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We need to talk about the danger to society that is PragerU: the right-wing group funded by fossil-fuel billionaires that’s packaging trickle-down propaganda into slick YouTube videos – hosted by a 'faculty' (we’re talking the likes of Adam Carolla and Tucker Carlson) that boasts a collective IQ slightly higher than most North American pond scums – and spreading their misinformation like wildfire online.
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Yep, that PragerU. The fake “university” is a favorite amplifier of trickle-down fanatics, and the organization loves to parrot talking points that advance economic policies which put more money into coffers of their corporate backers and the top 1% of earners.
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But here’s the scary thing about those videos that masquerade as educational resources: We just got news that these PragerU “resources” are infiltrating our country’s public K-12 school systems, pumping right-wing beliefs and failed trickle-down economic thinking directly into the minds of young people – all the while being presented as “objective” facts.
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And that's why, we need 2,500 activists to speak out before 11:59 p.m. by answering the following question:
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Should PragerU propaganda be banned from public schools?
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According to an exposé from The American Prospect, students reported that PragerU’s blatant right-wing content has been circulating in school curricula for years – and the right-wing nonprofit has even launched a program specifically designed for kindergarteners.
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So yes, just to be clear, it’s funded by the same failed trickle-downers who got this country into a deep economic rut. The same trickle-downers who diverted $50 trillion worth of wages from working Americans to the top 1%. The same trickle-downers who are suppressing the wages of Americans – all while their productivity is significantly higher – by $10 per hour. Yeah, those ones are working day and night to indoctrinate America’s next generation with false facts and making them believe trickle-down policies lead to economic prosperity (hint: they DO NOT).
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Are you thinking what we’re thinking? What the HELL!?
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Right-wing talking heads LOVE to talk about the so-called elitist, left-wing institutions that cater to a liberal agenda. And yet here they are, using a fake university to amplify policies that will make the richest of the rich – you know, like fossil-fuel barons who own a yacht and a helicopter – even richer and implanting their talking points in the very curricula of our public schools
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But here’s the scariest part from the exposé:
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“With no federal policy barring political biases in the classroom, education legislation is largely left up to states. And PragerU’s status as a nominally apolitical nonprofit organization makes it particularly slippery. Unless teachers are made aware of its conservative agenda, and are discouraged from using it, it’s impossible to bar from classrooms.”
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That’s why we’re asking this grassroots movement to do its part and speak out against PragerU in our public schools. We need 2,500 activists to speak out before 11:59 p.m. by answering the following question:
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Should PragerU propaganda be banned from public schools?
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Thank you,
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Stephen
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