Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’
The two men chop peppers, slice aubergines and giggle into the camera as they delve into the art of vegan cooking. Both are wearing ski masks and T-shirts bearing Nazi symbols.
The German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for violating its guidelines.
But it offered a glimpse of how far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas, in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media.
Hollywood’s Hays Code suppressed any liberal concepts, and steered ALL Hollywood productions toward promoting standard conservative beliefs and living as the only “normal” lifestyle - for DECADES.
In the 19th century, the most popular music, besides church hymns, was minstrel shows and it’s music, which reinforced racist ideals that form the core of conservative thought to this day.
This isn’t new. American conservatives have been hijacking popular culture for their own propaganda use for at least two centuries.
If the US becomes a socialist/communist country during the Great Depression, the Hays Code would’ve been abolished completely. One of my favorite alternate history timelines happens to be “Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline” which explains what would happen if William McKinley survives and socialism becomes mainstream in the US and such
Spoiler alert: the Hays Code gets abolished ITTL (in the “Reds!” timeline) after the Red May Revolution, and gets replaced with the Eisenstein Code (which is a bit more liberal). Seriously!