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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.
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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2 mo on HNWhy Western Designs Fail in Developing Countries
Design Theory
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HNTinder Experiment: 18 Yr Old Woman Tries Being A Man!!!
Alexander Grace
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNWhen Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything
Ryan Long
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
2 mo on HNPart One: The Evergreen Equity Council
Michael Nayna
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HNMake love, not porn (Adult content) | Cindy Gallop
TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2017
2 mo on HNFerguson, MO and Police Militarization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNJordan Peterson - Women in High Paying Jobs
Bite-sized Philosophy
1 HN recommend · 2017–2022
2 mo on HNI Forgot My Phone
charstarleneTV
2 HN recommender · 2013–2026
2 mo on HNMy descent into America's neo-Nazi movement & how I got out | Christian Picciolini | TEDxMileHigh
TEDx Talks
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HNSOUTH KOREA IS OVER
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNThe Fight for the Soul of Seattle | A KOMO News Documentary
KOMO News
2 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HNReagan and Bush Debate Immigration, Border Fences, and Undocumented Children in 1980
TIME
1 HN recommend · 2018–2026
2 mo on HNWhy Are Birthrates Plummeting Worldwide?
Patrick Boyle
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNUnconscious Bias @ Work | Google Ventures
GV (Google Ventures)
2 HN recommender · 2015–2018
2 mo on HNSee how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund
TED
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNDemographic Collapse — China's Reckoning (Part 1)
PolyMatter
2 HN recommender · 2021–2021
2 mo on HNNeil Degrasse Tyson on being Black, and Women in Science
D- Angel
2 HN recommender · 2014–2017
2 mo on HNWhy You Will Marry the Wrong Person
The School of Life
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
1 mo on HNWhy Libertarianism Is So Dangerous
School Sucks
1 HN recommend · 2013–2021
1 mo on HNGeorge Carlin - It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It!
SkyEcho7
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
1 mo on HNDavid Bowie Criticizes MTV for Not Playing Videos by Black Artists | MTV News
MTV News
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
1 mo on HNThe mathematics of love | Hannah Fry
TED
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
1 mo on HNBill Burr Answers "Can Women Be Funny?"
Davison
1 HN recommend · 2015–2016
1 mo on HNMilton Friedman - Illegal Immigration - PT 1
LibertyPen
1 HN recommend · 2011–2016
1 mo on HNSocial Inequalities Explained in a $100 Race - Please Watch to the End. Thanks.
Peter D
1 HN recommend · 2018–2026
1 mo on HNJordan Peterson | ContraPoints
ContraPoints
1 HN recommend · 2018–2021
1 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1006 - Jordan Peterson & Bret Weinstein
PowerfulJRE
1 HN recommend · 2017–2018
1 mo on HNThe Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal | Adam Ruins Everything
Dropout
1 HN recommend · 2017–2019
1 mo on HNWhy Every Japanese Criminal is Guilty
Rare Earth
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HNWhy 'Idiocracy' Would Actually Be A Utopia
Cracked
1 HN recommend · 2016–2018
1 mo on HNThomas Sowell: affirmative action creates academic failure & resentment
Gravitahn
1 HN recommend · 2018–2020
1 mo on HNInside China's 'thought transformation' camps - BBC News
BBC News
1 HN recommend · 2020–2021
1 mo on HNHow economic inequality harms societies | Richard Wilkinson
TED
1 HN recommend · 2012–2016
1 mo on HNDoes Canada’s Bill C-16 Violate Free Speech or Protect Human Rights? | The Agenda
TVO Today
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HNMarxism: Zizek/Peterson: Official Video
Jordan B Peterson
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HNThis LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
ReasonTV
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021