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ragerU YouTube video features bigoted conspiracy theorist Owen Benjamin

Benjamin says racial and homophobic slurs are “hilarious” and got kicked off of Twitter after going on a weird rant about the genitals of a Parkland shooting survivor

WRITTEN BY CRISTINA LÓPEZ G.

PUBLISHED 02/04/19 12:57 PM EST

Melissa Joskow / Media Matters

PragerU, the online operation peppering the internet with viral far-right propaganda, featured bigoted Owen Benjamin in its latest video. Benjamin was kicked off of Twitter permanently in 2018 following a bizarre rant about Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg’s genitals.

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Another conservative figure was  banned from Twitter today: comedian @owenbenjamin, who apparently earned his ban after using a ton of racial slurs on the site.

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Owen Benjamin's Twitter ban comes after he went on a bizarre rant about David Hogg's genitals...see for yourself https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/981359404875505669 …

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In his February 4 video, Benjamin attempted to dissuade PragerU’s audience from arguing with leftists by calling “raising kids without a gender identity” “a form of child abuse” and by baselessly claiming white people are being demonized “for the world’s problems.”

Benjamin is a right-wing comedian whose brand of “criminally unfunny” comedy includes using the N-word and homophobic slurs and calling it “hilarious.” He’s also a conspiracy theorist who has claimed to hundreds of thousands of viewers on his YouTube channel that the moon landing never happened.

PragerU has a history of using its massive, wide-reaching platform to push misinformation and extremism. It has blamed racial disparities on “black culture,” and on Columbus Day, it featured a video that showed a racist depiction of indigenous people as cannibals wielding salt-and-pepper shakers. On Facebook, the PragerU Brasil page has posted a Russia Today article to its over 14,000 followers falsely claiming that the American Psychological Association had stated it was “bad to be a man.” PragerU’s founder, Dennis Prager, has waged a dangerous, yearslong campaign against basic facts about AIDS, once calling heterosexual AIDS an “entirely manufactured” myth.

And yet, PragerU’s propaganda and misinformation are being inserted directly into schools, as the company provides “content directly to teachers and students” and is “developing relationships with educators ‘in college, high school, middle school and homeschools.’”

(H/t to @eyesontheright and @jaredlholt.)


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From Live Stream Highlights 005 "Wild Wild Country" - Owen Benjamin, Published on Apr 14, 2018.

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Part 1 is a response to Owen Benjamin's video for the propaganda network 'Prager U'. His video is called 'The Strange Death Of Comedy'. Needless to say - Comedy is alive and well.

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