Extremist messaging now woven into music and YouTube videos, with one expert saying: ‘You can be radicalised sitting on your couch’

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.

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 days ago

    People have been noticing for a long time, but almost everyone’s attitude has been “I’m really busy and this is someone else’s responsibility.”

    Even this article… the press is sounding an alarm, but to whom, exactly?

    The time to stop this was a decade ago, but now the cancer has wound itself into every corner of our societies to the point where it can’t be easily excised. There is no authority to appeal to to say “Hey! This is fascist!” because acting now means acting against half your voters.

    This is not even closing the barn door after the cows have left - this is closing the barn door while the barn burns down.