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Can anyone help me understand why Hasan Piker is so popular in leftist political spaces despite his immense privilege? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This guy's dad is the former VP of a multibillion dollar Turkish conglomerate, as well as the secretary of a government department. Mom and Dad were able to fly to their other home in NJ to give birth so he'd get US citizenship. His uncle is the founder and owner of TYT Media and gave him his media career. He went to Rutgers. He lives in a multimillion dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills. This is by definition not the kind of person who can be a voice of the People. Saying "I recognize my privilege" over and over, while living his lifestyle, doesn't negate his privilege and complete lack of real-life experience outside of the curated garden of the wealthy. He gets paid obscene amounts of cash to sit in his bedroom and word-vomit for 9 hours a day. Why are his unending opinions taken so seriously? He gives me strong controlled opposition vibes.

Edit: Thank you all for this discussion. I learned a lot.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh screw off with this bullshit. So pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for your contribution to the discussion, very insightful.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

These are bot account folks. There's been a surge of attacks against Hasan by the right and russian propaganda machine. They are opening the flood gates to undermine all the remaining progressive influencers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Evil Russia is botting on lemmy dot ml to reach a smidgen of the 60K MAU who are mostly already deluded nerds into not supporting Hasan on twitch dot tv a site of 240M MAU for geopolitical reasons of 20 dimensional chess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a new one, I've never been accused of being a bot for having an unpopular viewpoint before! You're just full of surprises, aren't you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I’ve never been accused of being a bot for having an unpopular viewpoint before!

Ah, you get used to it pretty quickly.