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TriO
United States421 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:49 Corrosive wrote: Seems suspicious that he happened to land on the word "gook" while playing vs. a korean huh? gook is not only to koreans its offensive to all asians. | ||
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HorsemasterK
United States606 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:50 Fueled wrote: Again with this. You can't compare the two. Compare this to someone who is a big face in some other sport. Say a Derek Jeter for baseball or a Kobe Bryant for basketball. Do you think they wouldn't see any action against them if they said these choice words to someone they were playing against while thousands of people watched? No, they WOULD see some sort of action against them for its been done in the past and present. Also a false analogy. Derek Jeter and Kobe Bryant are actually good at their sports, Destiny is famous for being a blowhard. He's more like the Howard Stern of SC2. | ||
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Holytornados
United States1022 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:49 Corrosive wrote: Seems suspicious that he happened to land on the word "gook" while playing vs. a korean huh? A lot of the time people throw the term "nigger" around at everyone, not just black people. It doesn't matter who he was facing; it was just a word he used. The reason gook offended the op was because he let the word offend him. | ||
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besteady
United States75 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:47 Arghmyliver wrote: What the fuck guys. If you ACTUALLY BELIEVE that ONE RACE is SUPERIOR to another - you are an IGNORANT FUCKING LUNATIC. THE ONLY reason that these words were EVER offensive was the CONTEXT IN WHICH THEY WERE USED. Its fucking 2012 - the most fucking offensive term these days in the US is probably "sandnigger" because racist fucking lunatics actually think that people of Middle-Eastern/Arabic descent are inferior. And that's just pure, dumb, stupid, ignorance. And honestly it stems from the fact that these idiots are pants-shitting xenophobics. They are SO AFRAID of a group of people that they resort to dehumanizing them. That makes you a racist. It also makes you a fucking dumbass. Do you HONESTLY BELIEVE that Destiny is like "Oh God, not another Korean! I hate these guys, they all look alike and they've got no Seoul cause they Seould it to get good at SC!"? If so then you're fucking dumb. I KNOW you THINK racism is DEAD, but there are EXAMPLES of IT everywhere in THE news and PERSONALY i have racist FAMILY members and RACIST acquaitences. | ||
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JoeSchmoe
Canada2058 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:52 TriO wrote: gook is not only to koreans its offensive to all asians. originally it was intended as a insult to koreans. i think it's related to the korean pronunciation of korea. | ||
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Chewbacca.
United States3634 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:49 Derrida wrote: How about being insulted while 4000 people are watching? Can he be complaining then? Reread the OP and nowhere did I see him have any complaint about Destiny insulting him while people were watching. His complaint was about the words that Destiny was using. | ||
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Muggs
United States148 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:51 ownyah wrote: I wonder why no mod has closed this thread yet.. It has no meaning or value whatsoever.. Filled with flame, bias and overly exaggerated posts.. I was thinking the exact same thing. It's obvious the OP is trying to stir up drama. User was warned for this post | ||
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Denzil
United Kingdom4193 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:50 dsousa wrote: EG set the precedent by responding to this mindless internet babbling, and now the "community" expects Quantic to do the same. We'll see. Are the pitchforks really pointy? No, Reddit set the precedent by contacting sponsors without even waiting for an EG response forcing them into a more extreme sort of action. | ||
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Argolis
Canada211 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:53 besteady wrote: I KNOW you THINK racism is DEAD, but there are EXAMPLES of IT everywhere in THE news and PERSONALY i have racist FAMILY members and RACIST acquaitences. And having Quantic's sponsors pull their support and financing out of the starcraft 2 scene will help solve that racism. | ||
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d(O.o)a
Canada5066 Posts
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Zaqwert
United States411 Posts
I'm convinced that the people who complain the loudest about this stuff aren't actually offended at all, but just have a huge zeal to show the world how understanding and progressive they are, it's more about them than anything. Need to live and let live, not everybody is going to believe what you think they should, or speak the way you think they should, or act the way you think they should. | ||
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Silvertine
United States509 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:52 Holytornados wrote: A lot of the time people throw the term "nigger" around at everyone, not just black people. It doesn't matter who he was facing; it was just a word he used. Oh, so he just happened to say "gook" against someone who clearly had an Asian name twice(the other case being on LoL)? That doesn't seem very likely. The reason gook offended the op was because he let the word offend him. Blaming the victim. | ||
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zerglingrodeo
United States910 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:53 Muggs wrote: I was thinking the exact same thing. It's obvious the OP is trying to stir up drama. Regardless of the OP's intentions, discussion of whether our public figures ought to be able to use racial slurs with impunity is valuable. | ||
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fortheGG
United Kingdom1002 Posts
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TheKefka
Croatia11752 Posts
Speaking about double standards why has no one started this "email the sponsors" craze before,while he was actively throwing the words nigger and rape around which was 100 times worse imo(when you casually say it without a second thought) than the context in which the word gook was used in this situation,out of ladder rage. Oh yea,orb was fired in the mean time so the people suddenly feel empowered to decide when its right to ask for a persons head on a plate.I don't get how so many of you are in such a drunk rage to get a man fired when I bet most of you had a situation in real life,in which if I would have taken a out of context screen shot or video I could run out to your boss and get you fired for it. I don't think that racial discrimination is right and I don't think we should encourage it,but this "KILL IT WITH FIRE" mentality is something that I am really confused by. | ||
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thatsundowner
Canada312 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:54 Argolis wrote: And having Quantic's sponsors pull their support and financing out of the starcraft 2 scene will help solve that racism. It won't solve racism, but a scene that supports that kind of behavior doesn't deserve sponsorships. | ||
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Klondikebar
United States2227 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:54 Argolis wrote: And having Quantic's sponsors pull their support and financing out of the starcraft 2 scene will help solve that racism. Not elegantly but yes, yes it will. If people give you money and then stop giving you money when you use slurs, you're going to stop using slurs if you still want money. | ||
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Zer atai
United States691 Posts
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Sinensis
United States2513 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:49 Corrosive wrote: Seems suspicious that he happened to land on the word "gook" while playing vs. a korean huh? "Gook" is a racial slur for a Filipino or Vietnamese person. It gained it's popularity as a racial slur during the Vietnam War. | ||
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Chewbacca.
United States3634 Posts
On May 02 2012 04:49 Corrosive wrote: Seems suspicious that he happened to land on the word "gook" while playing vs. a korean huh? Not really. He was angry at the guy and wanted to say something that would make his opponent angry. His opponent typed GG in Korean so he went with an insult aimed at Koreans. I doubt it was actually because he has a hatred for Koreans, he wanted to make his opponent have a negative reaction so he just went with the word that would most likely make it happen. If his opponent hadn't typed GG in Korean or if Destiny knew he wasn't Korean he probably would have gone with a different word that would be more likely to make his opponent angry. | ||
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