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A link below to an article which discusses analysis of YouTubers political preferences and some illumination of the untruths perpetuated into mainstream media and politics.
It doesn’t surprise me that this is one of the conclusions.
“The harmfulness of a video seems to be a factor of the viewer’s politics more than the video itself.”
It goes on to suggest that the truth about a YouTubers political position is largely ignored in favour of the veiwers uninformed perception and prejudices.
...“There seems to be a higher proportion of reactionary anti-social justice content compared to other platforms, and many YouTubers focus on the most extreme actions of progressive activists — unfairly labeling this as indicative of “the left.”
Despite this, calls for censorship... are intolerant, partisan, and extreme. Their targets include centrist and mainstream right commentators (e.g. Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager) and they offer no viewpoint-neutral rules of what an acceptable YouTube video is. The justification offered is that their videos are “harmful” — a concept that has crept so far that it is almost meaningless.”...
It goes some way to illustrate that the outrage of social justice fans, left-leaning dogooders and neocommunists is based in ugly fantasy rather than reality.
Beauty is truth. Truth is beauty.
- How does one objectively classify whether someone is right wing or far right?yuekit
- This gets to the heart of what annoys me about the "IDW" movement -- there seems to be an effort to normalize far right views while pretending that the left isyuekit
- super extreme due to a handful of crazy feminists. That is not logical or reasonable.yuekit
- ^ re your question. You have obviously managed to classify what views are far-right -- and therefor those that hold those views are so.Gnash
- How have you done that objectively?Gnash
- There is not a clear cut definition, but at one point most people agreed Breitbart (the publication Ben Shapiro edited) was far right -- now according to theyuekit
- article Morning_star linked, Shapiro is a "centrist" or a "mainstream conservative." His site literally had a section devoted to "black crime" and he reportedyuekit
- to Steve Bannon every day -- is that mainstream in your view? And same thing with the efforts of IDW shows like as the Rubin Report to present the views ofyuekit
- open racists such as Stefan Molyneux without criticism, while droning on about how terrible the left is.yuekit
- Regardless of whether there is a bright line in terms of what is far right or not (and of course there isn't), I find that pretty reprehensible.yuekit
- @yuekit. I’ve responded to you in a separate post.Morning_star
- If you think Prager is a centrist, your calibration is waaaaayyyy off.BonSeff
- Rogan is more of a pragmatist
Shapiro is a straight up grifter, as is Rubin.BonSeff - All of the above tho have women issues.
Isn't Prager the only one who is married? To his like third wife?BonSeff - So all the good left people have never been divorced? and divorced men are all right-wing misogynists? so objectiveGnash
- no, they are divorced as well, but don't go around shilling for their book interpretation of the bible. feel me?BonSeff
- Last time I checked Christian marriage vows are a personal contract to God.BonSeff
- Last time I checked Christian marriage vows are a personal contract to God.BonSeff
- Plus Prager promotes women begrudgingly sexing up their man, because the bible.BonSeff
- Hardly centrist was my long way around the cul de sac of making an observation. Sorry, just got off a very long flight.BonSeff
- I listen to conservative talk radio here in Texas because it's so wack. I get probably, maybe four hours of Prager's show a week. Dude is nuts.BonSeff
- so if you find out that shapiro seems to be happily married to his only wife, you'd concede he has no problem with women? since he's neither divorced or xtianGnash
- I will concede. lucky for him there is a contingent of women down with umpaloopas. i'm sure their marriage is dandyBonSeff
- OH! Curious about your takes on Candice Owens? Is she down with IDW?BonSeff
- not heard of owens, I'd have to google her.Gnash
- Seriously?BonSeff
- is that bad?Gnash
- ok, just googled her. she looks familiar but don't know anything about her. but I'm not american and I don't watch foxGnash
- Yeah dude, she is the black Tomi, down with nationalism, getting in Hitler's head. bananasBonSeff
- *looks up, Tomi*Gnash