Bonus #2

I could write about how racism is wrong and PewDiePie is a Nazi, but I am going to focus on one point that could raise even more arguments. The entire concept of a joke has been turned into automatic bigotry label, splattered with intolerance. Society is at the point where people are offended for being called a women. There is no such thing as a joke anymore. People would scream at me if I told them my beliefs. I am a white, Christian, upper-middle class Trump supporter. People would scream names at me more than a white supremacist would to an African-American. The concept of America has changed from being hailed as the best country in the world to being a mockery. The pussification of America has shown repeatedly when people cry about being uncomfortable. The United States has become the most selfish and egocentric country in history. If people didn’t take things so personal and so seriously, America would be where it once was. Mahdawi is taking the side of all the people who were chanting “Not my president” and needed a “safe place” during the Police Shootings. These people are fueled by the media and don’t do any research of their own to find out facts.  Saying PewDiePie is a neo-Nazi and he has “Hatred… camouflaged in absurd memes and an overblown rhetorical style, hidden in cartoon figures like the “alt-right” mascot Pepe the Frog.” Anyone who has ever seen a Pepe the frog meme knows this is completely bullshit propaganda forced into our brains by the fake news that is the media. Liberal Media (CNN mainly) has established a reputation now for being false news because someone finally called them out on their lies. You want white supremacists to go away? You want neo-Nazis to go away? Stop giving them the spotlight. Writing articles and featured news stories about them only encourages them to try harder. Madawi says “The style of these memes, their overblown exaggerated nature, means we often don’t take them seriously. Dismiss them as jokes. But this is how antisemitism creeps into our lives. Not with a bang but with a punchline” claiming that memes and jokes are the source of racism and antisemitism, when in reality the fame of them being hated is what really fuels them. PewDiePie got paid $15,000,000 last year for making comical videos on Youtube, so obviously he knows how to make people laugh. He thought something was funny, tried it out, and it didn’t go so well. I think his role, and other Youtubers alike, is to make entertaining videos. Not everyone is going to like every video, and that is perfectly fine, as long as they don’t write an article about how their feelings got hurt.  I’ve watched many of PewDiePie’s internet videos, and frankly they were very entertaining. I don’t notice Nazi propaganda and if I did, I can stop watching. That’s the beautiful thing about entertainment. Family Guy has an entire episode about getting Jesus laid, and frankly it was offensive. So, I turned it off and went to the next episode. If a video bothers you, if a joke bothers you, if a tv show bothers you, if a confederate flag bothers you, you can turn it off.

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