- Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 51•1 year ago
It is! One of my best friends who became very vocal against drag queens reading to children and trans kids’ rights has fallen into a deep rabbit hole of alt-right radical conspiracy bs on YouTube. He also started sharing toxic masculinity guru videos in our group chats and videos from Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson for example.
I tried to give him counter arguments with examples and other videos, but when searching for content on YouTube, I had difficulty finding anything because, most of the content when searching for certain keywords, was just videos of alt-right talking heads.
Social media companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter are pushing an alt-right conservative agenda and their conspiracies. It’s pretty appalling.
- Showroom7561 ( @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ) 27•1 year ago
Social media companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter are pushing an alt-right conservative agenda and their conspiracies. It’s pretty appalling.
Not only pushing it, but targeting it with algorithms that are explicitly designed to take advantage of vulnerable minds. It’s not only appalling, but unethical in every way.
- Kichae ( @Kichae@lemmy.ca ) 24•1 year ago
Zoe Bee had a pretty good video on the Parents Rights stuff, too: https://youtu.be/mNOmFBw1I_M?si=btywuWSuG9ESJefB
And Shaun took on Andrew Tate recently: https://youtu.be/y6_TOFy3k6k?si=wFGX0fOYwinGLtRA
Shaun also has a notorious video discussing The Bell Curve, which is very, very good. The Bell Curve is a cornerstone of alt-right bullshit, since it’s one of the foundational books for “scientific race realism”: https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo?si=YoqG8dJd9g4U8B5h
Here’s Unlearning Economics taking on Jordan Peterson and his views on gender discrimination: https://youtu.be/LKc_8fT6pGc?si=px5EupxJ7w3hslTG
Shaun again, this time discussing PragerU: https://youtu.be/EM7BgrddY18?si=NhawD6OoYbwiPr2t
This one’s less direct, but still actually relevant to toxic masculinity and conspiracy mindsets – Thought Slime discussing Gary Vee: https://youtu.be/OVE8J8dwJ5E?si=7h5wEQPsjhMjBd63
Here’s We’re in Hell discussing toxic masculinity in North America: https://youtu.be/MsEmOQeBcRA?si=Vo5S_iDaXlCV6IR4
And getting a little more high level about things, here’s Innuendo Studios (the Alt-Right Playbook guy) discussing the origin of conservatism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4CI2vk3ugk&t=333s which is itself an appendix to his Alt-Right Playbook episode, Always a Bigger Fish
These should give you at least a starting point, and help you build up a video history that will direct YT’s recommendation engine away from the shit you’re trying to counter.
- ShaggySnacks ( @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ) English9•1 year ago
To add on to this already fabulous list:
F.D Signifier on Fresh and Fit being deplatformed. Also covers men who are talking about positive masculinity: https://youtu.be/NH4AGs7x6WY?si=adDALUGWmdrAy2pQ
F.D Signifier has lots of videos about toxic masculinity in the black community.
The Art of Manliness podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@artofmanliness/videos
Waving the Red Flag podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@WavingtheRedFlag/videos
Sisyphus 55’s video “Journey into the Manosphere”: https://youtu.be/lSq3bcyrJY0?si=z7T4ks7dza7EiF9Y
Munecat’s video about debunking the entire manosphere: https://youtu.be/BgO25FTwfRI?si=rWfOS2A6roGNRMkw
The Zatzman’s video “The Existential Horror of Manosphere TikTok”: https://youtu.be/pvZITKjaffw?si=931ngUIafzFw7Ta8
Frank Landry’s video “The Cult of Fresh and Fit”: https://youtu.be/WBsCmYCShqI?si=KR5dGoRToShSyYFw
There is the Lemmy group, Men’s Liberation which is focused on promoting positive masculinity and feminism together: https://lemmy.ca/c/mensliberation
There is Leeja Miller’s video about the manosphere to alt-right pipeline starting https://youtu.be/U-V_xf2gAiI?si=oJ3BHVHXCbC0UQ6O
Meet the anti-Andrew Tates by Hannah Ewens: https://archive.ph/mNtAs
Jason Wilson: https://mrjasonwilson.com
Hopefully between this and the above comment, we can get your friend on the positive masculinity to progressive pipeline instead of listening to bunch of shit heads.
There is a lot of content out there to challenge the manosphere and it’s grift.
- Kichae ( @Kichae@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
These are great, and well focused, too. I’d never heard of Fresh and Fit before, and this is a fascinating introduction to them.
- Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 7•1 year ago
Oh fuck! I’m saving this comment.
Thank you!!!
- irmoz ( @irmoz@reddthat.com ) 3•1 year ago
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- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 17•1 year ago
Parents who know best let professional educators do their jobs.