He never paid any price his his rampant sexism, racism or ableism, and now it's too late to care? Despite evidence this has seen no change in the person involved and they continue to keep these views intact.
He's not. Poster is probably alluding to the 'Make Azeroth Great Again' hat he occasionally wore in the past which is nothing more than a meme.
"Rampant sexism, racism or ableism"
Nah, I just live in a world where I'd like to interact with more people than within my tiny bubble. So do you for example shy away from Zepla too who seems like a decent person, but she interacts with asmongold as well. Despite what you think, I really doubt there hundreds and thousands of streamers that are the paragon of social consciousness and have good content. Even if you think they are "Good" don't be too surprised when they get "exposed" as well.
Generally I agree with this post too.Asmon has some shitty takes but I wouldn't call him racist considering he's banned people saying racist trash in his chat and even got somebody banned in WoW for having a racist name.
and has talked about racism and how its a huge issue in wow
He's been pretty consistent on not letting any racism fly in his community.
Also the whole "he's a trump supporter" take is like not telling the whole story. Yes he voted trump in 2016, but the amount of criticism of trump in 2019/2020 was quite large.
a number of the stuff in the OP asmongold has addressed/clarified. I'm not saying that absolves him of all fault but its not like it was swept under the rug.
At least the king of "heated gamer moments" isn't on FF XIV…right?
Apparently using autism as a term of abuse is an opinion now.
That's worse. Playing an awful character with the harm to people they punch down upon that brings for profit.
He is no Stephen Colbert in Colbert Report, I'll say that much.
"He's only racist/ableist for the money" doesn't seem better to me.
I'll admit I don't frequent the sub Reddit but what little I see of the XIV side of Twitter there are plenty who I see defend him in reply's to tweets about him. Not to mention the aforementioned content creators who've been pushing the dude on the community at every opportunity and avenue. Creators like Zepla and Desperious have been simping for this dude for ages and it's bizarre. Especially when it seems like they should definitely know better. But in any case my evidence outside of ERA at least is mostly anecdotal but I don't think it's crazy to say that there isn't a sizable portion of the community that likes him. Hell, his very presence basically crashed one of the starting cities in the game when he did his first stream for gods sake.
Asmongold isn't a racist. Perhaps put at least some consideration into the labels you put on someone.
I've seen evidence that points otherwise. He might not be a KKK grand wizard, but he acts very much like a racist/ableist.
No shit Zeo, I read the OP. Thats not even Asmongold in the pictophile photo, and his response to the tweet is obviously a joke. If you actually think he is genuinely telling the world he is a 'racist everywhere' then god help you.I asked people to read the entire OP before posting.
I can't agree with you there. I don't want to bar WoW players from playing the game. I think it's great that more people want to play the game. Especially WoW players, they got it rough over there. They gotta deal with Blizzard. I just want the community to stop propping up a bigot as a new pillar of the community. He can play the game all he wants even. I don't care. I just want the community to be better.
He's actually making fun of the dumb tweet he's replying to that asked if he is racist only on pictograph, or everywhere. Its a ludicrous thing to ask someone when its not even him in that image, but someone impersonating him on the app. I can't believe I even have to explain this to someone.
No he didn't. Did you even watch the video yourself? He literally says in the video it is not okay to use racial slurs in any situation. If you want to start pulling up videos, how about these?
