Hasan Piker

I don't even want people to go out and die in the process of trying to kill people.

I mean, it's all of the above.

I do mean it.

I think it's a rhetorical move because it frustrates a lot of people.

I've also said I'm a harm reduction voter, I'm a lesser evil voter, and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time because...

I'm looking at the situation as a paramilitary organization that has a political party as well, a Politburo as well, that is entirely comprised not as an alien force but of orphaned children that have had their parents killed by an apartheid state that has been dominating the lives of Palestinians for decades.

80 years at this point.

And they've done a genocide at this point as well.

But like it started off with the Nakba and has only evolved as technology has gotten better to become more heinous.

And Gaza is this hermetically sealed area that many people correctly point to as the world's largest open air prison before October 7th.

So my perspective on this has always been that I think that Hamas's tactics, which I oppose at times, right, or it's like internal governance issues, are secondary to this conversation because –

It's like placing a lot of emphasis on the Nat Turner rebellion or instead of talking about the much larger, much more consequential, much bigger harm that chattel slavery was to black people, to sell black people and to rape them and treat them as though they weren't human.

I think that's a far larger systemic force that is going to be –

is going to make the National Rebellion look inconsequential in comparison to the greater harm.

Same with, for example, the ANC.

The ANC had a militant wing called the MK.

I'm not going to try to even attempt to say it.

And, you know, Nelson Mandela went to prison and was imprisoned by the apartheid state.

And

MK and ANC did a lot of stuff to collaborators, the collaborators that have worked alongside the apartheid administration.