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Labour MP Calls on Home Office to Ban Hasan Piker From the UK (novaramedia.com)
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[–] 16 points 5 months ago

'Member when the Labour party was socialist?

'Member when the Labour party stood for something?

'Member when even the Blairites pretended to be left wing?

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    [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Why are they scared of this fool?

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    [–] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Pathetic, Hasan Piker explicitly and frequently advocates for non-violence and frequently makes his criticisms of Israel precise by emphasizing that the problem is not Judaism.

    Hasan Piker frequently calls out genuine anti-semites such as Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Marjorie Taylor Greene while refusing to ally himself with them on a cause out of a rejection of their basic principles of hate.

    If you don't like Hasan Piker fine but anyone who says banning Hasan Piker is actually about protecting Jews is an intellectually unserious willful idiot.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This is the thing, at face value nobody is entitled to entry. But by blocking this one guy while allowing thousands of others. The point becomes clear, it's about chilling criticism of Israel NOT about protecting the UK from extremists

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    I have watched hours and hours of Hasan Piker, I have never once seen him behave in a way that would warrant being barred from entry to the UK.

    Yes you can clip him saying edgey shit, and there is so much footage of him in front of a camera you can absolutely find cringey things that he has said but overall... any read of Hasan Piker other than that he is an imperfect but fairly genuine advocate for progressive leftist politics that elevates the well being of all... is wildly off base just on the basic facts.

    The media wants to portray Hasan Piker as some kind of dangerous radical but if you were to point to a single inspiration for the kind of politics Hasan Piker advocates for and is motivated by it would have to be Bernie Sanders even though Hasan isn't now primarily influenced by him you can still see the influence as clear as day. What Hasan respects about Bernie Sanders is his focus on connecting issues relentlessly to the needs of everyday people, housing, healthcare, human rights, cost of living.... it is the boring part of building popular working class support that Hasan is interested in, not whatever the mainstream media lazily and breathlessly accuses him of....

    You don't have to like Hasan Piker, you don't have to agree with him, but you can't claim he is a danger to anyone or advocates for xenophobic belief systems.

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    [–] -2 points 5 months ago

    Who is Hasan Piker? Nevermind i don't care.

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