"On Twitter and Reddit, dozens of students are saying that their teachers are assigning the right-wing content, especially in required history, government, and economics classes. What was reported as a single instance of the videos being assigned as extra credit in an Ohio public-school district last October only scratched the surface of a much bigger phenomenon. According to the students I spoke to, PragerUβs content has been in public schools for years."
https://prospect.org/education/right-curriculum-how-prageru-infiltrates-schools/
https://prospect.org/education/right-curriculum-how-prageru-infiltrates-schools/
The American Prospect
The Right Curriculum? How PragerU Infiltrates Schools.
The right-wing nonprofit, known for viral videos like βThe Left Ruins Everything,β launched a program specifically designed for teachers last fall. But according to students, its content has been in public schools for years.
"The free marketeers who oppose the Green New Deal would recognise this critique. They frequently complain about moral hazard and loose monetary policy, blaming the over-activity of the state for the emergence of βcrony capitalismβ. These arguments are generally pitted against those of social democrats, who respond that state intervention is necessary to mitigate the ups and downs of the business cycle. Both arguments have some merit. Excessive state intervention has distorted the operation of free market capitalism, transforming it into a financialised, monopolistic variant. However, without the interventions that have given rise to such a situation, the global economy would likely have collapsed with far-reaching political implications.
The apparent contradiction between these two arguments is, however, only superficial. Proponents of both perspectives rely upon the liberal notion that the political and the economic are somehow separate β that free markets exist as a self-regulating sphere, subject to greater or lesser levels of intervention from a central state."
https://progressive.international/blueprint/3490d76e-4864-446a-b941-c93446f3b227-grace-blakeley-the-future-will-be-planned/en
The apparent contradiction between these two arguments is, however, only superficial. Proponents of both perspectives rely upon the liberal notion that the political and the economic are somehow separate β that free markets exist as a self-regulating sphere, subject to greater or lesser levels of intervention from a central state."
https://progressive.international/blueprint/3490d76e-4864-446a-b941-c93446f3b227-grace-blakeley-the-future-will-be-planned/en
Progressive International
Grace Blakeley: The Future Will Be Planned
Our choice is not βto plan or not to plan?β but βin whose interests?β
"In her brilliant book on the Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson describes a riot that broke out in Chicago, in 1951, when a Black family attempted to move into a white apartment building. After being driven from the apartment, white people destroyed everything the family owned, and over the course of the next day, the crowd grew to over 4,000, eventually burning down the entire building. White people would rather burn a building than see Black people live there."
https://www.inheritancemag.com/stories/why-i-stopped-talking-about-racial-reconciliation-and-started-talking-about-white-supremacy
https://www.inheritancemag.com/stories/why-i-stopped-talking-about-racial-reconciliation-and-started-talking-about-white-supremacy
Inheritancemag
Why I Stopped Talking About Racial Reconciliation and Started Talking About White Supremacy | Inheritance
Recently, people have asked me, βWhy isnβt talking about white privilege enough, why white supremacy?β There is an obvious discomfort with the term by white people. The one exception to that is when things like Charlottesville happen.
" By 1951, the economist Erich Zimmermann noted that Britain had come closer than anywhere else on earth to presiding over the extinction of its own agriculture. This long history explains why Britain has fewer regional food varieties than its European neighbours. In 2005, Italy had 149 foods with protected geographical indication status, France 143, and Britain had only 29. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Britons ate beef from Argentina, butter from New Zealand, sugar from the West Indies, and bread from Ohio, but they did so with forks made in Sheffield, on plates made in Stoke-on-Trent, and in houses heated by burning coal from Northumberland.
According to Otter, if we want to understand the origins of our present system for growing and distributing food, we need to look at Britain rather than America, and to the nineteenth rather than the twentieth century. The extraordinary interconnected global system for growing, standardising, moving, and storing food developed by Britain differ only in degree rather than in kind from the food networks that structure our lives today."
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/how-the-british-empire-built-the-food-system-that-is-destroying-the-planet
According to Otter, if we want to understand the origins of our present system for growing and distributing food, we need to look at Britain rather than America, and to the nineteenth rather than the twentieth century. The extraordinary interconnected global system for growing, standardising, moving, and storing food developed by Britain differ only in degree rather than in kind from the food networks that structure our lives today."
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/04/how-the-british-empire-built-the-food-system-that-is-destroying-the-planet
TRIBUNE
How the British Empire Built the Food System that Is Destroying the Planet
The British Empire created the first global capitalist market for food, thereby transforming huge swathes of the world β and leaving behind a legacy of environmental destruction that haunts a rapidly warming planet.