Zack Hoyt, the popular streamer best known as Asmongold, has had one of his channels temporarily banned from Twitch after garnering backlash for a racist rant about Palestinians and the conflict in Gaza.

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  • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    2 hours ago

    Lmao the top post in the destiny sub is “I won’t condemn asmon until twitch bans hasan for saying every American politician is a racist genocide and convincing people not to vote for harris.”

    Yea, we fucking know. Although props for being honest and just outright saying “I refuse to condemn genocide unless you ban somebody for being mean to democrats.”

  • coolusernameEnglish
    52·
    9 hours ago

    only temporarily? but still, that’s kinda surprising since most large corporations are FOR genocide of Palestinians

    • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      24·
      6 hours ago

      Someone probably informed the CEO that Twitch once banned a man, well MANY people got banned permanently (yes, still banned!), for quote “anti-white racism”… a thing that doesn’t exist. And even if it did, a white man saying the words would have to be treated like a black man saying the n word or a gay man the f slur. Also the word was “cracker” which no one even recognizes as anything other than a comical thing to say if your goal is hurt the feelings of a white person. I’m white and would literally just laugh and wonder “huh?” internally.

      So, best they could do was a temporary ban for actual racist, Hitlerian speech towards a group (Muslims broadly, though Asmongold tried to specify he meant Palestinians specifically… oh, ok, dude. That helps. That makes it fine…).

      Literally explicitly justifying the genocide of an ethnic group in a way that I’m not sure even Himmler would do. Because Asmongold is too stupid to even realize fully that he was doing that. He’s so Amero-brained, Burger-minded, that burning children from “place government and Israel, second government of course, told me was bad” is something to be ignored and not spoken about. If you are forced to have an opinion, or moronically proffer one unbidden, then of course you agree with what the US state department says!

      That’s probably the most insane part in all of this. Asmongold just essentially quoted our current president, vice president, and former-president, now currently the Republican candidate. He is literally expressing US state department policy. Not even in a gross or on the nose way. The “inferior culture” shit is said constantly by all of the demons. Maybe not all of them say it verbatim… but saying “black men are all just beasts meant to be enslaved!” doesn’t make you less racist just because you left out the n word. Liberals think it does though. Well, actually, a lot of them would recognize that statement as racist probably. But if you put Arab men in there instead of black men… I don’t think liberals would have a problem with the statement. They’re just as xenophobic and racist as Trump in the end. He just says what they’re too cowardly to say.

      • LaughingLion [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        6 hours ago

        Big advocate for the word “honkey” to describe shitty white dudes. The benefit is that if someone tells you it’s racist point out that it doesn’t describe all whites, just white men, and not even all white men. A white Canadian man can’t be a honkey. Nor can a white dude from Maine. Not really, though you can certainly use it for them and it’s even funnier.

        Anyways, let’s normalize calling shitty white dudes honkey.

        • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          9·
          5 hours ago

          I know the word isn’t just for white people, but “gringo” legitimately seems to deeply hurt the asses of white people. Also being called “yankee” although again not just for whites. I think I’m just proving that nothing can even offend specifically white people. The “worst” words just describe obnoxious Americans

  • shath [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    49·
    10 hours ago

    honestly this man is just absolutely emblematic for the rot within western freeze-gamer “culture”. between his trash habits, his increasingly radical right wing views and the obsession with woke and the consistent light hand being shown to him says a lot to me about what the current strategy of tension sewn in western social media

    mans is deeply spiritually sick and it shows

  • SadArtemis [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    43·
    9 hours ago

    Was gonna say “rare twitch W” but they really went “bad genocidaire, no being explicitly and vitriolically genocidal, come back in 14 days…”

    Infinite genocide on Asmongold fans who remain at this point, let them have the same treatment as those from al-Aqsa and Khan Younis hospitals (not just the recent incendiaries attack, some of the other stuff frankly utterly horrifying and depressing to hear about as a CW, even past the brutality normalized nowadays)

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah, well, he makes them a lot of money. The TOS only applies to people who don’t make them a lot of money. Same as it’s always been.

      • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Also the bans only 14 days and since most subs on twitch are a month this wont even impact his income that much. Smallest slap on the wrist ever.

    • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      8 hours ago

      If we can figure out which part of the brain is responsible for this kind of depravity then we can scrape it off the wall and put the rest back in stonks-up