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</div><div>=</div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After every mass murder, journalists, researchers, and horrified members of the public turn to the internet as they struggle to understand why the perpetrator would take so many lives. Often, those searches paint a picture of a disturbed individual who has been radicalized in dark, online rabbit holes.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But on Friday, the suspected gunman behind the Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shootings appeared to take the process of internet radicalization to a disturbing new level—turning the massacre itself another dark internet rabbit hole designed to draw the attention of like-minded people around the world while attracting new allies to his cause.</p><aside class="pullquote-left" style="box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; width: 275.391px; margin-top: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: 0px; padding: 1rem 0px 0px; float: left; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top: 15px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 1.40625rem; line-height: 1.3; font-family: Mallory, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-right: 2.5rem !important; left: 0px !important;">“This definitely is a real-life shitpost.”</aside><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“This definitely is a real-life shitpost,” said Joel Finklestein, a researcher specializing in the digital spread of extremist content at the Anti-Defamation League and the Network Contagion Research Institute.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shitposting is an internet term for pumping out low-quality and often ironic online content to get a reaction from other people.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Finklestein explained that the gunman—who live-streamed the killings and distributed a detailed manifesto full of references to far-right memes—was able to pull off an extreme and tragic version of what white nationalist internet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2019/03/15/shitposting-inspirational-terrorism-and-the-christchurch-mosque-massacre/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">shitposters</a>&nbsp;do all the time: publish incendiary content to enrage and confuse their opponents.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As Finklestein points out, the Christchurch gunman clearly aspired to do more than spark widespread anger while taking dozens of lives. He also wanted to bring in new recruits. His social media accounts, which were promptly taken down, looked like they had been quickly fashioned into repositories of the message he was trying to spread. His Twitter account was only created in February, and he appears to have not posted anything recently on Facebook until Wednesday, when he unloaded a batch of links outlining his white nationalist worldview.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The gunman left a small archive of his thoughts and actions, live-streaming the shooting on Facebook and leaving a lengthy document explaining some of his motivations, all peppered with bits of trolling to confuse readers and maximize his reach. During the livestream of the shooting, he shouted, “Remember, lads, subscribe to</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;PewDiePie”—a reference to the popular Youtuber who has been&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/18136253/pewdiepie-vs-tseries-links-to-white-supremacist-alt-right-redpill" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">criticized</a>&nbsp;for veering too close to alt-right territory</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. His manifesto included memes popular on&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">hate-filled internet message boards such as 4chan and 8chan; ironic nods to video games such as Fortnite and Spyro; and incendiary—and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/the-shooters-manifesto-was-designed-to-troll/585058/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">potentially misleading</a>—praise for a conservative media figure.[tucker?]</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s impossible to know the precise intent behind the manifesto, but it is filled with references that journalists with little 4chan experience could easily include in news stories or tweets in a manner that inadvertently gives more exposure to the shooter’s white supremacist goals. And more exposure means more potential converts—or, in the words of far-right internet posters, more opportunities to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2018/10/11/memes-infowars-75-fascist-activists-red-pilled/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">“red-pill”</a>&nbsp;readers.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Becca Lewis, who studies online political subcultures at Data & Society, a digital research institute,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/beccalew/status/1106550850334404608" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">recalled on Twitter</a>&nbsp;how this happened with past coverage of massacres perpetrated by members of extremist internet communities. She pointed to how the term “incel”—which refers to “involuntary celibate” men, who often espouse misogynist rhetoric online—was virtually unknown until it was mentioned in media reports about murders carried out by people linked with that community. “Then any disillusioned young man could start googling his way down a rabbit hole just by using that search term,” Lewis noted.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Joan Donovan, another internet extremism researcher at Data & Society and Harvard, argues that the New Zealand gunman was deliberately trying to provoke a similar media reaction.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The manifesto is bait. It is loaded with keywords that lead down far-right rabbit holes. Do not repost,” she&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BostonJoan/status/1106419430085574657" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">advised on Twitter</a>. “Most of the NZ shooter’s social media is&nbsp;<b>new.&nbsp;</b>It’s an attempt to get journalists to see a unified narrative.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“He tried to meme himself into existence by producing a press kit and quoting memes and social media influencers while carrying out such violence,</b>” Donovan told&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Mother Jones.</em></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Christchurch shooter also exploited an unwitting ally—technology companies who have proven themselves unable or unwilling to stop the spread of hate speech on their platforms. Even though the murder video violated YouTube’s, Facebook’s and Twitter’s policies, it still spread rapidly across their platforms. Social media users and reporters documented how even hours Facebook took down the original livestream, copies of the footage were still careening across the social networks. It was instantly accessible to anyone who could search for the gunman’s name on the internet’s most popular websites.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The result: a horrific event made all the more devastating by the perpetrator’s ability to turn some of America’s most profitable companies into distributors of his ghoulish white nationalist recruiting video.</p></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">gamer bro?</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After every mass murder, journalists, researchers, and horrified members of the public turn to the internet as they struggle to understand why the perpetrator would take so many lives. Often, those searches paint a picture of a disturbed individual who has been radicalized in dark, online rabbit holes.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But on Friday, the suspected gunman behind the Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shootings appeared to take the process of internet radicalization to a disturbing new level—turning the massacre itself another dark internet rabbit hole designed to draw the attention of like-minded people around the world while attracting new allies to his cause.</font></p><aside class="pullquote-left" style="box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; width: 275.391px; margin-top: 0.75rem; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; margin-left: 0px; padding: 1rem 0px 0px; float: left; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-top: 15px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.3; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-right: 2.5rem !important; left: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><i>“</i>This definitely is a real-life shitpost.”</font></aside><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This definitely is a real-life shitpost,” said Joel Finklestein, a researcher specializing in the digital spread of extremist content at the Anti-Defamation League and the Network Contagion Research Institute.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shitposting is an internet term for pumping out low-quality and often ironic online content to get a reaction from other people.</span>&nbsp;Finklestein explained that the gunman—who live-streamed the killings and distributed a detailed manifesto full of references to far-right memes—was able to pull off an extreme and tragic version of what white nationalist internet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of-world/2019/03/15/shitposting-inspirational-terrorism-and-the-christchurch-mosque-massacre/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("");">shitposters</a>&nbsp;do all the time: publish incendiary content to enrage and confuse their opponents.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Finklestein points out, the Christchurch gunman clearly aspired to do more than spark widespread anger while taking dozens of lives. He also wanted to bring in new recruits. His social media accounts, which were promptly taken down, looked like they had been quickly fashioned into repositories of the message he was trying to spread. His Twitter account was only created in February, and he appears to have not posted anything recently on Facebook until Wednesday, when he unloaded a batch of links outlining his white nationalist worldview.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The gunman left a small archive of his thoughts and actions, live-streaming the shooting on Facebook and leaving a lengthy document explaining some of his motivations, all peppered with bits of trolling to confuse readers and maximize his reach. During the livestream of the shooting, he shouted, “Remember, lads, subscribe to<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;PewDiePie”—a reference to the popular Youtuber who has been&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/18136253/pewdiepie-vs-tseries-links-to-white-supremacist-alt-right-redpill" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("");">criticized</a>&nbsp;for veering too close to alt-right territory</span>. His manifesto included memes popular on&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">hate-filled internet message boards such as 4chan and 8chan; ironic nods to video games such as Fortnite and Spyro; and incendiary—and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/the-shooters-manifesto-was-designed-to-troll/585058/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("");">potentially misleading</a>—praise for a conservative media figure.[tucker?]</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s impossible to know the precise intent behind the manifesto, but it is filled with references that journalists with little 4chan experience could easily include in news stories or tweets in a manner that inadvertently gives more exposure to the shooter’s white supremacist goals. And more exposure means more potential converts—or, in the words of far-right internet posters, more opportunities to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2018/10/11/memes-infowars-75-fascist-activists-red-pilled/" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("");">“red-pill”</a>&nbsp;readers.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Becca Lewis, who studies online political subcultures at Data & Society, a digital research institute,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/beccalew/status/1106550850334404608" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("");">recalled on Twitter</a>&nbsp;how this happened with past coverage of massacres perpetrated by members of extremist internet communities. She pointed to how the term “incel”—which refers to “involuntary celibate” men, who often espouse misogynist rhetoric online—was virtually unknown until it was mentioned in media reports about murders carried out by people linked with that community. “Then any disillusioned young man could start googling his way down a rabbit hole just by using that search term,” Lewis noted.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joan Donovan, another internet extremism researcher at Data & Society and Harvard, argues that the New Zealand gunman was deliberately trying to provoke a similar media reaction.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The manifesto is bait. It is loaded with keywords that lead down far-right rabbit holes. Do not repost,” she&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BostonJoan/status/1106419430085574657" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url("");">advised on Twitter</a>. “Most of the NZ shooter’s social media is&nbsp;<b>new.&nbsp;</b>It’s an attempt to get journalists to see a unified narrative.”</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“He tried to meme himself into existence by producing a press kit and quoting memes and social media influencers while carrying out such violence,</b>” Donovan told&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Mother Jones.</em></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Christchurch shooter also exploited an unwitting ally—technology companies who have proven themselves unable or unwilling to stop the spread of hate speech on their platforms. Even though the murder video violated YouTube’s, Facebook’s and Twitter’s policies, it still spread rapidly across their platforms. Social media users and reporters documented how even hours Facebook took down the original livestream, copies of the footage were still careening across the social networks. It was instantly accessible to anyone who could search for the gunman’s name on the internet’s most popular websites.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The result: a horrific event made all the more devastating by the perpetrator’s ability to turn some of America’s most profitable companies into distributors of his ghoulish white nationalist recruiting video.</font></p></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">T</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">wenty-nine-year-old YouTuber PewDiePie is not responsible for the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/world/asia/new-zealand-shooting-updates-christchurch.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">New Zealand shooting</span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">.&nbsp;</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">We shouldn’t shift the blame from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/15/asia/christchurch-mosque-shooting-intl/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">apparent neo-Nazi and Islamophobe</a>&nbsp;who allegedly shot up two mosques last week.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 20px auto 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 609.531px; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet tragedies like this don’t exist in a vacuum. It’s crucial to discuss why, during a sickening live stream of his attack, alleged New Zealand gunman Brenton Tarrant gleefully&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/subscribe-to-pewdiepie-new-zealand-gunman/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">encouraged viewers</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;to “subscribe to PewDiePie.” If PewDiePie didn’t have a history of racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism, there’d be nothing to talk about—but he does. So let’s talk about it.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 20px auto 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 609.531px; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">PewDiePie, born Felix Kjellberg, is an influential figure to over 90 million subscribers. His devotees revere him with all the cultish fervor of modern stan culture, going as far as to&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/world-war-2-memorial-graffiti-pewdiepie" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">deface war monuments</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/17/18144807/pewdiepie-tseries-wall-street-journal-hack-subscribers" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">hack the&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Wall Street Journal</em>’s website</span></a></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;to promote his channel.</span>&nbsp;While PewDiePie has since encouraged his fans&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/pewdiepie-youtube-war-memorial-vandalism-t-series-sub-count-a8814006.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">not to do anything illegal</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">, he and his content hold an eerie amount of power over his supporters. It’s not all gaming and memes, either—</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">that content is frequently problematic. Here’s a brief rundown of PewDiePie’s worst bouts of bigotry.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
</span></font></p><ul style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; width: 557.813px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; margin-left: 20px !important;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">He incorporated&nbsp;</span><b>anti-Semitic</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">&nbsp;themes and imagery into&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/13/14605060/pewdiepie-disney-deal-lost-nazi-anti-semitic-imagery" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">nine of his videos</span></a><span style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">, one of which called for the death of all Jewish people.</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">He&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/09/12/there-are-no-excuses-for-it-pewdiepie-apologizes-for-saying-the-n-word-in-a-youtube-livestream/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">said the N-word</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;during a gaming live stream.&nbsp;</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">He frequently&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.ourgemcodes.com/pewdiepie-encourages-disrespecting-wamen-meme-makes-multiple-sexist-jokes/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">makes casually sexist comments</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">, even going as far as to&nbsp;</span><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59q98k/pewdiepie-alinity-copyright-feud-twitch-fails" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">victim-blame</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dh-RLuN4" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">diss track</a>&nbsp;against&nbsp;<a href="https://mashable.com/article/flaretv-youtube-channel-tracking-pewdiepie-vs-t-series/#mih9S0VxIOqS" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">YouTube rival T-Series</a>&nbsp;included racist verses mocking their skin color (“I’m a blue-eyes white dragon while you’re just dark magician”) and language (“Your language sounds like it come from a mumble rap community”).</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">He&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/pewdiepie-promotes-esemicolonr-youtube-nazi/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">endorsed EsemicolonR</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">, a virulently anti-Semitic, homophobic, and sexist YouTuber.</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">He&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ben-shapiro-actually-reviewed-memes-for-pewdiepies-youtube-show-208812" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">collaborated with</span><b>&nbsp;Ben Shapiro</b></span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>&nbsp;</b>who has decided that English departments at American universities are&nbsp;<a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2003/08/20/militant-gay-english-on-the-rise-n1334827" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">“brainwashing centers for the militant gay&nbsp;movement”</a>; has&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/133918830073352192" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">used the anti-Semitic trope</a>&nbsp;of the “Evil Jew”; posted&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/354781-ben-shapiro-apologizes-for-racist-columbus-day-video" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">a Columbus Day video</a>&nbsp;depicting Indigenous peoples as cannibals;&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/25712847277" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">has stated</a>&nbsp;that Arab peoples “like to bomb crap and live in open sewage”; and has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1776055069362505" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">spoken out against&nbsp;the trans community</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/932504794328993797" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">multiple</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgQy70_LPS4" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">occasions</a>.&nbsp;</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">He&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/apr/05/whats-up-pewdiepie-the-troubling-content-of-youtubes-biggest-star" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">championed Jordan Peterson’s book</span></a>.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;(Peterson&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37875695" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">loudly opposed legislation</a>&nbsp;protecting gender expression and identity;</span>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/how-dangerous-is-jordan-b-peterson-the-rightwing-professor-who-hit-a-hornets-nest" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">dismissed the existence of</a>&nbsp;female oppression, Islamophobia, and white privilege; and has made&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/26/17144166/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">a number of disparaging comments</a>&nbsp;about “identity politics” and oppression.)</span></font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He reportedly<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;followed several controversial figures on Twitter, many of whom have been criticized for their&nbsp;<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alt-right" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">alt-right</a>&nbsp;(or right-wing extremist) and otherwise racist language. (YouTuber JonTron, for example, made&nbsp;<a href="http://time.com/4701304/jontron-jon-jafari-steve-bonnell-immigration-race-youtube/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">white nationalistic comments</a>&nbsp;about race and immigration; Stefan Molyneux</span>&nbsp;is a white supremacist who&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/stefan-molyneux" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">actively promotes</a>&nbsp;eugenics; Canadian alt-right white nationalist Lauren Southern was&nbsp;<a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/far-right-figures-say-they-were-deported-from-britain" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">banned from the U.K</a>. for aggressive Islamophobia; Paul Joseph Watson is a talking head for Infowars</span>.)</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[img]</font></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nearly all of these scandals have been met with half-hearted apologies, most of which involve some iteration of “I was just joking.” Nevertheless, jokes are a form of normalization. PewDiePie’s continued insistence on making light of violent white supremacy sends a very specific message to his subscribers: that mass genocide is funny, oppression is inconsequential, and even neo-Nazis can make some great points.</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 20px auto 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 609.531px; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PewDiePie using his platform to bombard a young, impressionable generation with the pillars of&nbsp;the alt-right isn’t just irresponsible—it’s dangerous. Casual bigotry leads to violent hatred; people have died because of that very hatred that PewDiePie mocks and, casually or otherwise, promotes and validates. The slow and steady dehumanization of marginalized groups via ironic humor is one of the most insidious and pervasive forms of radicalization we face today.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 20px auto 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 609.531px; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The New Zealand gunman didn’t carry out two mass shootings because of one YouTuber. He didn’t shout out PewDiePie to credit him as an inspiration; he&nbsp;<a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/the-great-subscriber-war-subscribe-to-pewdiepie" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">referenced a meme</a>&nbsp;that was sure to distract and dismay the internet in the face of an unspeakable act of terrorism. But it’s no coincidence that Nazis are attracted to PewDiePie—his insistence on making bigoted jokes (which frames the rhetoric of neo-Nazism as entertaining) and spotlighting radical right-wing figures makes his channel seem like a welcoming space for that population.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 20px auto 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 609.531px; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Nazis and casual racists have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/15/17979118/youtube-alt-right-two-reports" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">found a definite home on YouTube</a>, they don’t flock to every corner of the platform. PewDiePie needs to make them feel unwelcome by reexamining how he handles marginalized identities on his channel. It’s time for him to condemn all the forms of bigotry he’s dismissed as “jokes”—no more excuses or feeble apologies, but decisive condemnation and the actions to match.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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There's no indication that he has an elabourate critique of the Enlightenment, that he thinks that the United States should engage in ethnic cleansing, or believes that the white race needs to organize to prevent being the victim of a genocide. 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