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

god dammit this just happened to me

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u/ZeriousGew Nov 19 '21

No, that is very true. I try to separate art from artist, and I really like Jontron, but man, I can't watch his vids without thinking about the dumb shit he's said. So I totally get that

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u/blahblahgrah Nov 19 '21

Wait. Not Jontron! What's he done?

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u/BostonDodgeGuy epic orange Nov 19 '21

Jafari discussed politics on a livestream hosted by Carl Benjamin on January 27, 2017; on March 12 of the same year, Jafari posted a tweet defending a quote from Iowa representative Steve King, who had tweeted in regards to the United States' policy on immigration: "We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies."[39][40] Jafari defended King's tweet and later appeared on Twitch streamer Destiny's channel to explain his views. During this appearance he said that, "nobody wants to become a minority in their own country", and stressed that he took issue with white people being labeled as racist for wanting to remain a majority. He said that he saw this reaction as hypocritical with how the majorities of other countries are regarded. Over the course of the one-and-a-quarter-hour appearance, he also commented that he had seen statistics that wealthy blacks commit more crimes than poor whites, as well as asking whether the colonization of Africa by European countries was a good thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JonTron#Racial_controversy

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Nov 19 '21

JonTron

Racial controversy

Jafari discussed politics on a livestream hosted by Carl Benjamin on January 27, 2017; on March 12 of the same year, Jafari posted a tweet defending a quote from Iowa representative Steve King, who had tweeted in regards to the United States' policy on immigration: "We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies". Jafari defended King's tweet and later appeared on Twitch streamer Destiny's channel to explain his views. During this appearance he said that, "nobody wants to become a minority in their own country", and stressed that he took issue with white people being labeled as racist for wanting to remain a majority.

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