I Think the Christchurch Shooting Is a Good Example of Rampant Islam Phobia

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Tucker Carleson: The dominant narrative is still around kind of, you know, islamic extremism. When you start looking at the huge number of people getting radicalized into things like cuanon and what not,. It's much tougher, first of all, because it's predominantly white men who do have the privilege of being white men and being treated seriously. Tucker carleson: People are willing and eager to commit these acts of violence out in the open. And i think that one doesn't have to go all the way down to lake or darkest parts of chanr ever, to get into a space where we people are willing or eager to commitThese acts

Paris Marx is joined by Becca Lewis to discuss YouTube’s history of incentivizing extreme content, how the storming of the US Capitol shows the power of media spectacle, and why we should see social media platforms as media companies.

Becca Lewis is a PhD candidate in Communication at Stanford University. She’s also written for a number of publications, including NBC News, Vice News, and New York Magazine. Follow Becca on Twitter as @beccalew.

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