Editing Vaush

{{Infobox youtuber
|name=Vaush
|subscribers=430,000
|views=252,682,352
|stats_update=21 March 2023
|image=Vaush logo.png
|image_size=200
|Ideology=[[Anarchism]] (nominally)<br>[[Libertarian socialism]] (nominally)<br>[[Liberalism]]<br>[[Anti-communism]]
|years_active=2019–present
|nationality=Statesian}}

'''Vaush''' is a [[United States of America|Statesian]] [[YouTube]] and [[Twitch]] streamer. He identifies as a [[Libertarian socialism|libertarian socialist]] and an [[Anarchism|anarchist]]. Vaush was banned from Twitch for calling white people "crackers."<ref>{{News citation|author=Ethan Gach|newspaper=Kotaku|title=Socialist Twitch Streamer Banned For Calling White People ‘Cracker’ <nowiki>[Update]</nowiki>|date=2021-12-14|url=https://kotaku.com/socialist-twitch-streamer-banned-for-calling-white-peop-1848213042|retrieved=2022-04-17}}</ref> Vaush has also been accused of being a [[Pedophilia|pedophile]]<ref>{{News citation|author=Beige Goat|newspaper=Twitter|title=Context, for what it's worth.|date=2020-11-09|url=https://twitter.com/beigegoat45/status/1325705005886746624|retrieved=2022-04-17|quote=In fact — and this is gonna be a real hot take — I have yet to hear a convincing moral or legal argument as to why possession of child pornography should be illegal.}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Discord|date=2018-02-13|url=https://i.redd.it/z3nrrkf179l51.png|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806085802/https://i.redd.it/z3nrrkf179l51.png|archive-date=2022-08-06|quote=As those imbalances (or at least some of them) are redressed through the advent of socialism, the age of consent should therefor [sic] be lowered.}}</ref> and claimed [[Karl Marx|Marx]] and [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] would have voted for [[Joe Biden|Biden]] in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]].<ref>{{News citation|author=[[BadEmpanada]]|newspaper=Twitter|title=Vaush misread stuff so badly in his latest video that it led me to make a serious youtube comment that I now must post here. the lack of non-US knowledge is clear in his misreading of Lenin especially|date=2020-08-20|url=https://twitter.com/RadEmpanada/status/1296701957739077633|archive-url=https://archive.ph/MQ3bo|archive-date=2020-10-26|retrieved=2022-04-17}}</ref>

== Criticism ==

===Anti-Semitism===
While discussing the [[National Socialist German Workers' Party|Nazis]] in a debate with [[NonCompete]], Vaush said [[Judaism|Jews]] disproportionately controlled banks in [[German Reich (1918–1933)|Weimar Germany]].<ref name=":0">{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lR1FdFefcA&t=3050s|channel=Vaush|title=HE HUNG UP - Absurd Debate w/ NonCompete Quickly Derails|quote=There was a disproportionate number of Jewish control of banks in Germany during the Weimar Republic.}}</ref>

===Racism===
Vaush has called Black people "subhuman"<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=Discord|url=https://i.redd.it/q1bs0pmcuk661.png|archive-url=https://archive.ph/DP5nR|archive-date=2020-12-21|quote=you guys know ive called black and trans people subhuman too}}</ref> and intentionally said the N-word in a debate.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=YouTube|title=Am I a Jew? Arguing with Nazis on THE KILLSTREAM|date=2019-05-14|url=https://i.imgur.com/TMMwFra.png|archive-url=https://archive.ph/C7g1n|archive-date=2020-11-15|quote=In this video, I drop an n-bomb. Biiiig one; hard 'R' [...] It was a power move which I am entirely unashamed of}}</ref> He is against preserving Black culture even though it was systematically repressed by the United States.<ref>{{Web citation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722205131/https://twitter.com/high_define/status/1258520435655766022|archive-date=2022-07-22|quote=Wait, fuck Black culture—I don't give a fuck about preserving culture. What? That's exactly the same as a white ethnonationalist argument.}}</ref>

===Settler apologia===

In a debate with the Youtuber [[Professor Flowers]] on the subject of [[decolonization]] and [[black nationalism]], Vaush compared [[Republic of South Africa|South African]] [[Settler|settlers]] who gained their "home" via [[apartheid]] to [[Jewish]] people who faced persecution by [[National Socialist German Workers' Party|the Nazi party]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=BadEmpanada|newspaper=[[YouTube]]|title=Vaush Knows Nothing About Decolonization and Self-Determination, Yet Sure Has Some Strong Opinions!|date=2021-09-13 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4zJxP2hgpc|retrieved=2023-03-06}}</ref>

===Transphobia===
Vaush has called the [[LGBT+]] community "cancerous"<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Streamable|url=https://streamable.com/fdy60u|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308145927/https://streamable.com/fdy60u|archive-date=2022-03-08|quote=The left community online, particularly the LGBT community, is cancerous as fuck. If you're not an idiot, you will agree with me.}}</ref> and "[[Ableism|mentally ill]]."<ref>{{News citation|newspaper=Streamable|title=I know this is fundamentally reactionary thinking, but still, I can’t think of anything else|url=https://streamable.com/uu2mkv|quote=A lot of the people who are trying to cancel [[Contrapoints]] are fucking dejected, worthless, mentally ill, basement-dweller, fucking queer people who have absolutely nothing to offer the world apart from their bitter scorn.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308152603/https://streamable.com/uu2mkv|archive-date=2022-03-08}}</ref>

===Promotion of U.S. imperialism===
On the 11 December, 2020 stream Vaush made the "joke" that [[Republic of Iraq|Iraqis]] have him to thank for stopping and preventing [[United States imperialism|U.S. imperialism]] in Iraq due to his position to vote for Biden.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxn2aNbqa6w&t=13060s|channel=Vaush|title=GOING OVER VIDEOS CRITICIZING ME {{!}} CHILL STREAM|date=2020-12-11|quote=…you [<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Hakim Hakim]</span>] are lucky that I personally got Biden into office because otherwise – is Hakim from Iraq? Well, hey listen ok, we're going to get Biden to get those troops out of Iraq ok – wait did he already do that? We are going to keep Biden from fucking bombing anymore of your airports ok. That's what we're going to do! You're welcome Hakim!
I know, I know it–, I know it sucks, because frantically Democrats and Republicans both have a pretty fucking bad record when it comes to foreign policy, but listen you. Ok, I got Biden elected and I'm gonna wield that infinite power, alright, and I'm gonna make sure we quit fucking around in the Middle East ok. We're gonna pull troops out of – we're gonna pull troops out of [[Afghanistan]], we're gonna pay reparations to the countries we bomb, we're gonna stop that [[Yemen]] shit, we're gonna start arguing with [[Saudi Arabia]], we're going to reinstitute the nuclear fucking arms shit deal with [[Iran]] – the nuclear treatus [sic], we're going to establish fuckin' one state council solution with [[Israel]] and [[Palestine]] – 'cos I feel that's closest we're going to be able to get – um, we're gonna – we're gonna do it. "This won't happen under Biden." Goddamn right it will. It will 'cos of me. 'Cos of all the socialist influence I have in the Democratic party. Yeah, we're gonna lift sanctions on [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Vuvuzuela]] [sic], we're gonna fix the world. "No it won't Vaush." Do you think I'm being serious man?}}</ref>

On the 3 Febuary, 2023 Vaush advocated expanding [[United States imperialism|U.S. imperialism]] in a [[Twitter|tweet]]. Responding to a tweet criticising the number of [[U.S. Military]] bases in the [[Asia-Pacific]], Vaush stated that "We [<span class="plainlinks">[[:en:United_States_of_America|U.S.]]</span>] need more"<ref>{{Web citation|author=Vaush|newspaper=[[Twitter]]|date=2023-02-03|url=https://twitter.com/VaushV/status/1621586438814072834|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230204024826/https://twitter.com/VaushV/status/1621586438814072834|archive-date=2023-02-04|retrieved=2023-02-04|quote=We need more}}</ref>

On the 23 February, 2023 Vaush advocated for the removal of indigenous peoples from their homeland in order to recieve English education in the U.S.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPtoNq4wvQ&t=5405s|channel=Vaush|title=Feb 25, 2023 Trump wins & Biden loses in Ohio, INSANE anti-trans bills, JP is deteriorating|date=2023-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310150109/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_xyUtgwls|archive-date=2023-03-10|quote=I know that Hakim is Iraqi, but I think they should have, like, airlifted him and brought him over to an American English class and had him sit there for 20 straight years after the Iraq War began – which was about 20 years ago – solely so that he wouldn't have made this retarded fucking video.}}</ref>

===Anti-communism===
Vaush has diminished [[George Orwell]]'s reporting of [[Left-wing politics|leftists]], non-white and [[LGBT+]] peoples to the [[Information Research Department]] (IRD) within the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] government, as acceptible by claiming that Orwell was reporting "[[Stalinism|Stalinists]]".<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPtoNq4wvQ&t=2755s|channel=Vaush|title=Feb 25, 2023 Trump wins & Biden loses in Ohio, INSANE anti-trans bills, JP is deteriorating|date=2023-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310150109/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_xyUtgwls|archive-date=2023-03-10|quote=I don't give a fuck if Stalinists are reported to the state, I don't give a shit.}}</ref>

Vaush called the promotion of George Orwell's anti-communist writings by the IRD and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] as "based".<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpPtoNq4wvQ&t=2765s|channel=Vaush|title=Feb 25, 2023 Trump wins & Biden loses in Ohio, INSANE anti-trans bills, JP is deteriorating|date=2023-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310150109/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_xyUtgwls|archive-date=2023-03-10|quote=“This office [IRD] not only got the rights to Orwell's works but also directly translated and published Animal Farm and his other garbage works into 20 languages on every continent on Earth.”
Based
“In fact, Orwell's entire literary reputation is due to direct CIA and other anti-communist organisation efforts at popularising his nonsense, which is…”
Based. Based CIA.}}</ref>

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