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Yeah, that's not how it works at all. People who start watching the Qanon videos in their Youtube reccomendations aren't going to then get swayed by your eloquent speech, they are going to get sucked into a whole alternate world where your arguments are just dismissed as part of the conspiracy.



My point was that they should be exposed to why this stuff is garbage before they start watching Qanon, so that, when they stumble onto a Qanon video, they aren't swayed by the video's eloquent(?) speech or dazzling(?) logic.


> My point was that they should be exposed to why this stuff is garbage before they start watching Qanon

You're effectively calling for some sort of cultural revolution that stamps out anti-Semitism through proper education. Seriously we've tried this with other topics, all they're going to do is say you're indoctrinating children, then you'll inevitably fall into a defensive position where you feel like you have to back it up with numbers and eloquent arguments. Bam, they've won because there will always be a first movers advantage with information: your opponent can now make an outrageous claim that people see, internalize, and then never see your rational follow-up to. You're all so incredibly terrified of censorship when the real terror is right in front of your eyes: a torrent of information, engagement, and half-consumption.

This is so incredibly tedious. I see the same thing that I'm describing here happen with any number of semblance of social progress: homosexuality, trans rights, even marijuana legalization. This cyclic pattern has to be hell, I can't fathom any other possible explanation for such a thoroughly trained helplessness.


How do you do that though? If someone doesn't know what QAnon is why would they watch a video debunking it? If you have mass media doing take downs of it that will just inspire a certain segment of the population to believe it because "Look how THEY don't want you to know this!" The sad thing is that tech, especially Youtube and Facebook, have through their algorithms promoted these conspiracy theories since QAnon conspiracy theorist watch a lot of videos and comment a lot which are the metrics they promote.




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