Blue MAGA may dominate legacy media (which is done by design because it sets the limit to how left-wing you are allowed to be), but the GOP all the way to the most bloodthirsty psychopaths have a monopoly on new media. It is making our youth think violence, hate groups, and nazism is "hip and cool" while tolerance is seen as something for losers.

PragerU, Ben Shapiro, Richard Spencer, Jordan Peterson, Nick Fuentes, /pol/, these people are considered to be omniscient and are among the media icons of milennials and gen z (yes, I know Peterson is much older and PragerU isn't a person), but the problem is these people have won the culture war just telling people what they want to hear. We are outnumbered and as much as I want to challenge these views, I don't think I can reliably do that.

To anyone that has converted a younger hog, how did you manage to do that? I've had speculation that if I was friends with one and had one-on-one chats in let's say an Overwatch team chat or whatever they'd be more likely to listen. Alternatively, we could try to use any burner accounts and subscribe them to any leftist channel on Youtube or Twitter and see if we can skew the algorithm less in the right's favor.

Other than that, I would say that the left could do with better PR and steal some tricks from the right on how to get better publicity. Cherry pick the cringiest MRAs, the most ungrateful landlords, etc.

Idk, I get that this is an unrefined thought, but I don't really have the language to put this in better terms.

  • Multihedra [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    A very fine group of people just hosted a series of talks/discussions they’ve called Journalism for Liberation and Combat (JLC)

    Jared A. Ball (iMiXWHATiLiKE, Black Power Media)

    Too Black (Black Myths Podcast, Black Power Media)

    Erica Caines (Black Alliance for Peace & Hood Communist)

    Kelly Hayes (Movement Memos & Truthout)

    Brian Nam-Sonenstein (Beyond Prisons & Shadowproof.com)

    Brandon Soderberg (coauthor I’ve Got A Monster)

    Brooke Terpstra (Oakland Abolition & Solidarity)

    Jared Ware (Millennials Are Killing Capitalism)

    I’m only in the middle of part 2 out of 4 and haven’t looked at the syllabus, but it’s been great so far.

    How they describe it:

    The course will:

    • Explore the history of corporate media in the US and the concept of “emancipatory journalism” Explore the importance and functions of an autonomous, liberatory media within the larger framework of culture, movement building, and daily life.
    • Comparatively examine multiple cases of emancipatory or revolutionary journalism within the past century as well as recent struggles to cultivate it.
    • Feature a panel of veteran journalists who cover the violence of police, the state and Capital and also cover movements and culture through a radical lens. These panelists will discuss both participation in independent and autonomous efforts and navigating other media contexts.

    Requires some time investment, but I think the people are very serious (not in it for Patreon bux or getting popular and shit)