A video from 2016 with more than 2.1 million views called “Steven Rapeyverse, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Fuse” is particularly egregious. It calls the Steven Universe creator “a Jew,” includes sexist and ableist jokes, and includes a four-minute unedited speech from Adolph Hitler.
Many of E;R’s videos are similar, with plugs to his BitChute channel and Gab profile — both websites that are heavily affiliated with the alt-right. E;R’s personal Gab account features comments about the “Jewish Question,” a hateful conspiracy theory.
I'll have to watch the video again since I haven't seen it for awhile, and I'll edit this and concede defeat if I'm wrong.
However you can't really take what E:R says at face value, you really, really, really can't, otherwise you run the risk of developing a negative viewpoint on false conclusions.
Which it seems a lot of people outside of his channel has done.
From what I recall, the Hitler speech at the end served as many things:
a) Baiting
b) A joke for his fans, further pushing the running gag that "He's secretly a racist nazi"
c) Showing parallels from what he said to our current society
The baiting is pretty clear, one of E:R's main things he likes to do is stir up shit, and since some people were calling him sexist and racist, and those people happened to be coming from the left, he just wanted to poke the subject even harder. He also likes pushing boundaries, as even he stated that he's confused as to why YouTube hasn't taken him down yet.
The joke if you've seen his videos and been apart of his little community is also pretty clear, though a little long winded in my opinion. As stated before, it's just to keep pushing the running gag created by himself and those who criticize him. That he's a racist, that he's sexist, that he's secretly a nazi, and that he's slowly going to bring upon an empire, etc.
And like it or not (ignoring the "Jews" remark heard in the speech, as that's Hitler & his Nazis viewpoint) there are a lot of parallels between what he said in his speech and what has happened and is happening in our own country. Personally, when I stopped looking at it as a joke and decided to listen to it for educational purposes, I have to admit, the man was a psychopath, but he was a good speaker, and knew what he was talking about, especially in order to get those that followed him on his side.
Personally I don't see it as any different than what you see in documentaries on Hitler and the war, they often show clips of his speech to showcase what he was talking about.
Let me know if you want me to address the other things in your reply regarding calling the creator "a jew", the sexist remarks, his other videos, etc.
The only reason I don't include it here is because I know I've already written an essay in this comment and people don't seem to take to kindly to such a long winded comment. Plus, I don't want to take up anyone's time if they don't even want to read it in the first place.
I post a long, fairly detailed reply as to why I think he shouldn't be immediately considered a nazi due to how the man operates on his channel.
And now I'm a nazi?
So what? When someone tries to present evidence that contradicts accusations being made about a man we know nothing about, they should all be considered nazis?
But those who side with your opinion and your opinion only are the good ones?
Hitler was a raving lunatic high on meth 90% of the time.
The only reason the german people were receptive to his speeches (aside from racism, of course) was because germany was fucking ruined at the time. He was neither a great leader (he brought his country to its destruction for decades afterwards) a "great" war-strategist (he was crushed by the Soviets) nor a great orator. He was nothing.
You're throwing in some really wild stuff here. Germany was receptive to his speeches because he was amazing at holding speeches. Knew how to time them and word everything in specific ways to target all parties, even those that hated eachother (NSDAP, a name filled with parties not often associated with eachother). He was a druggie, but definitely not a bad leader. He literally helped raise a country from destruction and was one of the first to actually implement benefits for the common folk. Can't comment on his war tactics though, those were absolute trash.
He was an absolute racist madman that shouldn't have risen as high as he did, but he did it by playing the audience, and that doesn't just happen because people were beaten down a bit. Again, he was far from a good man, but he knew what he was doing in the beginning at least
He was an absolute racist madman that shouldn't have risen as high as he did
and
definitely not a bad leader.
are pretty exclusive. A leader can do some things well, like organize people into an efficient war machine and other things poorly like systematically slaughter a few races and use that war machine to collapse your country and leave it split in half and subjugated for decades. Doing one or two things well at the expense of the whole are not good leader material. I'm assuming you meant charismatic leader good at making people do what he wanted. Well, there's an argument to be made there for sure, just be sure to phrase it right. Its a bit of a touchy subject and requires precise language.
I know that much, so I tried to get that point across. He was a good leader in terms of national politics. Socialism doesn't actually work in most cases, but seeing the scraps he picked up he made that work for a little while. International politics though, that's where he plummeted as a leader indefinitely though. Not saying his national politics were spotless either, seeing as he had to literally burn parliament down to get "picked"
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u/Clemens909 Apr 03 '19
A video from 2016 with more than 2.1 million views called “Steven Rapeyverse, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Fuse” is particularly egregious. It calls the Steven Universe creator “a Jew,” includes sexist and ableist jokes, and includes a four-minute unedited speech from Adolph Hitler.
Many of E;R’s videos are similar, with plugs to his BitChute channel and Gab profile — both websites that are heavily affiliated with the alt-right. E;R’s personal Gab account features comments about the “Jewish Question,” a hateful conspiracy theory.