PewDiePie calls someone a "fucking n****r" during PUBG livestream

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Only place Cunt appears to hold weight as a sexual based slur is here funny enough. I may be wrong.

A thread wouldn't be made of him saying fucking cunt and if it was, make threads bout me because I have yelled fucking thundercunt cum dumpster while getting annoyed. funny enough, no racial slurs. hmmmmm
 
Cunt is absolutely a loaded word in a significant part of the world. If Pewdiepie livestreamed himself calling someone a cunt, I imagine the public reaction would be largely similar.

Absolutely not. At most, some eyebrows would be raised. At most.

Nah, it would definitely happen.

Come on.
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Well, I counter your certainty that it would happen with my certainty that it would not happen. So HA!
 
Shit like this is one of the many reasons why it's tough to take gaming as a serious medium. Youtubers are defending this guy but imo he's putting youtubers in a terrible position with his antics, if anything he should be thrown way under the bus by them
The fact that they're not speaks volumes and should tell you ALL you need to know about their own opinions on race relations.
 
Only place Cunt appears to hold weight as a sexual based slur is here funny enough. I may be wrong.

You're wrong. I think a lot of America sees it as a pretty off-limits word. Call someone a cunt at work, you'll probably be fired. It still does not hold the weight of the n-word. I honestly don't know if there's a more hateful word in our vocabulary. It's literally putting an entire group of people on the same plane and worth as a piece of property. A piece of property that you basically have to put up with as a necessary evil. Something dirty and reviled.

It's funny, because in the case of boogie, if someone called him fat, they'd be an asshole, but they'd technically be stating the truth. Calling someone a nigger is just a way to put a false representation on someone else with the intent of putting them under your boot. People who use that word in that kind of hateful way are basically claiming that that person isn't even on the same level as other humans. You're not a person, you're a nigger. It's use is disgusting in every way and never acceptable.
 
I ran this by my Canadian friend and she says she is fine with the word.

I'm Canadian, as well. I've only really heard the word said in The Sopranos and Game of Thrones, and general internet goings-on. I'm not one to say it, but if someone were to say it in front of me, I'd mostly be surprised by the rarity of the word than the word itself.

Canadian women are likely the better consensus on this, though.

(Although this is all a massive tangent at this point.)

Cool dude. I asked my other Canadian friend and she said it's really bad. Lets both go ask more people and get back to each other in five.

I hope you're not texting or DM'ing friends and asking them how bad "cunt" is at 1 in the morning...
 
I decided to catch up on some DrDisRespect tonight and ended up hearing his take which really bummed me out

If the past few years have taught anyone anything. Is that your favorite celeb. Or people you think are cool. Are probably shit deep down.

These people are "actors"/entertainers. They know how to put on a facade long enough to rope you in. The problem is that let that facade drop in situations like this.
 
Cunt isn't that shoking of a slur.

It's like #3-ish range in the top ten of the bad words ladder. #1 being any racial hate words and #2 being the brain disfunctions diseases category. Rarely I see it being used in a mysoginistic way, more like an "You're an asshole" kind of way.

Yeah, I just made that ladder up, but it kinda works lol.
 
You're wrong. I think a lot of America sees it as a pretty off-limits word. Call someone a cunt at work, you'll probably be fired. It still does not hold the weight of the n-word. I honestly don't know if there's a more hateful word in our vocabulary. It's literally putting an entire group of people on the same plane and worth as a piece of property. Something dirty and reviled.

It's funny, because in the case of boogie, if someone called him fat, they'd be an asshole, but they'd technically be stating the truth. Calling someone a nigger is just a way to put a false representation on someone else with the intent of putting them under your boot. People who use that word in that kind of hateful way are basically claiming that that person isn't even on the same level as other humans. You're not a person, you're a nigger. It's use is disgusting in every way and never acceptable.


Calling someone any swear word at work seriously can get you fired at most jobs.
 
Boogie's "centrist" view comes off as insincere. Like he agrees with these bad people he's defending while trying to keep his audience by not confirming it.

How hard is it to just condemn someone for using a word? Or just don't talk about it if you're going to give this wishy washy bs
 
Depends on the context in which it's said, but I think it'd be pretty weird for someone to fire someone else for saying Damn, Hell, or possibly even Piss. I mean, we're in PG-13 terms by this point.

I'm specifically talking about words with a target. Dropping a fuck or a shit when something goes wrong usually isn't a big deal.
 
They in no way, shape or form implied you are white. Their comment about white adults refers to PDP and how he's been treated like a delicate baby that doesn't know any better, rather than an adult.
Apologies if that was confusing. I was referring to how he more than once noted I would not call Pewdiepie a racist (because I think he's more of an idiot and troublemaker than that) and would seemingly not condemn racists even though I named two by name very specifically. If that was not the underlying subtext (that I am white too and knighting for Pewdiepie despite going after him in every post I've made for various reasons), I apologize for taking it the wrong way or mischaracterizing his intent.

Naw, I just know a racist sympathizer when I see one. You arent fooling anyone.
Just to clarify: Am I the racist sympathizer or is Pewdiepie? Both?

For the rest of your post, it's just more apology for PDP. As I said, there is nothing that will make you call him a racist. That much is crystal clear.
I laid out clear criteria for what I expect from a racist mind and what I would need to hear to think he is a racist instead of an idiot. Just reading your posts would give the impression I'm a fan of his, always acting in his defense no matter the situation. I don't like him or any content he has yet produced. If he meets that criteria in the coming days with his responses, he would be more racist than manchild.

I can only say I have no interest in defending Pewdiepie in any uncertain terms. I only want to be fair, honest, and forthright in how I approach the situation. Even though I don't like him, I am not willing to call him a racist if he has not demonstrated himself to be one to me. We do not have to agree and clearly will not.

Between these two statements, I have to ask what exactly you think is being done to PDP? The worst thing to happen to him in this fallout is that Campo Santos has threatened to DMCA takedown vids he makes of their games and people have called him out and vowed no to contribute to him. Some who are just reiterating their commitment after his last bigoted display. He's not in handcuffs, he's not in jail or on the chopping block. People like Got and other minorities and other people in general have every right to call him out and drop him from their lives. If PDP is ignorant which I doubt, no one is under any obligation to educate him particularly since he is a grown man with resources he can access on his own to see why people in and out of his community don't like that he used a racial epithet. He still has one of YT highest subscription counts and is still a powerhouse so I don't know where this image of him "disappearing" or being "done away with" that youve conjured up is coming from.
Just so we are clear, I'm not the one who proposed him going away or disappearing. That is 100% in response to an earlier post by another member. I was like you responding to that idea and didn't conjure it up myself.

I am fully in support of anyone boycotting Pewdiepie or any of the other YT personalities over their politics or content (Pewdiepie especially because he's lowest common denominator). They are all free to protest his content and drop him and absolutely should whether it's this incident or for any other reason they disagree with. I am already boycotting his usual content because I find it to be utterly mindless.
 
Depends on the context in which it's said, but I think it'd be pretty weird for someone to fire someone else for saying Damn, Hell, or possibly even Piss. I mean, we're in PG-13 terms by this point.

Calling someone a prick, or a shithead, or a mother fucker, can get you fired at work. Cunt is absolutely a swear word. It is absolutely vulgar. It is not on the level of nigger. Not even remotely. And trying to play slur Olympics only serves to deflect and detract from the conversation and is incredibly disingenuous.
 
Boogie's "centrist" view comes off as insincere. Like he agrees with these bad people he's defending while trying to keep his audience by not confirming it.

How hard is it to just condemn someone for using a word? Or just don't talk about it if you're going to give this wishy washy bs

He's pegged as Youtube's quintessential "good guy"

Sitting on the sidelines takes away that leverage so he much rather sit on the fence and make it look like he's fighting the good fight
 
Or maybe you can see how pointless your hot take is to the thread and how meaningless anecdotes are?

What anecdote did I say?

Cunt being a sexist slur isn't an anecdote or a "hot take", it's a matter of public record that basically everyone who isn't trying to damage control their use of offensive language in a NeoGAF thread concerned with the use of offensive language agrees on.

Calling someone a prick, or a shithead, or a mother fucker, can get you fired at work. Cunt is absolutely a swear word. It is absolutely vulgar. It is not on the level of nigger. Not even remotely. And trying to play slur Olympics only serves to deflect and detract from the conversation and is incredibly disingenuous.

Nobody has said it was. But unless you're prepared to tell me that the list of words people shouldn't say begins and ends with the n-word, it's probably worth evaluating the language we use in a thread literally all about the language some guy used.
 
Calling someone a prick, or a shithead, or a mother fucker, can get you fired at work. Cunt is absolutely a swear word. It is absolutely vulgar. It is not on the level of nigger. Not even remotely. And trying to play slur Olympics only serves to deflect and detract from the conversation and is incredibly disingenuous.

You need to go re-read my posts on this very page if this was directed at me.
 
I'm surprised how easily people are playing into a topic-change derail. Even though it reeks of insincerity, it doesn't matter if it was deliberate or not.
 

Getting really sick of these "popular" white dudes passing moral judgements over the use of a word that does not even target them. Who the fuck cares what they think? Shut the hell up and sit the fuck down, you're only making it worse.

And on that note, let's also not provide fuel to the fire of proven alt-right provocateurs, independent of the color of their skin...
 
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