Lighting_Count wrote:Sorry for the necrobump. Had to do it again, Peter Santanello, he recently uploaded a video about Appalachia, he met a bunch of Trump supporters and he let their talking points go unopposed.
Did a bit of digging, he's also an antivaxxer. Immediately clicked don't recommend channel on his stuff.
Loxley wrote:The writing has been on wall for him for a while, unfortunately, and I know exactly which video you're talking about. He seems to try and frame his videos as just "letting people talk", but dude deliberately goes into what he knows is pure, unfiltered MAGA country and asks them deliberately provocative questions like "Are Biden's economic policies popular here?" or, “are Biden's border policies popular here? ".
He knows exactly what he's doing. Especially since, as you said, he never challenges anything these people say.
I mean really the red flags have been there, especially considering how he markets his channel a "showing parts of America you never see in the media". The thing is, the reason many of those parts of America are never seen in the media are because they're super fucking racist and homophobic. I remember at the height of COVID he went to a hugely popular beach in Florida that was absolutely packed with people proudly and defiantly not wearing masks and social distancing (himself included), and asked people "is COVID a serious problem?", and "how do you feel about Biden's mask policies?" etc. The answers were exactly what you'd expect.
It's a bummer because he does a lot of great stuff regarding bringing attention to Indian Reservations and the various problems they deal with a daily basis. As well as areas of the country that are legitimately impoverished and in desperate need of help. But this recent series on Appalachia is the last of his stuff I'll be watching.
Man_God wrote:Appalachia gets covered all the time because its a bunch of poor white people. There's always a documentarian or two crawling around there.
Doesn't mean I don't feel bad for the people but I also got no illusions that they've not helped themselves much either by electing Republicans and lily livered Dixiecrats.
Fucking weird perceptions they have about what is left and what is right. I have seen anti Vaxx leftists and half of RE curse Biden name. And of course people will be interested in poor white people given that the current social narrative with lefties is that there is not poor white people.
And they also wonder why people elect republicans when you think that poor white people are dumb enough to be able help themselves by electing a democrat the lefties like.
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