Yesterday, Twitch suspended an account that belonged to streamer and famous YouTuber Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt after he made racist comments about the death of Palestinians in Gaza. Now, the YouTuber has responded to the temporary ban with a surprisingly clear-eyed assessment of the controversy and what led up to it.
“I don’t really want to mince words or, ‘oh I wasn’t justifying or promoting [the genocide],’” He said during a new 20-minute long video on the subject. “I said something about it that was disgusting.”
I think i need to give that guy a sub.
I’m not saying he’s lying, but maybe give it a moment before rewarding someone for doing basic damage control after doing/saying something heinous. Redemption isn’t an instantaneous process.
What damage?
If you’re going to argue in bad faith, you should at the very least understand the words in the comment and how they are being used.
Im gonna argue how i want any you need to understand that everyone has the right to do exactly that.
So your reaction to Asmon saying something kinda fuckin racist and then recanting, as opposed to just not saying the racist thing in the first place, is to give him more of your attention?
People like him get popular by manufacturing controversy.
Your reaction to someone saying they support someone admitting to a mistake making an attempt at rehabilitation is to put them down, then insinuate that a mistake being made also makes it unforgivable?
The real question is did he do this sincerely or because it is hurting him financially. I am all up for forgiveness, etc. but only if this sudden self awareness is authentic.
Can we at least wait to see if he actually meant his apology before we put him on a pedestal?
Its not a controversy to support Israel… Its just the Twitter and lemmy leftists that think it is.
Well there’s that part about the thousand’s of children they slaughtered, but other than that little details it’s really not THAT controversial.
Don’t forget the other details about war crimes against Palestinians and Palestinians living in towns caged in, and getting assaulted day in and day out through the fence by Israelites. And the constant harassment online. And Israelites taking over their homes forcefully. And them having no place to live.
I guess sometimes you can get lost in the details. My bad.
Its really not controversial, you are right. Its just the lemmy and Twitter people that belive that BS.
Bruh are you living under a rock? It’s constantly in the local news where I live, it’s very much controversial
The Palestinian civilian casualties are BS?
wait for the room cleaning stream first