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Maybe. Show me comments where people are recruiting for white nationalist organizations, if it really is as bad as you claim.



As I stated before, its been a while since I've seen white-nationalists. But I have seen it for sure.

But about 5 minutes of search gave me this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e811xgRlZYE

Iranian propaganda against "Zionists" (keyword: anti-semite language) who made 9/11 an inside job.

RT Today still has a prominient mouthpiece on Youtube, not white-nationalist, but conspiracy driven nuts in any case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyA-sCE18hY

Play around on that side of Youtube long enough, and the white-nationalists eventually show up. Last time I went down hunting for white-nationalists, they were somewhere around that area.

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EDIT: Here's a doozy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVE12id-X4Y

Plenty of pro-Great Replacement ideas here.

Yeah, I'm finding more and more stuff the more I look. As I stated before: the more you fill you search history with this stuff, the easier it gets to find.

"Normal" people aren't able to enter the black hole, because after seeing one video, they click on something else. Conspiracy-nuts continue to click into the hole, filling up their history and getting drawn in more and more. Its just how Youtube's algorithms work. The more you click on these things, the more Youtube serves you this kind of content.

That's enough conspiracy / white national hunting for me though. I think I've proven my point now and don't feel like dirtying my history anymore.

> It's funny how these basic nationalist thoughts are now "far right-wing" In the past these were beliefs that most of the population understood. You dont let your own nation be ethnically and culturally replaced by outsiders.

> I love how Jewtube welds the Wikipedia article to the Great Replacement and tries to dismiss it as a "nationalist right wing conspiracy theory".

> Europe taxes it’s citizens to import Africa Whilst Africa kicks out europeans

Found em. Took about 10 minutes but I'm pretty sure I found what you were looking for. Do you believe me now?

So now I've shown you what's out there. Now I ask you again: what should we do about this? Should we just... let these people continue to collaborate on their mission of hate on Youtube? Or should we like, do something about it before they decide to shoot someone else (El Paso / Christchurch)


> So now I've shown you what's out there. Now I ask you again: what should we do about this? Should we just... let these people continue to collaborate on their mission of hate on Youtube? Or should we like, do something about it before they decide to shoot someone else (El Paso / Christchurch)

Ban them and they will likely become even more extreme, and more violent. Again, you keep assuming that more censorship will make these people less extreme... which is pretty foolish when being subject to censorship is a big reason why they ended up in white nationalist circles in the first place. Do you think that if that commenter talking about "Jewtube" will become less extreme if her or she gets banned? Heck no, they're going to think "oh shit, the conspiracy to silence us is real!"

Ultimately, that is YouTube's decision. Personally I'd ban the comments despite knowing that it will make the situation even worse, because I would want to make as much money as possible and these comments make it harder to sell ads.

So the answer is yes, I'd ban them for my own greed. Not because I think banning them reduces white nationalism - quite the opposite I think it strengthens it - but because it's financially optimal.


Alas, this very discussion we're having only shows how suboptimal your strategy is.

After... what is this, 60 posts in this sub-thread? Neither you nor I are anywhere close to budging on the issue. Discussion is useful for discovering the point-of-views of other people, but it doesn't actually change opinions.

Proof of the pudding: I couldn't convince YOU of anything. And you have similarly failed to convince me of anything.

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And after this full discussion, I think I can firmly conclude that you and I are both rational people. You just don't necessarily see things from my perspective. That's fine.

But it really just goes to show how hard it is to do things "your" way, to convince people one-at-a-time to hold a different point of view. After all, if you've failed to convince me to change my opinion, I don't believe you'd be able to convince the "Great Replacement" nuts to change their opinion.




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