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[BGBW]

People were counting banned anime avatars before, those were up to 52.

That was just banned users, not users with anime avatars.

 

[Trago]

I love the slip-up excuse. Take it from someone who's lived in the south and gone to school with racists and has taken racial abuse verbally, you definitely don't just slip up with that kind of word. You can totally tell if someone uses racial slurs casually.

 

[hbkdx12]

He's talking about the Campo Santo stuff.

And honestly, this is the hole people like PDP have dug and dragged the entire community into. I woke up this morning to a long twitter tirade from total biscuit about how he thinks it's bullshit that the youtube community has to quantify the fact that most of them aren't racist and how bullshit he thinks it is that not being racist isn't the default mindset you have towards these people.

There's a reason for that John. More and more high profile youtubers show themselves to be massive racists as the days go on. It paints all gamers in a negative light and, yes, now more than ever, you're going to have to quanitfy your beliefs because not being racist is no longer the default. People like JonTron, PDP, Boogie and all their apologists have removed the benefit of the doubt you once had.

Sorry. But that's where we're at.



AGAIN, the question that no one defending this seems to be able to answer, how many times does he have to use racial epithets on stream in front of millions before you start questioning whether or not he's racist? Because this is like the 4th or 5th documented time.

Like, real talk, if the New York Times comes after you and calls you racist, you can't, just months later, slip up and start using "niggers" on your stream. He should know better. Or maybe he just doesn't because this is how he actually feels.

It doesn't help that all the top youtubers all coddle each other and excuse these kind of actions by riding the fence and acting like these things are simple mistakes and random slips of the tongue

So TB can hopefully forgive me if i don't have any tears to give to his plight of paying for PDP's mistakes

 

[Snkfanatic]

Why do I always hear this idiotic defense of someone using a racist slur mentioning a "word's power". It just seems like ridiculous deflection.....am I wrong in this? I saw it a lot on Twitter last night dealing with this and I am just baffled by it. Who gives a shit about a "word's power"....just don't fucking say it. It's not hard to not use a very hurtful/racist word.

 

[Banzai]

I already made sure that my little brother isn't watching his stuff after the last couple of blunders. This asshole shouldn't be watched by anyone, much less children.

 

[Lightning_Roller]

It's saddening, but when we have the early chain of commentaries and views about this are popping up on YT, their line appears to be 'fence-sit' like Boogie, or defend him and dog-whistle about the word being used by black people, followed by seemingly sporadic none-acknowledgement by any of his peers, or larger YT channels in general, you have to limit how much sympathy you can give these people if they aren't going to defend the integrity of their profession.

Yeah. At least some youtubers are calling out PDP for his shit, like Nerdcubed. Respect for that dude. But seriously, if youtubers don't want to lose their gravy train, then they need to crack down on this shit as much as Google. Even if it means calling out other youtubers.

 

[Daouzin]

This fucking guy....I shouldn't be surprised, Mr. let's all meet in the middle...

Boogie is a completely idiotic dope....

Yup! That's why I can't ever subscribe to his channel or Phillip de Franco. Every time they have an opportunity to speak up against racism and intolerance they don't.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[MrBadger]

I think Pewdiepie needs to realise that he's a huge celebrity and the shit he does reflects badly on the platform that profits off his content.

Also there really is no excuse for casually saying the N-word.

 

[Septimius]

The fuck is Boogie on about here, LMAO. Calling someone a "fucking nigger" is personal politics? Alright then.

Holy fuck. I completely abandoned Boogie with the last round of PDP news. Deciding who can't play a game? I mean, I am all for SidAlpha's video saying you can't just break an express contract of allowing let's plays when someone does something you don't like, in regard to the Firewatch dev saying they would DMCA strike PDPs videos "to not allow him to make money off of it". However, Boogie is out of touch, thinking this discussion has anything to do with personal politics, and not some idiot breaking a service's TOS.

For all of Boogie's cowardly "let's all not judge" and utter lack of ability to take a stance, I really would have thought he understood the difference of TOS and free speech.

 

[orava]

As a nordic white male who likes to play games,

 

[TatteredHat]

That was just banned users, not users with anime avatars.

Oh, even more accurate then.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

After watching the longer video and both of them talking about how unfair things will be for him because he used this word after getting upset. Well duh.

I don't get it why is this word in his lexicon of angry reactions in the first place?

 

[Messofanego]

"Those accused of uttering slurs can defend themselves against this charge of racism by insisting that the utterance in question is “not a slur.” In the case of gaffes or slips, the defense focuses, not on the words, but on the speaker. The speaker is defended as “not a racist,” but as someone who has uttered racist words without having racist beliefs or intentions. The actual linguistic content of slurs and gaffes can be identical; one commentator’s slur is another’s gaffe. And both types of metalinguistic discourses – defending words in the case of slurs, but speakers in the case of gaffes – reproduce racializing stigma, protect White virtue, and advance White privilege by denying the existence of White racism."
From The Everyday Language of White Racism by Jane H. Hill

That's a great quote.

 

[Tecnniqe]

Not only did Pewd show himself as an idiot but everyone else is too.

 

[Mesoian]

Yeah. At least some youtubers are calling out PDP for his shit, like Nerdcubed. Respect for that dude. But seriously, if youtubers don't want to lose their gravy train, then they need to crack down on this shit as much as Google. Even if it means calling out other youtubers.

I mean google ain't gonna do shit.

The next step is for people to actually distance themselves from people like this.

But hell man, IcePosideon still has tons of followers, so we'll see how that goes.

 

[Yearsoflurking]

Why do I always hear this idiotic defense of someone using a racist slur mentioning a "word's power". It just seems like ridiculous deflection.....am I wrong in this? I saw it a lot on Twitter last night dealing with this and I am just baffled by it. Who gives a shit about a "word's power"....just don't fucking say it. It's not hard to not use a very hurtful/racist word.

Those are typically the people who use the word around their friends and want to justify why they should be able to use it. Some of them may even have black "friend's" who they're abusive towards with such words as well as other coded racist language. Those people onTwitter are what you would call covert racist

 

[llien]

Learn the history behind the word.

Read the history behind the word

Do you mean this word?

Note the "other languages" part of the article. In most, but not all (e.g. not in Russia) such countries meaning is now changing (mostly US influence), but i can understand why reactions could be genuinely surprising to some.

I first came to my attention when Bill Maher apologized for using it.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

The fuck is Boogie on about here, LMAO. Calling someone a "fucking nigger" is personal politics? Alright then.

a racist can't make money off of the hard work of others, where is the scary as hell part? i guess it's scary if you're a racist yourself.

man these youtubers wanna be taken seriously except when it comes to consequences. replace "playing a game" (a profession) with any other profession, and "their personal politics" with "saying fucking n****r at work", is that scary as hell? because that's what this is.

 

[psychowave]

That Boogie shithead can go fuck himself. Has he ever done anything worthwhile with his life? Because as far as I know all he does is defend racists and nazis.

 

[BunnyBear]

I've always heard about this clown but never watched one of his videos. I checked out his page and watched the one about him whinging about Sarah Silverman. Why the fuck is he so popular? He's not witty or clever or charismatic whatsoever. He just smash cuts memes into his videos. Am I getting old? Am I out of touch? He's still the most popular Youtuber right? What the fuck.

 

[Messofanego]

After watching the longer video and both of them talking about how unfair things will be for him because he used this word after getting upset. Well duh.

I don't get it why is this word in his lexicon of angry reactions in the first place?

You know why. People don't just blurt out racist slurs in a fit of anger unless if it was already in use in their vocabulary.

Just like with this dude saying "Martin Luther coon"

 

[Septimius]

That Boogie shithead can go fuck himself. Has he ever done anything worthwhile with his life? Because as far as I know all he does is defend racists and nazis.

This is stooping too low. I think Boogie's tweet is weak as hell, but personal attacks shouldn't be a part of any discussion.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

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get on my non-biased level

 

[Mesoian]

I've always heard about this clown but never watched one of his videos. I checked out his page and watched the one about him whinging about Sarah Silverman. Why the fuck is he so popular? He's not witty or clever or charismatic whatsoever. He just smash cute memes into his videos. Am I getting old? Am I out of touch? He's still the most popular Youtuber right? What the fuck.

Let's put it this way.

Annoying Orange was on television for 9 seasons.

 

[Oersted]

I think Pewdiepie needs to realise that he's a huge celebrity and the shit he does reflects badly on the platform that profits off his content.

Also there really is no excuse for casually saying the N-word.

Felix knows. He just picked the "I'm untouchable" road instead of "I'm a grownup and I have a responsibility" one.

 

[Yopis]

Terrible stuff. Hope this clown pays the price. Shit is not funny.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

You know why. People don't just blurt out racist slurs in a fit of anger unless if it was already in use in their vocabulary.

Just like with this dude saying "Martin Luther coon"

that is why his defense makes no damn sense, you know the shit is offensive and you made it part of your vocabulary but you don't want people calling you a racist?

fuck that dude

 

[Paz]

The fuck is Boogie on about here, LMAO. Calling someone a "fucking nigger" is personal politics? Alright then.

we've reached insanity level 9.

 

[HazySaiyan]

This is stooping too low. I think Boogie's tweet is weak as hell, but personal attacks shouldn't be a part of any discussion.

Nah fuck him, whenever some prominent YouTuber does something bad he always crawls out of the wood work with his fence-sitting bullshit. He's complicit in racism.

 

[Stone Ocean]

The fuck is Boogie on about here, LMAO. Calling someone a "fucking nigger" is personal politics? Alright then.

Its the same shit that happened with Jon, Boogie is just a cowardly moderate who wants to be part of the discussion but doesnt have the guts to call anyone out, so he keeps spewing this CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG bullshit.

 

[Lightning]

I think Pewdiepie needs to realise that he's a huge celebrity and the shit he does reflects badly on the platform that profits off his content.

Also there really is no excuse for casually saying the N-word.

Unfortunately the reality is that's not PewDiePie's problem and he really doesn't need to worry about this sort of thing as much because of all the views and attention his YouTube channel gets and thus the advertising revenue he generates.

The same reason, popularity, that he gets singled out here where this is very very common on YouTube on several channels they don't get the same hammer cause no one gives a fuck about them.

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Let's put it this way.

Annoying Orange was on television for 9 seasons.

My mind is still boggled about how that happened. Like....out of all the potentially good pilots on the internet for cartoons, you pick annoying orange as a show. That's about as bad of an idea than that show "the problem solverz".

 

[Stead Fast]

we've reached insanity level 9.

No, this has been par the course for him for a long time now.

We're talking about a man who defended JonTron for 'trying' racism.

 

[Lord_Santa]

He just naturally blurted that out like it's natural. What a juvenile, stupid egg.

Clearly he uses that type of language when he's in private and not streaming. This wasn't a mistake, this is just him exposing himself.

 

[Widdle Puppy]

I actually took the time watch the video and.... holy fuck... what a shit head. You can tell he knew he fucked up big time lmao. That instant realization when his inner racist, which he tries so hard to keep hidden, rears it's ugly head.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Had he done live streams before this? Clearly doesn't have the personality to appear on anything not heavily edited.

Also, lol at all the Juniors showing up. There should be a count after all this of how many people were banned in this thread.

The worst part is the disappointment when you find out a personality you liked ends up siding with PewDiePie.

Ideally I hope that they would be able to look at the ISP numbers of these shits nuking their alt accounts and be able to compare them to other member accounts so anyone posting this crap or defending/downplaying his stuff can get a complete ban.

 

[Numb]

So many people putting their neck out for a racist

 

[Oersted]

The fuck is Boogie on about here, LMAO. Calling someone a "fucking nigger" is personal politics? Alright then.

Being racist without repercussions? Totes fine.


Not being able to play a videogame on a stream? Now THAT IS SCARY! SLIPPERY SLOPE!

/yes, sarcasm

 

[MKIL65]

Boogie is still a fence sitter, what a surprise!

Typical moderate.

 

[Daouzin]

Being racist without repercussions? Totes fine.


Not being able to play a videogame on a stream? Now THAT IS SCARY! SLIPPERY SLOPE!

Seriously, how they don't see this, or don't care is confusing.

Like you have zero legs to stand on if this is your position.

 

[Syf]

Yup! That's why I can't ever subscribe to his channel or Phillip de Franco. Every time they have an opportunity to speak up against racism and intolerance they don't.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

Yep. It's always excused, continues to be normalized, some youtubers have audiences millions strong and continue to act like these things are okay. More than any of us they have the ability to influence positive change and don't. It's gross.

 

[Interfectum]

Being racist without repercussions? Totes fine.


Not being able to play a videogame on a stream? Now THAT IS SCARY! SLIPPERY SLOPE!

Yup, Boogie needs to get some perspective.

If the Youtube gaming streamer market gets fucked because PDP is a racist, that's fine by me. Maybe it's not worth saving.

 

[bobbychalkers]

The fuck is Boogie on about here, LMAO. Calling someone a "fucking nigger" is personal politics? Alright then.

Years of unchecked racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia did this not personal politics. Advertisers are already sick of gamer bullshit and content creators themselves have the right to police their own IPs off the back of these issues as well. Instead of running to his defense, Boogie should grow a spine for once and call PDP out for making shit harder for every other channel to operate.

 

[EnVy_CaLiBeR]

Word is not acceptable for use in any way. What's even scarier is that you have people who will come up with excuses for shit like this.

 

[Meesh]

Late to the thread, wasn't sure I wanted to touch it, I mean I never liked the guy. Got this feeling all this negative press does is make him more popular in some strange way.
...my kids watch this guy on occasion...
Really his actions are inexcusable.

 

[BY2K]

Boogie will defend anything as long as it means he gets to keep making money off YouTube.

For him it's the end game.

"Can this potentially affect my job? Then I must defend it."

He even talks about that. "It's something else THEY can use to tear us apart." or something like that.

 

[psychowave]

This is stooping too low. I think Boogie's tweet is weak as hell, but personal attacks shouldn't be a part of any discussion.

Maybe he'll gain my respect once he stops patting the backs of white supremacists in order to fatten his bank account. Until then, he's a piece of shit.

 

[Lightning_Roller]

No, this has been par the course for him for a long time now.

We're talking about a man who defended JonTron for 'trying' racism.

Or as boogie put it, "trying on a different hat"......Euugh, I need to shower after typing that. Once again, fuck boogie.

So many people putting their neck out for a racist

And putting those necks right on the chopping block.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Nah fuck him, whenever some prominent YouTuber does something bad he always crawls out of the wood work with his fence-sitting bullshit. He's complicit in racism.

Its the same shit that happened with Jon, Boogie is just a cowardly moderate who wants to be part of the discussion but doesnt have the guts to call anyone out, so he keeps spewing this CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG bullshit.

Yeah, Boogie is a moron and complicit in all this. He's got a platform to tell his audience what others are saying is wrong and indefensible (don't forget that fucking idiot JonTron said that black people are genetically predisposed towards committing crime), and instead he acts all toothless and says we should respect their opinion while they're just trying new things.

 

[FaintDeftone]

I like Boogie, but come on dude. Please don't defend this shit, Boogie.