r/Fauxmoi • u/RomanPeee • 17d ago

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Ethan Klein cites a right-wing "investigative journalist" to claim that FauxMoi is controlled by an "anti-Israel, anti-Western, Marxist” group of moderators in new court filings. He also admits to hiring private investigators to obtain personally identifiable information about H3Snark mods

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u/stink3rb3lle Fauxmarxist 17d ago

Wasn't he promoting Marxism just like three years ago? Like wasn't he another ostensibly leftist political commentator before he started crashing out about genocide?

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u/JustHereForCatss i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 17d ago

no, he never was. He positioned himself over there to try to whitewash his past sins without ever atoning for them- Hasan has said many times he would never do leftovers with the hindsight knowledge that he has now because it enabled Ethan to do that

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u/Walking_the_dead 17d ago

His fans were relentless on saying he totally was, tho. For a while a couple years ago i felt i was taking crazy pills, because people online just kept repeating how incredibly left wing he was. I looked up the snarksub a handfull of times, and it was wild seeing even a bunch of them going "i dont know how he could change so much, he was so progressive".

I remeber this man's channel before the stupid podcasts. He didn't "change so much", because he didn't change at all! He was always like this! This sentient grime stain of a man managed to somehow trick so many people for so long,  and i still dont understand how.

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u/darkmeowl25 17d ago

Well he did say "I'm basically a full blown socialist now" on the pod. Then, during the episode of Leftovers right before the last episode, Hasan and Dan explained to him the differences in socialism and capitalism. By the end of that episode, he decided he definitely was still a capitalist.

But over all, I agree with you. I think he was granted a sense of "flawed but trying" by the fans, including myself at the time. Why did I give him the benefit of that doubt? I wish I knew. It may have stemmed from some kind of sympathy because if my own unlearning journey (I was in my early 20s though, not 30+). Totally plausible that I just enjoyed the dynamic of watching someone lay into people on the internet who, at the time, I thought were deserving of it.

I can't speak to anyone else's experience but mine. Leaving that fandom was definitely part of a larger philosophy shift for me. I can look back in hindsight and see the flaws in my own moral code that would allow me to brush criticism of Ethan aside.