Pewdiepie racism

Merlin5 · 14 Feb 2017 at 22:39

Disney have stopped collaboration with Pewdiepie for anti semitic videos.

iplayer, article at 26:40 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08dwff1/bbc-news-at-ten-14022017

https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney...pewdiepie-after-anti-semitic-posts-1487034533

Dis86 · 14 Feb 2017 at 22:40

Definition of irony.

diamount · 14 Feb 2017 at 22:50

Dis86 said:
Definition of irony.

Do clarify? Disney have been diversity mad for yonks and if you're about to point out their cartoons from over 50 years ago - don't, it's like the whole white-guilt argument because our ancestors indulged in slavery.

Uther · 14 Feb 2017 at 22:51

Dis86 said:
Definition of irony.

Shows how easy it is to screw things up with social media these days though...

Dis86 · 14 Feb 2017 at 22:53

diamount said:
Do clarify? Disney have been diversity mad - if you're about to point out their cartoons from over 50 years ago - don't, it's like the whole white-guilt argument because our ancestors indulged in slavery.

Or the fact that Walt Disney, the founder, the man whom after the company is named, the man whose signature is shown on every single film they make was an anti semite?

Gerard · 14 Feb 2017 at 22:53

Could he look any more retarded in that little intro of his..

Mynight · 14 Feb 2017 at 22:57

I love how they've blurred the sign as though words are worse when written than spoken.

Woden · 14 Feb 2017 at 22:59

Dis86 said:
Or the fact that Walt Disney, the founder, the man whom after the company is named, the man whose signature is shown on every single film they make was an out and out anti semite?

Except he wasn't.

Gerard · 14 Feb 2017 at 22:59

Jewdiepie

Jew-die

pie

:eek:

diamount · 14 Feb 2017 at 22:59

Dis86 said:
Or the fact that Walt Disney, the founder, the man whom after the company is named, the man whose signature is shown on every single film they make was an out and out anti smite?

Hard not to when the company is called the 'The Walt Disney Company'. As I said, it's a silly argument - they are the most PC mad companies going now. But plenty of renowned figures were anti-semetic, racist and partook in activities which are left out in the history books.

Hotwired · 14 Feb 2017 at 23:02

How awkward, losing shovels of free ad cash by being too edgy with the clowning about.

diamount · 14 Feb 2017 at 23:04

Hotwired said:
How awkward, losing shovels of free ad cash by being too edgy with the clowning about.

He runs his own network, and this time nobody will be taking a cut (except Google) so if anything he'll be better off.

Dis86 · 14 Feb 2017 at 23:04

Woden said:
Except he wasn't.

Then pray tell how the horrendous depiction of a number of characters produced whilst he was in charge were allowed.

Wolf in the 3 little pigs being the most obvious.

StriderX · 14 Feb 2017 at 23:06

As if he cares... he's made so much money at this point, he could say the most disparaging crap and still live a nice life.

Dis86 · 14 Feb 2017 at 23:06

diamount said:
Hard not to when the company is called the 'The Walt Disney Company'. As I said, it's a silly argument - they are the most PC mad companies going now. But plenty of renowned figures were anti-semetic, racist and partook in activities which are left out in the history books.

Company names and logos can change probably too late by now though!

Gerard · 14 Feb 2017 at 23:11

StriderX said:
As if he cares... he's made so much money at this point, he could say the most disparaging crap and still live a nice life.

Well he's made a statement about it so obviously he does care to some extent.

StriderX · 14 Feb 2017 at 23:11

Also it's pretty clear he's been facetious with this, a one-up on his "Youtube being racist against white people policy for advertising and suggesting channels for people to watch" video, that he would get the obvious sneers from the usual suspects.

This just cements that he really doesnt like what's occured with the entertainment industry and is frankly making although slightly dumb, but still insightful remarks on an industry gone mad with identity politics (extremely ironic for Disney, i must say).

diamount · 14 Feb 2017 at 23:12

Dis86 said:
Company names and logos can change.

I'm going to assume 95% of Disney's consumers don't even know who founded the company.

Merlin5 · 14 Feb 2017 at 23:22

StriderX said:
This just cements that he really doesnt like what's occured with the entertainment industry

You mean like people earning millions of dollars by making dumb videos of themselves playing computer games. Yeah, my heart bleeds for him.

Gerard · 14 Feb 2017 at 23:42

Merlin5 said:
You mean like people earning millions of dollars by making dumb videos of themselves playing computer games. Yeah, my heart bleeds for him.

Makes you wonder how that even works, some moron puts on a semi retarded voice, wiggles his fingers for no apparent reason then plays a game to earn millions.