"A few years ago, PragerU tried to push back on Twitter (now X) against arguments by young Americans about racism. In general, getting involved in social media battles is a bad idea. To use an AD&D analogy, these fights are like punching green slime: the more you attack, the more you hurt yourself. And you end up covered in slime. It is usually best to avoid rather than engage."
"In the case of PragerU, they fired off what they presumed would be a sick burn of the youth: "Young people are enamored with 'anti-racist' rhetoric because they think they are fighting racist systems in America. The TRUTH is they are fighting America itself and the very values the country was founded on." Ironically, PragerU could have used some schooling in clear writing."
"Their intended meaning, given the ideology evident in their videos, is that the youth think they are fighting racism, but they are wrong about this. Instead, they are fighting America and its founding values. Which are supposedly not racist. However, the tweet as written states that the youth think they are fighting racist systems in America, but they do not realize that the racist systems are America itself and its founding values."
PragerU engaged young Americans on Twitter about racism and provoked backlash. Social-media battles inflict self-harm: like punching green slime, attacks rebound and leave participants worse off. A PragerU tweet intended as a rebuke contained ambiguous wording that, read literally, suggested America and its founding values are racist. The organization often minimizes historical racism while insisting such past wrongs have no meaningful present consequences. PragerU and allies defend Civil War statues as preservation of history, but a statue is an artifact, not the full record of history. The absence of statues for figures like Bin Laden shows historical significance alone does not justify public honor.
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