theglowpt2:

theglowpt2:

my mom is an eighth grade science teacher and was complaining to me about how many of her students don’t believe in evolution or the moon landing and spent a whole class period trying to argue with her that the earth is flat and she was like “yeah they all said they watch this guy on youtube who says this stuff…shawn something” and i was like “wait was his name shane dawson?” and she said “oh my god YES”

so that’s terrifying!

i have no idea if this stuff is directly in his videos or anything like that. I haven’t watched any of his stuff since i was in 8th grade myself and he was still doing his whole blackface and transphobia shtick. All i know is that my hometown is in a fairly rural, very conservative area, and my mom already has to struggle on a daily basis to convince these kids that evolution isn’t a liberal hoax. So the fact that they’re becoming deeply inundated with these far right leaning conspiracy theories and then naming shane dawson specifically as their role model for this sort of thing should set off MAJOR alarms about him and his content and the impact it can have on the kids who watch him