…the signal boost has been… weirdly obsessive around Hasan by establishment media there is no other way to describe it, if people watch his videos and listen to some of what he says and disagree… fine but this hysterical fear mongering around Hasan is bombastic bullshit, he streams constantly of course he is going to put his foot in his mouth every once in awhile but those moments are drowned out by hours and hours of basically Bernie Sanders style politics from a younger standpoint that is more “radical” I guess… but in spirit? Not really.
I will not stand for a villainization of Hasan Piker as someone who is antisemitic or embraces violent ideologies that are antihumanist, that doesn’t mean I think everyone needs to agree with Hasan Piker because I like what he says, but this attempt to project these attributes onto Hasan Piker is simply not supported by the evidence, glaringly so.
What happens when the Palestinian Genocide becomes undeniable in the deluge of international media about how much more unimaginably worse it was than we even thought and politicians in the US desperately start running around looking for excuses for why they weren’t complicit and to rationalize why they didn’t do anything to stop it?
What happens when antisemitism is sitting there, the comfortable old reliable spectacle of attractively hateful simplicity to distract from a much more uncomfortable conversation and self-reflection?
I am not jewish and those questions scare me, they should scare everyone, this leads nowhere good and the current alliance between Israel and the rightwing of the US (and elsewhere) is not just a fickle relationship by nature of how unreliable rightwing groups are at refraining from turning on their allies for insane reasons… it is clearly much worse, it is the set up to a betrayal narrative.
Meanwhile centrist Democrats sit there having a tantrum about Hasan Piker being a popular streamer and DNC leadership openly condescends people who see the Palestinian Genocide as an existential issue.
Every single bit of energy centrists and rightwing people have put into policing leftists on their criticisms of Israel and trying to censor it from popular media discourse is effort done to increase the antisemitic blowback rightwing ideologies will inevitably adopt in order to not acknowledge how baby like and reductive their world views are… whether people realize that or not, that is the obvious reality.
Call me Cassandra, I don’t give a fuck, I want to be wrong here, I just don’t see how the chips fall any other way given the current trajectory, and it is one of the primary reasons I am so passionate about this issue. If we don’t loudly criticize Israel and ourselves (the US) with actual nuanced, rational criticisms than it leaves a cavernous void for people like Tucker Carlson to start something terrifying that will not only silence more nuanced conversation but worse… likely grow out of control…
I am not really making any great leap of logic here, when discourse about a phenomena is silenced with reductive shouting down as if any criticism is an endorsement of hateful ideologies… it creates the ideal space for dangerous conspiracy theories to spread like wildfire.