If you don’t feel like watching a two hour video about The Satanic Temple but still want info, I’d recommend this Newsweek article.
If you’ve already watched it, here are some additional comments regarding this video as provided by QueerSatanic on Reddit (slightly edited for formatting):
On lawsuits
The chilling effect of The Satanic Temple suing Newsweek (and its reporter as an individual) for defamation over the magazine’s story in October 2021 can’t be overstated.
Everything has been dismissed except for the question of whether TST is a public or private figure (it’s almost definitionally a public figure) and whether they were defamed by the article quoting someone about sexual abuse in the Temple; all the other ~20 claims got tossed by the judge.
But as Dead Domain’s video showed, it’s not like there is a paucity of evidence for the remaining claim, either.
If you want to dig into the court docket for the Newsweek SLAPP, this is the magazine’s last filing (1)(2), which TST handwaves away as “Internet hearsay” in their reply.
On bigotry
Dead Domain may have been required to use that “I think it’s OK to hate Jews” clip because it’s the most infamous one and the one that has been addressed publicly at all.
However, the beliefs on eugenics are so much worse, plus the casual racism and the praise of literal fascism. (Examples).
“I went to Italy and got a fascist shirt, and I loved how clean that part of town was” is something that made it into the video, but people still willing to give TST’s owner the benefit of doubt are basically saying they don’t care to learn how bad he actually was at the “young” age of 28, and they don’t need any proof of change other than not hearing those clips anymore.
Fifteen years later at age 43, TST’s owner was still running his website called “Dysgenics . com”
Wow, this one really offended some people.
To the downvoters: what’s wrong with this video?
Note sure. I was coming to see what’s what.
The Satanic Temple has done a LOT of really good things for people. It has fought long and hard against Christianity trying to get it’s class past the divide on Church and State. It’s been an advocate for a lot of prochoice, body positivity, and in general pro-“you”.
I’ll check out the video this evening.
Not a downvoter, but incredibly sad to see this and my initial reaction was disbelief. But then acceptance
To be fair, that was my original reaction several years ago after discovering this too. Especially because, on paper, TST is doing the world a valuable service by critiquing organized religion.
And most of the people associated with it are probably perfectly good people. Just… Not the ones at the very top.