A History Teacher Reacts to PragerU Videos for 7 Hours Straight

Mr. Beat reacts to and debunks to PragerU history videos for 7 hours straight. Ok, he does take breaks to go to the bathroom and grab a snack.

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[charlottearanea]

21:40 History of Slavery
48:57 Amazing Life of Ulysses S Grant
1:02:40 Why America Must Lead
1:30:40 What Are Your Kids Learning In School?
2:35:30 Why Did The Democratic South Become Republican?
3:11:48 Public Unions Public Enemies
3:34:07 What's Wrong With the 1619 Project?
4:07:12 Hamilton: The Man Who Invented America
4:21:42 Understanding Nixon
4:46:20 The War on Cars
5:12:47 Why Girls Become Boys
5:28:58 Is Fascism Right or Left
5:36:50 Leo & Layla's History Adventures with President Reagan
6:04:39 Why Did America Fight the Vietnam War?
6:25:14 Why Isn't There A Palestinian State
6:48:28 The Amazing History of Chistmas

[PaperThin_]

The idea that someone would watch PragerU for 7 hours straight is so unimaginable that I thought that this had to be a compilation.

[robbren]

35 years old here. My parents told me in the early 2000’s to go to college and get a good job. I did 8 years air force, and received masters degree in cybersecurity. I am successful in many ways but now my parents call my education “liberal indoctrination” even though it was a science degree. I teach as an adjunct part time, and they shit on me doing so… i teach network security not politics! Man they are brainwashed.

[superiorcheerios]

the strategically placed black woman to talk about the history of the party flip absolutely killed me

[fds]

I'm German, and when I stumbled across a PragerU video for the first time, I initially assumed it was affiliated with the (highly renowned) University of Prague.
_Boy_ was I wrong.

[karimb]

I love when she emphasized that white people fought to end slavery but intentionally leaves out that they fought other white people who opposed ending slavery 🤡

[wipis]

It's funny that a fairly moderate, honest, open minded history teacher is seen as left wing. That's how screwed up the political spectrum is getting.

[NucularRobit]

"Our lives weren't valued by our ancestors."

The Africans that sold people were specifically not the ancestors of African Americans.

[cherrypopscile]

"not everyone in Africa had the best life"

If the most advanced alien civilization kidnapped me, took me to their super advanced world, forced me to worship their Alien gods, and made me do backbreaking labor, and treated my like chattel I wouldn't say "Oh well at least I live in nicer conditions here!"

[KimJungGooner]

I never comprehended PragerU arguing that increases fuel efficiency is a bad thing, then I saw who their main benefactors are....

[jeffreyxu]

The I in Prager U stands for Intelligence

[RobKaelberer]

I love this quote from Leeja Miller. "Equality feels like oppression when you're the one benefiting from historical inequalities."

[eoz]

At about 5:25:00 you started talking about how teens in Oregon can access testosterone just by walking into a clinic. Just wanted to share an anecdote. I have a transgender friend and as an adult (over 21 years old) he had to have years (I think 2 years) of psychological testing and therapy to be able to get a doctors prescription for testosterone and that was in very liberal Portland, Oregon

[dawn]

38:48 "Our lives meant very little to our ancestors" Your ancestors weren't selling you into slavery. Your ancestors' enemies were selling them into slavery. This is a big difference. Calling all Africans your ancestors is disingenuous.

[Spiritfba]

You know it’s getting bad when the most vanilla centrist I’ve heard this week is being accused of being a communist.

[Col_Fragg]

When Owens talks about modern day slavery, she uses the broadest definition of slavery. What's interesting is that she excludes the U.S. from this definition. Owens would never acknowledge that inmates working for slave wages are, in fact, slaves.

[silverliningreviews]

This man really tortured himself for 7 hours straight

[rebeccah]

Actually, gender is something that 3 and 4 year olds understand. As soon as kids learn "girls rule and boys drool" or any of those other playground rhymes, they know that gender is a thing. They learn boy colors and girl colors and identify with them as soon as they can pick a color they like. Kids learn about gender from the moment they are born. Parents hand them a doll or a truck toy and tell them how they should dress, which pronouns to use, how they should play with their toys, and what name they should go by. Children are never too young to learn about gender. We (the adults) passively and subconsciously teach it to them just by interacting with them.

[AlMuqaddimahYT]

Okay, so, I won't spend half an hour looking for the perfect video to watch as I eat, for the next few weeks.

[stabbityjoe]

PragerU videos are like “here is a little known fact that if stated in a vacuum suggests that my agenda is righteous. The opposing agenda? Well here’s a time someone was mildly inconvenienced by something related to that belief. In summary, here’s a quote from a random Wall Street analyst that has almost no relation to our topic”