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https://gamerant.com/jontron-racism-controversy-breakdown/
Maybe now, almost 10 years later, now that Nazism and Facism just are commonplace ideologies, these are 'pretty generic right wing opinions'.
But uh, no, this is JonTron defending White Replacement Theory, ie, explicitly endorsing a racist ethnostate.
Its about as plainly and directly racist as you can be without just repeatedly shouting 'the gamer word'.
Thats a bit more than just having a poorly informed take on crime statistics.
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It is also insanely hypocritical as he is a 2nd Gen immigrant of Hungarian and Iranian (1st Gen Immigrant) parents.
He of course identifies as white the same way that Ted Cruz does:
He is white-passing, but he knows he wouldn't actually pass any white racist's 'one drop' rule if they knew anything about his actual lineage, so he massively overcompensates by hating non white-passing people.