Connecting the dots between popular Youtube personalities and actual Nazis. Spoiler alert: Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, & Ben Shapiro are in fact the gateway to the radical right. Everyone should see the graph on page ten. datasociety.net/wp-content/upl
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Hm. Shapiro is a smarmy chickenhawk fascist. He isn't a gateway to anything; he's a dumpster.
Joe Rogan is a card-carrying libertarian. His connections reflect that. Of course he's partly right-wing, but you point the arrow the other way and he's two degrees from communist...
I don't think maps like this show what you say they show. People talk to people who talk to people, no news there.
Obviously some libertarians (e.g. Rubin) are fascists with worse dress sense, so famous libertarians are going to be two degrees of separation from fascists.
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As someone who goes on podcasts from time to time, I can tell you I'm very careful about who I talk to and whose platforms I directly and indirectly promote. When people who aren't Nazis stop doing podcasts with people who hang with Nazis, I reckon we'll be on the right track.