• Serinus@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You’re going to equate a word with being a Nazi and rape? Using a racial slur is literally a small subset of being a Nazi.

    If you think calling people Jews was the big issue with the Nazis, well…

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        3 months ago

        Is there an avenue to getting off the hook? Apologizing and not doing it again? Or does he lose everything for the rest of his life?

        For context, I barely know who pewdiepie is. I just have to imagine that when public figures fuck up, maybe there’s a spectrum of available consequences other than “they must lose their job and never been spoken of again.”

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          He didn’t really apologize at all. He brushed it off, moved on, and then everyone pretended like it didn’t exist.

          His PR machine worked hard to clean up his mess.

          Imagine if JK Rowling’s got quiet then two years later, came back and everyone gaslight you into saying they just went through a phase.

          And yet, I’m the one getting heavily down voted.