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[Tom Nook Sawyer]

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[SparkleMotion]

What's with gamers being alt-right? Is this a demographic thing?

Youtube and the gaming scene are rotten, i want out of this shit.

Unfortunately, it's pervasive in all aspects of American culture.

 

[Dinky Dino]

Dunno why someone in his line of work would be dumb enough to not hide his personal thoughts.

 

[HazySaiyan]

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He's fucked now this is gaining traction

 

[Mahonay]

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That headline greatly undersells the severity of his comments.

But good to see the story is getting picked up.

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

What's with gamers being alt-right? Is this a demographic thing?

Youtube and the gaming scene are rotten, i want out of this shit.

This is one heck of a generalization. There are no statistics whatsoever on what amount of gamers are this or that (there's really not even a definition on what a gamer is), so calm down. People are acting like the entire (enormous) gaming community is alt-right when it could very well just be a relatively vocal minority. Wouldn't be a the first time a vocal minority gives a bad name to a huge group of people.

 

[SerTapTap]

What's with gamers being alt-right? Is this a demographic thing?

Youtube and the gaming scene are rotten, i want out of this shit.

Did you not notice the last presidential election? This isn't gaming. This is, dreadfully, the general population.

 

[Mahonay]

Did you not notice the last presidential election? This isn't gaming. This is, dreadfully, the general population.

Roughly 30-40 percent of the general population.

The majority of our country are against these racist fuckwits.

 

[True Fire]

Not being funny but those that aren't progressive tend to be banned.

Neogaf's population has been screened for this type of shit fairly efficiently. Be careful it doesn't give you a distorted representation of who gamers actually are. For the most part they exhibit similar variance in personality and political views as the rest of the population.

It really shows when I end up going to midnight launches and stuff. Stand in line for Call of Duty and GTA and you'll often find yourself experiencing a whole other world of gaming culture, and in my opinion and experience, not a pleasant one.

Even with NeoGAF's screening, you still get dozens of neonazis in threads like this. Now extrapolate that for gamer venues with zero screening.

You can't even be openly female as a gamer, otherwise you're opening yourself up for harassment. It's a nightmare.

 

[TurboKiller]

Is that true about Ethan from H3H3?! Fuck; I'll have to stop watching that channel too if that's the case.

I don't think the pewdiepie situation is entirely comparable. He made some off brand "jokes", and while that may be seen as in bad taste it was just an attempt at humour (however shitty). Jontron seems to actually believe this shit!

On H3H3, I think he wouldn't defend this. But if he does then he is dumber than even jontron ha.

 

[KoopaTheCasual]

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Finally. Let this only be the first, and let this shit cascade, please.

 

[HariKari]

He's fucked now this is gaining traction

The recording with Destiny is basically a gold mine for anyone writing about this.

 

[KarmaCow]

Dunno why someone in his line of work would be dumb enough to not hide his personal thoughts.

Like a lot of celebs on the internet, he's entrenched with his an army of sycophants. Look at how even now there are people defending and making excuses for him.

 

[Quadraphonic]

Roughly 30-40 percent of the general population.

The majority of our country are against these racist fuckwits.

And they don't give a shit enough to vote.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

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Good. I hope this gets a lot of traction in the gaming press. C'mon Kotaku and Eurogamer.

 

[SerTapTap]

Roughly 30-40 percent of the general population.

The majority of our country are against these racist fuckwits.

Yeah, but 30-40% of the population is still about 27-37 more percentage points than I ever feared were like this.

 

[entremet]

how to kill your career 101.

i actually enjoyed some of his earlier stuff.

 

[Mahonay]

And they don't give a shit enough to vote.

*long sad sigh*

...yeah

Yeah, but 30-40% of the population is still about 27-37 more percentage points than I ever feared were like this.

Bush did get elected twice. Those people didn't leave Earth (besides people who are dead). I know all of those people didn't vote Trump, but I'm sure it's a large percentage.

 

[Nanashrew]

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Good. I hope more follow suit.

 

[Lilseb93]

I remember a time when "liberal" was used relating to a specific set of social and fiscal beliefs that at most half of the country believed was correct. It currently seems to be used to refer to anyone who thinks black people are not wild animals destroying the precious white master race gene pool.

...BUT DON'T CALL THEM RACIST because they think non-whites are inferior!!!!

What the fuck happened. How.

It's because the right wing has shifted more and more to the right. They've become extremists to the point where anyone who disagrees is a "liberal." And the term liberal has been bastardized into an evil word to them. Now even the less extreme right wing people demonize the word liberal.

 

[Death Penalty]

Yeah, but 30-40% of the population is still about 27-37 more percentage points than I ever feared were like this.

Pretty fair. You'd really hope it wouldn't be at least one in every three people.

 

[Deleted member 10571]

how to kill your career 101.

i actually enjoyed some of his earlier stuff.

Yeah. Thought he's legitimately funny and couldn't believe this when it came up first back then either.

Then I again learned GAF's always right -.-

 

[CloudyTuba]

To recap (and I'm sure this is not all of what JonTron said), JonTron said, in what he thought was perfectly fine for a debate:

- Foreigners dilute the gene pool
- Black crime in America is the same as in Africa (like, he fuckin' brought this up TWICE)
- Racial issues can be summed up via mixing different colors of paint
- Statistical data means nothing because Clinton lost the election
- Destiny wants to kill black people
- Black Lives Matter is a violent organization
- the richest black man commits more crimes than the poorest white man
- Tribalism is a valid theory
- Immigrants are destroying every single country they are let into
- America is gonna become Mexico
- Racism is over
- Muslims are organizing to make it seem like Christians are protesting abortion clinics

And Destiny didn't even fucking ask the most obvious fuckin' question: "If you're so concerned about immigrants, why do you keep bringing up blacks?"

Ouch. I don't give this guy a lot of attention but I had no idea how hard he leaned into the bullshit. Thanks for the summary.

 

[Pif]

People still didn't accept or tried to understand that we live in very dynamic times were population and races are converging drastically in some parts of the world, not just USA.

How can I blame a free, law abiding human being from living right next to me and my native comrades and enjoy life with us?

Chill.

 

[smoothj]

JonTron fell off when he went on to do that starwars shit.

And now popcorn.gif

 

[Nabs]

To recap (and I'm sure this is not all of what JonTron said), JonTron said, in what he thought was perfectly fine for a debate:

- Foreigners dilute the gene pool
- Black crime in America is the same as in Africa (like, he fuckin' brought this up TWICE)
- Racial issues can be summed up via mixing different colors of paint
- Statistical data means nothing because Clinton lost the election
- Destiny wants to kill black people
- Black Lives Matter is a violent organization
- the richest black man commits more crimes than the poorest white man
- Tribalism is a valid theory
- Immigrants are destroying every single country they are let into
- America is gonna become Mexico
- Racism is over
- Muslims are organizing to make it seem like Christians are protesting abortion clinics

And Destiny didn't even fucking ask the most obvious fuckin' question: "If you're so concerned about immigrants, why do you keep bringing up blacks?"

This is what happens when your best friend is a parrot.

 

[Tagyhag]

Like, even if his fans try to defend the comments like immigration as just ignorance, how do you defend the gene pool comment? You can't. That's the biggest damning evidence that Jon isn't just an ignorant guy, he's a full blown racist.

 

[Anung]

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This makes me happy. But they need to go harder at it. I hope this gains real traction. It'll be nice seeing Jon flap about in the coming days. BIAS MEDIA BIAS COMMULISTS

 

[Imp the Dimp]

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Bit of a soft headline for what the (good) article actually contains but I'll be happy to see more articles about it

 

[CrazyHal]

Thank god that Arin, Dan and the rest of the folks at game grumps didn't turn out like him. That would have broke my heart

 

[timshundo]

im not sure, but this actually does nothing to do with gaming.

yes, he is a popular gaming-youtuber, but nothing related to gaming was brought into this thread.

It has a lot to do with gaming on a meta level or whatever. There's such a force within this community specifically to "separate" politics out from games like they're some pure art that can't be tainted by issues of the outside world. In some cases here "politics" can mean feminism or race discussions and gamers get it a fucking tizzy when the sanctity of gaming gets threatened and now we're here.

 

[Feep]

Ugh.

 

[MKIL65]

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That's a start. Hope to see more outlets talk about this.

 

[grim-tales]

And he's thanking them for it.

What in the world...?!

What a twat. Such a shame as his videos were entertaining.

 

[JP_]

Nope, I am not saying that criticism shouldn't be made. Calling someone a racist is not open to dialogue or debate.It shuts down conversation.

What conversation are you worried is getting shut down...?

 

[sajj316]

I guess he's built his userbase as a YouTuber on the backs of white people only. I hope he loses all "immigrant" subscribers.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

OMG I watched that "debate" on twitch. I've never seen something so unhinged.

Like this sounds like a rant of a disturbed man

 

[NandoGip]

wow, this is crazy. I'm finally listening to the conversation, and... WOW. Within the first 10 minutes it's already crazy racist.

 

[Shamrock7r]

I actually listened to half of that destiny video. It was fascinating seeing how he was cornered into several points and he either laughed and mumbled a bunch of "um uh um uh"s or he just said something off topic.

 

[jviggy43]

As a graduate student in criminology writing a thesis on institutional racism within the criminal justice system, boy would I have loved to be the person engaging him in this conversation and providing much needed "citations" to counter his points. This is fucking bullshit.

 

[Wolfgunblood Garopa]

And he's thanking them for it.

Why would he thank a nazi like that... what the hell

I know he has a messed up worldview and he's not the sharpest knife but come on

 

[amiablepercy]

This is one heck of a generalization. There are no statistics whatsoever on what amount of gamers are this or that (there's really not even a definition on what a gamer is), so calm down. People are acting like the entire (enormous) gaming community is alt-right when it could very well just be a relatively vocal minority. Wouldn't be a the first time a vocal minority gives a bad name to a huge group of people.

Like in most sectors the extremists are often the loudest and most obnoxious when given a platform. I do not think gamers are a majority racist. We embrace technology, we embrace diverse and varied leads, even more recently. On MMOs we are shown to be helpful and giving according to studies.

 

[NandoGip]

As a graduate student in criminology writing a thesis on institutional racism within the criminal justice system, boy would I have loved to be the person engaging him in this conversation and providing much needed "citations" to counter his points. This is fucking bullshit.

You should do it.

 

[Quadraphonic]

As a graduate student in criminology writing a thesis on institutional racism within the criminal justice system, boy would I have loved to be the person engaging him in this conversation and providing much needed "citations" to counter his points. This is fucking bullshit.

We live in an era of 'fake news' being used to dismiss literally anything that doesn't agree with preconceived notions.

 

[Mpl90]

It's extremely sad for me to read all the stuff he spouted in the interview with Destiny. The list in the OP is just...oh man, oh God. I knew about his recent episodes, but I still wanted to keep him among my subscriptions. Yeah, "Keep the artist and the person separated", all that. Unfortunately, I can't try to hide the elephant anymore, subscription removed.

Still, thanks for the laughs, Jon. I loved lots of your videos.

 

[wamberz1]

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Lol, amazing title

 

[ShockingAlberto]

This is one heck of a generalization. There are no statistics whatsoever on what amount of gamers are this or that (there's really not even a definition on what a gamer is), so calm down. People are acting like the entire (enormous) gaming community is alt-right when it could very well just be a relatively vocal minority. Wouldn't be a the first time a vocal minority gives a bad name to a huge group of people.

It's more than I am comfortable associating with.

The thing about vocal minorities is eventually that's all people think of.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

"The founding stock of the country."

Yeah, those rich fuckers who exploited slave labor en masse.

 

[Lilseb93]

If Jon wants to be anti globalism and be for stronger border control, fine. Those are fair right wing points that can be argued in civil discussion. But why go to such extremes? The right is going to make Jon a victim of PC culture, but what he said is simply ignorant and extreme.

Unless he truly is racist, why just not have reasonable opinions and venture into healthy debate? Why dismiss a lot of your fan base as whiny SJWs and appeal mainly to to the extremists of the right? It's not even a smart business decision even if he believes what he said.

He has a right to free speech and I have the right to unfollow him and unsubscribe. He's going to play victim of PC culture, but if you're going to be controversial, embrace being controversial. Don't play the victim. Free speech doesn't protect you from backlash.

Is it honestly worth destroying everything you worked for?

 

[DorkLord54]

You have to acknowledge that "nerd" spaces are being used as a ripe recruiting ground for the far-right, and it's getting worse.

Throwing up your hands and sticking to the "minorities can be loud!" thing misses the point that they weren't this fuckin' loud 4 years ago.

That people are ignoring, willfully or not, the far right's attempts to recruit in online nerd spaces is disheartening, as the only way to find a way to stop this is acknowledge that nerd communities have a problem.