Streamer Zack Hoyt a.k.a. Asmongold has landed himself in a big controversy for his racist comments during a live stream. One of his channels on Twitch has been temporarily banned after he made racist comments against Palestinians. Platform users derided him for his comments about the hostilities between Palestine and Israel.
Zack Hoyt, popularly known as Asmongold is more known for covering World of Warcraft and other games. During a live stream on October 14, 2024, he referred to Palestinians as terrible people who came from an inferior culture which is horrible.
His comments soon spread on social media and led to a huge outcry of outrage. The streamer was discussing the Palestinian and Israeli conflict in Gaza which has already killed over 42,000 people.
Netizens decried the streamer’s insensitive comments.
One user wrote on X,
“The only genocide this guy knows is how he genocides rats and larvae to decorate his room.”
A second user stated,
“What’s sad is that millions of Americans believe this about black and brown people outside of the global north.”
A third user wrote,
“Man who hasn’t showered or cleaned his room in 5 years is deciding who’s inferior now.”
Streamer Asmongold banned from Twitch
Soon after the comments became viral, his Twitch account, ‘Zackrawrr,’ was temporarily banned on the platform. Hoyt has another active account, ‘Asmongold,’ but he has not used this channel for almost one year.
A Twitch spokesman told the media house IGN,
“We take enforcement action when there are violations of our community guidelines, including our hateful conduct policy and other rules.”
When anyone accesses Hoyt’s channel it leads to a notification on the platform which reads:
“This channel is temporarily unavailable due to a violation of Twitch’s Community Guidelines or Terms of Service.”
Asmongold’s racist rant against Palestinians is viral in which he said,
“If you want to consider it genocide as a systematic killing of a group of people, they have genocide built into Sharia law right now. So no, I’m not going to cry a f*cking river when people who have genocide that’s baked into their laws are getting genocided. I don’t give a f*ck. They’re terrible people. It’s not even a question. It’s crazy that people don’t see it that way.”
He further said,
“They’d (Palestinians) be doing the same thing. ‘And how much did they kill?’ As many as they can. They’re not able to kill as many people as Israel because they don’t have as many bombs and as many weapons. But if they did, they’d be doing the same thing…”
Asmongold later apologized after an outcry
However a huge outcry and a backlash Hoyt later apologized and wrote on the microblogging platform,
“Looking back on it, I was way too much of an a—–e about the Palestine thing. Of course, no one deserves to have their life destroyed even if they do things or have views I find regressive. You guys deserve more than me saying stupid shit like that, I’ll do better.”
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