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Of course, not Tomi Lahren though...

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[–] itsJoelle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, no, my grandmother had conspiratorial thought, and once she passed, while Jones wasn't super popular (or influential) and at the time he was amusing and harmless, he made me nostalgically think of her. So I kept it on in the back ground. As I became an adult I shifted to less time consuming way to interact with his content as I questioned the ethics of watching his content directly. Dood was a fun crazy back in the day. Now, yikes.

As a Floridian, I have seen straight up swastika tattoos and SS lightning bolts on necks. The white supremacist movement did adopt Nazi iconography a few decades ago. They aren't literally nazis, but are people who are pushing Ur-giest adjacent philosophy alongside the same sources and arguments. And -- no -- I don't see them around every corner because they're in the super minority, but thoughts like Great-Replacment theory are becoming increasingly mainstream. You're putting thoughts in my head in lieu of making an argument and inventing an "argument", imagine I think that, and are attacking it instead. Where did I claim there were Nazis around every corner? I claimed there exists at least one supremacist and they appeared on Joe's show.

Look, you're shifting away from a fairly straight forward argument the Joe had a white supremacist on his podcast. I gave you a digestible source to discover that claim and cite their sources in a verifiable way. Jones doesn't just dabble in conspiracy, he purposefully has vocal white supremacists on his show regularly, doesn't address it, and pushes his audience to their spaces while dog-whistling white supremacist arguments. See Feuntes appearing on his show. I know this because I watched his show for years