Lessons in intellectual resistance with 19-year-old TikTok influencer Guy Christensen (Part 2)
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You’re about to hear part 2 of the first ever podcast interview with 19-year-old pro-Palestine TikTokker Guy Christensen. Every revolutionary can learn something from this kind, determined young man.
Guy has over 3 million TikTok followers and had almost half a million on Instagram before Meta kicked him off the platform. Because of his pro-Palestine activism, He’s been smeared in the media, threatened with FBI and DOJ investigations, and faced challenges as a student that he can’t even discuss publicly yet.
In this episode, you will learn:
- how Guy keeps a level head despite being slandered in mainstream media for his activism
- how AIPAC millionaire Ritchie Torres claimed that Guy Christensen threatened his life, and what Guy actually said (spoiler alert: it was not a threat)
- Guy’s thoughts on AIPAC’s control of our elected officials
- and some facts you may not know about New York City’s mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, both our thoughts on him, and what happened when I met him
Guy will also share recent developments at TikTok that concern him and how they relate back to Project Esther by the Heritage Foundation, which he discussed in detail in Part 1.
At the end of the episode, Guy takes us behind the scenes of his activism efforts.
You can find Guy on TikTok @yourfavoriteguy and on UpScrolled @guy.
Check out Guy’s linktree to follow him on Substack and get more info on how to support his work: https://linktr.ee/ringedfalls
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Resources mentioned
Project Esther by the Heritage Foundation
Studies on how American citizens impact public policy by Martin Gilens, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University
- Who Gets What They Want from Government? (2004) https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/idr.pdf
- Preference Gaps and Inequality in Representation (2009) https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Preference%20Gaps%20and%20Inequality/Gilens%202009.pdf
- Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens (Cambridge 2014) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B
SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine)
- Website - https://www.nationalsjp.org/
- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nationalsjp
- *Note - there are local chapters – search for the one near you.
Haya Washington – the nonprofit Guy works with to help Gaza
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