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Twitch Streamer Asmongold Banned After Racist Rant About Palestinians [Update] (kotaku.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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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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[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Hitler probably would not have supported a Jewish ethnostate

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

Let'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....

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You'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.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's true, I was in fact wholly unaware. Human history just gets worse the more you learn, huh?

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

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