PragerU for Kids: The Worst Propaganda

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  • @Ozziw162
    @Ozziw162 2 роки тому +5024

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

    • @LeBatteur
      @LeBatteur 2 роки тому +394

      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
      @Crispman_777 2 роки тому +29

      @@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
      @mynaemismoos 2 роки тому +174

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

    • @teal_m_101
      @teal_m_101 2 роки тому

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

    • @Riolupai
      @Riolupai 2 роки тому +110

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

  • @Mega-rx9sr
    @Mega-rx9sr 2 роки тому +5470

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

    • @billc5433
      @billc5433 2 роки тому +720

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

    • @IGotNoJam
      @IGotNoJam 2 роки тому +192

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

    • @blitzir
      @blitzir 2 роки тому +57

      @@IGotNoJam prageru workers

    • @johnfitzgeraldkennedy5076
      @johnfitzgeraldkennedy5076 2 роки тому +7

      @@blitzir and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself

    • @SirBlackReeds
      @SirBlackReeds 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @isabellegray2338
    @isabellegray2338 Рік тому +2485

    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
      @quantumfall9930 Рік тому +252

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

    • @Aeivious
      @Aeivious 10 місяців тому

      @@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
      @officialtoddhoward69 9 місяців тому

      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
      @superfluo6249 6 місяців тому +6

      He was a christian.

    • @Krystalllyne
      @Krystalllyne 6 місяців тому

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

  • @Jouzou87
    @Jouzou87 Рік тому +784

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

    • @commanderdemonno9819
      @commanderdemonno9819 10 місяців тому +49

      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
      @THE_TRAPPYMAN 3 місяці тому +6

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

  • @whyviolajokes7155
    @whyviolajokes7155 2 роки тому +17565

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

    • @billmozart7288
      @billmozart7288 2 роки тому +1262

      I bet Ben Shabeebo said it

    • @graeme8866
      @graeme8866 2 роки тому +893

      @@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
      @ThatPazuzu 2 роки тому +496

      His sister then talks about how hot Reagan was.

    • @JackedThor-so
      @JackedThor-so 2 роки тому +89

      @@graeme8866 That was literally me as a kid

    • @graeme8866
      @graeme8866 2 роки тому +95

      @@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.

  • @1BlueYoshi
    @1BlueYoshi 2 роки тому +12478

    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
      @sycanide 2 роки тому +1311

      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
      @ashtoncommittedarsonbutina131 2 роки тому +567

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

    • @CAPSLOCKPUNDIT
      @CAPSLOCKPUNDIT 2 роки тому

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

    • @zab416
      @zab416 2 роки тому +258

      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
      @Bisquick 2 роки тому

      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_**

  • @WildCard-ze3tm
    @WildCard-ze3tm Рік тому +1290

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

    • @xij3505
      @xij3505 Рік тому +56

      💀💀💀

    • @arcqx9676
      @arcqx9676 Рік тому +36

      💀💀💀

    • @ramsesses5509
      @ramsesses5509 Рік тому +37

      💀💀💀

    • @im4ft622
      @im4ft622 Рік тому +39

      I don’t get it :(

    • @WildCard-ze3tm
      @WildCard-ze3tm Рік тому +293

      @@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.

  • @Maggerama
    @Maggerama Рік тому +983

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

    • @Saibellus
      @Saibellus Рік тому +66

      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
      @Maggerama Рік тому

      @@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
      @spongeintheshoe Рік тому +73

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

    • @Maggerama
      @Maggerama Рік тому +8

      @@spongeintheshoe It still is, just morbidly.

    • @achyuththouta6957
      @achyuththouta6957 Рік тому +26

      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

  • @tomd1209
    @tomd1209 2 роки тому +8342

    "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
      @oliverhunt6813 2 роки тому +84

      Fred Idiglaws, 'man'

    • @gandalfforpresident4676
      @gandalfforpresident4676 2 роки тому +276

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

    • @whitewilliam9786
      @whitewilliam9786 2 роки тому

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

    • @SkyknightMu
      @SkyknightMu 2 роки тому +92

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

    • @PvblivsAelivs
      @PvblivsAelivs 2 роки тому

      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.

  • @Doctor-Infinite
    @Doctor-Infinite 2 роки тому +8319

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

    • @knutthompson7879
      @knutthompson7879 2 роки тому +379

      Yeah. I mean, wow.

    • @Doctor-Infinite
      @Doctor-Infinite 2 роки тому +377

      @@knutthompson7879 literally made me say “Yikes 😬”

    • @c0ttage
      @c0ttage 2 роки тому +565

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

    • @somerandomgoblin2583
      @somerandomgoblin2583 2 роки тому +202

      It's honestly disturbing

    • @ddjsoyenby
      @ddjsoyenby 2 роки тому +297

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

  • @harrietalice7783
    @harrietalice7783 Рік тому +1037

    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
      @winterviveca5976 Рік тому +263

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

    • @rootfish2671
      @rootfish2671 Рік тому +42

      No way you made that last one up shut up

    • @barrackobama2216
      @barrackobama2216 Рік тому

      ​@@rootfish2671 no really they do ua-cam.com/video/VJzYdswmd54/v-deo.html

    • @ssjcrafter8842
      @ssjcrafter8842 Рік тому +188

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

    • @Vpentrov
      @Vpentrov 11 місяців тому +10

      That Jew one sounds nice..

  • @Puvwilmo00
    @Puvwilmo00 Рік тому +345

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

    • @BigHH88
      @BigHH88 Рік тому +10

      They are tho

    • @squirrel_disaster
      @squirrel_disaster Рік тому +77

      @@BigHH88 How? Lmao.

    • @yourmother3217
      @yourmother3217 Рік тому +3

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

    • @Morozfuniofisial
      @Morozfuniofisial 9 місяців тому

      @@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
      @Morozfuniofisial 9 місяців тому +2

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

  • @linktothepassed
    @linktothepassed 2 роки тому +4199

    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
      @alicethetransdalek7333 2 роки тому +1

      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
      @user-et3xn2jm1u 2 роки тому +229

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

    • @thomaspetrucka9173
      @thomaspetrucka9173 2 роки тому +7

      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
      @aazhie 2 роки тому +292

      @@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
      @MysticMorigan1998 2 роки тому +94

      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

  • @Shtoops
    @Shtoops 2 роки тому +9114

    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
      @rmcdudmk212 2 роки тому +218

      Why? Inbreeding that's why.

    • @somerandomguy4919
      @somerandomguy4919 2 роки тому

      Conservatives are against education that doesn't fit their narrative

    • @akorn9943
      @akorn9943 2 роки тому +870

      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
      @graeme8866 2 роки тому

      @@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
      @77mcmarine 2 роки тому +348

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

  • @ICantRecognizeCelebrities
    @ICantRecognizeCelebrities Рік тому +602

    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
      @its.evviii Рік тому +14

      absolutely agreed.

    • @thevioletbee5879
      @thevioletbee5879 Рік тому +57

      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
      @birdie8006 Рік тому +35

      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
      @killedbycrit 7 місяців тому

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

  • @oneangryboi408
    @oneangryboi408 Рік тому +326

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

    • @dahelmang
      @dahelmang Рік тому +2

      They never said slavery was good.

    • @oneangryboi408
      @oneangryboi408 Рік тому +45

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

    • @dahelmang
      @dahelmang Рік тому +1

      @@oneangryboi408 nobody is saying slavery is good.

    • @oneangryboi408
      @oneangryboi408 Рік тому +36

      @@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
      @dahelmang Рік тому +1

      @@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.

  • @the4thdoor906
    @the4thdoor906 2 роки тому +5568

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

    • @TuesdaysArt
      @TuesdaysArt 2 роки тому +208

      The way Big Joel cut that footage was so funny

    • @sabrinacosta5667
      @sabrinacosta5667 2 роки тому +50

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

    • @coatimundi69
      @coatimundi69 Рік тому +19

      🥳🎉🎉🎉

    • @rainbowwigglecactus6605
      @rainbowwigglecactus6605 Рік тому +161

      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
      @bubblegodanimation4915 Рік тому +4

      Probably in hell waiting for heaven to trickle down.

  • @LimeyLassen
    @LimeyLassen 2 роки тому +5871

    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
      @GeneralBolas 2 роки тому +481

      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
      @OctyabrAprelya 2 роки тому +105

      @@GeneralBolas Dimitrrrrrrrrrrrrri

    • @dan_asd
      @dan_asd 2 роки тому +6

      @@GeneralBolas Nice name

    • @sail2byzantium
      @sail2byzantium 2 роки тому +160

      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
      @seeeds4702 2 роки тому +184

      @@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

  • @interstellarradio
    @interstellarradio Рік тому +238

    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
      @basedbomber Рік тому +12

      Reject government,insert militia.

    • @basedbomber
      @basedbomber Рік тому

      @Kleiner Reject government,insert militia.

  • @Sophie_Miller_Wx
    @Sophie_Miller_Wx Рік тому +414

    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
      @yellowishnesses1138 Рік тому +55

      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
      @birdie8006 Рік тому +10

      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
      @Ailacatailu 11 місяців тому +11

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

    • @superzova
      @superzova 9 місяців тому +4

      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
      @ExtremeWreck 9 місяців тому

      PragerU & Autism Speaks go hand in hand I see.

  • @mh5086
    @mh5086 2 роки тому +5599

    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
      @akorn9943 2 роки тому +786

      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
      @graeme8866 2 роки тому +76

      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
      @theonlyfish1913 2 роки тому

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

    • @graeme8866
      @graeme8866 2 роки тому +55

      @@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
      @kevinsongxin2551 2 роки тому +296

      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

  • @shethatsme
    @shethatsme 2 роки тому +11146

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

    • @Animotion3D
      @Animotion3D 2 роки тому +545

      Frederick SUSglas

    • @DarkShadic9632
      @DarkShadic9632 2 роки тому +326

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

    • @Sh1ranu1
      @Sh1ranu1 2 роки тому +214

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

    • @toerklintv4185
      @toerklintv4185 2 роки тому +31

      @@Sh1ranu1 A very, very good video indeed.

    • @coolraygaming
      @coolraygaming 2 роки тому +48

      @@Sh1ranu1 being reasonable: liberal nonsense

  • @snausages43
    @snausages43 Рік тому +276

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

    • @nadalekene2446
      @nadalekene2446 Рік тому +44

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

    • @liammcnicholas918
      @liammcnicholas918 Рік тому +16

      Galileo definitely shared a link to a video about the planets

  • @Bread26
    @Bread26 11 місяців тому +50

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

    • @eggmug562
      @eggmug562 Місяць тому +2

      Also why does the sister look like a wine mom

  • @kenpatchiramasama1076
    @kenpatchiramasama1076 2 роки тому +2450

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

    • @thedumbdog1964
      @thedumbdog1964 2 роки тому +220

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

    • @ArcturusOTE
      @ArcturusOTE 2 роки тому +208

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

    • @danielmiyahara9089
      @danielmiyahara9089 2 роки тому +124

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

    • @Jiji-the-cat5425
      @Jiji-the-cat5425 2 роки тому +26

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

    • @jman617
      @jman617 2 роки тому +15

      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

  • @davidtaylor142
    @davidtaylor142 2 роки тому +8048

    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
      @arturoaguilar6002 2 роки тому +1492

      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
      @davidtaylor142 2 роки тому +542

      @@arturoaguilar6002 damn that is exactly what they would say

    • @pyratehyena1312
      @pyratehyena1312 2 роки тому +152

      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
      @bugjams 2 роки тому +552

      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
      @HeadsFullOfEyeballs 2 роки тому +170

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

  • @heyfella5217
    @heyfella5217 Рік тому +153

    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
      @Milk-ck1wv 9 місяців тому +16

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

    • @Sticky_sausage69
      @Sticky_sausage69 9 місяців тому

      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
      @cloudy978 7 місяців тому +12

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

  • @purplecatloverrandompizza
    @purplecatloverrandompizza Рік тому +72

    “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
      @forest2727 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @pappydoge1841
    @pappydoge1841 2 роки тому +3564

    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
      @kaitlyn__L 2 роки тому +380

      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
      @pallingtontheshrike6374 2 роки тому +1

      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
      @TheBestWanderbug 2 роки тому +130

      yeah how do you fuck up a simple volcano

    • @TomBertalan
      @TomBertalan 2 роки тому +1

      @@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
      @kaitlyn__L 2 роки тому

      @@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.

  • @catffiend
    @catffiend 2 роки тому +2413

    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
      @jmiquelmb 2 роки тому

      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
      @jmiquelmb 2 роки тому

      @@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
      @mrreaper8826 2 роки тому

      @@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
      @vylbird8014 2 роки тому +214

      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
      @jmiquelmb 2 роки тому +78

      @@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.

  • @rooty
    @rooty Рік тому +114

    "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

  • @Frongo
    @Frongo Рік тому +127

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

    • @shloprop4751
      @shloprop4751 Рік тому +7

      already done

    • @mgames3209
      @mgames3209 9 місяців тому +1

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

  • @I.have.salmonella
    @I.have.salmonella 2 роки тому +2277

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

    • @mr.cup6yearsago211
      @mr.cup6yearsago211 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @cinos-
      @cinos- 2 роки тому +391

      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
      @idontevenhaveapla7224 2 роки тому +537

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

    • @dragonairdragon6173
      @dragonairdragon6173 2 роки тому +56

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

    • @fartinfpooping8801
      @fartinfpooping8801 2 роки тому +255

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

  • @link064
    @link064 2 роки тому +3557

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

    • @AaronCMounts
      @AaronCMounts 2 роки тому

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

    • @billkormas3460
      @billkormas3460 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @BoliceOccifer
      @BoliceOccifer 2 роки тому +17

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

    • @erisdiscordia5429
      @erisdiscordia5429 2 роки тому +177

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

    • @angrypepe7615
      @angrypepe7615 2 роки тому +187

      ​@@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.

  • @cicalinarrot
    @cicalinarrot Рік тому +139

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

  • @goosegooseproductions9587
    @goosegooseproductions9587 Рік тому +44

    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
      @Laikafan02 11 місяців тому

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

  • @60oh
    @60oh 2 роки тому +17189

    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
      @isaacmuth7097 2 роки тому +89

      😫😫😫😫

    • @imveryangryitsnotbutter
      @imveryangryitsnotbutter 2 роки тому +690

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

    • @FaiaHalo
      @FaiaHalo 2 роки тому +53

      More anxiety lol

    • @FaiaHalo
      @FaiaHalo 2 роки тому +107

      @@imveryangryitsnotbutter exactly

    • @shytendeakatamanoir9740
      @shytendeakatamanoir9740 2 роки тому +75

      Another proof we live in Hell.

  • @nicks1451
    @nicks1451 2 роки тому +876

    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
      @CK-nh7sv 2 роки тому +120

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

    • @jmiquelmb
      @jmiquelmb 2 роки тому +64

      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
      @emeryrachelle224 2 роки тому +36

      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
      @rishabhanand4973 2 роки тому +10

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

    • @vincentterraneo263
      @vincentterraneo263 2 роки тому +10

      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.

  • @MagicTurtle643
    @MagicTurtle643 Рік тому +52

    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.

  • @skyty0
    @skyty0 2 роки тому +3381

    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
      @washmyhoohah Рік тому +514

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

    • @greywalker505
      @greywalker505 Рік тому +148

      @@washmyhoohah
      Maybe he is.

    • @Joosher56
      @Joosher56 Рік тому +225

      @@washmyhoohah bros running the “family business”

    • @dudeguy99butAWESOME
      @dudeguy99butAWESOME Рік тому +91

      Ah yes "The Buisness"

    • @biraptor6205
      @biraptor6205 Рік тому +126

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

  • @williamwells434
    @williamwells434 2 роки тому +1721

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

    • @gremlinwc8996
      @gremlinwc8996 2 роки тому +99

      He'd support the blm movement 100%.

    • @williamwells434
      @williamwells434 2 роки тому +60

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

    • @guyferrari8124
      @guyferrari8124 2 роки тому +18

      @@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
      @williamwells434 2 роки тому +82

      @@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
      @jordinagel1184 Рік тому +81

      @@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.

  • @gallowsglare
    @gallowsglare Рік тому +30

    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

  • @tabithapritt6895
    @tabithapritt6895 6 місяців тому +28

    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
      @jakobthomas1926 5 місяців тому +3

      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"

  • @cake6476
    @cake6476 2 роки тому +5524

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

    • @westontheexistent7154
      @westontheexistent7154 2 роки тому

      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
      @Jiji-the-cat5425 2 роки тому +530

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

    • @myclutteredmess2271
      @myclutteredmess2271 2 роки тому

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

    • @joshridinger3407
      @joshridinger3407 2 роки тому +16

      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
      @Ry_TSG 2 роки тому +236

      @@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?

  • @UdoADHD
    @UdoADHD 2 роки тому +1386

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

    • @akorn9943
      @akorn9943 2 роки тому +94

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

    • @pizletwizzler198
      @pizletwizzler198 2 роки тому +6

      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
      @ddjsoyenby 2 роки тому +88

      honestly reagan was a cartoon villan irl.

    • @kinoate
      @kinoate 2 роки тому

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

    • @amoureux6502
      @amoureux6502 2 роки тому +143

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

  • @trashmouth-tozier
    @trashmouth-tozier 10 місяців тому +37

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

  • @angelabryant9766
    @angelabryant9766 Рік тому +40

    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.

  • @lexcentrique2554
    @lexcentrique2554 2 роки тому +3091

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

    • @sandystudios223
      @sandystudios223 Рік тому +31

      Haha, good one!

    • @sophiegerlofs4611
      @sophiegerlofs4611 Рік тому +6

      XD

    • @Themothman1852
      @Themothman1852 Рік тому +9

      Love with your heart your head everything else

    • @whompronnie
      @whompronnie 11 місяців тому +54

      @@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
      @Morozfuniofisial 9 місяців тому +11

      I am conservative but this is an underrated comment

  • @258thHiGuy
    @258thHiGuy 2 роки тому +5535

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

    • @harvsexton356
      @harvsexton356 2 роки тому +25

      It is nowadays

    • @derrick2251
      @derrick2251 2 роки тому +63

      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
      @cheekybum1513 2 роки тому +319

      @@derrick2251 Name a single other example

    • @sunbirth4795
      @sunbirth4795 2 роки тому

      @@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
      @derrick2251 2 роки тому +28

      @@cheekybum1513 petition to get joe rogan off of Spotify

  • @sadprinz
    @sadprinz Рік тому +69

    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
      @shloprop4751 Рік тому +15

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

  • @thegoldavenger.3829
    @thegoldavenger.3829 Рік тому +62

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

  • @JumpNShootSH
    @JumpNShootSH 2 роки тому +2357

    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
      @agiar2000 2 роки тому +464

      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
      @purplespectre 2 роки тому +180

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

    • @cam4636
      @cam4636 2 роки тому +1

      @@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
      @grantus_pax 2 роки тому +162

      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
      @zacharyoftavastia2445 2 роки тому

      Leftist tears are very enjoyable.

  • @johnnyfunf7179
    @johnnyfunf7179 2 роки тому +3087

    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
      @hrmpug1092 2 роки тому +15

      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
      @lisagonzalez1371 2 роки тому +368

      @@hrmpug1092 re-watch the Fredrick Douglas part

    • @misinformation_spreader777
      @misinformation_spreader777 2 роки тому

      @@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
      @azoth6641 2 роки тому +160

      Sounds about white.

    • @Hibernial
      @Hibernial 2 роки тому +26

      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.

  • @leighasbell3624
    @leighasbell3624 6 місяців тому +18

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

    • @r3ked272
      @r3ked272 5 місяців тому +11

      Bars so fire Jefferson spent the entire second verse apologizing

    • @leighasbell3624
      @leighasbell3624 5 місяців тому +2

      @@r3ked272Facts

  • @stephenmacartney
    @stephenmacartney 9 місяців тому +11

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

  • @munromister777
    @munromister777 2 роки тому +3974

    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
      @Jiji-the-cat5425 2 роки тому +1

      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
      @GreaseF1re 2 роки тому +33

      @CosmoSpice bruh

    • @gremlinwc8996
      @gremlinwc8996 2 роки тому +82

      And also used him to condemn blm protestors

    • @gremlinwc8996
      @gremlinwc8996 2 роки тому +56

      @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
      @luciusisdead 2 роки тому +96

      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.

  • @MGBYST
    @MGBYST Рік тому +44

    The Fredrick Douglass part was absolutely ghoulish

  • @talkswithleo1027
    @talkswithleo1027 Рік тому +35

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

  • @xXEGPXx
    @xXEGPXx 2 роки тому +928

    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
      @ddjsoyenby 2 роки тому +21

      it's brilliant!

    • @arturoaguilar6002
      @arturoaguilar6002 2 роки тому +65

      Conservative grifters in a nutshell.

    • @MorbidMindedManiac
      @MorbidMindedManiac 2 роки тому +20

      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
      @xXluluchanelXx 2 роки тому +23

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

    • @MorbidMindedManiac
      @MorbidMindedManiac 2 роки тому +28

      @@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”

  • @CorvidMusings
    @CorvidMusings 2 роки тому +1977

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

    • @wades9327
      @wades9327 2 роки тому +1

      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
      @XxXVideoVeiwerXxX 2 роки тому +5

      Right.
      However, is this a self report?

    • @johnambrose907
      @johnambrose907 2 роки тому +27

      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
      @wades9327 2 роки тому +19

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

    • @brook_angel
      @brook_angel 2 роки тому +121

      @@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)

  • @_jessicalees_
    @_jessicalees_ Рік тому +33

    No way they justified SLAVERY

  • @basil9973
    @basil9973 Рік тому +27

    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.

  • @hungrywolf25
    @hungrywolf25 2 роки тому +3004

    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
      @sbeevie Рік тому +41

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

    • @IloveJesus763
      @IloveJesus763 Рік тому +142

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

    • @punbasedname9032
      @punbasedname9032 Рік тому +334

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

    • @staringcorgi6475
      @staringcorgi6475 Рік тому

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

    • @irgendsoeineziege1058
      @irgendsoeineziege1058 Рік тому +114

      @@punbasedname9032 That's what most people do tbf

  • @benschmie.8975
    @benschmie.8975 2 роки тому +659

    "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
      @graeme8866 2 роки тому +41

      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
      @caromela2031 2 роки тому +47

      As a literature student I laughed out loud

    • @caromela2031
      @caromela2031 2 роки тому +188

      @@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
      @graeme8866 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @akorn9943
      @akorn9943 2 роки тому +172

      @@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.

  • @geekygamer3954
    @geekygamer3954 Рік тому +45

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

  • @moseptyagami606
    @moseptyagami606 Рік тому +87

    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
      @aceofpizza9932 9 місяців тому +3

      Excuse me?

    • @muninnpals7775
      @muninnpals7775 9 місяців тому

      ​@@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
      @None-Trick_Pony 3 місяці тому

      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
      @zareeninamdar1724 3 місяці тому

      Exactly! More or less, they were deists.

    • @moseptyagami606
      @moseptyagami606 3 місяці тому +1

      @@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.

  • @nickchambers3935
    @nickchambers3935 2 роки тому +810

    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
      @Illogical_Tales Рік тому +91

      Hahahah. They’ve gone downhill

    • @I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad
      @I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad Рік тому +3

      Singular They aren't even a thing

    • @brittledrop5735
      @brittledrop5735 Рік тому +132

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

    • @rat3138
      @rat3138 Рік тому +96

      @@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
      @kirabad-artist6532 Рік тому +54

      @@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad It’s been a thing since Shakespeare

  • @JackedThor-so
    @JackedThor-so 2 роки тому +764

    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
      @runascarlet2623 2 роки тому +95

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

    • @dez-m
      @dez-m 2 роки тому +37

      This made me cry ngl

    • @TehLislis
      @TehLislis 2 роки тому +35

      ...I kinda want to draw this.

    • @JackedThor-so
      @JackedThor-so 2 роки тому +18

      @@TehLislis Go for it!

    • @ashikjaman1940
      @ashikjaman1940 2 роки тому +13

      @@TehLislis link it here if you do

  • @GordonSlamsay
    @GordonSlamsay Рік тому +35

    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
      @quandal1633 Рік тому +1

      Ghibli studios is still going

    • @GordonSlamsay
      @GordonSlamsay Рік тому +1

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

    • @quandal1633
      @quandal1633 Рік тому +1

      @@GordonSlamsay spirited away is good

    • @GordonSlamsay
      @GordonSlamsay Рік тому +1

      @@quandal1633 agreed.

    • @jksupergamer
      @jksupergamer 8 місяців тому +1

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

  • @sorrellacious
    @sorrellacious 6 місяців тому +15

    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
      @qwertyzxcvbn3174 5 місяців тому +2

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

  • @NiktheBik
    @NiktheBik 2 роки тому +1598

    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
      @Everysinglepersonismyenemy 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @bloodywilliam3083
      @bloodywilliam3083 2 роки тому +159

      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
      @Lucifersfursona 2 роки тому +142

      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
      @HungerGamesFan88 2 роки тому +26

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

    • @user-oy4vu3ck3u
      @user-oy4vu3ck3u 2 роки тому +31

      Yeah she's 16 and he's 6

  • @FaiaHalo
    @FaiaHalo 2 роки тому +2679

    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
      @jaxonsevero1045 2 роки тому +224

      I think that’s just conservative politics in a nutshell

    • @akorn9943
      @akorn9943 2 роки тому +248

      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
      @tenrings8150 2 роки тому +53

      @@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
      @akorn9943 2 роки тому +61

      @@tenrings8150 /s :)

    • @letsomethingshine
      @letsomethingshine 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @sucktitles
    @sucktitles 4 місяці тому +7

    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?

  • @doodlebug7
    @doodlebug7 9 місяців тому +28

    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?

  • @armedpotato3617
    @armedpotato3617 2 роки тому +1913

    Remember, PragerU only has one actual "Psychologist" and she got her degree from a non approved program.

    • @capitalismsucks9590
      @capitalismsucks9590 2 роки тому

      Just like most of the MSM sources you watch? It doesn’t matter what side. It’s all propaganda LOL. At least PragerU is being honest about the world around us.

    • @abillionzebras
      @abillionzebras 2 роки тому

      yeah, you can find more about who the staff is and stuff like that here --> ua-cam.com/video/ZUz1nCRJJBg/v-deo.html
      i watched it, really good video (and no it is NOT a rickroll!)

    • @capitalismsucks9590
      @capitalismsucks9590 2 роки тому +3

      @@abillionzebras I don’t click on links from people with “staystrongukraine”

    • @armedpotato3617
      @armedpotato3617 2 роки тому +94

      @@capitalismsucks9590 I mean, Mr. Edgy communist teenager, Russia isn't even a communist country.

    • @capitalismsucks9590
      @capitalismsucks9590 2 роки тому +1

      @@armedpotato3617 Tell that to their government and constitution where it says they are still a federation that is a continuation of the USSR. Plus, Russia plan’s on reverting back to USSR day’s.
      Not a commie, just don’t enjoy blatant radical propaganda.

  • @michaelwerkov3438
    @michaelwerkov3438 2 роки тому +447

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

    • @babahu15
      @babahu15 2 роки тому +23

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

    • @kriswillman2779
      @kriswillman2779 2 роки тому +11

      They must've gotten Crowder for that part

    • @FathomLordKarathr
      @FathomLordKarathr 2 роки тому +21

      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
      @throwawayaccount4008 2 роки тому

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

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 2 роки тому

      @@throwawayaccount4008 he what now

  • @Zizumia
    @Zizumia Рік тому +19

    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.

  • @humanconsumer2864
    @humanconsumer2864 Рік тому +50

    That artstyle is a red flag in enough itself

  • @Kimmie6772
    @Kimmie6772 Рік тому +1815

    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
      @SiRenfield Рік тому +211

      “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
      @edgyanole9705 Рік тому +54

      @@SiRenfield FAN theory?

    • @petrichor3797
      @petrichor3797 Рік тому +49

      @@SiRenfield Fan FAN theory: She is Both!

    • @SiRenfield
      @SiRenfield Рік тому +36

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

    • @lylelylecrocodile2538
      @lylelylecrocodile2538 Рік тому +17

      @@SiRenfield biggest Prager u fan

  • @overtlybiased
    @overtlybiased 2 роки тому +458

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

    • @zuresei
      @zuresei 2 роки тому

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

  • @k8tln891
    @k8tln891 Рік тому +8

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

    • @k8tln891
      @k8tln891 Рік тому +7

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

  • @edward002gaming
    @edward002gaming Рік тому +17

    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

  • @AresAlpha
    @AresAlpha 2 роки тому +2019

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

    • @CrusherX1000
      @CrusherX1000 2 роки тому +54

      *Except Evangelical American dogma

    • @hsmd4533
      @hsmd4533 2 роки тому

      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
      @seitanbeatsyourmeat666 2 роки тому +4

      Bingo

    • @Windrake101
      @Windrake101 2 роки тому +11

      @@CrusherX1000 Evangelical Dominionist American dogma*

    • @pinkmoonrabbit2072
      @pinkmoonrabbit2072 2 роки тому +43

      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.

  • @appelstukje3702
    @appelstukje3702 2 роки тому +927

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

    • @shloprop4751
      @shloprop4751 Рік тому +113

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

    • @johnoconnell5004
      @johnoconnell5004 Рік тому +19

      I remember wishing to meet Batman and Optimus Prime.

    • @howtomundane3109
      @howtomundane3109 Рік тому +45

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

    • @leavemealone7159
      @leavemealone7159 Рік тому +5

      Underrated comment

    • @Immadeus
      @Immadeus Рік тому +39

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

  • @themightyleek
    @themightyleek Рік тому +16

    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.

  • @alexblackburn2247
    @alexblackburn2247 Рік тому +11

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

  • @dementedcheesepuff99
    @dementedcheesepuff99 2 роки тому +1257

    The way Leila is severely under animated in comparison to every other character in frame is genuinely terrifying. I’m half expecting her to break out of her t pose and jump scare me

    • @maybelikealittlebit
      @maybelikealittlebit 2 роки тому

      Conservatives hate women so much they can’t even hide it in their animations.

    • @markcaracciolo8662
      @markcaracciolo8662 2 роки тому +68

      I don't know what it is, but their eyes bore into my soul in a way that makes me deeply uncomfortable

    • @gibbongaming25
      @gibbongaming25 2 роки тому

      @@markcaracciolo8662 this but in a horny way lord have mercy

    • @gibbongaming25
      @gibbongaming25 2 роки тому +10

      @@markcaracciolo8662 im sorry my demons are acting out

    • @gibbongaming25
      @gibbongaming25 2 роки тому

      @@markcaracciolo8662 these 2D bitches will be my downfall fr fr

  • @nejdalej
    @nejdalej 2 роки тому +1598

    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
      @CrazyCarnieCory 2 роки тому +23

      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
      @firstnamelastname5925 2 роки тому

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

    • @THATRANDOMDUDE99999
      @THATRANDOMDUDE99999 2 роки тому +2

      @Nick what does being trans have to do with anything

    • @SaphInfection
      @SaphInfection 2 роки тому

      @@THATRANDOMDUDE99999 probably gender envy

    • @brokenmilk5885
      @brokenmilk5885 2 роки тому +22

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

  • @Mcwollybob
    @Mcwollybob 9 місяців тому +8

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

    • @BigLichen
      @BigLichen 9 місяців тому +3

      I’m sorry, they said
      *W H A T*

    • @Mcwollybob
      @Mcwollybob 9 місяців тому +3

      @@BigLichen Yeah, I watched the whole video out of curiosity and the entire time I was flabbergasted. The UA-camr 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

  • @darthdank1993
    @darthdank1993 Рік тому +7

    “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.

  • @robertgrantham1023
    @robertgrantham1023 2 роки тому +505

    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
      @neoqwerty 2 роки тому +23

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

    • @Link-dx1lx
      @Link-dx1lx 2 роки тому +49

      Put it on urban dictionary

    • @dtown_demon
      @dtown_demon 2 роки тому +8

      Yeah, we should make it slang

    • @purplespectre
      @purplespectre 2 роки тому +5

      @Jamal Ramadan That can be an additional definition.

    • @porticojunction
      @porticojunction 2 роки тому

      It's not already?

  • @lice9318
    @lice9318 2 роки тому +3754

    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
      @None-Trick_Pony 2 роки тому +146

      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
      @cayleece7890 2 роки тому +257

      @@None-Trick_Pony are you ok

    • @mercuryneous4713
      @mercuryneous4713 2 роки тому +187

      @@None-Trick_Pony is everything okay at home

    • @gabbls_
      @gabbls_ 2 роки тому

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

    • @josiahdublin7816
      @josiahdublin7816 2 роки тому +171

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

  • @thefoxsaysno9951
    @thefoxsaysno9951 8 місяців тому +7

    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
      @Prince__Teclis 8 місяців тому +3

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

    • @thefoxsaysno9951
      @thefoxsaysno9951 8 місяців тому +1

      @@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.

  • @Starman062
    @Starman062 9 місяців тому +4

    9:44 *JOHN BROWN’S BODY LIES A MOULDERING IN THE GRAVE X3*
    For those unaware Frederick Douglass was friends with John brown all the way up to harper’s ferry. And while Frederick didn’t agree with the act, he eventually did agree that slavery would need to be ended by force, not peace.

  • @edgartheidiot
    @edgartheidiot 2 роки тому +4177

    Being homeschooled for the last 10 years by very conservative parents I've had to sit through so many PragerU videos. Seeing that this children's show is a thing annoys me so much

    • @unusualusername8847
      @unusualusername8847 2 роки тому +170

      Out of curiosity, are you in therapy?

    • @edgartheidiot
      @edgartheidiot 2 роки тому +707

      @@unusualusername8847 Nope, but that's because I'm still technically a minor. My parents don't believe in therapy.

    • @TheVegeta67
      @TheVegeta67 2 роки тому +589

      @@edgartheidiot Stuff like this is why I don't believe in "Let the parents raise the kid themselves".

    • @optillian4182
      @optillian4182 2 роки тому

      @@edgartheidiot You should get the hell out of there when you're 18.

    • @jakekaywell5972
      @jakekaywell5972 2 роки тому +263

      @@edgartheidiot Jesus...that's gotta be rough.

  • @endergamer7483
    @endergamer7483 2 роки тому +2324

    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
      @manicabawse2867 2 роки тому +47

      Most disturbing thing I've read

    • @KittyPieVibes
      @KittyPieVibes 2 роки тому +161

      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
      @tacomeme429 2 роки тому +33

      @@manicabawse2867 which means his message got across

    • @10thletter40
      @10thletter40 2 роки тому +4

      @@KittyPieVibes what other message could there be 😂

    • @cheesestyx945
      @cheesestyx945 2 роки тому +2

      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.

  • @em_is_online
    @em_is_online 4 місяці тому +5

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

  • @Reaper_420l-_-l
    @Reaper_420l-_-l 8 місяців тому +7

    What does Galileo have to do with a volcano not working, or am I just stupid

  • @joenathan8059
    @joenathan8059 2 роки тому +1654

    I love when conservatives tell people to be skeptical then lose their shit when they come to different conclusions

    • @actualturtle2421
      @actualturtle2421 2 роки тому +1

      Ask me how I know you don't have an inner monologue

    • @joenathan8059
      @joenathan8059 2 роки тому +146

      @@actualturtle2421 how

    • @abyss1230
      @abyss1230 Рік тому +104

      @@joenathan8059 Almost one week later and still no response. Stock

    • @joenathan8059
      @joenathan8059 Рік тому +154

      @@abyss1230 I'm mentally and physically devastated by this event

    • @snozzlehead92
      @snozzlehead92 Рік тому +6

      It's more like telling a simple-minded person not to walk into traffic because it's not going to be a good outcome for him. Yet, despite your best efforts, the dummy arrives at the conclusion that he should walk into traffic anyway. Then he yells, "You can't tell me what to do! I'm progressing!" before the inevitable happens. You can only sigh and slap your forehead because you really had high hopes for him, but he obviously didn't possess the mental faculties required to arrive at a big brained conclusion.

  • @testknight5702
    @testknight5702 2 роки тому +2166

    i just love how these are the same people that say the left is "indoctrinating the kids"

    • @theiromia2389
      @theiromia2389 2 роки тому

      God this reminds me of how in court my father says that my mom is alienating me by telling me things he's actually done and me reciting stuff I remember him doing, but I've also heard him call my Step dad a goat fucker and my mom a whore.

    • @XX_MelobraacRedux
      @XX_MelobraacRedux 2 роки тому

      If you look everywhere on social media, you see leftists everywhere are outraged at Ron Desantis for banning the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity politics to children. Clearly that would be more of a clause for concern, but I guess you’re going to ignore that. Ok groomer

    • @harvsexton356
      @harvsexton356 2 роки тому

      No the left is too busy having pride parades in schools

    • @FFKonoko
      @FFKonoko 2 роки тому +217

      It's always projection. They assume their opponents want what they do.

    • @scottkrafft6830
      @scottkrafft6830 2 роки тому

      I mean, one is teaching about American history, the other is teaching about gay sex and openly praising pedophilia.