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underpants

(182,829 posts)
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 07:49 AM Aug 2023

Florida's PragerU climate videos. Theme - Climate activists are like Nazis.

I’m only posting an excerpt. This is beyond disturbing.

DeSantis’s Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools


Scientific American
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2023/08/07/in-desantis-fla-schools-get-ok-for-climate-denial-videos-00109466

Florida is the first state to allow PragerU materials in public schools, where teachers will have the option of showing the five- to 10-minute videos in their classrooms. Florida public schools have roughly 3 million students, more than the entire population of Kansas.

In the video, teenager Ania is concerned about climate change because of what she learned at school. The fossil fuel industry’s climate-denial talking points are introduced almost verbatim in the trusted voice of Ania’s mother and father.

Ania’s parents tell her that the climate has always cooled and warmed — “long before carbon emissions were a factor” — and that climate action is pointless until China and India cut their emissions. Ania also hears that renewable energy is unreliable and too expensive.

Ania repeats her parent’s claims in class and is shunned by her teacher and classmates. Her sadness lifts, however, when her grandfather tells her about life under Nazism in World War II. Ania feels empowered because her grandfather says “fighting oppression always takes courage.”

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Florida's PragerU climate videos. Theme - Climate activists are like Nazis. (Original Post) underpants Aug 2023 OP
PragerU bullsh*t BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2023 #1
K&R. Florida trying to brainwash young minds bronxiteforever Aug 2023 #2
Schools aren't for learning in Florida. Kid Berwyn Aug 2023 #3
Every major college football team has at least one person designated for Florida players underpants Aug 2023 #5
The shortsightedness seems to be GOP policy. Kid Berwyn Aug 2023 #6
David Stockman underpants Aug 2023 #8
Greider got Stockman "taken to the woodshed." Kid Berwyn Aug 2023 #10
We need to be ready to fight this in our communities mahina Aug 2023 #4
Oh, don't forget Columbus EnergizedLib Aug 2023 #7
This is Dennis Prager's fake university honest.abe Aug 2023 #9
Students should ask their parents why they can't get homeowner insurance dalton99a Aug 2023 #11
This is what Prager U (not a real education institution) wants to teach Florida children LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2023 #12
The Douglass and be us especially egregious underpants Aug 2023 #13

Kid Berwyn

(14,909 posts)
3. Schools aren't for learning in Florida.
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 09:06 AM
Aug 2023

Florida schools are for making unquestioning serfs and cannon fodder.

underpants

(182,829 posts)
5. Every major college football team has at least one person designated for Florida players
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 09:21 AM
Aug 2023

Not just recruiting but getting them through the eligibility clearing house. The schools are so bad, many universities can’t recognize them as accredited. This was told to me by someone deep into college football at school’s Board. This was about 10 years ago. Not saying it’s not DeSantis fault but he started with a mess and has politicized it, weaponized it, and made it worse. All that tourism money is staying in pockets not going to schools.

Kid Berwyn

(14,909 posts)
6. The shortsightedness seems to be GOP policy.
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 09:37 AM
Aug 2023
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Absolutely the money. The ultra-wealthy bastards for whom DeSantis toils don't want a nation of educated, independent thinkers because they want to keep up the illusion that these aren't the wealthiest times in human history by far. Former Congressman David Stockman (R-Mich.), Reagan's former Budget Director, estimated 7/8th of all the wealth in human history has been created since 1980. Most all of that has ended up in the pockets of a tiny fraction of the top 1-percent, Stockman said, due to the fiscal policies of Trickle Down Economics passed 42 years ago. If people knew how much money the rich have stashed offshore out of the reach of the IRS and the world's governments, they might wonder why it isn't being taxed and used for solving problems from universal health-care to re-imagined energy and economic systems to tackling climate change.

underpants

(182,829 posts)
8. David Stockman
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 09:55 AM
Aug 2023

He’s smart that’s for sure but he was a major part of creating what he now describes- I took what you posted as critical not him claiming credit.


Stockman's influence within the Reagan Administration was weakened after the Atlantic Monthly magazine published the infamous 18,246-word article, "The Education of David Stockman",[7] in its December 1981 issue, based on lengthy interviews Stockman gave to reporter William Greider.

Stockman was quoted as referring to Reagan's tax act in these terms: "I mean, Kemp-Roth [Reagan's 1981 tax cut] was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.... It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down.' So the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory."[7] Of the budget process during his first year on the job, Stockman was quoted as saying, "None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers," which was used as the subtitle of the article.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stockman

Kid Berwyn

(14,909 posts)
10. Greider got Stockman "taken to the woodshed."
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 10:29 AM
Aug 2023

Reagan's team kicked him out of the in-group -- Stockman went from a rising star to pariah.

I cannot find the entire interview at 60 Minutes, but the clip from The Young Turks show has a portion (the subtitle generator they use is really rotten)...



The important fact: These are the wealthiest times in human history. And the rich don't want the schlubs to find out.


LetMyPeopleVote

(145,321 posts)
12. This is what Prager U (not a real education institution) wants to teach Florida children
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 11:08 AM
Aug 2023

This material is pure crap. The goal is turn school children into RWNJs




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