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YOUTUBE sensation PewDiePie has dramatically hit back at his critics in a video in which he risks creating yet more controversy by mockingly saying "Hitler was right".

Yesterday, the web celeb uploaded a film entitled "in my defence" in which he justified recent decisions to pay Indian men to hold up a banner saying "death to all Jews" and shoot a vid in which he appeared to say the word "n****".

 PewDiePie's latest video sees him hit back against controversy claims - by being controversial
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PewDiePie's latest video sees him hit back against controversy claims - by being controversial
 The YouTuber was recently named as the 18th most handsome person in the world
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The YouTuber was recently named as the 18th most handsome person in the world

PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, said that "context was everything" and used articles from The Sun Online to illustrate his point.

He said: "It's 2017 now and we are going to have to start separating what is a joke and what is actually problematic.

"Is a joke actually pure racism? Is a joke something that would be considered pure homophobia or anti-Semitic?"

 Pewdiepie paid for these two men to deliver an offensive message
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Pewdiepie paid for these two men to deliver an offensive message
 The Indian duo later apologised in their own YouTube video
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The Indian duo later apologised in their own YouTube video

He defended his actions as a joke before saying the words "death to all Jews and Hitler was right" in order to make the point that he was not calling for a genocide, but was trying to be funny.

"For some f****** reason these Indian guys went ahead and wrote 'death to all Jews' on a sign," he added.

"Which, you know, there's something funny about that.

"It might be my crude sense of humour, but I think there's something funny about that and I don't think there's any actual anti-Semitic thing about it."

He added: "I think being the political correctness police is essentially just going to f*** us all over."



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