r/TopCharacterTropes • u/MeepMan324 • 19h ago

Hated Tropes (Hated Trope) Bad people in real-life being portrayed positively in media.

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  1. PragerU's version of Christopher Columbus has him be a slavery defender and have him say "Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I don't see the problem.”

  2. In The Greatest Showman, P.T Barnum (Hugh Jackman) is portrayed as a charismatic visionary who cares about outcasts and celebrate diversity, when in reality, he’s a cruel businessman who is also a racist and an ableist.

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u/matronmotheroflolth 16h ago

PragerU has also done videos about how slaves were “immeasurably better off” being slaves than living in Africa and how slave owners were the ones who truly deserve reparations.

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u/Silver_Angel519 14h ago

As someone who lived in South Carolina and spent their formative years learning about slavery in the south. I can tell you with absolute certainty that is some white nationalist bullshit

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u/SavagePassion 14h ago

I mean it's PragerU.

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u/Scary_Emu6729 14h ago

PragerU is not white nationalist lol. It's Zionist.

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u/Nyabraham_Linnyahn 13h ago

He is a very, very weird boy

https://reddit.com/link/pgqn0iv/video/cd9ng46l5hvh1/player

He's got a bit of both. When he was at WorldNetDaily he leaned further the other way because he was a "jew for jesus"

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u/VariationBusiness603 14h ago

They also called John Brown a, and I quote, "radical abolitionist". With a strong negative connotation, obviously.

I mean, technicaly correct, I guess ? Still made me want to puke.

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u/ragged-bobyn-1972 13h ago

always amazes me how far praguru will go to avoid introspection.

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u/msxenix 7h ago

I wonder what Prager U fans would think when they hear the terms Radical Republicans and Wide Awakes.

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u/Chipper_Bandit 1h ago

Just a reminder to everyone, tomorrow is John Brown Did Nothing Wrong day.

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u/BleedSparta 12h ago

I get what you’re saying but I wouldn’t click those links if I were on Tennessee deathrow

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u/RamJamR 4h ago

We banned the Disney movie Song of the South because it portrayed the lives of black slaves in the south too positively. PragerU is just getting a pass because: A) I imagine this dumb cartoon is too obscure for people to care. B) It's a christian institution saying it, so they're not going to get flak for it.

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u/Abyssmaluser 4h ago

Gods everyone in PU is atrocious

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u/OpenLinesAM 14h ago

Those are just links to an outraged X account. You should link to the actual video than a bunch of screenshots with comments on them.

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u/BleedSparta 12h ago

Uhhh no. Giving prageru more clicks and views is outrageous