I’m glad Hasan Piker is fighting back – Spitfire News

Last week, CNN political commentator Scott Jennings posted an attack video against leftist streamer Hasan Piker, leveraging it as a way to undermine Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who campaigned with Piker in Michigan. Jennings’ video featured a series of clips taken from Piker’s popular Twitch livestreams, including one where Piker said “Go back to a better time, when lynchings were happening.”  Sounds pretty bad, right? Jennings certainly thought so. He urged “every Black voter” to listen and consider joining the Republican Party, to fight back against the racist rhetoric Piker was using. Here’s the issue: Piker wasn’t calling for lynchings against Black people. He was sarcastically mocking a clip featuring a Black Republican who was calling for the end of so-called “woke” district attorneys. This kind of smear tactic has become a relentless cycle for Piker and the progressive candidates he has supported, who have often gone on to great success (just look at Zohran Mamdani ). An opponent—from Republicans like Jennings to alt-right Twitch streamers to establishment Democrats—clips Piker out-of-context, recycles his old controversies (like saying America “deserved” 9/11, which he has long since apologized for), and makes bold insinuations about everything from his clothing choices to his
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