More on unfollowing YouTube channels—and an old (nearly dead) hope

 Among the channels I’ve stopped following for ideological reasons, one stands out. When I first started watching it—a channel run by a guy from Santa Catarina/Brazil who talks about comics and politics—I was under the false impression that he was a self-critical leftist, someone who showed at least a glimmer of self-awareness. He projected a "masculine" brand of leftism, distinct from the kind of style often associated with LGBT sociologists who focus exclusively on "identity politics."

Over time, however, I realized he was just another dogmatic "redwing"—the only difference being his more "folksy" or "everyman" style of speaking.

There was another channel, too, that seemed to belong to a self-critical progressive—a "linguistics expert"—but the deeper I delved, the more I realized he was just another fanatical "socialist."

And so, I’m left with this old, nearly extinguished hope: of finding a leftist content creator who is genuinely impartial and intellectually honest...