Hasan Piker, an influential streamer and political commentator, has recently criticized Cornell University for allegedly punishing Palestinian student activists more severely than students accused of committing sexual assault. Piker’s claims have added to public outrage over the Ivy League school following the lawsuit filed against it over the alleged 2024 gang rape in a campus fraternity house.
During his visit to Cornell University on Thursday, when he addressed an audience of around 450 people at Sage Chapel, Piker commented that students participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations have been given more severe punishments than students found guilty of committing sexual crimes. In particular, the controversial statements he made during his visit have spread rapidly online.
“You got more of a penalty at Cornell University if you participated in a pro-Palestine student encampment,” Piker has claimed. “I was talking to some of the leaders of the pro-Palestine encampments. One of them got expelled for a year. They got suspended for a year.”
“They got literally worse penalties in Cornell University than half of the rapists did, or than most of the rapists did,” Piker said. “It’s (expletive) nuts.”
The Epstein class is much more favourable to rapists than anti genocide protestors
Completely factually correct. Only one threatened their business interests.
Makes sense given the amount of infulence Israel has compared to women.
I refuse to accept that Hasan Piker is a relevant political figure. This guy is a twitch streamer. Why is he giving speeches at universities. Get me out of here
Netanyahu mentioned him in his speech.
he is relevant because he has views, there are news articles about him, the dnc attack him openly as he drags them to the left, and ultimately because you just made a post on a topic about him
Legacy media is paid for by the wealthy. And their reporting is curated to make sure the wealthy stay in power and make more money. Never has this been more clear to more people during my lifetime. Independent newspapers are largely dead. Streamers and content creators are the “unbiased” journalists of our age… Like it or not, they are the best we have. Either accept that, or continue to dance to the beat of the billionaire’s drum.
Is he wrong though?
Also should note that he’s got a degree in political science and communication. He also actively campaigns with progressive candidates and hosts interviews and speaks to the young working class demographic better than any Democrat.
Doesn’t matter. He’s a twitch streamer and I don’t like that he’s becoming relevant. I don’t care how much I agree with him
So you don’t like an effective political communicator because…? He uses a different platform than the mainstream outlets? Dude is an effective force for good policy, who gives a shit about where he gained a following. You don’t see politicians able to speak the truth as directly. We need people like Hasan in combination with better politicians. Literally don’t see the downside.
Primarily I am being facetious
(as a side note, I sort of reject that he’s an effective political commentator. I tried to watch his stream a few times but it was just dull. He spent most of his time just arguing with people in chat who were obviously trolling)
Just because it’s not effective on you doesn’t mean it isn’t effective.
Just because you’re miserable doesn’t mean you should spend your life arguing with strangers on the internet 😉
That’s literally the only reason to post.
If you’re gonna put out statements publicly, you run the risk of someone replying lol
They call him Dave Tortoise because all the hares already realize they’re arguing with strangers on the internet
You can continue to not like it, but many people have tried to make Piker irrelevant and his voice has only grown stronger because there are lot of us who agree with him.
It’s the political streamer superposition. :D
I don’t like it any more than anyone but it’s just the world we live in. There’s a bunch of big streamers promoting right wing ideas who are embraced by the Republican party, and Hasan is the only equivalent on the left with anything close to the same audience. If we don’t adapt to a changing media environment, they will. Or rather, they already have.
Personally, I think people should read books, but what are you going to do?
He’s a political analyst with a bachelors in political science and communication, and he has a twitch stream. Streaming is the easiest way to have your own show. I don’t think you should just lump people into a category because they decided to stream on Twitch, lots of different kinds of people stream on Twitch. “Just a Twitch streamer” is a thought-terminating cliche meant to make you discredit the opinions of anyone who goes live on the site.
That’s gamergate loser mentality. Reject the framing that Steve Bannon injected into you covertly.
I’ll let the smart/more invested lemmings do the real work here dismantling your post. I just want to point out that anyone, LITERALLY ANYONE, can become a “relevant political figure” if their voice/message resonates with enough people. You don’t have to be a career bureaucrat or a billionaire or whatever else, you just have to have enough votes
So the delivery vehicle matters more than the content? Would you eat a shit sandwich delivered in a limo?
Don’t make lazy arguments, it makes you sound like a stupid bot. Pay attention to the words and actions of a person not the color suit he wears or type of car he drives.
I refuse to believe that a failed business man, reality TV host and rapist would ever have any relevance. Oh wait …
I’m not a Hasan watcher anymore but he at least has a degree in PoliSci from Rutgers and was an TYT commentator for a while as well. Better than some boring hack from the US mainstream news.
Because he’s a political commentator who’s platform is twitch
If this guy influences a lot of people’s thinking, he is a political figure, whether you like him or not. Being a streamer does not diminish that fact, specially since nowadays a lot of people engage in this kind of platform.
chomsky described went on and on for decades about how media personalities that benefit the united states are artificially elevated and piker seems to be the next one in line like charlie kirk once was.
Was that before or after Chomsky was making hundreds of thousands of dollars from someone named Jeffrey Epstien.
Do you have any evidence that Hasan is being artificially elevated? Financial ties with billionaires, anything like that (which we absolutely had with Kirk)?
It seems to me like Hasan’s audience is organic. Now, you could certainly argue that certain points get watered down, that he has an incentive to tell people what they want to hear in order to grow his audience. But if you’re claiming that he’s being propped up by George Soros or somebody, that probably calls for something more substantial than speculation.
history has proven that anyone who punches left – as piker does – is a compatible leftist at best and only a fool would presume that history won’t repeat because he’s your guy.
besides, chomsky’s work speaks for itself.
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He’s not my guy.
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Accusations should be backed by evidence, or they’re meaningless.
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History has not proven that anyone who punches left is artificially promoted. Some people who punch left are, not all.
This is no different then all the libs who claim that we’re being paid off or promoted by foreign powers. I’m sure you could find examples of that sort of thing in history. Are those examples enough to extrapolate from, even if there’s no actual evidence beyond that?
Not everyone who disagrees with you is a plant. Don’t overplay your hand.
compatible leftists aren’t plants and the difference between me and the libs is that shoulders of the giants i stand on have been proven right by history – repeatedly.
No, you have not.
I’ve been trying to gently correct you back into a grounded criticism, like that he waters down his message to attract a larger audience. If you want to keep doubling down and insisting on this nonsense, then you’re just a conspiracy theorist. Regardless, it’s better that I call you out on it now than for you to make a fool of yourself in front of people who aren’t already leftists.
i already know i’m a fool, so you’re too late. lol
besides, piecemeal criticisms of piker’s actions are just slow walking to the final conclusion that history – as well people smarter than you and i – already says will happen.
also: i have no interest in proselytizing my beliefs to anyone – making any conspiracy theorist accusation silly.
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You think Piker’s messaging benefits the United States?
100% he’s “vote blue no matter who” now https://youtu.be/St7ztMwqK5Q
lol bad empanada is a really bad stain on the internet tbh, he’s all bark and no bite. People act like you have to take him seriously then he’s out there quoting victims of communism and saying slurs written by Nazis. It’s one thing if he was like, “my bad”, but he’s way more concerned with drama slop and being an edgelord than admitting he was wrong and being racist. It’s all fun and games til you gotta come back down from your YT views.
Like, take his criticism of US and liberals for example; very poignant and truthful, necessary even. But then he goes and like, makes an edgy video game, and yall act like he can do no wrong. And don’t get me wrong. Even what he says about Judaism/zionism is true, so don’t tell me I’m just a dumb, offended American who thinks Jews are untouchable or whatever.
I’m not “offended” by what he says cuz I’m American. I just don’t listen to edgelords, you’re really telling me making a cool “you get to be a liberation army” video game is like, cool and necessary? And arguing tooth and nail that Americans just care about feelings? sometimes I really don’t get it.
FD had a really good point in his video about him, where BE treated him with complete disrespect, like he was above both people he was speaking to that were supposed to be his peers. Funny enough, both were trying to get him to recognize a point that BE had made before in other videos, before he became more focused on slop content. The childishness of the guy really sours any truthful thing he says.
FD got utterly demolished by BE it wasn’t even funny. And then he copied all BE’s arguments and pretended he always had them. I’m quite amazed anyone came away from that thinking good about FD. And that after IDF signifier ignored genocide for 2 years straight.
And that after FD signifier ignored genocide for 2 years straight.
lol. No he didn’t. This is what I mean, his fanbase goes rabbid against people over drama slop. You care about the debate not the politics of the people who are creating. FD challenged people on Platners military service more than any other leftist I’ve seen, before libs came around. I appreciated that more than anything BE has ever done.
BE used a Nazi slur against a black dude, and then tried to tell us that FD was actually saying Zionist was the slur. We can all see right past that smarmy edgelord shit dude.
Less YouTube and more going out into the world and talking to people, now!
Some people cannot learn and you are one of them. On the blocklist you go.
You’re going to link to that transphobe and want me to take you seriously? Gtfo
it doesn’t matter what i think – history has plenty of examples of compatible leftists like piker and they all lead to the same results: nowhere.
You compared him to Charlie Kirk - decidedly not a “compatible leftist”.
Kirk is an example of an artificially elevated voice not a compatible leftist.
He’s not a media personality that is being artificially elevated to benefit the United States though. Both the Republicans and the establishment Dems are fighting tooth and nail for people to stop listening to him. He’s prevailing because he’s not being artificially elevated - he’s being elevated by those that agree with his points against the US.
You’re advocating for genocide but keep pretending you have a moral highground.
Zohran Kwame Mamadani.
Chomsky was describing normal media outlets who editorialised personalities to elevate.
This does not apply here.
Social media has supplanted legacy media – it applies
Twitch isn’t social media. Nor do they have editorial control.
Which was the point. So once again. It does not apply
if you think Bezos doesn’t have full control of what is put on their platform, you’re delusional.
If he was really a threat, they’d make up some bullshit and ban him. They do it all the time to smaller streamers.
Full control? No, not really. Streamers and the platforms are well aware of the contentious nature of their relationship.
Could Bezos just ban Piker. Yeah I’ve no illusions he could.
But would he? Nah I don’t think so.
But we were talking about the artificial elevation of certain voices. If they were able to do so, we would not be having this discussion, like wouldn’t be here.
If he was really a threat, they’d make up some bullshit and ban him.
Twitch literally banned Piker for saying “cracker” before.
lol you think Bezos cares or even knows what the top streamers are saying. He doesn’t. I bet he barely understands what twitch is.
dangerously naive to assume the enemy is a fool, especially when there’s been no indication as such. I’m sure he understands what Twitch is and how it slots into the Amazon media empire.
Same, feels like I’m taking crazy pills. He may be right, but not two months ago he was “that twitch guy zapping his dog”, and now reddit is full of his opinions and he’s a “progressive political commentator” with threads chock full of bots agreeing with him. I’d swear he’s being manufactured.
“that twitch guy zapping his dog”,
Disinformation campaign through and through. That’s exactly why they pushed that lie - to make people like you who agree with Piker’s points question him and move away from those ideas.
I don’t have a horse in this race but to me it looks like he climbed in views exactly because of that controversy, true or not. Can’t believe I’m arguing over psyops with a guy that posts in a single day as much as I ( or your avg lemming ) manage to post im a whole goddamn year.
I’m not a guy, but ok.
God forbid I contribute to Lemmy and try to make it more interesting and involved for the users here.
Hasan didn’t climb in views because of that controversy, he’s been pulling 15-30k viewers at any given moment for like 6 years now. You had just never watched before and that was the entire point of that Dan Saltman manufactured campaign: to get you to hear his name in a negative light before you could discover him on your own.
