Trihex gets angry with Destiny over use of racial slurs Twitch streamers Steven \u2018Destiny\u2019 Bonnell II and Mychal \u2018Trihex\u2019 Jefferson are at a crossroads over the private use of racial slurs. Co-hosts of The DT Podcasts, the two personalities usually dive into hot-button issues centered around gaming, streaming, politics, and more. But the conversation has been getting a bit personal ever since it resurfaced that Destiny uses a taboo racial word in private jokes. The conversation got rather uncomfortable for Trihex, who is of African-American descent, when Destiny, who is of Cuban-American descent, wouldn\u2019t relent from barring the use of the slur from his private life. Even though Destiny\u2019s use of the word has been known for quite some time, it\u2019s been stirring a lot of emotions and opinions, especially with the interactions with his long-time friend. \u201cIt hit me kind of hard, not going to lie Destiny,\u201d Trihex said on the Rajj Royale Podcast. \u201cWhen you said you don\u2019t care how others come off with your private demeanor even if it includes the usage of the \u2018n\u2019 slur. I don\u2019t choose to be black, but I ultimately have been offended by that word.\u201d Even though Trihex has defended Destiny when similar situations cropped up, the pro Speedrunner says \u201cit\u2019s really disingenuous for me to converse with [Destiny], if [Destiny] privately still uses \u2018hard R\u2019, the most contextually offensive word in modern American English language.\u201d Destiny responded by saying \u201cthat\u2019s completely for [Trihex] to believe\u201d if the use of the word offends or makes it seem like he\u2019s a racist. In a separate occasion, Destiny tried to justify his use of the slur with four premises: race being a social construct, half-black\/half-white people are still considered black, that \u201cHispanic people are allowed to say it,\u201d and that he was half Cuban. Even though Destiny may think that his argument justifies his actions, the Wednesday 23 iteration of The DT Podcast ended rather abruptly after a single point of conversation. Trihex had asked Destiny if he\u2019d publicly say he \u201cwouldn\u2019t use possibly edgy jokes that contain the n-word with a hard-R,\u201d since Trihex is known to associate with him. But Destiny said he wasn\u2019t prepared to lie about \u201csome principle I have to save face for you publicly.\u201d The situation at that point was at an awkward stall until Trihex opened up about it with a flurry of tweets on October 24. \u201cSlept on it & I\u2019d like to clarify some things concerning yesterday: I ultimately went into this conversation about private n-word usage incorrectly w\/ Destiny. I regret making it a public convo as I was way too emotionally volatile to engage,\u201d Trihex said. While we disagreed on the notion of public admittance of private affairs vs truly private affairs (point 3), he DID apologize for the empathy stuff from Saturday (point 1). I got what I wanted but dragged the convo further on the topic of N-Word Private Usage. \u2014 trihex (@trihex) October 24, 2019 I wish I had a private convo w\/ Destiny about all this after Rajj, instead of panic-saying “”we’ll follow it up on DT Podcast on Wednesday”” to avoid the awkward social atmosphere we were all in \u2014 making this whole thing toxic all-around via bystanders escalating it. \u2014 trihex (@trihex) October 24, 2019 He noted how he wanted to have a discussion of the \u201clack of empathy [he] felt from Destiny,\u201d the use of the word in private, and enabling these slurs from him by association. Destiny had apologized for the \u201cempathy stuff,\u201d but Trihex still wanted to make his point that \u201cedgy jokes, including slurs, can be hurtful. Public knowledge of them is a weird position to be in as it calls on principles to dictate how you feel. The DT Podcast\u2019s next installment has been cancelled, according to Destiny, and it remains to be seen how the situation will shake out between the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trihex gets angry with Destiny over use of racial slurs Twitch streamers Steven \u2018Destiny\u2019 Bonnell II and Mychal \u2018Trihex\u2019 Jefferson are at a crossroads over the private use of racial slurs. Co-hosts of The DT Podcasts, the two personalities usually dive into hot-button issues centered around gaming, streaming, politics, and more. But the conversation has […]<\/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-62011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62011","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=62011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}