Twitch streamer under fire for trying to explain why racist jokes are \u201cOK\u201d YouTube: DSPGamingDarksydePhil, a popular gaming Twitch streamer, has faced criticism after attempting to explain why racist jokes and \u2018generalizations\u2019 are just \u201csilly\u201d and require \u201cthick skin\u201d. The topic arose after a viewer asked why he called people upset by racist jokes \u201csensitive\u201d, when he himself would be upset when mocked for gout, a form of arthritis. \u201cWhy do you say people are sensitive over racist jokes, but you get upset when people joke about your gout?\u201d DarksydePhil read back on his September 16 livestream, responding, \u201cbecause racist jokes are silly, if you do them in a general fashion.\u201d \u201cWhat I mean by that is, when you make a joke that is a racial generalization, about a race, let\u2019s say something about the Italians, or the Chinese, it\u2019s usually a generalization, you\u2019re not directing that towards one person,\u201d DarksydePhil explained. The streamer described it as \u201cobservational comedy\u201d, but continued by saying that \u201cadmittedly, people can get angry and get insulted, or touchy about it \u2013 you have to be careful, because some people just don\u2019t have thick skin.\u201d However, with his medical condition, the streamer argued that \u201ctaking a jab at that is kinda fucked up,\u201d suggesting that joking about a \u201cheritage\u201d is not a \u201cbig deal\u201d, but joking about a medical condition is. Clarifying, DarksydePhil said that \u201cinsulting someone personally\u201d on the issue of race, is different from \u201cmaking a general joke about race [\u2026] I think that\u2019s ok.\u201d The streamer, who also goes by DSPGaming on YouTube, was criticized for his comments online, with some highlighting that his description of gout being hereditary is not entirely accurate, but even if so, there is nothing more hereditary than one\u2019s race. Others labeled it as \u201chypocrisy at its finest.\u201d It\u2019s not the first time that DSP, real name Phil Burnell, has made a similar argument. In a video compilation of allegedly racist jokes made by the content creator, he states \u201cIt\u2019s funny to joke around and say things that, in a serious setting, might be racially insensitive, but they\u2019re not really meant, and therefore, they can be pretty comedic. DSP\u2019s most infamous controversy occurred back in 2016, when he failed to notice that his camera was still live and masturbated while broadcasting. Twitch has strict guidelines protecting against \u201chateful conduct\u201d, which covers \u201cany content or activity that promotes, encourages, or facilitates discrimination, denigration, objectification, harassment, or violence based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, medical condition, physical characteristics, or veteran status.\u201d At the time of writing, DarksydePhil\u2019s channel has not been handed a suspension from the platform for his comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamer under fire for trying to explain why racist jokes are \u201cOK\u201d YouTube: DSPGamingDarksydePhil, a popular gaming Twitch streamer, has faced criticism after attempting to explain why racist jokes and \u2018generalizations\u2019 are just \u201csilly\u201d and require \u201cthick skin\u201d. The topic arose after a viewer asked why he called people upset by racist jokes \u201csensitive\u201d, […]<\/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-62796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62796","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=62796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}