Comment on Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support

ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love Hasan. I wish more privileged voices were as concise and consistent and forceful on left issues like he is. If there were several dozen more people like him we wouldn’t all have to couch our support for their advocacy with a milquetoast disclaimer about how we don’t even like them.

  Hell, I’m a vegan and an anarchist. He regularly throws those aspects of my identity under the bus to offer a fig leaf to the unconvinced in his audience so that they listen to more central leftist ideas, and still I love him for that. He has millions of followers, I cannot fathom how impactful he has been to leftist advocacy all over the world in the past 5 years. I’m so fucking sick of people putting disclaimers on their support for him. I don’t even sub to him and I love the guy.

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  • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t get me wrong, he seems like a good guy, but react streamers are objectively the lowest form of entertainer.

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    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      About half of his content is interviews with activists / politicians and live-on-the-ground protest coverage. His “react” coverage is mostly training his audience to digest mainstream newsmedia through a leftist lens rather than dramaslop-type takes.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      but react streamers are objectively the lowest form of entertainer.

      I thought that was intersection jugglers but like, you’ll never guess what I do during the day. Now I gotta get a new entertainment job.

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  • Varpeggio@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He thinks “ I have a pretty big audience, I better endorse DNC candidates to ensure I don’t push the needle too far left” and that fucking sucks.

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    • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I understand and feel your frustration. I don’t think he’s a bad guy, though. And highlighting stories like this is only good, don’t you think?

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      • Varpeggio@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, you’re right!

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  • jimmy90@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So you’d agree with him that the UK is now a fascist state

    You love a con man

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes

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    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Now”? It’s not a new development.

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• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The people that need to actively attack Hasan in this day and age are almost categorically active supporters of this current status quo.

  They’re not even just opponents of the left anymore. They’re just present to wreck any civil spaces to cause infighting.

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