00:00Most parents don't know who Nick Fuentes is, but they absolutely must make themselves familiar with him and his ideas in order to protect their boys.
00:08The 27-year-old is host of the America First podcast, which he has on Rumble, and apparently, according to the New York Times, in just the past several months, his views have quintupled on the platform, and he also has a million followers on X.
00:26So even though he might not be a household name, his reach is growing exponentially.
00:31On his show, Fuentes has spewed all sorts of extremely controversial beliefs.
00:36White people are every single bit justified in being racist.
00:42You know, enough with the Jim Crow stuff. Who cares? A lot of women want to be raped. I will continue my crusade against women in politics.
00:52He even once professed love for Hitler as an opener to a speech.
00:56It's Fure Her Friday. It is Hitler Friday.
00:59Fuentes recently had a conversation with Tucker Carlson on his podcast, which launched an all-out civil war on the right about how far right is too far right to be accepted into mainstream politics.
01:10Regardless of where you stand on that issue, his reach is only growing, and we have to engage with his ideas in order to understand what's actually happening with young men.
01:18Fuentes' followers call themselves GRIPers.
01:22You know, racism is not real.
01:25According to the ADL, they are defenders of a white Christian nation or a vision of America that they see as being under siege.
01:35A Republican staffer recently said that he believes that about one in three young GOP staffers under 30 have some sort of affiliation with the GRIPers movement, which is obviously hugely concerning.
01:47This movement is less defined by a coherent ideology and more defined by swapping edgelord memes, which is basically a contest of how low can you go and how edgy and provocative and offensive can you be online.
02:01How much of this is young men doing some sort of cathartic rebellion in this double life that they're living online versus them actually holding these remarkably regressive and negative beliefs that would be completely in contrast with all the values that they were raised with?
02:18Unfortunately, people like Fuentes do have an insidious and very, very wide reach.
02:24And for some young men who feel that they've been politically stifled and that they can't say what they really mean, they're beginning to start to say things that they don't really mean in order to get a rise out of people and to join in this sort of brotherhood of GRIPers offensiveness.
02:40And unless we are aware of what our kids are interacting with online, then we can never have an actual civil conversation with them and help them engage with these ideas critically.
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