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![[image] Hasan Piker Says Cornell Punished Pro-Palestine Encampment Leaders More Harshly Than “Most of the R*pists” in Scathing Livestream Before Campus Speech](https://europe.pub/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Flo%2Fmysterio%2Fapi%2Fdc28331ead0f4e71ff118159cb85d1c4c80ecc7888d3a8a5d21ed74a7e04e65c%2Flightyear_networkapi%2Fresizefill_w1200%253Bquality_80%253Bformat_jpg%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fmedia.zenfs.com%252Fen%252Fwhere_is_the_buzz_814%252F973b142ff1781404035fad1406f3bf48.jpg)
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."
Hasan Piker Says Cornell Punished Pro-Palestine Encampment Leaders More Harshly Than “Most of the R*pists” in Scathing Livestream Before Campus Speech
He is 100% correct.
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
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
It's the political streamer superposition. :D
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.
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.
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.
Chomsky was describing normal media outlets who editorialised personalities to elevate.
This does not apply here.
Social media has supplanted legacy media -- it applies
You think Piker's messaging benefits the United States?
100% he's "vote blue no matter who" now https://youtu.be/St7ztMwqK5Q
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.
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.
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.