tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74679240115173669852024-03-05T10:37:35.829-08:00Northwest ViewEvan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-86193626796379129842017-03-24T09:14:00.001-07:002017-03-24T09:14:34.010-07:00Script for YouTube Video: "JonTron isn't a racist, he's just ignorant"<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">JonTron isn’t a racist…he’s just ignorant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span>EVAN: The last week was an…eventful one if you follow
YouTube and online news a lot like I do. Even more so if you’re a guy like me
who watches a lot of gaming and review channels. One guy in particular, JonTon,
caused a controversy over the last week when he voiced some…shall we say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">questionable </i>opinions on immigration and
race in a series of tweets, followed by a debate with Twitch streamer Destiny. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN:
Before I go any further, I want to state that I’ve been a fan of JonTron for
years, I think he’s a very funny and very talented guy, and he’s also a New
Yorker so that’s pretty cool too (OVERLAY: Picture of New York City with text,
“My family is from New York”). His style of humor is very goofy, edgy, and
off-the-walls, it’s right up my alley. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: But
over the last few months, in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s upset victory as
President of the United States, a lot of celebrities, both in Hollywood and on
YouTube, have been speaking out more on political issues and taking to Twitter
to do so. This country is more polarized than ever, and people on both sides of
the argument want nothing more than to see the other side as, “the enemy.” As
it would stand, Jon takes the side of Donald Trump and the Right in many
political issues.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Now,
this is not inherently bad. I don’t consider him, “the enemy,” for agreeing
with Donald Trump, even if it boggles my mind how anyone could support him.
What is concerning, however, is that of some JonTron’s beliefs seem to be
informed by…less than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">accurate </i>information.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: I’m
not entirely sure, but I believe a lot of his knowledge of certain topics comes
from untrustworthy sources. He’s done an interview with Breitbart, a hard-right
tabloid blog with an extremely loose relationship with the truth and hard-on
for race-baiting clickbait headlines. I wouldn’t be surprised if he reads
Breitbart as well, since he also seems to be a fan of InfoWars, or at least
Paul Joseph Watson. (Overlay: “He’s retweeted Paul a few times”). Yeah,
InfoWars is the brainchild of Alex Jones and is Ground Zero for online
conspiracy theories.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: He’s
also a fan of Sargon of Akkad, a YouTuber with a MASSIVE hate-on for feminism
who is of the belief that Donald Trump is the Savior of Western Civilization™. And
he’s appeared on Sargon’s LiveStream a few times. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON: I
will say a couple things, I’ve been watching you for many years now. In fact I
think yours was one of the first channels I saw that was kind of against the,
uh, SJW stuff, and—<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hang on, is that admission you’ve been a shitlord for years?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
Yeah, uh, I’ve been on your guys side for like four years, I just don’t say it
because…it’s not, politically—well, I just don’t care anymore, I’ve reached my
don’t care apex, so whatever, so be it, I don’t care—I noticed you guys were a
growing movement and I was like, “these guys are going to be the future,
hopefully!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Well,
this makes it easier to understand where Jon’s worldview is coming from. It
also shines a light on some of his more…questionable statements from the
Destiny debate livestream. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: I’m
not going to talk too much about Sargon, here. I’ll just note that Sargon’s
“debunking” of social justice ideology isn’t so much debunking as it is setting
an entire acre of straw men on fire. (Photoshopped picture of burning
scarecrows appears here) But he’s worried about social justice ideology enough
that he once petitioned universities to suspend the teachings of all social
justice courses. He um, he got some facts wrong.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>H.BOMBERGUY:
Well, maybe it’s time to ask the academics to do it for you! Sorry, not
academics—(snickers)—universities—(laughs)—what, like as a concept? “Dear
Universities, please top the bad people for me, you know they’re bad because I
paid someone else to draw propaganda—sorry, a realistic and rational cartoon of
a woman telling institutions to stop the bad people for her.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Fun fact, this cartoon was drawn by conspiracy theorist Ben Garrison, who
thinks a Cabal of Marxist Globalists are conspiring with Zionists and Islamists
to destroy American sovereignty and the entire capitalist economic system.
Clearly a reliable and rational source for Sargon to site as evidence!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>H.BOMBERGUY:
“Read the letter.” Ooh, don’t mind if I do! (he opens the letter to find that
it simply says, “Suspend Social Justice Courses.” Seriously, that’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">literally </i>all it says.) He couldn’t even
be bothered—(trying not to laugh)—there’s not even a list of courses to be
dropped, he’s literally just asking—(breaks down laughing)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now I know what you’re thinking—because I can read your mind—isn’t petulantly
demanding institutions stop teaching things you don’t like literally the sort
of thing probably Sargon and his fellow probably free-thinkers like to pretend
they’re against, as evidenced by this very image? Actually, you’re wrong! The
only way to be anti-censorship is to censor the people I say are
pro-censorship! And you can believe me, because I have the support of the
people. Oh, no sorry, these are the fucking EDL, the actual fucking EDL
(Overlay: EDL is the English Defense League, a white nationalist organization
based in Britain), sorry, I don’t know how this footage got in the edit, how do
I stop this—(static)<o:p></o:p></div>
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They’re indoctrinating your children! They’re coming to take your children! If
I write as provocatively as possible it becomes a problem worth dealing with,
right?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>H.BOMBERGUY:
But why does Carl feel so sure he knows what the problem is anyway? There’s
this thing in psychology called, “The Dunning-Kruger Effect.” It refers to a
study that measured people’s perceived skills and abilities versus their actual
skills and abilities. To paraphrase Tao-Te-Ching, “those who think they know,
never learn.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>H.BOMBERGUY:
Carl talks about how upset he is that some girl with dyed hair said the wrong
thing on YouTube!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Feminism is Orwell’s nightmare come to life! With a bright smile, rainbow hair,
and a jingle in the background, by people who are so pathologically entitled
they campaign against other people’s human rights!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SARGON: I
could probably have handled the debate a bit better as well, but I was a bit
nervous. It’s the first time I’ve ever done anything like this. And I think I
might have over prepared!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yeah, that’s the problem there. It hasn’t nothing to do with this!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>H.BOMBERGUY:
Carl Benjamin, the guy who can’t watch more than five minutes of a video, can’t
watch more than five minutes of the video making fun of that fact, can’t read
more than the first page of a study, and most likely hasn’t read a sliver of
the books he’s trying to get dropped from being taught in academia, has given
it a thought. And he feels like he does too much research! Carl doesn’t know,
he doesn’t care, and he wants to know and care less! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Hopefully
that summed up everything you need to know about Sargon, he’s not a reliable
source when talking about social justice. But he’s one of Jon’s sources, and I
believe he is one of many reasons why JonTron is so misinformed about social
justice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Let
me start out by saying that, despite some of his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very </i>out-there statements, I don’t believe that Jon is a racist. I
think that true racism, true bigotry, requires a certain level of malice behind
it. And I’m seeing malice behind Jon’s statements, just a lot of…complete…and
total…ignorance!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: My
reasons for thinking that come from the things he said in his response video to
the controversy, where he highlights a bunch of inflammatory news titles about
the discussion of race in this country.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The simple point I was trying to make is that it’s hypocritical, for those who see
everything in terms of race, to suddenly turn around and object, when white
people speak up in what they believe are the best interests of their race. And
it’s also hypocritical to say that you want to have an honest conversation
about race when you don’t actually want to have an honest conversation about
race and every time someone brings up an uncomfortable statistic, you freak
out! And I mean, you can see this in all the countless media articles that get
pumped out every day from the highest level saying, for instance, “you can’t be
racist against white people,” or “it’s a good thing whites are going to become
a minority.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: This
right here is what really let me know that, when you get to the core of things,
Jon fundamentality misunderstands what the current discussion on race and
social justice is all about. Jon is correct to label the statement, “you can’t
be racist against white people,” as false, of course. Racism against whites
definitely does exist, but this kind of racism is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">personal </i>prejudice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: In
social justice circles, at least at the professional and academic level, when
racism is discussed, it is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">structural </i>in
nature. It’s related to the concept of white privilege, a very hot-topic and
highly misunderstood term. White privilege does not mean that white people have
it all hunky-dory and will never suffer hardship or bigotry. What it means is
that white people as a whole enjoy greater opportunities, greater standards of
living, and experience less barriers to success than do non-whites. The biggest
example of white privilege I can think of involves the justice system, and the
fact that black people are given sentences that are nearly 20 percent longer
than those imposed on white people convicted of similar crimes, according to the
US Sentencing Committee’s report on Federal Sentencing, cited by this ACLU
report on screen. (ACLU report overlay) This is especially notable with drug
crimes. Studies show that drug use among blacks is only slightly higher than
that of whites (10.5% versus 9.5%, source: 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and
Health). But blacks are arrested at over twice the rate as whites are for drug
law violations when you factor in population size (they make up 12% of the US
population but account for nearly a third of drug arrests, source: FBI Report
on Crime in the US 2013). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: This
is just one example, there’s many others, but that’s a topic for another video.
I want this video to be about discussion, debate, and refuting the various
points that JonTron made, since he claims to want a civil discussion on this
topic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That being said, I genuinely hope that people keep debating keep talking to
each other, and keep learning. Honest, civil discourse without witch hunts is
the only way we’re getting out of this mess.<o:p></o:p></div>
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agree with you completely on this part, Jon. But you kind of undercut your own
point with what you said next.<o:p></o:p></div>
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prefer to take a step back now, return to doing comedy, it’s what I do better
anyway.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sorry, but I’m not sure I’m ready to forget about this whole thing. While I do
believe the media and people may have overreacted to what you said, some of
what you said was pretty extreme and troubling. And considering you lost over
10,000 subscribers over the whole ordeal (picture of Jon’s socialblade
statistics) and had a lot of your fans in your subreddit turn on you (pictures
of various memes and unflattering remarks made about Jon on said subreddit), I
don’t think it’s time to move on quite yet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: I
don’t think you understand why people thought you were a white nationalist. It
wasn’t because of your concerns about mass immigration—there’s plenty of valid
reasons to be concerned about that—but because you voiced your concern in ways
that were virtually indistinguishable from white nationalist sentiment. You
brought up genetics a few times, you said some things about “demographic
displacement,” you voiced some…frankly conspiratorial sentiments about ethnic
enclaves and I think at one point you said something about the “global elites.”
These aren’t the concerns of a well-informed individual; these are pretty
extreme statements that I think are deserving of a fair but of scrutiny. Let’s
start from the beginning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: This was
all sparked by comments made by Republican Representative Steve King on
Twitter. He tweeted out in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
(Picture of tweet) “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our
destiny. We can’t restore civilization with somebody else’s babies.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: An
obsession with demographics defines white nationalism, and it fuels their
biggest conspiracy theory: White Genocide. White nationalists are terrified of
the white race losing their demographic majority, either through low birth
rates or immigration of non-whites. They view non-whites as a sinister “other.”
King was tapping into white nationalist sentiment with that tweet. <o:p></o:p></div>
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does JonTron come in? Well, he tweeted out in support of King, saying, “How
scandalous, Steve King doesn’t want his country invaded by people who have
contempt for his culture and people! NAZI!” (Picture of tweet)<o:p></o:p></div>
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wait, wait, wait. “Invaded?” That’s a pretty extreme sentiment, don’t you
think? It paints a picture of immigrants as this massive foreign army coming to
destroy us. It’s not a statement that you can make without getting criticism,
and he got a lot of it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Another YouTuber, Chris Ray Gun (picture of Chris Ray Gun), chimed in, calling
Steve King’s comments, “stupid,” but questioning why multiculturalism is only
championed in white-majority countries. He followed it up by saying, everyone’s
fine with Asia/Africa/India being majority native, but it’s a problem in Europe
and America for some reason. (picture of tweets) He’s wrong about India and
Africa, those are both hugely multicultural countries—a whole multicultural <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">continent </i>in Africa’s case—but I won’t
go into that too much, it’s off topic. Jon showed up with THIS tweet (picture
of the tweet): “That’s exactly it, it’s only white nations that aren’t allowed
to protect their culture.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: “Not
allowed to protect our—“ what? Is our culture in need of protecting, is it
under some dire threat? And is there even a universally agreed upon standard as
to what the culture of “white nations,” is? No two nations are identical to the
other, Jon. It’s difficult to define what “white culture” is.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: He
got into an argument with a few people, claiming that his statements were about
mass immigration, rather than race. Twitch streamer Destiny joined in, bringing
up previous periods of mass immigration, such as the Irish and Italians. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: They
agreed to this stream, and this is the source of the main controversy. This is
where Jon made some his questionable and extreme statements. Well, that, and
this tweet: (tweet of Jon: “and that’s even going as far to say colonization
wasn’t a net benefit for the third world (it was)”) …<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yeah.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN:
Before I get into this I want to say that I don’t agree completely with Destiny
on everything, and he’s said some pretty ignorant shit too about YouTube
animators (pictures of his tweets), but his comments from this particular
stream are on point for the most part, so I don’t want to see any comments about
how I’m just a fanboy of his, I literally had no idea who he was until this
controversy broke out. I’m here to address the comments made in this stream and
either prove them or debunk them with evidence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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really make sense, it was a European nation. Like in the late 1800s and early
1900s Italians and Irishmen were discriminated against massively coming to the
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They’re still European though. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, we didn’t see it like that in the United States going back a hundred some
fifty years, they’re European, that’s not how we saw it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There’s a fascinating—and depressing—history of racism faced by the Irish, both
in America and in the UK. Scientific racism was huge in the Victorian Era, and
one such scientist by the name of John Beddoe, wrote in his 1862 book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Races of Britain,</i> that all men of genius
were orthognathous (which means they had less prominent jaw bones) while the
Irish and Welsh were prognathous and the Celt was related to the Cro-Magnon man
(the early modern <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">homo sapiens</i>),
which, in turn, was linked to the “Africanoid.” Beddoe even had some called the
“Index of Nigrescence” where the Celt was placed much lower than the
Anglo-Saxon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Political cartoons, both here and in Britain, compared the Irish to apes a lot
during this time period. (Examples of such cartoons are shown) I’ll go into
this more a little later, for now let’s return to the debate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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understand what you’re saying. While none of this would been a problem had
the…I guess you could call them the extreme left…started bringing identity
politics to the forefront because when you have a nation…a nation is supposed
to be a people that are all bound by…at least culture, if not…genetics or
whatever you want to say. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Woah!
Let’s just stop right here for a moment. Because this is only the first time
Jon brings up genetics in this debate, yes he does it several times, and
Destiny doesn’t really address it, he asks him what he means by “identity
politics” and the “extreme Left.” But I the genetics thing is what really made
me uncomfortable and I think that’s why people are worried he might be a racist
or a white nationalist. Because a lot of racism that happened in the past was
given scientific justification by bringing up genetics.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: There
was a German polygenist named Christoph Meiners who believed that each race had
a separate origin. He split mankind into two divisions, which he labelled the
“beautiful peoples,” and the “ugly peoples.” Meiners believed that the dark “ugly”
people where distinct from the “beautiful” white people because they lacked
virtue and were possessed of “terrible vice.” He claimed that the “Negro” was
the unhealthiest race on Earth because of its poor diet, mode of living, and
lack of morals. (source: Das Gupta, Tania (2007) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Race and Racialization: Essential Readings. </i>Pp. 25-26) Basically,
this guy may well have founded white supremacy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: There
was an entire pseudoscientific movement in the form of eugenics in the early 20<sup>th</sup>
century that aimed to “improve the genetic quality of the human population.” This
wasn’t some fringe theory, it was an actual academic discipline at many
Universities, and many eugenics programs received government grant funding. It
was built on the theory of “genetic determinism,” in which human character was
due to genes rather than living conditions or education levels. Eugenics were
used to justify discrimination against other races because they had “inferior”
genes, up to denying certain ethnic groups entry into America entirely. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Obviously, I’m not accusing JonTron of believing in any of this. In fact, I
don’t he think understands what genetics are. I don’t really understand them,
either, it’s complicated, but I know enough about history to know that it’s
never a good idea to bring up genetics when talking about what a nation is. Jon
should have thought about his choice of words more carefully.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Okay, by the argument is that white people are what caused them to be in those
places—that’s the implicit argument, not that they had any agency of their own.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who do you think was responsible for Jim Crow laws?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, it was white people, of course, I’m not arguing for Jim Crow (laughs)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, if you go back 50-200 years, yeah, it was kind of white people that did
it. Now I’m not saying that we need to lock up white people now or bring back
reparations, but it seems that, and I’ve noticed this a lot because I watched
your entire conversation with Sargon, is that—I know there are extremists on
the left that want to play the blame game with that fucking white guilt
bullshit, I’m not into that shit, I’m not that extreme. You know how people
need to bow their head everywhere and be solemn and check their privilege all
the time, I think that’s stupid. But it’s difficult to have a conversation
about these topics when a lot of white people won’t even acknowledge that they
exist. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Destiny hits on an important topic here in that many white people want to think
that society has moved passed racism and discrimination, but as I’ve shown
earlier, this is not the case. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The argument that I’m getting into is that your environment shapes you a lot. If
you have a family that dates back hundreds of years, if you’ve got parents that
help you, these things have a major impact on your life. If you have
grandparents that were directly affected by Jim Crow, you have parents that
were born to people who were directly discriminated against by the state. We’re
not that far removed from Jim Crow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yeah, well the United Kingdom didn’t have Jim Crow. France didn’t have Jim
Crow. We still have riots—we still have Muslim riots over there. And Sweden
didn’t have Jim Crow, and we still have riots in the streets of Stockholm. So,
at what point do we—okay, so Jim Crow, one aspect of it here in America, but as
far as the rest of the Western World, we don’t have these same precedents. And
there’s disproportionate crime in those communities. <o:p></o:p></div>
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sorry, there was no Jim Crow in Europe, is that what you said? I mean, you’re
right, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t discrimination against minorities in
those countries. Cultural discrimination can have the same detrimental effects
as legal discrimination. Racist caricatures of minorities in the media happened
just as often in Europe as it did here in the old days. <o:p></o:p></div>
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would argue that—I don’t want to get too raunchy with this, but—I think what
I’m saying is…nobody would ask Japan if it was okay that, you know, Japan
become a minority Japanese nation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But we’re not Japan!<o:p></o:p></div>
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you want some context here, it won’t help. Destiny had talked about the
detrimental effects of Jim Crow and said that it’s difficult for a discussion
on race to happen when the Right is often accusing you to “turning people
against each other.” Jon’s comment on Japan comes out of left field.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY: If
you want to draw another parallel to another homogenous society, Japan is the
worst go-to argument. It’s also a dying country of people, who because they
refuse to let anyone in, are having horrible problems with their population,
they’re having world record setting suicide rates, I don’t think Japan is the
one to point to as your model homogenous society.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: The
situation in Japan is more complicated than most people think. The CIA World
Factbook has Japan has ethnically being 98.5% Japanese, making it a pretty
homogenous nation. (source: <a href="http://www.indexmundi.com/japan/ethnic_groups.html)">www.indexmundi.com/japan/ethnic_groups.html)</a>
However, Japan’s census counts citizenship rather than ethnicity, and domestic
minorities and the few immigrants who manage to become nationalized citizens
are simply counted as, “Japanese.” (source: “Census Blind to Japan’s True
Diversity,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Japan Times</i>. 2010,
October 5) The naturalization process for immigrants is very strict. You must
have lived in Japan for ten years, and you have to have renounced any citizen
you had with another country—dual citizenship is not allowed. (source: <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21705375-getting-passport-not-easy-inspectors-knock)">www.economist.com/news/asia/21705375-getting-passport-not-easy-inspectors-knock)</a>
The applications can take 18 months to process, and in 2015, the government
received just 12,442 applications and granted citizenship to 9,469 people. The
tight restriction of immigration, coupled with a low birth rate (1.46 per woman
in 2015, the fourth-lowest in the developed world), has caused Japan’s
population to shrink in recent years, having declined by a million people since
2010. (source: “Japan’s Population declines in 2015 for the first time since
1920,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Japan Times</i>.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: There
are also other factors regarding personal prejudice in Japanese society that
I’m not educated enough to talk about. But, yeah, Japan is dealing with some
complex problems, and it’s not really an ideal society.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m not talking about me, I’m talking about mass immigration, when they want to
go and basically—I’m mean they’ve gone and said it on the DNC platform, that lady
said, “white people need to shut up, and listen.” Is that the kind of discourse
we’re looking at for the future of this country?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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lady in question was a DNC Candidate at last year’s forum in Washington DC, who
had this to say.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CANDIDATE: My job is to listen and be a voice. And my job is to shut other
white people down when they want to interrupt. My job is to shut other white
people down when they say, “oh no, I’m not prejudiced. I’m a Democrat. I’m
accepting.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: In
this context, it’s a different message than what Jon seemed to get. She appears
to be talking about a problem that white liberals have with acknowledging
racism and prejudice amongst themselves, saying that they can’t be prejudiced
because they’re liberals, but then interrupting and talking over the top of
black people when they try to speak about the issues facing them. She probably
could have worded things better than she did, “shut other white people down,”
isn’t a very comforting statement, but in context, it was not the anti-white
statement that Jon seems to think it is.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You’re talking about identity politics, dawg. Half the people who were tweeting
at me in response to you were literally neo-Nazis and white supremacists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Look man, it’s this guilt-by-association shit, why you don’t you denounce all
the communists in your movement!<o:p></o:p></div>
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What’s…what does communism have to do with this?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, what do Nazis have to do with this? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, Nazis are—it’s a political and race ideology, communism is an economic
ideology.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh, it’s just an economic thing…okay, Nazis were a movement in 1930s Germany,
they have absolutely nothing to do with any of this, Americans are the ones who
beat the Nazis, so why are we bringing Nazis into anything?<o:p></o:p></div>
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of you guys got some things wrong here. It’s true that communism is an ideology
rooting in economics—specifically regarding social class—but it’s also an
authoritarian system requiring autocratic government and repression of human
rights and civil liberties to in order to remain in power. Communist
governments have killed tens of millions of people. And Nazis weren’t just a
movement in 1930s Germany, it originated in Germany, but there were Nazi
parties in most Western countries at the time. Greece, Denmark, the UK, the US,
Norway, Sweden, France, Canada, all of them had a Nazi party at the time. And
Nazis didn’t just go away after World War II, they went to in to hiding.
They’re resurfaced as neo-Nazis at various times in the last seventy years. During
the 1970s and 80s, you could find these people as part of the skinhead
subculture, “white power punk” being a subgenre of punk music that these guys
liked to listen to. Today, you’ll find these guys among the alt-right,
particularly on image boards like 4chan, and they a have a notable presence in
the trolling and hacking subcultures, and they enjoy using memes like Pepe the
Frog and “Kek.” It’s the alt-right who were tweeting at Destiny when he was
responding to JonTron. More importantly, the statements that Steve King made
about demographics have made alt-right and white nationalist websites pretty
excited. These people believe that white people are under attack, and they
think that nationalism is the only way to stave off the nefarious “others,” who
threaten them. This is why Steve King got so much criticism, and it’s why
JonTron got a lot of heat as well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I don’t think that pure society is possible, like I don’t think that’s
possible, but in terms of a demographic majority, I don’t know that a nation
can exist without one. This truly multicultural—everyone is a different race or
religion—I don’t really know if that’s sustainable in the long-term. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But, what’s wrong with there being all these different—<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, have you seen the last four years my friend!? This is the thing with
people like you, you gaslight! You pretend the last four to eight years didn’t
fucking happen!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wait a minute, your side is the side that’s fucking gas lighting, you’re
telling me that there are riots all over Europe and—<o:p></o:p></div>
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THERE ARE! THERE FUCKING ARE!<o:p></o:p></div>
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You ever heard of boiling the frog slowly? Doesn’t notice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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is correct about there being riots in Europe, but that’s more do to cultural
clashes, poverty, and alienation, it’s not because of their race. Europe does
have a more difficult time assimilating the mostly Muslim Middle-Eastern
immigrants and refugees into their secular democracies than America does in
assimilating the mostly Catholic Central-American immigrants into ours. Let me
put it this way, America is mostly Christian despite having largely secular
laws, our people are mostly Christian, and it’s reflected in the fact that
almost all of our politician’s mention God when running for office. Despite
cultural differences and ethnic differences, for the most part it isn’t too
difficult for Central-American immigrants to assimilate into our culture
because they are also largely Christian.<o:p></o:p></div>
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situation in Europe is..a lot different. Europe is a lot less religious than
America, it’s much more secular, and they don’t have the “Golden Door” mythos
that we have. Also, the immigrants coming into Europe are mostly Muslims, and
while the majority of them probably aren’t terrorists and probably aren’t
coming with intent on committing terrorism, there’s still a lot of problems. Many
of them are poor, many of them can’t find jobs (because the European labor
market is less flexible than the American one), and many of them become
socially isolated as a consequence. Crime and poor living conditions are a
problem among them, and this has occasionally broken out into rioting, as we’ve
seen in Malmo a month ago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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don’t see what any of this has to do with a nation having a “demographic
majority.” We’re having less problems with immigration and assimilation than
Europe is, and we take in more immigrants than they do. Most European countries
have a large white majority population than America does. And yet they have
more problems than we do. So why does Jon seem to think demographics are an
issue when culture, poverty, and social isolation seem to be much bigger
issues? <o:p></o:p></div>
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100 years—150 years ago, Italians and Irish wouldn’t even have been considered
white people, let alone Americans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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don’t know if that’s true. That’s just a myth, they were considred white. I
don’t know where this thing that the Irish and Italians weren’t white, that’s
ridiculous, the Irish are like the whitest people around, that’s just a fucking
myth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Remember the article I talked about earlier, about the “scientist” named Jon
Beddoe? There were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">definitely</i> people
who didn’t see the Irish as truly white. It’s no myth, if anything Destiny is
downplaying the shit the Irish received. There were people that didn’t even see
them as fully evolved humans! <o:p></o:p></div>
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These people were treated horribly, they were called “ reverse Negros.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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…maybe they were a bunch of dicks, huh?<o:p></o:p></div>
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…no, I don’t think so!<br />
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just say this? Like, this was not the right time for Jon to attempt a joke, it
makes it look like he’s not taking the debate seriously at all, and he comes
off as extremely arrogant and ignorant. <o:p></o:p></div>
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People not liking the Italians and people not liking the Irish doesn’t make
them non-white, it just makes them not liked, perhaps they had some traits that
were undesirable. I hear the Italian mafia made the rounds. But that would have
been a good argument to restrict Italian immigration, then!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I think Jon is trying to make a joke here, but it’s not helping his case
considering some of the other thing’s he’s been saying, and what he’s going to
say later on. Because, joke or no, this is literally how people 100 years ago
justified laws against Italian immigration.<o:p></o:p></div>
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you’re saying it has nothing to do with Mexicans, then why is it so important
that whites remain the majority in the United States? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Look, I’m not actually making the argument that whites should remain the
majority in the United States, I’m simply arguing that it’s clear, that whites
are not allowed to speak out against their demographic…oblivion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Indeed. Like, wow, I think we need to talk about this, because I don’t think
you can blame poor debating skills on a quote like this. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m sorry, did I miss the stories where all white people are getting killed by
Mexicans and black people?<o:p></o:p></div>
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They’re not being killed, man. But they’re being displaced.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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What do you mean by displaced!<o:p></o:p></div>
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You are the same person guy who says that the Europeans displaced the Native
Americans, that’s your argument, “oh you’re not a Native-American, then you can
never be a true American,” but apparently, when other people do it to white
Americans, it’s okay, because fuck white people! It’s obvious what you’re
saying!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m…I’m going to try and make sense of what Jon is saying here. The argument is
that it’s hypocritical to get angry at white people for “speaking out against
their demographic displacement” or whatever, because whites are being displaced
by non-whites due to mass immigration, and mass immigration is apparently the
same thing as European colonization and the forced removal of Native Americans
from their ancestral homelands? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Like,
Jon…you have to realize how extreme this sounds, right? Like, it sounds like
you’re repeating talking points you read on white nationalist websites. These
are things that actual white nationalists have said! “Mass immigration is
demographic displacement,” “you leftists are hypocritical for condemning
European colonization but not mass immigration!” Like, no we’re not! Those are
two completely different things! For one, these immigrants aren’t equipped with
military technology that vastly more advanced than what we have! Also,
immigrants have to be let in by the government whereas colonists pretty much
just showed up and started building homes over other peoples’ lands. You can’t
just make comparisons like this! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Like, what does “white displacement,” mean?<o:p></o:p></div>
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But why does it matter if a person of certain skin color is a minority?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because people like you, and people of your ilk, would freak out if the
situation had been flipped. Had the situation been whites colonizing part
of—like when the Chinese colonized Tibet—<o:p></o:p></div>
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But they’re not colonizing anything, these are people legally immigrating—<o:p></o:p></div>
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Okay, so why when the Chinese colonized Tibet, why was that a “save Tibet
situation?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: The
data that Jon mentioned earlier about whites losing their majority status in
2042 is mostly true, it’s explicitly non-Hispanic whites that will lose that
status. It was reported by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York
Times </i>back in 2008 (source: “Minorities set to become majority by 2042” by
Sam Roberts). I had to look up the part about China and Tibet since Destiny
didn’t know about it, and what I found was that in 1950, China incorporated
Tibet into the mainland, and the Chinese Communist Government forced them to
abandon their religion. During the Cultural Revolution, Tibetan farmers were
forced to change what crops to cultivate, resulting in mass starvation. Resistance
of government rule of any kind is not tolerated. The situation in Tibet is one
of forced cultural assimilation at coercion of a majority government.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: This
is not comparable to mass immigration in any way. It is comparable to European
colonization, but not to large amounts of non-white immigrants moved to white
majority countries. Also, I’ve yet to meet or see anyone defend the actions of
the Chinese government aside from the Chinese government themselves, and a few
delusional Mao apologists online. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Let me ask you something, do you consider the colonization of Africa by
Europeans to be a bad thing?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
That’s a…that’s a really complicated issue.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s only complicated because it’s whites. That’s the only reason.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No, it’s not, it’s really complicated!<o:p></o:p></div>
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it’s extremely complicated. I’m not going to go into that, it would take a
whole series of videos to examine the history and consequences of European
colonization of Africa, so I’ll just say that it did more harm than good. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We’re not talking about colonizing and imperializing people; we’re just talking
about immigration to the United States.<o:p></o:p></div>
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what do you call a large number of people form one specific place, coming in
and setting up their own ethnic enclaves, and then waving their own flag inside
our nation, what would you call that?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY: What do you mean by “setting up your own ethnic
enclaves and waving your own flag,” I’m pretty sure we have Mexicans who come
to the United States that wave American flags and are proud to be American.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON: Yes, of course. But there are also…large swathes
of them who don’t feel that way, who want to break parts of America back off
into Mexico, so what would you say to those?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Okay, well…there’s a new theory. I can’t say I’ve
heard that one before. They want to break parts of America back off into
Mexico, you say? I’ve heard plenty of extreme claims about some deeper
nefarious agenda of Mexican immigrants, but this the first time I’ve heard of
this in particular. And he’s basing this off of the existence of immigrant
communities were people wave the flag of their native countries? Isn’t that
something every immigrant group in America has always done? Like, you go to
Breezy Point, there’s Irish flags everywhere, so are they trying to turn that
piece of America into Ireland? Is there a conspiracy to turn Bensonhurst into
Italy? Are they trying to turn the Lower East Side into Puerto Rico? Is Jackson
Heights being turned into the Philippines? If your evidence of Mexicans turning
parts of America into Mexico is, “they set up ethnic enclaves and fly their own
flags,” then that means <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">every single
immigrant group that has ever tried to move here</i> has been turning parts of
America into their home country!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The country was something like 92% white in 1950, it changed, now it’s about
60% non-Hispanic white, I believe, these are epic demographic changes,
unlike...I don’t know if it’s ever been seen in history. But these people, who
come here, I assume they see themselves as Mexicans, I don’t know if they come
here and the soil magically turns them into Thomas Jefferson’s direct
descendent. So why is it that white Americans resisting their own displacement
is racist?<o:p></o:p></div>
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we…can we rewind a bit?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON: I
don’t know if they come here and the soil magically turns them into Thomas
Jefferson’s direct descendent.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is an absolute disproportionate amount of crime committed to whites, by
nonwhites. There’s no arguing that, that’s just FBI statistics. <o:p></o:p></div>
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looked this up, and I’ve looked at the hate crime data for 2015 made by the
FBI. The findings are that; race was reported for 5,493 known hate crime
offenders. It says that, 48.4% were White, 24.3% were Black, 9.1% were
“multiracial”, 1% were Asian, and 16.2% were unknown. For victims, 52.2% were
motivated by Anti-Black bias, 18.7% by anti-white bias, 9.3% by anti-Hispanic
bias, 3.2% by anti-Asian bias, and 1.1% by anti-Arab bias. So, the stats don’t
quite back you up here, Jon. <o:p></o:p></div>
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relative terms, in relative to wealthy whites, yes, you’re correct in that poor
whites commit more crime.<o:p></o:p></div>
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you think that poor blacks commit more crime relative to wealthier black
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Wait, what!?<br />
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this was by far Jon’s most questionable claim. I looked it up to see if it checks
out, and it didn’t, but I did find some interesting facts that I wasn’t expecting
to find. According the BJS’s Household Poverty and Nonfatal Violent
Victimization Survey from 2008-12, the poorest persons had the highest rates of
violence. The rate for poor Hispanics was 25.3 per 1000, the rate for poor
whites was 46.4 per 1,000, and the rate for poor blacks was, get this, 43.3 per
1,000. The rate was lower; I was not expecting that at all. It goes on to state
that the rate for poor urban blacks was 51.3 per 1,000 and the rate for poor
urban whites was 56.4 per 1,000. This was…quite something for me to learn, and
I think more people should be aware of this, because holy shit, does it punch
so many holes in the arguments of the people who write for Breitbart!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve read articles that say that poor white kids are less likely to go to
prison than rich black kids, but--<o:p></o:p></div>
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The court system disproportionately, even when controlling for socioeconomic
factors, sentences black people typically harsher sentences than white people,
even when you control for the crimes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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don’t agree with—I mean this is just ridiculous, you’re telling me that they’re
going to sentence—I don’t subscribe to that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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brought this topic up earlier in the video and linked to a study that showed
that blacks got 20% longer prison sentences than whites for committing the same
crime, I’ll show it again here. There’s a definite bias in the court system
against blacks. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Because better handouts…a lot of them are on welfare, you understand?<o:p></o:p></div>
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you were to drive though a neighborhood where there are construction crew
working, if you were to talk to anybody in manual labor, you would never hear
the argument passed around that Mexicans are lazy and on welfare, they do some
of the toughest jobs available in this country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Ugh, dude, you’re just virtue signaling. <o:p></o:p></div>
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term, “virtue signaling,” is a term applied to people who are only advocating a
better world and acting like they want to improve the world in order to make
themselves look good. It’s basically bringing their motivations into question.
While there are people in the world who join activist movement for self-serving
reasons, the virtue signaling allegations are overused in the extreme,
especially online. And besides, attacking the motivation of the person in a
debate is form of ad hominem. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s a principle! What is it so bad that they remain a majority?<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s because you’re talking about restricting immigration from all of these
places—<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why do we need to take all these immigrants in?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
Because it takes talent from all these other areas to benefit the entire
country.<o:p></o:p></div>
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benefits the global elites, that’s the only people it benefits.<o:p></o:p></div>
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dear, he seems to be taking jargon from InfoWars, now? Seriously, Jon, the
“global elites?” That’s so vague it could mean anything. The global elites are
common bogeymen in conspiracy theories about the New World Order, and people
like Alex Jones thinks there a conspiracy to bring about a One World Government
by depriving nations of their sovereignty. Mass immigration has something to do
with it, somehow. I see a lot of people claim that mass immigration is part of
the “endgame” for “Globalists,” but they never can provide any proof or any
reasons as to why or how it undermines national sovereignty. Also, how would
destroying first-world countries help the global elites, I think it’s in their
best interests that the first-world is as prosperous as possible. To me,
“global elites” and “globalists” just seem like a convenient boogeyman for
people that don’t understand complicated world issues and want to blame an easy
enemy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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listen, even though the mantra has—I mean, you’re just arguing based off the
old paradigm. Which is that if you—<o:p></o:p></div>
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don’t think you’re arguing off of data, because if you were, you wouldn’t be
saying the things you’re saying. <o:p></o:p></div>
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again, refer some of my previously sited data sources, Destiny’s argument
points check out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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do believe that we are different form Mexico, but very similar to Canada. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Because we’re whiter?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because our country is derived from the same culture, and had similar founding
stock at least.<o:p></o:p></div>
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would say that Canada has more French influences in its founding stock whereas
America had more British influence because of the way colonial border lines
were drawn at the time. Both were major European powers, so they’re quite
similar. But Mexico was started as a Spanish colony, which was also a European
power. So, I wouldn’t say we’re drastically different from Mexico culturally. <o:p></o:p></div>
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White countries are experiencing…it is basically in white countries—historically
white countries, it’s seen as a moral imperative that whites don’t resist their
own displacement. If they resist it, they’re racist, you can see this in every
white country on planet Earth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But this just goes back to my question I’ve asked over and over which you still
haven’t answered, why is it so bad that white people become a minority?<o:p></o:p></div>
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have answered it several times, no people want to become a minority in their
own country…why should they do, to be nice, what is your argument.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY: I
just guess…when I look at what it means to be an American, being white doesn’t
seem to be part of that definition. So, I don’t understand this massive
division on racial lines when you say whites are becoming a minority. I thought
we were all Americans, I don’t understand where this white/black/brown thing
comes from. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
I’m inclined to agree with you, I do believe we should just see each other as
Americans. But also, we’re dealing with something that’s not that. We’re
dealing with a political paradigm in that the status quo thinks that the only
logical conclusion of the country to atone for the sins of the white past is to
keep letting in people from the third world until white people are a minority.
That’s what happened, you can deny it all you want, but that is what’s
happening. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: The
current immigration policy developed during the Civil Rights Movement of the
1960s, so I…guess that’s where Jon’s claim about “atoning for the sins of the
white past,” is coming from? I don’t really get what his point is. The old
immigration system put in place in the 1920s was indisputably racist and
restricted immigration from Asia and Africa, and also gave preference to
Northern and Western Europeans over Southern and Eastern Europeans. It had a
national origins quota for God’s sakes! There’s no way a system like that was
going to survive the cultural changes brought about by the Civil Rights
Movement! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
Maybe every single economist agrees that immigration improves an economy for
everybody—<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTORN: I
don’t know if <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">every</i> economist agrees—<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
Pretty much every single economist, even the leading ones who are on the “hold
off on the immigration,” side more or less agree with that—<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
And, uh, every single pollster said that Hillary Clinton was going to win. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY: Do
you think that pollsters are at the same level as academic analysts when it
comes economic analysis, do you think that’s a fair comparison? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
We’re living in a political paradigm that values appearances over—of course
these people are going to say that! Because they don’t want the shitstorm!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN:
What…are you…you realize that’s now how studies are done, right?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY: Wait,
of course they’re going to say what, that California’s economy is huge?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
No, they’re going to say things like, “immigration is wonderful, diversity is
our strength.” If you don’t say these buzz words—<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
How do you think you grow an economy if your population begins to die off,
where do you get workers from? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
Why does our economy have to keep growing forever?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
Because that’s what our entire economy is based off of, it’s based off of
growth, would you be happy if the GDP growth was zero or started shrinking? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
People don’t need gadgets all the time, bigger, less expensive gadgets—<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Okay,
let me just stop you right there, Jon, because I’m utterly floored by your
sheer lack of economic knowledge. If an economy shrank for an extended period
of time, the consequences would be more than just, “less gadgets are being
made.” People would lose their jobs, their wages would decrease, their hours
would get cut, increased unemployment would put higher strain on the government
to provide aid for people who can’t find jobs. Like, this is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">basic</i> stuff! You’ve been fortunate
enough to make a lot of money by being super popular on YouTube, so a recession
wouldn’t affect you that much, but it would affect a fuck ton of lot people!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY: We
could stay on the culture side, in which case, why do you think white people
are so important to the American identity, why can’t brown and black and all
these other people be included as well, why does it hurt if the demographics
shift around a little bit?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON: Because,
clearly they---ugh, are you doubting the existence of tribalism? Do you believe
in it or not?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY: I
think the fact that you are here talking to me, defending white people, as a
half-Hungarian and half-Iranian, seems to speak against the notion of tribalism
as this embedded thing that can never be changed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: I
would also add that Jon is committing an appeal to nature fallacy here. He
brought up tribalism earlier and said it was human nature to be tribalistic. Just
because it’s in our nature doesn’t mean it’s a good thing, nor does it mean
that we shouldn’t actively by trying to avoid it. The human race has come a
long way from the days in which we all lived in caves and competed with other
tribes for food and resources by going to war. The majority of the planet seems
to want world peace these days, and while it’s not easy to obtain, it’s a noble
goal, and it shouldn’t be abandoned because “tribalism.” I don’t think we
should be afraid of non-white cultures because “tribalism,” either. Ultimately,
we are all the same species and we share the same planet. We all need to think
more about the well-being of the planet as a whole instead of thinking only
about what goes on within our own borders.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY: Do
you think that it’s okay to stifle its growth a bit in order to maintain a
homogenous cultural identity? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
Yeah, I think it’s fine, Japan does it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Yeah,
you’re right, Jon, Japan does do that? And how has that been working out for
them? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(Overlay of
economic growth stats, population stats, and employment stats for Japan, all of
which show a level of stagnation for the last 25 years—an entire generation—as
well as the country’s public debt problem as a result of its aging population
and not enough younger workers and taxpayer dollars to fund the government’s
expenses)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DESTINY: Okay, but now you’re talking about
assimilation, so what if whites became a minatory but most brown people
assimilated into the culture, would that be okay then? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
Yeah, but if they assimilated, they would enter the gene pool eventually, and
just, you know…<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
BECOME WHITE!?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Yeah,
Jon mentioned the gene pool again. I don’t think he knows how genetics work.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
This is what I’m trying to ask? Let’s say, you got 100 million brown people who
want to come to the United States, and they would all assimilate into the
culture immediately, whites would become the minority, would this be a good
thing or a bad thing?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON: If
they assimilated immediately?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
yes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON: OF
course, that would be fine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN:
Here’s where I have to disagree with Destiny. I don’t think it’s good idea to
take in 100 million people of any ethnicity all at once, because that number is
nearly a third of the entire population of the United States. Such rapid jump
in population would be very disruptive, cause a lot of crowding problems in the
cities, and it would be a strain on the government to naturalize all of them
and give them citizenship papers and passports. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
I’m just talking about the ideal way to do immigration, I understand we have
people here who are white and people who are black, and I want them all to feel
respected and loved, of course. It’s ridiculous to think that I don’t want
that. I’m just talking about the demographic shift…whites are expected to just
lay down and take it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Wait,
so you want people of all races to be respected and loved, but you also think
that if there are too many people of other races, it means whites are being
displaced? (pause) These two sentiments do not mesh with each other. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY: So,
the problem is that young black men in the United States are disproportionately
born into single-mother households, which is a leading indicator of crime.
They’re also disproportionately born into ghettos in low-income areas, they
have access to worse education, they are born into horrible socioeconomic
conditions, all of these things are massive contributors into being a criminal
as you grow up. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
But you are making the argument that it’s like white people who put them there.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
Because they kind of sort of did over the past 200 years. They kind of bought
them over as slaves, they kind of bred them a certain way, they kind of, you
know, redlined them and gentrified them out of certain neighborhoods and
certain communities, they kind of legally discriminated against them and put
them in certain areas for a long time. They kid of disproportionately policed
them and sentenced them to higher crimes in the justice system. White people
have contributed a lot to this. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
So, I suppose that’s why the crime rates are pretty consistent across Africa,
too? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(Record
Scratch)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN:
Wha….I…what!? What does that have to do with…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what? </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON: There
is one thing I came here to talk to you about. Why is it bad for white people
to resist their own demographic displacement? That is the only thing I’m here
to discuss.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
And your only answer was tribalism. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
No, I explained other things as well. When people, let’s say the French, receive
an influx of Islamic migrants who say, “you don’t give us good enough handouts,
you know, like…you’re being racist to us,” and then they’re rioting, what are
the French supposed to think?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY: I
don’t know, I’m not French, I’m American, why have we gone across the seas
again? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
It’s all intertwined, it’s the same situation, but they speak a different
language, I don’t know why that’s so hard for you to understand. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
Because it’s not the same situation, those countries are in dramatically
different situations, you can’t compare them!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON:
That’s like saying a man ate a sandwich in France and a man ate a sandwich in
America, but these are not the same situations. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN:
Wha….I can’t with this, I just can’t. Let’s just skip ahead to the end when
they get back to the topic on discrimination.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON: Look,
I know that there was some discrimination there, and by the way, yeah, it’s
wrong, discrimination is wrong, we have gotten rid of discrimination in our
western countries.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DESTINY:
Wait, no we haven’t, what do you mean? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JONTRON: If
you don’t think we’ve gotten rid of discrimination, you’re living in a fantasy
land.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stops for a Second)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: I’m,
just going to take a moment to breathe in for a bit. (takes moment to breathe
in) Okay, that’s better. Just wow, there is so much ignorance to rip apart in
that statement. I’ve given examples of discrimination earlier in the video, you
can go check them out, I’ll leave the links in the video description. To
adequately document the discrimination that still exists to this day is too
much for a single YouTube video, it really is. Destiny goes on to bring up the
voter ID laws in North Carolina as evidence, which JonTron just blows off in
a…pretty pompous way. It’s an attitude you see online quite a lot, particularly
in the “Red Pill” community, where believe that they’ve woken up to the truth
and now see people who disagree with them as either willful idiots or
brainwashed sheep. A lot of what JonTron said in this stream are things you’ll
find on the Red Pill subreddit, there’s a notable overlap between them and
white nationalist groups.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: This
is close to the end of their debate, and Jon doesn’t say anything really
objectionable for the remainder of it, so I think now is good time to gather my
thoughts together and conclude this response video. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: It
took me about four days to write this script, and as I was finishing, news came
out that JonTron had been dropped from his speaking role in a Yooka-Laylee game
over his controversial statements. So, the fallout isn’t over yet. By the time
I’ve actually made this video, edited it, and uploaded it to YouTube, he’ll
have long since regained the 10,000 or subs he lost. A lot of people, including
Destiny himself, disagree with calls to “punish” Jon for his viewpoints
(Destiny criticized Playtonic Games, the makers of Yooka-Laylee, for their
decision on Twitter). I myself don’t think JonTron deserves to lose his career
over these statements, and I don’t like how hyperbolic some media headlines
have been about his comments. (It’s the kind of media sensationalism that never
leads anywhere good).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: But,
considering how his own subreddit turned on him for a while, and he actually
lost a decent number of subs, it seems his own fans were taken aback by some of
his views. Some of his statements are deserving of scrutiny and criticism, particularly
his more ignorant ones. I made this video in response to JonTron’s response
video to the controversy, because he said he wanted some civil discourse and
debate, but he didn’t really address any of the things he said, or the questionable
claims he made. I also don’t think he should just brush this under the rug and
get back to going game reviews and pretend the whole thing didn’t happen. You
can’t really make claims like, “rich blacks commit more crimes than poor
whites,” “whites are expected to accept their demographic displacement,” and “large
swatches of Mexicans want to break parts of America back off into Mexico,” and
not get criticism for it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: As I
said previously, I think the media overreacted a little and I think it’s going too
far to call JonTron a white nationalist, even if he using a lot of white
nationalist talking points. He beliefs are fueled mostly by ignorance rather
than malice. No one really went in depth about the things Jon said, so I
decided to do so myself. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Is
JonTron a racist? Eh...probably not, at least not openly. Is he ignorant? Oh,
yeah! Extremely misinformed. I would advise him to do some research and read a
few studies before he gets into his next debate about this kind of topic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Do I
think we should stop watching him because of his beliefs? No. There’s quite a
few people in Hollywood who are fuck ton of a lot more racist than JonTron (Mel
Gibson anyone?), but I still watch their movies because their movies are good.
Likewise, I think JonTron makes good content on his channel. It’s up to you, it’s
up to his fans to decide if they want to continue to support him or not. I
understand either way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: I
want to see more rational discussions about political debates and less screaming
in the comments section and on YouTube. I want to see more intelligent and
insightful videos made in response to people who make questionable statements,
and not just the usual “SJW Feminazi Gets REKT”/”X Person Says Shocking Racist
Things” variety of bottom-of-the-barrel YouTube voyeurism. There’s far too many
of the latter and not nearly enough of the former. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: I
mean, don’t get me wrong, making fun of crazy extremists and taking the piss
out of them can be very entertaining, but I think people tend too often to do it
to people who don’t deserve it. And JonTron isn’t one of those hopelessly crazy
types. Hopefully he will able to listen in a rational debate with an
ideological opponent…and even more hopefully, he’ll learn a few things and
realize how stupid it is to worry about “white displacement.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(Outro with
links to my social media accounts and a “like and subscribe” message appears)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EVAN: Thank
you for watching…I will try and make a video every week, hopefully I’ll be able
to because I don’t plan on making most of my videos as serious and as long as
this one. If you like what you see, subscribe to my channel and share this
video around. And remember to leave a rating and comment, all feedback is
appreciated. Be sure to follow me on all of my social media accounts, links are
in the description, and I’ll see you all in the next video.<o:p></o:p></div>
Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-43660601841330482542017-03-18T20:42:00.001-07:002017-03-18T20:42:35.918-07:00Cut This Out<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">This Shit Needs To Stop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span>Why the fuck does this keep happening? It seems like
almost every time something in a video game is not up to par with expectations,
certain segments of the gaming community go absolutely batshit and start harassing
employees and game devs. Why do we tolerate this behavior? Better question,
when did we START tolerating this behavior? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If you don’t
know, a preview demo of Mass Effect: Andromeda was released a few days ago (with
the full game coming out on March 21<sup>st</sup>). It has been heavily
criticized and mocked for it’s stiff, often uncanny facial animations. Many
memes have been made about them and for a while everyone was laughing. Then
<a href="http://www.polygon.com/2017/3/18/14969390/mass-effect-andromeda-lead-animator-harassment">some people</a> decided that someone needed to be punished for UNFORGIVABLE CRIME
of the game they bought having poor animation. Like, holy shit, that is the
WORST POSSIBLE FUCKING THING THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN TO ANY HUMAN BEING EVER! WE
MUST HAVE VENGEANCE ON WHOEVER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ATROCITY!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Deciding to
take up this noble cause is former GamerGate celebrity and human trashfire,
Ethan Ralph. Ethan Ralph is a viciously misogynistic fat pig of man who
believes that all games exist only to cater to needs to him and to like minded
people. This was pretty much was GamerGate was about. A bunch of unemployed,
thirtysomething losers living in their mom’s basement, with no intention of
growing up and being functional adult members of society, lashing out at any
attempt at making gaming more inclusive of women and minorities, or politically
progressive. These entitled warts on humanity’s collective asses spend their
entire existence whining about “SJWs” and “feminazis,” on Reddit, and their
only joy comes from engaging in harassment campaigns against people that either
criticize the games they like, or if they make a game that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">just wasn’t fucking perfect enough </i>for their tastes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This is all
they do with their lives. They can’t take any joy unless they’re destroying
another human being for some perceived—and often completely imaginary—slight
against them. It’s bullying at its worst—complete and total lack of empathy and
regard for the feelings and plights of others. Fucks like Ethan Ralph and
GamerGate make the entire gaming community, the online community, and young men
in general look like whiny, crying pissbabies. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
happened here is something that has happen several times before. Ethan Ralph
decided to <a href="http://kotaku.com/scumbags-harass-woman-for-working-on-mass-effect-andro-1793410647">dox a woman</a> he believed
responsible. I’m linking to this <a href="http://kotaku.com/scumbags-harass-woman-for-working-on-mass-effect-andro-1793410647">Kotaku article</a> about the debacle here—ordinarily
I would link directly to the person who started the campaign for the full
context, but I refuse to give this motherfucker any traffic. He does this shit
for an ego boost, and he doesn’t care if the traffic he gets is good or bad.
Basically, Ethan Ralph gas lighted a woman named Allie Rose-Marie Leost,
including a twitter page where she was identified as the “lead facial animator of
Mass Effect: Andromeda.” He accused her of being an inexperienced cosplayer
with no experience in making video games aside from “some background in art.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He ended his article by saying that she’s “very
experienced indeed, “ and the he “had an idea of how she landed this gig.”
Basically, implying that fucked her way to the top.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>His
evidence? None. Just a theory, a suggestion. That he knew would result in Leost
being harassed, and it did, because she was dogpiled by angry man-children,
with numerous misogynistic slurs being sent her way, asking her “how much dick
she sucked,” to get her job.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>BioWare
r<a href="https://twitter.com/bioware/status/843190432033005568">eleased a statement on Twitter</a> saying referring to her as a “former EA
employee” who was “misidentified” as a lead member of the dev team. Apparently,
they got the wrong person. Well, wasn’t this just some whacky misunderstanding?
Aw shucks!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>…<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wait a
minute, no it’s fucking not. Even if they had gotten the right person, it would
still be wrong. There shouldn’t be targeted harassment <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">at all</i>, much less for something like shitty animation in a video
game!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Harassment
campaigns have happened over even less important things than this. Last year, a
woman named Allison Rapp was fired from Nintendo. The controversy involving
Rapp was over localization of Japanese games, which is hot button topic in the
online community (this is the case with anime as well.) Rapp was an outspoken feminist
and critic of the way online harassment is trivialized as “trolling,” or “a
joke.” Nintendo was removing some sexualized content from games imported from
Japan. Rapp wrote an essay in college back in 2011, entitled, “Speech We Hate:
An Argument for the Cessation of International Pressure on Japan to Strengthen
Its Anti-Child Pornography Laws.” The essay contrasts the cultural differences
between Japan and the West, including their different views on youth sexuality.
She distinguishes between the exploitation of real-life children and the
creation of fictionalized sexual material.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Basically,
Rapp was a young person who was very into Japanese culture, and she wrote an
essay in which she argued that Japanese popular culture shouldn’t bow to censorship
from outside forces. Since Nintendo was removing sexualized content from
Japanese games, naturally Allison Rapp was to blame because she was an “SJW
Feminazi.” Yes, GamerGate’s logic is seriously that broken. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She was harassed
by GamerGate, and eventually fired by Nintendo after trolls leaked some
out-of-context excerpts from her essay, and she was fired from her job because
of public pressure (although the official story was that it was because she had
a second job that “conflicting with Nintendo Corporate Culture.”). The trolls
who got her fired obsessively dug up her old tweets and writings, as well as
her address, to make her life hell. And the kicker here was that she had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">absolutely no involvement in the
localization process of games at Nintendo whatsoever</i>! She was targeted
entirely for her political beliefs. Trolls took her out of context and
obsessively tried to destroy her life because they couldn’t handle someone with
strong opinions. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Incidentally,
that’s is exactly what GamerGate accuses SJWs of doing. Trying to get people
fired over differing political beliefs. I have no intention of trying to get
JonTron kicked off YouTube despite his incredibly ignorant and disturbing beliefs
about immigration and race (this will be the topic of my next post, BTW),
because he doesn’t deserve to lose his job any more than Allison Rapp deserved
to lose hers. Unlike GamerGate, Jon has never doxed or harassed anyone, and he
does not deserve anything more than criticism of his ignorance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
GamerGate, if anyone dares have the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">temerity</i>,
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">audacity</i>, to speak in support of
feminism, of social justice, it’s “BURN THE WITCH! BURN THE WITCH! GATHER YOUR
TORCHES AND PITCHFORKS AND BURN THE WITCH!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Going back
to the Andromeda controversy, there were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hundreds
</i>of people who worked on that game. She worked at EA Labs, and not the team’s
offices in Montreal, so she couldn’t have been the lead animator in charge of
how Andromeda turned out. And even if she had, there are multiple factors
involved in creating animation for games. Slow tools, limited resources, tech
problems…blaming one person is insane.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I haven’t found
much information about other than a four-year-old tweet of her announcing the
launch of an “animation and art” website by the name of allierosemarie.com. I
pray the harassment she received didn’t result in her deleting her twitter
account.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I wouldn’t
be surprised if Leost turned out to be a feminist or some form of nebulous “SJW”
bogeyman that the remnants of GamerGate continue to chase online. She certainly
was an easy target for GamerGate, who are obsessed with the narrative of women
sleeping their way to top in order to “exploit” gaming for their “SJW
Propaganda.” Let’s not forget the movement started because a woman was accused
of sleeping with a Kotaku journalist in exchange for a good review of her game
by her jilted ex-boyfriend. GamerGate has a culture war mentality in which they
believe themselves to be the heroes, saving gaming from invasion by the evil
outside forces. In their minds, anything they do is just, any accusation
against them is bullshit, and any evidence of wrongdoing on their part is a
false flag. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I will give
credit to some in the gaming community where it’s due. When BioWare released
the tweet about the harassment incident, PewDiePie <a href="https://twitter.com/pewdiepie/status/843205853562003456">tweeted</a>, “No
reason for personal insults or harassment, it’s just games.” But there’s a
bigger problem in the gaming community at large—a tendency to sweep incidents
like this under the rag and to dismiss the perpetrators as “just a few bad
apples.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’m sorry,
but there are far too many fucking “bad apples,” in online gaming. Far too many
trolls can be found on gaming forums like Steam and IGN, it’s one of the
reasons I haven’t been on the forums to discuss things in so many years. I got
sick of dealing with petulant trolls and shit disturbers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I see too
many people defending the kind of behavior I’ve been describing as, “it’s just
trolling, it’s just a prank, bro!” How does that legitimize it? How does
causing emotional distress, economic distress (if you get someone fired), and
personal endangerment (if they get doxed) translate into being funny? It
fucking doesn’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We need to
collectively take a look at ourselves in the mirror. We need to ask ourselves
how we got to the point where this kind of harassment is considered okay,
because people who work in developing games get death threats for something as
minor as bugs and glitches. Reviewers get death threats for <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/the-legend-of-zelda-twilight-princess-review/1900-6161993/">giving a sub-perfect score</a> to a popular game. People get doxed for speaking out against
these issues. And then there's this shit: <a href="https://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/11/australian-csgo-player-reveals-his-team-cops-death-threats-for-losing-games/">W? T? F?</a> And people refuse to speak in support of the people who get
victimized because, “it’s not me/I don’t know them so who gives a shit?” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And quite
frankly, I’m fucking sick of it. This behavior is a disgrace to gaming
community, to gaming as an art form, and to the entire fucking human race. I
don’t care what fucking political beliefs you hold, it’s time to stop defending
indefensible behavior. It’s time to actively speak out against the toxic
subculture that spawns bullying campaigns like GamerGate. It’s time to start
actively penalizing people who start trolling campaigns on gaming websites, it’s
time to stop making excuses for the people that do it (“Oh, but they were bullied
as kids, they’re just misunderstood”—get the fuck out of here with that
bullshit! How does that fucking excuse trolling, harassment, and death
threats/rape threats. We don’t consider rioting to be a justified response to
police brutality and injustice. We don’t consider racism against whites to be a
justified reaction to historical racism against non-whites. Why the fuck do we
think it’s okay for people who were bullied in school to become even worse
bullies as adults? It’s such fucked up mentality to have!), and it’s time to
start actively speaking out in support of the victims more. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I want
gaming YouTubers to speak out in support of the victims of trolling campaigns,
I want them to speak out against bullying in their own communities. It’s hard
to call out bullies in your own community—you want to believe yourselves above
it, it’s natural to not want to see the dark side among the people you consider
your friends, but it’s absolutely vital that you do this and emphatically tell
your fans and anyone who is listening to you that this shit is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not okay</i>! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-20030191377585751052017-02-23T14:48:00.000-08:002017-02-23T14:48:03.552-08:00Why do blasphemy laws still exist?About two years ago, I wrote an article on blasphemy laws and how they were a <a href="http://mythbuster43.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-barbarism-of-blasphemy-laws.html">threat to free speech and freedom in general.</a> These laws are used a lot in the Middle East to stifle criticism of the government. But a recent use of blasphemy laws comes not from the Middle East, but from Denmark.<br />
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A <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/world/europe/denmark-quran-burning.html?_r=0">man was charged</a> under Denmark's blasphemy law for posting a video where he burned a Quran. This the first time anyone was charged under Denmark's blasphemy law since 1971, when two people broadcast a song that mocked Christianity.<br />
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Whether you're mocking Christianity, Islam, or any other religion, you should not be censored by the government. Blasphemy laws serve no purpose other than to censor and repress people, and they <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2017/02/23/denmark-charges-man-blasphemy-law/">should not be practiced </a>by any government anywhere on Earth, least of all in a secular country like Denmark!Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-9078296306888134092017-02-23T14:27:00.003-08:002017-02-23T14:29:27.468-08:00Arizona's Unconstitutional SB1142<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span>I’m always wary when <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any </i>politician, regardless of party, starts proposing laws
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crime. For one, these efforts often backfire. Look at Prohibition. It was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">supposed </i>to reduce crime by banning
alcohol because a lot of crimes—loitering, larceny, domestic abuse—are committed
while intoxicated. What happened instead was that it made organized crime a
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enterprising young men had no problem working outside of the law to give the
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This same
thing still happens today with laws against drugs and guns. People want their
weed, and they want their firearms, and there’s plenty of extralegal industries
willing to supply them with both. Is the solution that there should be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">zero </i>laws or regulations? No, of course
not. It’s not a good idea for people to be taking hard drugs like heroin or
cocaine all willy-nilly, nor is it a good idea for people to be able to bring
assault rifles into bars or schools. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Applying
this same logic to public protests is a bit trickier. The act of protesting is
of course protected as Freedom of Speech under the First Amendment. The people
need to have to right to protest against their government, to speak out against
those in power, to have a voice in the vast and complex engine that is America’s
240-year-old experiment as a representative democracy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Our president’s <a href="http://krwg.org/post/trump-s-rhetoric-degrades-freedom-press">constant attacks on the press</a>—labelled, “the Enemy of the People,”—has been deeply troubling. A
country whose leader is openly antagonistic towards a free press is not a
country that that call itself a democracy. When the president gets his news
only from media sources who support him, and blasts any media sources who
criticize him as “fake news,” that is not the behavior of leader of a free
country. That is the behavior of a despot, an emperor, a ruler of a banana
republic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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With the attacks on a free press—an
institution vital to the health of the American Democracy—protests by the
people will only become more bold and more disruptive. This is where it gets
even more complicated. Because sometimes protests will go too far, they’ll
become violent, as seen with the recent Berkeley protests. Obviously, acts of
violence against people and property are unacceptable and should be punished by
the law. Law and order, obviously, is important to maintaining a civilized
society. And a civilized society is important not just for public safety, but
economic safety as well. If riots erupted in our cities every day, we would not
be able to grow our economy and produce jobs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But the law can be abused—and it
often is—by the people in power. When the law is abused, it is no longer a
benevolent force upholding the peace, but a malevolent force in which the upper
classes disenfranchise the lower classes. One of the most frequent abuses of
the law is through civil asset forfeiture. Civil forfeiture allows the police
to seize—and then keep or sell—any property they allege is involved in a crime.
It was created as means of fighting organized crime and bringing down large
scale enterprises. But it is frequently abused at the state level. A journalist
and blogger at Patheos by the name of <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/">Ed Brayton</a>, has written about this issue
for many, many years. One of the things he’s uncovered is that Jeff Sessions,
the new attorney general, <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/12/27/sessions-upset-challenges-civil-asset-forfeiture/">is a big fan of civil forfeiture. </a>Oh good, so we can
add that to list of reasons to hate him!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The reason I’m bringing up this
topic is because of a law being proposed in Arizona right now, one that
recently passed the State Senate. <a href="https://legiscan.com/AZ/bill/SB1142/2017">Arizona Senate Bill 1142</a> adds rioting to a
list of offenses under the state racketeering law. The bill classifies a riot
as follows: “A person commits riot if, with two or more other persons acting
together, such person recklessly uses force or violence or threatens to use
force or violence, if such threat is accompanied by immediate power of
execution, with either disturbs the public peace or results in damage to the
property of another person.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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This doesn’t seem too unreasonable
at first glance. But since riots being included in state racketeering laws, it
<a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2017/02/23/arizona-senate-oks-racketeering-charges-riots/98296298/">gives the police the authority</a> to arrest people for “conspiracy to riot”. Here’s
the thing, though, most protests that turn into riots didn’t start with the
intention of rioting. Riots are rarely ever planned beforehand. So these laws
can be applied to people who plan any protests, and these people can be
arrested and have their belongs seized by the government. Th<a href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/plan-a-protest-lose-your-house-arizona-senate-passes-sb-1142-charging-provocateurs-with-racketeering-9109154">e bill alsostipulates that an “overt act is not required as proof of a riot offense.” </a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Essentially, if any property damage
occurs as a result of just a few people taking things too far at a protest, the
organizers of that protest are held liable by default. The main sponsor of the
bill, Sen. Sonny Borrelli, said that it was <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2017/02/23/arizona-senate-oks-racketeering-charges-riots/98296298/">intended </a>to “deter violent riots”
and go after groups paying protestors. Basically, he’s admitting that the main
purpose of the bill is to stop the protests.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bills like these have a chilling
effect, or a situation in which your rights are threatened by the hypothetical negative
results of exercising those rights. Just as President Trump’s attacks on the
media have a chilling effect on Freedom of the Press, Arizona SB 1142 has a
chilling effect on Freedom of Assembly, in this case, public protests. If a
riot breaks out at a protest, the individuals who started the riot should be
the ones who face legal consequences, not the protest organizers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The bill’s <a href="https://legiscan.com/AZ/sponsors/SB1142/2017">sponsors</a> are Senators
Sonny Borrelli and Steve Smith, as well as Representative Steve Montenegro. You
can find information on the sponsors of the bill, as well as the complete text
of the bill, at Legiscan.com. It’s important we keep informed of what the
government is doing during these times. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-73868413266835757402017-02-22T19:05:00.001-08:002017-02-22T19:05:39.645-08:00The Fall of Milo YiannopoulosDid you hear the news? One of the alt-right's worst trolls, Milo Yiannopoulos, is finally getting his comeuppance! For years he libeled people, gaslighted people, sent his fans to harass people on Twitter.<br />
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He ran a start-up called the Kernel from 2011 until 2013, and during his time as owner he was the subject of a lawsuit by several employees he allegedly refused to pay. In 2013, the blog closed down when Milo <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/05/kernel-close-debts-unpaid-sentinel-media">couldn't pay off his debts</a>.<br />
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In 2014, he exploited the GamerGate movement in order to launch his defamation campaigns on various people he didn't like. He defamed <a href="https://storify.com/kurafire/milo-nero-y">Ian Miles Cheong</a>, published a hit piece on <a href="https://archive.is/m0737">Shanley Kane</a>, and <a href="http://imgur.com/S7Uj8r4">spread libel</a> <a href="https://np.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3jl1kv/happenings_so_milo_from_breitbart_posted_this/cuq67wq/?context=3">about</a> <a href="https://medium.com/@srhbutts/i-m-sarah-nyberg-and-i-was-a-teenage-edgelord-b8a460b27e10#.jkjfacy5i">Sarah Nyberg</a>. He also libeled <a href="https://archive.is/cPfB9">Shaun King</a>, and wrote a disgusting article on the 2015 Umpqua Community College shootings:<br />
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In January of 2016, he lost his verification badge on his Twitter account. In July, he encouraged his followers to harass black actress Leslie Jones, which resulted in him being banned from Twitter entirely. He also ran an affirmative action grant called the "Privilege Grant" for young white men. $250,000 were raised through various live-streams and charities for this grant. The donations were routed through a company called <a href="http://imgur.com/1UCd9ua">Caligula Limited</a>. The company was owned by Milo, and was dissolved in May of 2016. By August of that year, no one had received any money from Milo's grant, and it was discovered that he had wired it into his personal account at Silicon Valley Bank. Essentially, he scammed young men out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.</div>
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I already <a href="http://mythbuster43.blogspot.com/2016/12/stop-appeasing-bullies-like-milo.html">wrote</a> about an incident where he outed a trans person at Milwaukee University for shits and giggles. At the time I said we needed to stop appeasing people like him and giving him platforms in our Universities. I didn't think it would ever end, but it seems like it finally will given the most recent scandal involving him. </div>
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The interesting thing about this scandal is that it actually comes from thing he said on the Joe Rogan podcast <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGL5eRw7rXU&feature=youtu.be&t=1h24m25s">back in 2015</a>. In a discussion about the various molestation scandals involving Catholic priests, Milo described himself as a "very mature fourteen-year-old." Apparently, a priest molested him. But Milo didn't consider it molestation because he was "enthusiastic about it." He described his fourteen-year-old self as a "predator," "aggressively seeking out the sexual company of adults." A conservative organization calling itself the Reagan Battalion also uncovered a five minute clip from a podcast Milo did with the Drunken Peasants, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azC1nm85btY&index=144&list=PLGBXcHi8dHCJo2GJL7ocjhWo3IZUpENE-">dated</a> January 4, 2016. During this clip, Milo accuses the Left of having an "arbitrary and oppressive idea of consent," that attraction to 13-year-olds is not "pedophilia" but "hebephilia." </div>
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One hour into the video I've linked, Milo and the Drunken Peasants start talking about whether or not 13-year-old boys are ready for sex with adults or not. It goes on for what feels like an eternity and it's just super creepy. Milo thinks the definition of consent is "arbitrary and oppressive" because it "ignores the complexities of human relationships." Milo also claims that "particularly in the homosexual world," the relationships between older men and younger boys, "help those young boys discover who they are." </div>
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Milo tries to explain that "pedophilia is not sexual attraction to someone who is 13-years-old who is sexually mature." That's not going to go over well with the rest of society. And it didn't, because Milo was disinvited from CPAC (he was going to be a featured speaker), and his book deal with Simon & Schuster was cancelled. When several Breitbart staff members threatened to resign if Milo wasn't fired, Milo decided to resign himself to spare himself the embarrassment of being fired from the position that brought him fame and notoriety. </div>
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At first, I was euphoric after hearing the news. He's finally getting punished for all the bad things he's done. Then it occurred to me that he was really being punished for saying things that even the alt-right couldn't defend, not for his history of doxing, harassing, and gas-lighting vulnerable people in society. A lot has been written about Milo since this scandal broke out, and <a href="https://psmag.com/on-the-milo-bus-with-the-lost-boys-of-americas-new-right-629a77e87986#.gvh50xibg">one such piece</a> by Laurie Penny made me rethink a lot of my opinions on the man and the strange cult following he'd established over the years.</div>
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The piece is not really about Milo specifically, but about his fans and the alt-right in general. That will be the topic of my next blog post.</div>
<span id="goog_1159615881"></span><span id="goog_1159615882"></span><br />Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-60789460961095266952017-02-14T05:57:00.001-08:002017-02-14T05:57:14.243-08:00PewDiePie, Offensive Humor, and The Importance of Context<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span>A lot of people will say that, in comedy, nothing should
be off limits. You should be allowed to be as raunchy, edgy, offensive, or
crude as you like. Other people will say that you should never try to offend <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anyone </i>in comedy; you should always be
clean, “family-friendly,” or “politically correct.” I belong to neither group
of people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I don’t
believe you should have to censor yourself in comedy, but I do believe you to
be careful when your style of humor is offensive or edgy. I’m a big fan of edgy
humor, personally, I’m a big fan of George Carlin, Louis CK, Sam Kinison, as
well as the films of Mel Brooks, and shows such as South Park. I believe that
in most cases, if you find a joke offensive, it’s your choice. Voice your grievance,
but don’t expect my sympathy. You’ll find that it’s easier to go through life
with a thick skin.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Notice how
I said in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">most </i>cases, not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all </i>cases. There are a few exceptions to
the rule. I believe that jokes about really young children are off limits if
they’re extremely offensive. I also believe—and this is the case in ALL scenarios
involving offensive comedy—that context is absolutely crucial. You need to be
careful when communicating with your audience. If your joke is sexist, racist,
homophobic, or “politically incorrect” in any way, you have the responsibility
to convey that what you are saying is in jest, and that it is not a genuine
endorsement of bigoted or hateful attitudes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The line
between being humorously offensive and being genuinely offensive can be a
blurry one. The line gets even blurrier when you’re a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PewDiePie">famous YouTuber with a predominatelyyoung audience</a>. Because kids aren’t as adept at distinguishing between offensive
comedy and actual hate speech as adults are. It’s a murky pool. And right now,
the number one YouTuber, PewDiePie, is at the middle of controversy centered on
his edgy sense of humor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To give you
some background, PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, has over 53
million subscribers, has guest starred on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">South
Park</i>, and has even appeared on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Late
Show with Stephen Colbert</i>. He was listed in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Time Magazine’s </i>“Most Influential People of 2016,” in article
written by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">South Park </i>creator Trey
Parker. This is all quite impressive considering his humble beginnings. Before
his YouTube fame, he was a kid from Gothenburg, Sweden, the son of two tech
company CIOs. In High School, he was into art and gaming, much like a lot of
teenagers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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He mentioned in <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-cult-of-pewdiepie-how-a-swedish-gamer-became-youtubes-biggest-star-20151216">an interview</a> with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rolling Stone</i> that he was incredibly shy
and he spent a lot of his free time playing video games. Is he talking about
himself or me? <o:p></o:p></div>
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He went to college at Chalmers
University of Technology to pursue a degree in Industrial Engineering. While in
college, he had a love of Photoshop and enjoyed working on photo manipulation
and making art in Photoshop during his spare time. Wow, he could be talking
about me, because I love doing that as well. I actually did not know this about
him when I set out to write this article, but as I did my research, I watched <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTCPwe_eaco">a YouTube video </a>he made about two weeks ago where he revealed that he entered
several Photoshop competitions. He almost earned an apprenticeship at “one of
the best advertising agencies in Scandinavia,” but was ultimately turned down.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was quite cool to learn this
about him because I did not realize you could enter Photoshop competitions or
get employment opportunities out of it. I’ve been doing Photoshop art for
months now, and while I don’t sell anything, I post them regularly on my Instagram
account. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d like to take a moment to get a
little personal here. I may not have become famous by any stretch, but I’ve
grown as a person in the past seven or eight months that I’ve made PhotoShop
art. I’ve met and interacted with several people online because of it. They’ve
given me feedback on my posts, they’ve commented, and a few other people have
even put me on their social media contacts and have told me that if I needed
emotional support whenever I was feeling lonely, they’d be there for me. A few
of these people have DMed me, asking for advice and help whenever they were
having family problems, and I’ve always done my best to be supportive. I’ve had
the opportunity to donate some money to a Kickstarter campaign to help start up
a family business. This is the thing I’m most proud of doing. Because even
though I’m broke and could only afford to donate $5, it clearly meant a lot the
family. The project owner DMed me personally to thank me, and it was one of the
greatest feelings I’ve ever had in my life. I felt like I made a difference in
someone’s life, that I’ve impacted the world in some way. It was the first time
in my life that I’ve ever felt like that. I’ve always wanted to help out—to improve
the world in some way, no matter how small. And by donating to that Kickstarter—no,
not just that, but also by making the very PhotoShop edits (and some video
compilations) I talked about earlier—I am doing what I wanted. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The experience has been so immensely
healthy for me as a person. It’s making me more confident, more assertive, and
it’s also inspired me to be more responsible with my own life. If I want to
improve my diet, it’s up to me. If I want to get an education and the job I
want, it’s up to me. But a little help from other people goes a long way, and
learning to be more outgoing—learning to make friends—is a huge part of that. As
long as my Instagram account continues to grow, I will post more and more. And
come to think of it, entering a PhotoShop contest might not be a bad idea.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why am I telling you this? Because
I see a slight parallel between my life experience and Kjellberg’s. He took a
lot of college courses that bored him, as have I. He eventually dropped out of
the University altogether. I’ve dropped out of college <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">twice </i>so far. But he didn’t give up on his ambition or his hobbies.
He had another hobby in making content on YouTube, which is where his explosion
to fame would come from.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Felix Kjellberg may not have gotten
an apprenticeship, but he did get to buy a gaming PC from the money he made by
selling some of his Photoshop art. Industrious and self-sufficient, I like it. In
2010, he made a YouTube account called PewDiePie. The inspiration for the name
was the sound of lasers shooting (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pew</i>),
the act of dying (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">die</i>), and pie (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pie</i>). Yeah, that last one seems kind of
random. But it fits with Felix’s persona on YouTube, that’s for sure. Kjellberg’s
first videos were of him playing around in Minecraft, which was still in its
beta phase at the time. In 2011, he started playing horror games and amassed a small
cult following. The same year, he dropped out of college and worked at a hot
dog stand in order to pay rent. In 2012, Kjellberg quit the hot dog stand job
to focus on YouTube full-time as his channel exploded in popularity. <a href="http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/13013936/pewdiepie-how-became-king-youtube">When 2012began, he had 80,000 subscribers. At the end of the year, his channel hadswollen to 3.6 million</a>. In February of 2013, after hitting 5 million
subscribers, he joined a multi-channel network called Maker Studios, owned by
Disney. By the end of 2013, Kjellberg had 19 million subscribers and was the
most popular channel on YouTube, a title he holds to this day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He makes mostly gaming videos, and
his trademark comedy style has always been raucous, raunchy, edgy, random, and
surreal. It most definitely is not for everyone. I myself have personally never
cared much for him. I’ve laughed at a few of his jokes, but he’s always been a
little bit too juvenile for my tastes. The best way I can describe him is that
if you like Adam Sandler movies, you’ll love PewDiePie. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Kjellberg is no stranger to
controversy. Early on in his YouTube career, he made rape jokes very
frequently. The problem wasn’t that they were offensive, it was that they were
divorced from any context. Kjellberg is a gamer, and in online gaming, “rape”
is a term used frequently to describe thoroughly owning and destroying an
enemy. I saw it used like this a lot back when I played games online regularly.
Edgy teenagers being edgy teenagers. It’s natural that Kjellberg would have
made these kinds of jokes on his channel, because he filmed himself playing
video games as he normally played them. If you’ve been online and you have
voice chat, you’ll hear people say this kind of shit pretty frequently. It’s
one of the reasons I don’t game online much anymore (and I don’t have voice
chat enabled at all anymore), aside from some of the other issues I’ve had with
certain elements of the gaming community. I’ll get to that later.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The main point here is that
PewDiePie offended quite a few people with his context-free rape jokes in his
early videos, and when his channel started blowing up in 2012, more and more
people complained about it. When some people who were actually rape victims
politely described how this was a big psychological trigger for them, PewDiePie
made a decision I respect him for immensely. He stopped making rape jokes, and
<a href="http://pewdie.tumblr.com/post/34309686617/no-more-rape-jokes">gave an explantion why on his Tumblr.</a> It was a very mature, adult move. A lot
of people online would have told naysayers to go fuck themselves, but Kjellberg
listened. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As his career progressed, Kjellberg
<a href="http://www.polygon.com/2016/4/25/11504178/pewdiepie-offensive-jokes">grew up as a person</a>, and gradually told less and less offensive jokes. He made
video called “Old PewDiePie vs New PewDiePie” last year where he apologized for
using “gay” as a pejorative. He claimed to have grown as a person over the
course of his career, and no longer says offensive things just because he
thinks being offensive is funny automatically.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Evidently, he didn’t have this
epiphany for very long, because late in 2016 and early this year, he doubled
down <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hard </i>on the edgy, offensive for
the sake of being offensive shock humor, incorporating Nazi imagery into some
of his videos. Or at least that’s what some news articles reporting on his
recent firing from Disney would have you believe. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the videos being singled out is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkcdKKVuLg4">rant</a> about the short-lived “YouTube Heroes” catastrophe from September. Basically,
YouTube Heroes gave anonymous YouTube users the power to mass flag any videos
they found offensive or hateful. So, of course, PewDiePie would make a
offensive video on purpose. The video in question has PewDiePie wearing a “Make
America Great Again” hat talking with Adolf Hitler on a livestream. It doesn’t
make much sense in context, either. You can watch it here, please do because
the reporters citing it as “Nazi imagery” clearly haven’t. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is probably the most
forgivable of the videos that were cited. There are a few videos that are a
little more problematic. Seven and half minutes into <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABmkrD2BXow">this video</a>, PewDiePie
starts some kind of Satanic summoning ritual with a clip of the Nazi Party
Anthem playing in the background. It also involved a crudely drawn Star of
David with a swastika in the middle of it. Yeah, that was pretty tasteless. It
also comes right the fuck out of nowhere. Random and divorced from context is
par for the course in a PewDiePie video. It’s obvious he’s not being serious,
but it was still pointlessly forced and edgy, and it’s deserving of a little
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A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ODVN-Rjvh8">third video</a> has him doing the
Nazi salute while Sieg Hiel plays in the background. It happens 19 seconds in,
and it’s never mentioned again. I don’t get what the joke is supposed to be. It’s
just being edgy and shocking for the sake of being edgy and shocking. It’s not
offensive at all, it’s just tedious. I’ve seen some of your videos, Felix, you
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The most problematic of his videos,
the one that caused him the most controversy and is <a href="http://kotaku.com/disney-drops-pewdiepie-over-anti-semitic-jokes-1792324412">likely what resulted in Disney severing ties with him</a>, was a video where he went onto a site called
Fiverr and paid two guys to display a sign entitled, “Death to all Jews.” This
is a site where you can pay anyone to say anything, and PewDiePie decided to be
edgy, of course. The video has been deleted. PewDiePie himself did not think
the two guys would actually follow through with his request, and apologized in
the video itself. But the damage was done. Felix and the two guys were banned
from fiverr. To Felix’s credit, <a href="http://www.wetheunicorns.com/news/pewdiepie-fiverr-apology-dancers/#7ZSObpdwG287FGIX.97">he tried his hardest</a> to get the two men their
jobs back and tried to work with fiverr to do so. But he inadvertently got two
people fired from their job for a stupid, edgy joke that wasn’t even that
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So what’s my stance on this. I don’t
think that Disney should sever ties with PewDiePie and I think people are
overreacting. But I do believe that Felix is deserving of some criticism. He’s
not a neo-Nazi (God help anyone who thinks that he is), but we live in a world
were showing Nazi imagery as an edgy joke is not as harmless as it once was.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If this had happened five years
ago, a younger, edgier, 20-year-old me would have thought everyone were being a
bunch of ridiculous pussies, that it was just the hypersensitive PC-police who
couldn’t take a joke, that all forms of comedy should be defended regardless of
content or context. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t feel that way anymore.
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PewDiePie may not be a neo-Nazi,
but that doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. Not only do they exist, but they’ve
been gaining <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">frightening </i>amounts of
popularity online. The new neo-Nazis have been calling themselves the
<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right">alt-right</a>, and over the last two years they’ve mutated from this obscure cult
of online racists based mostly on 4chan and a few racist websites, to a
movement that has a presence almost everywhere on social media—on Instagram,
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube. Steve Bannon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the
fucking Chief Strategist to the President</i>, is a member of the alt-right. These
people spent all of last year’s election creating racist, misogynistic, and bigoted
memes in support of Donald Trump. The very same man who ran a campaign which
demonized Latinos and Muslims. Since he won the election, the alt-right have
been celebrating online and have taken it as a mainstream validation of their
ideals. <o:p></o:p></div>
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4chan and Breitbart remain the main
hubs for the alt-right, but now there are websites such as the Daily Stormer. This
website frequently tries to appropriate pop culture imagery onto it’s front
page to make itself look more legitimate, like it’s a big joke, but it’s 100%
serious. Last summer, during the Pokemon Go craze, they put cute Pokemon onto
the front page header. Last month, it billed itself as the “#1 PewDiePie fan
site,” probably in response to the “Death to all Jews” controversy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is a problem. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This </i>is why I’m talking about this.
Because actual neo-Nazis are crawling around the Internet right now, and are
trying to recruit angry, alienated, young white men and slowly destroy their
ability to empathize with their fellow human beings. They do it by disguising
their hateful, toxic, bile as merely “trolling,” or “rebelling against PC
culture.” Over time, it graduates to conspiracy theories about “cultural
Marxism.” They tell you that feminists are destroying traditional masculinity,
that blacks are murdering innocent whites in the streets and are being
protected by the mainstream media. They tell you that Muslims are invading
Europe, that the refugees will rape all the white women. They rant on and on
about “white genocide.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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These guys love trolling people.
They love brigading the comments section of websites, blogs, and YouTube videos
made by their ideological enemies (which in this case is “everyone that isn’t
alt-right.”) I suppose it’s fortuitous that they’re about as subtle as a
bulldozer slamming into a brick wall, because it’s easy to spot them on social
media. They typically have Pepe the Frog avatars, “deplorable” in their
usernames, and often ramble on about “meme magic” in their bios. If they’re not
blathering about saving the white race that is. Their debate tactics consist
mostly of calling people, “cucks.” They also love to harass you on Twitter by
spamming memes of Pepe the Frog photoshopped over Auschwitz. This has happened
to one of my Twitter buddies (a vocal alt-right critic) on numerous occasions. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, why am I so afraid of these
guys if they’re such fucking idiots? Well, they’re not as stupid as they seem. In
June of 2015, not long after Dylan Roof shot up a black church in South
Carolina, Jacob Siegel did some fantastic research for <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/29/dylann-roof-4chan-and-the-new-online-racism.html">this article</a> in the
Daily Beast, entitled, “Dylann Roof, 4chan, and the New Online Internet Racism.”
It’s a very enlightening—and deeply disturbing—expose on how online racism
works, and how young white supremacists are recruited online.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The article describes 4chan, a
image-sharing message board that created a lot of the memes—and much of the
internet culture we all know and love today—back in the mid-2000s. The forum is
largely unmoderated, and everyone posts anonymously, so a trolling subculture
inevitably took off. You can be as vile as you want when you cower behind a
cloak of anonymity. 4chan has long been infamous for its users raiding other
websites and concocting elaborate trolling campaigns as well as for its edgy, nothing-is-off-limits
shock value humor. The sub-board /pol/ is known for its explicitly racist
content. <o:p></o:p></div>
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These people love to argue that their
racism is just ironic, and “for-the-lulz.” And for the most part, this used to
be true. Ten years ago, when people called themselves neo-Nazis, it was largely
tongue-in-cheek. Anyone on the Steam forums (or any other entertainment forum,
for that matter) who called themselves neo-Nazis were dismissed as 4chan trolls
trying to be edgy, and were not taken seriously. This is not the case anymore.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The article goes on to note the
rise of the Daily Stormer, created by a young neo-Nazi named Andrew Anglin, and
how it is modelled on 4chan. The use of memes, random humor, and offensive
shock humor is pretty much the same. The Daily Stormer—and the alt-right in
general—attached their neo-Nazi ideology to a much wider backlash against
political correctness and social justice warriors. Social justice warriors, or
SJWs, are advocates of social justice who are either extremists, hypocrites, or
both (and they’re often both.) They’re the morons on Tumblr screaming shit
like, “Check Your Privilege, White Cis Male Scum!” and posting pictures of
themselves drinking cups labelled, “Male Tears.” It’s hardly a surprise that
many people—even many young, progressive minded people—would support a backlash
against people like this. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Being intentionally offensive for
no reason, just to provoke people who are offended way too easily, is a stupid
and juvenile thing to do, of course, but it’s understandable. Nobody likes
being told what they can and can’t say. People online have long reveled in
being able to say things they can’t say on television, on the radio, or in
public. There is a sense of rebelliousness in breaking social taboos that can
be quite exciting, especially if you’re younger.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over the last couple of years, the
backlash against political correctness and SJWs has transformed into a genuine
reactionary movement against all progressive ideologies—feminism, LGBT rights,
excetera—to the point where it’s largely impossible to be a social justice
advocate without getting lumped in with SJWs by default. This backlash was
particularly nasty with <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/GamerGate">GamerGate</a>, anti-feminist movement within the gaming
community. I remember when GamerGate first rose in 2014, and watched as several
Internet reviewers and comedians—whom I had watched for years and respected—were
subjected to death threats, rape threats, and libelous articles from Breitbart.
<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Gamergate#August_2014">Several people were doxed and had to leave their homes for months</a>—it didn't happen to any of the entertainers I watched, but it was still really
scary. The trolling culture of 4chan had spread over the entire Internet—posting
or saying anything even remotely pro-feminist or pro-social justice would get
you bombarded with hate, especially on YouTube. Nowadays, YouTube has several
thriving channels dedicated to harassing feminists—some of these channels have
hundreds of thousands of subscribers, it’s fucked beyond belief.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The cauldron of hate unleashed by
GamerGate and the anti-feminist community on YouTube was ripe for the alt-right.
A whole bunch of angry, bitter, young white men—the alt-right had struck gold. GamerGate
may have fizzled out in 2015, but the alt-right movement picked up a lot of the
veterans. During this time, the Daily Stormer was experiencing explosive
growth. The shock humor of 4chan became increasingly racist and bigoted as it
mingled with the Stormer. It soon became almost impossible to distinguish the
joking racism from the genuine racism amidst all the layers of irony, sarcasm,
and memes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This takes me back to a big point a
made earlier about context, and how it important it is when doing offensive
humor. Meme-based humor is completely devoid of context, regardless of whether
or not it’s offensive. A racist idea communicated in meme form is a racist idea
that won’t be scrutinized—no one will force you to justify or defend it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s bad. The problem is
especially bad on websites that share the same memes. Instagram is full of meme
pages, all of whom share the same memes, regardless of the political
affiliation or the intent of the page admins. In last years election, people
LOVED to make memes out of Donald Trump—regardless of whether or not you
supported him or opposed him, people were making memes out of him. And the same
memes could be seen on the pages of people who opposed Trump and those who
supported him. I couldn’t tell which memes referring to Trump as “God Emperor”
were in jest and which ones weren’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The same problem applies to the
shock humor meme pages. Who knows if the meme page admins are genuine racists?
None of the fans give a shit, or the pages wouldn’t be so big. The alt-right
knows this. They cause confusion by behaving in the same way as the
run-of-the-mill edgelords. They can hide under this cloak of “edgy humor” so
they can spread their ideologies without detection.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There’s another tactic of the
alt-right, and that is to claim anyone who criticizes political correctness—or just
makes an offensive, edgy joke—as one of their own. When PewDiePie made the controversial
video with the “Death to all Jews” message, several alt-righters tried to claim
him. As I’ve said previously, the Daily Stormer billed itself as a fan site.
Neo-Nazis left comments like this:</div>
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Obviously, PewDiePie is not. But
this incident highlights how murky the waters have become when getting to doing
offensive humor online. His humor is like meme humor—random, edgy, and devoid
of context. It’s easy for unsavory people to exploit. You can’t make Nazi jokes
anymore without attracting the attention and support of actual neo-Nazis. Unless
there is a clear context that your offensive jokes aren’t meant to be taken
seriously, they can and will be used by the wrong people as a recruitment tool
for actual hate groups. When you have a young, impressionable audience, you
need to be very careful with your edgy humor with all these sociopaths crawling
around online.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://pewdie.tumblr.com/post/157160889655/just-to-clear-some-things-up">Based on his apology on Tumblr</a>, I
don’t think PewDiePie fully understands the problem. I don’t blame him, it’s
complicated. There’s quite a bit of criticism I have for him. One, he shouldn’t
rely on edgy humor constantly anyway, it gets old kind of fast. Two, you have
to put your more offensive jokes into context so that your younger viewers don’t
mistake you for an actual anti-Semite. And three, a public disavowal of hate
groups would be appreciated. Not just on Tumblr, I’d like to see a full video
of you condemning actual hate groups that try to use your, your style of humor,
and your fans, as recruitment tools. <o:p></o:p></div>
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To be honest, I feel bad for
PewDiePie right now. I don’t think he deserves the spotlight and all the
negative attention when many other YouTubers do A LOT worse. He just gets it
because he’s number one. JonTron, for example, gave an actual interview with
Breitbart in December, has retweeted alt-right conspiracy theorist Paul Joseph
Watson, and went on a live-stream with another alt-right YouTuber by the name
of Sargon of Akkad. He praised the white-nationalist politicians in France
(Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Marine Le Pen in France) and said that
Germany would be “uncucked” by its populist-right part Alternative for Germany.
He hasn’t gotten any real media attention outside of YouTube for this, and he
deserves a ton of shit for it because he’s hugely popular (over 3 million
subscribers), and also has a lot of kids in his audience. And speaking of
Sargon of Akkad, he tweeted out a photo of the analytics of the Daily Stormer
and the analytics of feminist pop-culture website The Mary Sue, and mocked the
Mary Sue for getting less views than a white supremacist website. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And he straight-up admitted the Daily Stormer
was a white supremacist site, he didn’t even try to sugar coat it.</i></div>
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This is fucked beyond all
comprehension. How do you get away with this shit!? <o:p></o:p></div>
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I think we definitely need to hold
popular YouTube standards up to a higher standard than we currently are. I will
definitely speak out against any channel that pulls any genuine racist bullshit.
PewDiePie isn’t one of these channels, but he does deserve some criticism in
the way he does offensive comedy. You need to put your jokes into context. Also,
with all the things people are going to be saying about you now due to these
wildly exaggerated news articles, you need to do more than just post a tepid
twitter apology. As I’ve said before, make a video condemning any hate groups
who try to appropriate your image. That would mean a lot more than a simply
apology right now.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of course, PewDiePie can’t be
expected to do this constantly. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of parents
to monitor what their kids are watching online, and who they are talking to. If
you don’t like what they’re watching, don’t let them watch it. If you think
they can handle the kind of edgy humor that dominates the Internet, be sure to
put it all into context. PewDiePie being let go from Disney made so many
mainstream headlines—just imagine how much YouTube and the internet are going to
freak out over this. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I wrote this article because the
topic of free speech, edgy humor, how-far-is-too-far, and the hate groups that
rely on these things to fly under the radar are all things that concern me
greatly. I wrote this article because none of the news articles I saw accurately
portraying the things PewDiePie was saying in his videos. If your kids are
confused as to why their favorite YouTube celebrity is having Nazi accusations
thrown at home, show them this article. Hopefully it will help. If they’re
confused about why people would freak out over dumb edgy jokes, hopefully this
article explains that, too. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Also, monitor how often your kids
are online, what websites they’re using, and what kind of language they’re
using. And have go outside and interact with each other every once in a while.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ultimately, I care about accuracy
and perspective. I don’t like how mainstream media outlines simplify complex
issues into easily digestible soundbites. It’s a huge disservice to journalism.
The articles I read about the PewDiePie controversy are all examples of contemporary
junk journalism that I despise. They gave nothing even resembling an accurate
portrayal of the situation. I did my best to be as accurate as possible, as thorough
as possible, and as explanatory as possible. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We live in scary, frightening
times. We all need to be more cautious and less reckless. We all need to be
more empathetic, more concerned about the impact our words and our actions have
on others. And we all need to be more open to a debate with each other, and
less open to just throwing around insults and labels. Since I’m not seeing any
media source do any of these things, I figured I’d do it myself. <o:p></o:p></div>
Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-36616071152479796462016-12-19T21:34:00.002-08:002016-12-19T21:34:38.765-08:00Stop Appeasing Bullies Like Milo Yiannopoulos My faith in the current leadership of this country and its institutions is pretty much zero. It's not hard to see why when you see shit like <a href="http://overpasslightbrigade.org/hates-insidious-face-uw-milwaukee-and-the-alt-right/">this </a>happening.<br />
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I won't summarize that article. I'll just advise you to read it before you continue to read to the next paragraph.<br />
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My first criticism will be for the mainstream media and their consistent, infuriating failure to accurately call people like Milo what they are. Bullies. They are NOT "trolls." They're bullies. Milo and the rest of the alt-right filth like him. Milo isn't some mischievous gadfly or edgy rebel fighting off a tyrannical "politically correct" mainstream. He's a vile, cruel, petty sociopath driven purely by the desire to bring human suffering to very real people for no reason other than that he enjoys it.<br />
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He rose to prominence in late 2014 by spearheading GamerGate--a group of reactionaries and anti-feminists gamers--in an attempt to drive feminist voices out of gaming, whether they be players, critics, journalists, or developers. Considering how apathetic the gaming community is towards social issues in general, it's no surprise that they were unsuccessful. The majority of gaming celebrities on YouTube ignored GamerGate completely.<br />
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When GamerGate fizzled out, Milo decided to take to harassing people he didn't like on Twitter, mostly leftists. Technically, he didn't do the harassing himself, he allowed his fans to do that for him by quote tweeting his targets. Over the summer, he did this star of the <i>Ghostbusters </i>reboot, Leslie Jones, and the resulting barrage of racist and misogynistic harassment she received resulted in Milo being suspended from Twitter permanently. He still has his job at Breitbart, where he regularly writes poorly-written, unfunny, vacuous drivel that would embarrass a 7th Grader. And he goes on "tours" of college campuses regularly as well.<br />
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This is insane to me. Why are colleges inviting the man to speak? I hear answers like, "it challenges students by opening them up to new ideas and different perspectives." That's a load of bullshit! He's as bad a writer as he is a human being. Are college deans reading his shit and thinking, "This is an intelligent example of right-wing thought; let's invite him to speak?" If they are, why not invite every troll that's ever shitposted on 4chan? Why not invite the people raging about the evils of feminism on Reddit? The speeches Milo gives and the articles he writes are on the exact same level of intellectual merit as the rest of those guys. <a href="http://www.themarysue.com/milo-yiannopoulos-university-apology/">His articles have titles like, "Trannies Are Gay," and "Master Baiters: The Leftists keeping America's Race War Alive.</a>" Nothing he offers is going to sound like a new perspective to anyone who's ever been on the Internet ever.<br />
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When Milo was invited to the University of Milwaukee, he inevitably degraded a transgender student. This is what he does. He degrades and dehumanizes people from marginalized minority groups, and turns them into objects of ridicule. A near textbook example of bullying. Doing exactly what he's done here caused him to get banned from Twitter back in July. And given how publicized his banning was--it opened a brief debate online about how far is too far when it comes to free speech, and should it still be considered free speech if he's inciting harassment on people--there's no way the leaders of UWM couldn't have suspected something like this would happen if he invited him on campus to speak.<br />
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The chancellor of UWM, Mark Mone, did the typical damage
control routine that people in power tend to do when they fuck up and it causes
someone to get hurt. He released an e-mail to the campus where he said he was
“disappointed” that Milo “chose to attack a transgender student.” Wow. A guy
who campaigned to have the “T” dropped from “LGBT,” and who has a track record
of calling trans people, “trannies,” “freaks,” and “mentally ill,” and <a href="https://medium.com/@srhbutts/i-m-sarah-nyberg-and-i-was-a-teenage-edgelord-b8a460b27e10#.eexr50pq8">spread libel</a> against a trans person by the name of Sarah Nyberg, decided to attack a trans
person? Who could possibly have guessed that? <o:p></o:p></div>
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stirring up shit on a college campus, it’s not like he hasn’t done this before.
He did so several times earlier this year. His entire schtick is to provoke
people into an emotional reaction by saying and writing horrible things. He
created a charity called, “the Privilege Grant,” which was exclusively for
white men, for God’s sake.<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/19/breitbart-editor-milo-yiannopoulos-takes-100-000-for-charity-gives-0.html"> A grant that, by the way, was discovered to be a scam back in August. </a><o:p></o:p></div>
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No, Milo has a clear pattern of singling out marginalized people and targeting them for abuse. He <a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/08/21/the_plot_to_destroy_shaun_king_how_breitbart_turned_a_ludicrous_conspiracy_theory_into_national_news/">specializes</a> in targeting activists for progressive ideas, slandering them, and trying to ruin their lives. He's what a bully looks like all grown-up. Why he still has an entire college campus tour planned out--why campuses are inviting him at all--is beyond me. He has nothing of intellectual merit to offer our students.</div>
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Those are just two examples of what to expect from Milo. Not worthy of speaking on any campus. </div>
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I think I know why he keeps getting invited, though. Our establishment is full of cowards. They believe in the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy#Politics">balance fallacy.</a> Lest they be accused of "censorship" or "suppressing conservative speech," they feel the need to give a platform to people who would have never have been considered intelligent conservative voices in the past. Can you imagine a ridiculous internet troll being invited to speak on college campuses--places of <i>Higher Fucking Education</i>--even five years ago? I couldn't have. But over the last several years, the media have been inviting increasingly extreme and ridiculous people to speak publicly, whether or not these people had anything of merit to add to national discourse. In 2011, the media decided to give Donald Trump a platform to bullshit about Obama's Birth Certificate. In 2013, Bobby Jindal was giving the <i>Duck Dynasty </i>cast the opportunity to speak on behalf of "conservative principles." What political experience did the Robertsons have? What knowledge did they have on the country's issues? Apparently, these questions weren't important, because the media treated these people as worthy of helping shape national discourse. </div>
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Milo being mainstreamed is a continuation in this decline of standards. With various political clickbait sites (Breitbart is one of the worst of these) spreading wildly inaccurate information over social media in the blink of an eye, mainstream media sources have lowered their standards of accuracy and research so that they can compete. This results in ridiculous buffoons like the Robertsons, like Trump, like Milo, being invited to speak on CNN, FOX News, ABC, you name it. This increases their media exposure, and effectively normalizes them. Because of this, university leaders are more willing to invite these idiots into the lecture halls, instead of more qualified and more experienced individuals. University leaders--especially those higher up--are older and have less knowledge of the internet and social media, and aren't as likely to be aware of who people like Milo actually are.</div>
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That being said, Mark Mone has no excuse. Because Milo stirred up enough mainstream attention when he was banned from Twitter for inciting racist harassment of Leslie Jones back in July. At the very least, he could have done some research. But no, he invites Milo to the campus, and wouldn't you know it, he uses this opportunity to incite people against another minority. Only this time, it was a lot worse. At least with Leslie Jones, she was a celebrity with a large fanbase and several friends in the industry who could come to her defense (she also didn't take the abuse lying down, she dished out quite a bit of it herself against her attackers). The trans student that Milo targeted? She had none of those advantages. If you read this student's response to Mone's e-mail, you'll discover that, like many trans people, her life has been hell. Having no friends while growing up is hard, and I can't even imagine how feeling trapped in the wrong body must feel like. Then she is publicly humiliated in the most degrading way imaginable. Milo showed a picture of her from when she was still transitioning in front of a crowded lecture hall. He joked about her "fuckability."</div>
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The worst parts where when he describes her as a predator, "forcing" her way into the girls locker room. "He got into the women's locker room the way liberals always operate, using the government and the courts to weasel their way <b>where they don't belong</b>." This is dehumanizing rhetoric. Milo is making her out to be more of a thing than a human being. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tillman">Ben Tillman</a> did this to black people. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels </a>did this to the Jews. And now Milo Yiannopoulos does this to trans people. This type of rhetoric is called demonization. Its consequences? At best, de facto discrimination (an in cases such as North Caroline, de jure discrimination as well). At worst, violence and hate crimes. 24 trans people have been murdered in America in 2016 as of <a href="http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/11/08/transgender-woman-shot-death-virginia">last month</a>. </div>
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Aside from expressing "disappointment," Mark Mone also said that he will "not stand silently by while a member of our campus community is personally and wrongly attacked!" Mr. Mone, that's exactly what you fucking did! According to this student, you were informed several times about Milo's true nature before his speech, and heeded none of the warnings. Hell, according to her, you called the cops on a student group that organized a protest to cancel Milo's speech. Way to listen to their concerns! Way to show support to your students!</div>
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The only response Mark Mone had to this was damage control and to encourage a lame hashtag, #UWMstandstogether. They clearly DO NOT stand together! If they did, Milo would never have been invited in the first place. People will defend Mone, saying that "it's the leasts he could have done." They're right. <i>It LITERALLY is the least he could have fucking done</i>! I suspect Mone's motivations for inviting Milo to speak stem from the recent "Professor Watchlist," going around social media. Since the Bush years at least, a popular right-wing conspiracy theory is that college professors are "indoctrinating" students to become radical Leftists. I remembering seeing this bogeyman for the first time ten years ago, as a Freshman in High School. My thoughts at the time were, "wow, you guys are really fucking desperate to avoid any acknowledgement of the fact that the Iraq War is a fucking disaster and that there are perfectly legitimate reasons to be opposed to it." These were the same people that would push the "Obama is a radical Muslim Marxist who was born in Kenya" line of bullshit during the 2008 election. </div>
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When the Right swept into power after the 2010 midterms, they gained control of all decisions regarding social and budgetary policy in many states, including Wisconsin, where UWM is located. Wisconsin politicians have proposed cuts in state funded grants to universities several times already. When the default response of Milo and his ilk is to cry censorship if they're not invited, UWM runs the risk of being perceived as politically biased--or the more scary sounding, "agenda driven," if you prefer. Since the Right has power in Wisconsin's government currently, UWM leadership is afraid of any bad PR that politicians could use to stir up popular support for funding cuts. As a result, UWM invites Milo to speak, heedless of the risks and consequences. </div>
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There's an insidious element to all of this. The rise of Milo--and the mainstream media's treatment of him as a legitimate voice against "political correctness" rather than as the pathetic, loathsome bully that he is--is Orwellian in nature. Milo is as successful as he is because he casts himself as some sort of courageous voice against "PC Culture," against "feminism," against "social justice warriors." He rose to fame by hopping on the GamerGate bandwagon with a Breitbart article accusing "feminist bullies" of "tearing the gaming industry apart." Calling him out for inciting harassment would get you called a "professional victim," or a "crybully." For the months that GamerGate were relevant, they operated by using 4chan-style trolling raids. People who spoke out on social media were inundated with slurs and death threats. They justified this by claiming that their victims were "popular bullies appropriating gaming culture," or some shit. They cast themselves as the victims, and their targets as the bullies who were shoving diversity and SJW propaganda down their throats. Their aggression was justified--in their own minds--because they were being bullied by the people they targeted, and if their victims fought back it was "proof" that they were the bullies. Classic doublethink. </div>
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GamerGate fizzled out in little over a year, but it's brief prominence and treatment as a legitimate group by the mainstream media enabled another group of Internet reactionaries--the alt-right--the rise in its place. Milo has been a major voice for the alt-right--I'd say he's one of their most recognizable "celebrities," for want of a better word. The alt-right was a dark corner of the internet only a few years ago...in the last year and a half, it's become a small but burgeoning cottage industry for young reactionaries. Breitbart, previously just a more belligerent and less factual online version of Fox News, has become the biggest site for the alt-right. 4chan is a big online voice for the alt-right as well, and tends to be much more overtly racist and bigoted than Breitbart. (It should be noted that Milo has <a href="http://i.imgur.com/WwT8mPy.jpg">used 4chan boards</a> as "evidence" for his various libelous claims against his enemies). There are several YouTube channels dedicated to expressing alt-right ideology, such as Millennial Woes, Black Pigeon Speaks, Naked Ape, Davis Aurini, and Milo himself. Other YouTubers that aren't alt-right, but are sympathetic to the cause (i.e. "anti-feminist, anti-PC, and anti-SJW") include Sargon of Akkad, Chris Ray Gun, Undoomed, and Dave Rubin. All these people rant against "political correctness" and how regular everyday people are threatened by feminism/sjws/immigration/muslims/multiculturalism/insert-boogeyman-here. Does this sound familiar? </div>
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A certain someone ran for President <i>and fucking won</i> by utilizing this kind of rhetoric. It's the kind of rhetoric that spreads fear and paranoia into the hearts and minds of the populace. And this kind of rhetoric has been mainstreamed by the media in frightening ways. <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/unclick/mother-jones-white-nationalist-tweet-roasted/">Observe</a> <i>Mother Jones </i>referring to alt-right founding father Richard Spencer as "dapper." This New York Magazine <a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/11/how-the-alt-right-uses-style-as-a-propaganda-tool.html">article</a> details how the alt-right uses style as a propaganda tool. Milo Yiannopoulos is not an exception to this. Although he certainly does <i>not </i>dress in a manner than anyone would consider, "dapper," he dresses up in a way that makes him look a douchebag. Still, Milo doesn't look like your stereotypical neo-Nazi. He often looks completely ridiculous and impossible to take seriously. In other words, unthreatening. But I think I've proven him to be anything but that.</div>
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I think most of the people who don't believe in what Milo says haven't been taking him seriously. A lot of people thought the same about Donald Trump, and he's now President-Elect. I've seen a distressingly low amount of people speak out against these people, too. The people who did got shamed, trolled, and slandered on social media. Several people have had to delete their accounts. They were wrong to do that. Because by doing that, we are appeasing them. We're giving them what they want, which is power over us. Don't let the trolls and the bullies try and wreck your lives because you called them out on their bullshit. Continue to fight on. We need as many people speaking out against the likes of Milo as possible. </div>
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Think back to when your were in Middle School or High School. The worst response you could have made is dropping out due to being bullied. You don't give into bullies, you stand up to them. Right now, a bully has been elected President. Milo and the rest of the alt-right? Those are the group of bullies that try to rule the school by terrorizing everyone else. Mark Mone and the mainstream media? They're the teachers and authority figures that do nothing no matter how many times you tell them you're getting bullied, and no matter how much proof you have of whose doing it to you. What's that make me? I guess that makes me the kid that's tired of seeing bullies get off easy--or worse, seeing authority figures side with them. </div>
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I don't know the student that Milo targeted personally. I don't know <i>any </i>of his victims personally. But I sure as fuck know what bullying is--what predatory behavior is--and I'm tired of seeing nobody speak out against it. If society won't condemn them, I will! I'll do so in more than just this blog post--I'll make this into a YouTube video as well.</div>
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I'm not a celebrity. I'm not a leader. I'm just another nobody with an Internet connection and lot to say. If the trolls notice this, if they try to run me off of social media, I'll just use their comments as comedy for my next blog post or video. I'm not going anywhere. I'm just getting started.</div>
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TRUMP: "I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn't get there. And she was married."</div>
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TRUMP: "Then all of I sudden, I see her. She's now got the big phony tits and everything, she's totally changed her look."</div>
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"Take a look. You take a look. Look at her. Look at her words. You tell me what to think. I don't think so--I don't think so."</blockquote>
See that ladies. You have to be a nine or ten to get groped by the Donald. It's like he thinks being sexually assaulted by him is a privilege.Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-73491947804240082052016-10-13T13:41:00.001-07:002016-10-13T13:41:12.846-07:00Rudy Giuliani Doesn't Remember Seeing Hillary in NYC on 9/11Rudy Giuliani, who has spent the whole presidential campaign with his head shoved firmly up Donald Trump's derrière, has apparently learned how to make wild, absurd accusations from him as well. He <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rudy-giuliani-hillary-ground-zero_us_57ff045ee4b05eff5581904a">accused</a> Hillary Clinton of lying when she said she was in NYC on September 11, 2001. Hillary <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/11/politics/hillary-clinton-september-11/">was</a> in Washington DC at the Capitol that day. (Giuliani is overlooking the fact that DC was also attacked that day.) However, she went to NYC with Chuck Schumer the next day (and she says this in her interview with Chris Cuomo). Here is a picture of her standing next to Rudy Giuliani.<br />
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Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-33208273631606046172016-07-24T11:11:00.001-07:002016-07-24T11:11:23.979-07:00CSGO Gambling Scandal UpdateThe big gambling scandal involving many YouTubers surrounding CS:GO skins betting sites has resulted in Valve and Twitch taking strong actions. Valve has <a href="http://kotaku.com/valve-issues-cease-and-desist-letter-to-23-counter-stri-1783975845">issued cease and desist letter's</a> to 23 different gambling sites. One of these sites is called CSGO Wild, and it is a skins betting site that Rain and Banks, co-owners of the mega-popular e-sports team <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaZe_Clan">FaZe Clan</a>, were accused of owning about a month ago.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/WarGod1283/videos">HonorTheCall</a>, the YouTube Channel that broke the Trevor Martin/Tom Syndicate scandal involving CSGO Lotto late last month, did some research on CSGO Wild and found strong evidence that Rain and Banks were running a similar scam. I felt pretty sick while watching these videos...this might actually be even worse than what Martin and Syndicate did.<br />
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HonorTheCall <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2fKzk0ihgw">discovered </a>that the FaZe Clan owns CSGO Wild when he found a video of a man named Richard Lewis posting skype chat logs with PhantonL0rd, owner of <i>another </i>gambling site called CSGO Shuffle. PhantonL0rd was talking with Joris, the coder who designed his site, about being out of skins and needing the bot to send him smaller, less expensive skins. He mentioned looking into two rival sites, CSGO Lotto, which we already know who the owners of that site are, and CSGO Wild, owned by the "COD Faze Guys."<br />
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HonorTheCall decided to dig deeper and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2fKzk0ihgw">discovered</a> that a corporation was registered under International Incorporation Laws in Antigua under the name, "Team Wild." The Terms and Services page used to say that it falls under the laws of the Island of Antigua, but after the CSGO Gambling scandals started to blow up, the page was changed to remove any mention of this. It now says, "play at your own risk, CSGO Wild and its affiliates will not be held liable for your profits or losses when using this site."<br />
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This is pretty standard damage control procedures. They're trying to cover their tracks now that they know that these gambling sites are being investigated. Someone named <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/h3h3productions/comments/4rri3t/faze_rain_own_csgowild_and_a_bunch_of_faze/">africanjesus</a> on the h3h3productions reddit found several screenshots and links to various FaZe Clan members (Rain, Adapt, Blaziken) gambling on CSGO Wild. Adapt claimed that he was new to the website, but his account is <a href="http://imgur.com/rXQerTk">verified</a>, meaning he has to have been the website for quite some time and contacted support. There are also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaC_aT__QF0&feature=youtu.be&t=3m15s">two</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaC_aT__QF0&feature=youtu.be&t=4m19s">moments</a> where Adapt and Rain randomly win money on a bet even though they lost. (They tried to pretend that the site had "glitched.") At no point does Adapt say that he's sponsored by CSGO Wild, <a href="http://imgur.com/VNOUpOH">in the video or in the description</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTDKICNJNbY">Another video</a> shows Rain and Blaziken gambling on the site. When Blaziken puts everything from his inventory into the pot, you can see in his <a href="http://imgur.com/LDeNvXQ">trade history</a> that he received a $500 skin from the official owner of CSGO Wild, Gagey. In the video itself, however, Blaziken claimed that Rain gave him the knife. (He also claimed that Rain giving him the knife was the "only reason" he was even making his video in the first place. Uh huh, sure.<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkL9OGM-ax0">There is a video by CSGO Shifter of Banks and Rain getting into an argument and Banks telling Rain not to forget who got him on the CSGO Wild Deal. </a><br />
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After HonorTheCall dropped his first video, FaZe Rain took to twitter to claim that he only owned FaZe Clan and to ignore the "rumors" about his involvement with CSGO Wild. Right.<br />
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HonorTheCall was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwV7CmNHM0U">contacted</a> by a man named <a href="https://twitter.com/_RNolan/with_replies">Ryan Nolan</a> who claimed to have proof that the FaZe Clan owned CSGO Wild. Ryan designed an early draft for the website. He was promised compensation, but was never paid because his design wasn't chosen to be used. HonorTheCall had a full conversion with Ryan in a series of Twitter DMs. Ryan revealed a skype log of him with a friend going by the Twitter handle SynStone. Stone had contracted him to design the website for the FaZe Clan.<br />
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So far, the FaZe Clan has been found promoting gambling to their young audience, deception about their connection with the gambling site they're promoting, and shady damage control and back tracking. Pretty much the same thing Martin and Syndicate were doing. We have an added bonus of them ripping off a designed who worked on their website by refusing to pay him. But this gets even worse.<br />
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CSGO Wild is <a href="https://twitter.com/Wild">going offline</a> soon thanks to the Valve takedown. Before they tweeted goodbye, they <a href="https://twitter.com/Wild/status/755199924673937408">uploaded an essay</a> to Twitlonger <a href="http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sotm9m">claiming</a> that the FaZe Clan own no part of the website and the only owners are Gage and his brother Zach. This <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm1F5idOs0A">contradicts two tweets</a> made by Banks and Rain last October where they offered to pay good money to graphics designers who specialize in web design.<br />
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HonorTheCall, in his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm1F5idOs0A">third video</a> on the subject, found an anonymous person (he wants to keep him anonymous) talking with Banks in a skype log. This person wanted to know what happened to the skins on CSGO Wild. Banks responded that one of his partners didn't want to speak with him even though he was going to include him in the "CSGO Wild Project." The conversation went on for a bit until the anonymous person mentioned that "CSGO Wild is really big." Banks' response? "Yes, I know. <b>I own it</b>."<br />
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HonorTheCall <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm1F5idOs0A">found evidence</a> of other FaZe Clan Members' involvement. He showed some Twitter DMs between a designer and <a href="https://twitter.com/FaZeSwan">FaZe Swan</a> from back in January. The designer wanted to know if he could work on another project now that Banks had left. Swan responded that Rain still owned a good portion of the CSGO Wild Project.<br />
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There's a video out there of FaZe Rain pandering to all of his fans. HonorTheCall was kind enough to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm1F5idOs0A">include a portion of it in his video</a> (it starts at 3:20 in). Rain goes on for a bit about how incredible it is that he has an impact on people and that people want to do what he does. Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah. He mentioned that he went to a convention where he met a lot of his fans and that a lot of them were little kids. He explicitly mentioned that they were younger than what most people think of when they think of fans of e-sports YouTubers (14-15 year olds, which is pretty young in and of itself). Rain also went back to his videos where he promoted CSGO Wild and updated the descriptions to include the fact that he was sponsored by the website. He went one step further than Martin and Syndicate did and changed the titles of his videos. (For example: One of his videos entitled, "How to win $30,000 in 5 seconds" was changed to "I GOT SO LUCKY...") Unfortunately for him, the URL IDs of YouTube videos never change no matter how many times you change the title or the description.<br />
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HonorTheCall made a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0-pHwaA3jU">fourth video</a> where he breaks the scandal down in chronological order, and also brings some new information. An anonymous Twitter user sent him DMs of his conversation with Banks asking him who owned the twitter handle @CSGOWild. At the time, the twitter handle for CSGO Wild was @CSGO_Wild. Banks admitted that he owned CSGO Wild in this conversation. So far, that's <i>two </i>pieces of documented evidence of Banks admitting to owning the site. (The twitter handle for the site was later changed to <a href="https://twitter.com/Wild">@Wild)</a>.<br />
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In October of 2015, FaZe Rain <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0-pHwaA3jU">uploaded a video</a> (starts at 3:11 in) where he claimed to be "good friends" with the people who own CSGO Wild. He also bluntly stated that he was streaming himself gambling on it. Didn't even use a euphemism, he explicitly said he was gambling. And that he loves gambling and does it all the time. And that he uses real money. On his YouTube channel. In front of his audience of underage kids. (*claps slowly*) Never mind the fact that he's also LYING to his audience when he claims he's "friends" with the owners and not one of the owners himself.<br />
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If you don't mind, I'm going to take some time to give some of my personal opinions here. I find this story appalling and disgusting, but I don't find it shocking or surprising. It's well known that professional gaming has a shady underworld of betting at this point, just like professional sports does. I've been into online gaming--not regularly, more on-again/off-again--since I was 12. It can be a lot of fun, you can meet a lot of cool people, but you can also meet a lot of unpleasant people. I think the fact that online gaming can be a career for some people is pretty fucking amazing. There are a lot of possibilities in the online world of New Media.<br />
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But when I see shady shit like this, I think it does a disservice to the people who make up the online community. You're taking advantage of a largely unregulated environment in order to make easy money, with no regards to morality or human decency. Instead of seeing the online world as a community with whom you can connect with and explore endless possibilities, you see it as a giant money bag to be exploited financially.<br />
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As for FaZe Rain, Banks, and Blaziken, I'll say to you what I said to Trevor Martin and Tom Syndicate. When you are in the positions that you are in--you have millions of fans, the majority of whom are underage kids who look up to you and want to emulate you--it's time you acted like responsible adults. You have a moral and social responsibility as role models to set the best examples for the young impressionable minds that follow you. You can't go around promoting unhealthy, ILLEGAL things like underage gambling. And it's disgusting that you lie to your fans and manipulate them for sympathy and money.<br />
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You've broken the FTC Guidelines, so I expect that they'll be coming after you. You better think about what your defense will be in court.<br />
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<br />Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-52548445113378148502016-07-17T11:41:00.002-07:002016-07-17T11:41:18.091-07:00Scott Baio Shows His Class And Intellect Scott Baio endorsed Trump for President a few months ago. Now, normally I don't care about which candidate celebrities endorse, but fans of Donald Trump frequently display behavior that I kind of feel compelled to mock.<br />
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There isn't even a "u" in "Clinton," so how would this slur work? The word behind her says, "Country," so you can get it to say something naughty by removing the, "o." Guess what Scott? Family Guy did that same gag ten years ago.<br />
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This would have worked better as an attack on her if you removed the "n" from her name. Then it becomes, "clit." It still would have been juvenile, but at least it would have been an actual attack.Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-16339448216790035982016-07-16T19:14:00.001-07:002016-07-16T19:15:02.765-07:00The Shady, Sordid World of CS:GO Gambling<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, or CS:GO, is a multiplayer
first-person shooter game developed by Valve. It’s the latest release in a
franchise of Counter-Strike games that originated as a Half-Life mod back in
1999. The original mod was so successful that Valve bought the intellectual
property rights to it and released it as their own game. This was a smart
business move considering how explosively successful it would become as a
franchise over the next decade and a half.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CS:GO has
been around since 2012. Much like the
other Counter-Strike games, you get to join one of two teams: Terrorists, or
Counter-Terrorists. You basically just shoot at each other. If everyone on your
team dies, you lose; if everyone on your opponents team dies, you win. A big
part of the game involves <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/11/12129136/counter-strike-global-offensive-cs-go-skins-explainer">cosmetic items</a>. These items, such as weapon finishes
and skins, are acquired by opening virtual crates with keys that are purchased
through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtransaction">micro-transactions</a> in the trading system in the Steam Workshop. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of game developers make their money
through the revenue generated from these micro-transactions, especially on
free-to-play online games. Valve has <a href="http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-want-to-share-their-microtransaction-success-with-other-devs/">mastered the use of micro-transactions as a business model</a> because of its use in several of their biggest games (CS:GO,
along with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Team Fortress 2 </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DOTA 2</i>). <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Since the
release of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Arms Deal </i>update, many
skins have been introduced into the game. <a href="http://www.pcgamer.com/how-400-virtual-knives-saved-counter-strike/">These cosmetic items include weapons such as guns and knives.</a> Their monetary value varies based on how rare the skin
is. As stated above, you acquire these items by unlocking virtual crates. The
keys are purchased with actual money. This update is actually what caused CS:GO
to explode in popularity. Prior to the update, it was actually less popular
than the original <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Counter-Strike</i>! <a href="http://www.pcgamer.com/the-most-expensive-csgo-skins/">Clearly, these skins are popular, and there’s lots of money to be made from trading them.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So much
money, in fact, that websites dedicated to betting on them have popped up all
over the internet. The Steam Workshop controls the amount of money you are
allowed to spend on these keys. The keys to the rarest items—some sick ass
knives—are worth $400. If that seems an excessive price to pay for some virtual
loot, you should see what some of these websites outside of Steam will charge
you. People have bet thousands of dollars on skins on some of these websites.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A Bloomberg
article by Joshua Brustein and Eben Novy-Williams entitled, “<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-virtual-guns-counterstrike-gambling/">Virtual Weapons are turning Teen Gamers into Serious Gamblers,</a>” covers this troubling
phenomenon in depth. There is a reason for the rise in these kinds of gambling
websites surrounding gaming: in the last decade, professional video gaming, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESports"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">esports</i>,</a> has exploded in popularity. Like
other professional sports, pro gaming has a <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-07/professional-video-gaming-has-an-underage-gambling-problem">shady subculture</a> based around
betting on the results of games. CS:GO is one of the most popular games played
in E-Sports tournaments, and so there is a ton of money to made in betting on
these games. Since Valve <a href="http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2013/08/7425/">introduced skins</a> in CS:GO, an entire underground
economy built on gambling has sprung up. People buy the skins for cash and then
use the skins to place online bets in professional CS:GO matches. Last year,
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fU2QG-lV0">$2.3 billion worth of skins were wagered on the outcome of e-sports matches</a>. The
gambling sites that earn this revenue run on software built by Valve, so they
benefit financially from this market. They collect 15 percent of the money
whenever CS:GO skins are sold.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
gambling market is so large that much of it is unregulated. This is a problem,
especially if Valve is profiting from it. There have already been incidents of
fraud and match fixing at several e-sports tournaments. <a href="http://kotaku.com/pro-counter-strike-match-fixers-perma-banned-from-valve-1681897842">The most Valve does about this is occasionally ban people who cheat and shut down websites that have been rigged.</a> They don’t discourage people from participating in gambling, and
why would they? <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/7/12103022/counter-strike-gambling-valve">They take fifteen percent of the revenue made from this underground empire. Last year this empire generated $2.3 billion. Fifteen percent of that is $345 million for Valve.</a> With that kind of money on the line,
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>These
third-party gambling sites that are all over the internet? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fU2QG-lV0">Valve allows players to transfer the skins they won in game.</a> There’s almost no oversight on a lot of
these websites. The biggest of these websites is CSGO Lounge. This website
provides little information about the owners of the website, whether or not it
complies with state and local gambling laws, or whether it has any consumer
protections in place. Sports betting is illegal in 46 states in America, but
this website does little more than remind players to adhere to the laws. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-virtual-guns-counterstrike-gambling/">It has been recognized by Valve, so many players feel like it can be trusted. 38 million people visited this website back in March.</a> There are a series of
e-sports matches every day; the average match draws $134,000 in skins wagers. Matches
between the most popular e-sports teams can draw over a million in skins
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troubling aspect of this underground gambling economy is how young many of the
participants are. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-07/professional-video-gaming-has-an-underage-gambling-problem">Many of them are teenagers.</a> This isn’t too surprising,
considering that this economy runs around CS:GO, which is a hugely popular game
among teenage boys. It is still appalling, nonetheless. Underage gambling is
illegal, but it is very common on these websites. There’s very little
safeguards on any CS:GO gambling website to prevent people under the age of 18
from using them. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fU2QG-lV0">One website, CSGO Lotto, explicitly allowed kids as young as 13 to make bets.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CSGO Lotto
will be the main focus of this article, because recently it has been enveloped
in a major scandal involving two popular YouTube personalities, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSyndicateProject">Tom Syndicate</a>
and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TmarTn">Trevor Martin</a>. These two guys are well-known <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Call of Duty</i> gamers with millions of subscribers on YouTube. The
scandal started with a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFvUGsYe4A">news story</a> on the YouTube channel CSGONews. This story
was about two members of the popular e-sports team FaZe Clan, Rain and Adapt,
faking reactions while making videos of themselves gambling on a CSGO gambling
site called CSGO Wild. While this story didn’t blow up, it was noticed by a
YouTuber going by the name of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCit6YyWQKcvvJMZJiNA8giw">HonorTheCall</a>. This guy knew that Tom Syndicate
and Trevor Martin were doing similar videos and claiming to make lots of money
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>HonorTheCall
uncovered a lot of truly reprehensible and scummy shit that Syndicate and
Martin were doing. If all of his research checks out, those two guys have
committed serious felonies and deserve to spend time in prison. Trevor Martin made
several videos—which he’s made private since the scandal broke, of course—where
he claims to win large amounts of money in a short amount of time gambling on
CSGO Lotto. He also promotes the website in his videos. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are two big problems here. The first of
which is that his man has a LOT of kids in his fanbase. <a href="http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/07/GettyImages-486991494-640x426.jpg">Like, I’m talking Middle School age kids.</a> Most gaming YouTube channels have a young demographic. And
he’s promoting a gambling website and encouraging them to play on it. This
alone is fucked up, and makes Martin look very irresponsible at best. But what
if I told you that it gets worse? Much worse? Because it does. You see, Martin
and Syndicate not only promoted irresponsible behavior in their videos, they
also lied to their fans about their involvement with CSGO Lotto. They claimed
to have merely found the website, and that after playing a few times and
winning big, that they were “considering a sponsorship deal.” <a href="http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/07/04/famous-youtubers-found-to-own-betting-site-theyve-been-promoting-for-months">In actuality, they own the website</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As it turns out, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IuXz-cux1M">CSGO Lotto is registered as business in Orlando</a>, where Trevor Martin lives. He is the
director of the website. This can be confirmed by looking on a website called
Statelog.com. It has a list of all the business registrations in Florida, and
CSGO Lotto shows up listing Martin as the owner. Tom Syndicate is the Vice
President. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IuXz-cux1M">Looking at corporation wiki provides more confirmation that Martin and Syndicate are the President and VP of CSGO Lotto, respectively.</a> CSGO Lotto
also shows up in the files on Intercreditreport.com. It has been registered as
a for-profit organization. What this means is that these two were gambling on
their own website and claiming to win big. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5UPNruOctw">Since they own the website, they can potentially control the outcome. </a><o:p></o:p></div>
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When HonorTheCall made his first
video exposing Martin and Syndicate, they went into damage control mode. They
decided to cover up their lies and deception with more lies and deception. Martin
made <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuzenNRg9lA">a video</a> where he confirmed that he and Syndicate own CSGO Lotto. He
claimed that this was “never a secret.” Basic research reveals this as a
complete lie. In the first video Martin ever made about CSGO Lotto, he claimed
that it was a “new site” that he “just found.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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In Martin’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuzenNRg9lA">damage control video</a>,
he explains his relationship with CSGO Lotto as thus: “CSGO Lotto is a company.
Tmartin Enterprises is a company. CSGO Lotto pays Tmartin Enterprises for
promotion. Tmartin Enterprises promotes CSGO Lotto. That’s just how it works.”
Tmartin Enterprises is a business that Martin owns. Basically, he is claiming
that one of his businesses is paying the other to promote it. He is paying
himself to promote himself. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This gets worse. Martin claims that
there is not a problem because he discloses the fact that owns CSGO Lotto in
the video descriptions of all of his CSGO Lotto videos. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PGjqCSExHU">Except this is bullshit, </a>because he didn’t add those disclaimers until <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">after </i>HonorTheCall made his first video exposing him and Syndicate
on June 27. A simple look on the Internet Wayback Machine will prove this. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As the owner of CSGO Lotto, Martin
has immense power over it. Someone with background knowledge of how CSGO
Gambling sites work contacted HonorTheCall.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PGjqCSExHU"> He claims that the owner of these sites have access to the database which has a percentage saved. He has the ability to use that percentage to win every game. </a>In other words, there is
absolutely nothing preventing him from fixing the games. Most gambling sites
don’t allow their owners to play because of this conflict of interest. This is
actually unprecedented. Owners of CSGO Gambling sites have never been caught
winning money on their own sites before now. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It gets worse. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/h3h3productions/comments/4r4kst/deception_lies_and_csgo/">A 15-year-old commented on HonorTheCall’s video, explaining that he lost $300 by gambling on CSGO Lotto.</a> He explained that he gets money from his father each month (about
$115) and buys skins for about $50, which he then uses to gamble. The privacy
policy on CSGO Lotto forbids kids under the age of thirteen from gambling. Age
13. Read that shit again. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fU2QG-lV0">This website allows kids as young as THIRTEEN to gamble</a>. And I’m sure this site has the same amount of security against kids
lying about their age as your average porn site. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Things would get worse for Martin
and Syndicate on July 3, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fU2QG-lV0">when h3h3productions made a video about their scam</a>.
With a big YouTube channel exposing them, the story quickly spread across the
internet and began making headlines on gaming news sites such as <a href="http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2016/07/04/famous-youtubers-found-to-own-betting-site-theyve-been-promoting-for-months">Kotaku</a>, Eurogamer,
and <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/4/12093546/csgo-lotto-tmartn-syndicate-youtube-disclosure">Polygon</a>. Martin has made the incriminating videos private, but several
copies have been re-uploaded. YouTube news channel Scarce <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZOJEFS1vG0">contacted Martin and asked him about his activities</a>. Naturally, Martin responded by telling more
lies. He claimed that he “owns the site now, but didn’t back then.” Apparently,
his first CSGO Lotto video was a “feeler video.” He was supposedly testing to
see if his audience would enjoy this type of content. That explains why he
states that he just “found” this gambling site, right? It also explains why he
didn’t disclose the fact that he owned the site until after he was exposed,
right? Of course not!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51N4CL86zk4">Three people on twitter found Trevor Martin’s Steam Account.</a> It shows that he has been trading skins with
several bot accounts. They also posted a screenshot from one of Martin’s now
private videos. It shows that he logged into CSGO Wild as a bot account named
CSGO Lotto Bot #05. You can get items from these bot accounts if you win the
jackpot. Twitter user Cro76, in a DM to HonorTheCall, stated that he’s never
seen a gambling site owner logged in as a bot before. He explains that this is
shady because he bet on a jackpot on his regular account, and then log in as
the bot in order to accept the offer. If has access to the items, he can send
them back to himself and still be in the jackpot until it rolls the winner. If
he wins he gets other people’s items; if he loses, he still has the items he
deposited. Essentially, it’s another way of fixing the game. It is also
noteworthy (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/h3h3productions/comments/4r4kst/deception_lies_and_csgo/">this was discovered by someone on the h3h3productions subreddit</a>)
that if you pause the video at 6:52, you’ll see that two other sites are linked
to CSGO Lotto at the bottom of the page (csgo.steamanalyst.com and
opskins.com). You’ll also notice that CSGO Lotto Bot #05 has had past trades
with three OPSKINS Bots (#152, #312, and #241). <o:p></o:p></div>
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Short version of this whole thing:
Trevor Martin is in a positon where he can’t lose. He has full access to the
database of his website, and he can log in as bots in order to send skins to
himself. He, along with Tom Syndicate, have been running a massive scam. <o:p></o:p></div>
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They have also broken the law. <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftcs-endorsement-guides-what-people-are-asking">FTC Guidelines state that you must disclose that you are sponsored by a website if you are sponsored.</a> After it was revealed that Martin and Syndicate owned this
website, some of their dumber fans defended them, saying that they weren’t
breaking FTC guidelines. The reasoning is that they aren’t being sponsored by
the website if they own it. Going back to the videos made by HonorTheCall, it’s
clear that they were getting sponsored by this website. As Trevor Martin said,
“CSGO Lotto pays TmarTn Enterprises for promotion. TmarTn Enterprises promotes
CSGO Lotto.” As Philip DeFranco says, “It goes in a circle.” I’m pretty sure
that if you own a gambling website and claim that you don’t in order to gamble
on that website, you’ve committed a felony. It is clear that they have broken
FTC guidelines around effective disclosures in digital advertising. Disclosures
are required to be clear and conspicuous. Suffice to say, that is not the case
here. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Philip DeFranco explains in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5UPNruOctw">his video</a> about the scandal that websites like CSGO Lotto make their money by
taking 8% of the whole pot. As I’ve written earlier, these websites pull in an
average of $134,000 per match, and there are tens of thousands of matches per
month. 8% of $134,000 is $10,720. CSGO Lotto is undoubtedly generated tons of
money even if the games aren’t rigged, and there’s evidence to suggest that the
games are being rigged and that the site is a scam. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A YouTuber name Cole Warner
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeIJnWacl60">uploaded a video</a> a few months ago (before the scandal broke out) about how he
sent an offer for a bayonet tiger tooth into the pot but it never went in. He
sent the offer off the website. His items were held by Bot #115. After Warner
sent a complaint to the sites admin, he was given an automated response asking
for his Steam ID, his trade URL, and his missing items. Warner provided the
information. He was treated with another automated response asking for his
confirmation number. The problem is that Warner was never provided with one.
The message in the trade just said, “Automated Trade from CSGO Lotto: Happy
Trading.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He explained this in a post
and was treated to another automated message stating that they can’t help him
unless he provides the confirmation number. Warner created a new support ticket
and was given a warning not to create duplicate tickets or he would get banned,
as well as more “please provide your confirmation number” shit. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you look at Mr. Warner’s
screenshot of the support center, you’ll see that he opened no less than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">five</i> tickets explaining his problems. He
offered plenty of screenshots and evidence that he wasn’t getting what he bet
on. The site’s support offered no help and all of the tickets were closed
without anything being resolved. In one of the tickets, he explained that he
went to Bot #115’s inventory to find his item and that the bot never gave him
his confirmation number. He also mentions that the skin was $400 and that he
doesn’t know if he won or lost the match because he wasn’t able to put it into
the pot. The ticket was closed without any response from the support team. Another
one of his tickets, in which he asks why they need a confirmation code since
the bot never gave him one, was closed only four minutes after it was created. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Warner showed his user history page
on CSGO Lotto where it lists the matches he’s won and the matches he’s lost. He
can confirm that his $400 bet never made it into the pot. Warner also claims
that a similar thing happened to his friend. This alone isn’t proof that the site
is a scam, but it certainly shows that something shady is definitely going on. He
is not alone with stories like this. If you go on the Steam Community group for
this website, you’ll find multiple threads from people claiming similar things.
That the bots never gave them confirmation codes. That they never got their
skins sent back to them when they couldn’t get into the pot. That they never
received their winnings. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Is this enough evidence to prove
that Martin and Syndicate were rigging the games? I can’t say for certain. But
it seems very likely. I’ve already explained that they’ve clearly broken the
law by promoting a for-profit gambling website and not disclosing the fact that
they own it. I want to talk about what’s even more despicable about all of
this: the fact that these two have manipulated and exploited their young,
impressionable fan base for financial gain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The lies and manipulation didn’t
end when their scam was exposed; they continued to do so while attempting
damage control. Tom Syndicate took to <a href="https://twitter.com/ProSyndicate/status/749778661788753920">twitter</a> to spew <a href="https://twitter.com/ProSyndicate/status/749778938210181120">vapid platitudes</a> about
being “humbled” by this experience and promising, “<a href="https://twitter.com/ProSyndicate/status/749787843480911872">transparency from here on out</a>.” Uh-huh. Trevor Martin uploaded a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeq91UgvvRA">truly pathetic and disingenuous “apology” video on July 6.</a> It starts with a clip of him hugging his dog and bemoaning
that he has no idea how to record the video. Right afterwards, he starts by
telling the audience that he loves them and that they mean the world to him.
Classic emotional manipulation. He then explains that his connection to CSGO
Lotto has been a matter of public record since December 2015 and that owes an
apology to audience for feeling that it wasn’t made clear enough. That’s not
apologizing for your actions, that’s pleading with your audience that “it’s not
what it looks like!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Immediately afterwards, he tells
another lie, and this was what made it clear to me that he feels no remorse for
his actions and is a complete scumbag. He says that he doesn’t condone minors
under age 18 to use CSGO Lotto, and that this “is and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">always has been</i>” a clearly stated policy on the sign-up and the
Terms of Service. He provides screenshots as “proof.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fU2QG-lV0">This is directly contradicted by the screenshots provided in the expose video by h3h3productions</a>, where the website clearly forbade only kids under the age of
13. This screenshot is from the website privacy policy page. Martin tries to
justify this by claiming that it only states that he and Syndicate will not
knowingly record personal information of kids under age 13. Why would it be
necessary to state this if the site didn’t allow anyone under the age of 18 to
use it? The sign up page also only asks you to check a box labeled, “I agree to
the Terms of Service and am of 18 years of age” before submitting your entry
form. This is not going to prevent anyone under the age of 18 from using the
site; kids are just going to lie about their age. Especially since you directed
them to this site with your multiple “GET LOTS OF CASH MONEY $$$ REALLY FAST”
gambling videos!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Martin finishes the apology video
by claiming that he “believes” that every game offered on CSGO Lotto was legit
followed by more showering his fans with praise and buttering them up in order
to drum up sympathy. His assurances that the games were legit ring hollow given
the fact there is documented evidence of him logging in as a bot, giving him to
ability to trade skins to himself. The video received over 60,000 dislikes and
numerous negative comments. Martin continuously deleted the negative comments
for several hours before deleting the video entirely, likely realizing that his
attempt at damage control backfired. There are several re uploads on YouTube,
however. <o:p></o:p></div>
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HonorTheCall made a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik_lidnjkrM">response video</a>
to Trevor Martin, splicing footage from the apology with a clip from a previous
video from Martin where he explains that YouTube isn’t where he gets the
majority of his income anymore. That’s the first true thing that Martin has
said, as it turns out that CSGO Lotto generates between $100k and $250k <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">per month</i>, depending on how active the
site is. HonorTheCall also debunks Martin’s claim that people trying to create
an account on CSGO Lotto must agree to be 18 or older. He shows a screenshot of
a page that states that CSGO Lotto is not affiliated with Steam, but it will
allow you to use your Steam account to play on it. If you don’t have one, the
page offers a link to create a Steam account. This takes the user to Valve’s
website, where you have to click a box confirming that you agree to the terms
of service and that you are 13 years of age or older. There’s nothing stopping
kids under age 13 from lying about their age to create Steam accounts either. If
they can lie about their age on the Steam account confirmation they can lie
about it when they return to the CSGO confirmation page. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Martin and Syndicate have lots of
kids in their fan base. They know it. Most YouTube Gaming channels have young
demographics and these two are no exception. There are several pictures of them
going to conventions where fans can meet them, get autographs, et cetera. Some of
the fans in those pictures are clearly Middle School age kids. Kids that age
are very impressionable and have no idea how the world works. They don’t know
how to recognize a scam. And they tend to be very trusting and very loyal to
their favorite YouTube stars. As someone’s who has been on YouTube for eight
years—and has regularly watched YouTube content for ten years—I can confirm
this. You can see it in the comments section of any big YouTube channel,
especially the gaming channels. These kids adore and idolize their favorite
YouTubers. They want to be like them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Trevor Martin and Tom Syndicate are
well aware of these facts. They know about the impressionable kids that trust
them. And they have taken advantage of it; exploited it. They have lied to them,
deceived them, and conned them. They have promoted gambling websites to them;
sites that they secretly owned and controlled. They’ve used them in order to
scam money from them. They fed these kids these videos on how they can <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v6t6iqhoSI">“MAKE $13,000 in five minutes!”</a> What kid wouldn’t get excited and try that out for
themselves? These kids will end up losing over and over on this site, and
they’ll keep coming back because gambling is very addicting. It’s especially
bad if kids developing addictive habits like this; it’s much harder for them to
kick such habits because their brains have not fully developed yet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What Martin and Syndicate have done
is illegal. Online gambling is against the law in Florida, but sites like CSGO
Lotto are allowed to exist due to a loophole. The laws were made before things
like micro-transactions and trading skins and virtual goods inside a video game
became a thing. The laws haven’t been updated to reflect the rise of this
phenomenon, so it technically doesn’t qualify as gambling under the law as
currently written. This does not make it right. It’s a disgusting loophole that
Martin and Syndicate have abused in order to avoid legal punishment.
Fortunately for us, they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">have </i>broken
another law; the one barring you from promoting a for-profit enterprise without
disclosing the fact that you own it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This story has since blown up,
making headlines outside of YouTube and on mainstream media websites all over
the globe. More information has come out about CSGO Lotto. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CfZ7RBw-Xs">latest video</a> by
HonorTheCall reveals that CSGO Lotto (and other gambling websites) actually
make <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a minimum </i>of $1 million per
month, rather than the previously estimated $100-250k. <a href="http://espn.go.com/esports/story/_/id/16864628/second-class-action-lawsuit-filed-valve">Trevor Martin, Tom Syndicate, CSGO Lotto, and Valve are also being sued.</a> The lawsuit was brought
up by anonymous mother on behalf of her underage son. Any US Citizen can join
this lawsuit if they have lost money on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any
</i>CSGO gambling site. I’m glad to see this happening. People who exploit kids
and introduce them to gambling deserve the be punished the full extent of the
law. Let’s hope the FTC tears them apart as well. This isn’t the first time Tom
Syndicate has been in trouble with them for failing to disclose information. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m also glad that this incident
has brought much public attention to the issue of these CSGO Gambling sites and
their often underage users. Trevor Martin and Tom Syndicate are just the tip of
the iceberg. This isn’t the first scandal involving popular YouTubers/Twitch
streamers and a CSGO Gambling site.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A month ago, a scandal involving a CSGO
streamer named m0e and a gambling site called CSGO Diamonds erupted. M0e asked
for predetermined rolls so that he knew what would happen when he went to
gamble. A YouTuber named Thooorin <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO22YayYqYE">broke the scandal down</a>. M0e had $26k on the
site that he tried to withdraw but was told the couldn’t. He gave them 24 hours
to give him his money or he would “expose” them. M0e accused the site owner of
fraud and sending him the rolls before it happened and that the site was shady
and would not appear on any of his streams. M0e showed screenshots of his Skype
log with the CSGO Diamonds owner on his Twitter. <o:p></o:p></div>
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CSGO Diamonds responded with a
TwitLonger post stating that the contacted m0e looking to sponsor him, agreeing
to give him twenty percent of all profits made the first month he streamed for
them, and ten percent of all profits made in the following months. M0e had told
them that he would be streaming for 110-130 hours a month. After six weeks, he
began streaming less. M0e claimed that he was dealing with problems in his
personal life after CSGO Diamonds asked him why he was spending less time
streaming. M0e said that they could renogitate if they felt he hadn’t shaped up
by the end of May. His streams continued to get less frequent. When CSGO
Diamonds approached him on June 1, telling him that they were going to
renegotiate, m0e made threats to expose them for wrongdoing. CSGO Diamonds
claimed that m0e was involved in that himself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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CSGO Diamonds goes on to confirm
that they did indeed offer to tell m0e what the rolls were going to be, in
order to get him to stream more. They claimed that this was a mistake that they
wouldn’t repeat with any other sponsor, and that it happened in both
directions. They would offer him information on the rolls, and he would ask them
for the information. M0e’s threatening to expose them resulting in them ending
their sponsorship deal with him and giving him a severance payment. They claim
that after he left, he began spreading false information about them on Twitter.
CSGO Diamonds posted a screenshot of their own skype log with m0e, showing
their side of the story. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Long story short: m0e agreed to a
deal where he gets a revenue share of the profits made by CSGO Diamonds. In
exchange, he will stream himself gambling on the site for 110-130 hours per
month. He’s promoting the site in exchange for a percentage of the profits. The
site thinks that seeing him winning on stream a lot will make them look good,
so they offer to give him information on the rolls so that he’d win more often.
M0e initially says he doesn’t want to do it that way. Most CSGO gambling sites
will automatically refill a sponsored streamer’s account when they get low so
they can continue gambling. That’s the way m0e wanted to do it at first, but
CSGO Diamonds convinced him to do it their way. M0e then started asking the
site for the roll information for him to win easily to fill his account again
when he gets low. M0e wasn’t playing against other people during his streams,
he was playing against the site itself. Because of his agreement with them, he
was able to win easily, and he was presenting it as a regular match on his
streams. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The deal was shady on the part of
both parties. It also gave m0e’s audience a false perception of what gambling
on CSGO Diamonds is like. According to the skype log, m0e was getting over $50k
a month from CSGO Diamonds to fake reactions in his streams. He was also
getting $150k a month from gambling on another site called CSGODouble. After
CSGO paid him his severance package after the sponsorship ended, m0e demanded
he get $10k through the site affiliates, despite that never being part of the
deal. He basically threatened to blackmail the site because they wouldn’t give
him what he wanted after he didn’t hold up his end of the deal. They gave him a
$75k severance package so that he wouldn’t blackmail them, but he blackmailed
them anyway. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is not the first time m0e has
done something shady. M0e was banned from e-sports team ESEA for cheating back
in 2014. He had used trigger bots to give him an edge in several professional
CS:GO matches. It’s unsurprising that someone like this would turn to shady
gambling deals. These sites all seem to be attracting some really scummy guys.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Back to the scandal with Trevor
Martin and Tom Syndicate, <a href="http://www.pcgamer.com/dead-realm-youtubers-lack-of-disclosure-may-violate-ftc-regulations/">this is not the first time</a> the FTC has punished
YouTubers for accepting paid advertisements without disclosing their sponsors. The
multi-channel network Machinima paid several YouTubers—Syndicate was among them—up
to $30,000 to say positive things about the X-Box One back in 2013. This was
done as a part of a secret agreement with Microsoft—the creators of the X-Box. There
is also evidence that Trevor Martin was paid by Activision to promote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Call of Duty</i>. A YouTuber named Eight
Thoughts made <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QyEOJpkxL8">several</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy0R7uJZwfI">videos</a> on the subject. Martin has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLCFkIwSFY">been uploading the trailers</a> to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Call of Duty </i>games for
years, and the videos each have hundreds of thousands of views. Since these
trailers are the intellectual property of Activision, someone who just uploaded
them onto their own YouTube channel would receive copyright strikes almost
immediately. There’s no way Martin could get away with this if he wasn’t in
some kind of financial partnership with Activision. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What Syndicate and Martin have done
recently makes that ethical lapse seem tame. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr5h721zz3I">It’s not just the fact that they promoted a for-profit website and failed to disclose the fact that they owned it</a>. It’s not just that they scammed their underage fans out of their money.
Even if they hadn’t been lying, they’d still be scummy simply for promoting an
addicting—and illegal—habit like online gambling to kids.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They aren’t the only popular
e-sports YouTubers to do so. Two members of the mega-popular FaZe Clan, Nordan
“Rain” Shat and Ricky Banks, were <a href="https://pvplive.net/c/faze-owners-banks-and-rain-accused-of-owning-csgow">accused</a> of owning a CSGO gambling site called
CSGO Wild as the CSGO Lotto drama was unfolding. There isn’t enough evidence at
the moment for me to outright accuse them of doing the same scam that Martin
and Syndicate did with CSGO Lotto. Scarce <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHW1hCWDQVg">did some research</a>
and while he couldn’t find evidence that Rain and Banks owned CSGO Wild, he did
find out that Rain was sponsored by the website. Rain has made several videos
about how he won tons of money on CSGO Wild, very similar to the ones that
Martin and Syndicate made about CSGO Lotto. The video descriptions do say that
the video was sponsored by CSGO Wild. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiH2DTHo-2I">He wins $30,000 from 10 games in a row in one of his videos</a>, which is an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">extremely </i>suspicious
stroke of good luck. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Even if they don’t own the site,
I’m still going to condemn them for what they’re doing. And that thing is,
promoting a gambling website to their underage audience and making online
gambling seem like it’s cool. It is illegal in 46 states and uncool in all 50
of them. Like Martin and Syndicate, Rain and Banks have a lot of young
kids—twelve, thirteen, fourteen years old; middle school aged—in their fan base.
These kids look up to them and idolize them. And in my eyes, that means they
have a responsibility to set good examples to them. They shouldn’t be
encouraging gambling. But because they and a lot of big gaming YouTubers are,
underage gambling is becoming a problem because of the multitude of skins
betting sites out there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most of these betting sites are
unregulated…<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-07/professional-video-gaming-has-an-underage-gambling-problem">it’s a virtual wild west</a>. There is a website called SkinXChange
where gamers can sell and buy CS:GO skins—and skins from any game running on
Valve software—for real money. The owner of that site has <a href="http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/04/tabcorps-esports-partner-says-children-are-betting-on-video-games/">bluntly stated</a> that
the underage gambling problem is huge. He’s called many parents whose children
have used their credit cards to buy the skins on his site and then bet them on
other sites. It’s not uncommon for them to rack up thousands of dollars only to
lose it all on another gambling site.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rahul Sood, CEO of a e-sports
betting site called Unikrn, <a href="http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/04/tabcorps-esports-partner-says-children-are-betting-on-video-games/">warned against streamers advertising for gambling sites back in April</a>. He mentioned hearing his 13-year-old son talk with his
friends about skin trading—and since this man has a properly functioning moral
compass, he believes that this is wrong. Sood actually argues for the
legalization of sports betting so that it can be regulated properly, because at
the moment he believes that it’s an environment where sites can prey upon young
people. It seems he predicted the CSGO Lotto Scandal three months in advance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The growth of skins gambling online
has been insane in just the last year alone. Chris Grove, consultant at Eilers
and Krejcik Gaming, <a href="http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/04/tabcorps-esports-partner-says-children-are-betting-on-video-games/">has estimated that the market for skin betting will be $5 billion this year</a>—more than double last year’s $2.3 billion. The number of
people betting on e-sports is also growing at a crazy rate. Last year, it was
estimated that 2.3 million people bet on e-sports games, according to n Eilers
Research Report. That firm projects the number growing to at least 17.4 million
by 2020 by a conservative estimate. The firm also projects that $12.7 billion
will be wagered on video games by that year. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen
anything like this. An underground gambling market based around video games and
skins trading is a recent phenomena, less than a decade old. That it’s growing
so fast is insane. That it’s almost completely unregulated is alarming. The
industry is so young that the gambling laws have yet to be updated to reflect
its rapid rise. But the size and scope of this shady industry—and the amount of
money to be made from it—would make even the old Las Vegas mob jealous. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All of
these gambling sites are usable with Steam accounts and use software developed
by Valve. Since the CSGO Lotto Scandal blew up, the issue of underage gambling
on skins websites has been brought up by mainstream media sources, <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36702905">such as the BBC.</a> And while the biggest villains of this story are the slimeballs who took
advantage of their young, naïve fan base for easy money, <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/6/12109022/valve-csgo-lawsuit-interview">Valve is not innocent in all of this.</a> They didn’t just create <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Counter
Strike: Global Offensive</i>; they created the means to which the shady skins
gambling underworld was possible. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(Much of
the information in the next few paragraphs comes from <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/7/12103022/counter-strike-gambling-valve">an excellent op-ed</a> in
Polygon by Philip Kollar)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Valve made it very easy for you to
connect your Steam account to various third-party websites. Player can bet on
professional CS:GO matches—much like people will bet on NFL games. Remember the
FIFA scandal from last year? It’s a lot like that. Some sites will simplify the
skin betting into coin flips or slot machines against other players—much like a
typical online gambling site. People put real money into getting skins, bet
with them, and then sell them on the Steam market place. CS:GO gambling sites
can work around the law by claiming that people aren’t betting real money,
they’re betting skins, ignoring how people acquire those skins. When you’re
resorting to technicalities and legal loopholes, it’s safe to say that your
website is shady as fuck.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A month
ago, a player filed a lawsuit against Valve, claiming that he lost money to
CS:GO gambling as a minor. Last year, Reddit’s CS:GO community did a poll in
which 42% of respondents said that they were under the age of 18, and 63% said
they were under 21. CS:GO isn’t exactly geared towards kids (it’s Rated M for
Mature), but when has that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ever </i>stopped
kids from playing it? I played the original <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Half-Life
</i>when I was ten and that game is also Rated M. CS:GO, as well as the various
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Call of Duty </i>games are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hugely </i>popular among the 12-18 year old
male demographic. Log into pretty much any game and listen to a few voices—a
lot of them are not adult voices. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
National Council on Problem Gambling reported that 5% of youth aged 12-17
having a gambling addiction, while another 10-14 percent at risk of developing
one. With CS:GO—and more importantly, the YouTubers and Twitch Streamers who
play it—being so popular among that demographic, and with the huge gambling
subculture surrounding the game, there’s plenty of reasons to be concerned. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Where is
Valve itself at fault? You know the saying that all it takes for evil to
flourish is for good men to do nothing? That’s Valve. They’ve known about all
of this for years—there’s no way they possibly couldn’t have—and they’ve chosen
to look the other way. These sites all use Valve software, so Valve profits
from this gambling empire as well. Valve hasn’t done much more than make some
security changes to Steam to prevent scamming through gambling sites. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CS:GO isn’t
the only Valve game with a gambling problem. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dota 2 </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Team Fortress 2 </i>have
similar loot systems and gambling sites of their own. Those games are both Rate
T for Teen, so there’s no shortage of underage players. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jasper
Ward, an attorney representing the young man who filed a lawsuit against Valve
last month, has <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/6/12109022/valve-csgo-lawsuit-interview">accused</a> Valve of deliberately allowing this skins trading
market to flourish. They are accused of profiting from this unregulated online
gambling economy. “Parents don’t know that this is going on and can’t talk to
their kids about it because the gambling chips are called ‘Skins’ and it seems
like just another in-game purchase.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ward
contacted Valve for a chance to tell their side of the story, but they did not
respond to the lawsuit. The Polygon journalist also tried to contact Valve, and
he got no response as well. It wasn’t until the Trevor Martin and Tom Syndicate
scandal blew up that Valve decided to take action. (Possibly because those two <a href="http://espn.go.com/esports/story/_/id/16864628/second-class-action-lawsuit-filed-valve">gave the lawsuit</a> against Valve a <i>ton </i>of new ammo.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Valve has
<a href="http://www.polygon.com/2016/7/13/12179462/valve-csgo-betting-sites-shut-down-steam">started cracking down</a> on these gambling sites in the wake of the scandal, and
this is good. They’ve been sending out cease and desist notices. Unfortunately,
the fact they waited until a massive scandal threatened their bottom line
reflects poorly on their character. If they actually cared about the fact that
their underage customers were being scammed and exploited by scummy people,
they would’ve shut down these third-party gambling sites a long time ago. But
they didn’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Twitch is
<a href="https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/14/twitch-says-cs-go-gambling-broadcasts-are-prohibited/">also banning gambling broadcasts</a>. Again, a good start, but long overdue. This
kind of shit should never have been allowed in the first place. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Fixing this
problem goes beyond just shutting down these sites and prohibiting gaming
YouTubers and streamers from promoting them. What we need to do is convince the
Twitch community, the gaming community, the YouTube community—remind them that
they all have a young, impressionable fan base. Much like famous sports stars
from previous generations, the current generation of kids looks up to these
online celebrities. When so many kids look up to you, you need to be on your
best behavior and set the best example for them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’m not
saying you have to make videos feeding the homeless or promoting research into
curing cancer. What you should do is just remind your audience to do basic acts
of human decency—be a good sport when gaming online, don’t call each other
faggots or say that you fucked someone else’s mom. Don’t promote things like
online gambling or skins trading websites. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Remember
that your fans are people, not bags of money with legs. If I had the kind of
fan base that these gaming stars have and they were out gambling on websites
because of a video I made, I’d be devastated. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The most
disgusting thing about what Trevor Martin and Tom Syndicate did is how little
remorse they had over it. Trevor Martin made that pathetic apology video,
deleted it after getting bombarded with hate, and then went back to his regular
videos after a few days with no comment. Tom Syndicate just tweeted that the experience
was humbling, and then went back to uploading his regular videos. No apology at
all from him. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvyTv_Ms76k">Syndicate even joked about the scandal</a> in a video where he played
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Slither.io</i>, saying that it’s not a sponsored
video and that he doesn’t own <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Slither.io</i>.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z_VY8KZpMU">These two have no idea how lucky they are to be in their position</a>. They get lots of money
to stream video games and have tons of adoring young fans. They’re my age—actually,
they’re a few years younger than me—and they don’t have to grind out several
service industry jobs to pay their rent. They have nicer houses than even the
most affluent members of my family. Many people would kill to have their jobs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Instead,
they decided that it’s not enough. No, they need MOAR MONIE$! So they set a up
a gambling site and scam their fans. It’s good that they’re in a ton of legal
shit right now because of this, and it’s disgusting that YouTube hasn’t shut
down their channels. But they’re big, popular channels and they make YouTube
and Google a lot of money. And we all know that money is what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really </i>matters in the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-40642921656957298772016-05-13T12:35:00.001-07:002016-05-13T12:35:35.401-07:00Pat McRory: "Revisit the Civil Rights Act to allow transgender segregation in bathrooms."North Carolina governor Pat McRory wasn't happy about the <a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article61786967.html">City of Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance</a> passed back in February. Neither were most North Carolina Republicans. In fact, this ordinace is what spurred the creation of <b>North Carolina HB2</b>, the <b>Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act. </b>It was passed on March 23 during a special session in the North Carolina General Assembly after about 11 hours. The bill was pushed through very fast, with little thought put into <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/north-carolina-lgbt-bathrooms-hb2-enforcement">how the law was going to be enforced</a>.<br />
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The bill has spawned some serious backlash. PayPal <a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article70001502.html">withdrew</a> its planned expansion into Charlotte. 1MORE USA, a San Diego tech company, <a href="http://lgbtweekly.com/2016/04/14/san-diego-based-consumer-electronics-audio-company-boycotts-sales-to-north-carolina/">boycotted</a> sales to North Carolina. Several states, cities, and counties have banned publicly-funded employee travel to North Carolina. Several filming projects have been cancelled or reconsidered by directors and studios. Several musical and sports events have been either cancelled or reconsidered as well.<br />
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Polls show that a majority of North Carolina citizens oppose the bill and believe that it has given the sate a negative reputation. Only 36% <a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_NC_42516.pdf">support</a> the bill, although 56% support what the bill requires of transgender people. The bill was criticized by the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3554313/Obama-says-new-laws-Mississippi-North-Carolina-wrong-overturned-promises-British-LGBT-tourists-ll-treated-well.html">President</a>, as well as Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, <a href="http://myfox8.com/2016/04/10/john-kasich-i-wouldnt-sign-north-carolinas-house-bill-2/">John Kasich</a>, and Donald Trump. <a href="http://abc11.com/politics/donald-trump-comes-out-against-north-carolinas-hb2/1302289/">Yes, really.</a><br />
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On May 4, the United States Department of Justice notified Pat McRory that HB2 violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, giving McRory until May 9 to confirm that North Carolina would not implement the bill. On May 9, McRory filed a <a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article76502777.html">lawsuit</a> against the US Government seeking a declaratory judgment that House Bill 2 was not discriminatory. Later that day, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-complaint-against-state-north-carolina-stop-discrimination-against">filed a lawsuit</a> against North Carolina.<br />
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Pat McRory has repeatedly praised the bill, and criticized the US Government's actions against it. Initially, he accused the government of "radically reinterpreting" the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for a "far left" agenda. Recently, however, he claimed that Congress should <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/pat-mccrory-congress-should-revisit-the-1964-civil-rights-act-to-allow-segregated-bathrooms/">"reexamine"</a> the Civil Rights Act so "the Left" doesn't use it to "target" North Carolina as part of their "agenda."<br />
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<br />Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-60868781276981791322016-04-28T17:12:00.000-07:002016-04-28T17:12:02.720-07:00Dennis Hastert Gets 15 Months in Prison Dennis Hastert, the former Speaker of the House, was recently <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/us/dennis-hastert-sentencing.html?_r=0">convicted</a> of illegally structuring bank transactions in order to cover up his sexual abuse of teenage athletes while he was a wrestling coach at Yorkville High School. The reason his sentence was only 15 months was because of his "age" and "declining health," according to Judge Thomas M. Durkin.<br />
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Before I give my judgement on this scandal, let's look at Mr. Hastert's record in Congress and his opinions on the law. Hastert is from a <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-04-11/features/9904110405_1_denny-yorkville-high-school-eyes/3">very conservative small town in Illinois</a>, and attended Wheaton College, an evangelical Protestant liberal arts college. It is very straight-laced--no student is allowed to drink, smoke, gamble, or dance. Hastert attended this college in the 1960s; while other college campuses erupted in protest over the Civil Rights Movement and the War in Vietnam, the only protest that happened--at least in Hastert's senior year--was over the school's "no-beard" rule. <br />
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He started his political career in 1980, entering the Illinois state house. During his years in the Illinois State House, he developed close relationships with various big businesses, in particular the utilities industry. Although he'd been a member of the state teacher's union when taught at Yorkville High, he voted against collective bargaining for most state employees, including firefighters, during his time in the Illinois Legislature. In 1986, he crafted a plan that would change Illinois tax structure in way that would benefit utilities significantly. Critics accused this bill of favoritism and it never advanced past committee. Later that same year, Hastert was elected to the House of Representatives.<br />
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Almost immediately upon entering Congress, he developed friendships with numerous businesses and political action committees. He became friends with powerful Congressmen Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich, and worked behind the scenes gathering votes for their Contract With America in 1994. When Newt Gingrich stepped as Speaker of the House in 1998, it looked like Bob Livingston was going to take his place. However, revelations of his extramarital affairs forced him to resign, and Hastert began lobbing for votes immediately. He became Speaker in 1999.<br />
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Hastert has a perfect 100 Rating from the Christian Coalition. He was an <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-04-28/news/9604280035_1_hastert-drug-war-anti-drug">ardent supporter of the War on Drugs</a>. During his time as Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/28/AR2005052801183_pf.html">earmarked</a> $24 million in taxpayer dollars to his hometown of Aurora, Illinois. In 2000, he supported the Child Abuse Prevention and Enforcement Act, which sought stronger penalties against child molesters. He was a staunch supporter of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Walsh_Child_Protection_and_Safety_Act">Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. </a>He publicly called for legislation that would "put repeat child molesters in jail for the rest of their lives" in 2003. In 2006, Hastert condemned Mark Foley during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal#Dennis_Hastert">his sex scandal</a>, and called for his expulsion from the House. He claimed that he only learned about Foley's actions when the scandal was first made public, but there is <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-12-08-foley_x.htm">evidence</a> that suggests that he did know about what Foley was doing months beforehand and did nothing about it.<br />
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So Dennis Hastert, who repeatedly advocated harsher punishment for child sex offenders, is getting a lenient punishment for being a child sex offender. We live in such a wonderful world. I'll leave you with a quote from the comments section of this <a href="http://crookedtimber.org/2004/08/30/speaker-of-the-house-dennis-hastert/">Crooked Timber</a> post from 2004:<br />
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Someone may have documented the full extent of his pedophilia- there may even be a series of films of Mr. Hastert having sexual intercourse with boys- I would stress that at this point we don’t know for sure whether any such videotapes exist or whether Mr. Hastert might have destroyed them.</blockquote>
Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-81758188138701942172016-04-28T14:48:00.001-07:002016-04-28T14:48:43.317-07:00Michael Voris Thanks God for Giving His Mom Cancer to Stop Him from Being GayMichael Voris is a hyper-traditionalist Catholic from Michigan. Voris runs something called ChurchMilitant.tv, where he fancies himself a latter-day Knight Templar. His website was previously called RealCatholicTV, and he used to have a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/RealCatholicTV/featured">YouTube channel.</a> The channel has not been updated since June of 2012. This was around the time he was forced to change the name of his website because the Archdiocese of Detroit said that Voris could not use the word "Catholic" in the title because he did not have the consent required under the <a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__PU.HTM">Code of Canon Law 216</a>. Being a Traditionalist Catholic, he views the modern Catholic Church as "corrupt" and "heretical." Voris also believes that democracy should be replaced with a "benevolent Catholic monarch." The video where he called for this caused much controversy and was widely condemned by Catholics and non-Catholics alike, and was removed from his channel.<br />
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"Bernie is strangely quiet about his recent history-making achievement. Winning the New Hampshire Democratic primary on Feb. 9, Sanders became not only the first Jew ever to win a presidential primary or caucus, but the first non-Christian to do so.</div>
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This might help explain why he doesn’t talk about it. Sanders was the only presidential candidate, Democrat or Republican, to skip the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s Policy Conference in Washington, DC, last month. Campaigning in Utah, Sanders instead delivered a speech to the pro-Israel lobbying group from afar that was highly critical of the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians."</div>
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You don't know how to structure articles, do you? This information should have been placed <i>before </i>the part where you said he was bad for the Jews. As for him being the "first non-Christian" to win a presidential primary, I'm pretty sure there were a lot of people who didn't consider <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Smith">Al Smith</a> to be a real Christian in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1928">1928.</a> </div>
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"He was the first US senator to join House Democrats boycotting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress. He rejected Netanyahu’s dire warning that the nuclear deal entered into by the governments of Iran, the United States and other world powers threatens the very existence of the Jewish state."</div>
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That's good, because Netanyahu's warning was demagogic bullshit. </div>
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"Campaigning in Dearborn, Mich., last month, <b>a city whose population contains the nation’s highest proportion of Arab-American Muslims</b>, Sanders stuck it to his own people.</div>
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“Hopefully, we can have a level playing field, the United States treating everyone in that region equally,” he said about US involvement in the Middle East. A playing field in which bloody attacks on Israel don’t draw a “disproportionate” response? Sanders scored an upset victory in the Michigan primary, beating Dem front-runner Hillary Clinton."</div>
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I've taken the liberty to bold the font containing the most absurd framing in this piece. Dearborn contains the highest proportion of Muslims in America! This is relevant because...actually it's not. But it's a way for Peyser to paint Sanders as being anti-Israel, and thus bad for Jews, because apparently all Jews should support Israel. </div>
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That was the primary message of this piece: You're not <i>really </i>Jewish if you don't support Israel. In fact, opposing Israel means you are "sticking it to your own people." By that logic, women who don't vote for Hillary are "sticking it to their own gender." </div>
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Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-45626204837013255552016-04-14T17:30:00.001-07:002016-04-14T17:30:52.535-07:00Ladies and Gentleman: The Worst Music Video EverWhat is it with YouTube Atheists and their paranoia about feminism? These people seem utterly terrified women speaking out in favor of their rights, so much so that you'd get the impression that they believe that giving women more rights will lead to men losing theirs. I'm not going to drop names--at least not right now, I might get the inspiration to review some of these guys soon--but there seems to be an entire genre of videos on YouTube right now, and it's basically a bunch of atheists ranting in front of a webcam about how feminism is either a religion or anti-male hate movement.<br />
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There's numerous videos on the subject, and the points they try to make are either based on strawmen or fueled by illogical paranoia. There's one channel called the SyeTenAtheist that made an animated music video on the subject. It's just...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQw3KSYD3ns">just watch it.</a><br />
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Jesus Christ. This is the most cringe thing I've ever seen. I couldn't sit through it in one sitting. I don't even know where to start. The nursery school background music makes me shudder, the "singing" is pure ear poison, the animation itself is stiff and awkward, and the "stereotypical jew" voice they give the feminist just makes me...<i>uncomfortable</i>. The video was trying to say that feminists and islamists have a lot in common, but no effort was made to actually prove this.<br />
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Is the logic that feminists and islamists are similar because islamists blame the jews and feminists blame the patriarchy for their problems? Are feminists and islamists banding together to defeat the International Jewish Patriarchy? Is that why she says that, "it's not rape if you're a muslim" at the end of the video? I mean, it obviously wasn't, that was just a retarded attempt to be "edgy" and "offensive" on the part of the creator, but it's too stupid to be either of those things.Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-77167872146210584922016-04-06T16:04:00.000-07:002016-04-06T16:04:00.860-07:00Donald Trump Damage ControlA few days ago, Donald Trump pissed a lot of people off when he went on Chris Matthews' show and backed an abortion ban and said that women who received abortions would be <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/30/donald-trump-abortion/82443528/">"punished."</a> He later made a "clarification" that only the doctor's who perform abortions would be punished, but this did not stop the avalanche of criticism he received from people on both sides of the abortion debate. The President of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund accused him of being "out of touch" with the pro-life movement, members of pro-choice NARAL said his position was "far from where the American people are," and Ken Blackwell of the pro-life Family Research Council said that this comment revealed his "lack of any in-depth involvement with the pro-life movement."<br />
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John Kasich slammed Trump, and said that he'd probably find a way to claim that he was "misquoted." Given Trump's history of getting butthurt when subjected to criticism, this was an astute prediction. And lo and behold, <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/donald-trump-abortion-comments-not-wrong-221561">this is exactly what he did!</a><br />
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"That was a hypothetical question. It was not a wrong answer." Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity during his Monday night show in Wisconsin. "There were other people that wrote me letters by the hundreds saying that it was a great answer to that question the way it was raised."</blockquote>
Are these "hundreds" of people also hypothetical? And did he only "hypothetically" insult Chris Matthews in his next statement?<br />
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"I did this show because it's not a high-rated show. He's always been--I mean, he's never treated me badly. And I didn't think it was a big thing to do the show, and as a hypothetical question you give a hypothetical answer, and I didn't see the big, big, huge deal."</blockquote>
Trump also <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/04/06/trump-refuses-to-admit-abortion-answer-was-wrong/">complained</a> that John Kasich gave a bad answer to a question on abortion and it got no coverage. Because of course he did. This is pretty much a prototypical Donald Trump reaction to criticism. It goes in four points. Dodge the criticism, claim that numerous people are on his side, insult the person who asked him the original question, and complain that the other candidates aren't getting as much scrutiny as he is.<br />
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The Dodging: Trump claimed that it was just a hypothetical question, meaning that his answer is also hypothetical, and therefore it can't be a wrong answer<br />
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The Claims of Support: Trump claimed that "hundreds" of people sent him letters that told him he gave a "great answer," ignoring the fact that his answer was different from his first answer in which he unmistakably said that the woman would receive "some form of punishment." Broad, blanket statements claiming that "hundreds of people liked my answer," can't be fact-checked and proven wrong, therefore Trump is right<br />
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The Insult: A classic staple of Mr. Trump--one that makes him so successful in politics--is his use of the <i>ad hominem </i>fallacy, in which he attacks the person making the argument rather than the substance of the argument itself. Hence, his snipe at the "not high" ratings of Chris Matthews' show. Since the ratings are low, his answer shouldn't be a "big deal," and is therefore not wrong<br />
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The Complaints: Trump complained that the media is biased against him because John Kasich also gave a bad answer on abortion and there was no coverage. This is despite the fact that Trump previously stated that his answer was hypothetical, and is therefore not bad. This is also despite the fact that <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/04/04/kasich-bobs-and-weaves-on-abortion-questions/">there was coverage of this.</a><br />
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This makes me wonder how Trump would respond to criticism as President. Would British criticism of his actions be invalid because America is a more popular place to live than Britain? Would he not be responsible for any tension he inflames if he threatens to bomb a country because bombing of said country is just a "hypothetical" scenario? Would it be okay for him to ignore the Bill of Rights because he gets a lot of letters from people saying they agree with him?<br />
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<br />Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-65557996458685167182016-04-05T21:14:00.001-07:002016-04-05T21:14:40.411-07:00Donald Trump's Union-Busting attempt in Las Vegas failsA group of 500 workers at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/04/3766288/trump-union-ruling/">voted to unionize</a> in December and have been demanding a sit-down and contract negotiation with the management. The National Labor Relations Board has <a href="http://www.culinaryunion226.org/news/press/body/Decision-and-Cert-of-Representative.pdf">certified</a> this union over the objections of Trump's Company. The management has announced their intentions to appeal the ruling, and workers have reported being intimidated by members of a "union avoidance" consulting firm hired by the management. The firm told them that if they voted to unionize they'd lose their jobs, and that the company would blacklist their names so that they'd never find work in Las Vegas again.<br />
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act">National Labor Relations Act</a> <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/04/05/trump-loses-attempt-to-prevent-union-at-vegas-hotel/">prohibits companies from using coercion and intimidation tactics</a> in order to prevent employees from unionizing. The reason these workers were unionizing was because of their low wages--"lower than most in Las Vegas" according to the housekeeper who organized the union. Trump likes to talk about the problems faced by many (white) Americans working for lower-wages (and how it's Mexico's fault that wages are falling), but his own businesses routinely engage in practices that lower wages and the standard of living for workers.Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-89473985135487487022016-04-05T19:05:00.001-07:002016-04-05T19:06:18.179-07:00Donald Trump Outlines Plan To Have Mexico Pay For The WallYou know how Donald Trump wants to build a wall around Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants? And he wants to make Mexico pay for it? <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/05/politics/donald-trump-mexico-wall-pay/index.html">Well, he's finally revealed his plan to make them do just that!</a><br />
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Trump: The wall is a fraction of the kind of money that--in many different ways--that Mexico takes from us. The wall is a fraction--you know you're talking about a $10 billion wall...and...a trade deficit with Mexico of $58 billion, and probably going to get worse--if they run it, if I run it, there won't be a trade deficit.</blockquote>
But of course.<br />
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Kevin Liptak (CNN Reporter): Today, the Trump Campaign is outlining its plan--what it's saying is that it is essentially going to threaten Mexico that if it does not pay the $10 billion dollars for the wall, the US Government will halt remittances--money transfers--stopping citizens from wiring money to their relatives in Mexico...the Trump Campaign estimates that will total somewhere in the neighborhood of $24 billion. </blockquote>
And how is Trump going to make sure that money doesn't get sent? He didn't explain <i>that,</i> but he did propose that the US Government crack down on visas from business travelers and tourists coming from Mexico. If you're wondering how either proposal is in any way legal, Trump is using an interpretation of the Patriot Act--yes <i>that </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act">Patriot Act</a>. He has a <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/pay-for-the-wall">memo</a> on his website detailing how this plan would work. Most of it is posturing--especially the part where he talks about cancelling visas. He only speaks about it as a leverage point--no details about he can do this legally are given. He also seems to think that losing $24 billion in yearly remittances will somehow be financially devastating to a country with a GDP of $1.3 trillion...and that doesn't count the profits from the underground economy ruled by the drug cartels.<br />
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Oh, but I'm sure the Mexican government is <b>shaking in fear</b> from Trump's threats.<br />
<br />Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-84207004098139917932016-02-21T12:59:00.001-08:002016-02-21T13:00:05.713-08:00The Eastern Oregon Militia Occupation: A Detailed History (Part 2)After the 1994 charges against the Hammonds were dropped in 1997, it seemed like this small, local controversy would fade into annals of state history as an obscure oddity in the background. However, this would not be the Hammonds' last run-in with the law. In 1999, the Hammonds were given a warning by the Bureau of Land Management that they while they could lease public lands for grazing, they were not permitted to burn anything without authorization.<br />
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In September of 2001, they set fire on their property that spread to public lands. They claimed that this was to burn off invasive species, but a teenage relative <a href="https://popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/HammondGovBrief.pdf">testified that the intent was not so innocuous</a>. Said teenage had to take shelter in a creek because the flames spread so high and so rapidly. The fire ultimately burned away 139 acres of public land and "took the acreage out of production for two growing seasons." If you're wondering why something like this didn't make national headlines, need I remind you of a certain particular major world event that took place in September of 2001?<br />
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In August of 2006, a lightning storm caused several fires near to where the Hammonds grew their winter stock. Steven Hammond responded by setting back burns near the boundary of his land. The problem was that a burn ban was in effect and a waiver was required in order to set a fire legally. Steven Hammond did not seek this waiver.<br />
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In 2010, the BLM filed charges against the Hammonds for arson and in 2012 they were put on trial.Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-49331950935231330552016-02-21T12:22:00.002-08:002016-02-21T13:02:29.221-08:00Donald Trump DROPS MEGA-EPIC BOMBSHELL TRUTH on 9/11! Okay, so maybe he didn't say he knows the truth about 9/11 specifically, but that clickbait title got your attention, didn't it?<br />
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Trump was in South Carolina, and he was pitching the idea that he would reveal publicly guarded secrets about who really did 9/11 if he was elected President. In South Carolina, Trump said that we went after Iraq even though they didn't knock down the Trade Centers.<br />
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"It wasn't the Iraqis that knocked down the Trade Center, we went after Iraq, we decimated the country, Iran's taking over, okay."</blockquote>
Wait, that's not a secret. We've known this for ten years now. Al Qaeda was not affiliated with Saddam Hussein and the Iraqis. And the Iraq War destabilized the region and resulted in a long quagmire that ultimately only served to empower the various Jihadist groups, this is all news from 2006, not 2016. So why is Trump bringing it up now?<br />
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"Because they have papers in there that are very secret, you may find it's the Saudis, okay. But you will find out."</blockquote>
Okay, a lot of the hijackers were Saudis, this is true. But the Saudi Royal Family would be taking a huge financial risk by directly attacking what was at the time one of their biggest oil trading partners. They've certainly backed a few smaller terrorist groups, but openly aligning themselves with the most notorious of these terrorist organizations would be financially disastrous for them. Having the rest of the civilized world turn against you isn't good for your country's economy.Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-38451656294237662312016-02-03T14:35:00.001-08:002016-02-03T14:40:38.369-08:00The Eastern Oregon Militia Occupation: A Detailed History (Part 1)2016 is off to an eventful start. Near Burns, Oregon (which happens to be the state that I live in), Ammon Bundy of the Bundy Militia has been "occupying" the federally owned Malheur National Wildlife Reserve since the beginning of January. This whole shitstorm started with the arrest of Steven Hammond for starting a fire on public property without a license. That incident happened on August 26, 2006, and was called the Lower Ridge Creek fire. According to this <a href="http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/harney_county_ranchers_stand_trial_in_pendleton_federal_court/">2012 news article on the incident</a>, Hammond and his father got in trouble as far back as 1999 for illegally starting fires to improve grazing conditions. They also set a fire in 2001 to scare away deer hunters. Because just having a talk with them would have been too difficult, I guess.<br />
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On August 26, 2006, Steven Hammond and his father set an illegal fire that threatened to overrun an BLM (Bureau of Land Management) brush engine and its crew. A firefighter named Lance Okeson confronted Hammond at the scene of the fire, according to US Attorney Frank Papagni Jr. The Hammonds were charged with nine counts involving conspiracy and setting illegal fires on federal lands. There's also a count of alleged witness tampering involving a confrontation between Steven Hammond and rangeland conservation manager Joe Glascock.<br />
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Looking into the history of Mr. Hammond, I discovered that he and his father actually got in trouble with the law even earlier than I originally thought. A news article from <a href="http://www.hcn.org/issues/20/582">1994</a> details a conflict between Dwight Hammond, Steven's father, and Steven himself against the US Fish and Wildlife Service. That particular controversy started when federal officials tried to build a fence around the Malheur Wildlife Refuge to keep the Hammond family's cattle from trespassing on the land. The Hammonds attempted to block them from building the fence and were arrested and charged with interfering in federal operations. 500 ranchers showed up to protest the arrest of the Hammonds and the Oregon Lands Coalition declared their arrest, "A Hostage Situtation." Bob Smith, a Republican politician representing Oregon's 2nd Congressional District at the time, wrote a letter to then US Interior Labor Secretary Bruce Babbitt, declaring his support of the Hammonds and that their arrests had "made his constituents lose faith in their government." This was the middle of an election season, so it was probably just political grandstanding, but it did have an effect. The charges against the Hammonds were reduced from a felonies with a maximum of 3 years in prison and a $250,000 fine to misdemeanors with a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine. A hearing on the charges had been scheduled in September of that year, but it ended up getting postponed indefinitely.<br />
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That 1994 controversy stemmed from Dwight Hammond repeatedly violating the terms of a special permit that allowed him to move his cattle through the refuge at specific times, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This led to his right to graze cattle on the haven south of Berns being revoked by refuge manager Forrest Cameron in June of that year. Hammond also allegedly sent Cameron death threats. He also allegedly sent previous refuge managers death threats in 1986 and 1988. I can see him wanting to protect his cattle and his livelihood, but his behavior makes it hard for me to sympathize with him.<br />
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This 1994 controversy didn't gain much news traction outside of Oregon, probably because the National Media was obsessed with the OJ Simpson murder case at the time. In 1995, voters who supported the Hammonds attempted to recall two members of the Harney County Court for not intervening on the Hammonds' behalf, but the attempt failed. The controversy seemingly was over in <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/01/oregon_militants_years_before.html#incart_big-photo">1997, when the charges against the Hammonds were dropped entirely</a>.<br />
<br />Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7467924011517366985.post-78646119114107485582016-01-04T12:25:00.000-08:002016-01-04T16:56:13.788-08:00My 5 predictions for 2016 social media "challenges"The rise of the internet and social media, with platforms such as YouTube and Vine, has resulted in the phenomena of extremely stupid people trying to become famous via viral trends. Perhaps the dumbest of these trends are the myriad of "challenges" all over Vine, Instagram, FaceBook, and YouTube. These "challenges" are some of the stupidest fucking things I've ever heard of. We have the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_challenge"> Cinnamon challenge</a>, in which people will put a whole spoonful of cinnamon in their mouths and won't drink anything for about 60 seconds. We have the Banana sprite challenge, in which people quickly scarf down two bananas and then a whole can of Sprite. The challenge is that they can't vomit. We have the fire challenge, in which people literally <i>light themselves on fire and record themselves on video</i>. There was the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge, in which inconceivably stupid teenagers...<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/21/kylie-jenner-challenge-the-dangers-of-plumping-that-pout/">just read this</a>. The most recent of these challenges was the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Entertainment/condom-challenge-videos-youtube-bad-idea/story?id=18977460">condom challenge</a>, in which you fill a condom up with water, and then drop it on your head, potentially resulting it getting stuck on your head. You just...you just can't make this shit up.<br />
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I can only imagine what new "challenges" will take the world of social media by storm in 2016. I've come up with five predictions:<br />
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<b>Number 1: The Bleach Challenge</b><br />
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In this challenge, the participant must down an entire cup of bleach without vomiting. No water dilution is allowed, it must be a pure cup of bleach. This may sound crazy, but this is the internet, where some people actually believe that autism can be cured by bleach enemas. <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/parents-are-giving-their-children-bleach-enemas-to-cure-them-of-autism-311">And no, I didn't make that up. </a><br />
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<b>Number 2: The Electricity Challenge</b><br />
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The participants must grab onto a high voltage wire and hold on for as long as they can. If you let go, you lose. If you win, you're probably dead. But at least you became a viral sensation!<br />
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<b>Number 3: The Cliff Challenge</b><br />
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You must jump off a cliff. The higher the cliff, the greater the challenge. Make sure you have a camera both at the top and the bottom of the cliff so we can confirm that you did this legitimately. We don't a repeat of the moon landing debacle!<br />
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<b>Number 4: The Blood Challenge</b><br />
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This one is good because it's a scientific experiment! Give yourself a wound and lose a large amount of blood. The trick is, you must collect this blood in some containers. After you stop bleeding, you must drink the blood that you lost. Now the blood is back inside your body! If you wanted to know if drinking blood will replenish any lost blood, the only way to know for sure is by doing this challenge!<br />
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<b>Number 5: The Paint Challenge</b><br />
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Hey kids, remember in <i>Goldfinger </i>when that woman was spray-painted gold? Why not do something similar, except use actual paint and a brush? Paint your whole body many different colors! Even the little ones can join in! Parents, you no longer have to lose your minds when your little ones are painting themselves rather than the walls!<br />
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There are many, many other ideas for social media challenges, but few of them require actual talent or effort because those things are too hard for most social media wannabe superstars.Evan Brehmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.com0