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Considering he spends tens of hours a week producing inane, barely researched content and commentary and also handles most of his own admin I'm not surprised. P

Considering he spends tens of hours a week producing inane, barely researched content and commentary and also handles most of his own admin I'm not surprised. People with a tenth of his audience have staff dedicated to making sure that things like that don't happen. What's more interesting is that every single bleeding-heart journalist that seems to have an issue with him all have tweets praising Nazis, throwing racial slurs around or generally being whatever they're criticising Felix for. An example from the Vox writer: "seeing #WhyIJoinedTwitter trending and all i can think of is, Don't be stupid, be a smartie! Come and join the Nazi party!" - with gif of people doing Nazi salutes [0] Call that satire if you like - which is how she's trying to defend it - but that's exactly what Felix is repeatedly crucified for. Just bad luck for her too, I guess. Except she's not apologising for it, nor is she being punished by her employer nor is she having articles written about her for it. [0] https://twitter.com/ajaromano/status/1024721866823491584 https://twitter.com/ajaromano/status/1024721866823491584

sincerely 8y ago
I have not stayed extremely up-to-date on PewDiePie's various scandals. But the one I am mainly aware of was him calling someone that killed him (in-game) the n word. How is this the same as that tweet?
- stevenjohns 8y ago
  It's not. We're talking about a different scandal altogether here from a few days ago (the one referenced in the article) where Felix gave a "shout out" to a couple dozen different channels - one of them for some sort of anime content. That channel turned out to have antisemitic content as well. Felix promptly apologised and removed the link to their channel.
- username90 8y ago
  To someone not growing up in America it isn't clear that you can't say the n-word. We see people say it all the time in tv shows so we just copy that. Therefore it makes perfect sense that Europeans uses the n-word without being racist. Once they are told to stop they usually do though.

sincerely 8y ago

I have not stayed extremely up-to-date on PewDiePie's various scandals. But the one I am mainly aware of was him calling someone that killed him (in-game) the n word. How is this the same as that tweet?

stevenjohns 8y ago
It's not. We're talking about a different scandal altogether here from a few days ago (the one referenced in the article) where Felix gave a "shout out" to a couple dozen different channels - one of them for some sort of anime content. That channel turned out to have antisemitic content as well. Felix promptly apologised and removed the link to their channel.
username90 8y ago
To someone not growing up in America it isn't clear that you can't say the n-word. We see people say it all the time in tv shows so we just copy that. Therefore it makes perfect sense that Europeans uses the n-word without being racist. Once they are told to stop they usually do though.