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[–] anthropozaen@feddit.org 45 points 1 day ago (20 children)

Antisemitism, based on that one clip where he deliberately did something controversial to check boundaries of freelancers? Perhaps it wasn't the brightest idea he's ever had to upload this but framing him as such is a bit much I think. Like with his bridge-incident, I don't think anyone would seriously call him racist for that.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 32 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Yeah like how many years ago was that? Lets just believe people can't better themselves and hold things against them forever. What an awful reality that would be

[–] Bronzor@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

Friend... in a now deleted instagram post he was caught with a "international jewish conspiracy" book in the background.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Damn which one is this? The one in the middle? If so thats quite recent bc I follow his content and his pc build is pretty new. Crazy conspiracy theory nutjob content in there. Its a pretty huge red flag since it aligns with the patterns in his edgy phase (during which I didn't actively follow him). Makes me sad to think I might have had a lot better image of him as a person in my head as what he really is. Thank you for informing me. I mean technically he could just be curious in obscene conspiracy theorists. Like people can read religious text while being atheist or read Mein Kampf as a historic artifact. This book does seem more fringe tho. As long as he is not promoting this kind of belief. Makes me think if all this together makes a different light of him tho. Maybe he owns the book from back then and didn't throw it out. But he moved from the Uk to Japan so I still wonder why he would've kept it.

[–] flyby@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t assume that he supports any of the book content just from having it on the bookshelf. You are not a nazi for having Mein Kampf on the bookshelf (worst example I can think of and it would be uncomfortable at most). If all you have on bookshelf is nazi/conspiracy propaganda though then it’s another topic

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's read and reviewed all sorts of books, but as far as I know the only questionable one of those was the first Jordan Peterson thing (which he did criticize as well), so I don't know how a single book he's never talked about would flag him as anything. Sure, if he actively tried to preach what's written in it or encourage people to read that stuff, but I agree that just owning some book is a pretty poor basis for accusations.

He has the platform, so if he's a raging racist or antisemitist, why isn't he using that for preaching those then?

[–] flyby@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

One argument I heard about him throughout the years is that he is just afraid of retaliation so he dogwhistles instead but in this day and age nobody who is actually a nazi or conspiracist hiding it anymore and they are not getting any repercussions…

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, why go through the trouble? My analysis on him as a nordic neighbor is that he's just some random middle-class swedish guy, that got big and tried to live like he's regular dude instead taking responsibility for such a big influence.

A lot of the controversy seems to stem from USAians thinking he's one of them just because he's seen as american white, not understanding that he comes from an entirely different culture. For example I didn't personally even grasp what a voldemort-type of a thing "n-word" is across the ocean until he did the bridge idiocy, and I doubt he understood either. There exists nothing like that in nordic cultures, we can say pretty much anything and the "forbidden words" are more just "don't call people that". The history of racism here is very different

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -2 points 1 day ago

he fled to japan until all the drama blew over the years, most people forgot about him and latched on to the enxt big influencer, mr beast and the likes.

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