Classroom Propaganda: Debunking 'The Story of Stuff' — Part 1

Over the last few years, the Left has become increasingly bold with the type of teaching material it brings into classrooms. While biased information was once common. Now, blatantly false information cloaked with good intentions is the norm.

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Last year, I was horrified to learn from The New York Times that Annie Leonard’s video, “The Story of Stuff” was being shown to extremely young students in schools around the country. In case you are unfamiliar with “The Story of Stuff,” imagine compiling every environmental and Marxian economic fallacy into one video with a smiley face. Imagine teaching students that military spending is 50% of the budget (it isn’t), that 4% of our original forests are left in America (our forests are increasing) and we are using too much “stuff” (only if you ignore trivial economic concepts like efficiency and prices, and think our prosperity must be curtailed).

Consequently, I spent about a week combing through the video’s footnotes, and subsequently created the 4-part “Story of Stuff” critique debunking the entire video. Since that time, I have received hundreds of emails telling me that my video critiques were used to get Leonard’s video out of the classroom. I’ve also been on Glenn Beck’s television show and CNN to discuss some of the many problems with Leonard’s work.

Recently, I learned that Leonard wrote a book version of “The Story of Stuff,” which will likely be brought into your child’s classroom as well. As a result, I went to her book signing and challenged Annie Leonard publicly to debate me on the merits of her work at any University in the Country. She agreed!

I’ve been in contact with her staff to schedule the debate sometime next Fall.

Above is part 1 of my 4-part critique and below you’ll find the video where she agrees to debate me at her book signing.

The critique’s remaining parts will roll out over the course of this week.

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