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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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1 mo on HNThe PewDiePipeline: how racist humor leads to violence
NonCompete
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HNHomeowners Associations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HNObesity is a National Security Issue: Lieutenant General Mark Hertling at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012
TEDx Talks
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
1 mo on HNWhy is India so filthy? | The Ugly Indian | TEDxBangalore
TEDx Talks
1 HN recommend · 2014–2025
1 mo on HNSilence U Part 2: What Has Yale Become? | We the Internet Documentary
We the Internet TV
1 HN recommend · 2017–2019
1 mo on HNHow to Stop a Riot
Wendover Productions
1 HN recommend · 2018–2020
1 mo on HNThe Alt-Right Playbook: I Hate Mondays
Innuendo Studios
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HNKonstantin Kisin: Woke Culture HAS Gone Too Far - 7/8 | Oxford Union
OxfordUnion
1 HN recommend · 2023–2023
0 mo on HNHigh School Debate at 350 wpm - Wired
WIRED
0 HN recommender · 2017–2023
0 mo on HNIt's okay to not like things
8O8X
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025
0 mo on HNMigrants being sold as slaves in Libya
CNN
0 HN recommender · 2018–2021
0 mo on HNCampus Argument Goes Viral As Evergreen State Is Caught In Racial Turmoil (HBO)
VICE News
0 HN recommender · 2017–2019
0 mo on HNJunkies Take Over Corridors Of San Francisco Civic Center BART Station
KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA
0 HN recommender · 2018–2021
0 mo on HNYale University Students Protest Halloween Costume Email (VIDEO 3)
FIRE
0 HN recommender · 2015–2016
0 mo on HNDriving For Uber, Sleeping In Her Car (HBO )
VICE News
0 HN recommender · 2020–2022
0 mo on HNPeople stuffed onto a train in Tokyo, Japan (train stuffing Tokyo)
train stuffing tokyo
0 HN recommender · 2017–2021
0 mo on HNStandardized Testing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
0 HN recommender · 2017–2025
0 mo on HNJuvenoia
Vsauce
0 HN recommender · 2016–2023
0 mo on HNTeacher admits he helped write Common Core to end white privilege
Campus Reform
0 HN recommender · 2017–2021
0 mo on HNHyperNormalisation explained by Adam Curtis
Carlos Caper
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025
0 mo on HNThe New Religion Of Anti-Racism: A Conversation with John McWhorter (Episode #217)
Sam Harris
0 HN recommender · 2020–2022
0 mo on HNBarack Obama on Gay Marriage
GLASSBOOTHdotORG
0 HN recommender · 2014–2019
0 mo on HNDr. Michio Kaku America Has A Secret Weapon
The72tube
0 HN recommender · 2017–2020
0 mo on HNVideo at Buffalo protest shows police pushing 75-year-old man
CBC News
0 HN recommender · 2020–2021
0 mo on HNThe Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory
Pop Culture Detective
0 HN recommender · 2017–2023
0 mo on HNExclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy
The Nation
0 HN recommender · 2017–2022
0 mo on HNBLM Founder Says They Are "Trained Marxists"
Tony Heller
0 HN recommender · 2020–2023
0 mo on HNIdiocracy - Opening scene in HD
Thierry Muller
0 HN recommender · 2017–2024
0 mo on HNWoman disguises 911 call by ordering pizza
KGET News
0 HN recommender · 2021–2026
0 mo on HNDavid Mitchell - Customer Service Rant
The8431123
0 HN recommender · 2016–2018
0 mo on HNMark Fisher : The Slow Cancellation Of The Future
MaMa Zagreb
0 HN recommender · 2017–2026
0 mo on HNMakeup Looted From CVS In San Francisco
Acidsmooth
0 HN recommender · 2021–2021
0 mo on HNHow To Tell Someone They Sound Racist
Jay Smooth
0 HN recommender · 2011–2021
0 mo on HN10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman
Rob Bliss
0 HN recommender · 2017–2021
0 mo on HNHunter S. Thompson meets a Hell's Angel, 1967 | CBC
CBC
0 HN recommender · 2014–2022
0 mo on HNHappiness
Steve Cutts
0 HN recommender · 2019–2025