• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    The dude who draws the guy with a tie pointed upwards? That’s literally all I know regarding him. I see a ton of people happy that he’s dead but absolutely no idea why. Even the couple of links here don’t shed any light on the details of ‘why’.

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      To sum it up, he was. Racist, sexist, xenophobic, hateful, a liar, manipulator, and apologist for some of the worse people of the last few decades

      Dude was an absolute piece of shit.

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      3 hours ago

      Not trying to defend him, but there are a lot of nerdy people that can relate to the the character he was drawing for the last 30 years.

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      12 hours ago

      He went on an unhinged racist rant about Black Lives Matter in 2023, ending with something along the lines of “white people get as far away from black people as possible.” More details on his Wiki page but that’s the high level.

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      12 hours ago

      He didn’t ‘do’ anything. He’s just another artist/entertainer who doubled down on magatry despite their career being built by a diversity of loyal fans. Just another famous idiot finding out after fucking around.

      Wayne Gretzky is still considered the greatest hockey player of all time… but as far as most Canadians are concerned his home ice is in Mara Lago now.

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        He didn’t ‘do’ anything.

        untrue. he spread and normalized hate speech and misinformation. he damaged lives with his platform and negligence. I would even go as far to say his anti-vaccine rhetoric killed at least one person, probably more.

        he labeled black Americans as a hate group which I’m certain normalized the racism in certain groups and only served to take away more opportunities away from POC.

        he also questioned the amount of deaths during the Holocaust, attempting to minimize the impact of the deaths.

        dude was more than a piece of shit. now he’s a slowly rotting corpse.

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          Agreed. That’s why I put “scare quotes” around the word “do” to imply that he actually did do something. I wasn’t defending them I was responding specifically to the comment above.

          Even the couple of links here don’t shed any light on the details of ‘why’.

          The why is simply that and entertain disrespecting the fans that supported their success is a recipe for failure.