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Twitch streamer and famous YouTuber Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt has had his zackrawrr account banned after a racist rant about Muslims and Palestinians killed in Gaza went viral on social media. “My bad,” he shared on X (formerly Twitter) following an online backlash. “Looking back on it, I was way too much of an asshole about the Palestine thing.” His other Twitch channel, Asmongold, remains up.

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

“If 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 I’m not going to cry a fucking river when people who have genocide that’s baked into their laws are getting genocided,” Hoyt said during a portion of the stream that was clipped and shared on social media (the original VOD doesn’t appear to be online). “I don’t give a fuck. They’re terrible people. It’s not even a question. It’s crazy people don’t see it that way. They’d be doing the same thing.”

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] taladar 6 points 2 months ago

Well, you could argue the opportunity to ban all his channels and the opportunity to ban him for more than 14 days were both lost here.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a temporary ban. That is less of a consequence than what you'd face for airing a little too much copyrighted content or something, except for saying shit that could have come from Hitler's mouth.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Hitler probably would not have supported a Jewish ethnostate

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Let's not pretend he wouldn't have let them do their own purges and destabilize the region before coming to dismantle them.

Or maybe the meth would fuel more bad decisions....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're probably not realizing how anti-semitic the formation of Israel was. Look at it this way: the colonial powers that won WW2 decided it was better to steal land and push their Jewish populations there, rather than offer their Jewish populations protection domestically.

With that in mind, its not much of a surprise that Hitler was also for the expulsion of Jewish people from Europe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's true, I was in fact wholly unaware. Human history just gets worse the more you learn, huh?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Actually, temp bans on twitch are deadly to streamers. With the way discovery on twitch works, it rewards consistency. If you have a week off, you can lose like 20% of your subscriptions. It's insane how quickly this can kill popular channels. After a month you're starting from scratch.

For established streamers like him though? Probably slap on the wrist

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dude is alt-right lite cosplaying as a centrist, he's only been getting more extreme and his chat is a cesspool.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

From

"They are the inferior race"

to

"They are the inferior culture"

All in a span of 80 years. Never again something something...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Surprised it took this long, he's been saying this same shit on Twitch for years now.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like watching his gaming stuff didnt know he thinks Palestinians are bellow him. There are plenty of other streamers to watch. See ya racist fuck!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I like watching his reviews of new mmos and games, usually mine and his taste in gaming align, but I have known for a long time he is an asshole. But this one was a new public low for him (don't doubt he has said way worse shit in private though).

[–] hector 7 points 2 months ago
[–] GhostedIC 2 points 2 months ago

People still read Kotaku?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I wonder what would happen if he questioned the Holocaust...

To ask...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

…where are you going with this.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

Difference in treatment for the two genocides

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Are you saying he would get a harsher treatment if he denied the Holocaust? Genocide denial of any kind should result in a ban.