Hi! Exactly- I purposely do not link to failed media because I don't want to increase their traffic. But if you must read the stuff, then do so for free! Do not let them have your hard-earned money! See my post about how to do that...
Thank you for alerting us to this dangerous individual. I wish also that you had links to examples you mentioned because I'd like to read it for myself. You said: "From glowing profiles in big news outlets like The New York Times, GQ, and of course The Daily Show, you’d have no idea that Piker is incomparably more extreme and dangerous than Kirk ever was."
Thank you. I read what you sent. I did not get the sense author Jackie Crosbie was endorsing him, but he certainly did not warn the reader or direct a bias against him.
I hear you! Compared to what they write about far-right firebrands, this is a New York Times version of glowing. Glossing over the depraved things he says and does. :(
I see your point. And when I read your report with examples (excerpts) of what Piker has said I cringe. His delight with violence and use of vile language is horrifying whether or not it's within or without "context."
The statment: "He has repeatedly praised Hamas and its massacres in Israel. 'Doesn’t matter if fucking rapes happened on October 7th. Like, that doesn’t change the dynamic for me even this much.' ”
This in particular has haunted me as I have a friend who witnessed a live video posted by Hamas during a gang rape of a young girl on Oct 7 afterwhich her throat was slit. The very idea haunts me. I can not even imagine actually witnessing it without being scarred forever. And perhaps that's what's happening. We are scarring our sensiblities with the aggressive, hate-filled speech like Pike's. His lust for fame and notariety and cheap thrills pollutes and defiles us all.
Hi! Exactly- I purposely do not link to failed media because I don't want to increase their traffic. But if you must read the stuff, then do so for free! Do not let them have your hard-earned money! See my post about how to do that...
Thank you for alerting us to this dangerous individual. I wish also that you had links to examples you mentioned because I'd like to read it for myself. You said: "From glowing profiles in big news outlets like The New York Times, GQ, and of course The Daily Show, you’d have no idea that Piker is incomparably more extreme and dangerous than Kirk ever was."
I know Josh Levs doesn't like to link to terrible sources, but I will link to the NYT puff piece, which I ground my teeth reading when it appeared: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/style/hasan-piker-twitch-youtube.html
Thank you. I read what you sent. I did not get the sense author Jackie Crosbie was endorsing him, but he certainly did not warn the reader or direct a bias against him.
I hear you! Compared to what they write about far-right firebrands, this is a New York Times version of glowing. Glossing over the depraved things he says and does. :(
I see your point. And when I read your report with examples (excerpts) of what Piker has said I cringe. His delight with violence and use of vile language is horrifying whether or not it's within or without "context."
The statment: "He has repeatedly praised Hamas and its massacres in Israel. 'Doesn’t matter if fucking rapes happened on October 7th. Like, that doesn’t change the dynamic for me even this much.' ”
This in particular has haunted me as I have a friend who witnessed a live video posted by Hamas during a gang rape of a young girl on Oct 7 afterwhich her throat was slit. The very idea haunts me. I can not even imagine actually witnessing it without being scarred forever. And perhaps that's what's happening. We are scarring our sensiblities with the aggressive, hate-filled speech like Pike's. His lust for fame and notariety and cheap thrills pollutes and defiles us all.
I'm sick from it.
Truly.