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I've seen this blowing up for the past day on Twitter and thought I'd make a thread on it. The biggest streamer on Twitch is getting some backlash for mocking Chinese players in his live streams by attempting to imitate their accent and language by making random sounds. It surfaced with the tweet below:
Mocking Asian accents is known as "Ching Chong" and people are calling out Dr Disrespect for doing this on his streams. The argument is it's incredibly impressionable to the young people watching him and obviously this could be harmful to Asians.
Here's an article about how harmful it is from NPR which features the author of the Tweet above: How 'Ching Chong' Became The Go-To Slur For Mocking East Asians
There's a longish Reddit thread going on about it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Livestream...respect_gets_called_out_for_being_racist_for/
I found a video of Dr Disrespect addressing this in a video where he calls it his "hybrid language" and that Asian people at conventions come up to him and ask him to speak to them in "Chinese". You can see that here at 6:22 in:
Funnily enough in this same video he defends PewDiePie for using the N word by saying it was heat of the moment and that doesn't make him racist. Starts at about 2 minutes in:
Update: Dr Disrespect responds to the Tweets above on his live stream, calls him an "idiot" who is "desperate for attention" and "clueless":
https://clips.twitch.tv/LitigiousJollyJellyfishArgieB8
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I've seen this blowing up for the past day on Twitter and thought I'd make a thread on it. The biggest streamer on Twitch is getting some backlash for mocking Chinese players in his live streams by attempting to imitate their accent and language by making random sounds. It surfaced with the tweet below:
Mocking Asian accents is known as "Ching Chong" and people are calling out Dr Disrespect for doing this on his streams. The argument is it's incredibly impressionable to the young people watching him and obviously this could be harmful to Asians.
Here's an article about how harmful it is from NPR which features the author of the Tweet above: How 'Ching Chong' Became The Go-To Slur For Mocking East Asians
There's a longish Reddit thread going on about it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Livestream...respect_gets_called_out_for_being_racist_for/
I found a video of Dr Disrespect addressing this in a video where he calls it his "hybrid language" and that Asian people at conventions come up to him and ask him to speak to them in "Chinese". You can see that here at 6:22 in:
Funnily enough in this same video he defends PewDiePie for using the N word by saying it was heat of the moment and that doesn't make him racist. Starts at about 2 minutes in:
A lot of the defensive comments are saying he's just playing a character so it's not racist. You can see some of the other responses in the Reddit and Twitter threads above.Update: Dr Disrespect responds to the Tweets above on his live stream, calls him an "idiot" who is "desperate for attention" and "clueless":
https://clips.twitch.tv/LitigiousJollyJellyfishArgieB8
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