The Gravel Institute - The Leftist Alternative to PragerU

[Joel3102]

The Gravel Institute have just launched a new project, see video below:

It has gotten about 30k subscribers in one day, and their mission is to create a well funded outreach program of videos in the style of PragerU videos, which are insanely popular, well funded and influential. They have also launched a Patreon to allow for funding which will go toward advertising etc. Thought I would just spread the message here.

 

[Preety_India]

Thanks 

[Willie]

Ok, so let’s say PragerU and it’s videos are bad/wrong/devilry. Now this leftist organization comes along to oppose it. Great! Now there’s more of a balance of information. 
 

I have one problem with it, though. You’re using the same framework (which can be labeled as propaganda) with opposing content. How much better and higher quality could it really be?

[Thewritersunion]

I will estimate when they reach 1 million to 100 thousand subscribers PragerU will try to destroy them.

[Yog]

Fight lies with lies .... great, just what we need.

[Rilles]

we already have BreadTube...  

[Thewritersunion]

They’re actually pretty good

[Forestluv]

  On 9/29/2020 at 2:45 PM, Willie said:

I have one problem with it, though. You’re using the same framework (which can be labeled as propaganda) with opposing content. How much better and higher quality could it really be?

The structure isn't bullshit, the content within the structure is bullshit. The left could use the PragerU structure to produce quality educational content that are easily comprehended by normies. 

[Dryas]

I mean, they do cite their sources.

[Preety_India]

This is such a popular video from them 

 

[Yog]

They lost me at the point where they said "beat them at their own game" and "presenting leftist ideas and refuting right wing lies".

I mean... they verbally stated their bias and the unwillingness to find consensus.
 

[Gidiot]

@Yog yea it’s biased but it’s a self aware bias

[Leo Gura]

It's not like PragerU invented some new type of video. Short education videos have been all the rage on YT for years. For example, Vox has many great, short, snappy, educational political videos with a left-wing progressive POV.

Like so:

Such videos, when done well and without a hidden religious or ideological motive (like PragerU) are very good and important for educating the public.

See, Vox and PragerU are not just opposite sides of the same coin. Vox is more truthful, more conscious, more selfless, more compassionate. Blue vs Green.

It's not simply a matter of "bias". It's a matter of intellectual honesty, truthfulness, and accuracy. Vox has an obvious left-wing bias, but they are much more truthful and accurate than PragerU -- which pumps out horseshit ideology using "experts" like Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and Dave Rubin. PragerU's "experts" are ideological hacks and grifters, not serious academics, intellectuals, scientists, or historians.

Robert Reich has been doing Gravel Institute -like videos for a while now:

 

The big difference is that PragerU videos are funded by huge billionaire money. It's pure astroturfing. They run ads like crazy to get their high views. The left-wing does not have that so much. Progressive videos are more organic because there's not a lot of money to be made from propagandizing tens of millions of people into progressive policies.

[Joel3102]

  On 9/30/2020 at 6:23 AM, Leo Gura said:

It's not like PragerU invented some new type of video. Short education videos have been all the rage on YT for years. For example, Vox has many great, short, snappy, educational political videos with a left-wing progressive POV.

Like so:

Such videos, when done well and without a hidden religious or ideological motive (like PragerU) are very good and important for educating the public.

See, Vox and PragerU are not just opposite sides of the same coin. Vox is more truthful, more conscious, more selfless, more compassionate. Blue vs Green.

It's not simply a matter of "bias". It's a matter of intellectual honesty, truthfulness, and accuracy. Vox has an obvious left-wing bias, but they are much more truthful and accurate than PragerU -- which pumps out horseshit ideology using "experts" like Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and Dave Rubin. PragerU's "experts" are ideological hacks and grifters, not serious academics, intellectuals, scientists, or historians.

Robert Reich has been doing Gravel Institute -like videos for a while now:

 

The big difference is that PragerU videos are funded by huge billionaire money. It's pure astroturfing. They run ads like crazy to get their high views. The left-wing does not have that so much. Progressive videos are more organic because there's not a lot of money to be made from propagandizing tens of millions of people into progressive policies.

The amount of views Prager, Tim Pool, Croweder, Shapiro etc get compared to lefty channels is insane

[Leo Gura]

  On 9/30/2020 at 9:37 AM, Joel3102 said:

The amount of views Prager, Tim Pool, Croweder, Shapiro etc get compared to lefty channels is insane

Astroturf, bro.

Don't believe that shit is organic.

[Yog]

@Husseinisdoingfine

I agree! But sadly enough the left rarely knows how to meme.

[AtheisticNonduality]

TJ Kirk brought this up.