Hi. This question is for leftists mostly. If you watch a content creator that’s on the left, but they have a questionable guest on, do you continue to watch that creator or do you find a different creator to watch? I sometimes watch The Convo Couch and Danny Haiphong, but they’ve had very questionable guests on and I can’t bring myself to support guests like that. Bonus question: Do you watch non-left channels?

  • @JoBo@feddit.uk
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    68 months ago

    As others have said, it depends a lot on the reason for having that guest on. But there are a lot of ‘leftists’ with questionable analytical skills and/or questionable ideas and/or questionable associates. You don’t need to boycott them for one bad decision, or even a series of bad decisions, but you do need to decide what is worth your time.

    If you disagree with platforming certain people in any context, don’t give those videos any views. If they do it a lot, maybe give up on them altogether. And have a think about their other ideas/guests/associates that might have clued you in earlier if you’d picked up on it. Or the trajectory that got them where they are. There are plenty of ‘leftists’ who have ended up in a bad place without necessarily having been a shithead to start with.