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Suspended for calling myself a %%%got wth

Not From Behind·10/19/2017, 7:53:06 PM·3 votes·648 views

So I just had a Trundle game, my ingame name is "GirlyChocobo" for kicks. Azir remarked my name was gay and Taric was pink, so I decided to underline me being a %%%got in the log.

Game ends, I get suspended 14 days. People tell me they wanna rape my mother but I can't call myself gay especially when I identify as such smh.

Log: Game 1 girlychocobo: malz should run oom fast if you stop his voidlings with that item girlychocobo: lel girlychocobo: ikr girlychocobo: im a %%%got irl too girlychocobo: rek girlychocobo: u2 girlychocobo: us %%%gots can do stuff girlychocobo: ex heal girlychocobo: not sure if heal actually girlychocobo: remember when yi invented inting? girlychocobo: oh lol girlychocobo: oom girlychocobo: are we doing good yet girlychocobo: LEL girlychocobo: ask him girlychocobo: getting armor now either way girlychocobo: was 4v5 girlychocobo: but vayne is too strong for team right now it seems girlychocobo: gonna get FH girlychocobo: ff? girlychocobo: shove top girlychocobo: for inhib or baron if we win a tf girlychocobo: g

39 Comments

Eedat10/19/2017, 7:58:03 PM7 votes

Just dont use the word. I'm black and I'm not allowed to use the word %%%ga either even with friends. I dont agree with it and I'll voice my opinion about it here but at the end of the day its their rules and you gotta abide by it

ModThe Djinn10/19/2017, 7:59:25 PM7 votes

So this is a tricky situation to explain, and may feel unfair, but I'm going to try to explain it anyway.

Certain forms of hate speech -- specifically the word mentioned here and a common racial slur -- have indeed been somewhat reclaimed by certain groups of people.

The issue is that it's far from widespread, and those words used outside those groups are still terribly offensive...and often within those groups those words are still considered highly offensive if used by someone on the outside.

Since you don't know who you're playing with, and since those words are so offensive to so many people, Riot has taken the policy of saying that they are not acceptable on their platform when you're exposing them to strangers. You CAN use those words with your premade 5 and be fine if no one reports you, but bringing them into the public eye means forcing your view on a highly offensive word onto other people who -- even if you're 100% okay with it -- may not share your viewpoint and may be terribly offended.

It's much like how you can't really get away with saying those words loudly in, say, a Starbucks, even if you personally say it to your friends all the time and consider it fine.

I get that that may seem unfair, but Riot has to take a stance somewhere, since they can't possibly parse every situation in which the word could come up.

ModWuks10/19/2017, 8:12:23 PM4 votes

Social tip: Don't walk up to a group of strangers in public and start throwing around homophobic comments. They don't know you, and they don't know context as it relates to you.

Chermorg10/19/2017, 7:58:22 PM3 votes

A word is either hate speech/offensive, or it’s not. It doesn’t matter who’s using it.

The word that you used is considered hate speech by not just Riot but the general population. For that reason, you are punished for using it regardless of who it’s directed at.

Drugoth10/19/2017, 7:54:43 PM2 votes

Eh, this is kind of an edge case for appeal imo.

On the one hand, you have the fact that you didn't use the word against anyone else.

On the other, the word is a zero tolerance word...

Tormentula10/19/2017, 8:17:12 PM2 votes

{quoted}

girlychocobo: im a %%%got irl too

It might've been this

because saying "too" is also implying you're calling another player that, which they can either take as offense or somebody else could report it and riot will read it as if you are saying it that way.

Either way the word itself is slang and I'm pretty sure the system automatically filters for stuff like that. You just can't say those sort of words regardless of context. Homosexual is fine because its not slang its just literally what its called, but that wording is slang usually as an insult from homophobia.

Oleandervine10/20/2017, 7:03:45 PM1 votes

Another issue that people have not brought up yet is this:

I'm a f@&&ot in real life, too.

And

I'm a f@&&ot in real life, too.

Could you tell which one was a genuine comment, and which one was hostile sarcasm?

You can't, and that's a huge thing here. With written text, you cannot detect sarcasm and genuineness. You may have been genuine about how you used the word, but I've seen people use it as hostile passive aggression too. People on the internet will automatically jump to thinking you're being hostile and sarcastic, because 90% of the time, that is how slurs are used. I'm gay, and very, very, very few people I know use this term how you use unless they are trying to be catty and mean, so it's very understandable why others would interpret it as such.

General Esdeath 10/20/2017, 5:30:43 AM1 votes

How to open flood gates for hate speech:

"If I say I'm gay I can't be punished for saying that forbidden word"

Not From Behind10/19/2017, 8:13:16 PM1 votes

The TL;DR here, from what I see, is that apparently the word is a huge deal in the USA. It's kind of ridiculous either way, to get suspended for owning the term when there was no forewarning or anything. It was just "oh you used it, bye".