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Why are so many Star Trek/Sci Fi YouTubers far right? (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by startrekexplained@startrek.website to c/quarks@startrek.website

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Here's a few examples:

The Popcast (recently made a video warning of the "dangers" of the Barbie movie because it's feminist. Now Im going to go see it lol), Midnights Edge (general right wing conspiracy theories regarding media, occasional delving into new age crank too), Nerdrotic (thinks Hollywood is engineering a communist Red Guards plot to kill conservatives), The Critical Drinker (typical edgelord anti feminist), Dave Cullen (extreme anti feminist who believes in all the QAnon, Agenda 21 conspiracy theories).

And it goes on and on. I know there's popular left wing and liberal reviewers too, but for whatever reason so many of the ones I run into are far right. Is there some sort of draw for conservatives to geekdom or is something else going on?

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this is largely the same effect: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo

Basically, some techy types have this notion that, because they understand one complex thing, then they also understand all complex things. But in reality, they've only been trained to understand the one complex thing and are actually just a delusional idiot.

[–] startrekexplained@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Haha, never heard of this before but it explains a lot