Not only are the countries he is saying have “fine” refugees don’t even speak English as an official language, Africa as a continent has the largest amount of countries that speak English:
Most other African countries speak French, Spanish or another European language as an official language. So what is the issue here? Many Africans have immigrated to Western countries and have integrated fine. It’s insane that Twitch is allowing this kind of rhetoric to be displayed in full velocity on this platform.
I see clips of this guy in my recommended videos section on youtube all the time. I never click on them and I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it’s deciding that I should watch these clips. Either way, I find it odd how signal-boosted this clown is. The gaming-to-politics pipeline is too strong.
I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it’s deciding that I should watch these clips.
This is why, lol. Since his videos are generally popular on YouTube, if you have no watch history for your recommendations to be based on, it’s just always going to feed you whatever’s popular, which will include his stuff.
You’re doing it to yourself, in other words. I actually have watched a couple videos of his in the past, and yet, because it’s rare, I never see his videos being recommended to me. Hell, in my experience, stuff recommended to me is rarely similar to things I’ve seen more than a month or so ago.
I don’t think it’s really gaming-to-politics. I think it’s more like gaming-to-very-loud-bigot. The fact that bigotry is so tightly coupled into right wing politics is just coincidental.
He knows nothing about politics, but realized that saying right wing bullshit gets engagement so now this is what we have.
Sometimes it feels like the internet is just a giant rat maze and people chase after whatever the algorithm rewards them for chasing.
asmon rlly one of the dumbest mofos ive ever had the displeasure to be exposed too. Like most right wing grifters know they lie about shit to get their points across. This dude is so dumb he believes all of it
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Shocked. Cannot believe it.
Used to game with him back in MoP. Sad to see this is where he ended up.
You personally? Cmon, hard to believe.
To be fair mist of pandaria was ages ago so maybe true
Yes, me personally, I used to play competitive World of Warcraft. Did timed challenge mode dungeons for realm’s best at end of MoP too.
At least you didn’t turn into the roach queen.
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Which is funny considering what that phrase means.
Considering Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, I don’t think it’s really all that insane that Twitch allows this. And I’m sure as hell that Asmongold has made statements more unhinged than this.
It’s always the people you most suspect of being ignorant racists…
An absolute retard calling others retards, the irony is just hilarious…52k ppl tuning in to a dude spouting hate and nonsense in front of 30 bucks mic calling him self a political streamer, he’s not even qualified for an actual job …god, I hate tge internet
I see nothing racist or xenophobic here. This isn’t about race, its about how much effort is needed to reintegrate these people into your society.
It’s actually really funny, that mild take like this sells to the hate mob here, while Hasan swinging a fucking gun on stream is ignored
Oh really, you don’t see anything racist or xenophobic about taking refugees from white skinned countries, but refusing ones from dark skinned countries?
“Makes sense to me”
It’s about cultural similarity not skin colour. Skin pigmentation doesn’t affect anything but the culture you grow up in matters a lot in how easy it is for someone to integrate into a new one.
Hypothetically, if you were in charge of screening immigrants, what kind of culture would you refuse?
Seeing the reality that some cultures are harder to integrate is not the same as refusing them. Similar to how unruly children need more attention from teachers than studious ones, some people likely need more help with integration and learning local customs.
Right, but in the context of the original clip, we’re talking about refusing them
That’s fair. I’m not trying to defend asmon just pointing out that there is nuance to it
I see nothing racist or xenophobic here.
Look at the examples he provides. Do Germans or Poles speak English moreso than Africans? Do Germans or Poles share foreign (American) values moreso than Africans? Why would Germans or Poles integrate into American culture moreso than Africans?
Pretty disingenuous take tbh. Of course it would be easier for someone used to living in a stable first world country to integrate into a new one than someone who might’ve grown up without access to school or a stable environment. This is of course not the fault of the individual, and everyone should strive to help poor countries stabilise and improve economically, but the fact remains
Not to disagree with your general argument, but yes, the average German actually does speak better English than the average citizen of pretty much every single African country. But then again, the average citizen of any given African country probably speaks better English than anyone living in Brooklyn or the rural south of the US, so there’s that…,
the average German actually does speak better English than the average citizen of pretty much every single African country
This reminds the ignorance that Trump just demonstrated, praising Liberian president for his good English. Unlike Germany Liberia and 23 more African countries have English as an official language.
Silent side glances— you don’t say the quiet part, but it echoes still.Why are you defending such a turdwaffle?
Dude makes his living by making stupid takes and then playing up his doofus character to apologize like “durrrr sorry I didn’t know it was bad to call someone a f*gg*t”
The devil doesn’t need an advocate, and he has a hoard of frothing redpills to defend anything he says.
Tell me honestly, did you watch some of his streams, or did someone just told you he’s a turdwaffle and you’re just parroting someone eleses opinion? Or maybe you just see cherrypicked snippets and base your opinion on that?
I’ve watched him, he is irredeemably a racist, xenophobic bigot of a turdwaffle, just like you.
This one clip is all I need to hear to know everything I need to know about how shitty this guy is. Never watched a stream or clip of his before in my life.
Not his streams, but I’d watch his VODs that got popular on YouTube sometimes.
I had to block him like a year ago because the dumbest of his takes kept popping up in my recommended feed. The way he’d crank up the slack jawed hurr derr right before he said something intentionally divisive, drove me nuts.
But years ago his takes were fairly benign (or at least the VODs that made to YouTube were), iirc. I thought he was just kinda goofy, back then.
I don’t know him from the WoW days, though.
Ragefarming seems the only form of content lately… So sad…
It’s so hard to find enclaves on the internet that aren’t just reposting the same ragebait over and over.
Yeah agree still one of the things I love from Lemmy is that is more wholesome. Is not perfect yes, but way better interactions than any other place I’ve been to.
Asmondgold is so far past being relevant. He was intolerable when he was simply making World of Warcraft videos.
Same dude who got temp-banned from Twitch for actively calling for the literal genocide of Palestinians. Asmon is a piece of shit.
So he is aligned with the current administration on the issues like at least half of the US? That’s not big news, you realize that?
Sometimes I think these posts are made by insincere racist dickheads like him to actually recruit more people to his side with fake out-rage over real problems
noped out when he called someone a retard.
