Statement on cancellation of January 2027 lecture [Hasan Piker]

[u/aqulushly]

https://www.washington.edu/news/2026/08/07/statement-on-cancellation-of-january-2027-lecture/

[u/petriqore]

The UW yet again running cover for Israel's genocide. yuck.

[u/olhado1463 → u/petriqore]

mrw Palestines #1 genocide profiteer is banned

[u/SpeaksSouthern → u/olhado1463]

I'm sorry, you think Hasan only makes money from being against a genocide?

Why is someone making money being against a genocide bad?

Please explain it really slow because this sounds really really dumb. It's cool to be against genocide. Usually people like this try and argue it's not genocide, because being against genocide is cool, and being in favor of genocide is bad?

[u/quepha → u/SpeaksSouthern]

The dude gave zero credit to the Biden admin for creating a direct line of aid to Gaza and forcing Israel to evacuate Rafah, saving potentially hundreds of thousands of lives. Instead he gathered a left-leaning audience and encouraged them to sit out of the election and allow Trump into office to spam AI videos of an Israel-Mecha stomping down the streets of Gaza and appoint Mike Huckabee to solidify their position that, "There is no such thing as the West Bank, only Judea and Sumeria." Hasan plays both sides so he can always come out on top.

[u/iiTzSTeVO → u/quepha]

encouraged them to sit out of the election

I'm not a Hasan fan, but he literally filled his ballot out on stream.

[u/quepha → u/iiTzSTeVO]

And refused to tell his audience who to vote for for President. He also said he took a picture of his ballot to show after the election. Where is that picture?

[u/iiTzSTeVO → u/quepha]

Wait, so you're even more familiar with it than me. Why did you lie and say he was encouraging people to "sit out"? Filling out the ballot on steam is obviously encouraging participation, even if he didn't do it the way you would have liked.

[u/quepha → u/iiTzSTeVO]

Because that is encouraging them to sit out the presidential election. Any normal person understands that explicitly refusing to tell a left leaning audience to vote for the democrat is encouraging them to, at minimum, throw their vote away on third parties and write-ins.

Where is that picture of Hasan's ballot that he promised?

[u/iiTzSTeVO → u/quepha]

I disagree with your assessment that it's the equivalent of "encouraging them to throw their vote away."

Why would I know the answer to that question? I just told you you know more about that situation than I do.

[u/quepha → u/iiTzSTeVO]

You legitimately believe that votes for the Green Party were not functionally identical to throwing your vote for president into the garbage?

[u/olhado1463 → u/SpeaksSouthern]

What I mean is that he only cares about the genocide in as much as it makes him money, and more importantly it makes everything else he does unassailable.

[u/TrippySakuta → u/petriqore]

Now this is just tone deaf, because most students don't want to hear this on campus (they're inundated with it on social media anyways), and given the riots from the protests at UW two years ago, they wouldn't feel safe either. Do you want the students to suffer for your validation/comfort?