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vanessa_ca

(947 posts) Thu Aug 14, 2025, 11:50 PM Aug 2025

Trump's PBS replacement features Columbus telling kids that slavery was "no big deal"

The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university.

One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”

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Trump's PBS replacement features Columbus telling kids that slavery was "no big deal" (Original Post) vanessa_ca Aug 2025 OP

America is over Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #1

Agreed. I thought I was too pessimistic vanessa_ca Aug 2025 #4

So today the dogs have been replaced by masked ICE agents. AloeVera Aug 2025 #9

It will take generations to reverse the indoctrination :( -eom vanessa_ca Aug 2025 #11

The Reichwing Will Always Be on the Wrong Side MrWowWow Aug 2025 #2

and also prolly telling em B.See Aug 2025 #3

Prager U videos do that and more... there are summaries of more of their videos. made up nonsense to groom children BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2025 #5

Of course, now that PBS is now defunded, it's a lot easier Buns_of_Fire Aug 2025 #6

better than being killed, huh? eShirl Aug 2025 #7

Anyone subjecting their children to this johnnyfins Aug 2025 #8

There's been rioting in the streets for lesser offenses, in the past. Paladin Aug 2025 #10

How do we stop this shit??? Seriously, HOW?? What can we do?? Who is in charge of this? a kennedy Aug 2025 #12

I dunno right now, but we have to find a way. vanessa_ca Aug 2025 #13

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)

1. America is over

Reply to vanessa_ca (Original post)

Thu Aug 14, 2025, 11:54 PM

Aug 2025

vanessa_ca

(947 posts)

4. Agreed. I thought I was too pessimistic

Reply to Eliot Rosewater (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 12:49 AM

Aug 2025

then I saw that. Prager U materials are now approved for use in Florida schools
Mind blowingly mental and manipulative.
Apocalypto

What ever happened to “give me liberty or give me death?” Can’t have it both ways fascists.

In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, p11

AloeVera

(4,418 posts)

9. So today the dogs have been replaced by masked ICE agents.

Reply to vanessa_ca (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 10:18 AM

Aug 2025

And a painful but relatively quick death replaced with slow mental and physical torture and some deaths too eventually.

It's settler-colonialism brought back to life with a serving of white supremacy and American exceptionalism.

vanessa_ca

(947 posts)

11. It will take generations to reverse the indoctrination :( -eom

Reply to AloeVera (Reply #9)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 12:43 PM

Aug 2025

MrWowWow

(1,461 posts)

2. The Reichwing Will Always Be on the Wrong Side

Reply to vanessa_ca (Original post)

Thu Aug 14, 2025, 11:58 PM

Aug 2025

of every moral and ethical issue. Inside the chest of each and every one of them beats the heart of fascism.

B.See

(8,870 posts)

3. and also prolly telling em

Reply to vanessa_ca (Original post)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 12:00 AM

Aug 2025

Covid is A HOAX.

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(15,009 posts)

5. Prager U videos do that and more... there are summaries of more of their videos. made up nonsense to groom children

Reply to vanessa_ca (Original post)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 02:38 AM

Aug 2025

Buns_of_Fire

(19,222 posts)

6. Of course, now that PBS is now defunded, it's a lot easier

Reply to vanessa_ca (Original post)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 02:59 AM

Aug 2025

to tell Krasnov to stuff his Prager where the sun don't shine.

eShirl

(20,436 posts)

7. better than being killed, huh?

Reply to vanessa_ca (Original post)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 04:49 AM

Aug 2025

Columbus and the colonists enslaved many of the indigenous people, including children. Natives were beaten, raped, and tortured for the location of imagined gold. Thousands committed suicide rather than face the oppression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus

johnnyfins

(3,993 posts)

8. Anyone subjecting their children to this

Reply to vanessa_ca (Original post)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 07:22 AM

Aug 2025

Creepy propaganda, founded by a super creep(Mr. Prager), should have their head examined.

This hypocrite clown has been spewing lies for years. He has claimed he can prove that everything that is wrong with America can be traced back to the left. FUCK HIM AND HIS FAKE UNIVERSITY.

Paladin

(32,354 posts)

10. There's been rioting in the streets for lesser offenses, in the past.

Reply to vanessa_ca (Original post)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 10:26 AM

Aug 2025

Just something to think about, as we watch our nation go down the toilet.

a kennedy

(36,352 posts)

12. How do we stop this shit??? Seriously, HOW?? What can we do?? Who is in charge of this?

Reply to vanessa_ca (Original post)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 07:50 PM

Aug 2025

vanessa_ca

(947 posts)

13. I dunno right now, but we have to find a way.

Reply to a kennedy (Reply #12)

Fri Aug 15, 2025, 07:52 PM

Aug 2025

Here's a related thread Now there is Prager U to be afraid of:

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