Comment on Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'

• VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah. Guy does a few Nazi things and anti-Semitic things a few years ago and he has to live with that reputation forever? . And come on, why are you living in the past? Just because Kanye straight off said some Nazi shit every few months? Dude, separate the art from the artist!

  Oh, and Kevin Spacey did a bit of rape back then. But it was so long ago!

  And while we’re here, Bill Cosby drugged those girls in the 70s. Like my dude, who wasn’t a little edgy back then?

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, because those are all equivalent situations

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re going to equate a word with being a Nazi and rape? Using a racial slur is literally a small subset of being a Nazi.

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah I’m saying you say racist shit, you don’t get off the hook.

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      • triptrapper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is there an avenue to getting off the hook? Apologizing and not doing it again? Or does he lose everything for the rest of his life?

        For context, I barely know who pewdiepie is. I just have to imagine that when public figures fuck up, maybe there’s a spectrum of available consequences other than “they must lose their job and never been spoken of again.”

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So I decided to look up the article, and see what the defense was.

        Here’s the article: mediaite.com/…/Screen-Shot-2019-09-19-at-16.04.33…

        And indeed, it does seem to be a Vetements piece he’s wearing. I could not however find the exact outfit, but those are the Georgian designer’s signature, in Georgian letters, which can be compared here:

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demna_(designer)

        In looking through some videos from that era, he is wearing multiple articles of clothing from Vetements which tracks. So it’s not a one off piece of clothing he was wearing from that company.

        As for the cross, it is a design used in Georgia, including on their traditional flags:

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        And it is known as a Bolnisi Cross

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolnisi_cross

        It is similar to the German iron cross, except the iron cross always has white or iron bolding, which the Bolnisi Cross does not

        (You can compare them in these search results: duckduckgo.com/?t=fpas&q=german+iron+cross&ia=ima…)

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Didn’t the dude literally dress up like a Nazi as a joke? Or am I misremembering.

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      • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re not misremembering.

        He had a team scrub that off the internet and now a bunch of people have been gaslit.

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      • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not that familiar, tbh.

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For what it’s worth, Kevin Spacey has not been found guilty of anything. He was found not liable in New York and acquitted in the UK.

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