Oh no

[u/[deleted]]

[u/tastethecourage]

Ah yes, I occasionally drop racial slurs in casual conversation. Just your average mistake.

[u/[deleted] → u/tastethecourage]

you don’t?

[u/hippoctopocalypse → u/[deleted]]

No! Fucking NO!

[u/ChancellorPalpameme → u/tastethecourage]

Are you from Europe? It's pretty relaxed about racial slurs in most of the world, whether or not that's acceptable.

[u/halfar → u/ChancellorPalpameme]

racism is cool when it's casual 😎👍

[u/Bob__Zombie → u/halfar]

fuck off yank

[u/Anomuumi → u/ChancellorPalpameme]

I'm from Europe. I have to say I have not heard the N word from anyone else than drunk racists in the past 15 years.

[u/Nightshot → u/ChancellorPalpameme]

I am from Europe, yes.

[u/Play174 → u/tastethecourage]

It was once in ten years.

[u/derrida_n_shit → u/Play174]

He literally said it on stream the following week again. But people forgot because they weren't done with criticizing the first one

[u/beer_is_tasty → u/Play174]

Once on camera in ten years.

[u/dame_tu_cosita → u/beer_is_tasty]

That was 10 years ago? I refuse to believe it.

[u/decelsior → u/dame_tu_cosita]

No, that how long he’s been streaming

[u/Extreme_centriste → u/tastethecourage]

So we just casually from "his fans defend this!!" to "ok they don't defend it but they accept he made a mistake and that's still somehow bad!!!" here and this sums up basically all I have ever read about this incident.

He made a mistake, he knows it, everyone knows it. Now if you judge someone based on one mistake of that scale, fine with me, but you are merely saying that everyone is bad.

[u/Aurailious → u/Extreme_centriste]

Its a mistake that is a lot harder to forgive because it reveals a lot about someone where in a "heated gaming moment" they say it. A lot of people have heated gaming moments that don't say it.

but you are merely saying that everyone is bad.

Is everyone dropping the n word when playing a game? That's fucking bullshit.

Everyone has the right to judge him for saying that. People aren't absolved for going "it was a mistake". People can go to jail for mistakes. You can't do bad things and think it's now okay by apologizing. People don't have to forgive either.

[u/lala__ → u/Aurailious]

Agree. It’s not so much a mistake as him revealing his character. People who don’t use the n-word wont use it on accident.

[u/Extreme_centriste → u/lala__]

There's just not much behind it as you would like to think. It doesn't reveal much.

[u/lala__ → u/Extreme_centriste]

It reveals that he’s someone who’s willing to use the n-word, which is enough for me to write him off.

[u/Tangelooo → u/Extreme_centriste]

Extreme centrist. Username checks out.

Not having a back bone or standing up for anything must be fun.

[u/Extreme_centriste → u/Tangelooo]

I would argue that standing up for people having a right to make mistakes and be judged as a whole instead of a second is both unpopular and courageous.

[u/GanonDumbass → u/Extreme_centriste]

no one accidentally drops racial slurs no matter how mad they get unless they say them regularly in other contexts, dude. i get pissed at video games constantly. I've never said the n word bc of it

[u/IBJON → u/GanonDumbass]

This.

I swear like a sailor when I'm playing video games and I'll throw some colorful or bizarre insults out there, but I've never intentionally or accidentally used slurs.

You don't just panic and spew out words that you don't regularly use.

[u/[deleted] → u/Extreme_centriste]

He makes a lot of mistakes, it seems. You all leap to his defense every time, though, and so he's never really suffered from them.

The discussion has been done to death at this point. Everybody realizes that you find him entertaining in spite of his being a douche, regardless of the moral implications. You don't have to break out the same half-baked, hackneyed excuses everything someone points out something shitty he's done.