PragerU for Kids: A Horrible YouTube Channel

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Co-edited by myself and @mothcub

[BigJoel]

My information about the Nazis and antiquity came from the book: Greeks, Romans, Germans: How the Nazis Usurped Europe's Classical Past

[ryanmattox]

‘Slavery is better than death!’

There is a monument dedicated to THOSE WHO CHOSE THE SEA

[fabulousfrankielee]

"Being enslaved is better than being killed, no?" I can't believe that's a sentence in a children's show.

[Zahaqiel]

I do love the way PragerU argues you can't judge Columbus because you have to consider his culture, but then also judges all the cultures that he enslaves and discusses how they really benefited from having their culture entirely forcibly reoriented around a religion they didn't ask for.

[dplusmodifier]

The argument "people didn't know slavery was bad back then" always falls apart when you, even for a second, consider that the slaves were people and PROBABLY knew slavery was bad!

[AZ-tyub]

The same people who say "give me freedom or give me death" are also like "well isn't being a slave better than being killed???"

[outofhere]

I’m just so struck by the one-two combo of: “We stopped these people from committing cannibalism because it’s bad!! BUT YOU CAN’T JUDGE ME FOR ENSLAVING PEOPLE BECAUSE OUR MORALS ARE DIFFERENT.” Like the hypocrisy isn’t even hidden.

[eoincampbell]

Cannibalism and human sacrifice? ALWAYS BAD
Death penalty? ALWAYS GOOD
Slavery? ENTIRELY RELATIVE

[SilverAceOfSpades]

Leo has blue hair and pronouns, which I thought PragerU hated.

[owlhead]

The thing I love is that Columbus WAS a controversial figure of the time. He was even arrested for his actions. But people constantly go to bat for him like he was even the first European to discover America. He didn’t even land in the America that PragerU likes!

[Nilmand]

"Your honour my client didn't invent genocide, therefore he is clearly innocent"
~Saul Goodman

[jacemankins]

I think my favorite part about this is Columbus’s forced Spanish accent even though he was Italian.

[MrCrimsonbolt]

'Morality is objective; good is always good, evil is always evil!'

'Slavery is evil'

'Hang on a minute, you've got to look at it in context. It's bad now, but it was ok back then. It all comes down to the subjectivity of society at any given time in history. Hope that clears things up'

[TurtleChad]

My question is why did they decide to make Leo a "blue haired liberal" ?

[foffingCh.]

“Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no?” Is a real ironic “give me liberty or give me death” moment

[Jovian]

The thing that gets me with the Columbus one is that the man WAS criticized for his time. Like, he WAS judged based on his own culture's principles. Like...c'mon.

[mathisfun]

We can't judge Columbus by our standards from 500 years later, but we can judge gay people by standards from 3000 years ago? Sure, that makes sense.

[apollofell]

Columbus: Native Americans practiced human sacrifice, so destroying their cultures was justified.
Columbus, not 60 seconds later: Slavery and murder were just part of my culture, don't judge me for it.

[riotbreaker]

Kudos to PragerU for conveniently omitting that Columbus was arrested and deported because of his cruelty.

[Holfax]

"Your honor, my client is a serial killer...but he did not invent serial killing!"