Is saying "type /ff to join Islam" hate speech?

the weeaboo··4 votes·854 views

I saw it in a Uberdanger video and thought it was pretty funny. But just did it in one game and then they got very mad saying it was hate speech. Not really sure how that is hate speech? Joining Islam is not hateful in any way?

Could someone explain how this is hate speech to me? I meant no offense by it I just thought it was a funny way of trying to get your enemies to surrender. Thanks.

12 Comments

EvilDustMan3 votes

It's stupid?

BeatzBoyFTW2 votes

No need to try to improvise. You're using that joke as a relation to the word "bomb". It can be punishable for somewhat "racial slur".

the weeaboo4 votes

? I think it's more offensive to automatically associate Islam with the word "bomb"...

BeatzBoyFTW2 votes

With how the world rolls now, everyone will always assume it this way. It's like saying "join me for some tobacco", but you're implementing that you're "not" smoking it off.

the weeaboo3 votes

Why? There's more than a billion followers of Islam and the only ones using bombs are groups radical extremists. Whereas tobacco is a product purely for smoking...

BeatzBoyFTW1 votes

And there's about 50-80% of radical Americans assuming Islamic correlates to it anyway, especially when Islam racism still exist til this day. May not just be centered on just Americans, severity varies on other countries too.

the weeaboo1 votes

Well when I made the "joke" I thought that it was like you'd be joining Islam in exchange for surrender. As in "type /ff to follow Jesus Christ our lord and savior". But since the consensus is that it is offensive I shall stop I guess.

General Esdeath 2 votes

Uberdanger

Yeah the shining example of good people. The same guy who bashes Trump and then insults Islam and calls all Muslims terrorists. Good choice in channels, OP.

Zed genius1 votes

what i do is type /ff to join the Reich but it hasn't worked so far... I don't think it's bannable though

SEKAI1 votes

Sure, you said that can use it to mean 'now you'll want to surrender because you want to join', okay the sentence can work in that context, somewhat; but know this: Because /ff means giving up the match, so that line "type /ff to join Islam" CAN also carry the message that only losers join Islam; and as mentioned by another commenter, it can also be a malicious insults to associate bombs to Islam considering your nexus explodes when you pass the /ff vote. Since it goes both ways, it can either just be a random comment or it can be a serious insult, let's just say the opinion can be pretty mixed when receiving it especially from strangers, and especially when the comment seems to carry more negative implications than it does positively.

Really though, wanna do ambiguous jokes? Cool. But at least either be very witty about it, like very, so that the intention (that is not to harm) is clear, or you might want to restrict it to someone who knows you or else the audience may not be taking it well if it's not really good and clearly well-meant and/or satirical.

Not to mention, at the time of political tension like what we have regarding the topics on Islam, it's also just not very smart in general to whip out ambiguous jokes about the subject to strangers out of the blue for many obvious reasons.

Did I survive1 votes

I mean, it ultimately depends on who you are saying it at...

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