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.
Only part I read was how no body likes professors/educated people cause they are all snobs.
What?!?
Dude. Half of grad students are first gen college students.
We aren’t snobs. We don’t look down at the poor. Hell I’m still poor.
People who are insecure get upset when people who are doing better than them exist. They see it as a personal insult that someone with a higher degree than them, is in the same checkout line. How dare they make you feel stupid!?!
That’s a personal issue. If you don’t trust experts because , to you, they only got a degree and education to be a snob to you and make you feel bad about yourself, then who do you trust?
Leadership won’t come from the low level, unskilled. Uneducated people.
The stoner kid that washes dishes. ?
Yeah no.
It will come from educated and intelligent people with both life experiences and an education on how things work.
I’m sorry you have so little trust in education and knowledge.
But that’s the true path to growth. Not this “I know everything cause I had a shitty job”.
Yeah I had a lot of shit jobs. Taught me about the flaws in labor laws.
But didn’t teach me how to change the laws.
Only law school and political science education is gonna do that.
I’m actually non-binary, and I prefer gender-neutral and feminine terms. That said, I DIDN’T call you a snob. Seriously!
I was referring to u netwirk_switch
Not your comment.
You said something like , “summary please” and I summarized what the said.
They also say artist are worthless for revolution and change.
The essay itself is incredibly out of touch with historical evidence.
Colleges and universities students, artists, and musicians were many of the leaders for change. They helped rally the people and spread awareness and unite the people.
It’s true they weren’t that instrumental during the industrial revolution.
Because they didn’t really exist. And it was union leaders and laborers that caused change then.
But that was a very long time ago.
I’m not saying every academic or artist is virtuous or knows what’s best. There are plenty of shitty out of touch ones.
Lots of upper class people have limited understanding of what the world is like for the rest of us.
But also. Less and less rich kids go into academia (become professor). Largely due to the actual work needed to get a PhD. Nepo babies aren’t going to do that much work. And with professorships not paying that well anymore, they just aren’t going into these positions. They go and work for tech bros. Industry jobs that pay 300k a year.
There are some of these out of touch people still at universities, . But the trend is changing.
Can you boil all that down in simple terms?