Thank you, Zoe! We are grateful to call you a partner in the work of *consciousness raising* and organizing for a widespread human-centered model of education. We can overcome divisive hatred with radical love and solidarity, and we hope your viewers will join us. 🚀
I want to attend, but idk if I’ll be able to make it worth it with my current level of expertise. I’m currently studying to be a learning experience designer for the very goals you are addressing.
See what is suspect is that PragerU's videos ARE so polished. Real educational videos from universities are the most unpolished and low entertainment videos ever made. 99% of the time its the lecturer reading from a PowerPoint slide.
Professors aren't by in large entertainers and are simply trying to impart information upon their students. Also they tend to have a million other things they have to do. They just don't have the time and effort to clean up their videos into something high quality
i think that's part of the problem. you roll up to anyone who actually knows their shit and it's in 240p with a mic straight out of 2007. but with prageru, the lighting is on point. the content is a little stilted and awkward, but it's concise and easy to follow. it kind of reminds me of how most left wing news outlets either are behind a paywall or immediately attack you for having your adblocker on, but right wing outlets with the same kinds of headlines are right there and easy to read
My favorite is when Dennis talks about marriage and its importance while failing to mention he has been married 6 times and divorced 6 times as I have a feeling he is a condescending jerk in real life and all of ex wives have gotten sick of him
What’s sad is that their well-polished infographics and animations don’t just make them look _as established_ as universities, it makes them look more established. Every video I’ve seen from a university is low resolution footage with audio that sounds like they’re talking into a toaster, edited in something like iMovie or Windows Movie Maker using stock transitions, with awkward speaking and pacing. And those are the things actually produced by universities. I’ve also seen so many videos where a leading expert in some field makes a video teaching something, and it looks like a grandparent on a video call, talking into their laptop’s built-in webcam/mic. I mean, I can think of one in particular where at the end of the video, this respected researcher literally asks his grandson to come in and help him stop the recording. Don’t get me wrong, it was a cute moment, but it did make him look a little less official and authoritative compared to something as polished as PragerU.
That's the difference between a marketing business and an educational one. You can see where the money is being spent. Idk that I want large universities siphoning off more of their budgets to non-academic resources.
I’d like to note those highly educational videos from field professionals or footage of classroom lectures aren’t produced. They are filmed, but they aren’t a production, there’s no effort made to make it look nice it’s just education presented with zero bells and whistles.
@@thefoxandthehound81 Just search for broad topics like "Chemistry" or "Geology" or whatever you wanna learn and find videos from collage professors. You can also find the youtube channels of collages themselves but they tend to have less deeply educational content and more accessible content.
There are regular "this PragerU video is bad" dunking videos, and then there's this "here's how PragerU operates" meta-dunking analysis. Appreciate your research and analysis of the subject Zoe! More awareness and education are always a positive. Thanks!
PragerU also sells "educational" packets with whole lesson plans and material for homeschooled children. Their larger ambitions are absolutely frightening.
The homeschool concept is sick. Different children learning different things, because they cant trust an institution with thier child. And children not interacting with others at school, it's just cringe.
@@carlogaytan7010 I dont know if I can agree with that sentiment. Some kids really do benefit from home school if done competently. My older sister suffered brain damage during infancy and needed constant supervision so one of my parents had to become stay at home. Due to this they homeschooled the younger children before starting a small charter school for children falling behind in larger schools(private or public). It was a far more accellerated learning program and allowed students to catch up to where they needed to be and even accellerate past what children their age did. One student completed calc two during their freshman year of highschool. Obviously there are people who dont do it very well, but I find it hard to hate the idea due to the good I have seen it provide.
@@eliasjohannesen1747 fascists want power above all else and win by consolidating power. And power is what defeats them. If we can get the power to push them out of public discourse, make them afraid to be fascists through shame and, perhaps, sometimes more... forceful ways of suppression, we'll win.
I once was falling down the alt-right pipeline. Mostly cause my family and people I was around. I’m so glad I broke out of that. I was so painfully annoying
How did you get in there in the first place? I have a friend who spent too much time on 4chan and eventually started talking about the "globalists." He thankfully left a long time ago.
@@PatrickWDunne mostly just TH-cam I think. and all the cringe sjw compilation things lol. and probably some influence from my parents. Idk how I really got out of it but it wasn't really until my senior year of highschool. Probably when I realized I was gay lol
@@mr.sadfaceman5385if you think conservative, or laughing at the sjw are ALT-RIGHT pipelines the liberals on the left have you manipulated. Liberal doesn’t even mean left, alt right doesn’t mean conservative. Conservative acknowledges the individual, the alt right does not, instead advocates for white nationalism, and fascism. Fascism isn’t just something you dislike, fascism is something conservatives are heavily against. Start asking questions, look into what conservatives or maybe even classical liberal really means. But I hope you got good liberal lefty friends because they do tend to unfriend and silence people who do that exact thing.
Same, mostly. My family is mostly center-right, and I used to watch some people in the "online atheist community" on YT. Ugh, I used to be unbearable. I am so glad that I broke out of it before it was too late.
In the upper Northern Hemisphere old people die in winter simply because it is cold I guess you have Southern Hemisphere privilege where only the Dead are cold when outside is below zero and nowhere close to it the death toll is ridiculous this is a yearly thing without fail anywhere north of the Danube
@@ridanann This was posted 4 months ago. That's July. Which was very fucking hot in the northern hemisphere, where I happen to live. Hence my comment, since when it's 35+ºC outside you don't want to stay warm. Also, the southern hemisphere is colder on average than the northern, we just think of areas close to the equator when people say "southern hemisphere" because, from the global north, it is in fact southward.
@@Alexlalpaca the hell are you on about colder in the Southern Hemisphere where the big chunk of ice with nothing on it or superheated Australia where white people probably couldn't survive if it wasn't some modern sunscreen. off your trolley we got syberia Scandinavia Britain Canada Greenland a bunch of habited places were basically snows all year round or near good as there is nothing in the south to get cold nobody lives in the same latitudinal references as they do on the North the heatwave weather freak event probably won't even happen again first time it happened in my lifetime
@@ridanann That sounds kinds racist tbh. First the northern hemisphere is not as cold as you say. Siberia and Canada ere really fucking big and it doesn't snow all year round in either and it can get pretty fucking hot in the UK, as showcased by this last summer, and you are ignoring all the hot parts of the northern hemisphere: Mexico, North Africa, the Sahara, the middle east, etc. Special mention to the hottest place on earth, the death valley. Second, not all of the southern hemisphere is as hot as you say. Australia is pretty hot, yeah, but not so much in the case of Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, southernmost South Africa, and of course the coldest place on earth, Antarctica. I think you're working off of previous assumptions and refusing to see the global north and south as anything other than the monolithic preconceptions of them you already had.
@@Alexlalpaca I'm basing it by populated geographical regions in the south the equator is more populous then nearer nearer the Pole where is the North is populated right the way up to the pole basically within a few hundred feet the human experience is a cold North weather doesn't matter when there's no people. Antarctica is like the moon you can't really go there so who cares if you need a t-shirt or a jacket it doesn't even have spiders the top is only geographically warmer because of the wobble as far as human experience goes the South Pole might as well be mythological. The phrase the global South really should be the global Midlands not to mention the populated South is evidently warmer just going by geographical phenotypes I'm white because there is a lack of sunlight if my ancestors spent the last 2000 years in South Africa I would be as black is Kanye West thinks he is Wesley Snipes would have nothing on me and that is to do with the geographical environment plus Africa being the cradle of civilisation the people still have a tan all along that line South and North but the point is if you go south from there you don't find pale skin people suffering s*** weather where is if you go North you immediately bump into miserable bastards in raincoats listening to Oasis lol New Zealand is the closest thing the Southern Hemisphere has to Britain and of course Peter Jackson knew that but it is not very populous and most of its native populus retain phenotypes from significantly warmer regions australasian tend to be pretty dark in the British and Irish Isles Scandinavia Russia people well if I get wet you can see right through me. You're probably wondering what makes the Inuit Brown firstly they get more sunlight despite the freezing temperature secondly their diet actually give them melanin technically for British populations eating an Inuit diet would cure our melanin deficiency overtime it's been going on about 5000 years now but it certainly isn't normal when you look at usual human skin we probably look like ghosts 2 most people's of the world winter is coming and it was colonialism people in those hot countries don't even know what happened to our old people every year. Which makes me think if the South near the pole was as popular as it is in the North maybe the colonisation would have happened in mirror the hostile environment undoubtably breeds are very Hardy human being New Zealand is about Akin to Australia as Britain is from North Africa if New Zealand was 5 times the size maybe history would be completely different.
@@godzilla2k26 At the end of the day, the problem isn't that PragerU doesn't pay tax, because it wouldn't be much; it's that the increase in value brought to the investments of the donors is given a better tax deal than any of us get for our earned income. Compared to a lot of things, their status is probably doing more for their image than their bottom line.
@@Nassifeh People give a favorable view to non profit the term. So changing it to what it is allows an unbiased honest term to describe it. On top of taking a salary but calling operating cost instead.
That potato poem is genuinely emotional as heck and brings me to the edge of tears for some reason every time. Something about a totally normal, edible potato growing out of a pile of garbage just hits in a way that can't be described
Ahh... This is the Buddhist story of the lotus in the mud. No one knows how old it is... not everything shared from past generations is trash, but yeah, most of it must be understood, and then overcome. Too bad literacy of history is being attacked by the GOP. Old processes, procedures, social norms and even Laws are not observed by the GOP... Law and Order == Fantasy World where everyone accommodated small minded ideas about WHO they should be, HOW they should behave, even WHAT they should think, to affirm Supreme angry toddler Trump's LIES. He's all about the presentation, not much for actual CONTENT, and that's been for so many decades.. such a shallow/hollow man, yet even lower people looks up to HIM? _not gonna cry_ Freedom isn't meaningful if it requires COMPULSORY COMPLIANCE, comporting your very identity with who/what WEALTHY people around DEMAND YOU ACT OUT. That's literally tyranny, and the irony is lost on the contextually unaware GOP who turn out for rallies, even when no election is near... IT'S A SHOW! THAT'S NOT NORMAL... other elected officials GOT TO WORK, but Trump's work is MARKETING/Mind Fking. Sorry this reply went sideways... it's YT, like ranting on toilet paper, not to say I wanted to shit on your post. You come off as a lovely person, so for the NOTHING IT'S WORTH, WISH you the best. _If my WISHES had some value, I'd shower you with them, that's just insane so_
So when is the vaush collab? He is the perfect example of the divisiveness of the coalition for no good reason, and has a huge audience with the only difference being asthetic. That sounds like the perfect place to start building an alliance since both communities want the same things. But are alienated from each other by mistakes
Just throwing it out there, if you haven't seen them yet, I highly recommend watching "The Alt-Right Playbook" by Ian Danskin of Innuendo Studios, it's a video series made over the course of several years, talking not only about the tactics of the Alt-Right, but how they keep getting away with them, as well as what we can do to avoid falling for them. This video is a good companion piece for those videos, since PragerU really is just another attempt to make the beliefs of the Alt-Right appear more legitimate and respectable than they actually are.
As a international teacher, its crazy to have a student using US talking points from the alt right. Teaching in Texas made me not speak up for being super left leaning, now living in EU I still have bad practice of not speaking up.
Silence serves the interests of your masters. If you speak up alone your livelihood(or like, literal life) will be threatened. If you speak up in an organized group. Then your voice is heard together and protected by it's numbers.
Are you joking? The far lefts agenda is supported by the international elite in practically all its forms. People who you consider far right are the ones who have to keep their opinions to themselves and remain silent. How is it you people despite being catered to to such a ridiculous extent still view yourselves as the victims?
That type of polarization & partisan atmosphere is the end result of the abuse of power, and attempts to silence & oppress the dissent by your side. This is another one of those instances where you reaped what you sowed. Of course, you academic types don't give a flying flip about that, because _rules for thee, not for me._ You and the right have always been two sides of the same coin.
@@theAEDan Oh, you are alt right. FYI not elite anywhere on Earth support workers owning the means of production(the actual far lefts agenda). Since none of the elite are workers. They are owners. You'd know that if you weren't alt right
@@Praisethesunson no, but they do support every single social issue more or less. Obviously here we aren’t talking about workers owning the means of production comrade. I do however support wage caps as well as a reduction in working hours in line with the improvements in production seen over time and the dramatic wealth inequality that has arisen? Does that sound alt right to you? Ultimately you wouldn’t know.
@Harold P. Blackwood John Brown, whomst Frederick Douglass, their designated "good moderate abolitionist," considered a better fighter than himself and worked to get a scholarship named after him.
That's the entire right wing strategy in a nutshell. Project onto your opponent what you actually are doing yourself in order to deflect blame and responsibility.
1) The goal of a conservative speaking is not to debate or argue in the sense of dialectic, or to pursue a truth. It is to "win", often time with "a-ha" moments. The card says "moops". 2) they know what they're saying is nonsense. For those who don't truly believe it, the fear of what would happen if they admit they're wrong makes them believe the only way to continue is to dig their hole, further entrenching the dogma. 3) The goal is to twist language, and thus the narrative, to better suit their goals. When the right say that the nazis were leftists despite having nazis in their ranks, that's done to muddle the word nazi and leftist at the same time. 4) the point of saying "facts don't care about your feelings" is exactly that: these beliefs they consider immutable (the conservative equivalent of "facts") cannot bend or change if they cause someone else suffering, or, in some cases, the point of these beliefs is so others suffer. The right does not have an interest in the pursuit of truth, only the implementation of their concept of truth- one that is self-serving, immutable, and full of double standards. "The only moral abortion is my abortion", for example. For people who love to call things "literally 1984", they don't seem to recognize that they're the ones speaking in newspeak and doublethink. Or, if they do, they just don't care. Do not mistake apathy for incompetence.
One small thing I think you missed: - Don't watch or share their videos. - Don't like or dislike their videos. - Don't leave comments. These things all boost their status in the algorithm.
you forgot this one -boomers and gen x will only create harm for the human species and should be exterminated immediately if we want to actually survive global climate destabilization
Hey Zoe, as an educator myself and mother, I am curious to understand your take and The Human Restoration Project’s take on going gradeless. I honestly have never heard about that before and I don’t understand how we would measure work otherwise, but being the open minded and curious woman that I am, I would love to learn more to see if this is something I can get behind. I am always searching for ways to improve child learning and absorption of materials. I know children learn in different ways and not all children can be based on a grading system. I myself was an undiagnosed ADHD child in the 80’s who struggled through school because of my mental capacity to learn the way educational systems feed information. Yet, I can understand quantum physics. Go figure. So I would love to get a response whenever you are available. No rush. Just putting it out there. Love your work. And yes, proud nerd here. 😂 xoxo
@@zoe_bee your cat reminds me of mine, by the way. The only difference is mine is fully black, and is now 19 years old! But the indecisiveness is real, girl. He can never decide whether in or out. Keeps me physically active though. I feel your pain. (I think this was exacerbated on your writing video, which inspired me to write a whole script by the way!) Ok thanks, bye!
i know this is a year old, but as a kid with adhd i just want to let you know that i really appreciate you for being understanding and open minded ❤ we need more teachers like you (edit: tell your cat i said hi)
One of the strangest things I've seen happening is my company pushing PU on us during company meetings. Myself and the rest of my non-right friends are always questioning it, but much of the company is fairly moderate and they eat it up. It's not just the TH-cam algorithm pushing these things. People with influence share them down and it's absolutely insane.
Pushing what, the truth? Clear thinking? After watching this video, it's pretty clear Zoe didn't watch a single PU video, she's clearly talking shit about things she doesn't know. She makes claim after claim without actually showing any evidence of PU even being ALT-Right? is Zoe just another ALT-Left???
It makes sense, too, like how all those terrible "crafts" and "cooking" channels manage to get tons of views despite being somehow even more content-free, and why none of the people who left Bon Appetit seem to be doing as well since they did. TH-cam's original line about democratizing content isn't proving true, and it's one thing to know that, but then what do you do about it?
Very interesting analysis! This is a pattern I've seen before: the left all scattered between all different factions, so to speak. And the right all united into one single group. And it is scary.
As someone who lurks in a lot of right leaning groups I can guarantee that they’re not any more united than anyone else. The best I can tell is that things that right wing factions don’t like are more visible in media currently, and so they appear united in their distaste of these things. In terms of actual action & ideological consistency and even the internal ideological consistency of individual people, the unity doesn’t seem to me to be quite as present as you perceive it to be
Theyre all actually on the right though. When one lumps leftists and liberals together it always appears that they agree on nothing because they arent on the same side. The frightening thing is that historically, liberals will side with the right when events prevent them from fence sitting indefinitely. (Imo liberals are right wing but pay lip service to progressive ideas which always fail to pan out. Whether this is by design or not is beside the point.)
@@jettfuelfitness Hmm. Yeah, they perceive us as unified, and we're not. I like to say that, much as one calls a group of crows a murder, and a group of geese a gaggle, one should call a group of leftists an argument.
Zoe, I would love for you to take a Pregeru video,any Pregeru video and have you discuss it frame by frame and show those far right wingers why they're wrong.
It’s impossible for her to look at and discuss a TH-cam video? That’s rather disappointing, because I was looking forward to her responding to the actual content that they put out
Thank you! I was trying to tread the thin line between "too subtle no one will get it" and "too invasive and weird that it will be off-putting to anyone who doesn't get the reference" lol
Years ago, corn producers latched on to some legitimate research and started saying, "High-fructose corn syrup isn't any worse for you than regular sugar!" And they were right... but in the wrong direction. The research had discovered regular sugar was actually just as bad for you as HFCS was thought to be, not that HFCS was better than originally thought. So they were the same but in a bad direction, not the good one implied by the "isn't any worse" statement. In the same vein, and as you point out, PragerU is putting Reaganite and Bush-era (I and II) conservatives on the same prestige footing and within the same ideological neighborhood as alt-right extremists. However, while (as you again point out) this serves to burnish the images of the extremists, what it should really do is highlight the fact that "conventional" conservatism and "normal" conservative thought are rife with bigotry, evidence-free claims, religious zealotry, theocratic ambitions, homophobia, and contempt for the rights and humanity of anyone they identify as "other". The alt-right and traditional conservatism really are quite similar... but in the bad direction, where the alt-right are just saying the quiet parts loud.
"conservative thought are rife with bigotry, evidence-free claims, religious zealotry, theocratic ambitions, homophobia, and contempt for the rights and humanity of anyone they identify as "other". " So basically you described everything that modern left/woke do and ascribed it to those you don't like, a.k.a. the other. Why is it the the left are always protesting, hating, canncelling, but whenever asked about some rational arguments, they either run away, or proceed to personal attacks. Amala has a video where she was questioning 30-40 leftie students why are they protesting against her having a speech, and what exactly they are protesting against. That's 1 girl against 30-40 protesters. How many of them do you think responded with at least one valid argument? Would you like to guess? 🙂 Same happens literally every single time I ask leftist some simple question that they are unable to answer. Leftie ideologies have become their religion that cannot be questioned, let alone opposed. They still haven't realised they are the bigots.
I very nearly went down that pipeline, thank goodness I went to college right before the pandemic and learned some real thinking skills outside of my small town
The issue with publishing papers and academic research is it is not as easy or open for the average reader, or non-reader in the modern world. A lot of the information is overwhelming and most people don’t know how to read academic pieces
@@archieyarr9357I wouldn't count on that. A good chunk of people are functionally illiterate and unable to understand what they read, no matter the education grade. That used to happen a long time after education, but now it's happening even within it. At least that's the datas in my country.
Not going to lie - she is making a totally incoherent point here that ignores the fact it is A. hypocritical, as the presentation she calls a pipeline is done universally and B. Ignores the fact that largely in politics - almost everyone is basically unqualified to the capacity they try and attest to, including Zoe. This mindset of "they are being deceived but I am not" is essentially the slow path to dictatorship, and at best its an exercise of a deep rooted superiority complex. There could just be a natural pre-disposition to soundbite bullshit - not being able to live with that in a democracy means you really have an issue with the system, not the actual people.
I think algorithms are a big problem with today’s political climate. Sometimes you go to sites like TH-cam to learn about different sides but you eventually only get one type of video recommended to you. This can convince people that everyone shares just one viewpoint when in reality people are on a spectrum and what they truly believe in and stand for is on a spectrum. People end up being divided when in reality they’ll never know what common ground they stand on
Or you could just pay attention to things like Joe Biden lying his ass off literally every time he speaks(when you can actually understand him or he can actually complete the sentence) for the last 50 years? Then you can go watch Amala and Prager U's response video to this where they offer to debate this girl at anytime she'd like and then look at the fact that she still hasn't took them up on that and will never take them up on that...... Then you put 2 and 2 together and figure out who the real liars are...... this is what I would do but that is just me. If that isn't enough for you go to the grocery store real quick and check out the price of eggs. Then stop and get gas on your way home. If you haven't figured it out by then, you might be brainwashed. Sorry.
Seek out both sides. I watch lots of präger U videos and other conservative channels. I also try to watch the leftist perspective... This Zoe person popped up on the feed uninvited...
I mean... Algorithm is great for entertainment (to a degree. I did love when I was bored as fuck and the only way to change it on YT was either happening to have a nice video on my home page or my own creativity to type in something I haven't typed in before), but it can also create bubbles and echo-chambers
Omg, Zoe! Thank you sooo much of making me aware of the propaganda PragerU is using. Especially the part about how you can donate to their cause. What a devious way for them to get money! Just horrible. For that information alone, I will now subscribe to your channel and become a level 3 member of your patreon for 50$ a month. Link is in your Bio, right? Advertised by you on some of your videos, right?
I think one of the big issues that propelled PU was the idea that "hey people are saying the guys i follow aren't real sources. just look at their platform!" so they go to PU as a place of "official sources" and the shroud of professionalism lures you more in and reaffirms the beliefs.
I think a lot of the online left already knows this, and that’s why the drama hurts, with creators taking potshots at each other instead of collaborating. We don’t broadly have an atmosphere of constructive criticism, we have an atmosphere of calling creators who have had some bad takes problematic as people. And we’re supposed to be the ones opposed to essentializing.
I think this is a consequence of moralising, and lingering good vs evil frameworks from society. Since the most passionate online leftists are very insular and usually disconnected socially, leading to small issues exploding very easily Twitter is obviously a secondary problem which essentialises and antagonises personl communication deficiencies, and lets the whims of the worst parts of the human minds tear down people
Somebody made the very interesting point that Communism shared a lot of cultural norms with Christian religious culture, and that some leftist like Sitting on the Porch and throwing shade at the local Sinners, whilst forgetting that they've screwed up in the day, when they weren't so "Enlightened," and "pure." You have the same problem is that "tomorrow" is a work in progress, and fighting each other is easier than working together. And that's a dangerous distraction.
Absolutely. I've said this before. The left as it currently exists, especially online, seems to confuse maintaining principles with lacking forgiveness. It's not only unhelpful in advancing progressive causes, but easily turns into conservatism, because it's easy to slip from "you did a bad thing, so you are a bad person" to "you did a thing I don't understand, so you are a bad person".
I almost had a far-right phase because of PragerU, but after a few videos of some questionable subjects, I just turned around and never look back again. It was only recently when another YTber that I subscribe to post a vid about US history on slavery and how he breaks down Prager vids on the subject matters that I truly understand what a dangerous presence they are setting for people who knows very little. Because when someone learns and accept a piece of knowledge, it will take a tsunami of other evidences, efforts, and time to convince them otherwise. Because no one likes to be wrong and embarrassed.
Idk, I was always skeptical. Admittedly, there were SOME videos that had a "okay maaaaaybe they might have a point" quality as a teenager but there was something about their content that reeked of bullshit. Glad to know my political Spidey Sense is well calibrated lol Glad to hear you didn't fall either Also, if I may ask, who was the TH-camr? Professor Dave? Knowing Better? Xan?
What examples from PragerU were offered in this video that would prove that they are "alt-right"? I heard a lot of talking about their business practices (which sound a lot like every other online content creator including Zoe), but not one real example of a video put out by PragerU that espouses "alt-right" ideology. If they are so "alt-right" that they have this "pipeline", you should have had no problem finding a bunch of examples of actual "alt-right" rhetoric to convince us of your argument, but there were none. By the way, here is the Oxford dictionary definition of "alt-right": "(in the US) a right-wing ideological movement characterized by a rejection of mainstream politics and by the use of online media to disseminate provocative content, often expressing opposition to racial, religious, or gender equality."
Considering they have a section "for kids" where they argue that slavery was actually a *good* thing. "Leo and Layla Meet Christopher Columbus" --> Columbus argues that slavery was normal in his day, and that it was better to killing the natives. (iirc Spain didn't actually like that Columbus just up and took natives as slaves, since there was still the assumption that Columbus had actually found India or China and they kind of wanted to not piss the people they wanted to trade with off) "Leo and Layla Meet Frederick Douglas" --> Frederick Douglas argues that slavery was a 'compromise' that helped formed the united states. Which... wow. Wouldn't you know it. The far right wants to sanitize slavery and make it "not so bad", to try and pass it off as a "fair trade" where slave owners got labor while slaves got "Specialized training" (Just look at what's going on in Florida). And you could probably look at the sources in the video description which would almost certainly go far more in depth about the topic than my ~100 word comment or Zoe's ~20 minute video could.
@@Redwave101 you know what, you’re right. I’m personally offended that my child’s teacher would dare insinuate that straight people exist. Exposing that kind of lifestyle to children this young is harmful to their development, her two dads also agree. Literally just showing that gay people exist is the same thing as showing straight people exist. Tons of kids have gay parents. Are they forbidden from participating in assignments where they have to draw their house and the people they live with cause it’ll be bad for the other kids?
American public schools right now are horrifying. Teaching and showing kids pornography and gender ideologies… ideas that were meant for ADULTS. ITS LITERALLY GROOMING KIDS! I speak as someone who went to a very left leaning school and just went homeschooled because of how disgusting it was. How old are you by the way because I am still a minor and like I said am currently in school right now. So I would like to hear how bad homeschool is to you. Who in which I’d assume isn’t currently in k-12 schools right now! ☺️
@@christianasmatson2075 So speaking of pornography in schools, I went to a very right-leaning school in the middle of Texas. During the sex Ed program at my middle school, the teacher spent more than half of it talking about why you shouldn’t have sex before marriage. It was all of these bullshit metaphors that didn’t really add up to anything substantial. On top of that, the high school we fed into was known in our district for having an insane amount of teen pregnancies, so obviously the sex Ed program wasn’t working. One day when we were doing a worksheet on STIs, her computer fell asleep while attached to the projector and started a slideshow of the photos saved on her computer, which compromised of ACTUAL pornographic images. She turned the computer back on and said if any of us reported it, she would make sure we failed the year. Staunch Republican lady exposed a bunch of 13 year olds to porn on her school computer. I can tell you’re a minor, and I can also tell you have very little world experience because you clearly don’t know what’s going on. I look forward to you forming an opinion of your own once you’re out from under your family’s umbrella.
And I keep getting their ads at every corner of every video. I don’t want to watch someone scream about wanting to close abortion rights for 45 minutes after some gaming video. Also fun fact, on this video I got a TERF ad lol
@@otto_jk Individuals can do this, but the ads mostly aren't a problem because one person is annoyed--they're a problem because thousands of people are getting pushed towards this content all the time, and not everybody is that savvy. Especially teenagers.
So what exactly is alt-right? Because those channels tend to denounce the “alt-right”, which makes perfect sense. What most people seem to identify as the dissident right or “alt right” is quite intensely anti-capitalist. The daily wire and PragerU are extremely pro-capitalist.
The Daily Wire has repeatedly condemned the alt-right. They are far right-wing to be sure but not alt-right. They don't believe in the majority of alt-right tenets especially that their movement is a "movement for white conservatives only". They are not racist or misogynisitc, although you could make the argument that they are transphobic, and I don't agree with any of their points regarding trans-people.
My Bachelors Thesis in History (about American traditionalism and its historical development) does actually deal a little bit with PragerU. For once I feel slightly ahead of the curve.
I am really happy you talked about this. The entire reason they are such a problem is that they are very unstable, but mutate at a rapid rate and change constantly. They are slippery because they change so much.
@@azhtenz which "she"? I don't understand what you mean by monopoly. Who has the monopoly? I don't really follow either of these people, so Idk much about either one.
My favorite bit on PragerU's arsenal of pseudo-intellectualism, as an engineer, are the meaningless charts without axis labels, units of measurement or straight up graphing things like happiness without any further explanation
i actually mentioned this once briefly but mistakenly shook PragerU off as the right-winged version of what Buzzfeed is to the left (ie: most people don't take them serious) based on PragerU's like to dislike ratio, i am still convinced this is the case, but i do fear you're right considering they got big names like Ben Shapiro
I work with someone who's 24 and mentioned Prager out of the blue asked me if I've ever heard of it. Couldn't believe he actually watches it unironically
Thank you Zoe I had no idea what Prager-U was and….. after being disenfranchised by the infighting and support of rioters I’ve left the left. You and your video about what everyone on TH-cam does lead me to prager-u and it’s refreshing to hear a media group that offers true discussion in their videos. Ooo yeah I liked how’s its so evil someone else as a Patreon like…. You do! Thank you
I wish someone would make a film about the alt-right internet pipeline, something like Fight Club with incels but without all the glorification. At the very least it'd get the general public talking about this stuff again. Maybe it could help some vulnerable folks.
@@carlogaytan7010 It's seeping into TH-cam fitness, too (at least the more mainstream one). It's incredibly alarming. And no one's talking about it, either. Nothing disgusts me more. Conservatism thrives almost everywhere, if not everywhere, you let it, and the TH-cam fitness space is no exception.
The fact Prager U succeeds in keeping people hooked with content a teenager can detect being manipulation and disinformation is a depressing testament to US politics and education.
@@MrZauberelefant I almost want to directly attribute it to the US being a far more religious country than any other developed nation. And particularly, Christian fundamentalists/literalists who have to arrested development to believe in what they believe in.
@@Eibarwoman They're still less harmless than the worshipping of science & relativism done by leftist circles, eco-activist hippies & european/democrat career politicians.
The weirdest thing is that I’m super progressive, and freshman year of high school I almost fell into this. I was trying to aggressively prep everything I needed for school, and I came across these seemingly educational videos about economics and history. It took a minute before I realized that they were from a conservative viewpoint. I was very young and impressionable, and was willing to take advice from what seemed like a university.
I was in the pipe for ~2 months, I watched the silly comics and then the long form content, then I started getting recommended all different types of political content and was like, hold up, these people arent crazy?! and then I realized the stupidity of the alt- right content
Came here after watching Amala's commentary on this video. The sheer number of people saying that this happens to be a fantastic analysis and take down of the "alt right" (Ben Shapiro being a common name drop) when all she does is simply talk about universal, online, social media customer engagement is utterly mind boggling.
She'll never do it. These people can never actually support their claims. They're so brainwashed they believe what ppl claim even if there's no proof and all she's saying is word salad. It's exactly like obama, sounds smart but she's really not saying anything. At all.
I totally agree to everything you said here. It's so terrifying to me that people might encounter someone who doesn't agree with my leftist point of view, then decides that they are moderate, then maybe thinks about moderate right views. And honestly, the fact that people could have opposing views to me, is offensive. We must silence anyone who has their own opinions.
You didn't give a single example of anything you claimed. You made a lot of very confident statements about PragerU content, but didn't follow it up with actual content. I mean, yeah, they have consistent branding and sell merch & memberships, just like you do. But, where is the "alt right" content? They have speakers from all genders, races & religions. Nothing alt right there. I watched the actual "What is the Alt Right" video. That was really good. It went through what it is, how conservatives are not alt right & then denounced the alt right. So, clearly NOT promoting alt right there. And, how exactly is Candace Owens, Dave Rubin or Joe Rogan ALT right? Also, the ALT in alt right stands for "alternative" right, as in, NOT right. Conservatives denounce true racism, sexism, ageism, bigotry, violence and enabling. Conservatives and alt right DON'T mix.
Fr tho, I hate getting labeled as homophobic/sexist/racist/etc. just because I tend to have more traditional/conservative ideals. None of the conservatives I’ve met are legitimately bigoted like that because we’re all about freedom of the individual
@@megana5766 sure, I will give you the fact that not all conservatives are racist, sexist or homophobic and that it is a portion of the modern conservative movement. That being said, Prager definitely fits into the racist, sexist homophobic category because of the divisive content they create.
@@jeremymcginnis1405 Yeah, of course there are some conservatives that are racist/sexist/homophobic. There are also liberals that are racist/sexist/homophobic. However I disagree with PragerU being categorized as such. In fact, they have quite a bit of diversity across race, sex, age, etc. As someone who has watched quite a bit of their videos (I'm also a bi woman of color btw), I haven't seen any that match what you said; and this video sure hasn't given any examples of those types of videos made by PragerU lol At the end of the day, they haven't outright said anything that would qualify as discriminatory against someone based on race. I know I wasn't offended by anything PragerU has said... People can be offended by all kinds of things, just because a different opinion offends someone doesn't mean it's hate speech and deserves to be deplatformed.
How do you stop Prager U? You can't. They have every right to exist and produce videos as you do. They're growing because they people see that they discuss subjects that need to be discussed, but few media outlets will allow it. So they go to Prager. They are also great videos. You may say they are opinion pieces but they are well done, researched, and make good points. This is supported by the fact that you were unable to choose a single video to debate with. C'mon, pick one and tell us how it's wrong. Instead, all you can do is point out that some videos feature Charlie Kirk. You count on fear instilled in your audience by other leftist commentators that anything with Kirk must be dismissed out of hand. Same as all the leftist attacks on Tucker Carlson: "Tucker is bad! Don't watch his videos! Really, please don't watch his videos!" After this you pitch this "Human Restoration Project" which advocates "re-imagining" classrooms with less homework and no grading. What sort of citizens are you going to produce? You don't care how dumb graduates are as long as they enter the world spewing progressivisms. So you can't tolerate a site that presents videos that people can watch or not as they please, but you want children locked into progressive schools of your design. You're the one who must be stopped.
Even before the pandemic they were so effective in their act that I once quoted them asking a question during a lecture at an actual university. I thought they were one, too.
So you basically spent 20 minutes talking about how well they package their content.... And didn't give a single example of anything they said that was "wrong" or "alt-right". People watch you why?....lol..... Incidentally, you have an open offer to go on Amala Ekpunobi's show, Unapologetic. She's offered you a chance to prove any of your claims. Care to take her up on it? Something tells me you likely won't..... Care to tell your fans why? :)
@@reneehawkins1936 I'd love to see that as well..... Hell, Dennis Prager himself has had a standing open invitation for years now, for countless prominent leftists to debate him publicly, even offering substantial money to charity for anyone at the NYT editorial department, or countless prominent leftist economists and "thinkers", and none of them ever take him up on the offer. I wonder why that is? That's the left for you.... Always unable to defend their position in the marketplace of ideas. :)
I actually got an anti-trans ad on this video XD. The only time I see PragerU and others is through similar ads (they wont leave me alone). The amount of money they have is terrifying while many groups on the left are barely getting by.
Yeah... conservatives and far-right fascists are lashing out at trans folks as hard as they can, going as far as outright wishing death. More and more people start realizing that fascist governents have no way to be beneficial for anyone. So they picked us as the "enemy" since once there is no "enemy" to serve as a scapegoat the whole ideology crumbles. some wealthy crazies are pouring millions, (or for Musk, billions) in ads, faked "documentaries", even outright buying an entire social network...
@@IgnoreMeImWrong Do you take what you saw in this video as “screeching”? When/where/who has complained that right-wing hosts have refused to platform leftists?
I used to do an exercise with college students where I would show them "racial realist" (i.e. white supremacist) websites that would mimic actual scientific journals. The point being that the aesthetics of legitimacy aren't the same as the quality and intentions of the content. The strategy is old, but it's mainstreaming, deft use of social media, and funding is new. Thanks for highlighting this.
I’m confused... how is the way PragerU operates (creating short and long form content with various speakers, selling merchandise, promoting their content, and offering exclusive content/merchandise for paying supporters) any different than how other youtube channels operate? I get that they have many employees that make videos on different subjects in their name, but then again... don’t channels like Buzzfeed, College Humor, or Vox use similar approaches? It’s just because it’s conservative ideas that you don’t like it and you’ve labeled it a “pipeline to the alt-right” lol You also said they have a monopoly on conservative TH-cam, when in fact there are other conservative channels that function pretty similar to PragerU such as Daily Wire or BlazeTV. I feel like you focused so much on the fact that PragerU is a successful operation of conservative media and that’s “bad” that you forgot to actually criticize anything they actually say in their videos. Overall tho, thanks for sharing your thoughts, I always like to hear different opinions (:
I remember watching the PragerU's "Modern Art" video a couple of years ago out of curiosity. I disliked every second of it, and I've been very adamand about how bad I found it. Luckily for me, my dislike for CinemaSins got me to creators like Shaun, so watching their videos about PragerU spared me from the pipeline, if there ever was a chance to go that way. In any case, this was a really nice video. Keep up the great and interesting work, stay safe and warm, and take care!
Modern art is rubbish compared to art like the statue of David or the Mona lisa. There is objectively beautiful art. Modern art is not beautiful at all
@@fburton8 beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but if you have to be told what your eye should see then i dont think it counts. Regardless of politics modern art is nigh indefencible
So you mean to tell me that when you subscribe to a channel you see their content more often? Sounds like you have a problem with TH-cam’s algorithm, because that’s how it works with literally everyone you subscribe to. Also, $35 a month for free Murch every quarter, insider updates, and a free annual membership sticker… Seems like a pretty decent deal, also you have a Patreon as well and a store that people can buy things from, so what’s the big deal? Also, I don’t think it’s fair that you are characterizing literally everything that they do and everyone they associated with as dangerous and scary and harmful, how is Charlie Kirk any of those things? just because they aren’t a physical school, doesn’t mean you can’t still learn things from them, you’ve heard of online classes, correct? You can learn everything that they are teaching for free… They obviously aren’t a building or campus the same way, Harvard is or any other physical school. It’s almost like they’re creating videos that are easy to digest so they can get more people to understand the truth of what’s going on without making things too complicated.
The funniest thing about PU is that in a video a few years ago that talked about Trump, their animated Trump-nightmarefuel-character had huge hands. It was not consistent with the style of all their other animated characters. And it had been at least two years since Trumps tiny hand had been a brief talking point during his first presidential campaign. Someone was still very hung up about that.
Help!! She has a copy of "Infinite Jest" in her lie-barry. Can someone give me a detailed reason why I should try to read it again. I made it to about page 200 of its thousand pages, but still wasn't hooked, constantly wishing I would just put it down, read anything else, including cereal boxes. Please, someone, anyone, tell me why IJ is worth reading. Details. Themes. Use your brain. I've read "Juliette" by de Sade, which is like twelve hundred pages, so a big book doesn't scare me. But IJ just seems like this thing that you show people how you are an intellectual because it's on your shelf. Literally not one person has given me good reasons to give it another go, all saying things like, "Just try it. It's great!"
Personally I almost became alt right because of people being like "Its just a joke" or such which normalized it and made me kind of, thing everything in it was a joke so I couldn't tell if something was a joke or if it was serious, I literally went so far from the time I started I was very left, to literally being Centre-Left which was yeah, I'm glad I saw this video.
I used to be alt right. This was around the time I saw myself as an incel. For me, I was angry at the world. And I needed people who appealed to me. So watching a video or two about how "feminist lady bad", it reenforced my negative outlook on life. I've changed a lot. I have learned and gotten educated on different topics. But it is easy to fall into their brand. Especially if you aren't educated, and looking for an outlet.
@@oliverwilson5957 kind of. I was in a state of depression. Basically, to me, everything going wrong "could not be my own fault". The fact that I live in a very right wing environment only helped to reinforce that. However, over time I found myself questioning certain topics. For example, I was very anti Nazi. However, I noticed people around me has very similar ideas to them. So I started to asked, and funny enough I was started to be seen as a "fake patriot". Over time I decided to look at the other side. And while part of me still had that programming, I felt that they were right about things. Slowly I began to see that no there was no "gay agenda". Slowly I realized that there is no "white genocide" or anything like that. As someone who was on that side for years I'll say that it has two sides. It is a cult. They treat you like brothers, sisters, and yes they even welcome nonwhites. However it is only a front. As soon as you question, or even challenge them, you are cut off right away. A lot of people are also pressured into that side out of fear. Fear of losing your family, friends, and community. So even if they know it is wrong, they let it slide for fear of being left alone. I know some people who don't want to be part of that side, but do it because they have nowhere to turn to. The right wing is a cult. It is an organization that uses love and acceptance as a reward for being loyal and following their rules. And fear as a punishment.
@@KallenMalefic I really do appreciate you taking the time to tell me your story. Im taking the time to listen because I truly want to understand what keeps people in this state of mind and why they think, believe, and act the way they do. Thanks for responding and Im glad you are overcoming your depression. I've been there and it's like trying to crawl out of a pit. I had to find new ways of changing my perspective and a quote that resonates with me is from a show that may surprise you (its from The Avatar.) "When we hit our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change" It's like being at the bottom of that pit, there's only one place left to go and that's up. If you were that person who felt fear of being left alone, just know that Im proud that you've been able and trying to overcome the very things holding you back
I do find it extremely ironic how people talk about devolving into the alt-right pipeline and becoming incels and angry at feminists in one breath, but then still include and call out Jordan Peterson in that hilarious alt-right pipeline graph, even though prof. Peterson is preaching about cleaning your room and your life, claiming responsibility, working for the future and trying your best to decrease the amount of suffering in the world.
This video describes the way all media pipelines operate. It's important to be aware of this process whatever content you're into so you don't get sucked too deep into the right, left or any point of view which encourages heavy 'othering' and blinds you to others' humanity.
You never gave any examples of what PragerU claims Zoe!. You kept talking about how bad they are, but never quoted any of their videos that prove they're alt-right. In fact you never quoted anything they've said, much less, provided an argument to any of their claims. Please tell me, what misinformation are they giving? Just because you disagree with their point of view doesn't make them evil Zoe. As for their marketing plan, that's what everybody does...including you! Nothing to see here folks.
Way back in the pre-MAGA days, I did watch one PragerU video all the way through, and was a bit curious and concerned about the claims they were making. I was almost suicidally depressed at the time, so... I was kinda psychologically vulnerable, and prone to desperately leap at new ideas that might give me some sort of clarity or hope about the future. The TH-cam algorithm actually swooped immediately to my aid, though, by directing me to a rebuttal video, which proved conclusively to me that PragerU had twisted the facts. Well anyway, now I'm pretty sure my depression was due to gender dysphoria and self-directed transphobia the whole time, so I guess there's no way in heck I'd ever veer back toward that kind of thinking!
So did you come to the conclusion you had gender dysphoria or were you told you had gender dysphoria? I’m curious about your progression to that identification? Did you always know? It seems like that would be such a stressful realization. Like it’s a relief you know what was causing your depression, but that knowing then comes with a whole set of obstacles to navigate. Asking for real, not to be a jerk or anything.
Honestly, seeing this network that prageru has made makes me wonder why the left hasn't done a similar thing yet on TH-cam. Nebula is the first thing that comes to mind and I think it would make a wonderful TH-cam channel to funnel people toward the main website in a similar way. I wish they would do something like that, because I would eat it up
@@zoe_bee, it's the drains. Cephalopods (with the exception of cuttlefish and maybe some squids) can fit through any opening large enough for their beaks and brains.
The thing with youtube that makes this all work is that TH-cam is a thing you just have playing in the background while you do some other stuff, so you’re less likely to really think about what you’re watching.
Chills went up my spine when you mentioned the pipeline from edgy atheist videos leading down to radical race theory and white replacement. I was going down this pipeline as an angry white teenage boy, and thankfully I consider myself deconverted as an adult. I have much sympathy for the people who didn't get off the train before inceldom or becoming too set in my beliefs. I was worried about being "converted" by the "evil feminist institute" of my university. I'm glad i had some really tolerant friends
Excellent video! I remember stumbling onto a PragerU video when they got pushed really hard in 2019 where Dinesh D'Souza explains how Fascism is actually a leftist ideology and another one where they explain how the British Empire was good actually which as a Irishman I found very bemusing. I've seen a few more from lefttubers debunking their videos but it really is wild they're still up tbh
I mean if the British hadn't handled the potato famine in a borderline genocidal way my ancestors wouldn't have left the country and met my other ancestors so I wouldn't exist. I don't approve of the British empire but I wouldn't exist without it.
Man, as someone who keeps up with politics for entertainment, I have to say, it's quite hilarious to see the left's hipocrisy now that the right is using their own tactics agaisnt them. The left has been using some variation of PragerU's strategies to attract new people to their cause for the better part of a century now, and never saw any problem with it. Now that the right is doing the same, suddenly they're like "Oh my God you guys, they're totally radicalizing my friends at school, what do we do about it?!" lol gotta love it
"We'll start making TH-cam content and we'll be grooming children into our ideology." "In that case we'll start making TH-cam content and we'll be grooming their parents into our ideology." "Listen here, you little shit."
"Man, as someone who keeps up with politics for entertainment, I have to say, it's quite hilarious to see the left's hypocrisy now that the right is using their own tactics against them." 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
i haven't seen their channel and honestly the only thing that this video made me want to do is go and watch them. cause there's no explanation here of how they misinform people, no proof, no examples, so this video just comes off as "i don't like those people and their opinions that are different from mine, so i want them gone" which is petty and childish
@@soullesschicken4069 prageru videos like "when girls become boys" and "gender identity: why all the confusion?" are unabashedly transphobic and horribly researched. trans women are women and trans men are men.
Zoe, Shame on you for not providing any examples that you referenced about the videos on PragerU. You were invited to go on their podcast and have a dialogue, why have you not accepted?
@@ekzrated Also because backing up claims with credible evidence and addressing counterpoints is a good way to solidify any argument, rather than expecting people to believe a point without evidence
@@aikostubbs7193 I agree, IF this was one of a few channels criticizing Prager U, but it isn't. As I said before, there are literally thousands of videos that demonstrate the claims. And if you need more "credible evidence" than what the author provides, I don't know what to tell you. As for the invitation to go on "their podcast and have a dialog", why give more credence to Prager U? They are garbage and do not deserve to be taken seriously.
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Thank you, Zoe! We are grateful to call you a partner in the work of *consciousness raising* and organizing for a widespread human-centered model of education. We can overcome divisive hatred with radical love and solidarity, and we hope your viewers will join us. 🚀
Thank YOU! 💜
As a viewer, I believe your cause is noble and your methods are clear. I hope that your organization can bring change to the world! ^o^
@@zoe_bee Please consider talking about Corporatism one day :)
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I want to attend, but idk if I’ll be able to make it worth it with my current level of expertise. I’m currently studying to be a learning experience designer for the very goals you are addressing.
See what is suspect is that PragerU's videos ARE so polished. Real educational videos from universities are the most unpolished and low entertainment videos ever made. 99% of the time its the lecturer reading from a PowerPoint slide.
I know, it’s absolutely amazing on the rare instances I find something actually polished from professors.
@@darkstarr984 I know right it's wild when you do see it. Like... Feels like you're not getting scammed for once.
Professors aren't by in large entertainers and are simply trying to impart information upon their students. Also they tend to have a million other things they have to do.
They just don't have the time and effort to clean up their videos into something high quality
i think that's part of the problem. you roll up to anyone who actually knows their shit and it's in 240p with a mic straight out of 2007. but with prageru, the lighting is on point. the content is a little stilted and awkward, but it's concise and easy to follow. it kind of reminds me of how most left wing news outlets either are behind a paywall or immediately attack you for having your adblocker on, but right wing outlets with the same kinds of headlines are right there and easy to read
@@sleepyst0rmYep. Exactly.
Just a different version of "You are the product"
My favorite is when Dennis talks about marriage and its importance while failing to mention he has been married 6 times and divorced 6 times as I have a feeling he is a condescending jerk in real life and all of ex wives have gotten sick of him
So the name Pennis Drager is accurate
@@bastian_5975 I read that as "Penis Dagger" lmfao 🤣
He speaks in the voiceover voice all the time, they got sick of it
marriage is so important to him, he couldn't just do it once!
I had to check this and he's only ("only") been married thrice and divorced twice, which is much less fun.
PragerU: We’re being censored by TH-cam
Also PragerU: has ads underneath this video AS WE SPEAK
I have those ads under my video too is this a coincidence?
How does that mean that TH-cam isn't taking down some videos, or not recommending them to a wider audience, or not demonetizing them at times etc.
I don't think you understand how TH-cam censorship works.
@@CanRotaryLife Maybe you can inform us of what you mean, and who you are vaguely referring to?
censorship doens't mean full censorship
What’s sad is that their well-polished infographics and animations don’t just make them look _as established_ as universities, it makes them look more established. Every video I’ve seen from a university is low resolution footage with audio that sounds like they’re talking into a toaster, edited in something like iMovie or Windows Movie Maker using stock transitions, with awkward speaking and pacing.
And those are the things actually produced by universities. I’ve also seen so many videos where a leading expert in some field makes a video teaching something, and it looks like a grandparent on a video call, talking into their laptop’s built-in webcam/mic. I mean, I can think of one in particular where at the end of the video, this respected researcher literally asks his grandson to come in and help him stop the recording. Don’t get me wrong, it was a cute moment, but it did make him look a little less official and authoritative compared to something as polished as PragerU.
That's the difference between a marketing business and an educational one. You can see where the money is being spent. Idk that I want large universities siphoning off more of their budgets to non-academic resources.
do you remember what it was called? how do i find real educational videos
I’d like to note those highly educational videos from field professionals or footage of classroom lectures aren’t produced. They are filmed, but they aren’t a production, there’s no effort made to make it look nice it’s just education presented with zero bells and whistles.
@@Ashakat42I'd personally love to see large universities spend less money on sports and more on actual education.
@@thefoxandthehound81 Just search for broad topics like "Chemistry" or "Geology" or whatever you wanna learn and find videos from collage professors.
You can also find the youtube channels of collages themselves but they tend to have less deeply educational content and more accessible content.
There are regular "this PragerU video is bad" dunking videos, and then there's this "here's how PragerU operates" meta-dunking analysis. Appreciate your research and analysis of the subject Zoe! More awareness and education are always a positive. Thanks!
And then there is that massive video explaining in detail why and how the atomic bombs were dropped to debunk PU's claim that it was to avoid deaths
@@mariojardonsantos7568 such as?
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@@masscreationbroadcasts "Source?"
"MY SOURCE IS THAT I MADE IT THE FUCK UP"
@@crystalbirthdays tru bestie. Dropping the atomic bombs was the better alternative.
PragerU also sells "educational" packets with whole lesson plans and material for homeschooled children. Their larger ambitions are absolutely frightening.
thats alarming to say the least
The homeschool concept is sick. Different children learning different things, because they cant trust an institution with thier child. And children not interacting with others at school, it's just cringe.
Literally doing the thing they think the left is doing to their kids: Indoctrinating them. So ironic and not in a good way.
that's a big part of what we cover in the first paper. They're very clear that the direction of the company is turning towards children
@@carlogaytan7010 I dont know if I can agree with that sentiment. Some kids really do benefit from home school if done competently. My older sister suffered brain damage during infancy and needed constant supervision so one of my parents had to become stay at home. Due to this they homeschooled the younger children before starting a small charter school for children falling behind in larger schools(private or public).
It was a far more accellerated learning program and allowed students to catch up to where they needed to be and even accellerate past what children their age did. One student completed calc two during their freshman year of highschool.
Obviously there are people who dont do it very well, but I find it hard to hate the idea due to the good I have seen it provide.
I think there's a point where people just get burned out and stop discussing the problem simply because they don't feel they can do anything about it.
Tbh that's more of less the position I'm in
We could easily fix it if we scared fascists enough
How would u scare the fascists?
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@@eliasjohannesen1747 fascists want power above all else and win by consolidating power. And power is what defeats them. If we can get the power to push them out of public discourse, make them afraid to be fascists through shame and, perhaps, sometimes more... forceful ways of suppression, we'll win.
I once was falling down the alt-right pipeline. Mostly cause my family and people I was around. I’m so glad I broke out of that. I was so painfully annoying
I commend you for leaving.
How did you get in there in the first place? I have a friend who spent too much time on 4chan and eventually started talking about the "globalists." He thankfully left a long time ago.
@@PatrickWDunne mostly just TH-cam I think. and all the cringe sjw compilation things lol. and probably some influence from my parents. Idk how I really got out of it but it wasn't really until my senior year of highschool. Probably when I realized I was gay lol
@@mr.sadfaceman5385if you think conservative, or laughing at the sjw are ALT-RIGHT pipelines the liberals on the left have you manipulated. Liberal doesn’t even mean left, alt right doesn’t mean conservative.
Conservative acknowledges the individual, the alt right does not, instead advocates for white nationalism, and fascism. Fascism isn’t just something you dislike, fascism is something conservatives are heavily against.
Start asking questions, look into what conservatives or maybe even classical liberal really means. But I hope you got good liberal lefty friends because they do tend to unfriend and silence people who do that exact thing.
Same, mostly. My family is mostly center-right, and I used to watch some people in the "online atheist community" on YT. Ugh, I used to be unbearable. I am so glad that I broke out of it before it was too late.
At this time of year, in this part of the world, being wished to "stay warm" sounds more like a threat than an act of kindness lmao
In the upper Northern Hemisphere old people die in winter simply because it is cold I guess you have Southern Hemisphere privilege where only the Dead are cold when outside is below zero and nowhere close to it the death toll is ridiculous this is a yearly thing without fail anywhere north of the Danube
@@ridanann This was posted 4 months ago. That's July. Which was very fucking hot in the northern hemisphere, where I happen to live. Hence my comment, since when it's 35+ºC outside you don't want to stay warm.
Also, the southern hemisphere is colder on average than the northern, we just think of areas close to the equator when people say "southern hemisphere" because, from the global north, it is in fact southward.
@@Alexlalpaca the hell are you on about colder in the Southern Hemisphere where the big chunk of ice with nothing on it or superheated Australia where white people probably couldn't survive if it wasn't some modern sunscreen. off your trolley we got syberia Scandinavia Britain Canada Greenland a bunch of habited places were basically snows all year round or near good as there is nothing in the south to get cold nobody lives in the same latitudinal references as they do on the North the heatwave weather freak event probably won't even happen again first time it happened in my lifetime
@@ridanann That sounds kinds racist tbh. First the northern hemisphere is not as cold as you say. Siberia and Canada ere really fucking big and it doesn't snow all year round in either and it can get pretty fucking hot in the UK, as showcased by this last summer, and you are ignoring all the hot parts of the northern hemisphere: Mexico, North Africa, the Sahara, the middle east, etc. Special mention to the hottest place on earth, the death valley.
Second, not all of the southern hemisphere is as hot as you say. Australia is pretty hot, yeah, but not so much in the case of Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, southernmost South Africa, and of course the coldest place on earth, Antarctica. I think you're working off of previous assumptions and refusing to see the global north and south as anything other than the monolithic preconceptions of them you already had.
@@Alexlalpaca I'm basing it by populated geographical regions in the south the equator is more populous then nearer nearer the Pole where is the North is populated right the way up to the pole basically within a few hundred feet the human experience is a cold North weather doesn't matter when there's no people. Antarctica is like the moon you can't really go there so who cares if you need a t-shirt or a jacket it doesn't even have spiders the top is only geographically warmer because of the wobble as far as human experience goes the South Pole might as well be mythological. The phrase the global South really should be the global Midlands not to mention the populated South is evidently warmer just going by geographical phenotypes I'm white because there is a lack of sunlight if my ancestors spent the last 2000 years in South Africa I would be as black is Kanye West thinks he is Wesley Snipes would have nothing on me and that is to do with the geographical environment plus Africa being the cradle of civilisation the people still have a tan all along that line South and North but the point is if you go south from there you don't find pale skin people suffering s*** weather where is if you go North you immediately bump into miserable bastards in raincoats listening to Oasis lol New Zealand is the closest thing the Southern Hemisphere has to Britain and of course Peter Jackson knew that but it is not very populous and most of its native populus retain phenotypes from significantly warmer regions australasian tend to be pretty dark in the British and Irish Isles Scandinavia Russia people well if I get wet you can see right through me. You're probably wondering what makes the Inuit Brown firstly they get more sunlight despite the freezing temperature secondly their diet actually give them melanin technically for British populations eating an Inuit diet would cure our melanin deficiency overtime it's been going on about 5000 years now but it certainly isn't normal when you look at usual human skin we probably look like ghosts 2 most people's of the world winter is coming and it was colonialism people in those hot countries don't even know what happened to our old people every year. Which makes me think if the South near the pole was as popular as it is in the North maybe the colonisation would have happened in mirror the hostile environment undoubtably breeds are very Hardy human being New Zealand is about Akin to Australia as Britain is from North Africa if New Zealand was 5 times the size maybe history would be completely different.
Calling PragerU "non-profit" is... definitionally true, but more accurate would be to call it "indirect profit."
All the companies make profit , better to call them tax exempt.
@@godzilla2k26 At the end of the day, the problem isn't that PragerU doesn't pay tax, because it wouldn't be much; it's that the increase in value brought to the investments of the donors is given a better tax deal than any of us get for our earned income. Compared to a lot of things, their status is probably doing more for their image than their bottom line.
@@Nassifeh People give a favorable view to non profit the term. So changing it to what it is allows an unbiased honest term to describe it. On top of taking a salary but calling operating cost instead.
99 percent of non-profits
Indirect is a good way to look at it
3:30 Political content and Sonic memes being next to each other perfectly encapsulates my TH-cam experience
That potato poem is genuinely emotional as heck and brings me to the edge of tears for some reason every time. Something about a totally normal, edible potato growing out of a pile of garbage just hits in a way that can't be described
Ahh... This is the Buddhist story of the lotus in the mud. No one knows how old it is... not everything shared from past generations is trash, but yeah, most of it must be understood, and then overcome. Too bad literacy of history is being attacked by the GOP.
Old processes, procedures, social norms and even Laws are not observed by the GOP...
Law and Order == Fantasy World where everyone accommodated small minded ideas about WHO they should be, HOW they should behave, even WHAT they should think, to affirm Supreme angry toddler Trump's LIES. He's all about the presentation, not much for actual CONTENT, and that's been for so many decades.. such a shallow/hollow man, yet even lower people looks up to HIM? _not gonna cry_
Freedom isn't meaningful if it requires COMPULSORY COMPLIANCE, comporting your very identity with who/what WEALTHY people around DEMAND YOU ACT OUT. That's literally tyranny, and the irony is lost on the contextually unaware GOP who turn out for rallies, even when no election is near...
IT'S A SHOW! THAT'S NOT NORMAL... other elected officials GOT TO WORK, but Trump's work is MARKETING/Mind Fking.
Sorry this reply went sideways... it's YT, like ranting on toilet paper, not to say I wanted to shit on your post.
You come off as a lovely person, so for the NOTHING IT'S WORTH, WISH you the best. _If my WISHES had some value, I'd shower you with them, that's just insane so_
I completely agree. We should see more collaborations between good TH-cam creators.
Such a great idea! ☺️
^^You two would narrate the calmest sounding essay ever read on TH-cam!
So when is the vaush collab? He is the perfect example of the divisiveness of the coalition for no good reason, and has a huge audience with the only difference being asthetic.
That sounds like the perfect place to start building an alliance since both communities want the same things. But are alienated from each other by mistakes
@@PropheticShadeZ Vaush is toxic
Someone needs to show this to Xanderhal. He's been talking about this very topic.
"Everything is a Dildo, if you're brave enough". -- Abraham Lincoln
😂
Hell, Abraham Lincoln is a dildo if you’re brave enough
-Abraham Lincoln
“Everybody say hey, we want some pussy!” - Shakespeare, probably
That s why he is the greatest
As PragerU is now an accepted curriculum in Florida and other states, this video is very applicable
Just throwing it out there, if you haven't seen them yet, I highly recommend watching "The Alt-Right Playbook" by Ian Danskin of Innuendo Studios, it's a video series made over the course of several years, talking not only about the tactics of the Alt-Right, but how they keep getting away with them, as well as what we can do to avoid falling for them. This video is a good companion piece for those videos, since PragerU really is just another attempt to make the beliefs of the Alt-Right appear more legitimate and respectable than they actually are.
I think they actually started the series up again recently if you weren't aware
@@VitaeLibra Oh I am, thanks. the more recent videos are much shorter than the previous ones, they're a lot like the first few videos in that series.
As a international teacher, its crazy to have a student using US talking points from the alt right. Teaching in Texas made me not speak up for being super left leaning, now living in EU I still have bad practice of not speaking up.
Silence serves the interests of your masters.
If you speak up alone your livelihood(or like, literal life) will be threatened.
If you speak up in an organized group. Then your voice is heard together and protected by it's numbers.
Are you joking? The far lefts agenda is supported by the international elite in practically all its forms. People who you consider far right are the ones who have to keep their opinions to themselves and remain silent. How is it you people despite being catered to to such a ridiculous extent still view yourselves as the victims?
That type of polarization & partisan atmosphere is the end result of the abuse of power, and attempts to silence & oppress the dissent by your side. This is another one of those instances where you reaped what you sowed.
Of course, you academic types don't give a flying flip about that, because _rules for thee, not for me._ You and the right have always been two sides of the same coin.
@@theAEDan Oh, you are alt right. FYI not elite anywhere on Earth support workers owning the means of production(the actual far lefts agenda). Since none of the elite are workers. They are owners.
You'd know that if you weren't alt right
@@Praisethesunson no, but they do support every single social issue more or less. Obviously here we aren’t talking about workers owning the means of production comrade. I do however support wage caps as well as a reduction in working hours in line with the improvements in production seen over time and the dramatic wealth inequality that has arisen? Does that sound alt right to you? Ultimately you wouldn’t know.
I'll never forget the time Prager U praised Robert E Lee for shutting down a slave uprising.
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WHAT.
@Harold P. Blackwood John Brown, whomst Frederick Douglass, their designated "good moderate abolitionist," considered a better fighter than himself and worked to get a scholarship named after him.
@Harold P. Blackwood this is exactly the video I was thinking of
@@martiendejong8857 not really.
Yeah, that video was so bad, even Prager Poo realized what a stinker of a deuce they'd laid and pulled it.
Talk about "Cancel Culture." LOL
Fun fact; the first time I saw PraguerU I misread Prager as Prague and thought the channel was from "Prague University"
BAHAHAHA YES SAMEEEE
You know, for the crowd who always go "Facts dont care about your feelings", they seem to rather prefer feelings over facts.
That's the entire right wing strategy in a nutshell.
Project onto your opponent what you actually are doing yourself in order to deflect blame and responsibility.
Specifically pro-lifers!
All the right has is projection.
My dad was yelling that liberals were the REAL fascists the other day... and i just laughed at him xD
1) The goal of a conservative speaking is not to debate or argue in the sense of dialectic, or to pursue a truth. It is to "win", often time with "a-ha" moments. The card says "moops".
2) they know what they're saying is nonsense. For those who don't truly believe it, the fear of what would happen if they admit they're wrong makes them believe the only way to continue is to dig their hole, further entrenching the dogma.
3) The goal is to twist language, and thus the narrative, to better suit their goals. When the right say that the nazis were leftists despite having nazis in their ranks, that's done to muddle the word nazi and leftist at the same time.
4) the point of saying "facts don't care about your feelings" is exactly that: these beliefs they consider immutable (the conservative equivalent of "facts") cannot bend or change if they cause someone else suffering, or, in some cases, the point of these beliefs is so others suffer.
The right does not have an interest in the pursuit of truth, only the implementation of their concept of truth- one that is self-serving, immutable, and full of double standards. "The only moral abortion is my abortion", for example.
For people who love to call things "literally 1984", they don't seem to recognize that they're the ones speaking in newspeak and doublethink. Or, if they do, they just don't care.
Do not mistake apathy for incompetence.
@@BoisegangGaming what do you mean by the only moral abortion is my abortion
One small thing I think you missed:
- Don't watch or share their videos.
- Don't like or dislike their videos.
- Don't leave comments.
These things all boost their status in the algorithm.
Literally as an individual the best thing you can do with this kind of gross right wing content is starve it of views and engagement.
Exactly! Share stuff like this instead
@@Kay-kg6ny Clicking "Do not recommend this channel" is said to have a significant effect.
you forgot this one -boomers and gen x will only create harm for the human species and should be exterminated immediately if we want to actually survive global climate destabilization
I report their videos when they show up in my ads
Hey Zoe, as an educator myself and mother, I am curious to understand your take and The Human Restoration Project’s take on going gradeless. I honestly have never heard about that before and I don’t understand how we would measure work otherwise, but being the open minded and curious woman that I am, I would love to learn more to see if this is something I can get behind. I am always searching for ways to improve child learning and absorption of materials. I know children learn in different ways and not all children can be based on a grading system. I myself was an undiagnosed ADHD child in the 80’s who struggled through school because of my mental capacity to learn the way educational systems feed information. Yet, I can understand quantum physics. Go figure. So I would love to get a response whenever you are available. No rush. Just putting it out there. Love your work. And yes, proud nerd here. 😂 xoxo
Thanks for the question! I actually have a whole video on Grading, which I recommend checking out!
@@zoe_bee ahh okay, I shall.
@@zoe_bee your cat reminds me of mine, by the way. The only difference is mine is fully black, and is now 19 years old! But the indecisiveness is real, girl. He can never decide whether in or out. Keeps me physically active though. I feel your pain. (I think this was exacerbated on your writing video, which inspired me to write a whole script by the way!) Ok thanks, bye!
@@zoe_bee
You need to learn some more about things you claim...
th-cam.com/video/MqthAqRuyxY/w-d-xo.html
i know this is a year old, but as a kid with adhd i just want to let you know that i really appreciate you for being understanding and open minded ❤ we need more teachers like you
(edit: tell your cat i said hi)
One of the strangest things I've seen happening is my company pushing PU on us during company meetings.
Myself and the rest of my non-right friends are always questioning it, but much of the company is fairly moderate and they eat it up.
It's not just the TH-cam algorithm pushing these things. People with influence share them down and it's absolutely insane.
Yk what’s also insane ? Letting children alter their bodies when their brain isn’t even developed
What kind of company is this??
Thank you for making this known. PragerU is controlled opposition. They are not to be trusted.
Pushing what, the truth? Clear thinking?
After watching this video, it's pretty clear Zoe didn't watch a single PU video, she's clearly talking shit about things she doesn't know. She makes claim after claim without actually showing any evidence of PU even being ALT-Right?
is Zoe just another ALT-Left???
Exactly. Moderate.
Production values aren't a sign of authority, but they certainly feel like it. That feels like one of the key takeaways from this.
So they have one guy who is good, that made them bad? I didn't really follow the logic of that one.
Production values are a sign of funding. Which the right wing has from billionaire funders looking to protect their own ill gotten wealth
It makes sense, too, like how all those terrible "crafts" and "cooking" channels manage to get tons of views despite being somehow even more content-free, and why none of the people who left Bon Appetit seem to be doing as well since they did. TH-cam's original line about democratizing content isn't proving true, and it's one thing to know that, but then what do you do about it?
@@Nassifeh what do you do about it? You seize the means of production comrade
@@Praisethesunson Yeah, let me know how many people you've found who're willing to die to try to nationalize TH-cam. This is glib and unhelpful.
Very interesting analysis! This is a pattern I've seen before: the left all scattered between all different factions, so to speak. And the right all united into one single group. And it is scary.
Also I'd swear the pink octopus has blinked at least twice
The right wing sources tend to have the same billionaire backers. Lefties? Well, those Soros checks are forever lost in the mail.
As someone who lurks in a lot of right leaning groups I can guarantee that they’re not any more united than anyone else. The best I can tell is that things that right wing factions don’t like are more visible in media currently, and so they appear united in their distaste of these things. In terms of actual action & ideological consistency and even the internal ideological consistency of individual people, the unity doesn’t seem to me to be quite as present as you perceive it to be
Theyre all actually on the right though. When one lumps leftists and liberals together it always appears that they agree on nothing because they arent on the same side. The frightening thing is that historically, liberals will side with the right when events prevent them from fence sitting indefinitely. (Imo liberals are right wing but pay lip service to progressive ideas which always fail to pan out. Whether this is by design or not is beside the point.)
@@jettfuelfitness
Hmm.
Yeah, they perceive us as unified, and we're not.
I like to say that, much as one calls a group of crows a murder, and a group of geese a gaggle, one should call a group of leftists an argument.
Holy. Duck. Just realized i was ALMOST pulled into the hole.
Zoe, I would love for you to take a Pregeru video,any Pregeru video and have you discuss it frame by frame and show those far right wingers why they're wrong.
Ok she could do that, but that in no way is the point of the video, please rewatch as the monopoly was the main point.
@@azhtenz the real monopoly is the lefts control of main stream media.
I would love to see her attempt to do this too. But I'm sorry it's not possible
They don't listen, as soon as you question their beliefs or insinuate that they're wrong the blinders go on and the strawmen come out to play
It’s impossible for her to look at and discuss a TH-cam video? That’s rather disappointing, because I was looking forward to her responding to the actual content that they put out
The joke of "the algorithm" having the same horse whinny as "Fraubluecher" from Young Frankenstein is fantastic.
Thank you! I was trying to tread the thin line between "too subtle no one will get it" and "too invasive and weird that it will be off-putting to anyone who doesn't get the reference" lol
Wow, thank you! We didn't get it! And now we do!! 😂
I was just about to write this! 😆
Love the gag; and the video itself is super important. Thanks!
@@zoe_bee Yes, I loved this reference!
@@zoe_bee I am genuinely so glad that was intentional
Years ago, corn producers latched on to some legitimate research and started saying, "High-fructose corn syrup isn't any worse for you than regular sugar!" And they were right... but in the wrong direction. The research had discovered regular sugar was actually just as bad for you as HFCS was thought to be, not that HFCS was better than originally thought. So they were the same but in a bad direction, not the good one implied by the "isn't any worse" statement.
In the same vein, and as you point out, PragerU is putting Reaganite and Bush-era (I and II) conservatives on the same prestige footing and within the same ideological neighborhood as alt-right extremists. However, while (as you again point out) this serves to burnish the images of the extremists, what it should really do is highlight the fact that "conventional" conservatism and "normal" conservative thought are rife with bigotry, evidence-free claims, religious zealotry, theocratic ambitions, homophobia, and contempt for the rights and humanity of anyone they identify as "other". The alt-right and traditional conservatism really are quite similar... but in the bad direction, where the alt-right are just saying the quiet parts loud.
Or anyone othered by patriarchal, white supremacist, capitalist society.
Oh my god. Hear fuckin’ hear.
Yes yes yes
Thank you!!
Your comment should be at the top. Saved me a while bunch of typing and phrased it better than I would have.
Best comment here. If I could like it more than once, I would.
"conservative thought are rife with bigotry, evidence-free claims, religious zealotry, theocratic ambitions, homophobia, and contempt for the rights and humanity of anyone they identify as "other". "
So basically you described everything that modern left/woke do and ascribed it to those you don't like, a.k.a. the other. Why is it the the left are always protesting, hating, canncelling, but whenever asked about some rational arguments, they either run away, or proceed to personal attacks.
Amala has a video where she was questioning 30-40 leftie students why are they protesting against her having a speech, and what exactly they are protesting against. That's 1 girl against 30-40 protesters. How many of them do you think responded with at least one valid argument? Would you like to guess? 🙂
Same happens literally every single time I ask leftist some simple question that they are unable to answer. Leftie ideologies have become their religion that cannot be questioned, let alone opposed. They still haven't realised they are the bigots.
I very nearly went down that pipeline, thank goodness I went to college right before the pandemic and learned some real thinking skills outside of my small town
As a famous orange cat said in a meme,
"You are not immune to propaganda"
New sub 👍
This is propaganda though? She didn’t state any facts or examples just commended their business strategies but got angry cuz they’re conservative
The issue with publishing papers and academic research is it is not as easy or open for the average reader, or non-reader in the modern world. A lot of the information is overwhelming and most people don’t know how to read academic pieces
@@archieyarr9357I wouldn't count on that. A good chunk of people are functionally illiterate and unable to understand what they read, no matter the education grade. That used to happen a long time after education, but now it's happening even within it.
At least that's the datas in my country.
More collabs! Also, great video Zoe ❤️
Hey Jessie! Keep getting better. Can't wait for the second face reveal.
I keep seeing you pop up in all my favorite channels; even my favorite channel about books (Mr noble)
ohh, 666th like... "curses"
Not going to lie - she is making a totally incoherent point here that ignores the fact it is A. hypocritical, as the presentation she calls a pipeline is done universally and B. Ignores the fact that largely in politics - almost everyone is basically unqualified to the capacity they try and attest to, including Zoe.
This mindset of "they are being deceived but I am not" is essentially the slow path to dictatorship, and at best its an exercise of a deep rooted superiority complex. There could just be a natural pre-disposition to soundbite bullshit - not being able to live with that in a democracy means you really have an issue with the system, not the actual people.
You should change the title to “how the internet works for everyone”
Should be " how to make a video with no facts"
@@doyouliketacosiliketacos5139 PragerU certainly doesn't use facts often.
@@zeebeeplayzlet's fight non facts with non facts? C'mon.
I think algorithms are a big problem with today’s political climate. Sometimes you go to sites like TH-cam to learn about different sides but you eventually only get one type of video recommended to you. This can convince people that everyone shares just one viewpoint when in reality people are on a spectrum and what they truly believe in and stand for is on a spectrum. People end up being divided when in reality they’ll never know what common ground they stand on
Or you could just pay attention to things like Joe Biden lying his ass off literally every time he speaks(when you can actually understand him or he can actually complete the sentence) for the last 50 years? Then you can go watch Amala and Prager U's response video to this where they offer to debate this girl at anytime she'd like and then look at the fact that she still hasn't took them up on that and will never take them up on that...... Then you put 2 and 2 together and figure out who the real liars are...... this is what I would do but that is just me.
If that isn't enough for you go to the grocery store real quick and check out the price of eggs. Then stop and get gas on your way home. If you haven't figured it out by then, you might be brainwashed. Sorry.
I think it has to do with the fact that people aren't educated in their homes in any useful way.
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Seek out both sides. I watch lots of präger U videos and other conservative channels. I also try to watch the leftist perspective... This Zoe person popped up on the feed uninvited...
I mean... Algorithm is great for entertainment (to a degree. I did love when I was bored as fuck and the only way to change it on YT was either happening to have a nice video on my home page or my own creativity to type in something I haven't typed in before), but it can also create bubbles and echo-chambers
this is an incredibly important topic to focus on, I'm excited to watch this and hear your thoughts on it!!
thank you!! 🙏
Omg, Zoe!
Thank you sooo much of making me aware of the propaganda PragerU is using. Especially the part about how you can donate to their cause. What a devious way for them to get money! Just horrible.
For that information alone, I will now subscribe to your channel and become a level 3 member of your patreon for 50$ a month. Link is in your Bio, right? Advertised by you on some of your videos, right?
And you are donating to her while also saying donation is a bad way to get money? Sure, definitely does not seem suspicious.
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This is so funny
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I think one of the big issues that propelled PU was the idea that "hey people are saying the guys i follow aren't real sources. just look at their platform!" so they go to PU as a place of "official sources" and the shroud of professionalism lures you more in and reaffirms the beliefs.
I think a lot of the online left already knows this, and that’s why the drama hurts, with creators taking potshots at each other instead of collaborating. We don’t broadly have an atmosphere of constructive criticism, we have an atmosphere of calling creators who have had some bad takes problematic as people. And we’re supposed to be the ones opposed to essentializing.
The left doesn't have ultra rich billionaires funding the deliberately unprofitable Prager nonsense.
I think this is a consequence of moralising, and lingering good vs evil frameworks from society.
Since the most passionate online leftists are very insular and usually disconnected socially, leading to small issues exploding very easily
Twitter is obviously a secondary problem which essentialises and antagonises personl communication deficiencies, and lets the whims of the worst parts of the human minds tear down people
@@PropheticShadeZ Lol no. Bad take. Bad. No treat for you.
Somebody made the very interesting point that Communism shared a lot of cultural norms with Christian religious culture, and that some leftist like Sitting on the Porch and throwing shade at the local Sinners, whilst forgetting that they've screwed up in the day, when they weren't so "Enlightened," and "pure." You have the same problem is that "tomorrow" is a work in progress, and fighting each other is easier than working together. And that's a dangerous distraction.
Absolutely. I've said this before. The left as it currently exists, especially online, seems to confuse maintaining principles with lacking forgiveness. It's not only unhelpful in advancing progressive causes, but easily turns into conservatism, because it's easy to slip from "you did a bad thing, so you are a bad person" to "you did a thing I don't understand, so you are a bad person".
I almost had a far-right phase because of PragerU, but after a few videos of some questionable subjects, I just turned around and never look back again. It was only recently when another YTber that I subscribe to post a vid about US history on slavery and how he breaks down Prager vids on the subject matters that I truly understand what a dangerous presence they are setting for people who knows very little. Because when someone learns and accept a piece of knowledge, it will take a tsunami of other evidences, efforts, and time to convince them otherwise. Because no one likes to be wrong and embarrassed.
Idk, I was always skeptical. Admittedly, there were SOME videos that had a "okay maaaaaybe they might have a point" quality as a teenager but there was something about their content that reeked of bullshit. Glad to know my political Spidey Sense is well calibrated lol
Glad to hear you didn't fall either
Also, if I may ask, who was the TH-camr? Professor Dave? Knowing Better? Xan?
@@M3G4FR34K was the channel called KnowingBetter? He released a good video about neoslavery that dunked on prageru in the first half.
not only does no one like to be wrong and embarrassed, but it also just takes like four times as long to debunk a claim than to make it
@@Envy_May
That’s not true. I reckon I can make up claims at least twenty times faster than you can debunk them.
@@simcowgames981 I assume you meant to ask the O.P. considering I asked the same thing for similar reasons.
What examples from PragerU were offered in this video that would prove that they are "alt-right"? I heard a lot of talking about their business practices (which sound a lot like every other online content creator including Zoe), but not one real example of a video put out by PragerU that espouses "alt-right" ideology. If they are so "alt-right" that they have this "pipeline", you should have had no problem finding a bunch of examples of actual "alt-right" rhetoric to convince us of your argument, but there were none. By the way, here is the Oxford dictionary definition of "alt-right":
"(in the US) a right-wing ideological movement characterized by a rejection of mainstream politics and by the use of online media to disseminate provocative content, often expressing opposition to racial, religious, or gender equality."
Considering they have a section "for kids" where they argue that slavery was actually a *good* thing.
"Leo and Layla Meet Christopher Columbus" --> Columbus argues that slavery was normal in his day, and that it was better to killing the natives. (iirc Spain didn't actually like that Columbus just up and took natives as slaves, since there was still the assumption that Columbus had actually found India or China and they kind of wanted to not piss the people they wanted to trade with off)
"Leo and Layla Meet Frederick Douglas" --> Frederick Douglas argues that slavery was a 'compromise' that helped formed the united states.
Which... wow. Wouldn't you know it. The far right wants to sanitize slavery and make it "not so bad", to try and pass it off as a "fair trade" where slave owners got labor while slaves got "Specialized training" (Just look at what's going on in Florida).
And you could probably look at the sources in the video description which would almost certainly go far more in depth about the topic than my ~100 word comment or Zoe's ~20 minute video could.
The fact that now they have an official “homeschool” program for kids is HORRIFYING
The fact that its being used it worse
Worse than sexual orientation being pushed on elementary kids while in class room? 🤦🏻♂️
@@Redwave101 you know what, you’re right. I’m personally offended that my child’s teacher would dare insinuate that straight people exist. Exposing that kind of lifestyle to children this young is harmful to their development, her two dads also agree.
Literally just showing that gay people exist is the same thing as showing straight people exist. Tons of kids have gay parents. Are they forbidden from participating in assignments where they have to draw their house and the people they live with cause it’ll be bad for the other kids?
American public schools right now are horrifying. Teaching and showing kids pornography and gender ideologies… ideas that were meant for ADULTS. ITS LITERALLY GROOMING KIDS! I speak as someone who went to a very left leaning school and just went homeschooled because of how disgusting it was. How old are you by the way because I am still a minor and like I said am currently in school right now. So I would like to hear how bad homeschool is to you. Who in which I’d assume isn’t currently in k-12 schools right now! ☺️
@@christianasmatson2075 So speaking of pornography in schools, I went to a very right-leaning school in the middle of Texas. During the sex Ed program at my middle school, the teacher spent more than half of it talking about why you shouldn’t have sex before marriage. It was all of these bullshit metaphors that didn’t really add up to anything substantial. On top of that, the high school we fed into was known in our district for having an insane amount of teen pregnancies, so obviously the sex Ed program wasn’t working. One day when we were doing a worksheet on STIs, her computer fell asleep while attached to the projector and started a slideshow of the photos saved on her computer, which compromised of ACTUAL pornographic images. She turned the computer back on and said if any of us reported it, she would make sure we failed the year. Staunch Republican lady exposed a bunch of 13 year olds to porn on her school computer.
I can tell you’re a minor, and I can also tell you have very little world experience because you clearly don’t know what’s going on. I look forward to you forming an opinion of your own once you’re out from under your family’s umbrella.
The Daily Wire and PragerU seem to dominate all the alt-right content.
And I keep getting their ads at every corner of every video. I don’t want to watch someone scream about wanting to close abortion rights for 45 minutes after some gaming video. Also fun fact, on this video I got a TERF ad lol
Well yeah. They pay good money to exist.
@@otto_jk Individuals can do this, but the ads mostly aren't a problem because one person is annoyed--they're a problem because thousands of people are getting pushed towards this content all the time, and not everybody is that savvy. Especially teenagers.
So what exactly is alt-right? Because those channels tend to denounce the “alt-right”, which makes perfect sense. What most people seem to identify as the dissident right or “alt right” is quite intensely anti-capitalist. The daily wire and PragerU are extremely pro-capitalist.
The Daily Wire has repeatedly condemned the alt-right. They are far right-wing to be sure but not alt-right. They don't believe in the majority of alt-right tenets especially that their movement is a "movement for white conservatives only". They are not racist or misogynisitc, although you could make the argument that they are transphobic, and I don't agree with any of their points regarding trans-people.
My Bachelors Thesis in History (about American traditionalism and its historical development) does actually deal a little bit with PragerU.
For once I feel slightly ahead of the curve.
that's awesome! Can I read it?
@@robertdickinson3107 I'd love to send it to you but I can't link it here. Nor can I link a throw-away email account for some reason.
I am really happy you talked about this. The entire reason they are such a problem is that they are very unstable, but mutate at a rapid rate and change constantly. They are slippery because they change so much.
Don't all content creators who have a large enough following offer merch, and paid subs of some sort? Don't you, Zoe?
It's about the monopoly and she doesn't have one so this is irrelevant.
@@azhtenz which "she"? I don't understand what you mean by monopoly. Who has the monopoly? I don't really follow either of these people, so Idk much about either one.
@Nefe Libata well the video talks about pragur u having a monopoly and I'm saying zoe doesn't
@@azhtenz they have monopoly in what exactly?
Amazing thumbnail, literally more descriptive and precise than your average PragerU graph
The axis are not labelled, so I would counter by saying it is EXACTLY like a PragerPoo graph.
Graph go up = Mexicans bad
My favorite bit on PragerU's arsenal of pseudo-intellectualism, as an engineer, are the meaningless charts without axis labels, units of measurement or straight up graphing things like happiness without any further explanation
It looks like Prageru is destrying the alt-right pipeline.
i actually mentioned this once briefly but mistakenly shook PragerU off as the right-winged version of what Buzzfeed is to the left (ie: most people don't take them serious)
based on PragerU's like to dislike ratio, i am still convinced this is the case, but i do fear you're right considering they got big names like Ben Shapiro
Gravel institute has a similar take but it doesn't sound like people hate them
@@Fiox789 People seem indifferent to GI except on the issue of Ukraine, where I think there's a hard split in the left.
I work with someone who's 24 and mentioned Prager out of the blue asked me if I've ever heard of it. Couldn't believe he actually watches it unironically
now that you mention it, not being able to see dislikes anymore is likely going to help them indoctrinate more people
@@scrilla4047 This might be when you direct him towards this video. "Yes, I've heard of Prager; what I haven't heard is anything good about them..."
just watched this on Prager U with comments by Amala Ekpunobi. I dare you to post it.
Thank you Zoe I had no idea what Prager-U was and….. after being disenfranchised by the infighting and support of rioters I’ve left the left. You and your video about what everyone on TH-cam does lead me to prager-u and it’s refreshing to hear a media group that offers true discussion in their videos. Ooo yeah I liked how’s its so evil someone else as a Patreon like…. You do! Thank you
Bro, pay attention it's about the monopoly, you're about the 30th right winger that has said this ITS NOT THE SAME
I wish someone would make a film about the alt-right internet pipeline, something like Fight Club with incels but without all the glorification. At the very least it'd get the general public talking about this stuff again. Maybe it could help some vulnerable folks.
I believe Maggie Mae Fish's review of Fight Club dabbles in that territory
To be honest, the pipeline starts with dumb culture war issues and arguments, and random compilation videos of Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson.
@@carlogaytan7010 It's seeping into TH-cam fitness, too (at least the more mainstream one). It's incredibly alarming. And no one's talking about it, either. Nothing disgusts me more. Conservatism thrives almost everywhere, if not everywhere, you let it, and the TH-cam fitness space is no exception.
@@TheMagicalArden not really been there, but I can imagine. Especially Life Betterment and wellness for men and incels
@@TheMagicalArden that's crazy! Could you share an example or two?
The fact Prager U succeeds in keeping people hooked with content a teenager can detect being manipulation and disinformation is a depressing testament to US politics and education.
Or is that a lot of Americans only will listen to what confirms their own biases?
@@Eibarwoman that's the psychological wording of what I meant to say. People unable to evaluate ideas properly
@@MrZauberelefant I almost want to directly attribute it to the US being a far more religious country than any other developed nation. And particularly, Christian fundamentalists/literalists who have to arrested development to believe in what they believe in.
@@Eibarwoman They're still less harmless than the worshipping of science & relativism done by leftist circles, eco-activist hippies & european/democrat career politicians.
I have seen a NZ women being radicalize from Prague U
The weirdest thing is that I’m super progressive, and freshman year of high school I almost fell into this.
I was trying to aggressively prep everything I needed for school, and I came across these seemingly educational videos about economics and history. It took a minute before I realized that they were from a conservative viewpoint. I was very young and impressionable, and was willing to take advice from what seemed like a university.
I was in the pipe for ~2 months, I watched the silly comics and then the long form content, then I started getting recommended all different types of political content and was like, hold up, these people arent crazy?! and then I realized the stupidity of the alt- right content
Spotting Desmond is low key my favorite game during a Zoe Bee essay.
Desmond is the cat, right? (fun fact: around 80% of orange cats are male)
@@chickenbird6661 Desmond is the very good kitty, yes
@@chickenbird6661 cool! i have a female orange tabby. she's a spoiled brat lol.
Please take Amala up on her offer to have you on her podcast. We’d love to see you substantiate your myriad of claims. 😉
Came here after watching Amala's commentary on this video. The sheer number of people saying that this happens to be a fantastic analysis and take down of the "alt right" (Ben Shapiro being a common name drop) when all she does is simply talk about universal, online, social media customer engagement is utterly mind boggling.
I think if she had examples, she would have listed them in the video.
She'll never do it. These people can never actually support their claims. They're so brainwashed they believe what ppl claim even if there's no proof and all she's saying is word salad. It's exactly like obama, sounds smart but she's really not saying anything. At all.
@Nya Just think, if you had any listening comprehension, you could have understood what those noises she was making mean! 😳
I totally agree to everything you said here. It's so terrifying to me that people might encounter someone who doesn't agree with my leftist point of view, then decides that they are moderate, then maybe thinks about moderate right views. And honestly, the fact that people could have opposing views to me, is offensive. We must silence anyone who has their own opinions.
Well done 😎
LMFAO
"Guess how many academic papers mention Prager U"
"Mmm idk. 5?"
"ITS 5!"
😤 LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO
This title is the best thing Prager U has ever been involved in.
honestly, we were *livid* we didn't come up with it first hahaha
False, this is his magnum opus.
th-cam.com/video/ovo-XUCtao8/w-d-xo.html
You didn't give a single example of anything you claimed. You made a lot of very confident statements about PragerU content, but didn't follow it up with actual content. I mean, yeah, they have consistent branding and sell merch & memberships, just like you do. But, where is the "alt right" content? They have speakers from all genders, races & religions. Nothing alt right there. I watched the actual "What is the Alt Right" video. That was really good. It went through what it is, how conservatives are not alt right & then denounced the alt right. So, clearly NOT promoting alt right there. And, how exactly is Candace Owens, Dave Rubin or Joe Rogan ALT right? Also, the ALT in alt right stands for "alternative" right, as in, NOT right. Conservatives denounce true racism, sexism, ageism, bigotry, violence and enabling. Conservatives and alt right DON'T mix.
Lol go back to Propangda-U
@@jeremymcginnis1405 yeah that's no an example. You just proved his point simp 🤣😂
Fr tho, I hate getting labeled as homophobic/sexist/racist/etc. just because I tend to have more traditional/conservative ideals. None of the conservatives I’ve met are legitimately bigoted like that because we’re all about freedom of the individual
@@megana5766 sure, I will give you the fact that not all conservatives are racist, sexist or homophobic and that it is a portion of the modern conservative movement. That being said, Prager definitely fits into the racist, sexist homophobic category because of the divisive content they create.
@@jeremymcginnis1405 Yeah, of course there are some conservatives that are racist/sexist/homophobic. There are also liberals that are racist/sexist/homophobic. However I disagree with PragerU being categorized as such. In fact, they have quite a bit of diversity across race, sex, age, etc. As someone who has watched quite a bit of their videos (I'm also a bi woman of color btw), I haven't seen any that match what you said; and this video sure hasn't given any examples of those types of videos made by PragerU lol
At the end of the day, they haven't outright said anything that would qualify as discriminatory against someone based on race. I know I wasn't offended by anything PragerU has said... People can be offended by all kinds of things, just because a different opinion offends someone doesn't mean it's hate speech and deserves to be deplatformed.
How do you stop Prager U? You can't. They have every right to exist and produce videos as you do. They're growing because they people see that they discuss subjects that need to be discussed, but few media outlets will allow it. So they go to Prager.
They are also great videos. You may say they are opinion pieces but they are well done, researched, and make good points. This is supported by the fact that you were unable to choose a single video to debate with. C'mon, pick one and tell us how it's wrong.
Instead, all you can do is point out that some videos feature Charlie Kirk. You count on fear instilled in your audience by other leftist commentators that anything with Kirk must be dismissed out of hand. Same as all the leftist attacks on Tucker Carlson: "Tucker is bad! Don't watch his videos! Really, please don't watch his videos!"
After this you pitch this "Human Restoration Project" which advocates "re-imagining" classrooms with less homework and no grading. What sort of citizens are you going to produce? You don't care how dumb graduates are as long as they enter the world spewing progressivisms.
So you can't tolerate a site that presents videos that people can watch or not as they please, but you want children locked into progressive schools of your design.
You're the one who must be stopped.
Even before the pandemic they were so effective in their act that I once quoted them asking a question during a lecture at an actual university. I thought they were one, too.
So you basically spent 20 minutes talking about how well they package their content.... And didn't give a single example of anything they said that was "wrong" or "alt-right". People watch you why?....lol..... Incidentally, you have an open offer to go on Amala Ekpunobi's show, Unapologetic. She's offered you a chance to prove any of your claims. Care to take her up on it? Something tells me you likely won't..... Care to tell your fans why? :)
I would LOVE to see that! Go, Zoe Bee!!!!
@@reneehawkins1936 I'd love to see that as well..... Hell, Dennis Prager himself has had a standing open invitation for years now, for countless prominent leftists to debate him publicly, even offering substantial money to charity for anyone at the NYT editorial department, or countless prominent leftist economists and "thinkers", and none of them ever take him up on the offer. I wonder why that is? That's the left for you.... Always unable to defend their position in the marketplace of ideas. :)
I actually got an anti-trans ad on this video XD. The only time I see PragerU and others is through similar ads (they wont leave me alone). The amount of money they have is terrifying while many groups on the left are barely getting by.
It's oil billionaires, more particular a pair of Evangelical fracking billionaires named the Wilks Brothers.
Yeah... conservatives and far-right fascists are lashing out at trans folks as hard as they can, going as far as outright wishing death. More and more people start realizing that fascist governents have no way to be beneficial for anyone. So they picked us as the "enemy" since once there is no "enemy" to serve as a scapegoat the whole ideology crumbles.
some wealthy crazies are pouring millions, (or for Musk, billions) in ads, faked "documentaries", even outright buying an entire social network...
So glad I don't live in the US and get that garbage
What about Disney?
What was the ad? I wanna watch it
This video made me like prageru even more. Good job
One time, I got an ad for pragerU on youtube, and I thought it was satire and was laughing, so hard I. Then out it was genuine and laughed harder.
I will make a donation to any charity Zoe Wants if she will do a collab with unapologetic to discuss this video.
why?
Brah, I'll also make my first EVER donation to a charity. Let's say, $1000?
@@alexandrac6177 Because it's the safest bet in the world.
@@IgnoreMeImWrong Why unapologetic though? What specific insight on the topic of PragerU does she have?
@@IgnoreMeImWrong Do you take what you saw in this video as “screeching”?
When/where/who has complained that right-wing hosts have refused to platform leftists?
I used to do an exercise with college students where I would show them "racial realist" (i.e. white supremacist) websites that would mimic actual scientific journals. The point being that the aesthetics of legitimacy aren't the same as the quality and intentions of the content. The strategy is old, but it's mainstreaming, deft use of social media, and funding is new. Thanks for highlighting this.
I guessed 4 out loud. Holy hell was I close.
I’m confused... how is the way PragerU operates (creating short and long form content with various speakers, selling merchandise, promoting their content, and offering exclusive content/merchandise for paying supporters) any different than how other youtube channels operate? I get that they have many employees that make videos on different subjects in their name, but then again... don’t channels like Buzzfeed, College Humor, or Vox use similar approaches? It’s just because it’s conservative ideas that you don’t like it and you’ve labeled it a “pipeline to the alt-right” lol
You also said they have a monopoly on conservative TH-cam, when in fact there are other conservative channels that function pretty similar to PragerU such as Daily Wire or BlazeTV. I feel like you focused so much on the fact that PragerU is a successful operation of conservative media and that’s “bad” that you forgot to actually criticize anything they actually say in their videos.
Overall tho, thanks for sharing your thoughts, I always like to hear different opinions (:
IMO, the truth about the Alt-Right Pipeline’s shift is that they were funding the original pipeline, now they just consolidated it all
I remember watching the PragerU's "Modern Art" video a couple of years ago out of curiosity. I disliked every second of it, and I've been very adamand about how bad I found it.
Luckily for me, my dislike for CinemaSins got me to creators like Shaun, so watching their videos about PragerU spared me from the pipeline, if there ever was a chance to go that way.
In any case, this was a really nice video. Keep up the great and interesting work, stay safe and warm, and take care!
Degenerate art 2.0 ?
Modern art is rubbish compared to art like the statue of David or the Mona lisa. There is objectively beautiful art. Modern art is not beautiful at all
@@spitfire-ls8oj Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.
@@spitfire-ls8oj what a bore you must be 💤
@@fburton8 beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but if you have to be told what your eye should see then i dont think it counts.
Regardless of politics modern art is nigh indefencible
So you mean to tell me that when you subscribe to a channel you see their content more often? Sounds like you have a problem with TH-cam’s algorithm, because that’s how it works with literally everyone you subscribe to. Also, $35 a month for free Murch every quarter, insider updates, and a free annual membership sticker… Seems like a pretty decent deal, also you have a Patreon as well and a store that people can buy things from, so what’s the big deal? Also, I don’t think it’s fair that you are characterizing literally everything that they do and everyone they associated with as dangerous and scary and harmful, how is Charlie Kirk any of those things? just because they aren’t a physical school, doesn’t mean you can’t still learn things from them, you’ve heard of online classes, correct? You can learn everything that they are teaching for free… They obviously aren’t a building or campus the same way, Harvard is or any other physical school. It’s almost like they’re creating videos that are easy to digest so they can get more people to understand the truth of what’s going on without making things too complicated.
TH-cam has been showing me nothing but PragerU, Daily Wire, and Matt Walsh ads on this video.
Idk how you can not pet kitty that jumps up next to you. That is some self control and focus I will never have.
The funniest thing about PU is that in a video a few years ago that talked about Trump, their animated Trump-nightmarefuel-character had huge hands. It was not consistent with the style of all their other animated characters. And it had been at least two years since Trumps tiny hand had been a brief talking point during his first presidential campaign. Someone was still very hung up about that.
Help!! She has a copy of "Infinite Jest" in her lie-barry. Can someone give me a detailed reason why I should try to read it again. I made it to about page 200 of its thousand pages, but still wasn't hooked, constantly wishing I would just put it down, read anything else, including cereal boxes. Please, someone, anyone, tell me why IJ is worth reading. Details. Themes. Use your brain. I've read "Juliette" by de Sade, which is like twelve hundred pages, so a big book doesn't scare me. But IJ just seems like this thing that you show people how you are an intellectual because it's on your shelf. Literally not one person has given me good reasons to give it another go, all saying things like, "Just try it. It's great!"
I think we can drop the "alt" part from the name. This has become just plain "the right."
Personally I almost became alt right because of people being like "Its just a joke" or such which normalized it and made me kind of, thing everything in it was a joke so I couldn't tell if something was a joke or if it was serious, I literally went so far from the time I started I was very left, to literally being Centre-Left which was yeah, I'm glad I saw this video.
@Peeshy What, why are you asking me this, I'm literally just sharing my experiences? Did you mean to comment that but accidentally replied to this?
I used to be alt right. This was around the time I saw myself as an incel. For me, I was angry at the world. And I needed people who appealed to me. So watching a video or two about how "feminist lady bad", it reenforced my negative outlook on life.
I've changed a lot. I have learned and gotten educated on different topics. But it is easy to fall into their brand. Especially if you aren't educated, and looking for an outlet.
How hard was it to change your perspective on things? Did it take years?
@@oliverwilson5957 kind of. I was in a state of depression. Basically, to me, everything going wrong "could not be my own fault". The fact that I live in a very right wing environment only helped to reinforce that. However, over time I found myself questioning certain topics. For example, I was very anti Nazi. However, I noticed people around me has very similar ideas to them. So I started to asked, and funny enough I was started to be seen as a "fake patriot".
Over time I decided to look at the other side. And while part of me still had that programming, I felt that they were right about things. Slowly I began to see that no there was no "gay agenda". Slowly I realized that there is no "white genocide" or anything like that.
As someone who was on that side for years I'll say that it has two sides. It is a cult. They treat you like brothers, sisters, and yes they even welcome nonwhites. However it is only a front. As soon as you question, or even challenge them, you are cut off right away.
A lot of people are also pressured into that side out of fear. Fear of losing your family, friends, and community. So even if they know it is wrong, they let it slide for fear of being left alone. I know some people who don't want to be part of that side, but do it because they have nowhere to turn to.
The right wing is a cult. It is an organization that uses love and acceptance as a reward for being loyal and following their rules. And fear as a punishment.
@@KallenMalefic I really do appreciate you taking the time to tell me your story. Im taking the time to listen because I truly want to understand what keeps people in this state of mind and why they think, believe, and act the way they do. Thanks for responding and Im glad you are overcoming your depression. I've been there and it's like trying to crawl out of a pit. I had to find new ways of changing my perspective and a quote that resonates with me is from a show that may surprise you (its from The Avatar.) "When we hit our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change"
It's like being at the bottom of that pit, there's only one place left to go and that's up. If you were that person who felt fear of being left alone, just know that Im proud that you've been able and trying to overcome the very things holding you back
I do find it extremely ironic how people talk about devolving into the alt-right pipeline and becoming incels and angry at feminists in one breath, but then still include and call out Jordan Peterson in that hilarious alt-right pipeline graph, even though prof. Peterson is preaching about cleaning your room and your life, claiming responsibility, working for the future and trying your best to decrease the amount of suffering in the world.
You mean you turned into a simp
This video describes the way all media pipelines operate. It's important to be aware of this process whatever content you're into so you don't get sucked too deep into the right, left or any point of view which encourages heavy 'othering' and blinds you to others' humanity.
You never gave any examples of what PragerU claims Zoe!. You kept talking about how bad they are, but never quoted any of their videos that prove they're alt-right. In fact you never quoted anything they've said, much less, provided an argument to any of their claims. Please tell me, what misinformation are they giving? Just because you disagree with their point of view doesn't make them evil Zoe. As for their marketing plan, that's what everybody does...including you! Nothing to see here folks.
They're bad because the logical end of their worldview is a deeply stratified society where numerous groups are ultra marginalized
You deserve an industry award for this title.
The craziest thing in this whole video is that a PragerUnited membership costs $35 a month. That is comedic genius
Well voting republicans Is a welfare tax.
Don't see why the financial modus operandi should be different.
I am sure that at least one of their graphic designers noticed that comes to $420 per year.
@@Robstafarian Makes sense, it is a pretty *high* price...
I'll see myself out now.
What's wrong with trying to make a profit????
Way back in the pre-MAGA days, I did watch one PragerU video all the way through, and was a bit curious and concerned about the claims they were making. I was almost suicidally depressed at the time, so... I was kinda psychologically vulnerable, and prone to desperately leap at new ideas that might give me some sort of clarity or hope about the future. The TH-cam algorithm actually swooped immediately to my aid, though, by directing me to a rebuttal video, which proved conclusively to me that PragerU had twisted the facts. Well anyway, now I'm pretty sure my depression was due to gender dysphoria and self-directed transphobia the whole time, so I guess there's no way in heck I'd ever veer back toward that kind of thinking!
So u are admitting to having mental problems......sooooo. maybe u r not qualified to influence?
So u are admitting to having mental problems......sooooo. maybe u r not qualified to influence?
So did you come to the conclusion you had gender dysphoria or were you told you had gender dysphoria? I’m curious about your progression to that identification? Did you always know? It seems like that would be such a stressful realization. Like it’s a relief you know what was causing your depression, but that knowing then comes with a whole set of obstacles to navigate. Asking for real, not to be a jerk or anything.
Honestly, seeing this network that prageru has made makes me wonder why the left hasn't done a similar thing yet on TH-cam. Nebula is the first thing that comes to mind and I think it would make a wonderful TH-cam channel to funnel people toward the main website in a similar way. I wish they would do something like that, because I would eat it up
I couldn't find any replacement theory videos made by prageru, what am I missing?
That's bc the white replacement theory video doesn't exist
I'm absolutely loving the expanding cast of stuffed cephalopods.
I'm not even buying them. They just keep showing up. I don't know how they're getting in the house.
@@zoe_bee, it's the drains. Cephalopods (with the exception of cuttlefish and maybe some squids) can fit through any opening large enough for their beaks and brains.
Zoe: I want you to guess how many scholarly papers mention PragerU.
Me: Lol 5?
Zoe: It was 5.
Me: 👀
honestly i taught it was less then that and i actually pick 0
@@ericmacrae6871 Same, I was surprised it was 5 more than I thought
i guessed 6 😄
PragerU is trash, but academia is trash too so I'm not sure what point this is supposed to be.
@@basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126 How is academia trash?
The thing with youtube that makes this all work is that TH-cam is a thing you just have playing in the background while you do some other stuff, so you’re less likely to really think about what you’re watching.
Chills went up my spine when you mentioned the pipeline from edgy atheist videos leading down to radical race theory and white replacement. I was going down this pipeline as an angry white teenage boy, and thankfully I consider myself deconverted as an adult.
I have much sympathy for the people who didn't get off the train before inceldom or becoming too set in my beliefs. I was worried about being "converted" by the "evil feminist institute" of my university. I'm glad i had some really tolerant friends
Excellent video! I remember stumbling onto a PragerU video when they got pushed really hard in 2019 where Dinesh D'Souza explains how Fascism is actually a leftist ideology and another one where they explain how the British Empire was good actually which as a Irishman I found very bemusing. I've seen a few more from lefttubers debunking their videos but it really is wild they're still up tbh
What, you mean the Irish don't LOVE the British Empire?
(joking, of course. Thank you for the support!
WoW the Fascism tenets corresponding directly to modern leftist ideology was debunked?
Not even the British like the British
I mean if the British hadn't handled the potato famine in a borderline genocidal way my ancestors wouldn't have left the country and met my other ancestors so I wouldn't exist. I don't approve of the British empire but I wouldn't exist without it.
@@garethbaus5471 few of us would, it's the inevitable result of such a globally influential organisation.
Man, as someone who keeps up with politics for entertainment, I have to say, it's quite hilarious to see the left's hipocrisy now that the right is using their own tactics agaisnt them.
The left has been using some variation of PragerU's strategies to attract new people to their cause for the better part of a century now, and never saw any problem with it. Now that the right is doing the same, suddenly they're like "Oh my God you guys, they're totally radicalizing my friends at school, what do we do about it?!" lol gotta love it
"We'll start making TH-cam content and we'll be grooming children into our ideology."
"In that case we'll start making TH-cam content and we'll be grooming their parents into our ideology."
"Listen here, you little shit."
"Man, as someone who keeps up with politics for entertainment, I have to say, it's quite hilarious to see the left's hypocrisy now that the right is using their own tactics against them." 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
This is a really great video for many reasons, but one detail I have to shout out is the horse neigh after “algorithm”. A very *chef’s kiss* touch
Hey zoe just wanted to point out that you literally said the same thing for 20 minutes and lied so maybe you wanna fact check your stuff there.
i haven't seen their channel and honestly the only thing that this video made me want to do is go and watch them. cause there's no explanation here of how they misinform people, no proof, no examples, so this video just comes off as "i don't like those people and their opinions that are different from mine, so i want them gone" which is petty and childish
THANK YOU!!!
those "opinions" are hateful
@@maybemadelyn again, examples? or do you just classify anything that you don't like or agree with as hateful?
@@soullesschicken4069 oddly enough, i believe videos that say i shoudnt exist are hateful.
@@soullesschicken4069 prageru videos like "when girls become boys" and "gender identity: why all the confusion?" are unabashedly transphobic and horribly researched. trans women are women and trans men are men.
Literally got a Daily Wire ad in the middle of this video even while being deep in the lefttube space for years
irony is that I received a prageru ad after watching this video
Zoe,
Shame on you for not providing any examples that you referenced about the videos on PragerU. You were invited to go on their podcast and have a dialogue, why have you not accepted?
Why would she need to do that when a simple search yields thousands of such points?
Besides, that was not the purpose of this video.
@@ekzrated what was the purpose? It just explained how marketing in any youtube channel including hers worked
@@ekzrated Also because backing up claims with credible evidence and addressing counterpoints is a good way to solidify any argument, rather than expecting people to believe a point without evidence
@@aikostubbs7193 I agree, IF this was one of a few channels criticizing Prager U, but it isn't. As I said before, there are literally thousands of videos that demonstrate the claims. And if you need more "credible evidence" than what the author provides, I don't know what to tell you.
As for the invitation to go on "their podcast and have a dialog", why give more credence to Prager U? They are garbage and do not deserve to be taken seriously.