Louisiana Voice

The Republican party has its collective drawers in a wad over those predator Democrats and their grooming of children. If you don’t believe it, all you have to do is google “Republicans, grooming” to see for yourself. They’re beside themselves: Marjorie Green Taylor and Matt Gaetz, side-by-side (and that, friends, is the best illustration of Republicans being “beside” themselves). I mean, who better to speak against pedophilia than those two?

But I digress. News broke (perhaps “news oozed” would be more accurate) late Wednesday that PragerU had been ACCEPTED to show “edu-tainment” videos to Louisiana public school children.

Talk about grooming! Are you kidding me?

To view one of the “edu-tainment” videos offered by PragerU, go  HERE.(You’ll need to click on the speaker icon in the top left corner to hear the garbage this spokesperson spews out as if it were gospel. The name of this particular clip is “The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic party.” The lady, in all apparent sincerity, ties today’s Democratic party to the Democratic party of the mid-19^th Century and paints the Republicans (of that same era) as the good guys who wanted only what was best for America’s slaves. That, of course, is accurate – again, for that time period. But she neglects to point out that the roles have reversed dramatically in the last 160 years – especially since the Republicans adopted the so-called “SOUTHERN STRATEGY,” which dates back to passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the Lewis Powell MEMORANDUM to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce five years later.

But don’t stop there. On the right side of that video clip is a menu of other “edu-tainment” video clips that offer a decidedly politically-biased take on American history. That, folks, is what real grooming looks like and it’s got nothing to do with drag queens.

The headline in the Baton Rouge Advocate said it all: “Louisiana will let public schools show right-wing group’s ‘edu-tainment’ videos, sparking outcry.”

Outcry my butt. This decision by Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley (and I’m certain, endorsed by Gov. Jeff Landry) makes Louisiana the sixth state to link up with PragerU, which, despite the clever name, is not a university at all, but a content provider.

But PragerU boasted in its own news release that its deal with Louisiana is “more expansive” than in other states because the Louisiana Department of Education has approved an “extensive list” of PragerU videos for social studies. The link provider earlier provides a sampling of those social studies videos which are nothing but propaganda tools with which Republicans may “groom” impressionable children.

Here are two sentences from the Advocate story today: “Founded in 2009 by conservative radio host Dennis Prager, the nonprofit produces slick online videos that the group says have been viewed billions of times and are hosted by conservative media figures, including Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. Geared for young adults, its videos frequently attack liberal causes, including gender-affirming care for transgender youth, climate change, the Democratic party and teachers’ unions.”

Again, quoting from The Advocate story, here’s what PragerU’s 2023 annua report said: “PragerU Kids is serving families, schools, and young Americans through edu-taining, pro-American content and undoing the damage of leftist teachers’ unions.”

Other states that have accepted PragerU programs on history, civics, financial literacy, the Bible and other topics for public school children are Florida (the first to do so), Oklahoma, Montana, New Hampshire and Arizona. It should come as no surprise that the other five states have adopted propagandized programs from this outfit. The only outlier would appear at first blush to be New Hampshire until we realize that Republican Trump supporter Chris Sununu is governor there. And while Arizona’s governor is a Democrat, the rest of the state is of a deep red hue.

Now, the question must be asked: just who is really doing the grooming here?

Folks, that’s real cojones when you can claim with a straight face that your opposition is grooming kids even as you’re infusing pure political propaganda into public classrooms.

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