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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Well that got heavily downvoted before anyone had the chance to watch it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I mean, it's Douglas Murray. What did you expect?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I don't even know who the guy is.

I just thought he put together some good points.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not really interested in people just ideas and views. The video was a good one.

Though "one of the most important public intellectuals today." I wonder how far off being intellectual that makes me if I haven't even heard of the guy. I was just watching an engineering video and it popped up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be careful. YouTube likes to show people increasingly insane right wing propaganda. It starts with "huh those are some interesting ideas" and before you know it you'll be screaming about vaccines and praying for Trump to make a comeback.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It starts with “huh those are some interesting ideas” and before you know it you’ll be screaming about vaccines and praying for Trump to make a comeback.

Oh, please, stop. Telling people not to expose themselves to certain bits of information or perspectives is just another form of bigotry. I read two of Ayn Rand's books, because her ideas were new and fascinating to me. That didn't turn me into a libertarian or stop me from seeing the flaws in her ideology. But I am now more educated and less likely to be influenced by libertarian arguments as a result.

Try having discussions with people who you feel have the wrong ideas about things rather than telling them to avoid "wrongthinkers" altogether.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats not what I was suggesting at all. I said that YouTube's algorithm will start flooding your feed with progressively more extreme and misinformative content.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I said that YouTube’s algorithm will start flooding your feed with progressively more extreme and misinformative content.

That is absolutely not what you wrote and I don't believe it's what you meant either.

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