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Hasan Piker banned from Twitch for calling ICE supporters "rabid ultra-Zionist pigs' (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] Abundance114@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

I don't like Hasan, but I don't think "rabid ultra-zionist pigs" is particularly insulting. That's some reddit level censorship where anything they want to construe as harassment, is.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (27 children)

Curious to people that are leftist that "don't like Hasan". I see this comment a lot always when defending him but starting with that prerequisite. Do you mean you just don't enjoy his content style? If so, I can understand that.

There are things I don't like about him. But I don't really judge content creators by whether I'd be friends with them or not or whether their style is for me. For him, I like him because he serves a purpose of countering right wing and racist propaganda in a way that is most attractive to the people that are most vulnerable to it (young men). And he is clearly good at that.

I like him for that alone. He's a net positive.

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