Agreed completely. I've gotten to blocking the stans on sight, makes threads a lot more readable.
You're really putting Fantano on level with Pedwiepie, and blocking people for taking a less than black and white stance on him?
Wow.
Considering that this was my stance on the Pewdiepie situation in a Facebook group I'm in, based on my experience as a black man, which mirrors what I said on this site:
"And one thing I can tell you is that these white boys just don't care about your feelings or care to step out of their tower of privilege to relate to how you feel about the constant slinging of slurs, beyond getting offended/flabbergasted that you'd be bothered by it in the first place.
Rather than the onus being on them to abstain from using loaded terminology such as "nigger", it's apparently on us to "stop letting the world have power" or to except their explanations as to why it's "not a big deal", especially when they have people like (redacted name of black friend I have from the group who practices this sort of "humor")to point to as back up.
The only thing they care about is breaking cultural taboos and finding new and extreme was to express their anger, it's as natural as breathing to them because it's what they were brought up around, and any reactions to their taboo breaking is "whining" while their tantrums in reaction to "SJW's" is the "nobel fight".
Casual racism isn't a thing on their register, they don't understand how unwelcome it makes black youth feel in any and all spaces, how it limits them from expiring interests/new hobbies, how it becomes ingrained in their minds, how to creates meekness and makes black youth feel confused and docile, unsure of how to react, unsure of who's their friend, unsure of how/whether they should even speak out.
He'll be unscathed from this, don't count on serious backlash, only minimizing."
It seems kind of absurd to act as though defending a music YouTuber is the end all be all of political/social issues discourse.