YouTuber Ethan Klein deletes interviews with Jordan Peterson

Ethan Klein, known online as “H3H3Productions”, is a YouTuber and podcast host who announced he is deleting episodes of his show interviewing Peterson in what appears to be an apparent grift to appease the Left in the wake of the launch of a new podcast show called “Leftovers” with socialist millionaire Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. 

The reason it appears to be a grift and not a genuine evolution of opinion is the typical basket of reasons; mainly: lying about the person in question, offering no coherent explanation for what or why a change of heart was made, suspiciously making the apparently insincere move at a time when it was financially beneficial, and inconsistency/hypocrisy in the application of applying the alleged rule outside of this one instance.

https://twitter.com/h3h3productions/status/1482137662379073539

Peterson himself on the other hand was his typical diplomatic self, saying that he enjoyed meeting and talking with Klein and asked what specifically he had said to justify the censoring of his episodes.

Klein did not allow Peterson to publish the interviews himself but did respond with these two specifics as examples of speech he didn’t want to be “associated with”:

https://twitter.com/h3h3productions/status/1482259260880809986

Peterson further offered this warning:

Peterson doesn’t talk politics. He doesn’t endorse candidates, his political ideology isn’t at all clear or disclosed, he criticizes both sides in his native Canada and the United States, and none of his books or lectures or interviews are about his political viewers, so… wtf?

Watch Klein try to explain his reason for cutting out his interviews with Peterson, followed by clips of how he handled his interviews with Peterson:

“He’s obviously transphobic” is an obvious lie and not just a sign of poor researching, because Klein described Petersons one and only political view on trans issues accurately when he had Peterson on his show: simply that State violence shouldn’t be used to enforce speech, including the enforcement of calling a person their preferred pronouns or not. In the response clip Klein praises Peterson personally and ideologically, citing his book, saying he “Read it, and loved it”.

Then, the hypocrisy of it all… Many on twitter pointed out Klein has a lot worse speech in his shows archives (mostly coming from himself) than a professor saying that government shouldn’t enforce speech rules on its people.

Others cited this story, summarized here by Angelo Isidorou in The Post Millennial:

Additionally, Klein played a significant role in the “Hugh Mungus” story. Rudy Pantoja, aka “Hugh Mungus,” went viral in 2015 after being harassed by an angry feminist on video. This feminist accosted the man, demanding to know his name. He replied, “Hugh Mungus,” causing the feminist to shriek and be detained by police. Klein’s video on the subject is titled, Crazy SJW Gets Triggered Ft. Hugh Mungus and has 7.8 million views.

Pantoja became famous due to Klein’s coverage and the two even had an interview together. However, a lot has changed since 2015 and Klein’s promotion of a vile patriarchal bigot such as Hugh Mungus would not fly today. Truly, the Ethan Klein of 2022 acutely resembles the crazed feminist who accosted Hugh Mungus all those years ago.

It is perhaps not a stretch to also say that the Ethan Klein of 2022 would likely be a subject of comedic ridicule by the Ethan Klein of 2016 that we all loved.

The article cites other insincerities of Klien like when he told a fellow YouTuber, “Being white isn’t a race, dipsh*t” (lolwut?).

Klein had previously accepted a challenge to debate conservative host Steven Crowder, only to bail via a pre-planned bait-and-switch where he exited the feed as soon as it started and had leftist commentator Sam Seder debate for him instead. Earlier this month, Klein also virtue-signalled against Joe Rogan’s eating habits, prompting the inevitable observation that Rogan is obviously verifiably healthier than Klein. The criticism was an attempt to Cancel Rogan over alleged Covid misinformation.