Yeah no... It's very easy to not behave like a fucking Nazi.

only if you insist on treating being a Nazi as something white men grow out of with age

I'm willing to believe he might have learned from his mistakes, but he was 27 when he did the most egregious things. More than old enough to know better. The older you are when you do stupid shit, the harder it will be for people to forgive you.

he brought it on himself by accidentally naziing several times, even while he ostensibly apologized after he got called out for it.

he has had a hand in normalizing this shit we're in today and people are right to be angry at him. especially since his alleged rehabilitation has been as quiet as his nazi winks and nods were loud.

i do believe in rehabilitation, but i think for someone his size you can't just do it quietly. you have to be against it and try to right your wrongs. that's what hunter avallone did for example, and he's significantly smaller than pewdiepie.

pewdiepie's damage was much more consequential and he has a responsibility to do more than not casually naziing anymore.

That's human nature. People are complicated, and everyone has negative and positive aspects to them (granted some have mostly negative or mostly positive traits). It's a lot easier to have a black and white opinion on people, either you really like someone or you really don't like someone. When dealing with thousands of famous people that you don't know, simplifying your opinion on them to a black and white opinion is a shortcut we take to keep from getting overwhelmed.

FFS, it was years ago, no one is claiming him as "our guy", and he's an extremely influential person so just take the win.

Was it a repeated occurrence?

Yup. We see this with StopKillingGames too where it is "Well. So what if asmongold literally advocated for genocide and ethnic cleansing? He is on our side and that is what is most important!".

pewdiepie I think mostly fell off the past few years so no idea if he has shown any sign of growth. But it is still a GREAT message to say "Racism is less important than my OS of choice"

Serious question.

Do you believe in rehabilitation? I think its admirable for someone to overcome their shortcomings. Especially considering that we are all products of our environments.

To my understanding he apologized for the horrific things he said in the past and is attempting to better himself as a person. I don't see him continuing to be a problematic person.

Who here hasn't said or done regrettable things?

The problem with extremists is that they cannot see purity in anybody else but themselves.

and

But you fuck one sheep...

I was gonna say, isn't he a shithead? I don't really know. Maybe he grew up.

Edit: sounds like he apologized, good for him!

I don't claim to know him but I think he was a foolish kid who is now learning the error of his ways. He never struck me as someone who was intentionally malicious but rather someone who is very uninformed and didn't realize it. He said it once in a stream, he used it to mean basically "asshole" when someone killed him. I'm sure he knew it was racist, but he probably didn't know the WHY to why it was or the real cultural significance it has in the US, he's swedish, he's so far removed from American culture. And I don't think he realized the impact of saying that and some of his other comments had on his young impressionable fans.

It SEEMS like he's becoming more politically left leaning and has unlearned some of his bias he had in the past. I don't know for sure but I hope he has.

Yes let him remove his source of income in order to be the most rightous!!! It's respectable that he's doing it as much as he can

I don't see the problem here. Just because you upload stuff on Youtube doesn't mean you need to be tied to every other service. This isn't something like being a vegan where if you wear leather boots, you're not a "true vegan".

I mean he already addressed that in his video to be fair lol

I still remember his arch linux vid he did

I know it seems kinda ironic. But the way to reach lots of people is to post on YouTube. If you want to reach people and stop them from using google you're not going to reach them on some obscure platform that no one uses.

And the people using those obscure platforms have already degoogled so your basically preaching to the choir if you use them.

There is no real Youtube alternative, he talked about still using Youtube in the video

Linux has had a major increase in usership lately if I recall right, and supposedly windows has lost a major number of users (although mostly people dropping desktops for just phones).

No idea if PewDiePie contributed or not.