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PewDiePie pulls $50,000 pledge to Jewish anti-hate group after fan backlash
- Thread starter Kenzodielocke
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Off topic but I can't hear a reference to someone being corrected without thinking of Mr. Grady from The Shining
shouldn't he donate the money to a pro muslim organization given that the victims of the christ church shooting (the reason for his donation in the fist place) were muslims? yeah the ADL is definitely the wrong organization to give the money to in that case
what the hell are all these reactions on the first page?
what the hell are all these reactions on the first page?
What's the more likely cause behind the fan backlash? That they are passionate supporters of the palestinian independence movement and are concerned that the ADL's interests don't align with it? Or because they loved his 'kill all jews' jokes and actively hate the Jewish population?
I'm legitimately curious why he would get the benefit of the doubt from anybody at all about this lol
Have you guys not been paying attention with his M.O or what
Have you guys not been paying attention with his M.O or what
Oh I'm sure the thousands of straight up Nazi and hate jews posts on his Youtube page had nothing to do with it.
And whether they go through with it or not, it's all about reputation laundering anyway--which is pretty much what he proved here with his comments about "picking a charity that [he] was advised to."
I am not even a fan of the guy but the selective quoting in the OP is obvious.
The article reads like he was informed on the ADL and didn't like their stance so he will give it someone else.
He folded to his alt-right user base flipping out for 2 days, this isn't rocket science
Pewdiepie said:
He defended his choice before pulling it.
Did he break his research muscle before today?
He had months to find, research, and announce a donation and he apparently chose one without doing due diligence (a pattern with him, it seems). He was under no time pressure, afaik, to announce a donation to anyone.
If anything, I was impressed originally that he spelled out that he knew the ADL criticized him for the things he was (supposedly) changing about his behavior. Going back on this (and admitting that it was a slap-dash decision unrelated to the actual cause involved) looks terrible, and burns away the goodwill he could have earned.
I know there are broader concerns about the ADL, but I could understand the rationale of choosing it because of its historical focus on antisemitism considering PDP's own pattern of antisemitism.
I know there are broader concerns about the ADL, but I could understand the rationale of choosing it because of its historical focus on antisemitism considering PDP's own pattern of antisemitism.
Are you a supporter of this charity then and believe he should have donated to them?
I'm not going to say anything specific about PDP as Ive never watched anything from him except for snippets when he gets in the news, but this seems like just any other garbage YouTuber starting "drama" for subs and exposure. We should just ignore these things. PDP is not going to ever "change for the better" as long as doing that is not going to make him money and paying attention to everything he does only gives him what he wants.
Beats me. His fanbase is 50 million+ strong. With that big a group to work with, there were probably both sides telling him to stop.
I've had problems with PDP before, like his use of the N-word. But if he's trying to change, then I'll at least give him the benefit of the doubt until he does something to break that benefit. Him pulling a donation to a shitty organization, and donating to a better organization isn't enough for me to break that benefit.
It's almost like different people have different criticisms about two different, shitty things.
The best part is that it's barely even his money. It's just #sponcon money that he's choosing not to keep.
The Verge said:
The quoting used in the OP is rather misleading imo. He was already aware that ADL had been critical of him, it's not the reason why he pulled it. "Kjellberg previously addressed the criticism against his donation in a recently deleted tweet, acknowledging that "making a donation to the ADL doesn't make sense to everyone, especially since they've outright spoken against me."
Sure we can, but we can't criticize him for intending to donate to bad organization and then criticize him again when he doesn't when new information for him popped up. Like do you think this should be the charity to donate to or not? You can't have it both ways.
Sure if your comprehension of the world around you is paper thin that's exactly what is happening :)
withdrawing donation from ADL: good
doing it mainly to stop his fans from posting antisemitic shit on his content: bad
see how that works? two things can be true at the same time
There are probably much better anti-semitism organisations to donate money to than ADL - still really not great situation here. Sigh.
Why in the actual fuck would anyone ever give him the benefit of the doubt over this?
He gives one single concrete reason as to why he's not donating to them, and that's that they've criticized him in the past.
If you think for a single second he's pulling out because of sensitive, liberal critiques of the ADL and their aims, you're a credulous fool.
He gives one single concrete reason as to why he's not donating to them, and that's that they've criticized him in the past.
If you think for a single second he's pulling out because of sensitive, liberal critiques of the ADL and their aims, you're a credulous fool.
I think it's weird that a swedish guy is donating to charities outside of his country. If I had his money and time, I would help anti-racist orgs in my neck of the woods.
This whole thing was a publicity stunt.
He's shit and has continued to be unless he proves he has changed and who knows if he will donate and even if he does that doesn't make him any better.
It's the opposite. He needs this to be visible because the retraction is a virtue signal to his bigoted fan base. If he quietly didn't do it he wouldn't get the street cred from the people paying his bills.
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His donation announcement was literally the mainstream media slandered me and that's why I got quoted by a psychopath. So I'm donating money to ADL even though they unfairly criticized me because of the mainstream media. So I can move on.
Where on earth did you get he's trying to change from that