Twitch Streamer Asmongold Banned After Racist Rant About Palestinians [Update]
Twitch Streamer Asmongold Banned After Racist Rant About Palestinians [Update]
The streamer said Muslims come from 'an inferior culture' and will reportedly be banned for 14 days
Twitch streamer and famous YouTuber Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt has had his zackrawrr account banned after a racist rant about Muslims and Palestinians killed in Gaza went viral on social media. “My bad,” he shared on X (formerly Twitter) following an online backlash. “Looking back on it, I was way too much of an asshole about the Palestine thing.” His other Twitch channel, Asmongold, remains up.
In addition to playing games, Hoyt frequently livestreams extended chat sessions where he comments on other people’s YouTube videos or whatever topics are gaining traction on his dedicated subreddit. In the midst of a recent livestream, he began talking about Israel’s war on Gaza, which the Gaza Health Ministry says has killed over 40,000 Palestinians since it began just over a year ago following the October 7 attack by Hamas.
“If 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 I’m not going to cry a fucking river when people who have genocide that’s baked into their laws are getting genocided,” Hoyt said during a portion of the stream that was clipped and shared on social media (the original VOD doesn’t appear to be online). “I don’t give a fuck. They’re terrible people. It’s not even a question. It’s crazy people don’t see it that way. They’d be doing the same thing.”
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59Well, 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.
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It's a temporary ban. That is less of a consequence than what you'd face for airing a little too much copyrighted content or something, except for saying shit that could have come from Hitler's mouth.
43Hitler probably would not have supported a Jewish ethnostate
8Let's not pretend he wouldn't have let them do their own purges and destabilize the region before coming to dismantle them.
Or maybe the meth would fuel more bad decisions....
7You're 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.
6Well there was the Madagascar plan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan
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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. It's insane how quickly this can kill popular channels. After a month you're starting from scratch.
For established streamers like him though? Probably slap on the wrist
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24Dude is alt-right lite cosplaying as a centrist, he's only been getting more extreme and his chat is a cesspool.
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"They are the inferior race"
to
"They are the inferior culture"
All in a span of 80 years. Never again something something...
19Surprised it took this long, he's been saying this same shit on Twitch for years now.
15I 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!
14I 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 (don't doubt he has said way worse shit in private though).
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called it a while ago actually:
7People still read Kotaku?
2I wonder what would happen if he questioned the Holocaust...
To ask...
-2…where are you going with this.
4Difference in treatment for the two genocides
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Are you saying he would get a harsher treatment if he denied the Holocaust? Genocide denial of any kind should result in a ban.
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I mean not much lost. It's was his alt account.
EDIT Even after he bent the knee and apologized, it still isn’t enough. Lesson here is never apologize to them. It never going to be enough for them.
-42It is actually enough to twitch, as the ban supposedly only lasts 14 days. In my opinion that’s 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 “influence” (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 that’s okay, he should never be allowed to say it and get away with that. That’s a permanent infraction.
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