It feels like every time I find a podcast about security/networking/technology the hosts end up saying some pretty off-color stuff, or I look them up and they also host right wing podcasts. Are there any that are more leftist, hosted by LGBT peeps, or at least not actively bigoted ?

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        I don’t know any one who actively seeks out the political belives of the creators/hosts of the shows they watch even though the show itself has nothing to do with politics.

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          K, you should. To make sure you’re not supporting a piece of shit by giving them your time, clicks, and views. But you do you if you’re okay supporting potential bigots.

          It’s not even a high effort task, just find the name of the podcast and add “political leanings” or something similar in the web search. It’s the minimal effort required to be an informed consumer.

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            Most of my life we never cared about this kind of stuff unless someone was leading black shirts though the streets. We listened to what they had to say about the topic in question and moved on.

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              Most of my life we never cared about this kind of stuff

              You just described privilege very nicely, well done. Other people have to care about this stuff or we lose human rights.

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                    Look, I have no time for bigotry, but you can’t deny there was also a time a few years back where progressives were going ott declaring everyone and everything problematic in some way and making itbalmost embarrassing to be part of the left. That admittedly seems to have settled now and it’s the right that are going too far. Not being able to criticise your own side when they’re going too far isn’t mature politics.

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              Now if you don’t do thorough research on the political leanings of the people whose content you consume, some people will call you bigot.

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                Who called you a bigot?

                My comment:

                But you do you if you’re okay supporting potential bigots.

                Idk how to address this without being snarky, but maybe work on reading comprehension. I’m calling the podcasters you don’t research potential bigots, not even bigots, potential bigots. Which is to say I’m not condemning them or you to being bigots but you don’t know whether they are or not without researching it, therefore they are potential bigots. You are not a bigot, the podcasters you don’t research are potential bigots.

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                  maybe work on reading comprehension

                  I wasn’t just taking about people in this perticular thread.

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                    So you’re saying you get called a bigot a lot in other conversations?

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          The kind of people who have to deal with those shows that have “nothing to do with politics” randomly indicating that they deny that person’s human rights.

          And the kind of people who care about the first category.

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          I kind of get what you’re saying, but what you might be missing is that we are long past the point where politics is just a disagreement on how to achieve the same general goal. The mainstream GOP is full on pro-bigotry, anti-freedom, and if not openly fascist, they sure do seem to do a lot of fascist-like things. This is not hyperbole.

          Additionally, money is (and always has been) the lever to obtain power, so knowingly giving money (directly or indirectly) to a person who will use that money to promote or assist these kind of beliefs becomes a moral question, not a financial one. You may not want to believe it is so, but it is so.