Sweet Anita responds to calls to ban her over Tourette\u2019s outburst Twitch streamer Sweet Anita has responded after some have called for her to be banned following offensive outbursts caused by her Tourette\u2019s. Sweet Anita is a Twitch streamer who suffers from Tourette\u2019s syndrome, a condition that causes one to make involuntary sounds and\/or movements called tics. In some cases, these tics can come in the form of controversial, rude or taboo comments, but is something those affected have no control over. In her time on Twitch, Anita has built an audience of over half a million followers, as well as 300,000 subscribers on YouTube. This is all in spite, or perhaps partly thanks to, her Tourette\u2019s, unashamedly embracing her tics, rather than trying to suppress them. Naturally, her condition can sometimes cause issues when she accidentally uses expletivs or says something offensive, as was the case after an outburst on stream on December 9. While explaining how great it must be \u201cto choose to be socially appropriate and considerate and not just say the weirdest, most awful sh*t ever,\u201d Anita had a tic causing her to say \u201ckill the Jews,\u201d before looking absolutely devastated. She turned her stream off shortly after, but the clip was widely shared on social media, sparking controversy. Twitch partner Lil Chipmunk came out in a now-deleted tweet asking \u201cHow\u2019s this allowed? I don\u2019t care if she has Tourettes she must have some way to mute herself?\u201d The tweet was deleted, but Lil Chipmunk also responded to the original tweet containing the clip saying \u201cSounds like she just wanted to get that out.\u201d Anita hasn\u2019t responded directly to Chipmunk\u2019s post, but did address some of the backlash to these types of incidents, where her tics can result in highly offensive remarks, such as when she used a racial slur. \u201cI read the comments section. There were a lot of people who were really angry or thought I should be banned,\u201d Anita explained, \u201ca lot of people think the N-word is in your vocabulary so you must be racist.\u201d She continued: \u201cThe N-word is on everyone\u2019s vocabulary. We all know what it is and that it\u2019s a word, and so does my Tourette\u2019s. That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s something I believe or feel about anyone.\u201d Anita went on to explain that it\u2019s hard when people just don\u2019t understand Tourette\u2019s, but rather than fixate on the negatives she would rather look at the positives, such as the commenters who explain to others what Tourette\u2019s is and why she can\u2019t help it. Fellow streamer Anikichad, who also has Tourette\u2019s, addressed Anita\u2019s \u201cN-word tic\u201d, saying \u201cIn my interactions with Anita, she has been nothing but nice, kind, supportive\u2026 She\u2019s a true friend, and I don\u2019t want anyone thinking she\u2019s actually racist.\u201d Twitch\u2019s community guidelines have strict rules around what it calls \u2018hateful conduct\u2019, but Sweet Anita has not faced any official sanctions from the platform. In enforcing the rules, Twitch moderation teams claim to always take context into account, and, given her condition, Sweet Anita\u2019s remarks have been ruled not to violate these guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sweet Anita responds to calls to ban her over Tourette\u2019s outburst Twitch streamer Sweet Anita has responded after some have called for her to be banned following offensive outbursts caused by her Tourette\u2019s. Sweet Anita is a Twitch streamer who suffers from Tourette\u2019s syndrome, a condition that causes one to make involuntary sounds and\/or movements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}