This morning kiddo was watching a pretty innocuous "weirdly satisfying gifs" compilation. In the middle of it the channel host pops up and says "By the way I read Jordan Peterson's book and I heard it was bad but it's actually really helpful? Anyway have some more gifs!"https://twitter.com/profcarroll/status/1002643610091819013 …
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We had a fun talk about the parts of that book that are "helpful" are where it tells you to clean your room, get your life in order, etc which she gets from me for free & absolutely hates, so why buy a book on it
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Anyway, it's absolutely not the first time she's been watching otherwise innocuous content geared for kids/teens (cat vines, etc) and have spicy right-wing political content pop up.
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Having been raised in a toxic right-wing environment where the reaction to all unwelcome content was supposed to be BAN IT, BURN IT WITH FIRE, we look at these as learning opportunities rather than a thing to be removed.
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But that takes a lot of time & attention (and you have to watch/listen to an awful lot of crap youtube) so yeah, there area lot of times where if she wants to play quietly & we need to be doing something else, it's netflix or book time.
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Honestly while it's disappointing that the alt-right is so effective at using kids' media on YT to recruit new members, it's also disappointing that the left is so BAD at it.
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Replying to @SarahTaber_bww
What’s alt-right about JP? Honestly. Understand people on the right like to use JP as a stand bearer for their views, but having followed JP before he became mainstream and viewed a lot of his material including psych uni lectures it’s hard to match with the message coming from L
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Replying to @ThePoliEcon @SarahTaber_bww
One big red flag for alt-right is the desire to nitpick about nomenclature for the various brands of it.
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Replying to @RichFelker @SarahTaber_bww
Non-sequitur. Point out what JP material u consider is alt-right.
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Your TL is full of RTs of virulently misogynist accounts. That's alt-right. Blocked, bye.
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