Social issues & culture Videos Recommended on Hacker News (116)
Social issues & culture is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 116 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.
Society and culture: race, gender, identity politics, homelessness, education policy, demographics, birth rates, immigration, dating and relationships, religion in society, class.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population: “I can highly recommend this lecture by the late Hans Rosling” — an HN commenter, 2017.
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6 mo on HNHow not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling
7 mo on HNMillennials Don't Exist! Adam Conover at Deep Shift
4 mo on HNWhy I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies. | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville
4 mo on HN[AUDIO FIXED] The Truth Cannot be Sexist - Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences
5 mo on HNHow one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson
4 mo on HNReligions and babies | Hans Rosling
4 mo on HNGermany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America | Jeff Rosen | TEDxMountainViewHighSchool
3 mo on HNJames Baldwin vs William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965
3 mo on HNMEETING THE ENEMY A feminist comes to terms with the Men's Rights movement | Cassie Jaye | TEDxMarin
3 mo on HNRSA ANIMATE: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
2 mo on HNBest Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary Yourofsky
2 mo on HNHans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box
2 mo on HNWhat prevents the poor from reaching the middle class? | VISION TALKS
2 mo on HNMake love, not porn (Adult content) | Cindy Gallop
2 mo on HNMy descent into America's neo-Nazi movement & how I got out | Christian Picciolini | TEDxMileHigh
2 mo on HNUnconscious Bias @ Work | Google Ventures
2 mo on HNSee how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund
2 mo on HNNeil Degrasse Tyson on being Black, and Women in Science
1 mo on HNThe mathematics of love | Hannah Fry
1 mo on HNHow economic inequality harms societies | Richard Wilkinson
1 mo on HNObesity is a National Security Issue: Lieutenant General Mark Hertling at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012
1 mo on HNWhy is India so filthy? | The Ugly Indian | TEDxBangalore
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Mentioned in HN threads about social issues & culture, though never formally recommended:
Bernie Sanders: "Open borders? That's a Koch brothers proposal" · Barack Obama takes on 'woke' call-out culture: 'That's not activism' · IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) Mike Judge · How To Tell Someone They Sound Racist · High School Debate at 350 wpm - Wired · Idiocracy - Opening scene in HD · HP computers are racist · The Alt-Right Playbook: Never Play Defense · Video at Buffalo protest shows police pushing 75-year-old man · The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory · BLM Founder Says They Are "Trained Marxists" · Makeup Looted From CVS In San Francisco · "Debate" American Style: Our Top Orators in Action · Modern Educayshun · Rolling Coal On Protesters Compilation 🔴 (BlackLivesMatter, Trump Haters, Tree Huggers) · The China they DON'T want you to SEE! · Ami Horowitz: How white liberals really view black voters · Junkies Take Over Corridors Of San Francisco Civic Center BART Station · Driving For Uber, Sleeping In Her Car (HBO ) · People stuffed onto a train in Tokyo, Japan (train stuffing Tokyo) · HyperNormalisation explained by Adam Curtis · The New Religion Of Anti-Racism: A Conversation with John McWhorter (Episode #217) · Barack Obama on Gay Marriage · Dr. Michio Kaku America Has A Secret Weapon · Mark Fisher : The Slow Cancellation Of The Future · 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman · Happiness · Tea and Consent · Devil Wears Prada - Cerulean Top · It's okay to not like things · Migrants being sold as slaves in Libya · Campus Argument Goes Viral As Evergreen State Is Caught In Racial Turmoil (HBO) · Yale University Students Protest Halloween Costume Email (VIDEO 3) · Standardized Testing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) · Juvenoia · Teacher admits he helped write Common Core to end white privilege · Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy · Woman disguises 911 call by ordering pizza · David Mitchell - Customer Service Rant · Hunter S. Thompson meets a Hell's Angel, 1967 | CBC · 新疆 : 新讲 Xinjiang : a New Explanation · Warren Farrell protest at University of Toronto - Full version · On Bullsh*t Jobs | David Graeber | Meaningless Jobs | Royal Society of Arts | Lecture · A War on Homelessness · Cars Are A Disaster For Society -- Here Are the Numbers · Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Screws up on Trans Kids' Care · George Carlin "The American Dream" Best 3 Minutes of His Career · Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs - Part 1 Male Perpetrators · The Truth About Homelessness in San Francisco · 3D-Printed Home Can Be Constructed For Under $4,000 · why Japan's internet is weirdly designed · Charlottesville: The True Alt-Right