WHAT ARE YOUR OPINIONS ON THE RECENT PEWDIEPIE CONTRYVERSY?

author=halibabica
Have you ever sworn at a video game that pissed you off?

No?

I'm saying the guy got caught saying a seriously offensive word on camera, in front of the whole world. Why is your reaction to fall over yourself apologizing for him and insisting it doesn't mean anything?

He gets paid millions of dollars to play video games. There are only a few very simple rules. 'Don't use your platform to act like a white supremacist,' and 'don't say the N-word out loud where anyone can hear you.'

It's not a high bar to clear. But he failed at both. And you're insisting that we lower the bar for acceptable behavior even lower.

Be prepared to be defending this guy a lot. It's gonna keep happening.

author=halibabica
but I've been watching the man for years and I seriously doubt he holds any irrational hatred in his heart.

Racism often doesn't look like irrational hatred. It catches on because to some people it might sound reasonable, rational, or at worst, harmless.

author=Solitayre
He gets paid millions of dollars to play video games

You are SERIOUSLY overestimating the amount of money that people on Youtube make. By a factor of about a hundred times.

God damn. I wonder if that's just for him personally, or for his whole company including his editing and marketing staff.

author=Dyhalto
"Dune coon"

What's that?

I have a lot of sympathy for the notion that we shouldn't be too quick to jump on people publicly for perceived social transgressions, since it's very easy for those sorts of dogpiles to become self-reinforcing, and to ignore any sort of exonerating evidence. And I've been in the position myself of being accused of being racist by people who weren't inclined to accept any evidence to the contrary, while on the other hand my black/hispanic girlfriend is strongly convinced that I'm not.

But if a person unthinkingly uses racial slurs when they get worked up and don't think they're being subject to public scrutiny, I'd take that as pretty strong evidence of prejudice. It doesn't take a great deal of consideration to avoid using slurs which aren't normalized in public conversation. I know a fair number of pretty racist people, and most of them don't use racial slurs even in private, but all the people I've met who use racial slurs also display strong prejudice in other ways. There's a big difference between using words like "lame," which some people might take as indicative of an implicit prejudiced attitude, but which most people will realistically tend to pick up unthinkingly as a reflection of how the people around them talk, and using words which can get you in big trouble if you're caught using them in public.

I'm not a fan of PewDiePie to be honest, and i do remember him just for his awful tendency to scream over at horror games for every jumpscare he gets, every error he does in games, even at minor scares. Thought all of this what i remember is just his old self... but when i saw about this, i have no words.

I've never liked PewDiePie because there's few people who think he's a god of YouTube, when i'm just nearly done with YouTube as once it has turned into a site for the young non-teenagers kids. My brother, being also a YouTuber, also knows this guy, thought he doesn't watch his video but track his subscribers.

I don't know why people like him even for his stupid stuff he did. I'm sorry.