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On March 09 2012 07:46 WallieP wrote:Show nested quote +On March 09 2012 07:42 Logros wrote:On March 09 2012 07:41 Tsuki.eu wrote:On March 09 2012 07:39 Logros wrote:On March 09 2012 07:33 laugoatse wrote:
wow, seriously? so much drama over a few insults on the ladder? orb gets mad after losing? big fucking deal. It's probably a big deal for EG. Having someone that represents them act like an ignorant 5 year old and cuss out multiple people publicly and then try to lie about it to cover it up doesn't reflect well on them. like idra? Idra got out of hand sometimes but what Orb is saying is 10x worse. Idra just calls people bad/dumb. On March 09 2012 07:40 WallieP wrote:On March 09 2012 07:33 blobrus wrote:On March 09 2012 07:23 WallieP wrote:On March 09 2012 07:18 SgtCoDFish wrote:
The issue is him lying, not the words imo. Although it'd probs be best if he cut the n-word out.
Not going to go mental over this though, I'm bored of this pseudo-drama shit. The n-word? You mean nigger? Nigger is pretty much a normal thing to say tbh, its got nothing to do with racism, its just a word thats easier to say then black people.. just like niggers say whiteguy, it also isnt racism.. also niggers can say nigger to fellow niggers, while when a whiteguy says the same its all of the sudden racism? People saying that nigger cant be said should lighten up a bit And about the lying part, who cares that Orb lies... (i dont even know him while i have the feeilng i know pretty much players in the sc2 community) Now i think about it, this topic is pretty bad I don't know where you're from, but I dare you to go around saying that. Here's some advice, don't. On topic, I've never really liked orb. Im from the Netherlands, and i do know people that are black and tbh, i think they would be more offended if i would say "you black guy" then if i would say "nigger"... i would say neither since i dont care if someone is black or white, but i dont really get why people are so offended by nigger. And a topic that is made about about someone being unnice/rage cause of a bad game, even though he lied, is something i really dont get.. its the internetsz and a person on his own stream If you don't understand why people are offended by 'nigger' then I'd read up on some American history. Wiki: Nigger is a noun in the English language, most notable for its usage in a pejorative context to refer to black people (generally people of Sub-Saharan African descent), and also as an informal slang term, among other contexts. It is a common ethnic slur, and suggests that its target is extremely unsophisticated. The word originated as a term used in a neutral context to refer to black people, as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger, meaning the color "black"
Well there you go, now you learned why people get offended by the word.
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who cares if he says it. the stupid part was lying about it when half your life is all over the internet. people on the internet can find anything anywhere.
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On March 09 2012 07:48 Balgrog wrote:
Not so much the use of language that is fucking him over in this situation, it's the lying. I promise you if he came out and said, "Yea I said those things, sorry if your pissed but you know that about me." And that was it, then this would be dead and no one would care. Because he lied this is a shit storm and he lied to EG which I promise is a HUGE mistake.
TL;DR: Always tell the truth, no matter what.
Yeah, I'd have to agree with this. Lying just dug himself a deeper hole.
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On March 09 2012 07:48 Kuja wrote:Show nested quote +On March 09 2012 07:44 AegiS_ wrote:On March 09 2012 07:39 Kuja wrote:On March 09 2012 07:35 AegiS_ wrote:
If I was black, I would have just lost a lot of respect for TL from this thread.
He's a "professional" commentator, if you want the e-sports scene to be taken at least SOMEWHAT seriously from the rest of the world, there needs to be a higher standard than this (this, also referring to the countless people in this thread saying who cares).
If he was some no-name on ladder, then yeah I wouldn't care.. but guess what? He isn't some no-name. He is, like it or a not, a representative of OUR community because of the viewers he gets. So an example needs to be set by EG, or whoever, so that it doesn't continue and our community improves. That said, let the guy continue commentating. What the fuck? Hip-pop and rap are so much bigger then eSports and use the word all the time, your logic is fail. My logic is fail? You realize that NO "white" singers or rappers (orb is white) say the N word. Guess why? They're professional and know that if you're white and you use the N word all the time, it's racist. again for the derps that read this and will rage, I'm not saying a huge deal should be made. but he is a representative of our community and to say it doesn't matter is also very insensitive and doesn't look good. CLASSIC CASE OF REVERSE RACISM Nice double standards brohan.
Reverse Racism doesn't exist. Racism marginalizes a minority. It is by definition impossible to marginalize the majority.
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ERRem Y does everyone make such a huge deal about theses things, yes what he said is not right but people rage all the time in starcraft and these things happen all the time im sure, just because a famouser caster raged in game does not mean we have to all pickup pitch forls and yell RACIST. The only bad thing is that he lied to EG about it.
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On March 09 2012 07:45 legatus legionis wrote:Show nested quote +On March 09 2012 07:30 MercilessMonkey wrote:On March 09 2012 07:29 ozzy1346 wrote:
guess what, nobody gives a flying fuck! are you offended? dont watch his stream and dont support him. whats the difference if he called the guy a nigger or a fucking asshole. MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIVES AND STOP SCRUTINIZING A PLAYER FOR RAGING. and even if he is racist, is that your business? I think EG's sponsors will give a flying fuck. But is that because he says nigger or because people go around screaming that he is saying nigger? He has probably been saying it for years yet suddenly it's an issue? ------ He's been doing this since beta. There are 1000000s of players constantly doing similar things. It's somewhat a part of gaming and being online. It's the way to trash talk when you are anonymous. And trash talk is a part of competition. Competition doesn't have to be fair because we cannot define that fairness. I hate it when people just take a tone or ping too much in team games I leave. Yet I hold no judgement over them for doing so. What I would judge is childish acts like this. I think it's far worse to support this than to say whatever words you can think off. Don't actions speak louder than words? Also in general but especially for reddit, when a post becomes "succesful" it will spawn many clones. Because they all think it's an easy ride to recognition or whatever. The someone made balbabladerp, some kind of development idea, ingame strats or tactics with minitwists or things like these. It truly is due to whatever psychological effect is applicable here, dno the name. For lack of better words, sheeple describes what I'm aiming for pretty well.
Wait, are you really asking why there is such an outcry now - when he suddenly became so much more exposed to the public - even though he has been behaving like a douche all the itme?
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On March 09 2012 07:49 FatkiddsLag wrote:
who cares if he says it. the stupid part was lying about it when half your life is all over the internet. people on the internet can find anything anywhere.
I think its actually the older, more mature members who are speaking out against Orb. Its the immature high school kids that are like "what's the big deal? I do this every day!"
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Regardless of any racist connotations that orb intended or did not intend to convey, regardless of whether any individual poster's personal morality allows or does not allow for the use of words like this on a daily basis - what it comes down to is that many people still view it as a racial slur. (Compare the "chink in their armor" debacle from ESPN recently). Long story short, orb, as a public figure (especially now that he was working with EG), has a responsibility to hold himself to a higher standard of behaviour than he would have to if he were a private figure. Regardless of whether he was on his account or whether it was someone else playing - something I will refrain from commenting on at this time - it's still orb's responsibility to make sure that a public account maintains a good image, as he is, like it or not, representing the community.
e: Sucks, cause I really liked orb's analytical casting.
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bwahahaahahaha this has to be the most amazing community ever. A popular figures bms on ladder, everyone goes crazy. SC community never fails to make me laugh.
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ahahahahaha omg. That's so bad xD
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On March 09 2012 07:50 Klondikebar wrote:Show nested quote +On March 09 2012 07:48 Kuja wrote:On March 09 2012 07:44 AegiS_ wrote:On March 09 2012 07:39 Kuja wrote:On March 09 2012 07:35 AegiS_ wrote:
If I was black, I would have just lost a lot of respect for TL from this thread.
He's a "professional" commentator, if you want the e-sports scene to be taken at least SOMEWHAT seriously from the rest of the world, there needs to be a higher standard than this (this, also referring to the countless people in this thread saying who cares).
If he was some no-name on ladder, then yeah I wouldn't care.. but guess what? He isn't some no-name. He is, like it or a not, a representative of OUR community because of the viewers he gets. So an example needs to be set by EG, or whoever, so that it doesn't continue and our community improves. That said, let the guy continue commentating. What the fuck? Hip-pop and rap are so much bigger then eSports and use the word all the time, your logic is fail. My logic is fail? You realize that NO "white" singers or rappers (orb is white) say the N word. Guess why? They're professional and know that if you're white and you use the N word all the time, it's racist. again for the derps that read this and will rage, I'm not saying a huge deal should be made. but he is a representative of our community and to say it doesn't matter is also very insensitive and doesn't look good. CLASSIC CASE OF REVERSE RACISM Nice double standards brohan. Reverse Racism doesn't exist. Racism marginalizes a minority. It is by definition impossible to marginalize the majority.
There were more blacks in the antebellum south than whites. Don't talk about shit you don't know about.
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Holy shit people are actually defending Orb? Is this real life?
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On March 09 2012 07:45 Klondikebar wrote:Show nested quote +On March 09 2012 07:43 darkscream wrote:On March 09 2012 07:34 Klondikebar wrote:On March 09 2012 07:32 frozenrb wrote:
Wonder how many times, you called something gay, even if you didn't have anything homophobic in mind...
It's childish like hell still... He is so stiupid:D The fact that you think the term "gay" can be used to describe something you don't like is inherently homophobic. no it's not what the fuck. This is a real problem, the internet all of a sudden became super uptight and politcally correct. News flash, people make their own defintions for words all the time. We use rape and gay and fuck and whatever else in a totally different context within gaming compared to the outside world. Saying "gay" as a negative doesn't make you a homophobe any more than it makes you a sociopath. Gay also means happy, so if you call something gay negatively it doesn't mean you hate happiness. And if you call someone a nigger (especially someone whose race you can't possibly know) it doesn't mean you hate black people. Sorry this isnt 1950, popular culture changes the definition of words very quickly and if you get hung up on one meaning from one time period, you have to be sensitive to a LOT more words than just nigger and faggot. This isn't 1950? Because your post sure seems like it is. It's amazing that people think context is the magical tabula rasa for a word. Hint: it's not
Uh, okay, so we just have magic blacklisted words than always offend people now? Alright, well, I'm going on a witch hunt then. Anyone who has said the word "Nazi", I will campaign against. Anyone who has said "Faggot", I'm making them lose their job. "Jew" or "Nigger"? Fuck yeah, I'm getting you fired. "Rape" offends me regardless of context too, so that's out. Gay in any context, absolutely out of the question. "Hell" or "Damn" should not ever be present in any cast or stream either, they are curse words after all.
Where do you draw the line? or do you just draw the line at "nigger" because that's the only offensive word in the world by your arbitrary standard?
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Ah, this is sad. I kind of liked him as a caster, but if these reactions (and his attempts at covering them) are authentic my respect for him just evaporates.
You should not rage, but if you do
----you should not insult your opponent, but if you do
--------you should not use racial and/or homophobic insults.
This is not a matter of political correctness, as far as I am concerned. It is just that anyone behaving like that must be really, really juvenile (in the worst possible sense).
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I wonder what would happen if Al Michaels was caught on tape spouting racial slurs on multiple occasions and then lied to NBC, saying it was an impersonator.
I can understand the blowing off steam when hes frustrated, that part is forgivable... however, using the n-word and then trying to cover it up and hide behind the internet... just fucking own up to it.
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On March 09 2012 07:44 Jinsho wrote:
It's not ok to say nigger, faggot, bitch, or chink. Not on stream, not to your friends, not to anyone. Never.
That's it. That's all. Discussion over. Orb needs to get a severe reprimand and realize that he isn't a dumb kid anymore and same for everyone who posted stupid shit in this thread about how you totally use nigger with your black friends. I'm pretty sure Destiny would disagree with you. So what he gets mad after he gets cheesed, I have gotten much worse on ladder than someone calling me slang names.
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On March 09 2012 07:50 Firesilver wrote:Show nested quote +On March 09 2012 07:48 Balgrog wrote:
Not so much the use of language that is fucking him over in this situation, it's the lying. I promise you if he came out and said, "Yea I said those things, sorry if your pissed but you know that about me." And that was it, then this would be dead and no one would care. Because he lied this is a shit storm and he lied to EG which I promise is a HUGE mistake.
TL;DR: Always tell the truth, no matter what. Yeah, I'd have to agree with this. Lying just dug himself a deeper hole.
He didn't lie. He told the truth about his first situation and now people are digging things up from months ago and he has said that these were him and that he has made a commitment to curb his behaviour moving forward now that he has gotten a job as a caster for EG. Why are we all feeding these flames and pulling out pitchforks?
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Well that's the best thing I've seen in this thread yet.
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Amazing how all the white Americans don't find this offensive and this is too much of a response to his actions. And shameful to my other Belgians who think so too. People in the pro scene simply can't act this way... There are some seriously low social standards in this thread that surprise me. It's not ok for anyone to use racist slang's despite how common it is...
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