I admire you very much for speaking out as many have not! I will continue to support your channel and hope many others will join you as a sane voice in these troubling times.
Thank you, Anne. I am looking for books that describe the situation we're in riught now and will make a video about them in a few weeks, hopefully this side of the year,
It does, Fernanda. A lot of poor people believed that the richest man in the world is on their side. That is sad. But the democrats on the other side have abandoned the working class in America.
We need a lot of voices out there. I have watched a lot of content creators like David Pakman, Luke Beasley, Brian Tyler Cohen etc. I agree with you (on that Shawn video...) that there is a lot of racism and misogyny. But there are many other reasons. Some so simple as the price for eggs and other groceries. And the disastrous situation in the poor regions of the US in the rust belt and elsewhere. Vlogger Peter Santenello has visited these areas quite often and also the border. Trump has led a very well orchestrated campaign and we were so naive to believe that all his horrible racism, misogyny, ridiculous dancing to the music, performing oral sex on a microphone would disgust people, but his people just love that. And the right wing media is so much stronger in the US than the so called left (which is left only by American measure). She should have gone to Rogan, he could not have harmed her and she would have reached millions of people. Where were the 18-29 yo? Only 42% of them voted but 75% of the 65+. Looking forward to your channel. I am not only interested in this because I love the theoretical possibility of America, but also because now the success of Trumpism will empower all the xtreme right wing movements in Europe enormously. I always come back to Timothy Snyder's book "The Road To Unfreedom" from 2018. Then, he warned, now the US has moved partly willingly, partly notknowingly forward in the direction of Unfreedom.
@@Rainierbooks „Trump empowers extreme rightwingers in Europe“. I agree. And I always stumble over Americans saying „the right is on the rise worldwide“ to even out (relativieren) their own extremist movement. I think most of the world watches America and can understand what they are saying. In the other direction there is a language barrier. Or at least a far narrorer tunnel of information coming into the US that is edited by those who want to report about it. Sooo, Brian, if you create a political channel, it can help us fight back even outside of the U.S. Because American is cool. Lectures Held in German are booooring. 🌸
@winterlinde5395 Yes, you should, Brian. And we could have discussions there. I am thinking of doing the same, maybe in German since the situation in Europe is only a little bit better because we have no right-extreme presidents or prime ministers yet, except for Italy.
@@Rainierbooks Gute Idee! And maybe activate the dubbing function that Criminolli has presented lately. So that your international friends can be part of the conversation?
Possibly because we already knew. Or read and follow it enough within our own families and friends IRL or maybe a lot of people are like when I grew up don't express every political detail publicly. Or neutral or because sometimes people address things for views and likes. Etc. Etc. NOONE is paying most booktubers so maybe some of us want this time for only the books we choose to discuss not out of duty. I'm a visual artist and a million times over the world thinks that artist have to reflect the times, which generally means the worst if times anything traumatic or life changing moments through struggle. It's exhausting we never get a chance or place to rest. Artist who paint nothing but flowers and trees are questioned like they are not creative enough because it doesn't reflect a dead body amongst the garden. Mostly though it's not for everyone to address we all sound like the same talking heads. Or it's just noones business what our views are. If it's a genuine concern for anyone let it be, but it's not the assignment of the day. We never know what people are doing offline to support what they believe in.
I understand that very well. A place to rest to get some peace and quiet after all this is necessary. And everyone should just dedigitalize for a bit if that is what you need. I really hope that people do offline work and support marginalized communities or simply your neighbor by slipping 20 $ to help him/her pay the rent when he/she can't. However, my point is that how can we read and talk about novels and stories about racism, colonialism, LGBTQ+ people, poverty and just discuss them as "beautiful" and not seeing that these topics are deeply political? And if acknowledging that, I would like to see more voices out here saying what they stand for. Not everybody needs to do that, some are uncomfortable and I get that and understand that. But of all the hundreds and thousands of booktubers, some could and should be more vocal. Especially, when we have right wing outlets pretty much everywhere which dominate social media completely.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me. -Martin Niemöller
I know I'm super late to this. My perspective is that we did hear a lot more of this resistance in 2016, and then again in 2020, and it was all very performative and honestly tiresome. I think people are tired. Also, the booktube community while heavily left-leaning and American is not all left-leaning or American so I have to imagine there's lots of people who are apathetic or happy about the result. I guess I'm apathetic too because to be honest I'm happy to not see a bunch of sad-faced thumbnails and people suddenly having political opinions that they never expressed before.
Thank you, Laura. We will see what the next months and years will bring to the US and the world. The president-elect has already stepped back from some of his promises like lowering the price of groceries and I am curious to see how a group of billionaires will be the champs for the lower middle class and poor people. Even the raise of the minimum wage from 7$ is not on the list anymore. I agree that probably a lot of booktubers are on the left, but then, a lot of contemporary fiction is written by left-leaning authors if you think that health care for all is a left issue and respecting who other people love is left, too. But booktubers talk about books that ask important questions to our time and to history and they seldom express that the issues of these books are in fact deeply political.
Book tube is generally extremely left leaning, we all know how terrible the election result is, but what good does it do for a book channel to talk about the election? Like I said, we all know, we’d learn nothing from random book tubers speaking about it. We can go to political commentary channels for that, everything you want talked about is talked about by those channels, it doesn’t make sense that booktube should also focus on the same thing.
If you think of MSNBC for example, it is way to biased and the hosts are millionaires who are not able to see the perspective of hard working and struggling people. And they are losing viewers by the millions. Fox News is gaining a little bit. MSNBC and CNN have lost a lot of viewers. It seems that the millions who did not vote for oligarchy and autocracy are hiding and hope that they will get through the coming 1500 days without being seriously damaged.
Let me add that I think that a lot of books in literary fiction are about the world we live in with all the issues like racism, poverty, mental illness, war, peace, liberty etc. that are deeply political. So booktube in this segment per se is political. If you read romantasy and romance, it might be different.
I admire you very much for speaking out as many have not! I will continue to support your channel and hope many others will join you as a sane voice in these troubling times.
Thank you, Anne. I am looking for books that describe the situation we're in riught now and will make a video about them in a few weeks, hopefully this side of the year,
You raise some very pertinent questions. Thank you. The result of this election says a lot about the American electorate, does it not?
It does, Fernanda. A lot of poor people believed that the richest man in the world is on their side. That is sad. But the democrats on the other side have abandoned the working class in America.
I am thinking of starting a purely political channel.
We need a lot of voices out there. I have watched a lot of content creators like David Pakman, Luke Beasley, Brian Tyler Cohen etc. I agree with you (on that Shawn video...) that there is a lot of racism and misogyny. But there are many other reasons. Some so simple as the price for eggs and other groceries. And the disastrous situation in the poor regions of the US in the rust belt and elsewhere. Vlogger Peter Santenello has visited these areas quite often and also the border. Trump has led a very well orchestrated campaign and we were so naive to believe that all his horrible racism, misogyny, ridiculous dancing to the music, performing oral sex on a microphone would disgust people, but his people just love that. And the right wing media is so much stronger in the US than the so called left (which is left only by American measure). She should have gone to Rogan, he could not have harmed her and she would have reached millions of people. Where were the 18-29 yo? Only 42% of them voted but 75% of the 65+.
Looking forward to your channel. I am not only interested in this because I love the theoretical possibility of America, but also because now the success of Trumpism will empower all the xtreme right wing movements in Europe enormously.
I always come back to Timothy Snyder's book "The Road To Unfreedom" from 2018. Then, he warned, now the US has moved partly willingly, partly notknowingly forward in the direction of Unfreedom.
@@BookishTexan please do!
@@Rainierbooks „Trump empowers extreme rightwingers in Europe“. I agree. And I always stumble over Americans saying „the right is on the rise worldwide“ to even out (relativieren) their own extremist movement. I think most of the world watches America and can understand what they are saying. In the other direction there is a language barrier. Or at least a far narrorer tunnel of information coming into the US that is edited by those who want to report about it.
Sooo, Brian, if you create a political channel, it can help us fight back even outside of the U.S.
Because American is cool. Lectures Held in German are booooring. 🌸
@winterlinde5395 Yes, you should, Brian. And we could have discussions there. I am thinking of doing the same, maybe in German since the situation in Europe is only a little bit better because we have no right-extreme presidents or prime ministers yet, except for Italy.
@@Rainierbooks Gute Idee!
And maybe activate the dubbing function that Criminolli has presented lately. So that your international friends can be part of the conversation?
Great video! Thank you!
@@ariannefowler455Thank you, Arianne!
Please watch Canadian Shawn Breathless Books In Search of Despair segment. He and his guest mince no words about last Tuesday.
* breathes? This one?
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I will take a look and respond to them. Thank you!
Possibly because we already knew. Or read and follow it enough within our own families and friends IRL or maybe a lot of people are like when I grew up don't express every political detail publicly. Or neutral or because sometimes people address things for views and likes. Etc. Etc. NOONE is paying most booktubers so maybe some of us want this time for only the books we choose to discuss not out of duty. I'm a visual artist and a million times over the world thinks that artist have to reflect the times, which generally means the worst if times anything traumatic or life changing moments through struggle. It's exhausting we never get a chance or place to rest. Artist who paint nothing but flowers and trees are questioned like they are not creative enough because it doesn't reflect a dead body amongst the garden. Mostly though it's not for everyone to address we all sound like the same talking heads. Or it's just noones business what our views are. If it's a genuine concern for anyone let it be, but it's not the assignment of the day. We never know what people are doing offline to support what they believe in.
I understand that very well. A place to rest to get some peace and quiet after all this is necessary. And everyone should just dedigitalize for a bit if that is what you need.
I really hope that people do offline work and support marginalized communities or simply your neighbor by slipping 20 $ to help him/her pay the rent when he/she can't.
However, my point is that how can we read and talk about novels and stories about racism, colonialism, LGBTQ+ people, poverty and just discuss them as "beautiful" and not seeing that these topics are deeply political? And if acknowledging that, I would like to see more voices out here saying what they stand for.
Not everybody needs to do that, some are uncomfortable and I get that and understand that. But of all the hundreds and thousands of booktubers, some could and should be more vocal. Especially, when we have right wing outlets pretty much everywhere which dominate social media completely.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
-Martin Niemöller
@@Satans_lil_helper with Matt Gaetz as DOJ, I would not be surprised
I know I'm super late to this. My perspective is that we did hear a lot more of this resistance in 2016, and then again in 2020, and it was all very performative and honestly tiresome. I think people are tired. Also, the booktube community while heavily left-leaning and American is not all left-leaning or American so I have to imagine there's lots of people who are apathetic or happy about the result. I guess I'm apathetic too because to be honest I'm happy to not see a bunch of sad-faced thumbnails and people suddenly having political opinions that they never expressed before.
Thank you, Laura. We will see what the next months and years will bring to the US and the world. The president-elect has already stepped back from some of his promises like lowering the price of groceries and I am curious to see how a group of billionaires will be the champs for the lower middle class and poor people. Even the raise of the minimum wage from 7$ is not on the list anymore.
I agree that probably a lot of booktubers are on the left, but then, a lot of contemporary fiction is written by left-leaning authors if you think that health care for all is a left issue and respecting who other people love is left, too. But booktubers talk about books that ask important questions to our time and to history and they seldom express that the issues of these books are in fact deeply political.
Book tube is generally extremely left leaning, we all know how terrible the election result is, but what good does it do for a book channel to talk about the election? Like I said, we all know, we’d learn nothing from random book tubers speaking about it. We can go to political commentary channels for that, everything you want talked about is talked about by those channels, it doesn’t make sense that booktube should also focus on the same thing.
If you think of MSNBC for example, it is way to biased and the hosts are millionaires who are not able to see the perspective of hard working and struggling people. And they are losing viewers by the millions. Fox News is gaining a little bit. MSNBC and CNN have lost a lot of viewers. It seems that the millions who did not vote for oligarchy and autocracy are hiding and hope that they will get through the coming 1500 days without being seriously damaged.
Let me add that I think that a lot of books in literary fiction are about the world we live in with all the issues like racism, poverty, mental illness, war, peace, liberty etc. that are deeply political. So booktube in this segment per se is political. If you read romantasy and romance, it might be different.