Zack Hoyt, better known as Asmongold, had one of his Twitch channels temporarily banned after making racist comments against Palestinians. He received huge reactions from users of the platform for his racist comments on the rising conflicts between Palestine and Israel. The streamer is primarily known for covering World of Warcraft as well as other games.

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Asmongold’s racist speech on the killings of Palestinians in Gaza

During a broadcast on Monday, October 14, he called the Palestinians “terrible people” who “come from an inferior and horrible culture.” The streamer was talking about the ongoing conflict in Gaza, which has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians in Israeli attacks. His comments quickly spread to other social media platforms.

This sparked heavy criticism from Twitch users, following which his account “Zackrawrr” was temporarily banned from the platform. His other account, “Asmongold,” is still up and running, but Hoyt hasn’t used that channel in almost a year.

A Twitch spokesperson told IGN: “We take enforcement action when there are violations of our community guidelines, including our Hateful Conduct Policy and other rules. » Hoyt’s channel now leads to a notification on the platform that says: “This channel is temporarily unavailable due to a violation of Twitch’s Community Guidelines or Terms of Service.”

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Asmongold’s racist speech against the Palestinians

A clip of the streamer’s rant revealed that he said: “If you want to think of it as genocide as a systematic killing of a group of people, they currently have genocide built into Sharia law”, during the broadcast. Hoyt continued: “So no, I’m not going to cry to hell when people who have genocide written into their laws are being genocided. I don’t care. They are terrible people. It’s not even a question. It’s crazy that people don’t see it that way. »

He added: “They (the Palestinians) would do the same thing. “And how many did they kill?” » As much as they can. They are not capable of killing as many people as Israel because they do not have as many bombs and as many weapons. But if they did, they would do the same thing…”

The streamer went on to say, “These people are not your allies. They are not the same as us. They come from an inferior culture that is horrible, it kills people for their identity, and it is directly antithetical to everything Western values ​​stand for, and it is an inferior culture in every way. It’s that simple.”

Hoyt later apologized, writing on his microblogging: “Looking back, I was way too much of an asshole about the Palestine issue. My bad Of course, no one deserves to have their life destroyed, even if they do things or have opinions that I find regressive. You deserve more than me saying stupid things like that, I’ll do better.

Asmongold criticized for his racist remarks

Internet users did not hesitate to denounce the streamer for his insensitive comments towards the Palestinians. One user wrote on » A second user wrote: “The sad thing is that millions of Americans actually believe this about black and brown people outside the world. north.” A third user wrote: “The man who hasn’t showered or cleaned his room in 5 years decides who is inferior now.”

Other streamers also reacted to Hoyt’s racist remarks as streamer Kaceytron wrote: “Adolfmold’s alternate account ‘zackrawrr’ has been banned. His main account is still not banned. Hopefully this extremely light penalty will prevent him from repeating white supremacist arguments. We’ll see.” Twitch creator Austin ‘Gremloe’ wrote: “Looks like Asmongold’s main channel ‘Zackrawrr’ has been temporarily banned. It’s good to see the consequences of terrible behavior on Twitch.”