Hasan Piker is a moron, but don’t cancel him — criticize him!  

Remember when Democrats wanted to cancel Joe Rogan? Now Hasan Piker, a much more insufferable commentator, is in the hot seat, with various personalities arguing about whether it’s OK to appear alongside him.  

This is, to be clear, a very stupid controversy with a very obvious answer: You should mock Hasan Piker if given the opportunity, because he is a gigantic moron, but you shouldn’t try to cancel him or boycott him. Really, you should treat him the way he treats atrocities committed by the Chinese government — by which I mean, you should ignore him. 

I’m reacting, of course, to the discourse of the past few days, in which The Bulwark, a Never Trump media outlet turned into a reliably partisan organ of the Democratic Party played host to a spirited debate over whether Dems needed to do more to distance themselves from Piker, a far-left commentator who is big on Twitch and popular with leftists. 

Democrats and their friends in liberal media just can’t help themselves — it’s just yet another tantrum about who is allowed to say what and speak to who and go on which podcast and platform … you know how this goes. Democratic discourse invariably sounds like it’s stuck in the Stone Age relative to what’s going on now. Liberal figures still talk about whether going on Fox News means normalizing the MAGA movement, egads! Meanwhile, young people get their news from figures that depart so radically from conservative and liberal media orthodoxy that they don’t appear anywhere on television. 

Now this Hasan Piker debate has gone on for so long that mainstream media people........

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