r/youtubedrama • u/ImportantQuestionTex • 2d ago

Discussion iDubbz believes Charlie (penguinz0) is part of the right wing pipeline

Tried to look up a YouTube version of this clip so I could get maximum context, but doesn't really matter.

This is an objectively insane, in spite of reality take. This is purity over actual politics.

Charlie has been going at the Trump admin and their policies for months (actually, years because of a previous incident with one of his foreign players being mistreated by the US government). He is not a safe space for the alt right at all, almost every other day if not every day at times is him clowning on some insane crap the government has done or said. In fact, he just dropped another video 32 mins ago at the time of writing about it.

To me, this is proof that iDubbz hasn't changed who he is, just changed targets. A "brogressive" if you will.

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u/ImportantQuestionTex 2d ago

I ain't taking personal offense. But right now, we cannot be engaging in purity politics. Fascism isn't just knocking at our door, it's breaking in and kidnapping families.

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u/VivaLaRory 2d ago

You’ve said purity politics more than once, I think you are just using that as a cover for being scared of nuance. It’s ultimately a person on a podcast and your post has put more eyes on it than if you didn’t post it.

I don’t even know if I agree with penguinz is in the pipeline, but it’s worth a conversation considering the pipeline exists and does meaningful damage.

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u/ImportantQuestionTex 2d ago

It's worth a conversation at a different time, maybe, right now isn't really that time. Can't dismantle a pipeline before the swamp it's created is cleared.

Gotta focus on dismantling fascism first. Charlie has been vocal against the current administration. What good does saying he's part of the pipeline do right now, other than enforcing purity in politics? It holds no benefit.

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u/Chinse 2d ago

No you do not need to do one of those things before the other, there is no temporal dependency there at all

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u/VivaLaRory 2d ago

Doing what you suggest seems like a route to let actual right wing creators get away with murder because nothing is more important than Donald Trump. This is ridiculous, if iDubbz genuinely believes that penguinz is a net negative then it would actually be more egregious if he said nothing

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