Hakim

Hakim is an Iraqi commentary and political educational YouTuber and a self-described .
He is a founding member of The Deprogram podcast and left-wing news channel First Thought.
==Content==
Hakim uploads commentary videos about politics, many of which are videos debunking anti-communist arguments, including response to other YouTubers. Examples are Vaush,https://youtu.be/yPBXCdskB4E David Pakman,https://youtu.be/mCZCFkdzzzEhttps://youtu.be/lh3lERfkFvg PragerU,https://youtu.be/GwFKRjVXgeIhttps://youtu.be/EWHtmTFo98g Johnny Harrishttps://youtu.be/STtr8TeRqzc and Ben Shapiro.https://youtu.be/E5KH-BSqqKI
==History==
Hakim created his channel on April 25, 2017, and uploaded his first video on the same day: A Case-Study of Capitalism - Ukraine. 
His most popular video, titled 'Humans Are Not Equal': The Dishonest History of Race, was uploaded on March 26, 2019.
==Other YouTube Channels==
In November 2021, together with fellow YouTube content creators YUGOPNIK and Second Thought, Hakim began The Deprogram podcast: an international podcast discussing a wide variety of subjects including , historical and current events as well as interviews with other Leftist figures. The podcast releases regular weekly episodes, sometimes prompting companion videos on the participants' YouTube channels that expand on discussed topics.
Following the success of The Deprogram and requests from the community, the three creators unveiled First Thought on April 1st 2023; an international news channel reporting with a self-described left-wing bias, with regular updates 3 times per week.
== Personal life ==
Hakim is a physician by profession and enjoys cooking and playing piano.The Deprogram #1 - Introduction He also says that being bombed by the U.S had influenced him to become a Marxist.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3TmXvQJEcA&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.fandom.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
==Controversy==
===Racism against Kurdish===
On 6 May 2021, Twitter user @ShinyLegendary posted a screenshot of leaked DMs where he made a racist comments towards Kurdish people, painting them as reactionary. He clarifies that he was angry and said that Kurdish people are generally more conservative in the region while saying that the classification of "genocide" is not accurate when discussing the mass murder by the government of Saddam Hussein against Iraq's Kurdish population.https://web.archive.org/web/20210508233847/https://twitter.com/ShinyLegendary/status/1390471401375678464
==Trivia==
*Hakim has, on several occasions, expressed interest in releasing cooking videos on his channel.
*Hakim had to "shelve" a potential collaboration with Second Thought (before The Deprogram) in an effort to protect his online anonymity, after a close friend (who was unaware his YouTube channel) became a fan of Second Thought.The Deprogram #50 - Pod About the Pod (The friend did eventually find Hakim's channel, in part due to the creation of The Deprogram).
==References==
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:Iraqi YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2017