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Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics (www.usermag.co)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hasan Piker, the biggest progressive political streamer in America, was detained by Customs and Border Protection for hours of questioning upon returning to the U.S. from a trip to France this weekend. Piker posted about the incident on X and later talked about it on stream.

He was detained in Chiago and questioned for two hours about protected journalistic activities like who he’s interviewed and his political beliefs. He was asked whether or not he’d interviewed Hamas, Houthis, or Hezbollah members. He was questioned about his opinions on Trump and Israel and asked about his history of bans on Twitch. His phone and laptop were not confiscated.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whataboutism, and excusing inexcusable actions because of "retaliation".

I haven't once condoned anything the US military did. Doesn't mean people deserved to die.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It also didn't mean that those who were wronged by the American state should have remained silent and peaceful in front of mass killings perpetrated by all kind of administrations leading the American government. Especially when no legal recourse was given to them.

Were you an Arab who lost his entire family under American bombardments because of the oil stored in your nation soil wouldn't you had wanted some kind of retaliation against that nation? Can you empathize at all?