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Social issues & culture Videos Recommended on Hacker News (168)

Social issues & culture is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 168 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2011 and 2026 — 365 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

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Social issues & culture Videos Recommended on Hacker News (168)

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DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population

Music Theory and White Supremacy

Alain de Botton: Status Anxiety

America Keeps Rejecting an ID Card It Already Has

Seattle is Dying | A KOMO News Documentary

Why Are You So Angry? Part 1: A Short History of Anita Sarkeesian

Incels | ContraPoints

NVC Marshall Rosenberg - San Francisco Workshop - FULL ENGLISH SUBTITLES TRANSCRIPTION

Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs

How not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling

Millennials Don't Exist! Adam Conover at Deep Shift

Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia

"Two incompatible sacred values in American universities" Jon Haidt, Hayek Lecture Series

Canceling | ContraPoints

James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)

Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter

Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies. | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville

Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism

John Cleese vs Extremism

The Bell Curve

The Lively & Liveable Neighbourhoods that are Illegal in Most of North America

13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix

[AUDIO FIXED] The Truth Cannot be Sexist - Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences

How one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson

The Houses that Can't be Built in America - The Missing Middle

The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie

Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained

Religions and babies | Hans Rosling

The US Has More Tribes Than the World Has Countries

Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America | Jeff Rosen | TEDxMountainViewHighSchool

Why the world population won’t exceed 11 billion | Hans Rosling | TGS.ORG

James Baldwin vs William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965

Homeless man talks openly about being addicted to heroin. We have an opioid crisis in America.

Andres Duany Lecture. Suburban Sprawl.

The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery