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He actually used to do non-political videos that were pretty similar to a bunch of ‘edutainment’ youtubers. Really cool to see him switching over to some pretty radically far-left political content.
Here’s the first political video he made, it’s fucking awesome. It basically presents all of the core tenents of Marxism in a way that’s very palatable to libs and normies.
Haven’t even looked yet but I’m guessing the views are waaay lower.
Youtube can mark videos as ‘controversial’ or something and they basically don’t show up unless you go looking for them. They don’t show up in recommended videos or anything like that.
There’s a video by the channel Empire Files, called “Trump is expanding the empire”, it doesn’t show up even if you search the title word for word. You find mirrors of the video on other channels before you find the actual video.
Here it is btw, it’s a fantastic video that’s definitely worth watching, it’s almost certainly the best criticism of Trump that I’ve seen. And here’s the sequel which might be even better.
But yeah, try searching “Empire Files Trump is Expanding the US Empire” and see what happens.
That was just an example, the point is that if you want to ‘err on the side of caution’ then you can always find a few people who are offended by something. If 99% of people (within a certain minority group) say “yeah this is fine it’s really not a big deal” and less than 1% are offended, it’s not necessarily a good idea to act like it’s offensive just because some people say it is.
And what if by acting like it’s a big deal you’re actually weirding out the 99% of people who don’t think it’s offensive?
It’s not like it’s always better to view every controversial thing as offensive.
Is it though?
There will almost always be at least a small group that finds something offensive, should we really be listening to them 100% of the time? I’m sure there are at least a couple people out there who think that white people shouldn’t listen to hip-hop, should we ‘err on the side of caution’ in that case too?
Just because a very small amount of people find something offensive, that doesn’t necessarily mean that there’s anything wrong with the thing, it just means that a few people are offended by it.
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Michael Parenti is awesome, I love his stuff. Also, he stayed at my family’s home once! My mom organized a local anti-war group during the gulf war, and she set up a few lectures with various speakers. Well, one of those speakers was Michael Parenti. He took the bus up to our neck of the woods and spent the night at our house. It was a couple years before I was born, but I still think it’s really cool. My mom says he was really cool, super humble and very sweet. My older brother was like 2 or 3 years old at the time and apparently Michael pushed him on the swing and played some games with him, having a wonderful time.
I actually only learned about this less than a year ago, I mentioned Parenti in passing and my mom said “oh did I ever tell you that he once spent the night at our house?”
Anyway, just thought I would share that story :)
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PS: if anyone’s interested, you can find the entirety of Blackshirts And Reds on youtube.
I think it’s really interesting, basically metal vocals with a hip-hop flow
