trinathewolf:

jewishowl:

It would be really nice if people could please stop claiming that it took an antisemitic joke for Disney to drop PewDiePie despite all his prior racist and misogynistic content.

PewDiePie has expressed antisemitic sentiments in his videos long before this incident with fiverr.

August 7, 2016: PewDiePie, wearing a Make America Great Again hat, begins his video with a swastika and other Nazi imagery, and uses a photo of Hitler as a segue between clips

September 24, 2016: In a video criticising YouTube policy, he shows a clip of Hitler giving a speech

October 15, 2016: PewDiePie posts swastikas drawn by his fans

December 8, 2016: PewDiePie wears a brown military uniform while watching a Hitler clip at the end of his video

Antisemitic website the Daily Stormer has also given PewDiePie praise for Nazi imagery in his videos, writing:

“PewDiePie is /ourguy/.

This latest video is unapologetically full-Nazi.

The guy has 52 million subscribers, compared to the number 2 YouTuber that has 30 million. He is arguably the most watched person on the planet.

And he is pushing hardcore GTKRWN materials.

In this video, he calls out the Jews for killing Jesus, and points out several times that Hitler did nothing wrong.

At the very least, he is making the masses comfortable with our ideas.

I hope he keeps doing this – staying chill, I mean. Not going too far. I think he’s aware that he’s eventually going to get banned – if he wasn’t ready for that, he wouldn’t be calling out the Jews head-on like this.”

So please understand that he’s targeted Jews in the past without major outrage or punishment. He’s used Nazi imagery as a joke in his videos before. The “death to all Jews” video that caused outrage wasn’t the first antisemitic video PewDiePie posted. He’s also racist and misogynistic and he should have been called out on these things and dropped a long time ago.

But his antisemitic content neither began nor ended with the Fiverr video.

Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/14/youtube-also-cuts-ties-with-pewdiepie-over-nazi-imagery-in-videos-6448782/#ixzz4YksS7Txa

I just want to say that context really does matter, because I’m sure that a lot of people aren’t gonna watch his videos thoroughly, but still stamp the guy as something that doesn’t necessarily fit the bill.

Your choice of source doesn’t really help much either, I’m sorry to say; it’s good to source the videos you’re talking about so that people who don’t know PDP (yes, there are people like that out there) or don’t have much of an opinion about him can see the videos for themselves and judge it as they see fit.

Anyhow, to the point; what Pewdiepie did was wrong, yes, but is he antisemitic? No, he really isn’t. Someone can make a joke about supporting or making light of a subject without legitimately supporting it, that’s kinda how jokes work. He’s making fun of what’s going on right now, because it’s such a frequently talked about thing these days; the world’s going crazy and he’s making light of it.

Of course, that came with its own consequences, as it sent the wrong message, people were (rightly) offended due to the attempt at adding controversy to his comedy (once again), and failing to interpret to his audience or to different types of audiences (in this case, the “alt-right” nazi party) that the skits were just that, skits.

Here’s a video from H3H3′S Ethan that shares his opinion about the whole ordeal - as he said in the video, he is in a unique position to talk about this situation, considering he is himself Jewish, and he’s also close friends with Felix. He also points out how a lot of people are making the situation worse by cutting and clipping a lot of the context to make Felix out to be this monster, when in reality he’s an entertainer who took the jokes too far yet again, and he’s being punished for it as result - no surprise there.

He did do the responsible thing and released an apology as well as a statement on his actual views, which you can read here. I imagine that this is going to go the same way the “rape jokes” outcry went, and he’ll likely stray away from these kinds of jokes in the future.

Philip DeFranco actually covered this scandal in a video yesterday and he does a really great job of keeping things mostly neutral to form your own opinion, I would definitely suggest giving this a watch before you form your own views about the whole debacle. [video here]

Just a little disclaimer here at the bottom: I’m very much indifferent when it comes to Felix, his channel, or anything about him, so please don’t assume that I’m a fan or follower.

Like I said, context is extremely important.