The Alex Jones-is-crazy trope needs to stop. The man knows exactly what he’s doing: Ginning up his audience to attack shooting victims’ families and shooting survivors. It’s not entertainment. It’s not “performance art”. It’s dangerous. And @TeamYouTube is letting him do it.https://twitter.com/juddlegum/status/978802331226722304 …
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Replying to @slpng_giants @TeamYouTube
While Youtube needs to follow their own rules I don't understand how Jones is not nuts
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Like the greatest hucksters, he somewhat believes his own hype but not completely. My Mom used to listen to him years ago—he was actually evenly left-wing/right-wing crazy before the altright started to rise. He knows where the money is.
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I think Twitter ate my first comment which was: Thank you, I did not know this.
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The only good part about spending your teenage years watching a parent slide into radicalization is that I can parse this insane situation of him relatively reaching the mainstream better than practically anyone. Trying to make hay out of the situation is therapeutic, so thanks.
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