Not only are the countries he is saying have “fine” refugees don’t even speak English as an official language, Africa as a continent has the largest amount of countries that speak English:
Most other African countries speak French, Spanish or another European language as an official language. So what is the issue here? Many Africans have immigrated to Western countries and have integrated fine. It’s insane that Twitch is allowing this kind of rhetoric to be displayed in full velocity on this platform.
Accept refugees from Gemany
Like the Nazis who fled to America after WW2 to avoid persecution?
Actually that’s exactly the folks he wants.
Like that V2 Rocket guy who built the Apollo program?
What he says might be unpopular on this platform, but I don’t see the racism in it. Integrating large numbers of people from a completely different culture into your society is extremely difficult – if not outright impossible. Exhibit A: Sweden.
This is one of those things where dismissing people who are worried about this stuff as racists or xenophobes just alienates them – and pushes them to vote for the actual racists and xenophobes instead. That’s how you end up where the US is today.
Counterpoint, attempting to appease and cater to racists is the Ratchet Effect in action. This hasn’t caused racists to actually vote for Democratic candidates, rather it simply moves the Overton Window rightward.
This is fediverse. Balanced opinions aren’t welcome here
Of course Sweden, the dogwhistle for the racists and fascists trying to insist on the ““Islamification”” of Europe.
You’re claiming ignorance on what can be explained by malice. There’s no excuse for ignorance in this day and age when access to information is so open. These far-right fuckwits don’t want integration, they want a race war. They want white supremacy.
The concerned citizen shtick is bullshit to cover for racism. Trying to appease them has proven time and time again to be pointless. The argument for not “alienating” the far-right is literally just “give them exactly what they want”.
Appreciate the live demo of exactly what I was talking about.
Instead of engaging with the argument, you go straight to branding me a racist. This is why the far-right keeps gaining ground - not because people agree with them, but because they’re sick of being shouted down any time they try to talk about real issues. Apparently things still aren’t bad enough for that lesson to sink in.
EDIT: Ironically this just in: Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners
Sweden is not set up to cope with a rise in the numbers being sentenced to jail time as the government grapples with an unprecedented wave of violence brought about by gang crime.
That’s because your argument is bollocks, as it is when Farage or Trump or any other grifter makes it. People of different backgrounds live integrated together in peace in many large cities around the world, but people like you act like all of society’s ills are because we have too many brown people.
Wealth inequality sharply on the rise, social mobility going down the toilet, neoliberal economic ideology pushing people into poverty, of course people are frustrated. The arguments against the anti-immigration narrative are numerous, but aren’t going to do much if you have no interest in listening to them, much like the right-wing talking heads in the media who like to shout over people who defend immigrants from the grotesque lies told about them.
This is why the far-right keeps gaining ground - not because people agree with them, but because they’re sick of being shouted down any time they try to talk about real issues
Meaningless tosh. They don’t agree with the far-right but yet they support the far-right because they were shouted down. By who exactly? Some bloke on the street? Someone on Twitter?
If you don’t want to be labeled as racist, then stop pushing racist narratives and disinformation.
people who are worried about this stuff as racists or xenophobes
God forbid the racist asshat doesn’t feel welcome on the internet. Fuck asmongold, he is stupid and this argument is stupid, racist and made in bad faith. He is plain wrong, don’t defend the racist.
explain sweden, please
Massive amounts of refugees and immigrants since 2015, failure to integrate, gang violence, shootings and bombings among the highest per capita in Europe, and the rise of the right-wing nationalist Sweden Democrats.
Sweden basically became the cautionary tale among the Nordic countries of how not to handle mass immigration.
Edit: Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners
wrong order.
SD started rising before the “immigrant wave”, since we’ve had high immigration numbers since the 70s, but the shootings and bombings only started five years ago. they’re mostly being carried out by people who were less than ten years old during that time. so the violence is, in a way, home-grown.
According to wikipedia their support was at around 4% in the 90’s, 5.7% in 2010, 17.5% in 2018 and 20% in 2022.
There was a peak in immigration in the '70s, but that was still only half of what it was in 2015. I doubt it’s just a coincidence that their support seems to correlate pretty neatly with the number of immigrants. I never claimed that it’s the gang violence driving the increased support - it’s the immigration itself. The rise in violence just makes it easier for them to say “I told you so.”
gotta look at that graph per capita, sweden had a much smaller population in the 70s.
And what does that have to do with anything? Sweden’s population has grown from 8 million in the '70s to 10.5 million today. That’s 2.5 million more people - and 1.9 million of them are immigrants. The number of immigrants per capita has increased significantly since the '70s, not decreased. It has gone from 3.7% of the total population to 20.8%.
i’m sorry, largest?
(it’s either something like this, or OP elided the word “audience”)
I see clips of this guy in my recommended videos section on youtube all the time. I never click on them and I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it’s deciding that I should watch these clips. Either way, I find it odd how signal-boosted this clown is. The gaming-to-politics pipeline is too strong.
He knows nothing about politics, but realized that saying right wing bullshit gets engagement so now this is what we have.
Sometimes it feels like the internet is just a giant rat maze and people chase after whatever the algorithm rewards them for chasing.
I don’t think it’s really gaming-to-politics. I think it’s more like gaming-to-very-loud-bigot. The fact that bigotry is so tightly coupled into right wing politics is just coincidental.
I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it’s deciding that I should watch these clips.
This is why, lol. Since his videos are generally popular on YouTube, if you have no watch history for your recommendations to be based on, it’s just always going to feed you whatever’s popular, which will include his stuff.
You’re doing it to yourself, in other words. I actually have watched a couple videos of his in the past, and yet, because it’s rare, I never see his videos being recommended to me. Hell, in my experience, stuff recommended to me is rarely similar to things I’ve seen more than a month or so ago.
Used to game with him back in MoP. Sad to see this is where he ended up.
You personally? Cmon, hard to believe.
To be fair mist of pandaria was ages ago so maybe true
Yes, me personally, I used to play competitive World of Warcraft. Did timed challenge mode dungeons for realm’s best at end of MoP too.
Isn’t this the same guy who identifies as communist? He isn’t exactly stable.
Most Americans barely speak comprehensible English. We tolerate that, so it’s not much for them to do the same in return.
what a cunt.
it’s obvious he doesn’t even understand what a refugee is
and then goes on to say “why would you add people to your country that don’t speak the language” in English and not the native tongue of the tribe that the land was stolen from
and what the fuck did he think happened to Poles who moved to the US 100 years ago? They weren’t even considered “white.”
Ukrainians in 2022 were considered “almost european”, as in, almost “civilized”
The stupid beady-eyed prick is being a stupid beady-eyed prick.
I started kind of liking this guy right before he ripped the mask off. This is the same thing that happened with Rogan. Started to like his content and within a few months he went full douchebag. I’m cursed.
Maybe this experience is telling you to question your beliefs on yourself, your family, other people, your country, the world…
same here, I used to like his Warcraft stuff and thought his house tour being complete untamed chaos was so hilarious. never knew of his political stuff until he commented on gaza and I was instantly made aware of the reality of his views.
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Eh, I tried to be open-minded. Asmongold was funny and surprisingly articulate back when he just dunked on video game developers, but as time went on and Trump came into office, it really started falling apart. Rogan used to have doctors, scientists and educators in his show, and had enough humility to at least admit he was stupid and respected what they taught him. But just like Asmongold, Trump, money and the pandemic absolutely broke his brain.
He also profits from stealing other people’s content. https://youtu.be/Irk8h0ax5aY
Considering Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, I don’t think it’s really all that insane that Twitch allows this. And I’m sure as hell that Asmongold has made statements more unhinged than this.
Asmondgold is so far past being relevant. He was intolerable when he was simply making World of Warcraft videos.
asmon rlly one of the dumbest mofos ive ever had the displeasure to be exposed too. Like most right wing grifters know they lie about shit to get their points across. This dude is so dumb he believes all of it
Ragefarming seems the only form of content lately… So sad…
It’s so hard to find enclaves on the internet that aren’t just reposting the same ragebait over and over.
Yeah agree still one of the things I love from Lemmy is that is more wholesome. Is not perfect yes, but way better interactions than any other place I’ve been to.
