#collargate

my laptop’s wallpaper cycles between a million photos in my camera roll, and a pic of hasan came on. crush goes “ew why do you like THAT guy? he shocks his dog” and then my 2 friends (known them for maybe a decade) go “yeah i heard about that! he’s also a terrorism supporter right?” and i spent the entire rest of our lunch outing trying my best to explain that they were misled. they used all the typical points like “she’s not allowed to leave!” and “why is the collar so bulky?” which are easy to disprove if THEY ACTUALLY LISTEN TO YOU

asked them all how many minutes of hasan/kaya footage they’ve watched in total, and they said “maybe 5?” and i was like “i literally have a doctorate in kayaology. i love this dog more than the streamer almost. i have watched this stream/vods for hundreds of hours” and they weren’t really being receptive

i DID successfully correct them about “america deserved 9/11” and the concept of blowback, so it wasn’t a total loss

Hasan Piker apologists are going full blast on wikipedia, saying that youtube videos cannot be used as evidence, and that all sources deemed insufficiently left wing must be discared. Presumably they would have allowed Pravda, but it might not have been Leftist enough. Note that Hasan has admitted that the collar controvery is real and that he now says he fears for his life over it. But the wiki editors are claiming that there is no evidence, there never was any evidence, that only a Nazi would see there was evidence ... You can claim that Hasan's dog has never worn a collar, but to erase the merest mention of the controversy over it is absolutely totalitarian and stalinist.