Marxist streamer Hasan Piker has become a favorite personality among modern leftists, despite comments he\u2019s made in the past about how America deserved the 9\/11 terror attacks. He\u2019ll now be headlining an event at UT sponsored by a Democrat student organization.<\/p>\n
The UT Austin chapter of the University Democrats is already promoting the event, which occurs just weeks after the 25th anniversary of 9\/11.<\/p>\n
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: \u201cYou 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\u2019re making these people the faces of their party. I definitely think it\u2019s very worrisome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams also pointed out how radical even the political figures that Piker looks up to are, saying: \u201cPiker himself has said he admired Joseph Stalin. He said Mao Zedong was one of the great leaders in history who \u2018changed the universe.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Mao Zedong is responsible for an estimated<\/a> 45 million deaths during China\u2019s communist revolution and so-called \u201cGreat Leap Forward.\u201d Russian communist leader Joseph Stalin is estimated<\/a> to be responsible for anywhere from 6 to 20 million deaths.<\/p>\n Williams says he\u2019s challenged Piker to a debate while he\u2019s at UT, but doesn\u2019t expect Piker to take him up on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marxist streamer Hasan Piker has become a favorite personality among modern leftists, despite comments he\u2019s made in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,56,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-430497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-houston","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}