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Reddit is currently very mad at Hasan Piker because he seems to be abusing his dog
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I find it strange this story seems to be getting so much traction in the media. I first saw it on a Forbes article, and now PETA has made a statement.
Idk if it was a shock collar, vibration collar, or if the dog got a claw stuck or whatever. In the clip, he does seem over-agitated in the moment, and possibly too strict/controlling/micromanaging of his dog (unless he just recently gave the dog a command to stay there before the clip started). But, that's not really strong evidence of a pattern of animal abuse. Neither is having a collar too tight one time.
Some people think shock collars/e-collars are valid training tools. I don't, but it seems strange the media is giving so much attention to a couple of clips showing possible questionable dog training/care practices of a Twitch streamer.
If there’s one way to get me to question a side, is by getting PETA on your side.
My theory is that once it got in the news, the right picked it up and are milking it for all it’s worth to bad mouth the left?
Honestly, that part is almost certainly because he's pro-Palestinian, I think.
Oh well dude. This still looks horrible to me. I might tune into his stream at some completely random time, just to look into it and see what kinds of stuff he does when it's not being cherry picked to be the most easy-to-misconstrue-as-horrible things he's ever done in a full career of full time streaming, but this is honestly pretty cut and dried to me, and the impossible or self-contradictory things that his fans have been saying to try to justify it are not helping me to see it any different.
So you do understand how and why the hard right streamers and stans have a vested interest in killing his character?
Maybe that was "abuse", but clearly overblown when you see hardrighters advocating violence on leftists. Hell you even see fascist president deploying the military to oppress their political opponents...
I don't see the same mob mentality pushing back on them, or pushing back to a litteral elected official boasting about shooting their dog
It's a sign of how far we've fallen that no one else called you out on this. Abuse is not acceptable, there is no "but".
Yes it's not acceptable, if it's proven true (which is a debate in of itself). Of all the things to get outraged for, this ranks low in my priorities though.