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Hey pals,

just giving you a short update on the video I'm currently working on. Its probably the most challenging video yet considering so much of what I want to talk about is very socially weighted. Its also a video thats been spooking around in my head for almost a year now and one for which I had to start over several times by now.

The goal is to use the video of a certain Anti-Feminist mesopotamian emperor to talk about what a concentration camp is and (this is the hard part) if whats currently going on in the US. justifies a comparisson to Nazi Germany. The biggest challenge for me in that is showing that even if you arent racist or hateful, given the right moral framework pretty much everyone can become a vicious mass murderer under an authoritarian regime, based of the work of Christopher Browning. Yay another feel-good video to enjoy. My apologies that this one takes as much time as it does but talking about this kind of stuff brings with it a much greater responsibility than other topics I think. 

Video should be up for you relatively soon!

Thank you for your very generous support and patience and I'll talk to you soon!

Comments

Anonymous

Hi Dan - thanks for getting back to me about my comment on your Crusades video, and sorry about this belated reply. My view is that history is rarely a black and white affair. The crusades involved both reactive and proactive elements - the Crusaders did help the Byzantines push the Turks out of western and southern Anatolia (albeit only temporarily), before getting on with the Pope's agenda - taking back the "Holy Land" from the muslims. People who come to help often do have their own agenda, don't they? But ask yourself - would there have been any Middle Eastern Crusades if the Turks hadn't invaded the Eastern Roman Empire? The video that persuaded me to sign up was "Were the Nazis Socialists?", dealing with a quite distressing narrative being peddled by some of the more deluded/unscrupulous elements of the right, in an effort to scare people off voting for even Social Democrat type political parties ("socialism" always leads to brutal repression and mass murder etc). I thought that was valuable work, and very timely. I have one general suggestion that I think would help you gain the respect of a broader audience. Stop using the epithet "right-wing" needlessly - as in one of your favourite expressions "right-wing douchebag". As I'm sure you'll realise, being "right-wing" is not in itself a damning moral flaw - there are plenty of decent people who would hold view that could be right-of-centre. The problem with people like Bill Warner and Steven Crowder isn't that they're "right-wing", the problem is that they're just douchebags. I haven't heard you call anyone a "left-wing douchebag", but I can think of a few supposedly left-wing politicians who might be described that way. All democracies need principled right-wing voices, just as they need intelligent left-wing voices (though sadly it can sometimes seem that both are rare). When you talk about "right-wing douchebags" you sound like a culture warrior. The world doesn't need more culture warriors - it needs conciliatory voices. That's my two cents' worth. cheers

Anonymous

imagine having to calmy, with fact, express your opinions to those f**cking neo-fascsist like sargon, who doesnt care at all about any of those things. They just put their camera on, start rambling, being dishonest as shit, and still have massive support dispite being complelty wrong. Modern leftism is for the very strong people, considering you have to face the most insane hypocrit piece of s*** in the world. Congratulations, stay strong.

Erik

I feel like Sargon is mostly just a useful idiot rather than a true believer when it comes to fascist ideas if putting a finer point on the distinction matters at all in your view.