• Endorkend@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    They've been doing that for a long time.

    PragerU has been infecting education since its inception and is now having its propaganda adopted by right wingers as official course material in genuine schools.

    Trump University was disbanded in 2010.

    Brigham Young has been around well over a century, started by an outspoken racist shitbag and still having extreme right wing and racist policies and views today.

    They know full well that controlling and infecting education is the only way to breed sufficient amounts of people dumb and prejudiced enough to vote for their side.

    It's why cutting public education has been a number 1 target for the right wing since forever.

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      BYU, no matter it's history, is at least accredited and has a decent academic reputation. You can get your degree from there and it means something. You might not want to go there if you're not Mormon (or are a Mormon who doesnt "look" like one), but it's not like you are setting your career back if you do.

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      1 year ago

      For a while I kept getting Liberty U ads on my LinkedIn feed even though I kept reporting them.

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      Yes - it’s important to remember that these guys don’t want public anything .

      They sometimes hide it behind economics, but it’s ideological.