It's a terrible response, though. It completely fails to address the point raised. Tries to frame a completely benign observation as something negative.
Tell me where is the intended comedy? What is the punchline to that Tweet? I'm still clueless about that.Yeah, using comedy at the expense of a human tragedy, thats not only distasteful it needs some action against him because its this form of dismissive commentary of lives that undermine the seriousness and hatred against victims. Screw him.
I think what he's trying to say is that the day was not chosen at random, that the shooter chose that day because it was Pie Day, Pewdiepie day for fans. But of course that kind speculation is out of place, it was not the moment.
Ah poor rich insensitive white guy getting mobbed, but glad to have some of you guys come here to defend his image, doing god's work
Yeah, im coming around to this and i was initially outraged; i think he was trying to point out the connection, not joke
Not sure it was a joke, but it's poorly worded to be so easily misinterpreted. It looks callous.It's a terrible response, though. It completely fails to address the point raised. Tries to frame a completely benign observation as something negative.
This seems obvious, now that I understand all of the factors that go into it.
I honestly don't see a problem with this, if that's the case? Appart from poor timing, maybe, but even then.
Was he wrong to point out the connection, assuming it wasn't an attempt at humour?
Well, given the circumstances he should have tried to express himself better. It's a very vague tweet. Also, it was a moment for condemnation, not for speculation.
Whatever is a joke or not, is a very dumb comment in any case. At worst is a joke, at best he's trying to justify the killer mentioning PDP.
Either way is dumb as fuck.
Another example of the male dominator culture. This shit has been going on far too long.
Congratulations. You are racist
I don't think this was a joke, but he should apologize for speculating this close to the tragedy. It's not useful, and the way he tosses it out there without even researching what day it is in NZ shows a lack of consideration and care that's pretty shitty on his part.
Basically this. And I say this as someone who really dislikes the guy.People speculate al the time in the wake of these kinds of tragedies. People did it specifically with the date for 9/11 and Columbine. If someone had posted "I wonder if the Pew Die Pie stuff e has anything to do with Pi day" in the main thread for this they'd probably just be corrected and everyone would have moved on. This honestly feels like it's blowing up here because it's Pachter and so many dislike him already.
Relating the killer message to PDP to the Pi day instead of the guy admiring PDP sounds as a dumb justification.
People speculate al the time in the wake of these kinds of tragedies. People did it specifically with the date for 9/11 and Columbine. If someone had posted "I wonder if the Pew Die Pie stuff e has anything to do with Pi day" in the main thread for this they'd probably just be corrected and everyone would have moved on. This honestly feels like it's blowing up here because it's Pachter and so many dislike him already.
To be clear, I don't think he's unique, and I don't think this is some massively horrible thing. I think we all speculate privately about motives when something like this happens. I just think that speculating publicly and doing so without doing some basic research on the day is kind of shitty, can lead to false information being spread around, and is generally not helpful. I'm not suggesting this should have some huge impact on his life, but an apology for it would be a good idea, IMO.
He's literally replying to a tweet talking about the mass shooting.I'm hoping he didn't know about the shooting and it's just bad timing.
Yeah , he is always doing way too much.Fuck him. What a god damn asshole...
He also, upon learning Iwata died, made an insensitive tweet making it all about him and how much he disliked Iwata.
He's always been up his own ass.