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<blockquote data-quote="haasi" data-source="post: 1601300" data-attributes="member: 9034"><p>He knew it was a bad word. He may or may not have meant it in a specifically anti Semitic way. He may have just been looking for an insult and that’s what he came up with. In any event, it’s deeply disturbing and intolerable. Basically the argument by people who say this isn’t a big deal is that hate speech is just so common online and on twitch that it doesn’t mean anything. That’s frightening. A place where hate speech is so normalized leads to hatred becoming normalized too. Even if Meyers doesn’t hate Jews (who knows) it’s a clear signal of approval for those who do. It’s messed up. </p><p></p><p>Julian Edelman had a nice open letter to Meyers inviting him to meet up and have a conversation. He did same with Desean Jackson a couple years ago. I hope Meyers will do some serious thinking about this and speak out strongly and unequivocally against hate, including the type of casual and maybe thoughtless hate that he engaged in on twitch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="haasi, post: 1601300, member: 9034"] He knew it was a bad word. He may or may not have meant it in a specifically anti Semitic way. He may have just been looking for an insult and that’s what he came up with. In any event, it’s deeply disturbing and intolerable. Basically the argument by people who say this isn’t a big deal is that hate speech is just so common online and on twitch that it doesn’t mean anything. That’s frightening. A place where hate speech is so normalized leads to hatred becoming normalized too. Even if Meyers doesn’t hate Jews (who knows) it’s a clear signal of approval for those who do. It’s messed up. Julian Edelman had a nice open letter to Meyers inviting him to meet up and have a conversation. He did same with Desean Jackson a couple years ago. I hope Meyers will do some serious thinking about this and speak out strongly and unequivocally against hate, including the type of casual and maybe thoughtless hate that he engaged in on twitch. [/QUOTE]
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