New Zealand terrorist attack

[I'm With Stupid]

Yeah, I was wondering about that too as my son watches a lot of Pewdiepie's videos on YouTube. Seems a bit disturbing that the far right appear to be promoting him.

He did have a brief antisemitism controversy, but as far as I'm aware, there's not much evidence of him have any sort of far right views or campaigning for the far right in any way. There's a campaign at the moment to get people to subscribe to Pewdiepie because there's an Indian channel owned by a huge media company that's about to overtake him as the number one Youtube channel, so 'subscribe to Pewdiepie' is something you hear on Youtube and the wider Internet every now and again. It's kind of seen as a David vs. Goliath thing, since it's a huge company against a person who just makes things by himself. It might be a reference to that, although I don't know why you'd say that while you're committing a terrorist attack, unless it was all one big online video to this evil prick.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Had the misfortune of seeing the footage and ashamed to say couldn't stop watching.

The sheer indiscriminate and evil way he murders these poor defenceless people.

**** has all the time in the world.

What a fucking world our kids are growing up in.

I am not a religious man in any shape or form but my humanity cries for the victims and New Zealand.

 

[domalino]

Yeah him...i know hes a wee bit controversial...but my son would have watched his videos, says hes a bit of a dick now thankfully...but its strange that a few days ago UKIP would tweet to subscribe to him,and then this guy would say it in his video

Yeah, I was wondering about that too as my son watches a lot of Pewdiepie's videos on YouTube. Seems a bit disturbing that the far right appear to be promoting him.

"Subscribe to Pewdiepie" became a bit of a meme/running joke last year when Pewdiepie's 60-odd million subscribers were telling everyone else to subscribe to him so he wouldn't be overtaken by YouTube's second biggest channel. People would spam tweet it, or sign off videos with it.

He has had a few run ins that far-right people might notice - he's said the N word a few times on camera, he (supposedly unknowingly) recommended another channel run by a white supremacist and has been accused of making anti-semitic jokes.

Decent write up here -

https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/1813...-links-to-white-supremacist-alt-right-redpill


I think it's just a case of the right attaching themselves to a very famous figure who they think is secretly on their side, while in reality Pewdiepie is just a bit of a shock-jockey who occasionally oversteps the mark and has to apologise. He's not actively pushing far right material or really politically inclined at all as far as I'm aware, not that I'm a regular viewer.

 

[Ric]

He did have a brief antisemitism controversy, but as far as I'm aware, there's not much evidence of him have any sort of far right views or campaigning for the far right in any way. There's a campaign at the moment to get people to subscribe to Pewdiepie because there's an Indian channel owned by a huge media company that's about to overtake him as the number one Youtube channel, so 'subscribe to Pewdiepie' is something you hear on Youtube and the wider Internet every now and again. It's kind of seen as a David vs. Goliath thing, since it's a huge company against a person who just makes things by himself. It might be a reference to that, although I don't know why you'd say that while you're committing a terrorist attack, unless it was all one big online video to this evil prick.

"Subscribe to Pewdiepie" became a bit of a meme/running joke last year when Pewdiepie's 60-odd million subscribers were telling everyone else to subscribe to him so he wouldn't be overtaken by YouTube's second biggest channel. People would spam tweet it, or sign off videos with it.

He has had a few run ins that far-right people might notice - he's said the N word a few times on camera, he (supposedly unknowingly) recommended another channel run by a white supremacist and has been accused of making anti-semitic jokes.

Decent write up here -

https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/1813...-links-to-white-supremacist-alt-right-redpill


I think it's just a case of the right attaching themselves to a figure who they think is on their side, while Pewdiepie is really just a bit of a shock-jockey who occasionally oversteps the mark. He's not actively pushing far right material or really politically inclined at all as far as I'm aware, not that I'm a regular viewer.

Thanks for the replies, much appreciated.

 

[Indaparkside]

And for those all seeking terrorist equality earlier, ex anti terror boss on Sky has just said that it's time right wing extremist groups were catagorised the same as Islamic extremists, as currently they are not.

So my original post where I said I 'hoped' they were doing that with right wing extrenists here, WAS BANG FUCKING ON.

Less of the language please your going to have a thrombosis if you carry on:)

 

[Neville Kneville]

Less of the language please your going to have a thrombosis if you carry on:)

Language ?

 

[SWP's back]

Nobody said that though,did they? so stop talking bollocks and pretending to be outraged.

My point was,and still is......Politics have no place in a thread like this.

It's very clear that some lunatics would rather use such an atrocity to promote their leaning while claiming some sort of higher moral ground as a result.

Well luckily that’s not Ric’s position and the killer’s politics and reasoning for this cowardly acting of barbaric terrorism are actually fairly important.

Now if the site owner is ok with it, then your posts and haranguing of members that refer to that are obviously just those of a member wanting it not to be discussed, and not those of a mod, I take it.

Just as there is a huge problem with the rise of Islamist extremist groups and their acts of terror, there is a worrying rise on the other end of the scale like today and Brevik et al. If the general populace are not informed, educated and careful on the matter then we (the world, not you and I) could sleepwalk into a global race war if a tit for tat escalation of extreme terrorist atrocities continue.

I tend to think rational discussion of the matter to be more important than 3 pages of ‘RIP’ for people that will never see it. And how many times could the sentence “that’s horrendous, those poor people” be typed before the thread became pointless?

 

[Machiavelli]

i think you'll find a few hate preachers inthose places too, its religion that causes all this shite...

Hate preachers in all mosques?
What a shit thing to post at this time. People like you are fucking ignorant and help to perpetuate the unfriendly suspicions of each other which inevitably ends up with some idiot going on a ignorant hate filled attack killing innocent people.
I’m surprised comments like this are allowed in the aftermath of such a tragedy.

 

[Trojan1962]

There is an argument that people like this nutter who commit crimes of this nature should face the death penalty. Unfortunately there are a lot of people who disagree. I’m sure they would change their mind if one of their loved ones had been killed in this way.

 

[Magicpole]

The irony of this fuck being born in Australia and carrying out an attack in New Zealand whilst moaning about fucking immigrants.

I heard on CNN he’s claiming to be of Welsh/Scots/Irish stock.