PickVidsBest Social issues & culture Videos
The 168 Social issues & culture videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 3 intermediate, 164 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a commentary. What they share is that something that already happened gets one reading. Channels you will keep seeing include TED, Innuendo Studios, TEDx Talks.
Gender Neutral Pronouns: They're Here, Get Used To Them
Tom Scott argues that grammatical gender is a silly concept and that the singular 'they' is an established gender-neutral pronoun.
The Alt-Right Playbook: Introduction
The introduction to Innuendo Studios' video essay series on the rhetorical tactics of the alt-right.
Joe Rogan Experience #1191 - Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay
Joe Rogan interviews Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, who describe their hoax papers submitted to academic journals in grievance studies.
Denmark's Forest Kindergartens
An SBS Dateline short documentary on Danish forest kindergartens, where children play freely outdoors, climb trees and use knives with little adult intervention.
Why Japan's Conviction Rate is 99% (Actually Explained)
Yuta explains what Japan's 99% conviction rate actually means, noting that prosecutors drop cases unless confidence is very high.
Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)
Gil Scott-Heron's 1970 spoken-word piece, in an official audio upload.
Why is it so Easy to be Thin in Japan?
Joseph Everett compares the food environment of the US, with roughly 30% obesity, to Japan's, around 3.5%.
Tea Consent
A three-minute animated video that explains sexual consent through the analogy of offering someone a cup of tea.
Why Japan Arrests Foreigners
Paolo fromTOKYO explains why foreign tourists get arrested in Japan, covering strict laws and the justice system's very high conviction rate.
Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence
Jacob Geller's video essay examines how architecture in schools and in video games, such as cover shooters, is shaped by violence.
Gacha Drama and the Korean Gender War
A video essay from lawyer-turned-YouTuber Moon Channel on the South Korean gender war, tracing its historical roots and modern origins through the lens of a gacha game controversy.
Holy Post - Race in America
Phil Vischer of VeggieTales and Holy Post gives an 18-minute history of racial injustice in America, covering why anger persists despite civil rights laws.
2017/08/08: James Damore and his Google Memo on Diversity (complete)
Jordan Peterson's roughly 50-minute interview with James Damore, the fired Google engineer, going through his diversity memo nearly line by line.
Hjernevask - Brainwashing (Eng Sub) Part 1 - The Gender Equality Paradox
First episode of the Norwegian documentary series Hjernevask, in which Harald Eia interviews researchers on the nature versus nurture debate.
Aamer Rahman (Fear of a Brown Planet) - Reverse Racism
Aamer Rahman of Fear of a Brown Planet delivers a stand-up routine on so-called reverse racism, arguing about power imbalance and why criticism of a dominant group is not equivalent to racism.
Best Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky
Gary Yourofsky's 2010 lecture at Georgia Tech arguing for veganism on ethical, health and environmental grounds.
Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box
Hans Rosling's TED@Cannes talk uses boxes and animated data graphics to show how world population will grow to about 9 billion.
What Would You Do? Bike Theft (White Guy, Black Guy, Pretty Girl)
A hidden-camera social experiment in a park where three people try to steal a bike in the open: a white teenager, a black teenager and a young woman.
Joe Rogan Experience #1419 - Daryl Davis
Joe Rogan interviews Daryl Davis, a Black blues musician who has befriended Ku Klux Klan members and helped many leave the group.
PAW Patrol's Dark Secret, Explained
A long video essay by Skip Intro asking what vision of policing the kids' show PAW Patrol suggests.
The Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops
An Innuendo Studios video essay from the Alt-Right Playbook series that uses the Seinfeld 'the card says moops' scene to explain bad-faith argument tactics.
Identity After Authenticity: Abigail Thorn's Profile
A philosophy lecture by Professor Moeller on the philosophy of identity.
Stephen Fry on American vs British Comedy
A short clip of Stephen Fry explaining the differences between American and British comedy.
What prevents the poor from reaching the middle class? | VISION TALKS
Megan McArdle's AEI Vision Talk 'Capital and Poverty' argues that social and financial capital work differently in low-income communities, and that this explains barriers to reaching the middle class.