Polk, Berkey, and Carrel Square Off on Jaffe’s Twitter Space

To be honest to Jaffe, he’s fast to confess when he’s mistaken and he provided a mea culpa only a few hours later:

The self-flagellation continued when Jaffe began a Twitter Area after his Saturday evening money recreation session as he invited Ashby to return on and set the report straight. It was a pleasant second of magnanimity and a measure of each males, standing in sharp distinction to a few of the different exchanges that had come earlier than. 

The Polk & Berkey Present?

Loads of individuals had taken the mic to weigh in on their ideas about Nik ‘Airball’ Arcot’s Excessive Stakes Poker antics. There had been numerous dialogue concerning the stage of antagonism on the present and whether or not it’s a web plus or minus for poker. Polk and Berkey have been each current so, naturally sufficient, they have been requested for his or her takes, from which Polk segued to criticism of the easy-listening hangout type of Berkey’s ‘Solely Mates’ podcast. 

Polk is in his aspect in conflictual conditions

At one level, it appeared like Polk was floating the concept of a joint podcast enterprise with Berkey who shortly demurred. That interplay probably spoke finest to their opposing world views. Polk is in his aspect in conflictual conditions and he relishes conditions that may be parlayed for monetary profit. Berkey has half an eye fixed on publicity however he’s extra selective along with his battles and has made it clear that he actually dislikes Polk. 

For that motive, Berkey mentioned that he wouldn’t wish to make investments time right into a joint car no matter its possible reputation. Whereas their differing views would possibly lead to some fireworks, it was made abundantly clear that solely considered one of them would really feel just like the ends justified the means. 

Enter Carrel

The fuse was lit in Jaffe’s Twitter Area when Carrel took the mic to confront Polk on what he referred to as a ‘smear marketing campaign’ of his character. Carrel, a sexual abuse survivor, has lengthy spoken out about his perception that one of the simplest ways to forestall baby sexual abuse is to empathise with pedophiles. It’s an uncomfortable topic and Carrel’s take is unpalatable to many, together with Polk who believes that pedophiles are unworthy of empathy and that their existence:

retains individuals who have children awake at evening.” 

Determining how you can stop baby sexual abuse is clearly a charged and triggering concern and one about which fair-minded individuals {and professional} clinicians may argue. Carrel launched the subject again in April 2019 with a now deleted controversial tweet that learn “one of the simplest ways to forestall baby molestation is to have extra empathy and love for baby molestors.” 

Polk replied on Twitter, Carrel adopted up with an indignant video on his YouTube channel and Polk responded to that with a video entitled ‘Younger Millionaire Destroyed By Patrik Antonius’ which has been watched over 700,000 instances. 

Put by hell

Given the chance to talk on to Polk, Carrel mentioned that he had “been put by Hell” by Polk’s repeated assaults. Polk defended himself by repeating a remark he made to Carrel in response to his tweet again in 2019:

Polk’s suggestion is that Carrel was engagement-farming by wording his tweet in such a sensationalist approach. There’s little question that it was a poorly phrased touch upon a posh concern that left room for interpretation the place none ought to exist. To his credit score, Carrel acknowledged that side however his overwhelming level was that Polk by no means accepted his supply to debate him on a discussion board the place neither could be restricted to 280 characters. 

produced hit items in opposition to him, and assassinated his character

As an alternative, in Carrel’s opinion, Polk ignored his subsequent clarifications, produced hit items in opposition to him, and assassinated his character with merciless jokes and innuendo at each alternative, together with throughout a second on the latest Excessive Stakes Poker stream. Carrel mentioned:

“I do know you wish to mission. I do know you wish to mission that JNandez is a scammer when it’s you that truly stole from him, I do know you preferred to mission that the crypto individuals have been scammers whenever you led them down Coinflex. Perhaps you’re projecting as a result of you may have pedophilic urges… now I don’t truly suppose that however hearken to how fucking insane that’s to have any person say that to you.”

Doug replied by saying his take is “I don’t suppose you ought to be tweeting about pedophiles on Twitter,” to which an irate Carrel replied: “No, that’s not your take… your take is ‘hey there’s this individual referred to as Charlie Carrel… and he helps pedophiles,’ 750,000 watched that and that was so fucking painful for me, man.”

A story twisted right into a meme? 

Polk then reiterated his place that baby molesters are the scum of the earth for whom he has no empathy and expressed concern at Carrel’s opposite viewpoint. It was at this level that Berkey was drawn again into the controversy, arguing that this incident was maybe the most effective working example for why he wouldn’t ever contemplate working with Polk. He mentioned:

“When Doug doesn’t respect you, he won’t ever take the time to suppose deeply or critically about what you might be saying. As an alternative he’ll soar to the primary conclusion that matches a story that may be twisted right into a meme and dunk on you in no matter capability he chooses.”

Berkey acquired into the specifics of Carrel’s expertise but in addition claimed that it was a first-rate instance of a broader level about Polk’s worldview:

“What Charlie is finally talking to is there was zero advantage of the doubt given whenever you learn the tweet. The fast snap to judgment was this man is a looney-tune. He’s speaking about defending pedophiles and I’m going to take to my platform and alert the plenty that Charlie Carrel believes pedophilia is okay.”

The world by greenback indicators 

Berkey was emphatic in his condemnation of Polk for what he perceives to be his private and enterprise modus operandi:

“He’s very brazenly saying that he had one of many worst issues that you can think of occur to a baby occur to him… and that’s the place the tweet was coming from, and as an alternative of assembly that with any stage of humanity, you used it as a leaping off level to villainize this man and demonise him in the neighborhood during which he earns.”

Berkey questioned what he perceives to be Polk’s pitiless cynicism

Doug tried to push again, claiming that he had no enterprise overlap with Carrel however was shortly rebutted on the grounds that they’re each gamers and content material creators in the identical neighborhood. Affect is definitely a foreign money of types and Berkey questioned what he perceives to be Polk’s pitiless cynicism: 

“These are the explanations that I’ve zero respect for you as a person. These are the explanations that I wouldn’t in 1,000,000 years contemplate doing this hot-take [podcast] with you. It’s not about being disagreed with, I don’t care about that… it’s about not wanting to sit down throughout from somebody that you just suppose will not be human, who solely sees the world by greenback indicators and everyone seems to be simply the subsequent individual that he can step on to profit  himself.”

In response, Polk claimed to don’t have any ulterior motive on this occasion and insisted that he was merely responding to a 140 character tweet with which he vehemently disagreed. 

Mise en scène

Sitting in his parked automobile outdoors his dwelling, Jaffe wound down the Twitter Area a short while later. The solar was rising and there was a deer defecating subsequent to his automobile, an evocative picture unusually becoming for the second, a peculiarly excellent mise-en-scène to replicate upon what had been an hour of catharsis and ablution. 

Soiled laundry had been aired and maybe for some, a weight was lifted

A whole bunch of listeners from all around the world, together with myself, have been left to replicate on a haphazard assembly of minds, an sudden symposium of poker’s high influencers gathered in a single digital area. Soiled laundry had been aired and maybe for some, a weight was lifted, having been given the chance to get issues off their chests. 

At one level throughout this evening of purgation, Joe Ingram interjected to speak concerning the position of widespread content material creators whose movies are watched by a whole bunch of hundreds of individuals:

“What accountability will we as content material creators have, to do our due diligence, researching what we’re going to say, particularly figuring out that these items goes to reside on the web eternally.” 

It looks as if an apparent level however one that’s maybe generally misplaced within the hustle and bustle of the trendy quick and infrequently immediate media panorama. Polk is a showman and probably the greatest we’ve got within the business. He’s entitled to his opinion and the expression of that opinion in sizzling take or satirical type. Nevertheless, so too are the folks that he lampoons and it was they who have been supplied with a discussion board on Sunday. 

It had been the hardest of robust convos for Polk and clearly trigger for introspection. On Monday, he responded with an apology video for Carrel and a promise to take away the movies about him from his YouTube library: