PragerU

[[File:PragerU logo.svg|thumb|165px|right|Their [[Fun:Fart|gassy]] logo.]]
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{{cquote|Prager University is not an accredited academic institution and does not offer certifications or diplomas.|||Their own website<ref>[https://www.prageru.com/ PragerU website homepage]</ref><ref group=note>[https://youtu.be/osJmkSZEmS4?t=405 Dennis argues that PragerU actually ''is'' a university because you can learn stuff from their videos.] You can also learn a lot of stuff at the esteemed university of your local library.</ref>}}

'''PragerU''' (misleadingly calling itself '''Prager University''') is a non-profit organization and [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theory]] peddling [[YouTube]] channel, founded by radio talk show host and professional [[wingnut]] [[Dennis Prager]] with his business partner Allen Estrin in 2009. The organization is an "education" outlet meant to be a "growing alternative to the [[Anti-intellectualism|moral and intellectual wasteland known as the Western university]]",<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/super-conservative-prageru-aims-to-arm-pro-israel-students-for-their-campus-wastelands/ ''Super-conservative PragerU aims to arm pro-Israel students for their campus ‘wastelands’''] from the Times of Israel</ref> which instead promotes a [[hard right]] moral and intellectual wasteland, usually within the bounds of [[neoconservatism]] and [[social conservatism]]. PragerU is mostly known for its 5 minute videos, which each feature a popular conservative speaker, journalist, author, and so on. Their videos host a wide range of conservative people, from former Canadian PM [[Stephen Harper]] to conspiratorial wingnut [[Owen Benjamin]].<ref group=note>To their credit, they removed their video with Owen [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piSnG1AwC1w after he drifted too far down the anti-semitic rabbit hole]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlibHD8iH6g Here's a reupload] of that original video.</ref>

PragerU has gotten a large amount of funding from fracking billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks,<ref group=note>No, these aren't the [[Koch brothers]], get your billionaires straight.</ref> alongside a host of other conservative advocacy groups.<ref name="desmogblog">[https://www.desmogblog.com/prageru Great post by DeSmog Blog] which covers the funding of PragerU and its content in regards to [[global warming]]</ref><ref>[https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2015/04/30/conservatives-spend-millions-proselytizing-school-children/ ''Fracking Titans Spend Millions Proselytizing School Children''] from Rewire News Group</ref> DeSmog Blog has covered this funding in-depth.<ref name="desmogblog"/>

Prager "University" presents history and politics from a ''hard''-right point of view. This includes rampant [[New Deal]] denialism, promotion of the [[Laffer curve]], [[American exceptionalism]], and [[Strawman|an off the walls weird interpretation of liberalism]].<ref>[http://www.prageruniversity.com/Political-Science/Are-You-a-Liberal.html#.UlddUprn9Ms Prager University - "Are You A Liberal?"]</ref> The channel also promotes extreme [[Zionist]] views, claiming the [[IDF]] to be the "World's Most Moral Army",<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1MkAGuVyY "Israel: The World's Most Moral Army" - PragerU]</ref> and promotes [[fossil fuels]] as being "the greenest energy".<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJWq1FeGpCw Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy - PragerU]</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Teja5YNCo "Why You Should Love Fossil Fuel" - PragerU</ref> It has called wealth [[income inequality]] "good".<ref>[https://youtu.be/1e35Vf-9n8E "Income Inequality is Good" - PragerU]</ref> In a multitude of ill-informed videos, it furthermore espouses [[climate change denialism]],<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkdbSxyXftc "What They Haven't Told You about Climate Change" - PragerU]</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWEjSDYfxc "The Truth about CO2" - PragerU]</ref> militarism,<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=176KRhEAgUs "Should America be the World's Policeman?" - PragerU]</ref> [[American exceptionalism]],<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpIbLxAYOhg "How Do You Judge America? Left vs. Right #3" - PragerU]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiJIYdgkF9M "What Makes America Different?" - PragerU]</ref> pro-[[British Empire|British imperialism]],<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSnJSUU_7q0 "If You Live in Freedom, Thank the British Empire" - PragerU]</ref> and many, many more nutty reactionary beliefs.

Guest hosts on the site include [[Jonah Goldberg]] and [[Amity Shlaes]].

Prager also has a video explaining reasons marriage is healthy to a couple for non-legal reasons, which is kind of [[asshole|dickish]] given his position on gay marriage.<ref>[http://www.prageruniversity.com/Life-Studies/The-Case-for-Marriage.html#.Ulde25rn9Ms Prager University - "The Case For Marriage"</ref>

Nevertheless, PragerU [[Stopped clock|does offer a few worthwhile videos]], such as Colonel Ty Seidule of the US Military Academy at West Point debunking [[neo-Confederate]] [[Lost Cause of the South|apologetics for the Civil War]],<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcy7qV-BGF4 "Was the Civil War About Slavery?" - PragerU]</ref> [[Patrick Moore (Greenpeace)|Patrick Moore]] debunking [[Genetically modified food|anti-GMO propaganda]],<ref> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSten18rI9A "Are GMOs Good or Bad?" - PragerU]</ref> and Paul Copan debunking [[Relativist fallacy|factual relativism]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMzhzqoQh8c "True for You but Not for Me" - PragerU]</ref> PragerU also made a video criticizing rent control, which almost all economists believe is bad.<ref> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJvTTGOHFkU "Why Rent Control Hurts Renters" - PragerU</ref><ref> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/15/comeback-rent-control-just-time-make-housing-shortages-worse/ "Opinion: The one issue every economist can agree is bad: Rent control", ''Washington Post''</ref><ref> https://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/ Rent Control - Freakonomics Podcast</ref>

PragerU has a channel aimed at young children called "PragerU Kids." Compared to the parent, the kids channel is very watered down, but maintains the main theme of “American values”.<ref> [https://m.youtube.com/channel/UChijzGy18QVAsDukb3Qu6EA/featured PragerU Kids]</ref> It has made videos that hilariously whitewash things such as [[Ronald Reagan]],<ref> PragerU Kids: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yI8-snJYpGI Ronald Reagan]</ref> [[Capitalism]],<ref>PragerU Kids: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gQW8arAEWHc Adam Smith]</ref> [[Christopher Columbus]],<ref>PragerU Kids: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kG2pRLrind0 Christopher Columbus]</ref> equality in the United States,<ref>PragerU Kids: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay2bbQEeEsY Frederick Douglas]</ref> and a video espousing the “The [[scientific revolution]] was caused by religion” myth,<ref>PragerU Kids: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2DTlNxYb3is The Scientific revolution]</ref> all of these designed for an unassuming young audience.

The sheer ludicrousness of Prager's crank videos make them ripe for parody. Innumerable "YouTube Poops" or YTPs (remixes that make fun of the original source material by editing its dialogue/pictures to change them to those that are silly and/or rude) have been made of his videos.<ref>[https://youtube.com/watch?v=VqG9McEQH7U YTP Dennis Prager ascends to godhood and respects women]. BottledBanana, YouTube, 7 May 2019.</ref><ref>[https://youtube.com/watch?v=x6jt-AzkoFk Dennis Prager says the darndest things]. Dragonflame Media, YouTube, 8 September 2019.</ref>

==Origins==
PragerU was created in response to a perceived [[left-wing]] [[bias]] in the American school system by Dennis Prager and Allen Estrin in 2009. Its aim was to promote the [[Conservatism|neoconservative]] belief system to the American people, particularly college students, through its website and YouTube.<ref>Nellie Bowles, [https://web.archive.org/web/20200212034527/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/politics/dennis-prager-university.html Right-Wing Views for Generation Z, Five Minutes at a Time]. Archived from the original at ''[[The New York Times]],'' 4 January 2020.</ref>

==Views and videos==
[[File:Dennis Prager (32566262648).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Dennis Prager.]] PragerU's content tends to align with the personal beliefs of Dennis Prager, which includes among other things:
* The left is on a quest to abolish Judeo-Christian values in [[Western world|the west]] and convert these societies to [[secular]] places, which will erode the west's freedom and bring us closer to a state-dominated society (like the [[USSR]] or [[Nazi Germany]]).
* The left is trying to promote 
degeneracy
 [[feminism]], the radical [[gay agenda]], and [[transgenderism]], which will destroy society as we know it.
* The left is trying to erase history by having more nuanced views about the actions of the United States government & bringing more attention to events related to a historically oppressed group of people.
* [[Capitalism|Free-market capitalism]] is the best economic system ever and socialism will basically destroy society.
* [[Global warming]] is basically a myth. And even if it ''isn't'' a myth, it's not as bad as people say it is. But if it's not a myth, the environmentalist movement is too powerful anyway. And even if they aren't too powerful, they have bad solutions. And regardless of any of that, conservatives are the REAL pro-environment people, because they push for fossil fuel usage. They basically just inhabit multiple steps of [[Global warming#The denialist staircase|the denialist staircase]] at the same time.
* Black people have it great in America and face basically no racial discrimination nowadays — and anyone who says otherwise is actually ''perpetuating'' racism and hurting black people, by painting black people as victims and as needing outside help to solve their problems.
* White Conservative Males are the most persecuted people in America because they are being systemically censored for 
violating a website's terms of service
 being brave enough to fight against the leftist establishment.
* Children today are spoiled brats that need to have authoritarian parents, otherwise they'll end up like those scary activists.
* A radical historical figure that was repressed by a conservative government was actually a conservative because they weren't like those [[BLM]] & [[Antifa]] rascals.

===Religion===

====God and morality====
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{{sbs|1=In the video '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YXzywDWc1k\ Why God Is a He]''''', Dennis Prager argues that God is depicted as masculine because most of the world's violence and wars are committed by men, and that a male role model is necessary to help civilize men and reduce male-driven crime. |2=Ironically, the most masculine depictions of God frequently come around in more oppressive, traditionalist, and violent societies. The image of a masculine God has historically been used to divide people and to justify violence against enemies. In the Bible, [[Examples of God personally killing people|God also killed and ordered the killings of many people]] (mostly in the [[Old Testament]]). This is covered in better depth [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOtUDQe4p5Y in this response video].}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrcQ_PTkVD4 If There Is No God, Murder Isn't Wrong]''''', Prager argues that God is necessary for an objective moral code, [[Morality#The Murder Argument|using murder as his example]]. He says that without God, only opinions about morality exist — leading to [[moral relativism]]. He then goes on to say that [[Judeo-Christian]] civilization embraces this [[Atheism#Atheists have no morals|while Godless atheists (like the Nazis and Communists) rejected those values and as a result murdered millions of people]].|2=See:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFXQzexO5XU Re: Prager’s Incoherent Rambling on Morality - Logicked] 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkXQp5MwW5Y Dennis Prager's "Moral Facts" - Professor Stick] 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXkI4tBfrRs If There is No God, is Murder Wrong? (a Reply to Dennis Prager) - Skeptic] 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QX3TQKC3o Prophet of Zod Explains Things to Babies-Episode 5: Where Do You Get Your Morality? - Prophet of Zod]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO_e7ZUKEQY WOTMQ: If There Is No God, Murder Isn't Wrong. - misterdeity]
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dr3F29Vlo&feature=youtu.be Dennis Prager is an idiot - NateTalksToYou]}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu6rrHAW-Io The Best Book to Read to Your Kids]''''', president of the Congress of Christian Leaders Johnnie Moore talks about the book that “conveys [to the children] the values of love, compassion, hard work, justice, and virtue, and has the added benefit of endurance throughout history” and is a “longtime bestseller.” If you didn’t already spot it from a mile away, it’s the [[Bible]]! He says that for every morally good thing, there's a Bible story about it. He then says that we should push Biblical literacy back into society (with special emphasis on kids) to the point at which everyone knows from memory some of the Bible's text.|2=The bible is too boring for most kids.{{fact|joke}} Additionally, there's not only violence in the bible which is inappropriate for kids, but there is also lessons in the bible that should not be learned ([[Biblical sexism]], an example of great lessons taught by the bible). Ironically, despite the fact that the bible should be inappropriate since Christians are very preachy about violence on television, according to Dennis Prager, it is fine for kids to read, including the violence and the bigotry that came straight from an ancient civilization. (RationalWiki recommends reading science books for kids. It’s fascinating stuff and is actually derived from reality!)}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JATJv8HlV8 Are Humans More Valuable Than Animals?]''''', Dennis Prager ponders the question about [[relativism]] and whether humans are more important than animals and plants. He says that humans are infinitely valuable under the Judeo-Christian belief since they were made in the image of [[god]], but not so much under the Atheist belief since humans are made of Carbon. 
|2=Firstly, the video [[Strawman|misconstrues]] [[secularism]] and that is not worth answering, besides pointing out the fact that yes, Atheists do value people, even if people are made of Carbon. Prager forgets that ''homo sapiens'' can be vile, so there is nothing particularly sacred about humans, besides our expanding [[knowledge]] that no other lifeform on earth is blessed by which makes us extremely valuable.<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nature-up-close-are-humans-really-the-smartest-species/ "Are Humans Really the Smartest Species?", ''CBS News'']</ref> With that said, most of the information in the video is very misguided, trees are only valuable because without trees we would all die<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190911-what-would-happen-if-all-the-worlds-trees-disappeared "What Would Happen if All the World's Trees Disappeared?", ''BBC'']</ref> and animals are important, so we have food. Additionally, Judeo-Christianism put god on a high pedestal while humanists put mankind on a pedestal, so not only does Dennis Prager have an erroneous view of Secularism, but Atheists value humans, while religious people value their god.

See:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wRknbX8d-M Are You Worth More Than a Tree? Dennis Prager Response]}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://youtu.be/TK57RiMqTdk The Ten Commandments: What You Should Know]''''', this video covers the importance of the ten commandments in the bible.|2=To put it simply, people are responsible enough to understand what is morally reprehensible and what is not. Moreover, the ten commandments are missing several morally reprehensible actions and concepts such as [[slavery]], cheating (in the setting of a game, not adultery), [[scam]]ming, [[rape]], and other concepts mentioned in the bible that never make it into the actual list of commandments, such as having [[sex]] before [[marriage]]. Therefore, the list of the ten commandments is incomplete and that makes it not nearly as important as Prager is claiming it to be, especially since Atheists have for a long time figured out everything else that is morally wrong.

See:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u3z69YpLx0 The Damn Commandments]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6vL32Mwhcs Dennis Prager is Wrong About The 10 Commandments]}}

====God's existence====
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{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T_P14JjMcM God vs. Atheism: Which is More Rational?]''''', philosophy professor {{wpl|Peter Kreeft}} basically presents [[Thomas Aquinas]]'s [[unmoved mover]] argument and the [[Kalam Cosmological Argument]] (basically that something needs to have caused the universe, and that cause would be God). He responds to a number of critiques:
# On the [[Argument from first cause#Radioactive decay|critique about radioactive decay not having a discernable cause]], he says that there likely is a cause but scientists just haven't discovered it yet - and that even if a cause is discovered, that cause would then in turn have to be caused by something else, and so on.
# On the argument that the universe is infinitely old, Kreeft responds by pointing out that the [[Big Bang]] happened.
# On the argument that the beginning of the universe was caused by another universe, Kreeft says that because of [[Einstein]]'s [[General relativity|General Theory of Relativity]], all time is relative to matter, so time must have began when matter began (so that before the big bang, there would be no time to exist for another universe). He then again says that even if a previous universe is the cause, that in turn would need a cause, and so on.

|2=Apart from the many flaws in the presentation of Aquinas' first cause argument (like [[Begging the question|unjustifiably asserting a casual series can't go back forever]], or [[handwave|dismissing]] examples of apparent uncaused events), Keef's regards to the Big Bang as the total origin of the universe is very shaky (let alone preceded it by absolutely nothing and its cause was a powerful disembodied mind). Einstein's relativity predicts a singularity but this conflicts with [[quantum physics]] at that scale. As cosmologist [[Sean Carroll]] stated: "It’s also completely possible there was time before that space and time and they evolved into our hot big bang by some procedure that we don’t really understand."<ref>https://lexfridman.com/sean-carroll-3-transcript/#chapter1_general_relativity</ref>

See:
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvg3mRZXut4 Theism is Not Rational - AronRa]
* [https://youtu.be/LJRDWlYczg8?si=SO63kn2sq4s03pF9 Is Theism More Rational than Atheism?-TMM]}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIorXcloIac Does God Exist? 4 New Arguments]''''', baseball player and radio host {{wpl|Frank Pastore}} talks about how [["I used to be an atheist"|he used to be atheist]] until he started learning about theist arguments and became a [[Born again|born-again]] Christian. He goes on to present 4 big bangs which he says atheists haven't accounted for that can be best explained by a [[Creationism|Creator]] (God). These big bangs are:

# '''Cosmological,''' or how the universe came into existence in the first place. Fortunately, Pastore doesn't talk about the [[unmoved mover]] and instead basically accepts the [[big bang]] as the best explanation for the universe's creation.
# '''Biological,''' or [[Abiogenesis|how life began to exist]]. Regarding this, he basically says that scientists still have basically no clue for how life would have began to exist. He says that "the closer we look, the wider the chasm" regarding our certainty on life's origin.
# '''Anthropological,''' or [[Evolution|how such a broad variety of life came into existence]]. He says that we still don't have an explanation for why bacteria, dogs, and humans all exist at the same time, [[Common descent|how a single starting point for life can lead to so many different life forms]]. He acknowledges that [[evolution]] is a possibility, but says that [[Charles Darwin]] wasn't able to answer the central question of how evolution began.
# '''Psychological,''' or how a mechanical brain can develop into an introspective mind, have [[free will]], appreciate [[art]] and beauty, etc.
|2=Aside from the fact that each argument is basically just the "[[God of the gaps]]" argument 4 times over, there's more to talk about.

# '''Cosmological.''' It seems like Pastore accepts the big bang theory for the beginning of the universe, but in case you're personally not convinced, [[Big Bang|there's a decent body of evidence supporting the fact that the big bang happened]].
# '''Biological.''' Scientists do have several explanations for how life began, [[Abiogenesis|some of which have evidence backing them]]. There have even been major advances into artificially creating life forms, something which will inform us a lot about how abiogenesis may have happened.<ref>[https://www.nature.com/news/minimal-cell-raises-stakes-in-race-to-harness-synthetic-life-1.19633 Callaway, Ewen. "‘Minimal’ cell raises stakes in race to harness synthetic life", ''Nature'']</ref> Of course, scientific knowledge and explanations for abiogenesis will improve and change with time as more evidence is brought to the table, but this is no excuse to dismiss all of that work in favor of the simplistic [[goddidit]] worldview.
# '''Anthropological.''' [[Evolution|Evolution clearly and thoroughly explains the broad variety of life that exists today]]. Evolution is not meant to explain how the process of evolution began, but rather it is meant to explain the biodiversity that exists today. This argument is basically akin to saying that [[chemistry]] is false because it doesn't explain why [[atoms]] exist. Regardless, we can assume that evolution will happen as long as we have life reproducing over a long timespan during which mutations occur.
# '''Psychological.''' There's a lot that scientists have yet to learn about the [[brain]], the human mind, and other things related to the human experience. However, just because we don't know a lot right now, that doesn't mean that we won't know in the future due to new findings. Again, not a great excuse for the [[goddidit]] explanation.

[[Potholer54]] made a short response in video format which gives the ''Psychological'' point more attention.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92r0-obve7s Welcome to PragerU -- Part 2 - potholer54]</ref> Youtuber TMM also made a response video, though shorter and snarkier.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwKwiySULfY 4 "New" Arguments for God's Existence - TMM]</ref> Paulogia did a longer and deep analysis of it.<ref>[Does God Exist? 4 New Arguments (‪@PragerU‬ response) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wENcmpsFgOc]</ref>}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjGPHF5A6Po Does Science Argue For or against God?]''''', conservative author {{wpl|Eric Metaxas}} argues for the [[Fine tuning]] argument based on the improbability of the [[abiogenesis|emerging of life in the universe]], where over 200 parameters of the universe must have been “perfectly met” for a planet to sustain life. Metaxas used the failure of {{wpl|Search for extraterrestrial intelligence}} promoted by [[Carl Sagan]] as evidence for the argument. This presentation is actually a video version of one ''[[WSJ]]'' article he wrote before.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Metaxas |first=Eric |date=2014-12-25 |title=Eric Metaxas: Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=http://online.wsj.com/articles/eric-metaxas-science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god-1419544568 |access-date=2023-12-12 |issn=0099-9660}}</ref>|2=There are many problems with the notion of [[fine tuning]] for life, such as whether the universal constants are even constants at all; or what are the universal parameters are exactly necessary for life. Moreover, the idea of a universe in which there is barely any life is evidence against Metaxas' argument. After all, [[problem of evil|why would the universe be specially finely tuned for life if the universe is almost inhospitable and very hostile to life?]] (see [https://www.strongatheism.net/library/atheology/argument_from_scale/ The Argument from Scale]). 

Astrophysicist [[Lawrence M. Krauss]] wrote a response to Metaxas in ''The New Yorker'', where he pointed out that "life is tuned to the universe rather than the other way around" and "if the cosmological constant were different, perhaps vastly different kinds of life might have arisen".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Krauss |first=Lawrence M. |date=2015-01-24 |title=No, Astrobiology Has Not Made the Case for God |language=en-US |work=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/astrobiology-made-case-god |access-date=2023-12-12 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> 

[[Multiverse]] theories can also explain the existence of a fine-tuned universe as well.

See also: 

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_fhdvuUFlI PragerFU: Does Science Argue For or Against God? - misterdeity]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIwKhX-1gZQ Welcome to PragerU -- the "university" that gets its science wrong - potholer54] 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlLdq1tRcOg The Universe Wasn't An Accident - Counter Arguments]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI6AOk9yqO0 Why Do People Laugh at Creationist (Part 48) - Thunderf00t]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG89B9vdq-M Debunking PragerU Fine Tuning argument for God - Everything is Temporary]}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymajOjVQPm4 What's a Greater Leap of Faith: God or the Multiverse?]''''', cosmologist {{wpl|Brian Keating}} argues against [[multiverse]] theories because there is no and can be no evidence for it despite being defended by physicists like {{wpl|Steven Weinberg}} and [[Stephen Hawking]]. Keating claims that if a multiverse theory was true then “that girlfriend who broke up with you, you’re married to…in another universe,” which is “a bit far-fetched”. To support his rejection, Keating also quotes {{wpl|Paul Davies}} and {{wpl|G. K. Chesterton}} saying “invoking an infinity of unseen universes... is just as made up as invoking an unseen creator”<ref>{{Cite news |last=Davies |first=Paul |date=2003-04-12 |title=Opinion {{!}} A Brief History of the Multiverse |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/a-brief-history-of-the-multiverse.html |access-date=2023-12-12 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and "who does not believe in God will believe in anything".<ref>https://www.chesterton.org/ceases-to-worship/</ref>


|2=[[Multiverse]] theory is a common response against the [[argument from fine tuning]] and that's the main reason PragerU argues against it. 

This video seems to suggest that physicists believe in a multiverse as [[42|"the answer to life, the Universe, and everything"]] to reject God instead of because it is a plausible consequence of [[Big Bang#Inflation|cosmic inflation]]. As the cosmologist {{wpl|Alan Guth}} said: "It's hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse [...] and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kramer |first=Miriam |date=2014-03-18 |title=Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests |url=https://www.space.com/25100-multiverse-cosmic-inflation-gravitational-waves.html |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=Space.com |language=en}}</ref> In other words, as [[Neil deGrasse Tyson]] put it more bluntly on ''The [[Joe Rogan]] Experience'': "We didn't pull that out of our ass. That came out of the equations".<ref>[https://ogjre.com/clip/neil-degrasse-tyson-on-the-webb-telescope-and-the-big-bang Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Webb Telescope and the Big Bang]</ref> Many physicists are skeptical of multiverses (like Steven Weinberg and Stephen Hawking, actually...) but admit to be a serious scientific possibility, and defenders of the multiverse have never claimed it to be anything more than that.

While it is true that the multiverse for now is purely theoretical, it is based on scientific theories that can pass the [[falsification]] criteria and give testable [[Prediction|predictions]], while supernatural entities, like God, aren't (see [[Scientific method]]). As Paul Davies claimed: "Although direct confirmation of other universes, or regions of our universe, may be infeasible or even impossible in principle, nevertheless the multiverse theory does make some observable predictions and can be tested".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Davies |first=P. C. W. |date=2004 |title=Multiverse cosmological models |url=https://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0403/0403047.pdf |journal=Modern Physics Letters A |volume=19 |issue=10 |pages= |doi=10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0403047 |issn=}}</ref> Other [[scientific theories]] and [[hypotheses]] that suggest the existence of multiverses are [[black hole]]s, [[string theory]], and the [[many worlds]] interpretation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Evil doppelgängers, alternate timelines and infinite possibilities: the physics of the multiverse explained |url=https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/the-multiverse |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=www.sciencefocus.com |language=en}}</ref> So, while belief in God is based on [[faith]] (as Keating admits), the multiverse is based on scientific data (at least we know a universe exists while we don't even know a God could exist).

Regarding the "ex-girlfriend argument", Keating just asserts that it follows from a multiverse but never proves it to be the case (and even if it were, this would be just an [[argument from incredulity]]).

See also:

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn70wDllW38 Prager U Says Atheists Have Faith in the Multiverse - Genetically Modified Skeptic] 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl2kmVtmyFE Why Do People Laugh at Creationist (Part 47) -TOO finely tuned! - Thunderf00t] 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZLOTqUJeYQ WOTM What's a Greater Leap of Faith: God or the Multiverse? Part 1 - misterdeity]
*[https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16414 PragerU to The Internet: Science Proves God, You Pinko Commies! - Richard Carrier]
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====Other religious junk====
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{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9EXnVitkmo Was Jesus a Socialist?]''''', [[Foundation for Economic Education|FEE]] president Lawrence Reed argues that Jesus was not a [[socialist]] (which he defines as [[Straw man|concentrating wealth and power into the government in order to do central planning and redistribution]]) and then argues that Jesus was actually a free-market capitalist. He pulls from a number of examples and stories from the Bible to justify his position.|2=It is irrelevant whether Jesus was a Socialist or a Capitalist, since Capitalism didn't exist back when he was alive and Socialism was not an established ideology as it is today,<ref>[https://www.ukessays.com/essays/economics/the-history-and-characteristics-of-capitalism-economics-essay.php "The History and Characteristics of Capitalism", ''UK Essays'']</ref><ref>[https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/socialism "Socialism", ''History'']</ref> but Prager is so concerned that someone might be a Socialist based on their charity that he dedicated an entire video on the topic. See also these videos: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJfN0YGJy0I Was Jesus a Socialist? A Hammered Response to PragerU - Suris], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96pR-qtqw8Q Was Jesus A Socialist? - "Rebuking" PragerU - Damon Garcia]}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwVpTYez82w Just Say Merry Christmas]''''', Prager lays out the case for the [[War on Christmas]]. He claim that [[Atheism as a religion|secularists]] are trying really hard to replace mentions of "Christmas" and "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Holidays" and other more 'inclusive' phrases. He says that despite secularists downplaying or outright denying that this is happening, these people secretly want to thoroughly secularize American society and they see the word "Christmas"<ref group=note>or as he refers to it at one point, "the C word"</ref> as a reminder of America's religious nature. He takes on the "inclusiveness argument" for saying "Happy Holidays" (basically the idea that saying "Merry Christmas" will exclude non-Christians), by pointing out that many Christmas songs were written by Jews, [[War_on_Christmas#.22They_ain.27t_makin.27_Jews_like_Jesus_anymore.E2.80.A6.22|which is true for once]] - his specific example being the song ''{{wpl|White Christmas (song)|White Christmas}}'' by {{wpl|Irving Berlin}}, a Jew.|2=[[Atheist|Secularists]] trying to replace "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Holidays" either don't exist or are incredibly stupid, because Christmas is already quite detached from its religious origins — Christmas nowadays is associated more with a commercialized [[Santa Claus]] (not a religious figure; just loosely based on a Christian Saint) than it is with Jesus, and Santa Claus has been a common Christmas figure for centuries (not a good look for our ''religious'' holiday). The phrase "Happy Holidays" has similarly been used for decades... including by that Jew mentioned earlier, Irving Berling, in the title of his 1942 song {{wpl|Happy Holiday (song)|''Happy Holiday''|.}} Part of why the inclusiveness argument fails is because of how divorced from religion the holiday has become with time, to the point at which it's not a clearly religious holiday and thus doesn't exclude people of non-Christian religious beliefs.<ref group=note>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnTuiy8Ke_Q This video] does a rather good job breaking down the video and analyzing who it appeals to.</ref>}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=covUnyZGVaQ Is There Life After This Life?]''''', Prager starts out by clearly stating that "If there is a God, there is an [[Afterlife]]." Within the next minute, Prager changes his requirements so that the God must also be good and just, and humans must also have [[soul|souls]]. Once all of this is laid out, Prager explains that a good and just God would have to compensate for the immeasurable level of injustice and suffering which people experience on Earth, and that the afterlife would be able to serve as that place of compensation. He then goes on a bit of a tangent about how being remembered by other people is not the same thing as being in the afterlife. He ends the video by talking about how his belief in an afterlife keeps himself sane, and how he doesn't know what happens in the afterlife.|2=The most blatant problem here is that Prager assumes premises which not everyone will agree on — that God exists, that God is good, and that humans have souls. Prager would have to convince someone that all three of these premises are true before he could sell them on his explanation for the afterlife.

There's another fatal flaw with Prager's logic in the video — throughout it, he assumes that the afterlife would be used to compensate for life's injustice and suffering, but at the end of the video, he says that he doesn't know what happens in the afterlife. This means that even he doesn't really know that people in the afterlife would be compensated for life's suffering, as he doesn't know what even happens there in the first place. This basically reduces Prager's ideas of compensation in the afterlife down to mere speculation, to a "this ''might'' happen in the afterlife but I don't know" situation.

Aside from that, the fact that believing in the afterlife keeps himself sane is itself a concern because a belief ''that'' closely held will end up overriding any logical reasoning Prager has about the belief — his belief in the afterlife is probably driven more by emotion than reason in this respect. This isn't even mentioning the [[Problem of evil|problems with a good God letting unnecessary, let alone an immeasurable amount of, evil exist]] in the first place.}}

===Science===

====Climate change denialism====
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|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZN2jt2cCU4 Can Climate Models Predict Climate Change?]''''', Prager basically says "No they can't".<!-- Who left this unfinished?! -->
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Thoroughly debunked by multiple sources:

* Debunking PragerU 2: "Can Climate Models Predict Climate Change?"<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6iLPQ16mXY Debunking PragerU 2: "Can Climate Models Predict Climate Change?"] PoliDice, YouTube, 19 June 2018.</ref>

* PragerU post by Happer uses flawed reasoning to claim that climate models always fail<ref>[https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/prageru-post-by-william-happer-uses-flawed-reasoning-to-claim-that-climate-models-always-fail/ PragerU post by Happer uses flawed reasoning to claim that climate models always fail]. climatefeedback.org, 27 January 2021.</ref>

* Climate Change Denial Videos<ref>[https://www.desmogblog.com/prageru#Climate%20Change%20Denial%20Videos%20by%20Author Climate Change Denial Videos], desmogblog.com.</ref>}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PWtaackIJU Climate Change: What's So Alarming?]''''', the super reliable [[Bjørn Lomborg]] ([[Bjørn Lomborg|who has had no problems with reliability or spreading false/misleading information about global warming at any time in the past]]){{nofact}} goes onto PragerU to say that [[global warming]] is real and is indeed happening, but it's not as bad as we're told. He says that:
* [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] sea ice is increasing at fast enough a rate to cancel out Arctic sea ice melting
* Sea levels are rising but two papers suggested that the rise isn't accelerating
* A study showed that droughts have slightly decreased with time
* [[Hurricane]]s aren't getting worse because, after adjusting for population and wealth, hurricane damage is decreasing
He then goes on to say that wind and solar won't have a big impact because they won't be widely used, and then suggests more research be done to reduce costs so that developing countries are more likely to use renewable energy.|2=[https://knowthesystem.org/reviews/r/003-01/ Dodginess betrays ulterior intent - Know The System]}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSrjAXK5pGw Do 97% of Climate Scientists Really Agree?]''''',|2=[https://knowthesystem.org/reviews/r/018-01/ Easy to measure, hard to model - Know The System], [https://features.weather.com/course-climate-misinformation/ A Course in Climate Misinformation - The Weather Channel]}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJWq1FeGpCw Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy]''''',|2=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScugV3GnB30 Fossil Fuels, Climate Change and Stupidity with PragerU - The Rational Channel]

Prager University hosts a video by {{wpl|Alex Epstein (American writer)|Alex Epstein}} of the Center for Industrial Progress<ref group=note>A for-profit anti-environmentalist think-tank that promotes "I Heart Fossil Fuels" T-Shirts!</ref> that strawmans climate change, calling it "catastrophic climate change", and has assumed people are taught to believe that "fossil fuels pollute the environment and make the climate unlivable".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJWq1FeGpCw Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy]. PragerU (YouTube). April 21, 2016.</ref> The latter statement appears to be an exaggeration of the claim of the negative impact of climate change on life. The video shows a graph apparently "never seen before" (and no source given) that shows a [[Correlation does not imply causation|correlation between fossil fuel use and access to clean water, as well as correlation between more fossil fuels and better sanitation]]. This is a spurious correlation where the video fails to account for any other external factors, including improved technology, that have led to more fossil fuel use and access to clean water and sanitation. Perhaps the technology that has improved access to clean water and sanitation requires fossil fuels, but fossil fuels in and of themselves are not directly associated with access to clean water. The video itself even admits that getting clean water requires energy and technology, and not necessarily fossil fuels, though the video insists that fossil fuels are the only source of energy and have either negligible side effects or none at all. The sanitation argument is debatable, considering fossil fuels have demonstrably led to [[acid rain]] and lung cancer.

Speaking of lung cancer, the video tries to show a graph<ref group=note>"Based on the [[Environmental Protection Agency]]", ''now'' there's a source.</ref> showing a negative correlation between fossil fuel use and air pollution, and this is from anti-pollution technology<ref group=note>Which they assert, even then, is unnecessary because fossil fuels make air cleaner somehow.</ref> that requires fossil fuels. The video overlooks, thanks to air pollution standards, air quality overall is higher, but CO<sub>2</sub> emissions are still on the rise. They cite indoor air pollution being a global problem back in the 19th century (and still a problem in the developed worlds) until kerosene made it a non-issue. Again, the video implies that fossil fuels are the only source of energy, instead of addressing how access to cleaner energy improved air quality rather than fossil fuels in and of themselves.

The video then tries to make a point between "climate change" and "[[Global warming#CAGW|catastrophic climate change]]", when these two "distinctions" are often made up by climate change deniers to make them seem more "moderate" and those who accept global warming as "paranoid". "Catastrophic climate change" is rarely, if ever, used in climate change research. Epstein accepts that while burning fossil fuels have some warming impact, the real issue is if the climate warming is "dangerously fast". This argument does nothing to address preventive measures to avoid dealing with issues that will become more serious, and it is also a simplification of the entire package of climate change, which includes longer and more intense droughts and more unpredictable weather. The video tries to refute a leading [[NASA]] scientist, James Hansen, and his prediction in the 90s that in the first decade of 2000, temperatures will rise 2 to 4 degrees. The video shows a graph in 2000 (with a source) that apparently contradicts that statement. They also draw a half-assed trend line to make viewers believe the trend is flat. Nevermind that the statement was done back in the 90s, and graphs of satellite measurements and global surface temperatures point to the same direction. They also bring up that people talk less about "global warming" and more about "climate change", without mentioning how "climate change" more accurately describes the events of unpredictable weather.

The video then uses a "key statistic" that's "unfortunately almost never mentioned": that "climate-related deaths" and a negative correlation between CO<sub>2</sub> emissions<ref group=note>Which they don't deny is rising and high.</ref> and climate-related deaths<ref group=note>Defined by deaths from storms, droughts and heat waves.</ref> is evidence that climate change is not dangerous. But even in the graph, at some point in 1970s, the decline starts slowing drastically. This is apparently because fossil fuels, and not access to energy, allow the developed world to protect its population from extreme weather and temperatures, but the developing world needs a chance to get some fossil fuels running. While the video may be correct that the developing world may not have the resources to transition to renewable sources, the developed world certainly does have them.
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{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwqIy8Ikv-c Climate Change: What Do Scientists Say?]''''', [[Richard Lindzen]] (totally not a problematic guy on this subject)<ref>[https://skepticalscience.com/skeptic_Richard_Lindzen.htm Lindzen getting the facts super right!]</ref> lays out 3 groups of people: the {{wpl|IPCC}} scientists (specifically IPCC working group 1), skeptic scientists (who dispute the existence of human-caused global warming), and the politicians/activists/media. He tries to describe and characterize the beliefs of the scientist groups and show where they agree, as well as show how the third group have abused their position for political or ideological gain.|2=A number of errors are made just at the outset. Around 20 seconds in, a graph is shown from 1997 to 2016 to show that the earth hasn't gone through recent warming, but that graph can be easily dismissed simply by including more years in the timespan<ref>[https://climatefeedback.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Fig.-4-Satellite-record.png PragerU graph overlayed with a graph covering more years]. A bit embarrassing for an expert to leave out...</ref> among other things.<ref group=note>In the video, the graph's apparent break-even line hovers around a ''warming level'' of 0.25° C rather than at a ''neutral'' 0° C level. This leads to PragerU's graph subtly exaggerating how much cooling has happened in that time period. On top of this, the dataset which the graph is based on [https://www.carbonbrief.org/major-correction-to-satellite-data-shows-140-faster-warming-since-1998 saw a major correction in 2017] (after the PragerU video was published, to be fair) which showed that global warming was increasing at a ''faster'' rate than was previously measured. Ouch!</ref> Lindzen also insinuates that "global warming" has been dropped in favor of "climate change," which is blatantly false.<ref>To list one of many examples, big names like [[Margaret Thatcher]] spoke to big organizations like the [[UN]] way back in 1989, [https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107817 her speech using "climate change" 12 times]. The {{wpl|IPCC}}, established in 1988, literally has "climate change" in the name. The use of "climate change" over "global warming" isn't some recent manufactured thing whatsoever.</ref>

From there, Lindzen misrepresents the beliefs of the groups of people who he lays out. This is done a lot of times, so covering it all here would take up a lot of space - those errors are covered in detail in several response videos.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30UblZdqXKY PragerU Lying About: Climate Change ("What Do Scientists Say?") - Madt], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i6CBQPbbeA PragerU Lies About Climate Change - TMM], and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsexwBh-1js Richard Lindzen (PragerU) Misrepresents Climate Change - All About Climate]</ref> The video actually generated enough ruckus to get reviewed by multiple relevant experts in the field, who all dismissed the video as heavily misleading and full of errors.<ref>https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/video-from-prageru-makes-several-incorrect-and-misleading-claims-about-climate-change-richard-lindzen/ "Video from PragerU Makes Several Incorrect and Misleading Claims About Climate Change", ''Climate Feedback''</ref>}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWEjSDYfxc The Truth About CO2]''''',|2=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF7qJ1K4VOk 'The TRUTH about carbon dioxide' BUSTED - Thunderf00t]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlQ6vohACI PragerU Attempts To Prove Fossil Fuels Are Green, Solar Energy-Directors Cut - Godless Engineer]}}

{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkdbSxyXftc What They Haven't Told You about Climate Change]''''',|2=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XIpTqbLR5Y Response to Patrick Moore's "What They Haven't Told You about Climate Change” - potholer54]}}

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|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Teja5YNCo Why You Should Love Fossil Fuel]''''', {{wpl|Alex Epstein (American writer)|Alex Epstein}} presents [[fossil fuels]] as a great thing which helped humanity progress technologically in the past. He argues that because of these past benefits from fossil fuels (because they were able to provide energy for society to work with), we should keep using them today.

|2=Epstein ignores a key fact, which is that just because a resource was helpful in the past, that doesn't mean that we have to continue using it even when there's better alternatives (and there's plenty of alternative sources of energy). He completely ignores [[Global warming|any problems which are related to fossil fuel usage]], instead presenting it as basically something we should love and never give up on - and because he ignores the problems with it, he doesn't have to engage with alternative energy sources which largely avoid those problems, like [[Nuclear energy|nuclear]] and [[Geothermal energy|geothermal]] energy among others.


In general, he gives an obvious whitewash of the impact of fossil fuels to ignore anything negative about them. He attributes basically all modern advances in technology to fossil fuels, while ignoring the impact which other energy sources have had within the past century. Ironically, he also ignores how several of the problems he says fossil fuels solved (like smoky skies for instance) were themselves caused by extensive fossil fuel usage early on, which people then had to figure out a fix for.}}

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|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeKAdOySB_E Stop Climate Change Alarmism]''''', PragerU repeatedly misrepresents science and uses deceptive arguments to criticize the Green New Deal.
|2=Many flaws in the video are analyzed by testudos101:{{quotebox|In this video, they use a lot of their tried-and-true deceptive strategies to spread climate change misinformation while also pointedly attacking some left-wing ideas, in particular the Green New Deal.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/badscience/comments/et00vi/pragerus_stop_climate_change_alarmism/ PragerU's "Stop Climate Change Alarmism"], Reddit, 23 January 2020.</ref>}}
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{{sbs
|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3Vo-XvFoI A Few Missing Polar Bears]''''', Greg Gutfeld argues Islamic terrorism is a greater threat than global warming, stating global warming is just a few missing polar bears.
|2=Climate change is more than just a few missing polar bears, and domestic terrorism is a greater threat than Islamic terrorism in America.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/08/post-911-domestic-terror Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11], Joanna Walters and Alvin Chang, ''The Guardian'' 8 September 2021</ref>
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====Evolution denialism====
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In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOIbcOoaxuY Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven],'''''
the highly academic and science-driven PragerU rejects the concept of [[evolution]]. The video is hosted by [[Stephen C. Meyer]] of the creationist [[Discovery Institute]], who is credited with changing Prager's mind on the subject of evolution.<ref>David Klinghoffer, [https://evolutionnews.org/2018/10/dennis-prager-on-evolution-stephen-meyer-turned-me-around/ Dennis Prager on Evolution: Stephen Meyer Turned Me Around]. evolutionnews.org, 19 October 2018.</ref>
|2=
A number of errors introduced throughout the video have been thoroughly addressed in response videos.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66gLcco37I More PragerU Creationist Nonsense - Professor Stick]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJWy_pQKZCg Prager U supports Intelligent Deception - AronRa]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHvLhjbfDaQ Prager UwU Hires Creationists. GETS DESTROYED | Ft. Nathanial Walters (Suris Response) - Suris]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNsh4a5IEjg Teaching PragerU About Biology - Jackson Wheat]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdKs2d34nVY Prager U Misrepresents and Misunderstands Evolution - ThetaUpsilon]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSh_C58Q20U PragerU Tried to Debunk Evolution - Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKNHopjjQ8 Another PhD Doesn't Understand Evolution! – A Response to PragerU - Majestic Masiakasaurus]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcZOzHMOXoQ&ab_channel=TMM PragerU Lies About Evolution-TMM]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akv0TZI985U Exposing Discovery Institute Part 2: Stephen Meyer]-[[Professor Dave]]</ref>}}

===History===

====Civil War====
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In '''''[https://youtu.be/pcy7qV-BGF4 Was the American Civil War about Slavery?]''''', Colonel Ty Seidule, a Professor of History (head of the department at the time) for the United States Military Academy at West Point answers with an unambiguous yes.
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Good job, no notes. A selected quote about why people stand against this: "Many people don't want to believe that the citizens of the southern states were willing to ''fight and die'' to preserve a ''morally repugnant institution''."
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====Robert E. Lee====
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On November 6, 2020, PragerU posted a video called '''''"Who Was [[Robert E. Lee]]?"''''' The video has since been deleted, though there have been re-uploads.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faF_AxQsKcw Who Was Robert E. Lee? (Reupload of deleted Pro-Slavery PragerU video) - Stuff]</ref> The video argued in favor of keeping up statues of Lee for the following reasons:
* He lived near [[George Washington]]
* He knew people from George Washington's bloodline
* His house is now the location of Arlington cemetery
* He led US Marines to crush a slave rebellion by "radical" abolitionist {{wpl|John Brown}}
* He said slavery was bad but that black people were better off as slaves in America than free in Africa
* He opposed secession but defended the secessionist [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] because his home state of Virginia chose to secede (PragerU defends this as a show of patriotism for his native state)
* He surrendered in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]
* He supported free blacks getting education but opposed their right to vote
* He died (good!)
|2=

This video argues against the removal of statues of Robert E. Lee.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9iFCdhG8vA PragerU Defends Robert E Lee]. TMM, YouTube, 1 March 2021.</ref> While this is a common position on the right, most right-wingers argue for it by downplaying Lee's racism and dubiously suggesting that removal would "erase our history." Not so for PragerU; they want to memorialize Robert E. Lee because:

* "Lee led U.S. MARINES to crush the ATTEMPTED SLAVE REBELLION by radical ABOLITIONIST JOHN BROWN."
* "Lee deemed SLAVERY 'a MORAL and POLITICAL EVIL in any country,' but considered it 'A GREATER EVIL to the WHITE MAN than to the BLACK RACE' since 'BLACKS ARE IMMEASURABLY BETTER OFF here than in AFRICA.'"
* "As PRESIDENT of Virginia's WASHINGTON COLLEGE, he favored EDUCATION for FREED SLAVES but OPPOSED their right to VOTE."

This video is remarkable for how openly and intentionally it leans into racism. PragerU could easily have truncated each of these statements to make Lee sound less racist than he was. For instance, they could have said that Lee "led US Marines to crush the attempted rebellion by radical John Brown," without specifying that it was a slave rebellion or that Brown was an abolitionist. Likewise, they could have stated that Lee considered slavery "a moral and political evil in any country" without adding that he thought it was more of an evil to white people, or that he favored education for freedmen without specifying that he didn't want them to vote. That PragerU instead emphasized Lee's racism while advocating to memorialize him suggests that PragerU considers that racism to be not a negative trait, nor even an understandable byproduct of Lee's upbringing, but a positive good.

The claim that he is notable because Arlington Cemetery is where he lived is ironic since it was intentionally chosen as the site for the cemetery by a Union officer as a middle finger directed straight at Lee.<ref>[https://geraldrfordfoundation.org/tom-tudor-arlington-and-the-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/#:~:text=Meigs%2C%20Quartermaster%20General%20of%20the,insult%20General%20Robert%20E.%20Lee Tom Tudor “Arlington and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier”], Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation</ref><ref>[https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30776/scandalous-history-arlington-national-cemetery The Scandalous History of Arlington National Cemetery], Mental Floss</ref> Lee had no choice in the matter, and it was deliberately done as an insult to him. Counting this as a positive in Lee's favor is pretty stupid.{{nofact}}

The claim that Black people were better off as slaves than free in Africa is common slavery apologia from this period in American history. Despite the fact that Lee surrendered the Civil War, the video glosses over Lee's actions as a major Confederate general during the war, and that he surrendered because he was about to be encircled by Union armies which would've utterly annihilated him and his men if he hadn't.
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====Genocide Denial====
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|1=In '''''[https://www.prageru.com/video/leo-and-layla-meet-christopher-columbus Leo and Layla meet Christopher Columbus,]''''' [[Christopher Columbus]] (voiced by someone at PragerU) says to Leo and Layla that all the things said about him (murderous, etc.) were allegations, and that there was another murderous tribe called the Carib, and calls them cannibals, and says [[slavery]] is as old as time and has been practiced across the world.
|2=The video claims that Columbus wasn't murderous, and tries to undermine and distort the [[genocide]] that happened when he demanded gold from the Taino when they didn't have any. And the video also promotes stereotyping as he calls the Carib tribe "cannibals", the stereotype has been used against [[Native American|Indigenous peoples of the Americas]] for centuries. While it is true that slavery has been around even before the discovery of the Americas, they use it as an excuse to justify the enslavement of indigenous people.
}}

===Politics===

====Capitalism/Socialism====
{{sbs|title=1|PragerU video|Rationalwiki response}}
{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ6KZd3LUTg Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sounds A Lot Like Karl Marx]''''', AOC talks about how Reaganism has used race to divide the working class so they couldn't exercise pressure upon the government to deal with various pressing issues.
* PragerU immediately compares her to communist dictators and lambasts her as a Marxist
* It also uses a video of a speech by Ronald Reagan at NAAC in which he condemns racism
|2= The use of race as a dividing factor goes beyond mere economics. Conservative politicians created the myth of the [[welfare queen]],<ref>{{cite web|work=The New Republic|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/154404/myth-welfare-queen|title=The myth of the Welfare Queen}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=The Nation|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/josh-levin-the-queen-book-review/|title=The Ugly Myth of the Welfare Queen}}</ref> which has been aimed at single black mothers. Likewise, an 18-year-old high schooler (Keith Jackson) was set up as part of a stunt by the DEA for George H. W. Bush's expansion of the War on Drugs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/12/06/george-hw-bushs-biggest-failure-war-drugs/|title=George H. W. Bush's biggest failure? The War on Drugs.}}</ref> Likewise, AOC's political views more closely align with social democracy rather than communism.<ref>{{cite web|work=Business Insider|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-explains-what-democratic-socialism-means-2019-3|title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains what democratic socialism means}}</ref>}}
{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdfru9NHGvE Capitalism vs Socialism]''''', PragerU explains that capitalism is about need while socialism is about greed.
* Capitalism is an economic democracy where consumers have power
* Uses the example of workers at Amazon package products based on "need"
* Socialism is a [[command economy]] which eventually runs out of basic goods like toilet paper
* [[Stopped clock|European countries are not socialist]], but instead [[Social democracy|use capitalism to create wealth to pay for welfare]]
|2= The comment about toilet paper didn't age well.<ref>{{cite web|work=College of Natural Resources News|url=https://cnr.ncsu.edu/news/2020/05/coronavirus-toilet-paper-shortage/|title=How the Coronavirus Created a Toilet Paper Shortage}}</ref> Consumers don't have that much influence,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/glossary/consumer-sovereignty/|title=Consumer Sovereignty|work=EconomicsHelp}}</ref> because the consumers don't have the time or inclination to weigh in every option. Also marketing seeks to manipulate consumers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://astute.co/using-marketing-psychology-to-influence-consumer-behavior/|title=Using marketing psychology to influence consumer behavior|work=Astute}}</ref> Amazon workers don't care about consumers, they only want to earn money to pay their bills<ref>{{cite web|work=Employment First Florida|url=https://www.employmentfirstfl.org/lesson-1-why-people-work/|title=Why People Work?}}</ref> and even conservatives acknowledge ([[Red-baiting|in their own way]]) how despotic is the modern workplace.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/modern-american-workplace-is-communist-dictatorship-must-admit-to-fix-2020-9|title=The modern American workplace is like a communist dictatorship|work=Business Insider}}</ref>}}
{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.prageru.com/video/immigrants-dont-support-what-you-fled Immigrants! Don't Support What You Fled]''''', PragerU takes aim at the Latino community and says that the reason why they immigrated to America was to escape "big government" and socialism, so they shouldn't vote for Democrats who allegedly support such measures.
|2= The biggest problem with this video is that it uses {{wpl|Guatemala}} as an example of a country that was "ruined" by socialism, which is laughable to anyone even remotely familiar to the history of Central America. In reality, at the time the video was made Guatemala has only had a government that could even remotely be considered left-wing for four years after the 1954 [[coup]] and was overwhelmingly dominated by right-wing parties.<ref>[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alejandro-giammattei-guatemala-elections_n_5d51b778e4b0c63bcbebb42a A Right-Winger Just Triumphed In Guatemala's Presidential Election], ''The Huffington Post''</ref> In reality, the economic problems in Guatemala are largely a result of the country's economic exploitation by the [[United Fruit Company]]<ref>[https://historyincharts.com/the-influence-of-the-united-fruit-company-in-guatemala/ The Influence of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala], ''History in Charts''</ref> as well as a [[CIA]]-backed coup that installed a [[genocide|genocidal]] military [[junta]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-48638209 How America overthrew Guatemala's reformist president], ''BBC''</ref> In fact, Guatemala is a better example of the failures of capitalism rather than socialism. Also, the host, {{wpl|Gloria Alvarez||,}} is a noted [[denialism|denier]] of the [[Guatemalan genocide]] committed under the military government,<ref>[https://archivo.confidencial.com.ni/articulo/20761/quot-la-republica-es-la-unica-cura-al-populismo-quot "La república es la única cura al populismo"], ''Confidencial''</ref> so as we can see PragerU is only picking the finest people to be representatives of an entire population.}}
{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6bSsaVL6gA Is Fascism Right Or Left?]''''', the 
exconvict
 right-wing author [[Dinesh D'Souza]] explains that the "father of fascism", {{wpl|Giovanni Gentile}}, was influenced by [[marxist]] socialism and thus [[fascism]] is a "left-wing" political ideology and [[Nazism#On_a_political_spectrum|"nazism" is "socialism" because it's in its name]] (See [[Etymological fallacy]]).|2= D'Souza is well known for his [[revisionist]] tactic of linking two different political ideologies (eg. [[shoehorning]] the [[Democrats]] with literally [[Hitler]]. See [[Godwin's Law]]) by ignoring historical context. In this case, D'Souza ignores that while Marx's and Gentile's philosophies were based on [[Hegel|hegelianism]], they both are total opposites. While the former held a "materialist" and "internationalist" view, the latter held an "idealist" and "nationalist" view. Similarly, Marx was influenced by [[Adam Smith]], the "father of [[capitalism]]", but it'd be stupid to say that "capitalism is socialism" (remember the [[Cold War]]?). Regarding Gentile, he expressed along with [[Mussolini]] in ''{{wpl|The Doctrine of Fascism}}'' that fascism is the "negation of the doctrine underlying so-called scientific and Marxian socialism". Needless to say during Mussolini's fascist regime socialists and communists were repressed ({{wpl|Antonio Gramsci}} is one famous example). This also happened in other fascist regimes like [[Nazi Germany]] or [[Francisco Franco|Francoist Spain]]. As put by ''The American Conservative'': {{cquote| “Do the modern Left and Gentile agree on the purpose and functions of the state?” “Would Gentile and Mussolini, who glorified Roman manliness, have rallied to the present Left in its support of feminism and gay marriage?” Did Gentile back in the 1920s favor the kind of “the stuff’ the administrative state is pushing right now?” The answer to all these questions, which of course wouldn’t be acceptable at Prager University, is an emphatic “no.”<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gottfried |first=Paul |date=2017-12-27 |title=Right-wing Celebrities Play Fast and Loose With History |url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/right-wing-celebrities-play-fast-and-loose-with-history/ |access-date=2024-08-01 |website=The American Conservative}}</ref>}}

One [[Alternative facts|alternatively]] [[escape hatch]] to link socialism with fascism is to define socialism as "when [[The powers that be|the gummint]] does stuff." Which, yeah, would link them... but so would with every form of government that has ever existed in history!


*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Nb3wbpljo&t RE to Prager U :Is Fascism left or Right?]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxv5q6JGNhw REEEEEply to Prager U: is fascism left or right?]}}

====Immigration====
{{sbs|title=1|PragerU video|Rationalwiki response}}
{{sbs
|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYvKcAh1zdo A Nation of Immigrants,]''''' [[Michelle Malkin]] criticizes immigration policies that "threaten to destroy the American Dream."
|2=Responses:
* Debunking a PragerU Video About U.S. Immigration<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEomO2OsAc Debunking a PragerU Video About U.S. Immigration]. Mr. Beat, YouTube, 4 December 2020.</ref>
}}

====Environmental issues====
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{{sbs|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Lo0ieyQtQ&t=0s The War on Cars]''''', PragerU takes issue with public transit policies and [[car]] regulations. In a nutshell, it is argued that:
# Cars are part of "American culture" and provide "freedom".
# Environmentalist governments hate cars (and freedom).
# [[Automobile#Fuel_economy|Fuel economy]] should only be left up to the [[free market]].
# Public urban transit planning is bad and cars bring people closer together. 
|2= This [[appeal to tradition]] is what is rejected as "harmful" by environmentalists. While cars allow us to move freely so do many other means of transport like bikes, however, car infrastructure produces atomized communities in suburban areas because it makes people more dependent on cars, and thus forced to travel only with automobiles. The idea that a road or a parking lot brings people closer together than a public park or a town square is ludicrous (except only in a traffic jam). There's more government control to drive cars in the first place (like requiring a test and a driver's license with your personal information) and also the US's fuel sector is heavily subsidized. European countries that have tended to pedestrianization of public spaces have seen positive effects on the local economy and urban quality of life. See: {{wpl|Global Liveability Ranking}}
*See: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z8Tb7OA_F4 The "War on Cars" feat. PragerU] by Adam Something}}

====Gender issues====
You'll hear ol' Dennis gloat that "[[gender binary|there are only two genders]]", despite scientific consensus, next!

{{sbs|title=1|PragerU Video|RationalWiki response}}
{{sbs
|1=In '''''[https://www.prageru.com/video/make-men-masculine-again/ Make Men Masculine Again,]''''' host Allie Stuckey says that "demonizing masculinity is not the solution, but the problem."
|2=The video claims that [[Rape|rape]], [[Murder|murder]], and [[War|war]] are all caused by [[Toxic masculinity|insufficient manliness]] in society.
}}
{{sbs
|1=In '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcDrE5YvqTs&ab_channel=PragerU There Is No Gender Wage Gap,]''''' host [[Christina Hoff Sommers]] says [[Irony|there IS a wage gap]]... but that's ok because that's 
women's fault
 [[Cognitive differences between sexes|"differences in individual career choices that men and women make"]].

|2=
Youtuber [[Shaun]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM7BgrddY18 How PragerU Lies to You]</ref> pointed out this video contradicts with another Sommers' PragerU video, '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4&ab_channel=PragerU War on Boys,]''''' where she claims [[Men's rights movement|boys are getting lower grades than girls generally]] and this is a problem because "male underachievement is everyone's concern" for achieving a successful society. [[hypocrisy|So, while women problems are product of individual choices, men problems are society problems and we need to do something about it]]...
See also: 
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6X5yv1hfGQ&ab_channel=EdgierThanThou John Oliver, PragerU, and the Wage Gap - Edgier Than Thou]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y0mEZLDqac&ab_channel=Xanderhal PragerU's Most Dangerous Video (War On Boys) - Xanderhal]
}}

==PragerU in real schools==

One of PragerU's objectives is for them to be included in school curriculums in the US. On their website, they host a petition that states:

{{quotebox|
Students are failing. Test scores and grades continue to plummet nationwide. Why? America’s K-12 education system is often more concerned with pushing radical activism on students rather than teaching what needs to be taught. Facts, knowledge, and achievement are no longer a focus. No wonder our students are falling behind. Sign the petition to get PragerU in schools!<ref>[https://www.prageru.com/prageru-in-schools-petition Tell America You Want PragerU in Schools!] accessed July 27, 2023 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20230727135331/https://www.prageru.com/prageru-in-schools-petition archive]), ''PragerU''</ref>
}}

In July 2023, they were included in [[Florida]] schools' curricula, which under [[DeSantis]] had already become very conservative.<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wing-prageru-says-florida-is-first-state-to-permit-its-curriculum-in-schools PragerU Says Florida Teachers Approved to Use Its Class ‘Curriculum’] July 24, 2023, Josh Fiallo, ''The Daily Beast''</ref> A [[Media Matters]] review of these videos highlighted some of the [[indoctrination]] included in the videos. Among them was a video which nonsensically compared those engaged in [[climate change denialism]] with those who engaged in the {{wpl|Warsaw Uprising||;}} a video which spouted pro-cop, anti-[[Black Lives Matter]] propaganda; a [[racist]], apologist video regarding [[Britain]]'s colonial rule of [[India]], which framed India as a backwards colony that benefited from the British rule due to them spreading "the influence of [[Christianity]] and Western values through India" and discouraging or even outlawing "harmful traditions"; an apologist video for America's mediocre health care system that spouts tired conservative [[propaganda]] about the dangers of socialized medicine; whitewashed [[whataboutism]] viewpoints on [[slavery]] in America and apologist stances on [[Christopher Columbus]]; and an apologist video for [[gender]] roles, in which the video encourages conformity in order to "create a well-balanced family and community".<ref>[https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/lessons-florida-public-school-students-will-learn-prageru-kids "The lessons Florida public school students will learn from PragerU Kids"] by John Knefel, Media Matters, 2023 July 27</ref>

Even ignoring the indoctrination, PragerU is a fucking useless educational tool due to ineptly structured lessons and terrible learning objectives. As an example of how bad the learning objectives are, a lot of them include "appreciate", a word that Bloom's Taxonomy explicitly advises against because it isn't quantifiable. Its lessons - contrary to its ''own stated goals'' - are unengaging because they largely consist of watching videos; educationally unsound because they rarely, if ever, meaningfully achieve their learning objectives; and difficult for teachers to implement due to missing steps.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAiPYaogCw How PragerU Hurts Students (and Teachers)], Zoe Bee</ref> This means that classes across Florida, especially ones with neurodivergent students, are going to become rowdy due to boredom and a lack of anything of substance being learned.

=="But muh freezepeach!"==
[[File:PragerUCensored.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Quote mining]] and ominous music are not valid arguments]]
{{cquote|Watch any one of our videos and you’ll immediately realize that Google/YouTube censorship is entirely ideologically driven.|||Dennis Prager<ref name="prageru1">Harper Neidig, [http://thehill.com/policy/technology/356966-prageru-sues-google-youtube-for-censoring-conservative-videos PragerU sues Google, YouTube for 'censoring' conservative videos.] thehill.com, 24 October 2017.</ref>}}

Prager's organization has made hilariously bad arguments regarding freedom of speech to further their conservative [[Persecution complex|persecution complex]].<ref>[https://www.prageru.com/playlist/does-free-speech-offend-you/ A dumb podcast of theirs, which can be summed up as "offensive=true"]</ref> It has also displayed hilariously bad takes on the law regarding speech, such as suing in order to try to prevent [[YouTube]] from removing their videos for violating the terms of service.<ref>[https://slate.com/technology/2020/02/prageru-first-amendment-youtube.html Mark Joseph Stein, "Another Court Throws Out PragerU’s Preposterous YouTube Lawsuit", from Slate]</ref>

In 2017, PragerU sued [[Google]] claiming that [[YouTube]] censored their videos for political reasons.<ref name="prageru1" /> The lawsuit was accompanied by a petition and much whining, but was summarily dismissed several months later. The presiding judge stated that not only did PragerU fail to demonstrate that YouTube's age restrictions imposed on their videos are a [[First Amendment]] violation, but also that Google is not subject to the First Amendment because it's a private company and not a public institution.<ref>Harper Neidig, [http://thehill.com/policy/technology/380455-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-alleging-google-censorship-of-conservative-youtube Judge dismisses lawsuit alleging Google censorship of conservative YouTube videos.] thehill.com, 27 March 2018.</ref> And, of course, as mentioned above, PragerU videos have been actively advertised on YouTube for a considerable period of time. Companies that let you advertise on their platforms probably aren't trying to censor you.{{nofact}}

To claim that Google is censoring PragerU because YouTube set some of their videos to restricted mode (to make sure children are unable to watch them) is ludicrous.<ref>[https://medium.com/@HuxleyC/prageru-is-not-being-censored-by-google-youtube-a700e0c159a9 PragerU is NOT being censored by Google/YouTube]</ref> According to [[YouTube]]’s policies on Restricted Mode —
{{Quotebox| Videos containing potentially mature content will not be shown to viewers who have Restricted Mode turned on...<br/>
Violence: Graphic descriptions of violence, violent acts, natural disasters and tragedies, or even violence in the news...<br/>
Mature subjects: Videos that cover specific details about events related to terrorism, war, crime, and political conflicts that resulted in death or serious injury, even if no graphic imagery is shown...<br/>
Profane and mature language: Inappropriate language, including profanity. Incendiary and demeaning content: Video content that is gratuitously incendiary, inflammatory, or demeaning towards an individual or group...<br/>}}
The videos set to restricted mode cover at least one or more of these instances. Furthermore, the videos are not removed from YouTube, or unobtainable through a [[Google]] search or through one’s feed.

In 2018, PragerU criticized YouTube for adding fact-checks to YouTube videos which cover [[climate change]], since it relies on the viewer’s [[ignorance]] of [[science]] and [[scientific consensus]] to enforce its viewpoint.<ref>[https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/youtube-climate-change-denial PragerU criticized YouTube for adding fact-checks to YouTube videos which cover climate change], [[Buzzfeed]]</ref>

==Anti-Leftism==
A major hallmark of the ideology of PragerU is their extreme anti-left stance (perhaps their biggest scapegoat for their ideology, like Jews for Nazis and Ukrainians for Soviets/Russians). Prior to this, they also held an anti-liberal stance (such as videos with Greg Gutfeld bashing liberals and mixing them with leftists). They later changed their stance with a video titled “Left or Liberal”, hosted by Dennis Prager.<ref>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tlIjMJBSnRE Left or Liberal? PragerU] YouTube</ref> From then on, they have attempted to paint leftists as the world's enemy (yes, the entire global left, disregarding various factions that oppose one another). The biggest video they made that was bigoted against leftists was “Why The Left Ruins Everything”, which was later retitled as “Why are so many Good Things being Destroyed?”<ref>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JXbR3oADwaM Why Are So Many Good Things Being Destroyed? | 5 Minute Video] YouTube</ref>

==In a nutshell==
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==See also==
*[[Dennis Prager]] - The founder

==External links==
*[https://www.desmog.com/prageru/ PragerU] article on DeSmog
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODe3HSMkHKM PragerU Is Conservative Junk Food] by José on [[Youtube]]
*[[Shaun]] on [[Youtube]]
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM7BgrddY18 How PragerU Lies to You]
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HurC8aTsVCE How PragerU Lies to You - The British Empire]
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T45Sbkndjc How PragerU Lies to You: Charlottesville]
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L30_hfuZoQ8 The Death Penalty feat. PragerU]
*Big Joel on [[Youtube]]
**[https://youtu.be/zLDFqPb9oQs PragerU and Marriage: A Conservative Fever Dream]
**[https://youtu.be/EmoawVscVcE PragerU and Justice: A Conservative Nightmare]
**[https://youtu.be/AsZy_SXfTS0 PragerU and Tradition: The Conservative Utopia]
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKJU0K_ebfU PragerU for Kids: The Worst Propaganda]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ovUbSZcXQ FragerU- The Left VS The Right] by [[DarkMatter2525]]
*[https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/prageru/ SPLC profile]
==Notes==
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==References==
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