DISCUSSION: Response to "my response"
This dude still doesn't get it though. Is the media unfair? Sure, that's nothing new. Doesn't make it ok but sorry, if you're in a position in which you are celebrated by a wide audience over which you have both sway and influence (i.e., a celebrity) you will be held accountable for your actions to a fairly severe degree, especially if that Fan base is mostly children. The charity work he's done is great. His other content that his fans like, great. Anti semetic jokes? Not great. The media calling him out. Necessary. It's a cop out that his philanthropy and "sense of humor" should somehow give him a pass, not to mention it devalues and makes disingenuous both. Second, it's a false equivalency to compare his anti-Semitic jokes to a smear campaign by the WSJ. The intentions of his jokes are irrelevant because the end result is yes, they do in fact normalize hate so sorry, the means don't matter. Now, i don't think he's an antisemite or a nazi by any means and yes, the media painting him as a nazi is pretty reckless and sure, I'll even entertain that the MSM is intimidated by underground media (ie, YouTube celebs) but those jokes being exposed to a wide fan base of children is wildly irresponsible and neither malice nor ignorance can nor should excuse him from the consequences of that. Third, him choosing to make this video more about the media instead of his apology speaks volumes to where his values lie and so from what I can tell, he doesn't actually seem so much sorry because what he did was wrong, but "sorry" because he got called out. I'm not happy about him losing his deals with Disney and YouTube by aaaaany means but his logic, his apology, his priorities (as evident by this video) and this video are all complete bullshit.
What do you think?
Posted Feb 17, 2017, 2:25 AM UTC · edited