Watching and reacting to the Tyler Oliveria viral video on Kiryas Joel

Video version here: https://youtu.be/ZlWRN4jo-CA

As someone who grew up in Kiryas Joel and left the fold, I have a lot to say on this Hasidic village. There's good and bad. There are issues, and yes there are valid criticisms on its relationship to the welfare system, although this doesn't take away from the facts: that this is a community where the vast majority of men are gainfully employed and work incredibly hard. The stereotypes of this community as "welfare queens" whose men study torah and don't work is so damaging and not true. @TylerOliveira 's recent video will so deeply reinforce these misconceptions. I've done a video where I went through the phone book and showed the extensive numbers of businesses Hasidim are into. It's so sad that his platform will create so much misrepresentation.

This is my first take reaction to his video. Please forgive my early morning rants and rambles. I am watching it raw with you. I find it quite upsetting and ignorant. I hope my deep feelings that this community is complicated, imperfect, should be criticized but is also often misrepresented comes through. This is long - well Tyler's video is long.

Please watch some of my other videos, especially my video on how Hasidim earn a living. https://youtu.be/UXXOGYqbK5o

What it was like for me to grow up in Kiryas Joel https://youtu.be/uHu_17N9GdE

My interview with Fradel Newman, lifetime resident of Kiryas Joel https://youtu.be/HoTzWaF7dU8

Interview with civil rights lawyer Michael Sussman, who can really speak for some of the dark side https://youtu.be/jcz0xmkm10s

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