Don’t bother to wonder, “What were they thinking?” There wasn’t much thinking going on at all at the Office of Public Lectures at my alma mater, the University of Washington in Seattle, when they asked Hasan Piker to speak on campus.
Now, I know some folks don’t know who Piker is, and that apparently includes the people who asked him to speak on campus because the ghastly alternative is that they did know and hired him anyway.
Recently, you’ve seen Piker on the arm of the possible future senator from Michigan Abdul El-Sayed, who’s the son-in-law of a Muslim Brotherhood true believer. He also campaigned with anti-Semite Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayor’s race. He’s also making the rounds with Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong, the bipolar, DSA commie. Huh, I wonder if she’s Muslim too. Someone should ask her other personality to double check.
Anyway, the university’s lecture series includes the usual womyn political journalists, climate catastrophists, and even a lecturer on midterms—no, silly, not university midterms, political ones.
The announcement of Piker’s January 2027 lecture on the university’s website enthused, “Hasan Piker is not your typical political commentator. Armed with sharp analysis and an irreverent wit, he has built a massive daily audience on Twitch — and become an unlikely but authoritative voice for a generation hungry for honest political engagement.”
Hellbound and Down 