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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Biden, Adams, and all these pro-illegal-immigrant politicians are stealing these kids futures, and it just isn't fair to the kids.

More than any policy that accommodates poor people trying to build a better life for themselves, Florida, New Hampshire, and any other state allowing PragerU videos to be used in classrooms are doing more to steal the future of children. You can't have a prosperous future if you can't determine truth from fiction. Just ask any poor conservative why they're poor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is there something PragerU is saying that’s false? If so, what?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This video is walk through a case where PragerU uses dishonest argumentation to makes it points. 100% of the videos on climate change or energy are based on lies, which is easily inferred by the fact that the continue to support using fossil fuels and expanding their production.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Does “dishonest argumentation” involve making false statements?

I’m going to guess no, because if they were lying the article would be about then lying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

100% of the videos on climate change or energy are based on lies, which is easily inferred by the fact that the continue to support using fossil fuels and expanding their production.

That, and Prager"U" is funded by the oil lobby.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which lies are they based on? Are they lies that can be actually written here, as evidence this isn’t all just being made up?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ugh. I upvoted you because you provided something more specific than anyone else. But you still made zero effort to actually point me at an answer. So I did it myself.

In that video, Mr Beat only makes two claims about PragerU's Michell making false claims.

##1: He chastises her for trying to pack the 500,000 number she mentions for Diversity Visa Lottery into the 1,000,000 per year number.

In Beats's video, there is a clip of her saying:

In that same timeframe, nearly half a million more people came to America through the Diversity Visa Lottery". The next clip is him saying:

There you go again. No, you don't get to count those immigrants quadrice

But she wasn't trying to count them twice. She wasn't even talking about the 1,000,000 per year number at all. That was from a different part of her video.

What she actually says, in the context of the video he's trying to debunk, is this:

From 2008 to 2017, the U.S. gave green cards to well over a million people for humanitarian reasons, allowing them to live and work here permanently. After five years, they can apply for full citizenship. We're not done yet. In that same time frame, nearly half a million more people came to American through the Diversity Visa Lottery

Back in Beats's video, he says:

Oh and plus, the numbers he gives is actually for ten years

With his tone he implies that she gave some time frame other than 10 years.

##2: He claims she gave false info about the requirements to qualify for the Divesity Visa Lottery.

This one is straightforward. He quotes he as saying:

Diversity visa applications don't need a high school education, job skills, or pretty much anything.

He responds:

Yeah that's bull crap. Diversity visa applicants absolutely do need to have at least a high school education OR at least two years of work experience in a job that requires at least two years of training or experience.

I checked this one and Mr Beats is right. The Diversity Visa program requirements include either having graduated high school, or two years working in a job with SVP score at least 7.

For example, a city bus driver job has SVP of 4-6, and a commercial airlilne pilot has an SVP rating of 6-7. So basically, a commercial airline pilot might not qualify for the Diversity Visa program.

So yes people this is how you get things done. This is a specific false claim made by PragerU:

Diversity visa applicants don't need a high school education, job skills, or pretty much anything.

FALSE

Next time would you mind doing a little of the legwork for me please? I can't do everything around here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Next time would you mind doing a little of the legwork for me please? I can’t do everything around here.

Normally I would, but Prager"u" is notorious for their lies and deceptive language (in other words, propaganda).

So putting any significant effort into debunking what is obviously wrong and widely disputed is a waste of my time, at least personally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Newsguard gives them a pretty low score for their shenanigans, too:

[–] OnlyTakesLs 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's relevant and concerns the same issue, the future of children.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It’s not relevant since we’re discussing NY policy right now.