Twitch streamer and famousĀ YouTuber Zack āAsmongoldā HoytĀ has had hisĀ zackrawrr accountĀ banned after a racist rant about Muslims and Palestinians killed in Gaza went viral on social media. āMy bad,ā he shared on X (formerly Twitter) following an online backlash. āLooking back on it, I was way too much of an asshole about the Palestine thing.ā His other Twitch channel,Ā Asmongold, remains up.
In addition to playing games, Hoyt frequently livestreams extended chat sessions where he comments on other peopleās YouTube videos or whatever topics are gaining traction on his dedicated subreddit. In the midst of a recent livestream, he began talking about Israelās war on Gaza, which the Gaza Health Ministry says has killedĀ over 40,000 Palestinians since it beganĀ just over a year ago following the October 7 attack by Hamas.
āIf you want to consider a genocide as a systematic killing of a group of people they have genocide built into Sharia law right now so no Iām not going to cry a fucking river when people who have genocide thatās baked into their laws are getting genocided,ā Hoyt said duringĀ a portion of the stream that was clippedĀ and shared on social media (the original VOD doesnāt appear to be online). āI donāt give a fuck. Theyāre terrible people. Itās not even a question. Itās crazy people donāt see it that way. Theyād be doing the same thing.ā
coughs
Well, you could argue the opportunity to ban all his channels and the opportunity to ban him for more than 14 days were both lost here.
Itās a temporary ban. That is less of a consequence than what youād face for airing a little too much copyrighted content or something, except for saying shit that could have come from Hitlerās mouth.
Hitler probably would not have supported a Jewish ethnostate
I stand corrected
Letās not pretend he wouldnāt have let them do their own purges and destabilize the region before coming to dismantle them.
Or maybe the meth would fuel more bad decisionsā¦
Youāre probably not realizing how anti-semitic the formation of Israel was. Look at it this way: the colonial powers that won WW2 decided it was better to steal land and push their Jewish populations there, rather than offer their Jewish populations protection domestically.
With that in mind, its not much of a surprise that Hitler was also for the expulsion of Jewish people from Europe.
Thatās true, I was in fact wholly unaware. Human history just gets worse the more you learn, huh?
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Actually, temp bans on twitch are deadly to streamers. With the way discovery on twitch works, it rewards consistency. If you have a week off, you can lose like 20% of your subscriptions. Itās insane how quickly this can kill popular channels. After a month youāre starting from scratch.
For established streamers like him though? Probably slap on the wrist
Dude is alt-right lite cosplaying as a centrist, heās only been getting more extreme and his chat is a cesspool.
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Well, he takes full responsibility of the way he lives. He doesnt blame anyone else but himself.
Oh, sorry, I wasnāt super clear - never met an alt-righter with a clean room, no matter what JBP tells them.
From
āThey are the inferior raceā
to
āThey are the inferior cultureā
All in a span of 80 years. Never again something somethingā¦
Surprised it took this long, heās been saying this same shit on Twitch for years now.
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Whatās the purpose of your post? It comes off as agreement with his message at worst, and an irrelevant non sequitor at best.
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That doesnāt make any sense. Heās a valuable addition toā¦ What general community, humanity? I mean, Iām not disputing that he has a following, I just donāt see how that has anything to do with the discussion around his self-professed and now recanted dogshit awful opinions about the lives of other humans.
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I guess I just donāt understand the relevance of his other opinions to the discussion about the specific ones weāre talking about.
āI was served a plate of raw chicken tendersā āThe chef usually makes Michelin quality mealsā
It just doesnāt advance the actual discussion.
could you give an example of some of his valuable opinions?
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Most of his followers are probably terrible people too.
correct, they are largely incels. I know one IRL, hes in his early 30s and only has 4 teeth left and said he admires asmon and looks up to him more than anyone else because of how he lives his life.
So does kamala and trumpā¦ Whatās your point?
lmfao what
No he isnt lmao
Wasnāt he also amplifying the torches and pitchforks around Sweet Baby?
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You can make out of context things sound like a controversy when youāve got an angry influencer and a large audience. Then people start making up conspiracy theories about turning characters black.
I like watching his gaming stuff didnt know he thinks Palestinians are bellow him. There are plenty of other streamers to watch. See ya racist fuck!
I like watching his reviews of new mmos and games, usually mine and his taste in gaming align, but I have known for a long time he is an asshole. But this one was a new public low for him (donāt doubt he has said way worse shit in private though).
called it a while ago actually:
People still read Kotaku?
I wonder what would happen if he questioned the Holocaustā¦
To askā¦
ā¦where are you going with this.
Difference in treatment for the two genocides
Are you saying he would get a harsher treatment if he denied the Holocaust? Genocide denial of any kind should result in a ban.
I mean not much lost. Itās was his alt account.
EDIT Even after he bent the knee and apologized, it still isnāt enough. Lesson here is never apologize to them. It never going to be enough for them.
It is actually enough to twitch, as the ban supposedly only lasts 14 days. In my opinion thatās just not enough though. Genocide can never under any circumstances be justified. Every human is the same. I cannot compromise on that. Influencers like him have a responsibility to society equal to their reach and āinfluenceā (and they truly do influence some people), and any vile comment from him is going to get many more followers than a vile comment from you. Even if he believes that genocide can be justified and that a people can be concentrated and murdered for decades and thatās okay, he should never be allowed to say it and get away with that. Thatās a permanent infraction.
Wtf are you talking?
Mods can I please insult this guy
Wtf are you talking?
He apologized for his shit take and they still banned him. So why apologize? That was my point.
A weak ass āmy badā is not an apology.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
My partner and I had a roommate whose āapologyā was always āmy badā
Fucking infuriating insincere bullshit
āIām sorry you found my actions hurtful.ā
Have you never learned the words āremorseā or ārepentanceā? These are not mutually exclusive with consequences.
Also he didnāt even apologise. Wtf is āmy badā?
Mods can I also get a pass to insult this guy?
