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I think that these new 501c educational non-profits which obviously promote a corporate agenda are one of the most dangerous threats to rational discourse in ou

• acidburnNSA 9y ago
  I was hoping it would prompt a good discussion. By putting it up and talking about it here, what is the nature of the threat you're worried about? Isn't it worse to not talk about these kinds of things at all?
  • timthelion 9y ago
    The threat is that companies can create fake "educational non-profits" and lie to people and even get their lies into classrooms, presented in the pseudo-objective light of educational material. I do not know which nuclear company funds this "non-profit" but its bias and bad faith is obvious. When I was a student teacher, I was put into a program, at the time funded apparently by Visa, who's sole purpose was to deliver anti-regulation propaganda to 4th graders. The program seems to have since expanded its list of sponsors to many other large financial institutions [1]. The material I was teaching included demonstrably false claims, including the claim that WTO promoted free trade included sufficient environmental protections. Along with cartoonist pictures of jumping dolphins and people smiling an planting trees. When the reality of WTO mandated free trade looks like this [2]. [1] https://www.juniorachievement.org/web/ja-usa/financial-reports https://www.juniorachievement.org/web/ja-usa/financial-repor... [2] https://blog.positiveluxury.com/sys/uploads/2015/01/slashburnmain.png https://blog.positiveluxury.com/sys/uploads/2015/01/slashbur...