Originally published at: Streamer apologizes after racist rant: "my bad"
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He’s only sorry that he got caught and that Twitch took action.
Why don’t they want to use the word? Perhaps because children are innocent.
A now-banned ammosexual tried a variation of that here in September.
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Fun fact: not only does he look and act like a cave troɬɬ, he also lives like one
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I don’t want to think about what he’s keeping in those cups.
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The name “Asmongold” is vaguely familiar. Seems like the context was people talking about what a total asshole he is, some time ago.
I remain utterly unsettled by how okay people are with genocide, to the point where more often speaking against it results in censure (and censoring). Sure, this guy got suspended for advocating for genocide (something he obviously thought he could do without consequences), but I see so many people on social media using code words to avoid being banned for just generally talking about what’s happening in Gaza, including work-arounds for the very word “Gaza.” I suspect his word choices tripped him up more than anything - if he’d said something along the lines of, “I completely support everything that Israel is doing in Gaza,” he’d have been fine.
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If I had a big personal conspiracy theory, it is that the “everything is a managed market” notion within neoliberalism or monetarism or whatever we call it has to eventually apply to demography as the target of prudential regulation. The good news is that mitigating the risks of having people everywhere doesn’t have to involve genocide. The bad news is it always does.
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For users who can’t help but discuss it, Twitch cut right through the issue a year ago.
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Indeed, though Palestinian deaths are accorded their own special high level of sanewashing. More USians would of course care more, maybe a lot more, if the corporate media were less cowardly and mealy mouthed, and instead called this genocide and our funding of it with our tax dollars what they are.
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I see a lot of people on social media saying, “Under [neoliberalism, etc.] what is done to these populations in these countries will eventually be done to yours,” and all I can think is, “what do you mean, eventually?” The genocidal approach to population “management” may not be evenly distributed, but [e.g. the entire history of the US] shows it’s not remotely absent, either. The only “eventual” bit is having one’s particular group become an out group fully subject to this treatment.
Both sides!
Oh, I’m used to the apathy, I’m just not used to the advocacy and openly advocating that people who are against it should be punished - and getting their way. (Normally those who so openly advocate for genocide either stay quiet or are shunned by mainstream culture.)
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The former Obama foreign policy guys on Pod Save the World were just saying that simply describing some of Israel’s recent actions using the actual, quoted words of some of the government ministers there will often get you accused of being hyperbolic and using anti-Israel rhetoric. (Look up what security minister Ben Gvir has been saying lately, and even what he was saying long before October 7th.) It really is hard to have calm, rational conversations about this stuff.
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Yeah, there’s been multiple people in the administration saying things that are textbook definitions of genocide, and people are still outraged when it gets called that.
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i think people should actually watch his apology video before drawing the cynical conclusion that has become standard in these sorts of situations.
Eh, I think it’s fine that a self proclaimed “anti-woke gamer” loses any benefit of the doubt people might have otherwise given him in regards to the sincerity of his apology.
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Do you think that self-aggrandising apology with its complete 180 (on both racism and living in squalor) would exist if he hadn’t been threatened with the permanent loss of his precious followers?
I hope he does get his act together, but we’re talking about an Internet “influencer” so some cynicism is warranted.
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I had the misfortune of seeing his videos before he got suspended from Twitch.
I’ll draw my conclusions from those.
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Almost all Western corporate news outlets are either complicit in or support Israel’s campaign of mass suffering and slaughter in Gaza. Too many have lost too much of their journalistic/editorial independence, ethics and even humanity. Any genuine journalist with integrity would tender their resignations and publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s compromised product.
On the Gaza-assault topic, the most journalistically, and perhaps even morally, compromised news-media I’ve read is Canada’s National Post newspaper. You would really have to read it to believe it, especially since the Oct.7 Hamas attack on Israel. It epitomizes an extreme example of an echo chamber promoting unconditional support for the Israeli state, including its very-long-practiced cruelty towards the Palestinian people.
For example, a single-column story about a five-year-old American-Palestinian boy who was stabbed to death by the landlord of the residence in which he and his mother lived simply for being Palestinian was placed on page 5, while placed up high on the front page was a large photo (which accompanied a much larger story) with three Israeli teenage girls crying after their friends or family were kidnapped by Hamas gunmen.
More progressive outlets like Canada’s other national newspaper, The Globe and Mail — progressive in regards to essentially following “woke” ideology — can be more deceptive with its essentially pro-Israel coverage and op/ed writing since 10/7. There seems to have been an attempt at appearing objective on this topic when it actually is not. …
Genuine journalists with integrity would tender their resignations and publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s corrupt media product, be it from the Right or Left. I strongly feel that it’s the ethical/moral duty of journalists and editors with integrity to publicly call-out the self-compromised mainstream news-media for which they work.
While such brave journalists/editors might as well tender their resignations, they at least can then proclaim they will no longer complacently or complicitly assist in the compromised news-media product’s creation and dissemination.
I hear of too many cases of employees not standing up in such situations to do what is necessary for the public or human good, instead excusing themselves with something like: ‘I needed to keep this job; I have a family to support’. I’m afraid that — unless, of course, they were actually forced into coupling, copulating and procreating however many years before — such familial obligation status does not actually ethically or morally justify their complacency/complicity.
… Meanwhile, growing Western indifference towards the continuing slaughter of helpless Palestinian non-combatants will only have further inflamed long-held Middle Eastern anger towards the West. Some countries’ actual provision, mostly by the U.S., of highly effective weapons used in Israel’s mass slaughter will likely have turned that anger into lasting hatred seeking eye-for-an-eye redress. And perhaps another 9/11.
