Today in Lutris discord which I happen to lurk occasionally, I saw some lovely people were commenting in the offtopic channel about how they support Ethan Kleins lawsuit against Youtubers who criticised him, GamerGate bs, defending streamer sex pests and some other stuff. One person offhandedly mentions how they get their information from Asmongold.

If you’re not very online, Asmongold is a reactionary streamer who at one point declared he thinks Palestinians should be genocided because of their “inferior culture”. Ethan Klein is a somewhat well known youtuber/podcaster who has also spent the last year or so having a very public meltdown over Israel and his own fundamentally contradictory set of positions he’s tried to triangulate between.

Seeing this, I made a brief comment about Asmongolds stance mentioned above and why anyone would listen to him. I got racist responses claiming “Palestinians have been kicked out of every culture they’ve been in” and deflecting to “Look at Egypts border”.

Called out the racism and genocide apologia, the only person who was warned was me for not being civil. I replied “racism and genocide apologia is not civil”, referred to the fact the Lutris logo on discord has an LGBTQ flag, and was called a nutcase and banned.

tl:dr Lutris discord moderation is OK with racism and genocide, but you’re a “nutcase” if you call a spade a spade.

UPDATE: I was responded to on Mastodon and was accused of being the one making antisemtic comments. Others explained in the thread below there were some who made antisemitic comments after I was banned. I sincerely hope that’s a misunderstanding, but I don’t have much faith the moderator in question would be telling the truth about the events.

  • GlacialTurtle@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    If you can provide evidence for what really happened, I’ll happily take a look.

    I wasn’t able to get screenshots before I was banned, and the moderator in question very clearly scrubbed the chat to cover the whole thing and whatever other mess other people attested to happening afterwards. The only thing anyone can do is take my word for it, and accounts of some of the other people who posted and saw the aftermath.

    I did, however, get accused of making antisemitic remarks, which never happened, but comments were seen being made by others in these comments after I had already been banned. So either the moderator lied, or is terrible at moderating and lumped me in with antisemitic users as an excuse or because they’re just that bad at handling moderation.

    https://todon.nl/@glacial/114744544014616152

    And yes, my language was harsh, and I apologise for that. I’ve just seen people making up drama to discredit communities before, and it gets on my nerves somewhat.

    And in response you made up a bunch of bullshit in an effort to discredit me. In other words, you made up drama.