2y ago

Why is Anonymous's official YouTube Channel full of Right wing and Russian propaganda?

Half of their most current videos feature Tucker Carlson, a well known Russian and Right wing sock puppet, and white supremacist and neo-nazi supporter, and the other half seem to follow the latest right wing media trends as they occur.

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There is no official Anonymous channel
- This is what I clicked this thread to say. It doesn't make any sense. There is no official "anonymous" organization so there can't be an official Youtube channel.
Having an official YouTube channel seems to be kind of counter Anonymous.
That said, they come from 4chan and that has mostly been right wing for the last decade or so.
A bunch of teenagers all over the planet certainly don’t have "official YouTube channels."
The way I always understood it, there are two Anonymous channels, one left and one right. The former focusing on humanitarian aspects of activism while the other one on fighting authoritarianism and whatnot. But of course this interpretation can be wrong. Nevertheless, Anonymous is fractured, and it's sad that a group that prided itself on decentralization didn't see the fracture coming. Anonymous is just cliques now.
Why are you calling Tucker Carlson a white supremacist?
- Probably because he is one.
- So your case that Tucker Carlson is a shire supremacist can be summarized as:
  Someone he once worked with posted racist stuff online (from your first link)
  Some white supremacists are fans of him, and this counts against him despite the fact that: “There’s no evidence that Carlson shares the bigoted worldview of some of his biggest fans” according to the article cited by the article cited by the article in your second link.
  That’s a very weak case. Do you realize that?
  In one case he was associated with someone who allegedly posted racist stuff online (I haven’t tracked that claim back to see if it’s true), and that person got fired from Carlson’s staff when those allegations came to light. In the other case the association is a one-way association, where some “alt-right” people have posted memes that say you can’t cuck the tuck, hence he’s a white supremacist.
  As a level of evidence this is weak as fuck. You should be ashamed to stand behind this as a case, and if you’re actually convinced based off this that he’s a white supremacist you’re allowing yourself to be someone else’s bulldog. You’re being used to spread misinformation.

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