In spite of this, he despises authoritarian leftism, in fact having heavily opposed people espousing political positions similar to that of Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin in the past, who he refers to as Tankies. However, he has said he doesn't care for the label that is put onto him and identifies more like a leftist in general. Vaush holds left-wing views and identifies as a libertarian market socialist. A week later, on January 13, 2019, he uploaded his first video, a video entitled E N L I G H T E N E D C E N T R I S M, in which he explained why he believed political centrism to be an ineffective form Using this pseudonym, he would debate Destiny, who was less extreme than him, with the goal of moving Destiny further left, to adopt ideologies such as Marxism and Communism.ĭue to his sexual harassment controversy in 2019, Vaush stopped using the pseudonym IrishLaddie and created the Vaush channel. He had the username IrishLaddie that he had been using since he was a kid. Destiny then excommunicated Vaush, saying that he blocked him off of everything. Vaush remained friends with Destiny until September 2020, after the latter blamed Vaush's girlfriend and his fans for mass reporting his Twitch account to ban him, he was departnered from Twitch as a result. Despite seeing him as a reactionary at the time, Vaush cites Destiny as someone from whom he learned a lot about argumentation and rhetoric. One of the YouTubers that inspired him the most was Twitch streamer Destiny (aka Steven Bonnell). His politics greatly shifted in high school, when he became friends with a teacher he had for an advanced level course. Vaush has claimed to always be fairly left-wing. His father, Mark is a Hollywood executive and his mother Julie is a filmmaker. Ian Kochinski was born on Februin Los Angeles, California. 4.8 Comments toward black conservative women.