This has so many odd layers.Quoting Irish (view post)
He's smart enough to know this would be Disney's response if the vids came to light (and he's popular enough that they would).
He's smart enough to agree that Disney is going to protect its brand over anything and anyone.
The paper went the stupid route by so baldly taking the videos out of context.
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I feel like the story is being dominated by the context argument when it would be more interesting to simply ask why so many young people find it interesting at all to be so obviously and desperately edgy, as well as why many in the same group find "it's just a joke; you just don't get it" to be a satisfactory answer to any criticism. HashtagTeamNoOne on this thing. Newspaper fucked up in some Journalism 101 ways. And I don't really find the Nazi stuff offensive--just stupid and not particularly funny.
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