Some people bash, not all, that’s why its not a real problem tbh. FWIW, every group you mentioned is also known to express some degree of racism from time to time, its not an “OW” problem, its a “human” problem that isn’t owned by any one group.
And on the question specifically about Korean representation - its about identity - I live in burb of the ATL Reign, its simply harder to associate with a team when absolutely no one on the team lives anywhere you do, not even the same country. It’s perfectly natural to want local representation, that is not “racist”. People would feel basically the same if it were all Germans or Russian players…
Well there’s no rules about having players from the country or region in the teams from those regions, so given the amounts that the team owners had to pay to get their teams, it’s a small price to pay for the wins.
I suspect in time this might change, its really hard to just identify with a name, people often desire some form of local representation. I could see it being like “American made” cars - a percentage is extra-national… the other domestic.
Here’s some context for you; Means that you’re okay where Means that you need to surface. Try hard 7 was a salute but when it was applied in chat during a time when Malik was on screen (unrelated to that) and was deemed “racist” it was like rocket fuel to trolls; when you make triggering people that easy, it will be abused. Try hard 7 being spammed during the appearance of a black person is obviously in an effort to trigger people. Is in no way racist no matter how hard you want it to be. Quit adding fuel to the fire.
They are not that much bashed, it’s just that people that are not happy about it tell it on social medias, and people that are happy with it or don’t care just tell nothing…
So you only see people that have a problem with that.
Plus I don’t necessarily think it’s racism
It’s how it is. Some people, me included, are not fans of having koreans be everywhere and especially when they represent your city.
I mean having them rather picking up boring mid-low tier koreans instead top tier western players is frustrating (look at the defiant, boring). Overall it’s not the players fault, but reality is they will get heat for that too, since they are in front of the public and not the owner.
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You’re trying to mediate a Twitch chat… good luck with that. People are going to be rude and dumb no matter what to get a rise out of people. Just disable it if it’s bothering you that much.
Do you know the definition of relentlessly means? It doesn’t matter if it was one person, something can be ‘relentlessly’ done. For many it’s a matter of teams outsourcing to Korea for their talent, basically renting out koreans for easy wins.
People often try to blame 4 chan but actual people on the alt right white nationalist spectrum use the symbol and have adopted it as their own.
Think of it like the Swastika, a group of people adopted it and changed it’s meaning. That thing originally was not inherently bad but ‘bad’ people took it, made it their own and associated it with them giving it new context.
That is what is happening to the ok hand sign. Despite 4 chan users trying to trick people the white nationalist have picked it up and taken it as one of their dog whistles. We can blame 4-chan but they’ve done nothing similar and have failed more times than not to do it again meanwhile this one sign they have created has gained vast popularity.
The icing on the cake was the Mosque shooter doing it after spouting his alt-right rhetoric and going on to kill people solely because they were muslim.
If you want to read more on it I recommend looking at the video. There are many articles about this sort of thing happening.
If you want another sort of dog whistle used by the right look at the Pepe clown meme, they subtly use it to say things like ‘13% of the population commit 50% of honks’ a play on black crime statics.
It’s all dog whistles to let people know who they associate with but do so in a manner where they can go, ‘wtf it’s just a joke or it’s just a 4 chan meme’
Let me tell you something about 4-chan, they aren’t making ‘bad’ people use the symbol. And internet savvy edge lords think they can just blame 4-chan all they want but in the end it’s been adopted by those who were firstly accused and is flaunted by them.
Context is what matters and you have to be able to see these signs so you can call them out and cut em. We can call it censorship but in the end the best way to fight these things is to cut them down.
if it is not popular, who cares what is used for what? Even if it is a real thing, blizzard just gave it enormous amount of attention and popularity by getting baited to ban it.
If fascism isn’t popular and racism aren’t popular should we let everyone use slurs against others we’re just giving them popularity to ban things like the N-word and pro national socialist rhetioric. We should just let them do it.
If that means signal boosting an otherwise innocuous/meaningless remark to the point where it’s in everyone’s collective consciousness and attributing it to said groups… yes. Let it go, don’t give it power, stop taking the bait.
In America now? Do you understand what I’m saying to you? Racism and Facism aren’t popular should we just let people be racist and facist because it’s not popular?
There is no ‘stop giving it power’ THEY USE IT, it’s not a matter of ‘power’ you can’t give or take power away from something that’s a ridiculous notion. If a group USES IT, actually USES something in their context it is ASSOCIATED with them. There is ‘oh don’t give it power’ no, that tells them they have free reign to be how they are, to be facist, to be racist, you take AWAY the power and TAKE AWAY their platform they have no leg to stand on.
Means that you’re okay where 
Means that you need to surface. Try hard 7 was a salute but when it was applied in chat during a time when Malik was on screen (unrelated to that) and was deemed “racist” it was like rocket fuel to trolls; when you make triggering people that easy, it will be abused. Try hard 7 being spammed during the appearance of a black person is obviously in an effort to trigger people. 