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On September 17 2014 17:38 Eppa! wrote:
Its a bad decision of riot to fine a team like that. It seems like the community is so in to drama that they up play shit. I just want to watch the highest level league possible not get SK kicked out because riot has chosen that a danish kind of joke is not ok.
It's understandable though, this is an international event, and they have a lot to gain from asian audiences. Of course they're going to rule this way. (also, insert joke about how initial ruling for Ray Rice was only 2 games of regular season)
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On September 17 2014 17:41 Ketara wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2014 17:38 Eppa! wrote:
Its a bad decision of riot to fine a team like that. It seems like the community is so in to drama that they up play shit. I just want to watch the highest level league possible not get SK kicked out because riot has chosen that a danish kind of joke is not ok. Sorry dude, this is 2014. Racism isn't okay.
its okay to dress up as and indian but when i dress up as a black man im racist?
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On September 17 2014 17:42 kongoline wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2014 17:41 Ketara wrote:On September 17 2014 17:38 Eppa! wrote:
Its a bad decision of riot to fine a team like that. It seems like the community is so in to drama that they up play shit. I just want to watch the highest level league possible not get SK kicked out because riot has chosen that a danish kind of joke is not ok. Sorry dude, this is 2014. Racism isn't okay. its okay to dress up as and indian but when i dress up as a black man im racist?
Well, Washington Redskins are getting quite a bit of flak over their name these past few years.
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well, at least in my country we are at a point that even saying a black man is black can be seen as racist :/
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On September 17 2014 17:41 Ketara wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2014 17:38 Eppa! wrote:
Its a bad decision of riot to fine a team like that. It seems like the community is so in to drama that they up play shit. I just want to watch the highest level league possible not get SK kicked out because riot has chosen that a danish kind of joke is not ok. Sorry dude, this is 2014. Racism isn't okay.
What about accidental racism though? Like I highly doubt he maliciously made the name because he hates asians. I agree with Eppa that that is a really danish kind of joke, which would have had absolutely no malice behind it.
Like it's fine for americans (who live in the social hot-bed of must-not-be-racist) with your cultural melting pot of races, to look at that and go "oh that's so racist, lifetime ban plz." But in denmark, (and especially anywhere in denmark except the few large cities) that wouldn't really be seen as offensive at all tbh. Denmark just doesn't have asians at all, (like walking around the center of the second largest city in the country for several hours i'd see maybe a single black person, and not a single asian. There's no real concept of boundaries as to what would be offensive to them, i can almost guarantee he wasn't aware "ching chong" was actually offensive.
Basically knocking SK completely out of the tournament for that feels like riot are just hanging Svenskeren out to dry because they don't want their massive PR campaign which is LCS tarnished in any way. Fair enough, but imo it's really really harsh on svenskeren...
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No they are not harsh. What does it change it's incidental or not ?
This guy has already been fined for toxic behavior and warned multiple times by Riot. If he still thinks after that and a cultural sensitivity briefing that choosing such a name is not a problem then he's an idiot, period.
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It's actually that severe because SK is in TSM's group and TSM must make it out of groups at all costs /tinfoilhat
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The issue here is that the name was picked AFTER they were all given some lessons and pointers on how to not do/say offensive things while in Taiwan and South Korea. Like it's one thing if he picked the name in an attempt to be funny, people saw it, pointed out how offensive it was and he said, "whoops, my bad. I'll name change it now, plus donate X amount to anti-racism organizations." Riot gave them all fair warning ahead of time that this is you representing your region to the world audience, at a time when eSports is beginning to make more and more mainstream media attention, and you have a player that is competing for the league's World Championship on a practice account name that rude?
Plus, he's got a history of doing/saying stupid shit. If SK as an organization can't keep him from doing this stuff that screws them over, how long do you think his career will be?
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On September 17 2014 17:53 St3MoR wrote:
well, at least in my country we are at a point that even saying a black man is black can be seen as racist :/
Racism can get pretty overblown but "TaipeiChingChong" is so...ridiculous. It's so obviously inflammatory.
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Bearded Elder29903 Posts
3 games pentaly and 2.5k $ for using TaipeiChingChong username? Hahaha, that's hilarious to be honest. I mean, if he was already punished by Riot in the past for being toxic/inappriopriate behaviour that's fine but if that was his first break of the rules and "intentional" racism, that'd be quite funny.
Edit : Does anyone knows if Riot is going to finish ranked season after Worlds?
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On September 17 2014 17:55 killerdog wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2014 17:41 Ketara wrote:On September 17 2014 17:38 Eppa! wrote:
Its a bad decision of riot to fine a team like that. It seems like the community is so in to drama that they up play shit. I just want to watch the highest level league possible not get SK kicked out because riot has chosen that a danish kind of joke is not ok. Sorry dude, this is 2014. Racism isn't okay. What about accidental racism though? Like I highly doubt he maliciously made the name because he hates asians. I agree with Eppa that that is a really danish kind of joke, which would have had absolutely no malice behind it. Like it's fine for americans (who live in the social hot-bed of must-not-be-racist) with your cultural melting pot of races, to look at that and go "oh that's so racist, lifetime ban plz." But in denmark, (and especially anywhere in denmark except the few large cities) that wouldn't really be seen as offensive at all tbh. Denmark just doesn't have asians at all, (like walking around the center of the second largest city in the country for several hours i'd see maybe a single black person, and not a single asian. There's no real concept of boundaries as to what would be offensive to them, i can almost guarantee he wasn't aware "ching chong" was actually offensive. Basically knocking SK completely out of the tournament for that feels like riot are just hanging Svenskeren out to dry because they don't want their massive PR campaign which is LCS tarnished in any way. Fair enough, but imo it's really really harsh on svenskeren...
You forgot that every joke at any race other than white is racism in 2014.
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You can be pretty sure Riot Taiwan doesn't give a damn whether it's the first or the tenth time he does stupid shit, they're involved this time so they're looking at it.
It blew big because apparently he made fun of a teenager who reported it w/o realising it was offensive, just "I talked with a pro in soloQ, AMA" way, and it even ended up on the media (then again, which kind of media, if it's the equivalent of The Guardian's website... ).
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Fuck it I just miss BW/SC2 scene where people had personality. Pros are no longer people they are simply human bots that play games.
I would say that people are overly sensitive but I now think people are too unforgiving. Look at football where it is a couple of matches for physically and intentionally hurting someone.
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On September 17 2014 18:11 Eppa! wrote:
Fuck it I just miss BW/SC2 scene where people had personality. Pros are no longer people they are simply human bots that play games.
I would say that people are overly sensitive but I now think people are too unforgiving. Look at football where it is a couple of matches for physically and intentionally hurting someone.
Yeah, fucking League of Legends. I'm sick of watching these pros stream all day, talk to us, post on social media, do videos with sponsors and go on shows like SI. If they can't go into another country to represent their nation for world's, make a racially offensive name and then ask its citizens how they like it, then I am FUCKING DONE.
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On September 17 2014 18:11 Eppa! wrote:
Fuck it I just miss BW/SC2 scene where people had personality. Pros are no longer people they are simply human bots that play games.
I would say that people are overly sensitive but I now think people are too unforgiving. Look at football where it is a couple of matches for physically and intentionally hurting someone.
Bizarre post considering recent events....
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On September 17 2014 18:11 Eppa! wrote:
Fuck it I just miss BW/SC2 scene where people had personality. Pros are no longer people they are simply human bots that play games.
I would say that people are overly sensitive but I now think people are too unforgiving. Look at football where it is a couple of matches for physically and intentionally hurting someone.
How many BW/SC2 players had racist names?
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On September 17 2014 18:00 -Zoda- wrote:
No they are not harsh. What does it change it's incidental or not ?
This guy has already been fined for toxic behavior and warned multiple times by Riot. If he still thinks after that and a cultural sensitivity briefing that choosing such a name is not a problem then he's an idiot, period.
So if you spend a year of your life, and a year of 4 of your friends lives, working your arses off to get to this tournament. You get a practice account, which you have to name, you're stressed, tired, and you've been travelling a ton, and you have to name it. You pick a funny name, which would have been perfectly fine to say in public where you grew up, and riot never said anything about the phrase chingchong being overly racist, why would that specific phrase be racist? Oh wait, our entire team is (essentially) booted from the tournament.
Like, ofc racism is bad, but essentially ruining one of the groups of the supposedly most competitive tournament in the world, because an 18 year old kid said something he didn't even realize was racist?
I'd like to think in this day and age punishments are judged based on the intentions behind the action, not purely on the end result. Like I'd hate for someone who planned out and intentionally ran someone over to be punished identically to someone who accidentally hit a pedestrian on a dark, rainy night.
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United Kingdom50293 Posts
What lol needs now is for a player to rage quit after failing a cheese
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On September 17 2014 19:24 Fusilero wrote:
What lol needs now is for a player to rage quit after failing a cheese
how are the booths in lol?
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On September 17 2014 19:24 Fusilero wrote:
What lol needs now is for a player to rage quit after failing a cheese
Breaking a keyboard/headset would be nice too.
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