I really have no clue how people can defend these statements. Guy is holding himself out to be a coach, professional, etc. What do you think would happen to Runitonce if Phil Galfond had an outburst like this? 2p2 if Mason Malmuth did? The Clippers if Donald Sterling....wait. The first two guys would never do something like this because they are intelligent and thoughtful people. If it is funny or satire your twitch station is like a mini-TV station and being a poker player is like running your own business and there are ways to destroy it.
This applies to streamers as well. Pewdiepie streams 40+ hours a week(? no clue I just know he's the biggest streamer I made that number up) and cost himself tens of millions of dollars through racist associations. I don't think Pewdiepie is a racist just stupid and an *******. I can't imagine Shroud or a "mature" streamer saying something like this even though they stream 60+ hours a week.
Brokenstars got banned from Twitch (I think; or he closed the account) over the clip. It violates ToS. I both reported him when it happened and I sent the clip to a friend who works at Twitch to make sure it happened. Even if civilized society is wrong and this stuff is actually the height of comedy uh too bad Twitch doesn't give a platform to hate speech.
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Originally Posted by Eriksonn
I see racist coward afraid. Why not post to Twitter and Facebook see what ex boss and followers feel.
I was watching the stream and I am Jewish...it was ****ing offensive and not funny. It's not "virtue signaling" to say that if someone said that to my face I would commit a felony on theirs....I know that violence is bad but everyone has a breaking point. That is mine w/e. People do get worked up and emotional over certain things as is their right.
I was planning disseminating the clip if Mason hadn't made a sincere apology in the thread. Unprompted he also sent me a pretty thoughtful PM apologizing. So he is cool now in my book and I hope people have learned something from this. Hopefully can move on.
Last edited by djz; 07-04-2019 at 05:11 PM.