• happybadger [he/him]
    hexagon
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    7 months ago

    He runs The Young Turks, one of the largest American political shows online. It's always presented itself as vaguely social democratic but Cenk and Jimmy Dore both came out of it to become right-wing democrats. I'd continue not knowing because it's a shitty show.

    • ksynwa_from_lemmygrad [he/him, des/pair]
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      7 months ago

      He was also a conservative before becoming a liberal/socdem. He wrote really sexist blog posts in the past. Like this one where he complains that women's genes are flawed for not wanting to have sex with him: https://web.archive.org/web/20020607165341/http://www.youngturk.com:80/newpage41.htm

      • Hohsia [he/him]
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        edit-2
        7 months ago

        This is reads like brilliant satire

        You’re telling me this is an earnest post?

        • ksynwa_from_lemmygrad [he/him, des/pair]
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          7 months ago

          Yeah this is 100% sincere. He has since apologised for it and accepted that what he wrote was abhorrent but yeah this is what he was like at one point whatever you make of it.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      To be clear Cenk is something like the right wing of the Bernie Sanders crowd, and kind of a dumbass, while Dore is a full on grifter right winger at this point