It feels like every time I find a podcast about security/networking/technology the hosts end up saying some pretty off-color stuff, or I look them up and they also host right wing podcasts. Are there any that are more leftist, hosted by LGBT peeps, or at least not actively bigoted ?

  •  Dee   ( @Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org ) 
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    2 years ago

    K, you should. To make sure you’re not supporting a piece of shit by giving them your time, clicks, and views. But you do you if you’re okay supporting potential bigots.

    It’s not even a high effort task, just find the name of the podcast and add “political leanings” or something similar in the web search. It’s the minimal effort required to be an informed consumer.

              •  cobra89   ( @cobra89@beehaw.org ) 
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                2 years ago

                The complacency that the left was calling out AKA “declaring everything problematic” and people like you not taking that seriously is exactly why we have seen a rise in “the right going too far.”

                Let me leave with you a quote from MLK:

                First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;” who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”

                Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

                Your attitude screams of being a moderate, and I beg you rethink that attitude.

                Because of people who thought liberals ask for too much and go too far, we have lost our right to abortion and now we have laws in most non liberal states trying to ban people from being who they want to be based on their gender. These are a direct result of the people liberals were screaming about being complacent and being the “white moderate” as MLK describes above.

                  •  alyaza [they/she]   ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) MA
                    6·
                    2 years ago

                    Yes, because as a man of Jewish heritage I absolutely love Nazis don’t I?

                    i’m sorry but i sincerely don’t care. it makes no difference to me what you look like or whether you do or don’t like Nazis―you’ve had two interactions today and both times you’ve sounded indistinguishable from the cringe white centrist-to-chud in the comic who thinks Both Sides Are The Same and is mad society isn’t catering to them anymore. as far as i’m concerned, you’re that guy until you demonstrate otherwise.

              •  Dee   ( @Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org ) 
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                2 years ago

                you can’t deny

                Oh, contraire.

                progressives were going ott declaring everyone and everything problematic in some way and making itbalmost embarrassing to be part of the left

                There’s a lot to unpack there, but I’m not gonna.

                Not being able to criticise your own side when they’re going too far isn’t mature politics.

                Who was insinuating that progressives can’t be criticized? Where did that line come from? We’re talking about doing research into your podcasters and content creators to make sure that they support human rights, that’s it.

        •  Dee   ( @Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org ) 
          5·
          2 years ago

          Who called you a bigot?

          My comment:

          But you do you if you’re okay supporting potential bigots.

          Idk how to address this without being snarky, but maybe work on reading comprehension. I’m calling the podcasters you don’t research potential bigots, not even bigots, potential bigots. Which is to say I’m not condemning them or you to being bigots but you don’t know whether they are or not without researching it, therefore they are potential bigots. You are not a bigot, the podcasters you don’t research are potential bigots.