Hasan Piker, an influential streamer and political commentator, has recently criticized Cornell University for allegedly punishing Palestinian student activists more severely than students accused of committing sexual assault. Piker’s claims have added to public outrage over the Ivy League school following the lawsuit filed against it over the alleged 2024 gang rape in a campus fraternity house.

During his visit to Cornell University on Thursday, when he addressed an audience of around 450 people at Sage Chapel, Piker commented that students participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations have been given more severe punishments than students found guilty of committing sexual crimes. In particular, the controversial statements he made during his visit have spread rapidly online.

“You got more of a penalty at Cornell University if you participated in a pro-Palestine student encampment,” Piker has claimed. “I was talking to some of the leaders of the pro-Palestine encampments. One of them got expelled for a year. They got suspended for a year.”

“They got literally worse penalties in Cornell University than half of the rapists did, or than most of the rapists did,” Piker said. “It’s (expletive) nuts.”

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    6 hours ago

    Oh so now I can’t learn. You know, I actually blocked you once after I said something about Christians and you said “can’t say that about Jews yadda yadda”, and I said sure but I was making a statement on Mormons, and you kept insisting and annoying me that it was the same way if you said it about Jews and even tho I agreed, I wasn’t saying it about any other religion.

    Then I noticed how much you post and I unblocked because my page was emptier after, so I sucked it up and played nice. Now I see where you get this annoying bullshit from 😂. Stay engaged in drama slop if you prefer, adults are speaking, if you wanna bring Bad Empanada’s emotional immaturity into this then I say good riddance

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      5 hours ago

      Those low quality empanadas have really fucked that user’s brain. They blocked me too for saying that we should focus on criticizing Zionism instead of Jews in general.

      Edgelord streamers with cults of personality are a menace to society.