Infrared

Adam Tahirhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230212175240/https://twitter.com/AirBnBhoster/status/1476249921972051974 (online pseudonym: Haz Al-Din;born: 1996), better known online as Infrared is a Lebanese-American YouTuber and former Twitch streamer known for his live debate. He was a self-described and a "Libertarian Stalinist".https://youtu.be/wLf4dKcFCFo
==Personal life==
===Early life===
Adam was born on 1996 in Dearborn, Michigan. At age 14, Adam discovered Marxism. He has claimed that over the next ten years, he went through every ideological phase of the left before arriving at his current conclusion.https://web.archive.org/web/20211113211314/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX0eFzDM7gU He studied at law school, but later took a leave of absence after streaming.https://youtu.be/eBQ0eAW_mrk
===Political views===
Adam is a "MAGA communist". He claims that Donald Trump will bring socialism to United States and calls for the political and ideological unification with the highly anti-communist and reactionary movement, which is viewed by Infrared as being a "working-class movement" which could aid in defeating the "globalist beast."https://web.archive.org/web/20221004172223/https://showinfrared.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-maga-communism
==Controversy==
===Apologia for Totalitarian States===
Adam first gained notoriety in February 2021 when in a debate with Xanderhal, he justified Stalinist totalitarian regimes responsible for the deaths of tens of millions.https://youtu.be/FFsIPOuOBg4?si=nMoDP-Wva1mG3Fts
Soon after in a debate with Vaush, where he was accused of being a fascist because of his support for Russia, he was shown to be unable to define what fascism is.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-djYWAhrnM&t=1s 
He promptly went on to debate a number of prominent left-wing YouTubers such as Destinyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB55g2kunNU& and Socialism Done Lefthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIlceNoYvGs&. He quickly gained notoriety in left-wing online circles for his nationalist and authoritarian views, which many interpreted as fascist and far-right. 
===Genocide Denial ===
In April 2021, Haz went on record during a debate with Destiny that he denied the Uyghur genocide.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TnfdbOBIAI& This raised several questions about whether it was ethical for him to be platformed, and whether his views constituted a slippery slope for historical revisionism in general, such as holocaust denial.
==="I CAN BE WAY MORE RACIST THAN YOU"===
Infrared gained a huge spike in subscribers and gained by far the most site-wide notoriety when fellow YouTuber Wow Mao uploaded and edited a clip from one of Infrared's livestreams, titled "I CAN BE WAY MORE RACIST THAN YOU." The video has since earned more than 2.7 million views.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYWIyG3hUlQ
=== Twitch bans===
On January 3rd, 2022, Adam was banned from Twitch for harassing and threatening fellow twitch streamers BadEmpanada and BadBunny.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_az-We_nWz0 Adam had threatened to report BadBunny to twitch for racism after she reportedly requested twitch ban his account for making fun of her on twitterhttps://twitter.com/InfraHaz/status/1477023054635024384. This was subsequently covered by Bowblax where he accused Infrared of hypocrisy for complaining about censorship, while himself trying to report BadBunny to Twitch.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edYH1B-hR9I Adam went on to leave a comment on Bowblax's video, which read:This is so dishonest I was defending myself because she ran to twitch first...After which Bowblax responded:how am I being dishonest about that when I'm literally showing that she ran to twitch on-screen in the video? lolOn 14 April 2022, Adam, along with other pro-Russian streamer was permanently banned from Twitch.https://web.archive.org/web/20230912134914/https://streamerbans.com/user/infraredshow The reason for his ban is his pro-Russia stance on .https://ghostarchive.org/archive/g3YK9 
A few days later, Adam and Jackson Hinkle returned on Cozy.tv,https://web.archive.org/web/20230926031036/https://nitter.net/canadarcho/status/1515379873786871821 a livestream platform founded by neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.https://web.archive.org/web/20220601082106/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozy.tv#cite_note-:0-1
==Quotes==
*"When we take power, we will make one last Marvel movie. At the end of this movie all the Marvel heroes, and also Mickey Mouse, Star Wars and Harry Potter, will be gunned down in a bloody massacre. All adult fans will be forced to watch. It will all be Official Canon."https://web.archive.org/web/20220827142315/https://twitter.com/InfraHaz/status/1501127329329864705 
*"I am a conservative."https://web.archive.org/web/20220315034232/https://twitter.com/InfraHaz/status/1503577245188861952
*"Donald Trump is far more left-wing than Bernie Sanders"https://web.archive.org/web/20230920134045/https://nitter.net/InfraHaz/status/1623118292201226240
*"The Salem Witch Trials were 100% justified. I am declaring war on all Witches and Wiccans. Any of you who want to put a hex on me, a Holy Sorcerer, will be met with an astral retaliation more ferocious than you can imagine. I will SMITE the pagan scum with holy fire."https://web.archive.org/web/20230920134432/https://nitter.net/InfraHaz/status/1660858705871552517
*"Hitler was an anarchist and Nazism was anarchist. Anarchist subculture also, coincidentally, was shared with neonazis."https://web.archive.org/web/20230926033017/https://nitter.net/InfraHaz/status/1533914583198580737
*"Video games are the reason for many social ills. Eventually will come the ‘Time of Cruel Awakening’ when holy men wield hammers and bust into homes smashing gaming PCs and Nintendo console. Even GameCube will be smashed."https://web.archive.org/web/20220817010347/https://twitter.com/InfraHaz/status/1504894477642702850
==Trivia==
*Adam is shorter than Destiny.https://web.archive.org/web/20230905125719/https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/s5ij7s/haz_infrared_confirmed_57_beta_cuck_on_shoeless/
==References==
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Lebanese YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2020