I don’t really think most people knew how dangerous Alex Jones’ reach would become at that point (Jan 2013), but, you know, go off king.
While I didn't know he would peek his head into the mainstream and have a future president on his show... It was widely known that he had dangerous/hateful views and that he was pushing them on an impressionable audience of people, many of which suffer from serious mental health issues like paranoia/schizophrenia.
SecularTalk (Kyle Kulinski) got his start making content pushing back against Alex Jones. InfoWars has always had concerning far-right extremists on.
Clicking on the first video that popped up when I searched "2013 Secular Talk Alex Jones":
Hmm... who is Larry Pratt?
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/larry-prattFrom this page:
Larry Pratt stands at the intersection of guns and Jesus, lobbying for absolutely unrestricted distribution of firearms while advocating a theocratic society based upon Old Testament civil and religious laws. A pivotal figure in the rise of right-wing militia, or “Patriot,” groups, he spoke at the notorious 1992 “Gathering of Christian Men” in Estes Park, Colo., where 160 neo-Nazis, Klan members, anti-Semitic Christian Identity adherents and others arguably laid the groundwork for the militia movement that would explode in 1994. He believes that white Christians must arm themselves for self-protection in the inevitable social implosions and riots that are soon to come.
Later on...
The gathering was organized by the late Pete Peters, a pastor of Christian Identity, which posits that Jews are biological descendants of Satan and people of color are subhuman. Among the 160 Estes Park attendees were Aryan Nations leader Richard G. Butler and former Aryan “ambassador” and Ku Klux Klan leader Louis Beam.
I didn't pick and choose, it was literally the first video that popped up with that search.
I'm not posting this to call you out, but to inform. I don't see the need for the condescending "go off king". Its okay if you didn't know he was all about at that time, but many of us did.