Marxist streamer Hasan Piker has become a favorite personality among modern leftists, despite comments he’s made in the past about how America deserved the 9/11 terror attacks. He’ll now be headlining an event at UT sponsored by a Democrat student organization.
The UT Austin chapter of the University Democrats is already promoting the event, which occurs just weeks after the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
Conservatives at UT are now pointing to this event as an example of how mainstream Democrat radicalism has become. As Ben Williams with the UT chapter of Young Americans for Liberty pointed out: “You have Hasan Piker, and you have AOC. It used to be you just had Bernie Sanders and maybe a handful of other people, but now they’re making these people the faces of their party. I definitely think it’s very worrisome.”
Williams also pointed out how radical even the political figures that Piker looks up to are, saying: “Piker himself has said he admired Joseph Stalin. He said Mao Zedong was one of the great leaders in history who ‘changed the universe.’”
Mao Zedong is responsible for an estimated 45 million deaths during China’s communist revolution and so-called “Great Leap Forward.” Russian communist leader Joseph Stalin is estimated to be responsible for anywhere from 6 to 20 million deaths.
Williams says he’s challenged Piker to a debate while he’s at UT, but doesn’t expect Piker to take him up on it.