I hate that I keep having to whip out this column, but two years ago I explained this exact path with PewDiePie and his fans either said I was an idiot or guilty of "slippery slope" thinking. But the path is the path.https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/02/23/p.c.-culture-vs.-the-big-joke …
-
-
If you arent seeing the replies to this, his 100 million fans rush to his defense and say im “too stupid” to know what the symbol means and just go further to the right, right alongside him. This is 2019
Show this thread -
I'll eat my hat if 80% of these people knew what a Georgian Cross was before this morning, let alone an Iron Cross. You're just adopting the same absurd, obscuring talking points of a internet guy you just want to defend. We have no time for this.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
- Show replies
-
-
-
I mean this is the "ok" symbol being appropriated by white supremacists. If it would be hard to bad-faith argue about it, they wouldn't use it. It's the whole game. Iron Cross is easier than the swastika, but I wonder how long before they try to use the upright swastika anyways.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
A normal reaction to “confusion” is to admit something like “Darn, yes, that could be confusing, sorry, I’ll try to avoid now” and then not do it again. This “but actually I’ll double down on a technicality” stuff is a teasing child “Not touching you, not touching you!” defense.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
There are a lot of people who bend over backward to say people like Trump and Pewds were "just being stupid" every time they say or do something objectively racist.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
And even if his intent is 100% innocent (yeesh) he's providing cover to all the "ironic"-iron-cross-wearers who are in fact actual Nazis. If his defenders are right in saying "but you don't know how he means it!" then we don't know how *anyone* means it.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.