I don’t agree with most of what he says, but he made some very good points with this. Joe Hildebrand wrote a good story on it over the weekend. Straight up sexism, but is that the intent? Generally its just a stronger version of calling someone a agree that sometimes people just need to dial down how offended they are. So if you work off the logic Twitch did here, every insult is discriminatory.Ĭalling someone a c*nt is comparing them to a female, and implying they are lesser for it. The problem with insults is that you’re making a comparison to someone, and implying the comparison is to someone weaker or lesser than the norm. As you say, its an insult on par with calling someone a and to me, clearly the intent. I’ve always been of the opinion that offence is in the intent, not the action, and this doesn’t look like he intended to offend homosexuals in general.
Fans of the artist have backed his move, labelling Twitch’s suspension as another example of double standards and censorship, while others noted that the speech was a violation of Twitch’s terms of service and language that is fairly simple to avoid. The removal of the channel has caused some confusion on social media, with some users believing that Twitch was responsible for removing Deadmau5’s channel, as opposed to Deadmau5 deleting it in protest. mobilising a fucking belief standard with what ACTUALLY is hate speech,” he said. “Of course there’s a huge line between being tilted as fuck over a video game and saying some shit vs. “I know who I am, and I don’t have to fucking sit here and cry and defend my fucking self with the obligatory ‘I’M NOT THAT PERSON, I AM SORRY’ reflex.”ĭeadmau5 continued to defend his intent in replies to users, stressing that his remark wasn’t indicative of his views.
“While it was intended to insult a fuckin asshat who was being a fucking asshat … it wasn’t ‘directed at an entire group of people who have a sexual orientation that differs from my own’,” the Canadian producer wrote.