I linked to the timestamp, it's a long ass video. The front part of the video is great, total normal TC content. Post video though, he gets into his personal politics somewhat, and here I'm thinking "oh, secret Marxist reveal?", but then he gets into partisan politics and it's a full-blown crash out about defiling the constitution and how Dems are always trying to make things better, but republicans show up to undo it all. He reads from the declaration of independence, waxes on about the constitution, the whole nine-yards.

It's really great. Lots of respect. He puts it all out there. If he's interested, I think Cowbee has a reading list he might be interested in.

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[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 22 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Oh god, Hank Green is insufferable and his politics even more so.

Fuck him for his knitting video especially though. Sciencebros just love to shit on "women's" work, ignorant to the marvel of technological development that requires all sorts of innovation and scientific progress (not least of all maths) to do some silly little lady's crafting - just like scrapbooking! Certainly nothing that has to do with big, important, science-y man's work (/s obviously)

Guess which type of work has not only been central to all of human existence, even prior to the advent of civilization, but also was absolutely fundamental to the early age of computers and space exploration? Textile work.

Nobody ever breathe a word denigrating textile work around me, least of all a sciencebro "public educator", because the first goddamned computer was a loom, the US used bra manufacturers to hand make space suits, and those magnetic core memory modules had to be hand woven by skilled women labourers. If you think that textile work is just some cute little hobby for ladies then go home and throw out every last thing that required fabric or computers at any point in its production, not to mention all your clothes and bedding and anything computerized.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeeeesss, Hank Green is an insidious liberal. I have no hope for him. You have a link to his knitting video?

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

They pulled it from YouTube. I can't find an archived version from a cursory search but you might have more luck than me. Here's the original URL to the removed video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTLvD6-X8WQ

There's a really good in-depth autopsy of that disaster of a video here that does the art justice and you'll be able to piece together what Hank Green said in the original but it's a (deservedly) long response.

Hank Green issued some half-assed apology afterwards and shifted blame without actually addressing much. I watched a bit of it when the scandal hit but I don't recall watching the whole thing through, it just seemed like PR damage control slop and I find the Green brothers to be insufferably smug so I probably got 30 seconds in before I couldn't bare listening to the bullshit anymore.

Edit: I probably should have said fiber work and not textile work in the above comment but the skills and techniques and developments, especially in the earlier part of technological development, were the same and eventually they diverged. You get what I'm saying though.

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