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I don't think Pewdiepie is a Nazi. Probably bigoted, but not an outright nazi.

Godwin's Law is used very liberally here.

Can't really fault people for calling him a Nazi with how often he displays an unhealthy obseesion with them. Didn't he dress up as Hitler a few times for jokey jokes?

Plus as Nick mentioned earlier he follows multiple white supremacists on Twitter.

He follows Lauren Southern, who admitted she was a Nazi.

Does he need to go back in time, give Hitler a phone, help him set up Twitter on it, and then Follow Hitler on Twitter for you to believe that he's a Nazi based on who he's connected to?

He follows white supremacists, he "joked" about killing all Jews, he promoted someone who talked about the "Jewish Question" and only took that down when it might've interfered with his designs.

You can hardly wage if a person is nazi or not just by checking who they follow on twitter.

Really, all the nazi claims seem way out of proportion. I do believe that Pewdiepie is bigoted and maybe even racist but he is nowhere near a nazi.

I'm sure he just follows them for research.

Didn't he dress up as Hitler a few times for jokey jokes?

Nope a lot of people say the uniform he dressed up in was SS but it was actually British army

Comparison:

The uniform Pewdiepie wore

British Army Officer Uniform

SS Uniform

Also I noticed that a lot of articles around the time seemed to insinuate that he put on the uniform in the same video as the Fiver incident. This is false the clip in question was from an earlier video where he was making fun of the people calling him a nazi (which I think predates the Fiver incident)

My take is that PDP is a nazi who doesn't realize he's a nazi, OR has never totally understood that, in the level-headed, educated majority of the world, Nazi = bad.

Even if he isn't one himself, the Nazis surely think he's one of them.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Dec 17th 2018 at 3:24:01 PM

Which is where the deeper danger lies.

He’s far from a traditionalist Nazi, but he certainly acts like a neo-Nazi edgelord.

I suspect that for many of the kids who follow him he’s acted as a gateway to them becoming Nazis, it’s not a big leap to get from his online shitflinging anti-semitism to the domestic terrorist Nazis that we see around today.

I think he’s probably just that kid who hangs out with Nazis because he thinks they’re funny and cool and doesn't see what the big deal is. Thing is the line has become very blurry over the last few years, because so very many of those kids are now the ones marching with Nazis flags in their hands.

As for the semantics of bigotry/racism/Nazis, it’s pretty simple, all Nazis are racist bigots, all racists are bigots but may well not be Nazis, bigots come in a number of varieties not all of which are race related or Nazis.

^On semantics thats about it. Though on that list of nazi youtubers earlier, I have to check it because I'm seriously confused if it was revealed that Jontron is also a nazi and not just racist?

Epic Rap Battles Of History is back and guess who they just featured:

That's creepy, and not in a joking way. We were JUST. Talking about them both.

Clearly the ERB guys lurk the forums.

On the internet I have noticed that their is very little difference between racists and nazis.

I seriously doubt Jon is that much far from a nazi. The shit hes spewed very much suggest he does support the alt-right aka the neo-nazis. He supports all those debunked false statistics that blacks are vastly more violent then whites. He thinks that men like him are oppressed. He was ranting about the SJ Ws and feminazis.

The sad irony is that Jon is not white at all.

Pewds is way less subtle but the big mistakes hes made and the youtubers he follows says a lot. I am pretty sure heres either dumb as fuck or a edgy nazi. Or both, nazi edgelords tend to not be too bright.

Edited by Wispy on Dec 17th 2018 at 10:21:14 AM

I guess that is true, it is bit of generalization though. Mostly because I'd think it'd be scary if every Internet racist was a neo-nazi

There is really great youTube video about how you can recognize white fascism (i.e. Nazism, neo-nazism, etc.) and how it's different from other form of prejudices.

I think it's scary enough that every Internet racist is a racist.

Edited by Misiael on Dec 18th 2018 at 1:19:39 PM

Oh ERB is back. What happened to them?

Epic Rap battles?

Nothing as far as I can tell

They had a hiatus but they're coming back.

On another brighter note, Glove and Boots is back.

With content aimed at kids!

(That's where the clicks are according to what they've been told)

... well... they only release ONE video in their revival, so time will tell how much their comedy has changed.