Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha said left-wing streamer Hasan Piker is a bad pick for the Democratic Party, after Piker spoke at Yale University on Tuesday.
“I’m pretty sure he’s the enemy, considering that this is the same guy who was rooting for the violent fall of this country,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox & Friends First on Thursday.
Piker spoke to the Yale Political Union, the university’s debate society, on Tuesday.
“It’s an interesting resolution, ‘End the U.S. Empire,’ because how do you end something that’s already in the process of dying? Because that’s the situation with the American empire as it stands today,” Piker said, addressing Yale University’s Political Union.
Concha criticized Democrats who have appeared on Piker’s podcast Fear&. He argued that Piker’s alignment with the Democratic Party could be a problem.
“If Democrats want to make Hasan Piker its next team mascot, in an effort to capture more anti-American, pro-antisemitic voters, roll the dice and take your chances, guys, but this is not somebody they should want to be aligned with,” Concha said.
Piker’s words have been deemed highly controversial by some lawmakers. Ahead of Piker’s appearance at Yale, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) posted on X, “This is WILD. I spoke at the Yale Political Union last year on why we need to buy made-in-America products. Now, they are hosting a guy who said I should be killed.”
Concha said, “This is the same guy who said America deserved 9/11, the same guy who called Jews inbreds.”
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) addressed a letter to Congress on Oct. 29, 2024, raising concerns of antisemitism by Piker and his presence on Twitch.
The letter reads, “Mr. Piker has demonized Orthodox Jews as ‘inbred’.”
“Here is Mr. Piker in his own words: ‘America deserved 9/11.’ The 3,000 Americans incinerated or otherwise murdered in the Twin Towers; the falling men and women plummeting to their deaths from 110-story skyscrapers; according to Mr. Piker, all of them had it coming. They deserved it,” Torres said.
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Piker briefly addressed his past 9/11 comments on Pod Save America, where he said they were “taken out of context.”
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy addressed concerns about how the platform addresses hate in a blog post on Nov. 1, 2024.
“Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen members of the community voice concerns about how we handle potentially harmful content. There is no place on Twitch for racism, hatred, or harassment of any kind, including antisemitism and Islamophobia,” Clancy said in a statement.