The PewDiePipeline: how racist humor leads to violence

All you dorks who are coming to comment "this is like saying video games cause violence:" This video gets this comment a hundred times a day from edgelord dorks and it's lazy deflection. There is no similarity between what is being said here and the "video games cause violence" scares. I hate "logical fallacy" dudebro rhetoric but this is a clear strawman. Saying "x causes y" is not inherently the same as saying "video games cause violence." That's lazy BS and just shows you either didn't watch the video or you're being intellectually lazy and disingenuous. Nobody is saying there is something inherently wrong with humor. I am saying that being permissive of racism and bigotry leads to an increase in racism and bigotry. Which is backed by countless studies and pretty obvious. Violent video games generally don't lead to violent behavior in mentally healthy people but if you had a video game which promoted fascism that would clearly benefit fascism. Those are two different things entitely, and if you deny that you are a numbskull.

funny how it was mainstream people being edgy 4 years ago and now every instagram comment section is just a cesspool of open bigotry

"its just a joke!! Why are you being so sensitive?? WHy do you make everything political??" this is why

I almost fell into this. I think that what prevented me from being another hateful teenager were the fact that I was a latino girl, and I started seeing how I was using cringe culture and mean acts to mask off how insecure I felt. After therapy, meeting friends and finding things that made me happy, I changed my worldview completely.

shout out to all of us who made it out the pipeline

The creator of Pepe says he does not identify with the alt-right and is hurt that his works have been appropriated by the alt-right.

Don’t mind me, just coming back after a year to retract my dislike and actually listen to what you have to say.

This perfectly encapsulates this "Andrew Tate Era" with influencers like Speed being one of the biggest icons. Sad reality indeed

I'm tired of the sexist "jokes" 😭 they say the word joke as an excuse to get away by degrading a whole group of people and it's just not okay. We don't have to sit here and just take it all the time. Instagram is so full of it now. It's sad.

Joe Rogan talking about how cultures in the middle east having been unchanged for a really long time is possibly the least informed thing ive heard someone say in a while.

Imagine declaring yourself an "Eco-fascist" and people say "Well, he said he isn't a nazi so he's reasonable"

My brother is already at the verbal expression stage and i have no clue what to do. For context, he is 13 and probably said every single slur out there, explicitly states that he is a homophobe and probably a rasist as well. He is extremely hateful towards many people and it's just so messed up

"its really not that deep" is a societal plague. Everything really is that deep. "Jokes", edgy humor, etc dont exist in a vacuum. Its all informed by our very complex and confusing world that most children and teens believe they understand but dont. No one does ever. The second we stop trying to understand the things we say and do, the jokes we make, how seemingly insignificant things connect to very far reaching and nuanced topics, is the second we are mentally crippling ourselves. Amazing video. Edgy humor leads to deep apathy for everything and quickly spirals into not only bigotry and harm, but depression and suicide. Just look at all the articles titled "the rise/epidemic of male lonliness". There has to be an overlap between this type of humor infiltrating male dominated spaces and whats going on socially. Jokes arent just jokes. Also look at how many comedians that use dark humor have some very seriously disturbing issues and mental illnesses. Everything is that deep and we are doing a serious disservice to ourselves by pretending that things just can mean nothing.

7:32 I'd argue "You're not a real woman." is already at verbal expression, something like "Oh you look so good for a trans woman!" would be a microagression.

i mean in my opinion, the social medias have a much bigger role to play than ppl will admit, ive been recommended anti-feminist videos, "sjw" memes and quite obvious beginnings of the alt right pipeline in youtube and tiktok even though im far left and a lot of my feed is feminist, im pretty sure they're actively pushing this

4 years later… this behaviour is getting more and more rampant, shit is lowky scary

all I'll say is this: he literally did a "meme review" with Ben Shapiro. without explaining who this man is or why he's awful. the jokes weren't at his expense. he literally just exposed his millions of young impressionable fans to a man that spouts hateful, dangerous, misinformed, plain wrong, and fear-mongering rhetoric.

I used to like "dark humour" (edgy jokes) and even joined a Facebook group because I thought that the idea was to laugh at people who held those edgy beliefs as truth. Like "haha he's promiscuous because he's gay" - 'who ACTUALLY thinks like that? Only idiots, and we are laughing at those idiots, right?', I innocently thought. Wrong. The more posts they made, the more they showed their true selves. I stopped participating, but I kept watching because I felt morbid curiority and a little bit of hope - they MUST've been joking... I mean, that WAS a dark HUMOUR site, right? ...Someone posted a photo of an African-American hanging from a tree, with the caption 'I'm sure he was gay lol'. I was horrified. I tried reporting it, but the 'mods' of the group somehow knew it was me who reported it. They publicly shamed me for "being oversentitive and a traitor" or something along those lines. I left the group, baffled. It was my first encounter ever with an openly racist and homophobic group. Since then, I despise "dark humour" and I'm instantly suspicious of anyone who seems to be disguising their racism as a joke. They eventually show their true colours.

i feel so BAD. for the young Jewish kids that were huge fans of him for years and then he started doing this shit.

Coming back here after seeing what's happening to trans people right now really hits different.