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You could examine everything I have ever, ever written and you will never find me paying someone to hold up a sign reading "Death to Jews".

• baby 10y ago
  You're not a comedian.
• alva 10y ago
  No, but I could now quote you in the news saying you wrote "Death to Jews" online. And that is pretty much what all of this is about.
  • PhasmaFelis 10y ago
    Seems to me it's about someone literally paying a guy to hold up a sign that says "Death to Jews".
    • sqeaky 10y ago
      The joke was that he was asking a bunch of people to do unreasonable things for $5 and someone else actually agreed to this. He went into it knowing it was unreasonable and thats the joke. We only hear about this, because no one else did the other crazy shit he suggested.
      • watwut 10y ago
        Do we know what other crazy shit he suggested?
        • quirkafleeg 10y ago
          His other crazy shit was to pay someone to say "Hitler did nothing wrong". When that guy, who was dressed as Jesus, was banned by Fiverr, Pewdiepie stated: "Isn't it ironic that Jews[1] found another way to fuck Jesus over?" Whether his quest to push the comedy envelope extends further than Nazi/Jew related material, I don't know. [1] Fiverr is based in Israel. Edit: And the predictable downvote within minutes. How funny that the fans of Pewdiepie, and his "free speech", have such a reaction to a post stating objective facts about what he said.
          • sqeaky 10y ago
            I didn't downvote you, nor am I a fan. I only saw parts of the episode when a friend watched it, so I did not see it in it's entirety. Is what you listed a complete listing of things he attempted to get through? Or just your selection of what he tried that was prejudice? It seems likely he also would have tried to get some other dumb things through on the level of dick jokes.
            • quirkafleeg 10y ago
              I haven't seen him or any of his fans give any examples in his defence of other things he did that were not along the lines of "Hitler did nothing wrong" and "Death to all Jews", which I'd expect them to do if he'd done so.
              • quirkafleeg 10y ago
                The zealous petulance displayed by Pewdiepie fans in this thread over anything that doesn't try to excuse his anti-Semitic remarks and behaviour is really weird.
            • sangnoir 10y ago
              Do we really need the complete list of things he said before we can judge the wisdom (or lack thereof) of the headline-grabbing ones? "Is what you listed the complete list of ingredients to this homeopathic medicine? Or just your selection of the poisonous ones? It seems likely they would have put in some other healthy things on the level of ginseng"
              • sqeaky 10y ago
                If you don't provide sufficient context, in any argument, then that is just cherry picking. In this case, if the list contains mild things and racism, then its probably just that PewDiePie is racist. If the list contains nothing socially acceptable and some of it happens to racist well then clearly the whole thing was for shock value, and the racism was probably just a way to push your buttons.
• coldtea 10y ago
  You just wrote the phrase "Death to J..." on HN. You are obviously an anti-semite worse than PewDiePie, who didn't even hold the sign himself. That's the level of attack on him, and your comment is not helping either. Also, are you so sure we won't find something similarly damning in your whole life, or even in just in your past month?
• raesene6 10y ago
  No, but I could point to many other mainstream accepted comedians who get TV shows and are part of the "establishment" who have made jokes which mention the holocaust, and a range of other taboo topics. Heck if you want one example just look up Jimmy Carr. He has even made a joke out of the offensiveness of the jokes he tells.
• busterarm 10y ago
  Allow me to introduce you to Andy Kaufman.