Hasan Piker

We don't do that when the historic forces have played itself out and we look back at it.

And I don't see a reason not to apply that same interpretation because I see

I see the civilians on both sides as human beings worthy of dignity.

And I think a lot of people don't realize that they do have a little bit of an implicit bias where we've been trained as Americans living here during the global war on terror to collateralize one side and to see the other side as like a European style country that's under attack.

So we have the capacity to see the violence that Israelis are subjected to as like real human beings, maybe even your neighbor dying in the hands of scary brown people, as opposed to Palestinians that die, entire city blocks reduced to rubble, is something that we've seen so many times on the TV, whether it be the Syrian civil war, whether it be Iraq, Afghanistan.

So we automatically collateralize the lives of those Palestinians.

So that's

Look, here's the thing.

I've been around protest movements my whole professional media career for a very long time.

I've been doing this for a decade plus.

There's going to be cringe people.

There's going to be passionate people that say unhinged things that I totally disagree with.

At the end of the day, this is exactly what happened with Black Lives Matter as well, where there'd be someone that says, yeah, fry them like bacon, and then the media would laser in on that to disparage the entire movement.

So I have a policy of looking at what

the actual movement represents, do I identify with those values?

Do I agree with them?

Rather than key offenders that have said something that I consider to be heinous as well, right?

And I don't spend a lot of time or put a lot of emphasis on people like that because I've been to these campuses, I've been to these encampments,

And they were some of the best organized movements I have ever seen.

They had messaging discipline.