OC by @GlacialTurtle@lemmy.ml

Today in Lutris discord which I happen to lurk occasionally, I saw some lovely people were commenting in the offtopic channel about how they support Ethan Kleins lawsuit against Youtubers who criticised him, GamerGate bs, defending streamer sex pests and some other stuff. One person offhandedly mentions how they get their information from Asmongold.

If you’re not very online, Asmongold is a reactionary streamer who at one point declared he thinks Palestinians should be genocided because of their “inferior culture”. Ethan Klein is a somewhat well known youtuber/podcaster who has also spent the last year or so having a very public meltdown over Israel and his own fundamentally contradictory set of positions he’s tried to triangulate between.

Seeing this, I made a brief comment about Asmongolds stance mentioned above and why anyone would listen to him. I got racist responses claiming “Palestinians have been kicked out of every culture they’ve been in” and deflecting to “Look at Egypts border”.

Called out the racism and genocide apologia, the only person who was warned was me for not being civil. I replied “racism and genocide apologia is not civil”, referred to the fact the Lutris logo on discord has an LGBTQ flag, and was called a nutcase and banned.

tl:dr Lutris discord moderation is OK with racism and genocide, but you’re a “nutcase” if you call a spade a spade.

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2 days ago

    So what you’re saying is that having nothing to do with Lutris itself, there is a discord where people get together and say things that are hateful.

    But we can still use Lutris. It does not mean that we are endorsing the hateful rhetoric of the discord, right?

    • k4j8@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 days ago

      Agreed. Also, censoring is a lot of work! Sure, some stuff is extreme such as racism, sexism, etc. that most reasonable people would agree should be censored. But where do you draw the line? Choosing to censor means defining what is allowable and someone will always disagree with where the line is drawn. I sympathize with community moderators (or lack thereof).

      For me at least, choosing not to censor and endorsing something are completely separate.