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.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    151·
    2 days ago

    This misses the point that every progressive society needs some number of conservatives (even dogmatic ones) to be asking “but is this a good idea? Does progress here actually benefit people?”

    No it doesn’t and that’s not what conservatives are. That’s a right wing talking point myth like “You’ll get more right as you grow up”

    Conservatives are reactionaries who want no change. They blindly rage against anything different or new to them, they don’t care about the wider social landscape as is evident by how often they’ll support a leftist ideal once their child is a victim of their rhetoric.

    “Progressive” people want change, and they ask themselves is this good all the time. You cannot progress if you don’t review and analysise.

    • IronBird@lemmy.world
      81·
      2 days ago

      really should be calling these people regressives at this point…not sure how stripping access to basic medical care is “conserving” anything but profits.