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The last thing we need is more nazi apologists, let alone loud nazi apologists with a loud fanbase
Context?
He is not a Nazi apologist at all lmao.
He paid some Indian guys in fiver to hold up a sign that said something like "death to Jews" or something like that. He didn't think they would actually do it and he of course he laughed when they sent back the video of them dancing and holding up the sign.
When he got backlash for the "joke" by mainstream media he felt they were purposely twisting things around in a certain way to make him look worse and he was going to prove it. He then wore a British WW2 military officers uniform for a video where he claimed they would purposely cut the video to misrepresent things and that's exactly what happened. They claimed he doubled down and wore a Nazi uniform because he was a Nazi.
Not long after that whole debacle he then had the infamous "bridge incident" where he called some random gamer the n word while he was live on twitch playing PUBG. He made an apology video after that where he said: “It was something I said in the heat of the moment. I said the worst word I could possibly think of, and it just sort of slipped out. I’m not going to make any excuses as to why it did, because there are no excuses for it.”
Absolutely worth being criticized for the things he did in his past, but I don't think it's fair to cancel the guy forever because of those things. Especially when it appears that he has grown up quite significantly since those days.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/09/magazine/PewDiePie-interview.html
Always cracks me up watching Gen Z froth at the mouth defending him.
Mass shooters believe he is a nazi. Sounds like the narrative got away from him no matter how much you parasocially defend him.
I'm older than PewDiePie. I have two little brothers that grew up watching him religiously so I ended up seeing a lot of his content and being looped in on his controversies.
What mentally insane people believe is completely irrelevant. Plenty of insane people have taken words of peace and love and somehow found ways to twist them into calls of violence.
Using mentally deranged peoples actions to blame a public figure is actually insane. Not once did PewDiePie ever make any calls to action and in fact he publicly denounced those people and what they did.
YOU need help.
Sure its us who need help, not you defending a nazi
Yeah it IS you people that need help. Because I'm not defending a Nazi. I am defending a person that made edgy Nazi jokes in their youth because I have enough brain power and human experience to know that not every single edgy teenager and young adult goes on to actually support extremist crap. It's almost like humans spend their youth learning what's ok in society. What's not ok. Where they land on issues. Where other people land on issues.
What's more important to me and most other humans is what kind of person someone is today. What kind of person they have been like in the last few years of their lives.
Every single human makes mistakes. How they learn from those mistakes is generally more important than the mistakes themselves (obviously not always the case).
Grow up.
Ok Im gonna write this again and this time read it slowly so you understand, hopefully. So according to you we need help for holding a person accountable for his own actions
Jesus Christ it's like trying to explain true empathy to a narcissist. I give up. You're not emotionally intelligent enough for me to bother attempting to explain any further. Have a good night.
I think he ran out of vocabulary to continue this thread