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PewDiePie donates $50,000 to the Anti-Defamation League to apologize for Christchurch Shooting, surprises some "fans"
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He explained why he had no time to do the proper research (100M coming, weeding, minecraft edits ect), but will do it now.
Win win
Its in his video but ERA doesn't allow his videos here so the tweet is all you get.
Glad he is picking a different charity, the money deserves to go to a good cause.
Also damn, between the implications that people who behaved badly in the past you can never change, and $50000 not being enough of a donation if you happen to be rich, this has been a fine thread indeed.
Also damn, between the implications that people who behaved badly in the past you can never change, and $50000 not being enough of a donation if you happen to be rich, this has been a fine thread indeed.
Those are like a half-step up from 'the dog ate my homework.'
There was no time pressure here. No one was calling for him to do this RIGHT NOW OR ELSE. If you're sincere about wanting to 'move on', there was nothing stopping him waiting a week or two or three or months so he could do research.
I'm all for forgiveness and people changing their ways, but forgive me if a single, publicized donation where Felix still deflects blame onto the media leaves me cynical. People can change, but real change takes more effort than this did. It involves taking efforts such as looking into the charity you're donating to to see if they hold a bunch of bigoted positions against the group of people you're supposedly trying to help, as opposed to just donating to the only charity you've heard of because they talked shit about you once.
If Felix has actualy changed he's done a piss poor job of showing so.
If Felix has actualy changed he's done a piss poor job of showing so.
Copying and pasting from a previous thread:
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Based on PewDiePie's past behaviour, I imagine he actually supports fans when their abusive stunts have some benefit to him.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59q98k/pewdiepie-alinity-copyright-feud-twitch-fails
Wow. Just when you think he couldn't get any worse.
Thanks for posting this.
Also going to add that it's not the only history he's had with promoting misogyny.
Whenever people pop into this thread to talk about how we don't forgive him for the one thing he did, it's ignoring that any criticism of PewDiePie is just the tip of the Kjellberg. It's not just anti-Semitism as the donation he made here suggests, it's so many other things.
Yeah considering this was already a half-hearted attempt at making amends that he hadn't gone through with in the first place at the time it was reported, the fact that he withdrew his donation doesn't fill me up with confidence. Dude has had so many fucking chances to do the right thing and this is the best he comes up with, and it's still crap.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a trifecta!
- Caveat that you don't watch the content.
- Calling the person "young".
- Saying that someone who is at the very top of his field and has been doing it for almost ten years now and has received repeated criticism for his troublesome behaviour is in a "strange new environment".
