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deadmau5 banned from twitch for using homophobic slur on a twitch livestream against a "stream sniper"
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Imagine thinking that calling someone a f-word is 'harmless shit' and it is somehow 'tone policing double standard'.
Fuck that guy, good riddance.
Fuck that guy, good riddance.
I'm sure there's a bunch of people now who are happy they pirated his music instead of giving him money.
I remember when Ryan did this on a Giant Bomb stream. His reaction in the moment and his statement about it were very good. This is like the opposite.
Yes straight dude, please tell me more about how homophobic slurs are "harmless shit." You know so much better than the people who have been harmed by the word or viciously attacked while people have screamed it at them. š
Never cared for him and yet I'm still disappointed.
The excuse is fucking dumb too. The person just shot at the giant target you paint on your back and didn't deserve any harrassment.
The excuse is fucking dumb too. The person just shot at the giant target you paint on your back and didn't deserve any harrassment.
Give me a break. Tons of people say dumb stuff in their younger years. Even very progressive people like Austin Walker admits to saying bad shit as a teen. You mature, you grow up, you learn from it. That's how life works. It's different to being 38 and still doing it.
Yeah they have a weird thing with banning, the whole idea of reduced punishment also irks me. Of those 3 streamers only Trihex made any effort to mature and improve himself and his stream.
User Banned (1 Week): Excusing the use of hate speech and slurs
Because some of us, like myself, grew up using those words as insults. I would never consciously use them now to put down someone else because I know it's just a hateful word. But there have absolutely been times in the past 5-10 years where if I got really angry at something, my brain just starts dumping out words and sometimes those sneak in there. It's not like I stop and think of the best combination of bad words, shit just comes out.
So to me, when I see people jump all over Deadmau5, calling him a racist and bashing his music, I see it as an overreaction. Because I've done it and I know who I am and where I stand. People say really stupid things when their angry.
Twitch actually banned him? I'm really surprised, they wouldn't even permaban a piece of shit who hit his girlfriend on stream. Not to mention people like Ninja saying slurs, DrDisrespect being racist as fuck, and the list goes on sadly. Hopefully this is the start of Twitch not being tolerant of the intolerant.
Rod Breslau chimed in by stating that calling someone a "fucking cock-sucking stream sniper f*g" should not be ban-worthy given the "context and intent", and that Twitch has become a "battleground" for what can or cannot be said.
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From NYC no less, get the fuck outta here
Even if using the word could be forgiveable, the "apology" that is basically "I don't need to defend myself obviously it was harmless" is not an apology.
"Because some of us, like myself, grew up using those words as insults"
And there you go. The words aren't appearing out of thin air, that was the person you quoted point. And if you still find yourself using those slurs regardless how "heated" you get when so many other people can get through "heated" moments then I'm not really believing said person has grown up and they are showing me their true self. It's not a Herculean task to not use hurtful specific slurs.
Couple that with a non-apology and a defense of its "not that big of a deal, it's not who I am, you all should just forgive me and move on" that frequently follows this shit, yea, not buying nor do I have to buy it. If it's not you, start proving it.
Good riddance. It's always a good test to see how people react to certain things when they're angry. No one "accidentally" blurts racial, or in this case, homophobic slurs when enraged if they don't normally have that kind of mindset in their normal daily lives.
Sadly, even though these outbursts of self exposures have been rampant in these few past years, most of the time nothing changes. Shitty people continue to spread their toxicity after they go with the usual "Heat of the moment, sorry, blah blah...".
Sadly, even though these outbursts of self exposures have been rampant in these few past years, most of the time nothing changes. Shitty people continue to spread their toxicity after they go with the usual "Heat of the moment, sorry, blah blah...".
Yes. Some people do say really stupid shit when they're angry.
Which does not mean that being angry is in any way a pass to say stupid shit.
If you start throwing out racist shit when you're mad, then you're a racist, plain and simple. Your emotional state doesn't suddenly make you not a racist. If someone doesn't want to be called a racist, then they shouldn't say racist shit at all. If they can't help it, then that either means that the racism is so deeply ingrained in them that it's a core part of who they are, whether they like it or not, or that they aren't really trying to change.
If you yourself are throwing out these words when you get upset, then it is fully on you to cut that shit out. No one is owed a pass to be a bigot for any reason, my god.
Imagine not being able to find any other word to describe someone's shitty behavior than a slur. Shoulda left dead maul five in 2008.
deadmau5 is almost 40, still acts like a 15 year old on Xbox live. I like the dude's performance, and his music, but his bully attitude has always been obnoxious. And I mean, if you can't grow up and realize why the word itself is inappropriate then you gotta just eat your ban.
Never heard of him but he sounds pathetic to self proclaim his actions as "harmless" and insult anyone who would think otherwise. Take responsibility, try to think of the victims instead of yourself and attempt to learn and become a better person like an actual adult. I wonder how people like this would ever hope to operate in society when the day comes where they can no longer make a living from playing video games in their bedroom.
Wow what an asshole. What he said is absolutely inexcusable. Why not just make a real apology and not do it again?
Yeah thats really the big difference. Trihex had a good apology as well when he said faggot on stream:
User Banned (1 Week): Excusing the use of hate speech and slurs
Yeah, we learned and used the word when we were younger (flemish translation anyways) but we never use them when referencing gay-people. Mostly politicians, or people who can't drive. That's why nobody bats an eye here when you say the Flemish word. I can understand when you say it to a gay person he could get offended, but i'm not sure Deadmaus said it to a gay person.
This post isn't meant to justify hateful speech in any way, but from my point of view it shouldn't be seen as homophobic
EDIT: not defending deadmaus. Don't give a shit about his music, i just now him from Goat Simulator. Just giving my opinion
When it becomes so self indoctrinated that you no longer notice the ramifications of your own words. Or perhaps he merely didn't care as it seems quite evident with many who spew hateful slurs and normalize them.
It's 2019, this isn't something you slip out. He knew better, but he had to get that word out. Let him pay the price for his actions.
It's 2019, this isn't something you slip out. He knew better, but he had to get that word out. Let him pay the price for his actions.
Fuck off homophobic garbage. No apology either. Bye.
He was right about twitch having double standards though so.
He was right about twitch having double standards though so.
When not spouting slurs requires superhuman efforts, volume 2471.
His non-apology is from that era too.
The result of a few generations of people conditioned to use homophobic slurs as edgy tough talk - and defending their usage while avoiding the truth that these slurs were adopted in the first place because they associated negative things with gay people.
The only reason you call someone a f**got or call something "gay" is exactly because homophobic culture equated being gay with weakness, perversion, and inferiority.
The only reason you call someone a f**got or call something "gay" is exactly because homophobic culture equated being gay with weakness, perversion, and inferiority.
Seeing the responses in Slashers tweet boiling down to
Yeah he said a slur but what about THE TITTY STREAMERS playing Just Dance!!!!!
So pitiful
Yeah he said a slur but what about THE TITTY STREAMERS playing Just Dance!!!!!
So pitiful
