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Who was totally in the right about something but other controversies made them lose in the public's eye? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I was watching this video on Idubbbz's rise and fall and it got me thinking about the Content Cop he made against H3H3.

As far as I could see, the Content Cop and Content Deputy generally hammered home accurately how much of a royal piece of shit Ethan Klein and his former IDF wife have become. It really should have been an easy slam dunk as H3H3 is so easily provably wrong on so many issues regarding Israel and the genocide in Palestine, as well as the countless controversies Ethan Kelin and Hila Klein have publicly gone through.

However, it appears that Idubbbz totally lost this fued, not because of his arguments against H3H3, but because those were totally overshadowed by his own extraordinary controversies and greed, as well as seemingly using the genocide in Palestine as a backdrop to his fued with H3H3, which feels very exploitative.

It got me wondering, what are some other instances of public figures who were totally in the right on an issue, but lost due to other, tangentially or totally unrelated issues?

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[–] 3 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof

English is not my native language. I'm glad I learned it, because I just have an interest in linguistics and it's very close to my native language, but I can clearly see how "imperialistic" this is, how my parents and friends struggle with that language, and how there could be something much easier, that would allow them to experience cultural exchanges without having to learn the "dominant" language.

Mi lernis Esperanton pli ol 20 jaroj. Ĝin estus mirinda, sed malĝoja, mi malrememoras multa, kay uzas Anglo kaj Germano pli.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    On the "bright side", the US going to shit and UK doing all the weird bullshit they're doing is likely to collapse the trend of English being the de facto lingua franca across the globe.

    Unfortunately that means Mandarin or another notable difficult language will likely fill that void.

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