Florida Will Allow Far Right PragerU Materials in Public Schools, Company Says

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Florida approves non-accredited far-right PragerU for schools. PragerU promotes anti-immigrant, denies racism, supports Christian nationalism, disputes climate change, questions gender/race/sexuality equality, and pushes capitalist/imperialist ideologies.

found that PragerU videos, widely popular in right-wing circles, “reject diversity and equality of genders, races and sexualities, support capitalism and the free market economy, and heavily relate their views to Christianity.”, finding that the organization frequently rewrites history. The company, for instance, has rejected the well-established fact that Richard Nixon employed the “southern strategy” to appeal to racist voters in the U.S. South in order to win his elections.

“PragerU seems to be yet another node on the internet connecting conservative media consumers to the dark corners of the extreme right,” the SPLC analysis concluded.The decision to allow PragerU materials is “the latest example showing that [Florida Republican Gov. Ron] DeSantis hasn’t removed political ideology schools, but rather amplified conservative Christian ideologies that he favors,”

 

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