wonwoozy:

In all of the PewDiePie discourse, I think my favorite recurring defense is, “It was the heat of the moment! He was angry at the game! We’ve all been there!”

I like videogames. I’ve liked videogames my whole life. And I’ve raged with the best of them. Remember Red Dead Revolver? Those fucking duels? The ones that took HOURS to beat. Remember the early days of playing Duty on Live when you had no idea what you were doing and got your head blown off? I do. I had to MAKE UP NEW SWEAR WORDS to express my rage. I was 12 with the mouth of a sailor because I just kept getting blown away.

But, for a more recent example, a few months back I finally got an Xbox One. And I got Fallout 4 because it seemed like it would be fun. But I was wrong. Because I SUCK at Fallout 4. I don’t know what it is about that game but I suck worse at F4 than most people suck at ANYTHING. Imagine dropping 3 bills on a new console and another 30 bucks on a game you thought you’d love just to completely and utterly BLOW at it. I die… So much. So much. SO MUCH. And I scream. I rage. I curse the heavens. But do you know how many racial epithets I’ve thrown around? Do you know how many times I’ve said the N-word? None. And do you know why? Because I’m not a fucking racist. It never occurred to me to casually hurl that slur at my TV because it’s not part of my everyday vocabulary. I haven’t shouted it at raiders because I’ve never used it in my life. I am, however, from New Jersey, perhaps the swearing capital of the world, and so I’ve thrown out words like twat-bag and dick-fuck and shit-skull but racial slurs? They just don’t instinctively come out of my mouth when I’m upset at a fucking videogame. Never. Not once. Because they’re not words that I use in any other part of my life.

This is so not the first time PewDiePie has done or said something utterly disgusting, and it won’t be the last, especially with all of you sucking his dick no matter what he does. I’d love to use the hypothetical, “What if he said something massively offensive like ‘kill all Jews’? Would you still defend him?”

But he did. And you did. PewDiePie will go down in history as both the most subscribed YouTuber and somehow the most bulletproof. And all of you PewDiePie stans, the ones so content and complacent about casual, passive racism, will be right there with him. Congratulations on the guy you stan. You, uh, you sure picked a good one.