What Next - Florida Public Schools' New Anti-Woke Partner
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🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In July, Florida approved the use of Prager U materials in its classrooms. The organization claims its videos offer an alternative to the prevailing left-wing ideology in the classroom. Its founder told a sympathetic audience that what they offer is indoctrination. What impact could these videos have in public schools? And where could they be heading next?
Guest: John Knefel, senior writer for Media Matters for America.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine if you will, Christopher Columbus. |
| 0:08.9 | Nice, I have a holiday. |
| 0:11.5 | Well, Caramba, I should. |
| 0:14.4 | Obviously, that's not really Columbus. |
| 0:18.4 | This is a cartoon Columbus. |
| 0:20.5 | He's got electric blue eyes and a big toothy grin. |
| 0:24.1 | He's a character in a 13 minute video called Leo and Leila meet Christopher Columbus. |
| 0:30.1 | John Neville of Media Matters recently watched it for work. |
| 0:34.3 | So he starts off telling the kids this sort of justification for Columbus's treatment |
| 0:41.2 | of the indigenous people. |
| 0:43.4 | Cannables? |
| 0:44.4 | Like the... |
| 0:45.4 | Eats people. |
| 0:46.4 | See? |
| 0:47.4 | Whoa. |
| 0:48.4 | Right? |
| 0:49.4 | Hey, all the things that are bad in the world I come from, jealousy, lying, murder, war, |
| 0:53.6 | it all exists in the land I just found too. |
| 0:57.8 | Ah, in Europe we draw the line at things like eating people and human sacrifice. |
| 1:04.2 | And one of the lines that this fictional Columbus character says is that slavery existed everywhere. |
| 1:10.3 | It's clearly designed to be ex-culpatory towards the history of slavery in the United States |
| 1:17.2 | and Europe more broadly. |
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