Great Job, Internet!: Watch this deep dive on the pointlessness of Jubilee debates

The first example in Joel’s video focuses on journalist and All Gas No Breaks YouTuber Andrew Callaghan “debating” 20 conspiracy theorists, only to end up agreeing with at least some of their claims about 9/11 more or less off the bat. “The fact is, one very obvious side to this debate,” says Joel, “is just absent from the conversation.” But that’s hardly the only flaw in Jubilee’s debate style. In one video, Glenn Greenwald—someone who has expressed admiration for Donald Trump’s first time—takes on 20 Trump supporters. As the person in the center of the debate, Greenwald gets to choose the claims that are argued, and chooses one of them to be “President Trump is more of a war-making president than a peace-making president.” As Joel points out, this isn’t really something that is up for debate; it’s just factually true. When the other debaters try to spin the topic toward something that is debatable—for example, whether the Iran War is justified or worthwhile—Greenwald just redirects the topic back to his original claim, about which he’s just empirically correct. The worth of the Iran War is, however, brought up later, so the first claim effectively only wasted 20-plus minutes of the video. 

The analysis throughout the video is worth a watch, it’s in the last segment of the video where Joel really gets into the mission of Jubilee with an assist from an older Taylor Lorenz interview wherein she asks founder Jason Lee why he would platform bigotry. Lee claims that the channel is actually a place of empathy, going so far as to call the company “the Disney of empathy.” As Joel argues, the metaphor actually fits pretty well. Check out the whole video below.