Early Patreon Update (No. 15) Due to Reasons
Added 2018-07-29 15:56:49 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
I'm doing this week's update a bit early so as to let you know about the two videos coming this week. Both are Patreon Q&A videos, however I've split them into two videos, with one video coming out Monday and the other coming out Tuesday. Therefore, for those of you pledging $5 or more, if you don't see your question on the Monday, you know it'll be in the Tuesday video.
The reason I've split them is because of the nature of the questions, plus my own experience on my channel this week (and in the past). My channel has been hit by the far-right and far-left a few times now, and I've been awoken to the problem. Since I'm very much against distortions of history (Suvorov's thesis, clean Wehrmacht, denial of the Holocaust, denial of the Holodomor etc) I now feel like I need to take action.
Immediate action will simply be cleaning the comment sections and moderating all comments going forwards. I've been very liberal with allowing pretty much all comments to surface, but now I realise that this has allowed them to plant seeds across the channel. Obviously, now I'm aware of the issue, I'm not going to allow that to continue.
The main theme of the channel will remain WW2. Priority is still Crusader/Courland/Stalingrad etc. However, looking forwards, I want to talk about Nazi and Soviet atrocities - and tie them into WW2 and see what the relationship is between them. I also want to discuss the distions of history, and their relationship to YouTube and the internet at large. I also want to debunk these flat-earth denialist conspiracy theories in the typical TIK-style - with massive amounts of evidence. I was planning on properly debunking Suvorov's thesis anyway so it makes sense to do the others too.
Also, I recorded the video(s) yesterday, and since then one or two of you asked me additional questions. So, if your question wasn't answered in this week's videos, I'll add them onto the next Q&A video :)
Video Links:
The Alt Right Control YouTube https://youtu.be/583X6DGjits (mirror) https://youtu.be/LtHNmV-Wtbs
Behind the lies of Holocaust denial | Deborah Lipstadt https://youtu.be/0ztdofPc8Rw
Confronting Holocaust Denial: A Strategy https://youtu.be/1CLKptQmUR8
"History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving," Deborah Lipstadt, 9/14/2005 https://youtu.be/t7zSR7BGbuQ (note the number of downvotes)
The Origins of Mass Killing: the bloodlands hypothesis https://youtu.be/fXrqGlgufCA
What Do We Know About the Holodomor: New Research Results https://youtu.be/3k5ScxnpQrg (this video actually has timestamps!)
As always, thank you all for your ongoing support. I'll be replying to your messages tomorrow.
Cheers!
Lewis
