August 11, 2023

If you’re not already familiar with the odious Dennis Prager or his PragerU, which is not a real university, The Guardian takes a good look at the kind of material Ron DeSantis’ Florida wants to use to teach the young. For example:

PragerU Kids’ cartoon videos for children as young as kindergarten age not only soft-pedal the history of slavery, racism, colonialism and police brutality – they show sympathy for them. In one video, Leo and Layla Meet Christopher Columbus, Columbus tells young Leo and Layla: “Slavery is as old as time and has taken place in every corner of the world … Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no?”

But that pales compared to the video Ron Filipkowski recently tweeted.

In the video, Prager tells a host that he doesn't consider animated child pornography evil because "I would use "evil" only with behavior.” He added, "Forgetting the sex issue, you can’t be evil – you didn’t do evil if you thought evil.” Unless you think progressive or “woke” thoughts, I’m sure. But I digress.

“If I’m masturbating to animated pictures of pornography, I'm not doing something evil?” the host asked.

“That's correct,” Prager said. He didn’t even say he thought there was anything wrong with child pornography. When the host responded by saying the found Prager’s view “despicable,” Prager sounded shocked. “Really?” he said.

"Yes, of course," the host replied.

Apparently, a pedophiliac is A-OK at PragerU, so long as you’re a conservative. Good to know.

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