wasn't going against the scientific consensus, he was going against the dogma of the Church.

@rmcdudmk212

2 жыл бұрын

Why? Inbreeding that's why.

@somerandomguy4919

2 жыл бұрын

Conservatives are against education that doesn't fit their narrative

@akorn9943

2 жыл бұрын

I mean hey, the more people who choose to honor a man who trusted science over the conservative dogma of the community around him, the better the world is in my book. It would honestly be really funny to see kids whose parents make them watch this stuff idolize people like Galileo and Frederick Douglass, only to have their politics completely changed by researching what those ppl *actually* stood for

@graeme8866

2 жыл бұрын

@@akorn9943 I just don't get why EVERYTHING in America has to be so politicized. Is real day to day life really so toxic there that people are resorting to basically indoctrinating children??

@77mcmarine

2 жыл бұрын

@@akorn9943 I pray, to whatever power governs this universe, this happens at minimum 51% of the time in the PragerU households

Just the fact that they don't utilize actual quotes from the historical figures, instead putting words in their mouths, pantomiming these figures with ideas that were never their own is just genuinely shocking and wrong.

@alicethetransdalek7333

2 жыл бұрын

it almost feels like using any actual quotes from important historical figures would immediately show that PragerU is just completely and utterly full of bullshit definitely can't be that tho, certainly daddy dennis would never lie to me

@user-et3xn2jm1u

2 жыл бұрын

Also can we talk about how tragic the voice-acting is? I don't know anything about voice-acting but come on.

@thomaspetrucka9173

2 жыл бұрын

It’s…a kid’s show. These people spoke a different English than we do today. It’s like expecting a kids to understand Romans, or Isaiah.

@aazhie

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomaspetrucka9173 oh please. I read Dickens in my preteens and it would not be hard to quote a person's actual written word and have the child characters ask questions or reinterpret it into "modern speak". I don't have ANY confidence that Prager would actually do that well either, but at least they wouldn't be fabricating imaginary bullshit.

@MysticMorigan1998

2 жыл бұрын

I live in the bible belt and I remember a guy giving me his business card with a quote from George Washington. It was hard not to laugh in his face for me. "It is impossible to govern a nation without God or the Bible." Yeah because he totally desperately wanted a union of church and state right. /scarcasm

Man, just looking at these two points together hurts my head: 1. Be sceptical of the state when it's pushing vaccines. 2. Don't question the system or demand change.

@basedbomber

Жыл бұрын

Reject government,insert militia.

@basedbomber

Жыл бұрын

@Kleiner Reject government,insert militia.

Having a former slave explain how slavery is good, and they question why they're considered racist.

@dahelmang

Жыл бұрын

They never said slavery was good.

@oneangryboi408

Жыл бұрын

@@dahelmang Oh they sure damn did, and this isn't their only video doing so.

@dahelmang

Жыл бұрын

@@oneangryboi408 nobody is saying slavery is good.

@oneangryboi408

Жыл бұрын

@@dahelmang You must be a supporter or something, because they have a lot of videos where they attempt to convert how slavery is a good thing. Their main sponsor is a fratting company, so yeah, I think I have an idea that they're in support of slavery.

@dahelmang

Жыл бұрын

@@oneangryboi408 you must mean something different by slavery because I don't see any connection between fracking and slavery. And I watched the video and they didn't have him say anything good about slavery. you are just lying.

I’m still gawping at the fact that they had Frederick Douglas say “I’m against slavery BUT”

@Animotion3D

2 жыл бұрын

Frederick SUSglas

@DarkShadic9632

2 жыл бұрын

That’s not Frederick Douglas, that’s Brederick Bitchless

@Sh1ranu1

2 жыл бұрын

Knowing Better: Neoslavery It’s a great channel and he addressed that Fredrick Douglas quote

@toerklintv4185

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sh1ranu1 A very, very good video indeed.

@coolraygaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sh1ranu1 being reasonable: liberal nonsense

The way Douglas' voice was pitch-shifted to make him sound more black really completes the "puppeting a corpse" aesthetic they're going for 😘

@GeneralBolas

2 жыл бұрын

As bad as that was (and make no mistake, it was *bad* ), I found the Russian-accient-stolen-from-an-80s-sitcom to be worse.

@OctyabrAprelya

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeneralBolas Dimitrrrrrrrrrrrrri

@dan_asd

2 жыл бұрын

@@GeneralBolas Nice name

@sail2byzantium

2 жыл бұрын

RE: "puppeting a corpse" Great phrase. Compared to Joel, I actually found the animation to be kinda horrible. But now I have an apt metaphor to explain it.

@seeeds4702

2 жыл бұрын

@@sail2byzantium this style of animation is called "puppet rigs". You make a drawing, rig the joints, and move them seperatly to cut corners. Stiff, lifeless, cheap animation. Even actual puppets are better convinsing life-illusions lol

My conservative mother taught me if you were low income, that’s your fault. The thing is, my dad was homeless for most of my childhood as my parents are divorced. Also, my dad and his whole family grew up either in low income or extreme poverty like my Appalachian grandfather did. He always wanted an education and to major in chemistry. He was unable to because of him growing up in extreme poverty. Yeah I didn’t realize how f**ked up that kind of teaching did. This conservative mentality plays a lot in my life as my mom has an image of what she wants me to be and can’t accept me for who I am. She can only see in what she wants me to be. You can also imagine how difficult that is for an opening bisexual individual who has autism and adhd when my mom believes autism should be cured. She yelled at my dad blaming him when I was diagnosed with autism.

@yellowishnesses1138

Жыл бұрын

You deserve better than what your mother can provide. I doubt she will ever be willing to reconcile with you based on what you've said. If you are still a minor -- I recommend therapy and researching how to live with narcissistic parents. You need it. I lived through that and didn't even realize how much it broke me. I thought that I powered through it, but now I'm spending my adult life fixing myself.

@birdie8006

Жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry and I hope you're in a better place now and receiving treatment. I'm glad you didn't turn out like your mom.

@Ailacatailu

11 ай бұрын

I’m so sorry. This conservative mindset is so incredibly toxic and unhelpful and hurtful.

@superzova

9 ай бұрын

I’m so sorry you had to deal with that (and still have to). I really clicked with the idea of a parent wanting you to be a certain way. My grandmother wants me to be a programmer when I’d rather do physics or chemistry or… MUSIC. She can’t accept that I’m a separate person who has her own thoughts and desires

@ExtremeWreck

9 ай бұрын

PragerU & Autism Speaks go hand in hand I see.

Conservatives: “gAyS aRE iNdOcTrInAtInG cHiLdReN!!!” also conservatives:

@BigHH88

Жыл бұрын

They are tho

@squirrel_disaster

Жыл бұрын

@@BigHH88 How? Lmao.

@yourmother3217

Жыл бұрын

@@BigHH88 by existing? no they fucking aren’t lmao. i ain’t ever seen the trevor project threaten people for being gay

@Morozfuniofisial

9 ай бұрын

@@squirrel_disasterlgbt ties back to not kid friendly things so the only way kids should know about lgbt is if they choose to do so themselves

@Morozfuniofisial

9 ай бұрын

@@themonninen when did i say that straight couple is ok in childrens movies

I love how not only do Leo and Layla go talk to historical figures, they seem to exclusively talk to historical figures that would completely refute their entire worldview irl. Can't wait for the episode where they talk to Karl Marx about worker's rights and he praises capitalism or some shit

@arturoaguilar6002

2 жыл бұрын

If he doesn't say "Workers should own the means of production. Thanks to capitalism, workers can become the business owners.", I'll be surprised.

@davidtaylor142

2 жыл бұрын

@@arturoaguilar6002 damn that is exactly what they would say

@pyratehyena1312

2 жыл бұрын

uhm I don't know if you ever read it, but he actually wrote a whole epic about how great capitalism is, so check-mate suckaaaaaa (I'm sorry, this comment's so good that I'm already writing fan-fiction)

@bugjams

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously. I know the real Frederick Douglas would've completely shattered PragerU's dogma, but also imagine if their time machine brought them to... like, an actual slave, who was still a slave. Like, ignoring the horrendous caricature of Frederick Douglas, what would a working slave say to them about BLM protests? Probably something about how horrible it is that African Americans still aren't treated equally. It would completely fuck PragerU's narrative, which is obviously why they picked a "civilized" freed slave to puppet instead. It's so easy to just pick and choose famous dead people to rehash your own points, isn't it?

@HeadsFullOfEyeballs

2 жыл бұрын

If you want to know what authoritarians are planning, just check what they're currently accusing their opposition of. It never fails.

This is literally batshit. Trust the science just means follow the information gained through empirical study until different evidence is obtained. You are allowed to question it, but questioning is the first step to actual study not just blindly going against science.

@akorn9943

2 жыл бұрын

It’s like, science is built on skepticism, but it’s built on *scientific skepticism,* if you think something doesn’t add up, you make your hypothesis, and then test, study, and test again until you’ve proven your hypothesis true or untrue. You don’t get to just make a hypothesis and call it a day because it makes you feel good

@graeme8866

2 жыл бұрын

Not arguing for what far right types do. But in many cases during the pandemic "the science" was the information given by politicians and during the time between 2016-2021 much of America (at least from my perspective) growing very strong distrust in politicians. I think this distrust was somehow reinforced by the silencing of people displaying different, often wrong views.

@theonlyfish1913

2 жыл бұрын

They reject empirical data for something Barbara said on a TikTok about fluoride brainwashing the kids☠️

@graeme8866

2 жыл бұрын

@@akorn9943 Fully agree with that. But lets be real the general population doesn't do that... They form an opinion based on reasons I'm too stupid to even begin understanding and then kind of go with it.

@kevinsongxin2551

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention that the people opposed to Galileo’s ideas were the elite that was interested in maintaining the status quo of that time … also known as conservative thought

I just love how they put all these words in these historical figures’ mouths. Like they’re actually quoting them or something.

@nadalekene2446

Жыл бұрын

'dont be so mean to enslavers u guys 🥺' -fredrick douglass

@liammcnicholas918

Жыл бұрын

Galileo definitely shared a link to a video about the planets

The art is so weird •the messed up perspective and angles •the stiff movement •and let's not forget their terrifying dead stares

@eggmug562

Ай бұрын

Also why does the sister look like a wine mom

“I can’t meet Ronald Reagan because he passed away” is my favorite quote of all time

@TuesdaysArt

2 жыл бұрын

The way Big Joel cut that footage was so funny

@sabrinacosta5667

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds was if he is yelling i have to give a giggle

@coatimundi69

Жыл бұрын

🥳🎉🎉🎉

@rainbowwigglecactus6605

Жыл бұрын

My great granddad said about his assassination attempt "someone should've taught that f*cker how to shoot." Never got to meet my great granddad, but he seemed cool from what I've been told

@bubblegodanimation4915

Жыл бұрын

Probably in hell waiting for heaven to trickle down.

Using chemistry as an example of "don't follow the books" is so fucking dangerous. If you don't follow the books, you explode. Chemical reactions as simple as vinegar and baking soda are very well documented and if it doesn't work, you did it wrong, that's on you, or maybe your information is wrong, doesn't mean chemistry is a complete hoax, you just got bad information about this one thing.

@kaitlyn__L

2 жыл бұрын

Right that baffled me. It’s so easy to do and so trivial to source the ingredients, that either he got an ingredient wrong or was given incorrect instructions? And WTF about just trying something else and it working better? The writer clearly had zero scientific literacy, or perhaps a negative value (surprise surprise), and thought of the only “science experiment” they could think of…

@pallingtontheshrike6374

2 жыл бұрын

Exploding is lucky, actually. Unlucky? Not being careful with HCl and HCl spray (bad pouring), and having to wait for hours as your bones melt from inside. While hoping it wasn’t so much that you lose your hand for it, or worse, die.

@TheBestWanderbug

2 жыл бұрын

yeah how do you fuck up a simple volcano

@TomBertalan

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L exactly right. A lot of anti-intellectuals stopped paying attention in high school or even earlier, and just extrapolate from what they saw there to the rest of academia. They don't realize what should be obvious--that elementary schoolers (and even most undergrads) don't have sufficient background in the fundamentals to be doing actual investigative science. A good elementary teacher will stage manage an experiment where kids will "discover" some commonly known principles, like f=ma. (But by undergrad, or ideally high school, students should already get this and be able to absorb the bulk of the fundamental material by fiat rather than time-consuming and expensive experiment. Seeing the proof firsthand is great, but what counts as "fundamentals" is so wide that there's only time to focus on (1) the most important proofs and (2) (for undergrads) the proofs that are specific to ones chosen field. Baking soda volcanoes don't teach the scientific method; they are just a clumsy attempt to get kids enthused about experimentation for its own sake. This misunderstanding of academia certainly extends to humanities, but I'm comfortable saying that I don't have enough expertise there to say exactly how.

@kaitlyn__L

2 жыл бұрын

@@TomBertalan yep. A lot of anti-humanities hate by anti-intellectuals basically relies on that same misunderstanding of “experimentation”, they think if there’s no chemicals to mix or no ball to roll down a hill, what even could humanities students possibly do? They don’t know enough about observational studies and statistical analysis to understand that 80-90% of methodology is actually shared - attempting to eliminate other factors and measurement errors, trying to ensure you get actually-representative samples, demonstrating what you’re measuring actually relates to your stated hypothesis, etc. They also wrongly think a single paper usually proves or disproves anything, rather than most things taking sometimes hundreds of studies or even thousands to properly eliminate measurement noise.

26:01 honestly made me tear up a little. I was born and raised by a conservative journalist, and he would often show me PragerU videos (as well as Catholic Militant "The Vortex" vids) when I was a child. I remember being in the fourth grade and being bussed into DC once a year to hold up signs about banning abortion, and seeing pictures of infant gore that I cannot unsee. Every night at the dinner table it was constant political talk, and to this day my parent only even talks about politics and how doomed we all are. I was waaayyyy too young to truly grasp what was actually going on, and my political talk worried my teachers in elementary school. But conservatives love political dogma, because it makes them feel like they are pleasing their God when they win and they are oppressed underdogs when they lose. I had literal politically-induced nuerosis when I was at Minecraft age.

@Milk-ck1wv

9 ай бұрын

You poor child..you need new family and when your older hopefully you'll seek help

@Sticky_sausage69

9 ай бұрын

I hate that conservatives make their entire personality of politics especially the fact that they talk about it to the kids if you don’t want your kids to be “corrupted by LGBT” or whatever then don’t talk about politics and shit in front of your fucking child. It just makes you seem like a massive hypocrite and a dirtbag. Also, I agree they act like they’re pleasing the lord when they bully some random transgender kid to the point where the kid kills themself like I don’t think Jesus Christ ever said that that is OK

@cloudy978

7 ай бұрын

I'm glad you turned out okay despite all of this indoctrination. Truly wishing you the best ❤

"he sets things on fire" "Sounds familiar" Absolutely astounding that they seem to agree that the plight of black people against police brutality IS analogous to slavery, but their problem is that black people should just lie down and accept it until the system eventually resolves the situation by itself

My question is why did they decide to make leo a "blue haired liberal" ?

@mr.cup6yearsago211

2 жыл бұрын

Because they felt the need to color-code him to make it obvious that he’s a boy.

@cinos-

2 жыл бұрын

Probably the same reason they made him ten, they think they can beat it out of him, much like everything else they don't like about children...like fun, oh or gender identity.

@idontevenhaveapla7224

2 жыл бұрын

Blue for boys & pink for girls... Their logic probably lol

@dragonairdragon6173

2 жыл бұрын

He is nice to look at, idk. I do like the blue-yellow he has going on.

@fartinfpooping8801

2 жыл бұрын

Can't believe prager u would make a character with blue hair and pronouns...!

Right up until this very moment, ive led a peaceful life not knowing that PragerU for kids is a thing, and now i have to live with this new burden

@isaacmuth7097

2 жыл бұрын

😫😫😫😫

@imveryangryitsnotbutter

2 жыл бұрын

@Russian Waifu Imagine thinking that every piece of media that doesn't confirm your own biases is woke propaganda.

@FaiaHalo

2 жыл бұрын

More anxiety lol

@FaiaHalo

2 жыл бұрын

@@imveryangryitsnotbutter exactly

@shytendeakatamanoir9740

2 жыл бұрын

Another proof we live in Hell.

“Science is following instructions” no one says that. Any person interested in science would probably say “science is about exploring how things interact and discovery”

@forest2727

Ай бұрын

Knowing the rules and how to break them in order to make new discoveries, it's experimenting.

Well, that cartoon actually contains one of my favourite things in the world: a reminder of Ronald Reagan's death.

Its so funny how the same people who say "let kids be kids! keep politics out of childhood!" whenever a gay character is casted in a film are the same people who happily let their kids watch shit like this. It seems like the phrase "let kids be kids" only applies whenever its minorities and messages they don't like in child's media.

@jmiquelmb

2 жыл бұрын

That's because hardcore conservatives see their ideas as virtue just from the fact that they're theirs. Going against their ideas is going against virtue. So if you don't agree with their batshit views, you're automatically against everything good in this world.

@jmiquelmb

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrreaper8826 While there's people who want to brainwash kids across all political sides, that's a false equivalency. Showing LGTB positive content in children media is just one of the many old timey messages about equality and tolerance. "Boys and girls are just as smart", "Whites and blacks should be friends" has been joined by "Being homosexual or heterosexual are both ok". Is it political? Well, it's more about morals. But if you consider that politics also deal in morals, yeah, it's political too. But by that definition, "Stealing is bad" is a political statement. By "political", people really mean: "controversial issues that are not supported by 99% of the people".

@mrreaper8826

2 жыл бұрын

@@jmiquelmbIn respect to censorship both conservatives and liberals are guilty. The conservatives of today are only the liberals from 10 years ago. Neither of them are for reform. The liberals have disguised themselves as the libertarians hence the name. They don't actually belive in freedom, and neither do the conservatives. The only true difference between them is this. The true goal of the liberals/progressives is change no matter the situation, they obsess over the new and trendy and thus `fix' things which need no alteration. The conservatives goals are to maintain the county, and I mean it's in the name. Neither think beyond the next election and neither care for liberty. In 10 years from now the liberals of today will be the conservatives of the future.

@vylbird8014

2 жыл бұрын

It's only politics if you disagree with it. If you agree with something then it's just common sense, and can't be political.

@jmiquelmb

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrreaper8826 That's pretty inaccurate in many ways. No way that most liberals from 2012 would want to make same sex marriage illegal. Besides, you're not mentioning what are their agendas, which misses the point of whether those agendas are similar or not. It's like saying the South and the North stood for the same, which was to win the Civil War. Besides, denouncing censorship is a pretty lazy argument. Everybody defends censorship to a point. Making child p*rn illegal is a form of censorship. Making terrorist recruiting programs illegal is a form of censorship. People just pretend that censorship means: making illegal something that I like. But it also means: making illegal stuff that I find disgusting. You support some forms of censorship, I'm sure. The cultural war resides in what should be censored. And the liberal view in that regard seems far more sensible. Compared to banning gay marriage or freedom of religion is far more invasive and unreasonable than censoring nazis.

The irony of using Galileo as a conservative Christian prop is hilarious when you realize that Galileo was put on lifetime house arrest by the church for saying that the earth revolves around the sun.

@CK-nh7sv

2 жыл бұрын

And he was the scientific consensus. The church was wrong and people knew it.

@jmiquelmb

2 жыл бұрын

It makes more sense when you consider that their crowd is more leaning to Evangelism, not Catholicism. Though it's still stupid because it's not only a criticism on the Catholic church, but also criticism against religious dogma.

@emeryrachelle224

2 жыл бұрын

Evangelicals and fundamentalists see the Catholic church as non- or even anti-Christian. So historical figures like Galileo who stood up to the *Catholic* church can be heroes fighting the bad wrong people with the bad wrong teachings

@rishabhanand4973

2 жыл бұрын

@@emeryrachelle224 unless the catholic in question has the right beliefs, see the catholic league and amy coney barrett

@vincentterraneo263

2 жыл бұрын

That's actually not true the reason he was put under house arrest was for calling the Pope a simpleton in the book he published about the Earth revolving around the son. The Pope actually asked him to write the book but wanting him to write it from a centrist point of view, basically giving the arguments for geocentrism too as though it was on equal standing.

"To keep Prageru videos free, please commit tax fraud."

@shloprop4751

Жыл бұрын

already done

@mgames3209

9 ай бұрын

Lol they think we want them free even tho it’s an ad

The idea of Frederick Douglass saying in any capacity "I'm certainly not okay with slavery, BUT--" is absolutely insanity to me. They had to know. They HAD to know that's crazy talk.

never forget PragerU couldn't even get an actual black dude to voice Douglass so they had to pitch shift a white dude

@thedumbdog1964

2 жыл бұрын

Oh good, I was wondering how the guy’s conscience was doing after this role

@ArcturusOTE

2 жыл бұрын

Oh great, so these guys just blatantly did blackface, err, blackvoice?

@danielmiyahara9089

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArcturusOTE blackvoice isn't a thing, but yea what they did about Douglas was pretty effed

@Jiji-the-cat5425

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

@jman617

2 жыл бұрын

Can you explain the problem of a white person voicing a black person cause I've heard people be mad at shows like south park and family for that

Galilieo: "Skepticism is very good." Leo and Layla: *Automatically believe what they sees on TV without asking themselves any questions.*

@sandystudios223

Жыл бұрын

Haha, good one!

@sophiegerlofs4611

Жыл бұрын

XD

@Themothman1852

Жыл бұрын

Love with your heart your head everything else

@whompronnie

11 ай бұрын

@@Themothman1852 My friend here means, "Love with your heart. Use your head for everything else." A quote from beloved skeptic, debunker, comedian, and VFX artist Alan Melikdjanian as his character "Captain Disillusion." I'm sorry, I very much over-explained that.

@Morozfuniofisial

9 ай бұрын

I am conservative but this is an underrated comment

My mouth opened so wide when the little demon kid said "That sounds familiar" when Douglass was talking about that guy burning stuff when he didn't get his way

@Laikafan02

11 ай бұрын

I’d compare it to when neo-Nazis do (((this))) as a dog whistle for someone or somthing being Jewish but marketed towards kids

I remember seeing a Prague U ad that said went: “Dad did you know America is racist?” And his dad proceeds to panic and say to himself “why are they feeding my kid these lies America isn’t racist!” Which is bullshit, everywhere is racist especially America. People are still fighting for their rights so the fact that this ad says this is so insensitive. Like yeah it would be nice if racist wasn’t in America but that just isn’t the case

@shloprop4751

Жыл бұрын

I wouldnt say "especially" in america. things are just racist kind of everywhere.

Using Douglas to oppose BLM feels like another form of “I’m not racist! I have a black friend!”

@AaronCMounts

2 жыл бұрын

So to you, opposing BLM = racism? Good to know.

@billkormas3460

2 жыл бұрын

"I'M NOT RACIST, I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE, I WATCH TONS OF BLACK PORN-"

@BoliceOccifer

2 жыл бұрын

If Fredrick Douglas were here today, he probably would oppose BLM as an organisation, even though he might have similar ideals.

@erisdiscordia5429

2 жыл бұрын

@@BoliceOccifer That's.... sarcasm?

@angrypepe7615

2 жыл бұрын

​@@BoliceOccifer Just like when people claim this shit with MLK, that claim is completely unfounded. Please, listen to the speech "what to a slave is the 4th of july" and try to tell me that he wouldn't have supported blm. He fully also fully supported movements in favour of equal rights of black people after the civil war, that would be similar to modern blm.

I cringe at the thought of brainwashing your child to be as obsessed with Ronald Reagan as a wealthy 64 year old.

@akorn9943

2 жыл бұрын

*Give your jelly beans to Mr. Reagan billy.*

@pizletwizzler198

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, because George Floyd and Hunter Biden are viable replacement political role-models, right? Maybe we can get Will Smith in office too; give the _chitlins_ a real "hero" to look-up to.🤦🏿‍♂

@ddjsoyenby

2 жыл бұрын

honestly reagan was a cartoon villan irl.

@kinoate

2 жыл бұрын

@@pizletwizzler198 Your racist dog whistle is blowing a bit hard there duder

@amoureux6502

2 жыл бұрын

@@pizletwizzler198 OP didn't even imply that????

the way that they depicted douglass without his very iconic and famous afro which itself was a symbol for rebelling against the system was INSAAAANE

That whole 'never bend down to your child's level' things sound like them saying 'Never love your child, as it gets in the way of your control over them; remember, they are your slaves' in a way that won't get them incarcerated.

If P.U. existed while Galileo was alive, they would absolutely have sided with the church against him

@westontheexistent7154

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, even though most conservatives are Christian, they probably would have been in favor of killing Jesus if they lived in the Roman Empire

@Jiji-the-cat5425

2 жыл бұрын

Oh for sure, and they would've called Galileo a radical as well.

@myclutteredmess2271

2 жыл бұрын

This is really funny to think about, but it’s also very true. PU would slam his ass on the lil church pinboard

@joshridinger3407

2 жыл бұрын

depends. geocentrism was the scientific consensus of the day. galileo was just a weird crank, like the people who thought covid was a serious threat in late 2019 while the Real Science called them manflu racists and such

@Ry_TSG

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshridinger3407 Are you trying to insinuate that conservatives have ever once thought throughout the entirety of the pandemic that covid is an actual threat than must be met with proper measures?

PragerU: "Violent protest is never okay! Even when fighting against slavery." Some white dudes: destroy tea because of taxes and start a war against the british PragerU: "Now thats courage! Completely justified"

@hrmpug1092

2 жыл бұрын

Has PragerU said violence isn’t ok when fighting against slavery? Also are you saying you’re pro-British Empire? Because something tells me you hate them too

@lisagonzalez1371

2 жыл бұрын

@@hrmpug1092 re-watch the Fredrick Douglas part

@misinformation_spreader777

2 жыл бұрын

@@hrmpug1092 no these people just hate white people. Emphasis on why he decided to go out of his way to mention “white dudes” as if it were a huge deal.

@azoth6641

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds about white.

@Hibernial

2 жыл бұрын

The distinction not addressed in this joke is that in protest against the tea tax, the trade ships themselves were not damaged. That was no accident. What was specifically targeted was the tea, and throwing it overboard. Whereas in modern day, protestors or rather rioters calling themselves the former are rallied by grifters in the media. Destruction and the anxiety and frustration that stems from that in both foreign and domestic affairs is always legacy media’s business to promote. Rioters weren’t even going to city halls in the local areas to go after politicians. They were going after innocent people. It took community members banding together as a form of voluntary security to see mobs avoid business districts. Cops proved rather useless in following orders to not provide security to residents either, except for politicians who pay them to be bodyguards. Seeing this comment just shows the lack of awareness today’s lefties have about mindlessly defending authoritarians in power. The fact that taxes are much higher now, and meanwhile modern self-proclaimed protestors target the wrong crowd, and are cheered in doing so, is tremendously dimwitted.

Leo and Layla has the same uncomfortable energy as Caleb and Sophia... Same lifeless eyes and all

Also, I wanna mention that pragerU had actively contradicted themselves with the Galileo video and the Frederick Douglas video.Because in the Galileo video it's message was to question authority, but in the Douglas video; the message is to fall in line with authority and never go against it in the name justice.

@jakobthomas1926

5 ай бұрын

It's because the true reality is the message of the Galileo vid was "question the liberal authority" and the message of the Douglass vid was "always fall in line with conservative authority"

lemme guess, other eps include: Leo and Layla wear the right boy and girl clothes! Leo and Layla talk to an undeveloped fetus to see how IT feels about abortion Leo and Layla actually rewrite fucking history (working title) Leo and Layla talk to Hilter to understand BOTH sides of the story

@agiar2000

2 жыл бұрын

I'm imagining parts of the "talk to Hitler" episode. Hitler explains how he does what he does because he's an atheist, (contrary to what he wrote in his own book and contrary to what the pope said after interviewing him.) and also how he's a devout socialist and everything he does is in the name of socialism.

@purplespectre

2 жыл бұрын

@@agiar2000 I can see that video being made. I've already heard those dumb arguments from right-wingers.

@cam4636

2 жыл бұрын

@@agiar2000 It'd either be that, or "but at first I was just Making Germany Great Again. Did you want the Communists to win??? Really the whole thing got overexaggerated--wait no I still want my Israeli sponsors, so I'll blame a few bad apfels"

@grantus_pax

2 жыл бұрын

PragerU Hitler: "Did you know one of my great-grandparents was Jewish? That's totally a real true fact, don't tell my bros! Also some Holocaust denial, probably!"

@zacharyoftavastia2445

2 жыл бұрын

Leftist tears are very enjoyable.

“Everything except what I am taught by a very biased group of people is wrong” Conservative propaganda in a nutshell

@lyokianhitchhiker

Жыл бұрын

What about liberal propaganda?

@thegoldavenger.3829

Жыл бұрын

@@lyokianhitchhiker Nice whataboutism

@Milkman557

3 ай бұрын

Tbf, that is pretty much what every political group says.

1. Accuse your political rivals of making propaganda for children 2. Make propaganda for children 3. When you are called out for making propaganda for children fall back on your first lie and explain you had to make the propaganda because your rival was already doing it. 4. Profit

@ddjsoyenby

2 жыл бұрын

it's brilliant!

@arturoaguilar6002

2 жыл бұрын

Conservative grifters in a nutshell.

@MorbidMindedManiac

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve always seemed to notice that, in situations like this, the first one to send an accusation out is usually the one that people listen to, which is sadly why this works For example, I’ve seen some parts of the right always rant about how “The left always play the victim card and they’re gonna use it to take away our rights!” and then 5 minutes later goes on a rant about something like how they’re silenced so much and how much they need to “Fight” (Probably meaning to censor) the other side, but nobody cares about what anyone else says, because they sent the accusation first To be fair, most of the responses usually just boil down to “But you do the same thing!” without any proof, instead of proving why they’re wrong and they’re more guilty of it, but still, most people wouldn’t listen even when a constructive counter-argument finally comes up

@xXluluchanelXx

2 жыл бұрын

@@MorbidMindedManiac look at the ticker on the video Joel shows - "we are being horribly censored"… when every single video I have ever watched on KZread has had a gd PragerU ad before it. these people just outright lie.

@MorbidMindedManiac

2 жыл бұрын

@@xXluluchanelXx Pretty much That reminds me of that meme that was like “Dear right wingers: For someone who always talks about being silenced, you never seem to shut the hell up”

It's minor, but Leo and Laya casually referring to their dad's business as "the business" as if it's a common thing that any child watching can relate to is fucking wild to me

@washmyhoohah

Жыл бұрын

You'd think their Dad was a mafia boss or something

@greywalker505

Жыл бұрын

@@washmyhoohah Maybe he is.

@Joosher56

Жыл бұрын

@@washmyhoohah bros running the “family business”

@dudeguy99butAWESOME

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes "The Buisness"

@biraptor6205

Жыл бұрын

'Please, The Business is my father, call me The Deal'

As a Leo I am deeply disgusted at my representation in PragerU, Disgusting

11:19 Not only is it absurd to pretend abolition came peacefully, but it is also utterly disrespectful to the Union men who fought and died in the 4-year struggle that was the Civil war. To pretend 360,222 Union deaths, and 258,000 Confederate deaths (A total of ~620,000 dead) just simply didn't happen or wasn't the struggle to stop race-based chattel slavery, is as mentioned before, both absurd and tremendously disrespectful. For how much conservatives rattle on about respecting soldiers, they sure like to brush their deaths under the rug when it benefits them.

To use Frederick Douglass as a puppet for racist, morally bankrupt talking points is utterly disgusting. He was a radical hero.

@gremlinwc8996

2 жыл бұрын

He'd support the blm movement 100%.

@williamwells434

2 жыл бұрын

@@gremlinwc8996 oh he would be a leader in it. Second only to Cori Bush

@guyferrari8124

2 жыл бұрын

@@gremlinwc8996 To be fair comparing the struggle against slavery to BLM is at best pretty disingenuous. He probably would support it, but other thing is that the fight against slavery was well founded and created change while BLM was just a bunch of chaos that resulted in literally nothing

@williamwells434

2 жыл бұрын

@@guyferrari8124 Interesting take on the BLM movement when Cori Bush is in Congress. The BLM movement is the descendant of the abolitionist movement. I would respect it as such.

@jordinagel1184

Жыл бұрын

@@guyferrari8124 “utter chaos that resulted in literally nothing” Tough words when the movement reignited debate about a very real problem of racial discrimination in the US… Also, chaos? 95% of the protests were peaceful, my dude, and that’s not me talking, it’s the FBI.

The thing that makes laugh the most about PragerU's hypocrisy is that keep contradicting themselves depending on the bias they have over a subject. When it comes to questioning authority in the first video, it's ok to rebel. But suddenly, when said authority is their conservative peers, it's wrong, like in the second video. Then, the third video is the weirdest because apparently it's good to question authority, but once again it's wrong to do so when it comes to parents, religion and conservatives... Kind of weird and contradictory. Yet again, when PragerU isn't?

@jaxonsevero1045

2 жыл бұрын

I think that’s just conservative politics in a nutshell

@akorn9943

2 жыл бұрын

It’s really not about questioning authority, you just have to be able to question the *wrong* authorities and be willing to be subjugated by the *right* authorities

@tenrings8150

2 жыл бұрын

@@akorn9943 but to determine which ones are right and which ones are wrong we have to question and be critical of *all* of them

@akorn9943

2 жыл бұрын

@@tenrings8150 /s :)

@letsomethingshine

2 жыл бұрын

Except they reallynonly sort of outline it that was in that separate third video

Even Epic Rap Battles had a better depiction of Fredrick Douglass.

@r3ked272

5 ай бұрын

Bars so fire Jefferson spent the entire second verse apologizing

@leighasbell3624

5 ай бұрын

@@r3ked272Facts

The Fredrick Douglass part was absolutely ghoulish

frederick douglas voiced by a white guy trying to "sound black" is definitely normal

@babahu15

2 жыл бұрын

i didn't want to say anything but i thought it sounded so weird

@kriswillman2779

2 жыл бұрын

They must've gotten Crowder for that part

@FathomLordKarathr

2 жыл бұрын

You know someone at the PragurU office dressed up in black face for that because they, "needed to get into character" before they went into the recording booth.

@throwawayaccount4008

2 жыл бұрын

@@kriswillman2779 Is that a reference to when he voiced Brain from Arthur as a kid?

@kaitlyn__L

2 жыл бұрын

@@throwawayaccount4008 he what now

Leo and Layla conspiracy theory: Their time machine app actually DOESN'T work and it's just an AR device programmed by their conservative father to indoctrinate them into sharing his beliefs by making his version of history right every single time. Also I hate Layla's character design why does she look like that

@Everysinglepersonismyenemy

2 жыл бұрын

right. why does she look like a 30 year old woman

@bloodywilliam3083

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, that makes a lot of sense, especially since everyone can speak perfect modern English and they haven’t been within the vicinity of anyone besides whoever is giving the bullshit message. Also they don’t react with disgust at how bad everything smells. …Horrible Histories is so much better than this dreck.

@Lucifersfursona

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for also noticing it’s very odd in conservative propaganda that Layla looks like that I do not trust prageru to draw literally any female minors :/

@HungerGamesFan88

2 жыл бұрын

it seems they tried to make them latine for diversity points? for some reason?

@user-oy4vu3ck3u

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah she's 16 and he's 6

No way they justified SLAVERY

It's perfectly ok to be skeptic. It's only when someone believes something without facts is when they could become a problem.

"you must take a course in gender, race, ethnicity... [etc etc] studies, but you are not required to take a single course on Shakespeare" must have been the funniest sentence I have heard in a while...

@graeme8866

2 жыл бұрын

Are you even really forced to study gender studies and stuff? I'm in South Africa studying Engineering so I'm missing all that. Just wondering.

@caromela2031

2 жыл бұрын

As a literature student I laughed out loud

@caromela2031

2 жыл бұрын

@@graeme8866 in my university you aren’t. You usually only have to take gender studies if it’s your concentration. You can optionally take courses in gender studies as electives, but required is a gross exaggeration

@graeme8866

2 жыл бұрын

@@caromela2031 Yeah that's what I guessed... Then how disconnected is the group watching and swallowing everything rightist media from reality.

@akorn9943

2 жыл бұрын

@@caromela2031 it was the same for me when i went to school for political science. Classes on race and gender were offered and honestly some were really interesting, but you could just focus on theory or foreign policy or economics or etc. instead. The idea that colleges are forcing all students to take gender studies classes to turn them gay or whatever PragerU thinks will happen is honestly just really silly and kind of pathetic to anyone who’s actually set foot in a university.

They really did Fredrick Douglas’ iconic facial hair dirty, god their character designs and animation is ass. Everyone looks like they’re drunkenly swaying and has a dead eyed thousand yard stare lmao

@PochamaRex

2 жыл бұрын

The kids look like a worse version of the lady from the esurance commercials (does anyone else remember those)

@iamjustkiwi

2 жыл бұрын

They are appealing to the kids of unfortunate alcoholics who are used to seeing their parents like that? Lol, seriously, It's like they watched a draft and were like "ITS NOT ANIMATION IF THEY AREN'T LITERALLY ALWAYS MOVING WHAT AM I BARELY PAYING YOU FOR?!"

@hankboog462

Жыл бұрын

Animators were probably given like $4

The ghost of Stalin is the most South Park thing I've ever seen that isn't actually South Park

Some really big brains in these comments posting very brave takes like "actually drag queen story hour is equally as radical and bad as supporting slavery" :P Conservatives are truly desperate to cling to the idea that they are moderate and truthful.

@qwertyzxcvbn3174

5 ай бұрын

Conservatives ran to the far right and then try claiming anyone moderate is an extremist. It's only creating more people against them

23:18 "Getting a child to do what he or she is told" You can tell they're trying so hard to avoid the singular they

@Illogical_Tales

Жыл бұрын

Hahahah. They’ve gone downhill

@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad

Жыл бұрын

Singular They aren't even a thing

@brittledrop5735

Жыл бұрын

@@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad literally saying they instead of he or she is singular and grammatically correct so

@rat3138

Жыл бұрын

@@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad read more books, you will find singular theys literally everywhere if you ever paid attention in school. nobody will constantly say “he or she” for a person they dont know the gender of. its such a mouthful people just use they instead even unconsciously.

@kirabad-artist6532

Жыл бұрын

@@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad It’s been a thing since Shakespeare

The fact they took a man like Douglass, who was not afraid to critique the United States, frequently doing so, and frequently worked outside of the system, and had him spout the exact opposite of what he said in real life, hurts me so much.

@Jiji-the-cat5425

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr. They literally twisted and tainted a man's entire legacy and tried re-write his words so it can fit their modern-day right-wing agenda. If Frederick Douglass was alive today, he'd be horrified by PragerU.

@GreaseF1re

2 жыл бұрын

@CosmoSpice bruh

@gremlinwc8996

2 жыл бұрын

And also used him to condemn blm protestors

@gremlinwc8996

2 жыл бұрын

@CosmoSpice lmao I was watching it with my sister and she was like "so do you think he's voiced by a white guy or like one of the few poc republicans"

@luciusisdead

2 жыл бұрын

literally made me so angry. one of the worst things conservatives do is using progressive historical figures and revising them to fit their own narratives. they do it with mlk too… it’s awful.

i once got a pregarU ad saying how the best Christian’s in America were the founding fathers. The founding fathers were not Christian’s.

@aceofpizza9932

9 ай бұрын

Excuse me?

@muninnpals7775

9 ай бұрын

​@@aceofpizza9932the founding fathers were mixed. Some were in fact christians while a lot of them, including Benjamin Franklin, were deist. Deism is a dead movement now but was extremely chich in the 18th and 19th century. It follows more along the line of "god exists but christianity is wrong about everything and we shouldnt read the bible because its superstiotius" its beliefs like that that led to the cult of reason in france: a non-religious religion

@None-Trick_Pony

3 ай бұрын

Hey, this is a cool comment and all, but I've got just one small question on it I'd like cleared up: _What the FUCK are you going on about?_ This is possibly the worst comment I've ever seen. There are so many things wrong with it, I don't know where to start. It's so bafflingly bad I feel the need to write this over a year later.

@zareeninamdar1724

3 ай бұрын

Exactly! More or less, they were deists.

@moseptyagami606

3 ай бұрын

@@aceofpizza9932 they wanted to escape from the religious constraints in England by making America a country for freedom of religion. A lot of the founding fathers weren’t actually Christian.

My father is staunchly conservative and the quote "if we can't exert control now, when can we?" hits the nail on the head. He was very open about how much he despised the modern public school system because "Neo Marxist Liberals", or whatever, where training American children to accept Communism. To Conservatives, it's an ideological war that needs to be won at the youngest age. It's been talked about for years but I really began to notice the fervor of propaganda about it when Obama was president. And now that Trump has basically pushed everyone who isn't far right against him, they're making a really big deal out of this narrative again.

"PragerU is experiencing severe censorship" is never a good line to have plastered on the bottom of your kids cartoon.

@harvsexton356

2 жыл бұрын

It is nowadays

@derrick2251

2 жыл бұрын

Nowadays if you’re being censored your likely doing something right. Haven’t watched this video nor have I wanted prager u kids. Just a general statement.

@cheekybum1513

2 жыл бұрын

@@derrick2251 Name a single other example

@sunbirth4795

2 жыл бұрын

@@cheekybum1513 ...of good stuff being censored? You want them to name a single example where something good was censored? You think never before in history, or even in the last decade, has something good and useful been censored. That being said PragerU Kids sucks ass and deserves all the flak it gets

@derrick2251

2 жыл бұрын

@@cheekybum1513 petition to get joe rogan off of Spotify

POV: Miss Frizzle sits at her desk. Liz is next to her, desperately trying to comfort her. She watches in horror and sadness at what the next generation will be exposed to. Her life's work, entertaining children while teaching them lessons, erased with blank expressions puppets of those who would destroy the very ecosystems she holds dear.

@runascarlet2623

2 жыл бұрын

This imagery hurt me deeply and you’re 100% right.

@dez-m

2 жыл бұрын

This made me cry ngl

@TehLislis

2 жыл бұрын

...I kinda want to draw this.

@JackedThor-so

2 жыл бұрын

@@TehLislis Go for it!

@ashikjaman1940

2 жыл бұрын

@@TehLislis link it here if you do

The crazy thing is, parents can very easily know what their child is being taught. When they come home from school, a parent can say, "hey bud, what did you learn about in xyz class today?" "what was something cool that happened today?" "what's your homework about?" and the kid can tell them. Unless, of course, maybe they don't feel like their parent is someone they can open up to?

I used to laugh at climate change deniers because "it's like they think they're the reincarnation of Galileo simply by saying NO to everything science says". But... apparently that's what they literally think?

I'm always confused on the character design of the older sister. They unintentionally made her look like a dolled up soccer mom with the thousand yard stare.

@SiRenfield

Жыл бұрын

“Fan” THEORY: She’s secretly Leo’s mother (the how isn’t too important, could be consensually through high school hook up, maybe something more disturbing) but the parents raised him as their own in order to protect the daughter’s virtue or whatever

@edgyanole9705

Жыл бұрын

@@SiRenfield FAN theory?

@petrichor3797

Жыл бұрын

@@SiRenfield Fan FAN theory: She is Both!

@SiRenfield

Жыл бұрын

@@petrichor3797 …Well that’s dark (not saying it as condemnation of you specifically, just saying LOL)

@lylelylecrocodile2538

Жыл бұрын

@@SiRenfield biggest Prager u fan

PragerU: "Science is about refuting dogmatic statements" Also PragerU: "Now dogmatically accept this statement"

@zuresei

2 жыл бұрын

the USSR dissident saying "actually free speech doesn't apply when it's improper" was truly spectacular.

That artstyle is a red flag in enough itself

@rootfish2671

Жыл бұрын

It's barely animated

I don’t think their obsession with children is that complicated - I think that they are aware that, if they are not able to control children, then they will end up on the wrong side of history.

POV: Your cool uncle is lecturing you about a children's show you'll never see and that you're too old for, but it's fine because this whole thing is making Thanksgiving dinner far more interesting.

@CrazyCarnieCory

2 жыл бұрын

I pulled a Katie Poter and brought a whiteboard with me to Thanksgiving and set it up behind me! No one argued at all !!!

@firstnamelastname5925

2 жыл бұрын

>cool The man is literally wearing a Christmas sweater and looks like an unkempt jewish stoner

@THATRANDOMDUDE99999

2 жыл бұрын

@Nick what does being trans have to do with anything

@SaphInfection

2 жыл бұрын

@@THATRANDOMDUDE99999 probably gender envy

@brokenmilk5885

2 жыл бұрын

@@THATRANDOMDUDE99999 i think they mentioned they were trans to give context to having transition goals?

John Brown is one of the greatest Americans to ever live, and Prager U's slander of his character was absolutely despicable.

@maristiller4033

2 жыл бұрын

the fact that I was taught he was a kind of villain as a child is SO fucking fascinating to me

@charlieputzel7735

2 жыл бұрын

@@maristiller4033 It was actually weird to me. I had both a regular level history class, then AP history later. In the first, Brown was a madman who's actions were a contributing factor in the start of the civil war (vaguely gestured at as "Northern agression") In the latter, he's a deeply moralistic man who's poorly thought out plan was the embodiment of mostly irrational southern fears. Edit: I was in Alabama at the time, so the whole "Northern agression" part was pretty heavily played up.

@damnationdan5253

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/f5OJ0syvndqrhqw.html They will never take our bangers

@v0Xx60

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlieputzel7735 You can tell pretty easily what side of the aisle someone is on if they frame the American Civil War as the "War of Northern Aggression".

@BreezyLoveMachine

2 жыл бұрын

I read "John Brown" as John Browning. Either way I agree both were great Americans.

having grown up in a household that ran a home daycare, and seeing a ton of pbs kids shows well into my early 20s, this is the probably the darkest and most aggressive kids show I've ever seen. . .and ive seen every Ghibli movie at least twice.

@quandal1633

Жыл бұрын

Ghibli studios is still going

@GordonSlamsay

Жыл бұрын

@@quandal1633 I love Ghibli, but some of there stuff is a bit dark

@quandal1633

Жыл бұрын

@@GordonSlamsay spirited away is good

@GordonSlamsay

Жыл бұрын

@@quandal1633 agreed.

@jksupergamer

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, that one slavery scene in my neighbor Totoro was kinda awkward

hold on let me get this straight they went back in time because they couldn't make a baking soda explode when vinegar is input

I remember being 8 year old and wishing to meet all the childhood heroes: spongebob, mickey mouse and president Ronald Reagan

@shloprop4751

Жыл бұрын

My favorite part of the Ronald Reagan show is when he said "it's politicilan time" and then did politics

@johnoconnell5004

Жыл бұрын

I remember wishing to meet Batman and Optimus Prime.

@howtomundane3109

Жыл бұрын

@@shloprop4751 And then he policied all over the place!

@leavemealone7159

Жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@Immadeus

Жыл бұрын

@@shloprop4751 My favorite part of Ronald Reagan is when he said "The real trickle down economics were the friends we made along the way"

The problems with Antivaxxers isn't that they ask questions, it's that they ask questions and ignore answers. You're outside in the middle of the day, and you go inside a building with no windows, and fluorescent lights line the ceiling. You meet somebody inside who says "It's night outside" You tell him that it's day and he disagrees. You follow up by telling him about the exit to the building, so he can see for himself that he's wrong, but he never goes outside to see that it is actually daytime.

@trapd00rspider

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this is exactly it. The questions are only rhetorical to them, not scientific. Same thing with grassroots climate change denial.

@thaliacrafts407

2 жыл бұрын

That's because they watched a poorly animated kids show that prepared them for such annoying questions as "why won't you look at the evidence?"

@vylbird8014

2 жыл бұрын

"That's not the real sun. It's a giant lightbulb in a hot air balloon that the UN built so you sheeple would think it is day!"

@TragoudistrosMPH

2 жыл бұрын

I always use a refrigerator metaphor. They will swear to know what is inside and what is missing, but refuse to look inside and check... Because they're sure they already know... 😑

@thaliacrafts407

2 жыл бұрын

@@TragoudistrosMPH to be fair, I do that too sometimes. Otherwise, the refrigerator wins

When someone puts being an American over being a good person, it’s no wonder they came up with the phrase “I am against slavery, but…”

I actually can't believe they would make Fredrick Douglas say that holy shit. He is absolutely rithing in his grave right now.

I'm not a liberal, but I find it funny how some conservatives are against exposing children to politics but then these same people turn around and create conservative propaganda for kids.

@sbeevie

Жыл бұрын

Ah, so questioning science is purely a conservative fallacy. Got it.

@IloveJesus763

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s true. As the saying goes: “As long as 2 people exist on this planet, there will be conflict”.

@punbasedname9032

Жыл бұрын

I think it's because conservatives don't see their beliefs as their beliefs but rather as the facts

@staringcorgi6475

Жыл бұрын

@@sbeevie make sure the science is from more sources other than fb pseudoscience

@irgendsoeineziege1058

Жыл бұрын

@@punbasedname9032 That's what most people do tbf

Frederick Douglas famously called himself a thief of his own body quote: “I appear before you all this evening a thief and a robber, I stole this head, these limb and this body from my master and ran off with them.” He knew what he had done was by all accounts illegal and he did it anyway. By all means, he was not a staunch upholder of the US’s laws and regulations.

@manicabawse2867

2 жыл бұрын

Most disturbing thing I've read

@KittyPieVibes

2 жыл бұрын

That quote seems to be pretty much calling out slavery. “Just by being here in front of you and existing I’m breaking the law because I am considered property”

@tacomeme429

2 жыл бұрын

@@manicabawse2867 which means his message got across

@10thletter40

2 жыл бұрын

@@KittyPieVibes what other message could there be 😂

@cheesestyx945

2 жыл бұрын

While I do find violent protest to be bad, the idea that we should always follow the law is completely wrong. If murder was legal that wouldn't make it just or good. An authoritarian government could also make peaceful protest illegal like the Nazis or the Soviet Union actually did, in that case, you would be forced to rebel against your country. This video seems to be forgetting that the United States exists because we broke the law, didn't pay our taxes, and then rebelled against Britain.

The most wild prageru kids video is the christopher colombus one where they literally argue that genocide isn’t "that bad."

@BigLichen

9 ай бұрын

I’m sorry, they said *W H A T*

@Mcwollybob

9 ай бұрын

@@BigLichen Yeah, I watched the whole video out of curiosity and the entire time I was flabbergasted. The KZreadr who made this video we're commenting on actually made a second video about prageru where he talks about the christopher columbus video if you don't want to watch the actual video. Though honestly I recommend watching it because you will not believe how bad it is

Acting as if writing hundreds of years old is as important to the modern day as things like gender, race, ethnicity, or sexuality are is crazy. Shakespeare did a lot of important shit for his time but he isn't that important for ours, you don't need to study Shakespeare to do, anything really. Unless what you want to do is directly involved with Shakespeare.

@Prince__Teclis

8 ай бұрын

"Shakespeare didn't study Shakespeare, he went on to become Shakespeare." Is a joke that springs to mind about that.

@thefoxsaysno9951

8 ай бұрын

@@Prince__Teclis Yeah, I feel writing should be considered more of an artform, instead of having rigid lines it should be more creative. Learning about Shakespeare is great, but he isn't so important to writing that he needs to be brought up over and over and over and over. Like this joke you've just said, Shakespeare isn't required to become a great writer or author, you can do it without him. You could be inspired by him, but truth is his works are a bit dated to be too inspiring for the modern day, at least to me they are.

PragerU: "don't blindly follow the dogma." Also PragerU: "Blindly puppet our talking points to your friends and family."

@CrusherX1000

2 жыл бұрын

*Except Evangelical American dogma

@hsmd4533

2 жыл бұрын

Leftists: tear down our evil, backwards western civilization which has only ever harmed the world. Also leftists: give us all the money and benefits that western civilization has produced.

@seitanbeatsyourmeat666

2 жыл бұрын

Bingo

@Windrake101

2 жыл бұрын

@@CrusherX1000 Evangelical Dominionist American dogma*

@pinkmoonrabbit2072

2 жыл бұрын

to the comment above mine, if thats all u got from the video then really dont know what to say. joel went into why frederick douglas did not advocate for "working within the system" and how he was sympathetic to radical revolution, and how without violent and/or radical resistance NOTHING would have changed. he was literally enslaved by people who would kill him without a second thought, like are you for real going to sit there and say violently resisting oppression or abuse is not okay? when you and your kin are enslaved, face years and years of bondage and murder and abuse and unknowable depths of trauma of your people, lets see then how you feel about violent resistance. its only violent because the people oppressing them FORCED that to be the only way to respond in order to be free. framing that resistance as the real evil is backwards victim blaming bullshit. in any case if ur gonna condemn "violent protests" then condemn the conditions that created them as well. violence for liberation is never equitable to violence to oppress.

Conservatives: "Schools are indoctrinating our kids to be Communist!" PragerU: "Hold up. That gives me an idea."

@wades9327

2 жыл бұрын

Reading all the butthurt far Leftists here pissed off that conservatives are giving you a taste of your own medicine is just making my day🤣🤣🤣

@XxXVideoVeiwerXxX

2 жыл бұрын

Right. However, is this a self report?

@johnambrose907

2 жыл бұрын

Ok… but is this in school? No. It’s a service you can choose to use or not use. That option isn’t being offered to parents who oppose certain social topics being taught in schools

@wades9327

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnambrose907 Careful now, you've introduced a logical point. These people don't do well with notions like that.

@brook_angel

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnambrose907 learning about history and social topics are different from misinformation. Having channels like PragerU spread misleading or false information is harmful, teaching kids about the world isn't harming anyone (apart from maybe the ego of their parents)

you look like the spy kids brother if he got stuck on that island with the spider monkeys

@k8tln891

Жыл бұрын

im sorry that was mean i hope you have a good day

“The founding fathers thought slavery would just disappear over time”? Where did that come from? I learned they postponed removing slavery due to the southern states refusal to join but never heard they thought it would just disappear? Ive read theories it might have due to technology but never heard they thought that. I think they saw it as a fight for later so they could break away from england.

As an American, I hate that we have already mythologized our past. We have only been around for two and a half centuries and yet I can’t look at the founding fathers as just people with both good and bad features. No I have to see them as holy figures who still grace us with great words from on high.

@CORV3TT33

2 жыл бұрын

Its rather scary, even in other countries we get some of these myths, though obviously less patriotically motivated...

@TheDanishGuyReviews

2 жыл бұрын

I'd personally say since most of the Founding Fathers were totally cool with slavery, the bad outweighs the good in them.

@soupalex

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, it seems like u.s. conservatives' problem with the dictatorship of north korea is not really that there's a cult of personality that paints it's founders (and their inheritors) as divinely inspired, infallible, unimpeachable, etc., it's that they're _not_ the founders of _america._

@TheDanishGuyReviews

2 жыл бұрын

@@soupalex "It's a good idea. Shame the leader's not white, though." ~ US Conservatives, probably

@soupalex

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheDanishGuyReviews fr. the real "american taliban" isn't that one american guy who converted to islam and went to jihad in afghanistan, it's the collection of u.s. "patriots" that get big mad about women and afab people being granted access to reproductive health and abortion services, or anyone attempting to point out that preaching to children in state schools is unconstitutional.

The term PragerU needs to become a slang term for deliberately choosing to give the wrong answer simply because you want it to be true, as in "he was so delusional he PragerU'd his essay and flunked out."

@neoqwerty

2 жыл бұрын

We did it to santorum, we can do it to prager-u.

@Link-dx1lx

2 жыл бұрын

Put it on urban dictionary

@dtown_demon

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, we should make it slang

@purplespectre

2 жыл бұрын

@Jamal Ramadan That can be an additional definition.

@porticojunction

2 жыл бұрын

It's not already?

the way they talk about Shakespeare you’d think the guy invented the English language

"im certainly against slavery, but..." What do you mean "but", pragerU🤨

In English we had to read the narrative of Fredrick Douglas, literally trying to make the audience readers as disturbed and upset as possible by literally explaining what he witnessed from slavery. He showed how horrible it was, not only to the slaves but the slave owners, to Christianity, to families, just that it was absolutely destructive to humanity. What they made him say in the video made me want to strangle the screen, how dare they disrespect my man Douglass like that

@None-Trick_Pony

2 жыл бұрын

I hate Frederick Douglas, but that's solely because he decided to place his house on top of a fucking mountain and walking up all those stairs was miserable. The house was really nice, though. I liked the early indoor plumbing. That was pretty cool. In the end, I don't give a shit if your resumé includes abolitionist activism, bravery, being really smart, and the astoundingly impressive feat of criticizing the US government and getting away with it while being black; not all of us are Olympic gold medalists. EDIT: seems to be some confusion. Outside of the stairs being hell (look it up), especially in the intense Summer heat, everything was jest.

@cayleece7890

2 жыл бұрын

@@None-Trick_Pony are you ok

@mercuryneous4713

2 жыл бұрын

@@None-Trick_Pony is everything okay at home

@gabbls_

2 жыл бұрын

@@None-Trick_Pony Lucas, do I have to remind you that your mother passed away?

@josiahdublin7816

2 жыл бұрын

@@None-Trick_Pony My man if you can't bring yourself to climb up a flight of stairs then you should hit a treadmill.

The worst kind of revisionist history. PragerU is both genius and diabolical for making this crap for an audience that doesn’t have critical thinking skills yet. Get em while they’re young and impressionable, am I right… 🙃

@16driver16

2 жыл бұрын

With this propaganda they never will develop!

@LiShuBen

2 жыл бұрын

This only works if our Educational system supported this but it doesn't. These kids will fail every test they get if they are studying for them using Prager u information. The only kids who are screwed are homeschooled kids but they are probably being brainwashed anyway

@screamsintothevoid9968

2 жыл бұрын

@Russian Waifu ?

@colored_printers664

2 жыл бұрын

@Russian Waifu why

@xXEGPXx

2 жыл бұрын

@Russian Waifu Yeah respecting peoples pronouns is definitely worse than teaching that women are property