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.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    231·
    3 days ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_a_spade_a_spade

    The phrase predates the use of the word “spade” as an ethnic slur against African Americans (and others of African descent), which was not recorded until 1928.

    The ultimate source of this idiom is a phrase in Plutarch’s Apophthegmata Laconica: τὴν σκάφην σκάφην λέγοντας (tēn skaphēn skaphēn legontas). The word σκαφη (skaphe) means “basin or trough”. Lucian De Hist. Conscr. (41) has τὰ σύκα σύκα, τὴν σκάφην δὲ σκάφην ὀνομάσων (ta suka suka, tēn skaphēn de skaphēn onomasōn), “calling a fig a fig, and a trough a trough”.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      And the use of a swastika as a symbol for good luck predates its use as a Nazi symbol by about 10000 years. Still I don’t think it’s wise to run around with a swastika tattoo, claiming it’s for good luck.

      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Context is important. If you’re a white guy with a shaved head, yeah that’s a bad tattoo idea. If you’re a brown skinned Hindu or Buddhist, it isn’t going to raise as many questions.