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Sometimes I question if it's hypocritical to get mad at AvE for sharing opinions I don't like while also being disappointed at someone like Ian at Forgotten Weapons for not bringing up his opinions to try and stay neutral. But at the same time, not addressing a worldwide wave of discrimination and prejudice still feels like taking a stance. Like, is there an acceptable degree of nuance I am missing? Is there some degree of religious intolerance or racism or gender discrimination that should be seen as tolerable? Most things do have some gray area to the conversation, but I just am not feeling that with all the comfort a lot of people now seem to have with treating fellow humans and our planet like crap.
I'm not expecting everyone to draw a line in the sand or anything. I think conversation has lost a lot of nuance. Even just saying something like "I didn't know enough about this topic to have an opinion" is much better than either changing ahead while being ignorant or just rejecting anything you can't currently understand. Refusing to say anything though feels like "I support the thing that is going to make you mad, I'm just afraid to say it."
AvE, for better or worse, at least made it clear who he was. I can respect that to some degree. He at least has conviction. With Ian, I would guess he is something like a conservative libertarian that would support more old school Republicans, but the thing is we'll never know, so while he may support shitty policy to further his personal interests and career, that is still kinda a shitty position when we're talking people's rights and safety being the price for that. And that's the best case scenario. If he's harder right wing than that, it only gets worse.
Talking guns/wati/history I feel it's much harder to dodge taking some stance, because no matter what, every part of that learning ties in with politics. AvE tearing apart stuff and doing shop things rarely needs to lean into politics, so him leaning into it was all on him. I didn't notice anyone calling on him in comments for his political insights.