So, yesterday Ninja, arguably the world’s most famous streamer, told the New York Times that it wasn’t his job to educate children who make racist or sexist comments.
Naturally, being the type who doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut and prevent yet another obvious barrage of abuse, I tweeted about it.
As often happens in situations like this, my tweet was retweeted enough that it eventually came to the attention of Ninja fans who leapt to the guy’s defence (many of whom told me to “shut the fuck up”, sort of proving my point that this particular influencer could be influencing them a bit better).
When things like this happen there’s usually a single main argument that 99% of my responders jump onto and use. It’s almost as if they’ve all agreed among themselves that this is the silver bullet counter-argument and, yet, they all seem to think they’re the first person throwing their “AHA!” tweet at me, as if I haven’t already shot it down 20 times earlier that day.
It seems that this time the most common response I’m getting to my tweet about Ninja’s claim that it isn’t his job to speak out against racism and sexism is that “well, that’s because it’s the parent’s job to teach their child about that.” Continue reading “A wee thing about Ninja and what his ‘job’ is”
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