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Florida OKs school materials aimed at making students conservatives

ttwtt78640 said:
. Bias is most often accomplished by presenting only one ‘side’ of a story, event or policy position than by presenting ‘non-factual’ material (and omitting the other ‘side’).
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There aren't two (legitimate) sides here. Slavery was bad, period. Discrimination is bad, period. Hatred is bad, period.

We don't teach "both sides" of the Holocaust.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Nope, pointing out that Sam also committed murder isn’t defending Joe’s commission of murder.
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Of course it is - "whataboutism" is always a (bad) defense.

There is no other reason for you to bring it up, other than to distract from the bad thing your side did.
 
TheDoctorWasIn said:
There aren't two (legitimate) sides here. Slavery was bad, period. Discrimination is bad, period. Hatred is bad, period.

We don't teach "both sides" of the Holocaust.
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I was unable to read the OP link due to a pop-up demanding subscription to do so. I have no idea what subject(s) the ‘offending’ PragerU content referenced.
 
TheDoctorWasIn said:
Of course it is - "whataboutism" is always a (bad) defense.

There is no other reason for you to bring it up, other than to distract from the bad thing your side did.
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You can skip the “your side” personal attack nonsense, since it only serves to point out your own partisan bias. Using examples of similar things within the given context is a completely valid discussion (debate?) technique.

 
TheDoctorWasIn said:
There aren't two (legitimate) sides here. Slavery was bad, period. Discrimination is bad, period. Hatred is bad, period.

We don't teach "both sides" of the Holocaust.
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Well... you must not live in Florida.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
I was unable to read the OP link due to a pop-up demanding subscription to do so. I have no idea what subject(s) the ‘offending’ PragerU content referenced.
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Finally!! I knew you were posting without having read the OP article. It only took 56 posts to admit it.
 
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Moon said:
No, I definitely live in Washington.
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If you think he's either beady-eyed or a fascist you're not living in reality. He's about the furthest from both as possible. Socialist? Maybe. Fascist? Well... Washington does have a liberal drug policy.
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Definitely not beady-eyed.
 
NWRatCon said:
If you think he's either beady-eyed or a fascist you're not living in reality. He's about the furthest from both as possible. Socialist? Maybe. Fascist? Well... Washington does have a liberal drug policy.
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Definitely not beady-eyed.
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All in the eye of the beholder.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
I won’t defend it, but similarly valid complaints can be made for ‘educational’ material with the opposite political bias.
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No, it can't.

"PragerU" is not a university or an educational institution at all. It's a hard-right conservative propaganda machine that is little more than a YouTube channel. They have an explicit goal of converting people to their hard-right perspective. You can't say that about the College Board.
 
ataraxia said:
Yes. Everyone needs to be treated equally all the time. (y)

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So you're equating today's racial problems with a house that is on fire.
We have every law you can think of to make sure everyone is treated equally by the law. Except of course if you are Hillary Clinton and have the FBI director in your pocket before a general election.

How many more laws do you think we need to ensure equality of opportunity in this country? No, that does not mean slavery reparations to insure income equity.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Unfortunately, that option (to sample other material) is limited within a public K-12 school environment. If the teacher asserts that A caused B, then your assertion (no matter how well supported by documentation) that (mainly) Z caused B, will not be deemed correct.
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My assertion is that Hapless Harris is a brazen, lying sack of poop who came down to Florida, picked the fly shit out of the pepper by focusing on a single topic out of 191 other topics in the black history curriculum and hammered on that one point because the dumb, blockheaded audience wanted to believe DeSantis was (personally) responsible for the wording in that one item.
She is a POS that no one likes but was given the job of being an attack dog during this political season where DeSantis is vulnerable and responsible for a curriculum HE DID NOT CREATE!
 
Absentglare said:
www.orlandosentinel.com

Florida OKs school materials aimed at making students conservatives

Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly says he opposes indoctrination in schools. Yet his administration in early July approved materials from a conservative group that says it’s all about indoctrination and…
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Florida is moving to brainwash the youth, force feeding partisan political propaganda to children. It seems the CRT scare was more projection.

Anyone going to defend this?
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Prager U is a disgrace in terms of educational content. However, combine this with the approximately 5,000 teacherless classrooms in FL last year and FL's willingness to hire unqualified teachers and you are going to have a mass of substitutes and unqualified teachers playing this garbage to kids from k-12.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
I won’t defend it, but similarly valid complaints can be made for ‘educational’ material with the opposite political bias. As with ‘news’ media bias, most is accomplished by simple omission. Bias is most often accomplished by presenting only one ‘side’ of a story, event or policy position than by presenting ‘non-factual’ material (and omitting the other ‘side’).
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Please provide a websource of curriculum from a single entity with as clearly stated partisan goals. It's not that this site is partisan, it is that they are so often incorrect. Columbus describing the natives he found as not being peaceful? Maybe, but the first thing?
 
Visbek said:
No, it can't.

"PragerU" is not a university or an educational institution at all. It's a hard-right conservative propaganda machine that is little more than a YouTube channel. They have an explicit goal of converting people to their hard-right perspective. You can't say that about the College Board.
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I am all for the concept of Prager U and fully understand it is not an accredited university. It's concepts and teachers are a lot more in line with Conservative American than the bullshit, racist ideology of DEI, CRT, WOKE, LGBTQ, and ESG drivel promoted by Leftist/Progressives today.
If you are Leftist drone and actually applaud Kamala Harris' bullshit lies about the black history curriculum, then there is no reason for you to continue reading. You've already swallowed the Kool-Aid.



‘Truth is the left’s mortal enemy’ — a conversation with Dennis Prager​


The founder of PragerU is on a quest to get more people — especially young people — to embrace Judeo-Christian values
By Jacob Hess
Dec 1, 2022, 8:00pm PDT

The content on PragerU, a registered nonprofit, speaks plainly to the hardest and most sensitive questions of the day, from gender ideology and racial politics, to climate change and the traditional family.

Presenters, who are not paid except occasionally for travel, have included conservative luminaries such as Robert C. O’Brien, Nikki Haley, Robert P. George, Rod Dreher, Jordan Peterson, Candace Owens, Carol Swain and Victor Davis Hanson.

As Prager says, “My life’s mission has been to influence as many people as possible to adopt Judeo-Christian and American values.” As such, Prager U has become among the most effective and influential forces in spreading traditional values and founding American ideals in the world today. It is among the most viewed conservative video sites in the world, clocking well more than 1 billion views a year, more than half by people under the age of 35.

www.deseret.com

‘Truth is the left’s mortal enemy’ — a conversation with Dennis Prager

The founder of PragerU is on a quest to get more people to embrace Judeo-Christian values.
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