Anand Giridharadas: We Don’t Have the Equivalent of a Joe Rogan to Move People in a Feminist Direction

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GIRIDHARADAS: “But what they have done in their online media ecosystem is build a radicalization engine, literally the way militant groups do around the world, that takes people from relatively low-level annoyances with the world, 'Why are eggs so expensive? Why is my kid learning this new thing in American history in school that I didn't learn?' and then moves them through YouTube videos, through podcasts, moves them from that annoyance all the way, slowly, slowly, slowly, to a full-blown fascist politics. It’s an elaborate multibillion dollar infrastructure, and there is nothing like it on the pro-democracy side. We don’t have an — when a man is just lost and lonely and not yet radicalized, we don’t have the equivalent of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson to move that man in a feminist direction. By the way, we should educate men that it’s actually really great to live with a strong woman who makes money. It’s actually easier, life is easier."