Florida Approves Educational Lessons From PragerU

Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated conservative radio speak present host and author, talking on the Turning Level Excessive College Management Summit in Washington, D.C. on July 24, 2018. | Supply: SOPA Photographs / Getty

Here is an easy reality: Conservatives usually are not in opposition to “indoctrination” within the classroom.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and different Republican legislators and pundits have been utilizing that buzzword to dying the identical method they’ve appropriated “woke” and altered important race principle from a decades-old educational research on systemic racism to a rallying cry for the white, fragile and aggrieved. (None of whom truly know a single factor about what CRT is.) However DeSantis and the remainder of the barely-closeted white nationalist brigade are all for indoctrination as lengthy it’s the suitable indoctrination (pun completely meant). So long as college college students are studying from a conservative perspective that highlights American jingoism and omits any factual classes on Black historical past that will get white conservatives Klan robes all in a bunch.

It’s nonetheless all about indoctrination.

In response to the Tampa Bay Instances, “An unaccredited conservative non-profit group recognized for its anti-immigration theories and downplaying of systemic racism has been accepted to supply classroom supplies to Florida faculties.” Think about that: DeSantis and the Florida Board of Training are utilizing a company with no academic credentials to—*checks notes*—educate college students. Why would they do this? May it’s that it’s extra necessary to require college students to study from classroom supplies developed by a company that can be a part of Florida officers in mendacity about systemic racism and demonizing migrants than it’s to make use of supplies from certified educators? Is that this the type of DEI DeSantis advocates? As a result of I believed meritocracy was necessary?

PragerU, which was based by conservative radio host Dennis Prager (we’ll get into extra about him in a second) despatched out a information launch Monday, saying that Florida is the primary state to permit its Okay-12 classes into the classroom, however its plan is to take it’s white fragility-friendly schooling marketing campaign country-wide.

“1000’s of American academics and faculty board members have contacted PragerU determined for healthful, high quality, partaking assets to assist educate their college students,” the discharge said. “They’re sick and bored with curriculum laced with radical political agendas — from Crucial Race Concept and gender fluidity to overt anti-Americanism.”

Instructional discussions of systemic racism and gender fluidity are solely “radical” to racist and anti-LGBTQA+ Caucasians who would reasonably stick their heads within the whitey-approved sand than study something factual about U.S. historical past that makes America appear to be something lower than the distinctive utopia of freedom and liberty they’ve deluded themselves into believing it’s. For a so-called academic useful resource that’s being pressured on college students to label these classes as “radical political agendas”—as if the hassle to ban them into white and “healthful” oblivion isn’t simply as a lot a political agenda—places on full show white conservatives personal indoctrination initiative. However what else ought to we anticipate from a state that’s now requiring academics to show that enslaved folks benefited from slavery and that Black victims of race massacres additionally dedicated acts of violence?

Anyway, it additionally seems PragerU’s founder is racist. (Surprising, I do know.)

Prager as soon as claimed falsely and with out proof that Black college students commit the “overwhelming” majority of on-campus hate crimes and that if any racist and/or anti-Black graffiti is discovered on campuses “it was Black children that did it” as a race hoax.

Prager additionally seems to be very upset that white folks can’t use anti-Black racial slurs anymore.

“What number of names have Blacks gone by in my lifetime?…What was incorrect with Negro? What was incorrect with coloured? None of them, there’s no downside with any of them,” Prager as soon as whitesplained on his speak present, in response to NY Day by day Information.

He additionally informed a caller on his present that “the left has made it inconceivable to say the N-word any longer” and that “is idiotic that you just can’t say the N-word.” (This was his justification for utilizing “the k-word” in reference to Jewish folks, by the way in which.)

So, mainly, Florida employed a racist to supply academic supplies that purposefully exclude important race principle as a result of it’s “racist” in opposition to white folks.

Florida—the Sunset State.