nazi sympathiser pewdiepie?
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Pretty easy to find on a search engine:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38965377
Either he likes Nazi shit or he thinks its funny to pretend he likes Nazi shit to make people upset.
I roughly followed that back in the day and I think there isn't much to these claims. He seems to sometimes have a bad taste and is a bit naive in some regards. But that's not being a Nazi. And it's been 7 or 8 years and he seems to have learned from that, or was there any more controversy? I don't follow him, nor have I watched any videos for some time. And this video also doesn't convince me to watch his content...
Edit: And I don't want to apologize that behaviour. He definitely did these bad "jokes", I just think he genuinely thought it was funny and he was some sort of clown. But that makes him an idiot, and not a nazi.
Tbh, people like him—the ones that thought racism and other bigotry were valid comedy tools—only helped normalize that stuff today. I lay part of the blame, for the rise of the hyper-masculine shock culture that's currently worming its way through various societies and governments, at his and his collaborators' feet.
So whether anyone thinks he's a Nazi currently, in the past, or was/is just a stupid idiot, he's still culpable for using his platform to help normalize hate. And in my mind, unless he's used his platform to counter the bigotry he helped propagate, he'll always be a bastard for it.
I think that's true. I'd somehow like to have different words available. Because I think it's a big difference whether it's Minecraft Hitler. Or the actual Nazis we have on the rise as of today. For example the richest man on earth "accidentally" doing the Nazi salute in front of a right-wing audience. And we know he also likes to share nazi propaganda on social media and supports authoritarianism. If we call all of them the same, we also normalize stuff... So yeah.
He has also said the hard R on stream multiple times
Multiple times? isn't only the one pubg bridge incident.
omg that makes him literally Hitler 🫨
Didn't know this is his first PC build, I assumed he had built one before.
He usually got pcs from those companies that do custom builds from what I remember