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This is already documented to be the case with YouTube, where the recommendations serve as a radicalization engine. For example, watching videos on vegetarianism will cause YouTube to push you to be vegan. Article (by the same author) here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...

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If YouTube hadn't gone on a fairly extensive program of manually culling Arabic language Islamic state related videos, watching videos on secular Sunni hanafi and hanbali ideology would pretty quickly lead you to hardcore wahabbist Sharia law indoctrination.

Also, I have plenty of friends radicalized by youtube into hardcore islamophobia which they hadn't exhibited before.

It is really easy for far right media to cherry pick stories like this: http://time.com/5214563/parents-attacked-16-year-old-daughte...

I can just as easily find news articles about thousands of white women who are killed by their WASP husbands in the USA, but those are, from the xenophobe perspective, a relatively mundane occurrence.

My father's the same. He'll walk along through town minding his own business, and then see someone he thinks is a Muslim. That's when the shouting begins.

I feel sorry for you. In my experience, there is little you can do to change the mind of such a person, and yet living with them can be constant embarrassment.

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