Twitch streamer and famousĀ YouTuber Zack ā€œAsmongoldā€ HoytĀ has had hisĀ zackrawrr accountĀ banned after a racist rant about Muslims and Palestinians killed in Gaza went viral on social media. ā€œMy bad,ā€ he shared on X (formerly Twitter) following an online backlash. ā€œLooking back on it, I was way too much of an asshole about the Palestine thing.ā€ His other Twitch channel,Ā Asmongold, remains up.

In addition to playing games, Hoyt frequently livestreams extended chat sessions where he comments on other peopleā€™s YouTube videos or whatever topics are gaining traction on his dedicated subreddit. In the midst of a recent livestream, he began talking about Israelā€™s war on Gaza, which the Gaza Health Ministry says has killedĀ over 40,000 Palestinians since it beganĀ just over a year ago following the October 7 attack by Hamas.

ā€œIf 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 Iā€™m not going to cry a fucking river when people who have genocide thatā€™s baked into their laws are getting genocided,ā€ Hoyt said duringĀ a portion of the stream that was clippedĀ and shared on social media (the original VOD doesnā€™t appear to be online). ā€œI donā€™t give a fuck. Theyā€™re terrible people. Itā€™s not even a question. Itā€™s crazy people donā€™t see it that way. Theyā€™d be doing the same thing.ā€

    • ggppjj@lemmy.world
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      Whatā€™s the purpose of your post? It comes off as agreement with his message at worst, and an irrelevant non sequitor at best.

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        I mean that being right makes him a valuable addition to the general community. This is the reason he has a massive following in the first place

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          That doesnā€™t make any sense. Heā€™s a valuable addition toā€¦ What general community, humanity? I mean, Iā€™m not disputing that he has a following, I just donā€™t see how that has anything to do with the discussion around his self-professed and now recanted dogshit awful opinions about the lives of other humans.

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            self-professed and now recanted dogshit awful opinions

            Heā€™s harsh, but his opinions are rarely dogshit. He has followers, who value them

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              I guess I just donā€™t understand the relevance of his other opinions to the discussion about the specific ones weā€™re talking about.

              ā€œI was served a plate of raw chicken tendersā€ ā€œThe chef usually makes Michelin quality mealsā€

              It just doesnā€™t advance the actual discussion.

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                correct, they are largely incels. I know one IRL, hes in his early 30s and only has 4 teeth left and said he admires asmon and looks up to him more than anyone else because of how he lives his life.

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          You can make out of context things sound like a controversy when youā€™ve got an angry influencer and a large audience. Then people start making up conspiracy theories about turning characters black.