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Today I'm ashamed to be a gamer and a Jew :( by Jerry Whorebach 12/09/2022, 12:21pm PST


Last night at the SpikeTV Game Awards, a 15-year-old Jewish prankster snuck onstage and tried to accept the GOTY on behalf of his "reformed orthodox rabbi, Bill Clinton". This was disturbing for a few reasons. Firstly, it was an anti-semitic dogwhistle, at a time when hatred for Jews is at all-time high (discarding obvious statistical outliers like the Yom Kippur war and Crown Heights riot). Second, it was a slap in the face to the developers of the actual GOTY - Elden Ring - whose only crime was coming from a society that's not allowed to have a navy anymore because they allied with Hitler and tried to take over the world.

Perhaps most troubling of all was the massive security breach this constituted at a major international event. What if, instead of telling a harmless joke, this man (and he was a MAN not a child, they even admit it, google bar mitzvah) had decided to fill his pockets full of nails and blow himself up? This would have been especially traumatizing to any Palestinians in the audience, since they had most likely already lost family members in the same way. It's also probably how they were able to afford tickets.

I'd like to know what Mischief Maker thinks about all this, being both a huge heeb and former SpikeTV Game Award recipient. But anyone with an active ResetEra account can respond in the appropriate thread.
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Today I'm ashamed to be a gamer and a Jew :( by Jerry Whorebach 12/09/2022, 12:21pm PST NEW
    The austere dignity of the SpikeTV has been diminished by this outrage. NT by Sigismund Babcock 12/09/2022, 12:32pm PST NEW
    Re: Today I'm ashamed to be a gamer and a Jew :( by Jesus Christ 12/09/2022, 1:07pm PST NEW
    git gud by Entropy Stew 12/09/2022, 5:27pm PST NEW
        Oh I get it now by Elon Gate 12/09/2022, 5:31pm PST NEW
 
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