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Disowning your siblings for different political opinions only serves to remove a positive influence from their life. No good would come from Jazza publicly dunking on his brother's beliefs.
Hard disagree. Jazza cultivates an inclusive image for his brand, one that seems increasingly at odds with the branding of his brother’s obvious descent into alt right pandering. When people learn about the two being brothers there is almost ALWAYS a “wait how tf are those two related” moment. Plenty of family members publicly denounce their siblings when they start the descent into shitdom. As Shad gets shittier it’s harder for me - and I know I’m not alone - to not see Jazza as rainbow-washing, virtue signaling, guilty by association unless he demonstrates otherwise.
I don't see how you disagreed with anything I said. What good would it do (aside from you enjoying the man's content more) for Jazza to disown his brother, rather than continue to be in his life and try to be a positive influence? Would Shad become a better person because of it? Of course not.
"Plenty of family members publicly denounce their siblings when they start the descent into shitdom." Is that good? Does it make the world a better place? Or does it only serve to improve how much you enjoy consuming their content?
"Guilty by association?" Guilty of what? This toxic mindset of suggesting that people need to cut all contact with the ones they love because of differing political opinions doesn't help anyone. I would bet my life that not one single, solitary, individual alt-right shithead has ever changed his ways because his siblings publicly decried him. All that does is push people further into their echo chambers.
On the contrary, embracing the awful people in the world leads to positive change within them. The only reason you might think it's good to disown bad people is if you think they don't deserve to become better, and the world is somehow better off if they remain bad.
I don’t understand what you don’t get about what I’m saying. His brand and his business and his audience is at risk because his feel good inclusive brand is negatively impacted by his shit bag brothers multi hour diatribes against the woke mind virus. It will come around to bite him eventually. Clearly distancing himself from those views would be a good thing for him and his business and his community, to say nothing about the tens of thousands (or more) audience members that are look up to him and are constantly being attacked by Shads bullshit. Speaking out against his brothers toxic shit would be good and right.
And yes, calling out your toxic family members — especially before they are YT algorithmed down the far right pipeline - DOES make the world a better place. Who else is going to have that kind of impact?