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Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support (novaramedia.com)

submitted 1 day ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] afc@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Just like Tyler the creator... Hasan and cenk must be a couple years away from a seminal album

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 60 points 1 day ago (14 children)

The west has stopped quietly committing genocide against the wishes of it's people, started forcibly and loudly committing genocide against the desperate cries of it's people.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't even like Hasan, it's annoying how much "moderates" have forced me to be on his side lately.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 20 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (7 children)

I love Hasan. I wish more privileged voices were as concise and consistent and forceful on left issues like he is. If there were several dozen more people like him we wouldn't all have to couch our support for their advocacy with a milquetoast disclaimer about how we "don't even like them".

Hell, I'm a vegan and an anarchist. He regularly throws those aspects of my identity under the bus to offer a fig leaf to the unconvinced in his audience so that they listen to more central leftist ideas, and still I love him for that. He has millions of followers, I cannot fathom how impactful he has been to leftist advocacy all over the world in the past 5 years. I'm so fucking sick of people putting disclaimers on their support for him. I don't even sub to him and I love the guy. I know what critical support means and I give him my critical support on full blast.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 21 hours ago

The people that need to actively attack Hasan in this day and age are almost categorically active supporters of this current status quo.

They're not even just opponents of the left anymore. They're just present to wreck any civil spaces to cause infighting.

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