Florida’s Department of Education just approved a new, supplemental conservative curriculum and its instructional materials that could be start being utilized in classrooms in the near future as the statewide education shakeup continues.
That curriculum was created by the Prager University Foundation, an unaccredited organization that creates short, educational videos on topics like history, civics, philosophy, economics, and a number of social issues.
The foundation has created and posted videos titled “How To Be a Rational Patriot,” “How To Be a Victor & Not a Victim,” as well as “How To Embrace Your Masculinity,” and “How To Embrace Your Femininity.”
One video that’s making the rounds online shows a cartoon depiction of Frederick Douglass talking about the 13 Colonies and slavery.
“I’m certainly not OK with slavery,” Douglass says in the video. “But the founding fathers made a compromise to achieve something great — the making of the United States. It was America that began the conversation to end it.”
People on social media aren’t taking this video well.
“Frederick Douglass being used as the vector for a whitewash of the Founding Fathers’ deep commitment to the Slave Power is gross,” someone commented on X.
“So basically rewrite history and make it seem like our black leaders were fine with slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation?” another person wrote on Instagram.
“Total whitewashing of history,” another Instagram user said of the video.
PragerU has also produced videos titled “Climate activists are like Nazis,” Wind…
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