There is no excuse for using racism in game

Finn Teh Human·7/28/2017, 4:18:11 AM·33 votes·3,123 views

I don't care if you were trying to joke. I don't care if you were saying it to a friend as a joke. It's racist and it can hurt someone else. By all means be toxic, at least toxic people can change. Tyler1 has proven that. At least when you're toxic you're not mocking someone and shaming them for how they were born. I'm not saying toxicity is okay, but I would much rather have someone who says something toxic than someone who is trying to personally attack someone else on my team The internet is not a nice place, I get that. But if you've been racist and have gotten a perma ban you have no right to ask to be unbanned.

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Subdue7/28/2017, 1:31:57 PM12 votes

I can't help it. Seeing those yordles just makes me cringe...

kasfas7/28/2017, 8:27:36 PM8 votes

It really depends on how you define racism.

Modern racism is a f****** joke. I don't hold any respect for people who claim this type of racism. If you are of a certain ethnicity than you shouldn't be offended if I call you that ethnicity. Say you call me "whitey", I don't find that offensive because, although its rude, it doesn't mean anything.

If xxRivenMaster69xx calls out in chat "You F****** N*****!", despite being very rude it does not have any meaning aside from showing frustration. Considering this racist is fallacious and idiotic.

Classical racism, the "you have a different skin colour than us and are therefore inferior" version, is indeed horrible, and has lead to some terrible things in human history.

Such as the opium wars, the western african slave trade (remember slavery was a thing LONG before technological advancement, and in fact still exists today in some third world countries), and Japanese imperialism.

The ENTIRE reason Japan was so eager to gain an empire was to prove to the west that they were equals. This happening only after the enforced trade deals from western countries with massive naval power exploiting what we're at the time seen as inferior people.

So, in the first context no. Calling someone African American, Japanese, Indian, Chinese, Polish, Spanish, or any other of the races should not be reportable in any sense because it doesn't necessarily notate someone's opinions on race superiority, however stating anything to do with superiority, like (for example) "go back to sh****** in the jungle you monkey." directly degrades an individual for their unchangeable apperance and/or history and should be banned.

Ps: If someone declares you to be of any origin, and you take offence to it, that makes YOU the racist because you see that race and those who are it as less than what you are.

Brain Errör 4047/28/2017, 2:44:09 PM8 votes

I feel the reason racism/sexism and homophobia go on for such a long ass time is because the world continues to censor it. "Calling a black person the N word is offensive. Calling a gay a F---ot is offensive." If those things were used in every day life, continuously over decades with no censorship, the weight behind the words would fade.

I'm not saying it's okay, but I personally feel humanity needs to grow up and get over it. Just my opinion. This is coming from a guy that has gay friends, doesn't care when my "white" friends say the N word and is totally objective with no racial, sexist or homophobe consensus. It's about time people stop being so feeble and start building strong character. And this is by all means just towards the words themselves and not towards direct personal attacks because I stand by the fact that words can and WILL hurt you.

Darius Strada7/28/2017, 6:56:04 PM8 votes

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I I don't care if you were saying it to a friend as a joke.

What's your business in how my friends and I play with each other? You don't know our relationship so don't meddle.

Jew Stomper7/28/2017, 3:42:37 PM4 votes

"...it can hurt someone else." Words cannot be violent, words cannot hurt. Besides, you can always mute.

Natake7/29/2017, 6:17:21 AM3 votes

Mind if I piggyback off this? I'd like to extend this to disabilities too. I'm actually autistic. I can't help that. Whenever I lose lane, I get treated to hearing people call me a retarded piece of shit or a fucking autistic scrub, as if I didn't get bullied enough for it growing up. The community being toxic towards others like this is why a lot of people don't want to play League of Legends at all.

Akali Prime7/29/2017, 3:30:17 AM3 votes

one time in a game where it came up that i was black i pretty much got bullied by 3 of the enemy teammates for being black and no one on my team or the enemy team stuck up or defended me, it was a horrible experience.

BØLT7/28/2017, 5:25:32 PM2 votes

How is Tyler these days? I havent watched him in a long time. Him and his 'alpha male fast food orders' LOL

NinjaGuy697/28/2017, 9:13:10 PM1 votes

I mean as unfortunate as it is, racism is pretty much inherent in the Internet because anonymity tends to bring out the worst in people. You can't change most people no matter how hard you try - even with extreme cases like Tyler1. If he didn't get permabanned, he'd probably be as toxic as he is now. In my opinion, he'd probably still be toxic player to this day if he didn't blow up on. I don't personally think he's genuinely reformed and he's probably just being sportsmanlike in game with the hopes of Riot potentially pulling a Jensen and unbanning him one day. Anyway, the best thing to do is to not feed the trolls and mute and report them at the end of the game.

MetalGearTeemu7/28/2017, 8:19:00 PM1 votes

friendly reminder that making you post a butthurt message on the forums about it and prove how rattled you are by someone you will likely never interact with again who knows nothing about you saying something on the internet is exactly what he wanted.

You only validate his behavior in his eyes.

Thick skin. Apply it.