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This is a bit of a weird point to make, so don't take it too seriously, but I think Ebara is giving Jerry far too much credit here, he's not as popular has he seems to think he is. He's only prevalent in brony circles and lolcow circles, and even then, not so much. Sure, his Legend of Korra video surpassed 1mil (good on him, by the way, that show was terrible), but one 1mil hit on an inherently non-political topic does not a political figure make.
If someone is gonna default to "people are slandering her because she speaks out against pedophiles!", that doesn't inherently make him "vocally political youtuber" either, that just makes him a dramawhore, since most of the accusations he's levied (with the exception of derpibooru) have been false and misdirected, particularly at the people who have said mean things about him for a long time, even preceding the Toonkritic event. He attacked and slandered them for a personal vendetta instead of putting the actual pedophiles in the community (Toon notwithstanding because everyone's already called him out) on blast. It's not even that hard to see who does lewd fanart of underage MLP characters, and people who support it. Derpibooru has a tag system that you can easily use to find these people. Jerry doesn't make use of it because all he cares about is labeling people who say mean things about him as "stalkers" and Nazis after goading them for responses.
Who's sending who child porn in a throwaway email, anyway? Are they talking about stockholm or that google drive pack?
Religious semantics are touchy, sure, but Jerry's pretty on the nose here. God in the old testament was a genocidal freak. I don't know what instance he's referencing with "millions of jews" being slaughtered because they were "apprehensive about going near giants".
Unless he's referring to Goliath, in which case, they were in a war with the Philistines (which explains the "slaughtering" of "millions of jews") and who the fuck wouldn't feel apprehensive about fighting a giant? It's like saying General A was apprehensive of sending his bow and arrow-armed soldiers to battle General B's forces, who had machine guns, holed up in a fortress.
He could have mentioned Sodom and Gomorrah or Noah's Ark (stories that are well known and he didn't have to be purposely vague about) and his argument could have had the same effect. Hell, go a step further and bring up the problem of evil, maybe then I'll take his religious arguments seriously beyond "yeah, sure, he's right for once"
Though, telling someone of a religious group that their main religious figure is actually a genocidal freak (in this case, the Jews about God) is still technically kinda anti-semitism. Just, not Hitler anti-semitism (since the concept isn't exclusive to and didn't originate with him, though Jerry and his fans might believe it is), but anti-semitism no less. I'm not gonna take it and run with it and call Jerry out for being anti-semitic, because loads of people criticize religion and throwing labels at them just for doing so is fucking stupid, so whatever.
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