Re:What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
by protomyth on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @09:42PM
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Tim Pool (self described as left of center) has his take on the article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOyb8cN_A_8&t=946s
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Re:What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
by rspen on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:56PM
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If you actually bothered to watch more than one of his videos you'd easily be able to surmise he is politically left of center. He's probably more of a classic liberal than a modern one, but he wants things such as single payer health care, progressive taxes, etc. Those are definitely left of center ideas.
Re:What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
by burfog on Thursday May 09, 2019 @03:52AM
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Pew Research has determined that the Overton window has barely moved at all for the right-wing, but has moved quite a bit for the left-wing. This means that what you perceive as nudging may in fact just be trying to hold it in place. We can call it a Theory of Overton Relativity.
https://imgur.com/QJd2gRB (a really interesting set of histograms)
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/10/05/takeaways-o...
Re:What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
by wahern on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:43PM
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One of this week's XKCD themes, Waiting for the But: https://xkcd.com/2146/
I don't mean to pick on anybody. It's a common rhetorical device, which is why the comic is funny. I've used it and struggle not to (not always successfully).