ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]

a weird parasocial relationship a lot of people have with him where everything wrong he does is just an oopsie

This is interesting, as there are plenty of other celebrities who have a sort of “cult of personality” like this. I could be misinformed but Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey come to mind. I wonder what kind of phenomenon causes this and if there is any psychological research behind that.

gaming, like every media has always been political

Good point! The way technology itself is designed can even be political. I’d highly recommend reading Langdon Winner’s essay Do Artifacts Have Politics? about this.

I can’t tell if you’re being genuine or not, but there is a difference between using a swear word ever and being a hateful bigot and using slurs against marginalized groups

They’re German, which makes it even better, as you could legitimately argue that a Jewish homeland should have been partitioned out of Germany as reparations for the Holocaust.

Person A: “I think the actions of the Netanyahu government are reprehensible and amount to ethnic cleansing. I think a government like that shouldn’t exist.”

Person B: “You can’t criticize the Zionist entity, that’s literally anti-Semitism”

Person A: “Well, this is a line in the sand for me that I can’t cross. So it’s all Jews then?”

Aren’t you at all concerned that you might create more anti-Semitism when you say that? It’s bad enough as it is — don’t give people legitimate reasons to turn into Nazis.