Red Letter Media Personality Seemingly Endorses "Alt-Right" Star Wars Conspiracy Theory?
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I imagine RLM are pretty pissed at Jack right now. They’ve done a relatively good job staying apolitical throughout one of the most politically charged periods in American history, and I think their fans (myself included) have come to view the channel as a precious respite from the culture war. Jack the idiot just tainted that respite. Even if he walks this shit back, it will be impossible for me to think of him as anything but another leftist retard going forward.
Here’s hoping this is an aberration and not a trend for RLM going forward.
RLM as a group has always come off to me as rather "midwest progressive". There's been jokes at Trump's expense and hints that they really didn't like him, plus they defended Rey as not being a Mary Sue in TFA.
But at the same time they don't seem to be afraid to make jokes that aren't so politically correct, and they've called out the studios for using feminism and social justice as a marketing ploy in the past, including with Star Wars.
It comes across as ignorant of the big picture, but not "The Emperor's New Clothes" level of denying reality like many progressives do, and is therefore much easier to dismiss. This is not.
I’m pretty sure they’re from Milwaukee so that sounds about right.
I definitely explicitly remember Mike making a Sensitive Joss Whedon reference directly to the camera in one of their opening bits for... I want to say a Half in the Bag episode, and then showing some tweet of his, or something. They do at least give some flack back to the usual suspects every now and again, which is certainly better than most big-name youtube brands anymore.
Mike is usually the guy making those jokes. I suspect he just can't stand bullshit.