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There's a YouTuber I used to watch, CinnamonToastKen. It was pretty good, family friendly fun of him and his buddy just making fun of reality shows and stuff. One of those shows was this TLC thing called "G*psy Brides", which is about Romani people acting like rednecks and that being funny for some reason. It was at this point, that I began to realize that neither Ken nor any of the commenters realized that the G word is a genuine slur. That wasn't the dealbreaker though, that came later when he said in an aside during a video that he was told by someone that it was, indeed, an ethnic slur.

So Ken's response to this was bewilderment and his immediate assumption was that this wasn't a real thing and just another instance of "people being offended for others." So he decided to ask his community if it was really a slur and to leave an explanation in the comments. Because, y'know, that's somehow easier than just googling it. He ended up hearting a comment that gave a childish oversimplification of the issue that ultimately said "Some people feel that way but most don't care"

To this day I feel disgusted that instead of taking the L about his accidental racism, he just assumed it was a made up issue and then chose the one comment that protrayed it as some trivial thing. I guess I should've known he wasn't on the up and up when half his videos were collabs with Pewdiepie.

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[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yea I used to like JonTron(I still love the old vids) but omg in his subscribed channels he had like “New Discourses” it’s literally just ‘InTeLLeCtUaL CoNsErVaTiVeS’ calling Marxists Groomers or pedophiles and Woke CRT blah blah fucking blah. Bunch of bullshit and now I hate him(again his early vids still bring me back, but I never recommend him to others or check new videos) I hate that YouTube is so reactionary. They don’t even hide it, they let Peterson and Kirk and Shapiro just litter the internet with toxic crap and when leftists unload content, they get 18+‘ed or demonotized

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