NY Times Goes After PragerU
“To the founders and funders of PragerU, YouTube is a way to circumvent brick-and-mortar classrooms — and parents”
Several years ago, Dennis Prager launched Prager University, a YouTube series aimed at providing fact-based educational videos on history, civics, culture, and more. Prager’s aim was to counter the never-ending flow of anti-American and often wrong progressive views pushed on college campuses.
The videos have been viewed millions of times, and Dennis Prager must be doing something right because the left has noticed that he is having an impact.
Just read the caption in this tweet:
PragerU, a growing hub of the online right-wing media machine, is using YouTube as a way to circumvent professors — and parents — to reach a new generation of studentshttps://t.co/chu4L5BZCE
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 4, 2020
Nellie Bowles writes at the New York Times:
Right-Wing Views for Generation Z, Five Minutes at a Time
Will Witt walked through the University of California campus doing what he does professionally, which is trolling unwitting young liberals on camera.
He approached students who seemed like good targets: people with political buttons on their bags, androgynous clothing, scarves. It was safe to say that the vast majority here in the heart of progressive culture would be liberal. Mr. Witt, whose bouffant and confident smile make him look like a high school jock from central casting, told the students that he had a question for them. If they agreed to answer, and they usually did, the game was on.
“How many genders are there?” Mr. Witt asked before turning and staring deadpan at the camera. Some people laughed and walked away. Most, knowing the camera was rolling, engaged…
The goal of the people behind all of this — Dennis Prager, the conservative talk show host and impresario of this digital empire, and the venture’s billionaire funders — seems simple: more Will Witts in the world. More pride in American history (and less panic over racism), more religion (specifically in the “Judeo-Christian” tradition), less illegal immigration, more young people laughing at people on the left rather than joining them…
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.
Note how the New York Times is concerned about Prager University ‘circumventing’ parents, as if the faculty at UC Berkeley and other factories of progressive thought haven’t been doing that for generations.
Here’s an example of the radical content that’s causing such concern:
National popular vote in America? @thewillwitt explains the severe problems this would bring and how it would end our republic. (Literally.) pic.twitter.com/mMBwKxyicx
— PragerU (@prageru) January 4, 2020
Finally, this post would not be complete without sharing some of the best responses to the New York Times tweet above. Fortunately, the fine folks at Twitchy have rounded them up:
“Circumvent university indoctrination”
— The Red-Headed Libertarian ™ (@TRHLofficial) January 4, 2020
Circumvent…hilarious! You admit that professors are paid propagandists of an approved narrative. Nice.
— Maria Romanetti (@WriterRomana) January 4, 2020
When we said, “Question authority,” we didn’t mean OUR authority.
— Jubal E. Harshaw (@alimhaider) January 4, 2020
No, they are circumventing your left-wing indoctrination machine to expose young people to alternate ideas and a modicum of truth rather than abject single-viewed brainwashing.
— Jeff Morris (@JMoForFreedom) January 4, 2020
Circumvent professors? You actually believe a left wing political view point is mandatory, don’t you?
— 9Circles (@9Circles9) January 4, 2020
This is basically an admission that university professors are indoctrinating students to be left wing
— Chandler Reed Phelps (@chandler_phelps) January 4, 2020
It sure is.
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It’s simply precious that the Left suddenly cares about parental authority.
Heh. Leftists have told me that parents have no legitimate say in what their children are taught in public schools. (Clearly they see those parents as subjects, not citizens.)
It takes a village to indoctrinate a child.
— And create a dependent village idiot who votes democrat.
https://www.peoplespunditdaily.com/news/politics/2016/10/14/wikileaks-elites-conspire-produce-unaware-compliant-citizenry/
‘Nuff said.
Homeschool for elementary. You can teach them more reading, writing and arithmetic than they’ll be allowed to learn in school, and the rest (except for band, orchestra and recess) seems pretty poisonous.
When you’ve become a target of the ny times, you know you have become VERY successful in a battle against their corruption.
Brilliant work, Mr. Prager!
The lefts “it takes a village to raise a child” canard always ends the second you correct their child in public.
The left and their old/new ideas can’t withstand the scrutiny.
Man, why should they?
Does Home Depot want to stand scrutiny from Ace Hardware?
Business is business.
NYT – THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S KKK. There. Fixed for the lying NYT.
Is “hypervent” a word?
Funny, it’s actually the name of an RV and boat product that keeps mold from developing under mattresses. The competing product is Dri-dek.
We might say the ny times is either hyperventilating or dri-dekalating.
Either way, they’re full of garbage not worth reading.
Prager is taking flak; he’s directly over the target.
None of us….right wing or left wing….should fear having ourselves, our friends, or our children being exposed to all the viewpoints that are out there. As long as the truth is one of the viewpoints, truth will win the day with the most people when on an equal playing field……which is probably why the truth gets suppressed so much.
Indeed. The Left naturally sees the truth as its enemy:
1. So much of the Left’s program has been shown over and over to fail disastrously.
2. Those failures can be shown to be inherent in leftism.
3. Leftist ideology itself is opposed to the freedom of the individual.
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
George Orwell
“Democracy Dies In Darkness – And We Are The Murder Weapon”
OK so that is the WaPo’s shtick. But the NYT and the WaPo are both heirs of Joseph Goebbels, the patron saint of modern “mainstream” journalism. If you have ever read both of them (first make sure your vaccinations are up to date, and it is a good idea to get a penicillin shot afterwards) you can see how alike they are.
Let me think… (strokes beard and says “h’mmm”). Isn’t the NYT a newspaper owned and controlled by a Mexican ell phone oligarch?
^^ cell phone…
An edit function would be nice, wouldn’t it?
So would moving the up and down-tick buttons away from the reply link, and further apart from one another.
HINT HINT HINT HINT…!
The “left” is all about the money, even down to their smallest useful idiots: college kids who want free everything.
Example:
colon kapernick is a shoe salesman for grossly overpriced nike products floisted upon lower income black people who are pathetically indoctrinated into self destruction by the democrat party.
No, it isn’t, actually. Carlos Slim owns 17.4% of the company’s class A shares, which gets him a bit under 6% of the board. The Sulzbergers own almost all the class B shares, which means they control the board completely.
Remember when the lefties were pontificating “Question Authority”?
Evidently, they didn’t mean THEIR authority.
They never do.
They won’t get free sh*t otherwise.
Why pay when you can sell your soul?
But then….
I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot more calls from the liberals to “investigate” more popular You Tube groups like Prager U.
It’s an election year, and the left cannot allow people to view online materials that challenge their narratives.
I have the feeling we’ll be seeing an increase in the number of “accidental” (oops, sorry it was the algorithm that did it) removals, demonetizations, and shadow bans of Republican/conservative material on YouTube in the run-up to the 2020 presidential elections. And if called out for it, the PTB will apologize for the “mistake” and promise to correct whatever went wrong. But for those that aren’t as well known as PragerU? They’re just shit outta luck when the ban hammer hits. They’ll have no appeal or recourse to correct the matter.
Normally I finder PragerU videos quite informative and factually correct, the example linked above seems like an exception, in that it’s too simplified. Perhaps to better reach the uneducated college audience? A far far more important reason for the electoral college is that it serves as a firebreak for voter fraud. Cook County Democrats can drum up as many undead voters as they wish, but the worst they can do is steal Illinois. If the national vote is a popular vote every single fraudulent voter helps steal ALL the states.
It’s not fair that they’ve spent two generations ensuring that academic is uniformly left-wing echo chamber — and then some miscreants are walking around our campuses asking the wrong questions and messing it all up!