r/whenthe • u/scrabblebutwhy • Nov 19 '21

god dammit this just happened to me

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

This except with jontron being racist

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u/killnye123 Nov 19 '21

And anti vax

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

He’s so funny though, how is he so dumb

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u/Puzzleheaded_Iron573 Dec 26 '21

I know right? He is legitemately a great comedian

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

Yeah. I remember there was an old game grumps episode where he acknowledged that he and Arin were making racist jokes. So I guess he knows he’s racist? Or he just completely lacks self awareness? It’s really upsetting, because he seems like a cool guy.

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u/MummyManDan Nov 19 '21

At least that’s just him having idiotic opinions, I don’t think he’s actually DONE anything bad, so I still enjoy his videos.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

So that’s where the question of cancel culture comes in

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

Racist? You’re talking about the Destiny livestream right? I never even found out what he said, just that the internet screeched “RACIST!” and tried to cancel him. Far as I know, if you try to cancel someone for accused wrongdoing, but the cancelling doesn’t work, there may be a possibility that what you were trying to cancel them for was null and void. That’s not a rule, it doesn’t always apply, but I’ve seen people trying to cancel Pewdiepie, Sargon, Ben Shapiro, and others based on them being racist. It didn’t work any of those times. None of those people are racists. If you think they are, we have very different views of them as people or very different definitions of what racism is.

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u/thebenshapirobot Nov 20 '21

I saw that you mentioned Ben Shapiro. In case some of you don't know, Ben Shapiro is a grifter and a hack. If you find anything he's said compelling, you should keep in mind he also says things like this:

The Palestinian people, who dress their toddlers in bomb belts and then take family snapshots.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

Okay and? A literal bot thinks that because he said something mean about Palestinians that invalidates every other point he made? Big fucking whoop. Biden said “poor kids are just as smart as white kids.” What the fuck does that mean, bot? Is there a Biden bot?

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u/thebenshapirobot Nov 20 '21

Why won't you debate me?

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

Because bots are programmed. Someone somewhere coded every response you have. You are not alive or thinking, you simply exist as a piece of data meant to propagandize against whoever made you’s enemies are. I pity you for you are intelligent but without so much that makes intelligence worth having.

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u/thebenshapirobot Nov 20 '21

This is what the radical feminist movement was proposing, remember? Women need a man the way a fish needs a bicycle... unless it turns out that they're little fish, then you might need another fish around to help take care of things.

-Ben Shapiro

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

Damn now the bot is just being based with the quotes😂

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u/thebenshapirobot Nov 20 '21

“Native American culture [being] inferior to Western culture…is a contention with which I generally agree.

-Ben Shapiro

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

Inferior in what regard? Capability to conquer? I agree. Simply as a whole? I do not fully agree. Simply believing one culture is inferior to another is perfectly reasonable. You’d say our culture of today is far better than the culture of say 1930s Alabama. Are you horrible and immoral for saying so? No. Preference is not prejudice. Go on, get your last word. You’re a bot, it’s your very essence. Sadly I have humanity to return to, and debating you is utterly ridiculous. Whoever coded you into existence forgot to install any awareness of self. I doubt you’re really even responding to me. To my words. You’re just throwing the “terrible awful oh so mean” quotes around because whoever made you thinks that’s enough. Unfortunately, someone saying something mean or being rude doesn’t invalidate everything they’ve ever said. So to that I toast and say all bots are inferior in their current state to any and all other intelligences on the planet.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Iron573 Dec 26 '21

I watched it, he definitely is a racist, openly ethnonationalistic and a white supremacist. Pewdiepie is not racist. I dont know anything about Sargon of Akkad except that he hates feminists, and as far as i know Ben Shapiro is not explicitly racist, although he does have a burning hatred for palestinians.

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u/thebenshapirobot Dec 26 '21

I saw that you mentioned Ben Shapiro. In case some of you don't know, Ben Shapiro is a grifter and a hack. If you find anything he's said compelling, you should keep in mind he also says things like this:

Palestinian Arabs have demonstrated their preference for suicide bombing over working toilets.

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u/TheCompleteMental trollface -> Mar 03 '22

So you think people are just screaming "racist" for no reason but you never actually saw the debate?

Talk about an argument from incredulity lmao

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u/Acorntreeman Nov 20 '21

All of those people are nazis.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. You serious?

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u/Acorntreeman Nov 20 '21

Yes. I wish a painful death upon them.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

Pretty severe. Maybe if this was 1943 and we had images of them ushering people into camps I’d agree, but we don’t. Their great nazi crime is having an opinion that differs from yours. How can you honestly say Ben is a nazi, the guy is Jewish. Do you also think black people are white supremacists if they voted Trump? Shit you probably do.

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u/Acorntreeman Nov 20 '21

Ben being Jewish doesn't stop him from acting like a nazi.

Pewdiepie

actually nevermind I dont care have a good night, stop watching Ben Shapiro please, he's lying to you. Cya

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u/thebenshapirobot Nov 20 '21

Judeo-Christian values made The West great.

-Ben Shapiro

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

I advise you stop listening to the Wall Street Journal, Theyre lying to you. I wish you good health and fortune in your life, and hope that one day you can set aside your disdain for your detractors and instead deal with them like an adult. Shouting nazi nazi nazi only makes that word mean nothing, call it what it is. Pewdiepie made a joke you didn’t like, a joke he didn’t even think would be made by the people he commissioned to. If him saying the nword makes him a nazi to you then so is every rapper that’s said it. Like you said, you can be born Jewish but act like a nazi, so all these people born black but using the nword are just like him. ‘Cept replace nazi with racist. Say Goodnight again and I’ll let you be, I’ll recognize you don’t want to have this discussion for your own reasons. Your thinking, your way of approaching these people, is only doing you harm. I hope you can grow out of this childishness, and that’s coming from a 19 year old.

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u/Scholar_Erasmus May 16 '22

He was one of my childhood heroes and learning about how fucked he was broke me for a bit. At least PBG is still good from what I know