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Inside the Right-Wing YouTube Empire Thats Quietly Turning Millennials Into ConservativesThe viral videos from Dennis Pragers university have clocked more than 1 billion views.
MARK OPPENHEIMERMARCH/APRIL 2018 ISSUE Mother Jones
At PragerU, police are not biased against black men, and man-made climate change is debatable. Youll find takes on animal rights (against), the $15 minimum wage (against), the gender wage gap (doesnt exist), and why the South turned Republican (nothing to do with race).
Prager has hosted a few dozen videos himself, including Just Say Merry Christmas,' his take on the war on Christmas genre, and He Wants You, an apologia for men who ogle women. He personally approves every item, edits every script, and courts faculty, including heavy hitters such as Dinesh DSouza, Steve Forbes, and former White House press secretary Dana Perino. Some presenters, like Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, are credentialed. Others, like comedian Adam Carolla, merely speak with the confidence of people who are.
Prager is convinced that at this historical momentnot in 1976 when he voted for Jimmy Carter, nor in 2006 when he was a sanguine Bush supporter, but right nowour society is collapsing, and a liberal Supreme Court nominee could portend the final flood. Last summer, he tweeted that Western media outlets pose a far greater danger to Western civilization than Russia does. Prager explained to me that because the universities have all but shut down, not to mention demonized, nonleft ideas, and the media are not far behind, it is his duty to provide a conservative take on things that mattereconomics, good and evil, America, Israel, religion, God, etc. His goal is to imbue young people with the principles on which America was founded, and to demonstrate why Western society will not survive the death of Judeo-Christian values.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/inside-right-wing-youtube-turning-millennials-conservative-prageru-video-dennis-prager/
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Inside the Right-Wing YouTube Empire Thats Quietly Turning Millennials Into Conservatives (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Mar 2018
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ck4829
(35,038 posts)1. This seems less "conservative" and more "ideas that Prager himself approves of"
If Prager thought it should be illegal to share a birthday with Donald Trump a la North Korea with the Kim dynasty, then he would call that "conservative".
*cough* Cult. *cough*
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Republicanism is a cult
How else to explain people condemning their own children to a life of wage slavery, pain, fear and degradation?
The deplorables drink the purple kool-aid of Fox and Hate radio 24/7/365.
All in the name of the GAWD the right invented for that purpose AKA Republican "Jesus".
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)3. You really gotta be an idiot to trust Dennis Prager.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)4. I agree but...........
"The viral videos from Dennis Pragers university have clocked more than 1 billion views."
I wish I lived in a rational country, I really, really do.
I wish I lived in a rational country, I really, really do.