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KingHippo

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Should also probably be noted that Nick Cannon was let go from Viacom/CBS, but has a hosting job with the Fox corporation in addition to his radio show in the lucrative LA market. Not saying Viacom firing him wasn't a big loss, but firing DeSean Jackson means he's not working again, while Cannon will just go to one of his other multiple, high paying media jobs
 
He did, but does expressing anti-black sentiment for the sake of humor make someone a racist? Dave Chappelle has made a fortunate out of stereotyping Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asians and nobody believes that he is a racist. There is obviously an audience that enjoys this type of comedy. Filipino Champ has always been a provocateur who loves assuming the role of a villain. After being a part of this community for more than two decades, he was eventually going to say or do something that led to severe consequences, and the watermelon picture that he posted was the last straw that broke the camel's back. Do I think he despises black people? No. Do I think what he posted was ignorant and insensitive? Obviously. Do I think he should be exiled from the community and banned perennially? No.

There is also a lack of consistency as far as consequences are concerned. Mike Z, whom, and please correct me if I am mistaken, you and Sonic Fox have defended for making the "he cannot breathe" comment, has only been banned from Combo Breaker 2021 while Filipino Champ has been barred from all Capcom-sponsored tournaments. I see a double standard, especially when anyone can make an apology seem sincere.

Edit: Any comments on Nick Cannon's recent anti-Semitic and anti-white comments?

"In Cannon's hour-plus podcast, he and Griffin contend that Black people are the true Hebrews and that Jews have usurped their identity.

Cannon then segues into a discussion of skin color — “And I’m going to say this carefully,” he begins — to allege that people who lack sufficient melanin are “a little less.”

Those without dark skin have a “deficiency” that historically forced them to act out of fear and commit acts of violence to survive, he said.

“They had to be savages,” Cannon said, adding that he was referring to “Jewish people, white people, Europeans,” among others
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LOL!

I say let the man go. He should not have been fired from ViacomCBS.
No, Mike Z was banned from ALL skullgirl commentary positions indefinitely as well as a 2 year ban from offline and online competition until July 2022. If you click the next photo you'll see who signed off on the agreement too, dudes screwed. Even signatures from the european skullgirl scene on there
@KingHippo

Fair enough. I will correct the record on the next podcast.



I understand and agree. However, first of all, I would argue that Nick Cannon has no political power. He represents no one. Second of all, the fact that the company fired him does nothing but promote cancel culture. He still believes what he believes. He is merely sorry that he was caught. Third of all, he is partially right. Europeans have acted like "savages" in the past killing each other and those who look different from them for thousands of years. He is ignorantly omitting the inconvenient fact that other races have done the same, though. Finally, one of his ex wives, Mariah Carey, has Irish ancestry because of her mother. She is half white. Nobody can possibly believe that the man is a racist. In a discussion, conversation, and debate, people sometimes make ignorant claims, which does not mean that they should always face severe consequences. The culture and mentality on this issue must change.
So where exactly do you draw the line? I get it, if some person 10 years ago said they don't find hispanic women attractive, they definitely shouldn't lose their job or get "cancelled" as you're calling it. But if someone makes vile comments or has a history of them why shouldn't they get fired? Companies don't care about free speech dude, some of em have hearts and don't like hateful speech BUT more importantly they just want to make money. If Nick Cannons comments are going to cost the company money he's gone. You continually saying peoples speech should be free of consequences is just off to me there is a limit to that. If you were at work, and your coworker consistently talked about how much he hated europeans how dumb they are, how much they smell, how he is superior to them, etc essentially you know this dude thinks you and your life is insignificant. Yet your company never got rid of him in fact, dudes getting the same pay, steady work, hell even raises! Would you be okay with that? How about if there's a man who continually tells a women he wants to sexually assault her but never goes through with it, the women goes to the police but the police say hey, "its just free speech, hes not acting on it so its all good." Is that ok? Maybe I am missing something. I'm all for free speech, but certain things come with consequences, that aspect shouldn't go away. Finally I ask you this, how else will you teach people that this type of thinking is wrong if they never have consequences for it? I mean if you don't lose your job then its cool to think that black people should all be dead and voice that, or that jewish people should all be dead. In some of the cases of these people losing jobs, its not like they are saying they prefer the color red over blue, they are saying some vile shit and getting punished for it, as they should.
 
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Lt. Boxy Angelman

I WILL EAT THIS GAME
No, Mike Z was banned from ALL skullgirl commentary positions indefinitely as well as a 2 year ban from offline and online competition until July 2022. If you click the next photo you'll see who signed off on the agreement too, dudes screwed. Even signatures from the european skullgirl scene on there
@KingHippo
As Maya Angelou said, believe who someone is the first time they show you.

Make some new ones fam, with 'Electoral College Dropout' on them. Ez money.
The fact that anyone took this "run" seriously gives me real cause for concern on many levels. I listened to Chance The Rapper give his take about it on the last Joe Budden pod and was flabbergasted.
 
As Maya Angelou said, believe who someone is the first time they show you.



The fact that anyone took this "run" seriously gives me real cause for concern on many levels. I listened to Chance The Rapper give his take about it on the last Joe Budden pod and was flabbergasted.
I had to believe cuz trump is our president after he got in I wont be getting surprised anymore man, whoever it is.
 

Lt. Boxy Angelman

I WILL EAT THIS GAME
I had to believe cuz trump is our president after he got in I wont be getting surprised anymore man, whoever it is.
Oh that's fair. It's not the celebrity part or the fact that he's legitimately mentally ill, because we've seen how that goes; it's the amount of people who are so unfamiliar with the process that they think someone, famous or otherwise, can declare in the middle of the damned summer and actually have enough time or room to be taken seriously or allowed in legally.
 
Oh that's fair. It's not the celebrity part or the fact that he's legitimately mentally ill, because we've seen how that goes; it's the amount of people who are so unfamiliar with the process that they think someone, famous or otherwise, can declare in the middle of the damned summer and actually have enough time or room to be taken seriously or allowed in legally.
Ohhh yeah haha I thought you just meant in general I get you now
 

ChaosTheory

A fat woman came into the shoe store today...
Any comments on Nick Cannon's recent anti-Semitic and anti-white comments?
I don't lean towards knee-jerk firing a guy for speaking his mind. Market doesn't even have a chance to decide. That's me.

Some of the stuff he was saying was anti-Semitic, but some of it was indisputably black supremacy.

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"When we talk about the power of melanated people, when we talk about who we really are as gods...

"When you’d have a person that has the lack of pigment, the lack of melanin, that they know that they will be annihilated.”

"...they have the lack of compassion that … Melanin comes with compassion. Melanin comes with soul that we call it..."

"So the people that don’t have it (Melanin) are a little … and I’m going to say this carefully … are a little less."

"So then they’re acting out of fear. They’re acting out of low self esteem. They’re acting out of a deficiency. So therefore the only way that they can act is evil."
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I've seen enough people panic-fired for far less that this one doesn't shock me. Of course he's still got a primetime network TV hosting gig.

As flippantly as the terms "racist" and "Nazi" are thrown around they must apply here, right? So he shouldn't have a platform?
 
I don't lean towards knee-jerk firing a guy for speaking his mind. Market doesn't even have a chance to decide. That's me.

Some of the stuff he was saying was anti-Semitic, but some of it was indisputably black supremacy.

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"When we talk about the power of melanated people, when we talk about who we really are as gods...

"When you’d have a person that has the lack of pigment, the lack of melanin, that they know that they will be annihilated.”

"...they have the lack of compassion that … Melanin comes with compassion. Melanin comes with soul that we call it..."

"So the people that don’t have it (Melanin) are a little … and I’m going to say this carefully … are a little less."

"So then they’re acting out of fear. They’re acting out of low self esteem. They’re acting out of a deficiency. So therefore the only way that they can act is evil."
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I've seen enough people panic-fired for far less that this one doesn't shock me. Of course he's still got a primetime network TV hosting gig.

As flippantly as the terms "racist" and "Nazi" are thrown around they must apply here, right? So he shouldn't have a platform?
while this is ethically wrong, there are no omnipresent social structures of oppression by a strong group towards a weaker group behind this. its not the same as racism.
 

KingHippo

Alternative-Fact Checker
Just want to point out, again, that it's really weird to keep trying to bring the discussion back to "Black people can be racist supremacists and professional victims too," as if that somehow makes claims of anti-blackness and systemic oppression less valid. Nick Cannon was absolutely being anti-Semitic, just as LowTierGod, Ceroblast , and Filipino Champ (all minorities) have said anti-black things. Brazil and its people have been decimated by US intervention and meddling, but it doesn't erase that there is a sick culture of anti-blackness perpetrated by its leadership. By referring a nebulous "racism" as opposed to directly what is the issue, anti-blackness, a fallacy is created where anyone who would be an ethnic minority in the US is not capable of having bigoted rhetoric that harms people, and that's just wrong.

I know the play is to say that corny white people don't practice what they preach and just put minorities on a pedestal whereas the minorities themselves don't actually feel oppressed, but if you're more annoyed with overzealous people who have an ally complex than legitimate anti-blackness perpetuated by society, than I'd get your priorities straight.
 
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ChaosTheory

A fat woman came into the shoe store today...
Just want to point out, again, that it's really weird to keep trying to bring the discussion back to "Black people can be racist supremacists and professional victims too," as if that somehow makes claims of anti-blackness and systemic oppression less valid.
If someone told you the ingredients to a ham and cheese sandwich and asked you to read it back to them, you'd give a list of 12 items.
 

KingHippo

Alternative-Fact Checker
If someone told you the ingredients to a ham and cheese sandwich and asked you to read it back to them, you'd give a list of 12 items.
You keep saying this, as if I'm reading too deeply into what you're saying, but really, what are you saying? You specifically pulled up a video of black women talking about the ways anti-blackness affected their life and mocked one section of it, were annoyed at Crimson's deployment of "racial victimhood," and are now specifically trying to ask why Nick Cannon speaking out against whites isn't cause for his termination. What am I missing, here?
 

M2Dave

Zoning Master
I won't even acknowledge the "but many non-European nations were savages" bit because you're walking into the territory that a lot of morons make and I'd advise you to cut it out before you piss someone off.
I suggest that you stop trying to misconstrue my analysis in order to inaccurately portray me as a bigot as you have attempted to do in the past. First of all, I was quoting Nick Cannon which is why the word savage was in quoting marks. Second of all, my point is that no race is more predisposed to committing atrocities than any other race. Humans of all races have engaged in violent behavior for as long as history has been recorded.

You continually saying peoples speech should be free of consequences is just off to me there is a limit to that. If you were at work, and your coworker consistently talked about how much he hated europeans how dumb they are, how much they smell, how he is superior to them, etc essentially you know this dude thinks you and your life is insignificant. Yet your company never got rid of him in fact, dudes getting the same pay, steady work, hell even raises! Would you be okay with that? How about if there's a man who continually tells a women he wants to sexually assault her but never goes through with it, the women goes to the police but the police say hey, "its just free speech, hes not acting on it so its all good." Is that ok?
You are falsely equating harassment at the workplace and threats of sexual abuse, both of which violate the law, with free speech.

What in the fuck?
Read (not that you would really want to) the book "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo. People on the left have been trying to redefine the word racism for many years. Some ideas in this thread are just a product of the lunacy.
 
I suggest that you stop trying to misconstrue my analysis in order to inaccurately portray me as a bigot as you have attempted to do in the past. First of all, I was quoting Nick Cannon which is why the word savage was in quoting marks. Second of all, my point is that no race is more predisposed to committing atrocities than any other race. Humans of all races have engaged in violent behavior for as long as history has been recorded.



You are falsely equating harassment at the workplace and threats of sexual abuse, both of which violate the law, with free speech.



Read (not that you would really want to) the book "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo. People on the left have been trying to redefine the word racism for many years. Some ideas in this thread are just a product of the lunacy.
but you had an issue with mike z getting cancelled correct? Even though he had a history of racism in the workplace as well as making numerous women uncomfortable. This is why I am confused by your definition of freedom of speech, or did you just not know the full scope of things he has done?


Now after seeing this do you still believe he didnt deserve to be "cancelled"? Clearly it wasn't just twitter, and based off what you just told me, if someone does this then he violated the law and the consequences are justified.
 

KingHippo

Alternative-Fact Checker
I suggest that you stop trying to misconstrue my analysis in order to inaccurately portray me as a bigot as you have attempted to do in the past. First of all, I was quoting Nick Cannon which is why the word savage was in quoting marks. Second of all, my point is that no race is more predisposed to committing atrocities than any other race. Humans of all races have engaged in violent behavior for as long as history has been recorded.
Not portraying you as anything, but I think it should be acknowledged or you at least deserve to be warned when the things you're saying start to veer into the same direction that prominent white nationalists take when trying to appear nuanced about their bigotry. Like I said, one doesn't need to be actually racist to say something racist, but at least if you know you probably won't make the same mistake again.
 

M2Dave

Zoning Master
but you had an issue with mike z getting cancelled correct?
I never defended Mike Z or argued against his cancellation. I think what Mike Z said was worse than the picture that Filipino Champ posted.

Not portraying you as anything, but I think it should be acknowledged or you at least deserve to be warned when the things you're saying start to veer into the same direction that prominent white nationalists take when trying to appear nuanced about their bigotry. Like I said, one doesn't need to be actually racist to say something racist, but at least if you know you probably won't make the same mistake again.
I have no idea what "mistake" I made in the first place aside from stating the obvious about human history. Considering that I have argued my points calmly and respectfully in this thread for 49 pages, I do not need to be warned by anyone about anything, including you.
 

KingHippo

Alternative-Fact Checker
One can calmly and respectfully repeat racist talking points, even accidentally.

Just to make a long story short, a big talking point amongst white nationalists is that Europeans are unfairly portrayed as evil for perpetrating slavery and colonialism, and that it was in fact Africans and Muslims who started enslaving people first, so Europeans are free of that sin, which is more of a black and brown person thing and thus those races are impure.

That's not what you said, but even veering into that territory should probably be a warning sign that you might be giving legitimacy to an idea that is a part of the ethos of many actual bigots.
 

M2Dave

Zoning Master
One can calmly and respectfully repeat racist talking points, even accidentally.
True.

And one can also calmly and respectfully repeat Marxist talking points, even accidentally.

Almost all views that I have expressed and statistics that I have cited in this thread are based on Thomas Sowell's books and interviews. So unless you would like to argue that a renowned black economist is racist against black people, I do not see how white supremacy and bigotry have any relevance to this discussion.
 
I never defended Mike Z or argued against his cancellation. I think what Mike Z said was worse than the picture that Filipino Champ posted.
I mean you kinda did though

As I have said before, free speech does not exist to protect popular speech about kittens being cute, warm, and fuzzy. Free speech exists to protect controversial thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Just because I support someone's right to post despicable tweets does not mean I support the message. This difference is pivotal to understand. Liberals used to support free speech until they engaged in woke culture.
If you had read my posts in this thread, you would have known that I have criticized the NFL and President Trump on this issue. I disagree with Colin Kapernick's politics, but I support his right to free speech. You and many others have argued that "free speech does not mean freedom of consequences", but I even support freedom of consequences. No NFL owner has wanted to hire Colin Kapernick precisely because of the kneeling.
I am definitely not saying you agree with what mike z said, you've said multiple times you don't agree, however, you've voiced multiple times that you support freedom of consequences, by that logic shouldn't you also be against mike z's cancellation? Its not congruent with what you were saying in the past, particularly "free speech exists to protect controversial thoughts, ideas, and opinions." I bring this up because I am sure you said this before you were aware of the tweets I linked. For the record I think Mike Z deserves everything coming to him and more, even if all he said was the I can't breathe joke. His history just made it easier for him to get dealt with. So then Mike Z's comments are where you draw the line?
 

Law Hero

There is a head on a pole behind you
I don't lean towards knee-jerk firing a guy for speaking his mind. Market doesn't even have a chance to decide. That's me.

Some of the stuff he was saying was anti-Semitic, but some of it was indisputably black supremacy.

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"When we talk about the power of melanated people, when we talk about who we really are as gods...

"When you’d have a person that has the lack of pigment, the lack of melanin, that they know that they will be annihilated.”

"...they have the lack of compassion that … Melanin comes with compassion. Melanin comes with soul that we call it..."

"So the people that don’t have it (Melanin) are a little … and I’m going to say this carefully … are a little less."

"So then they’re acting out of fear. They’re acting out of low self esteem. They’re acting out of a deficiency. So therefore the only way that they can act is evil."
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I've seen enough people panic-fired for far less that this one doesn't shock me. Of course he's still got a primetime network TV hosting gig.

As flippantly as the terms "racist" and "Nazi" are thrown around they must apply here, right? So he shouldn't have a platform?
In a world where someone tweeting #watermelonlivesmatter is grounds for a lifetime ban, how a public figure can get away with saying that all people of a different skin color are literally deficient lesser humans is far beyond me. Comments like this make even phrenologists look good. The ignorance, blatant racism, and complete lack of self-awareness is just mind-boggling.

Imagine the utter shitstorm that would occur if someone said people with too much melanin are "a little less" and "they're acting out of low self esteem." That would be grounds for crucifixion.
 
In a world where someone tweeting #watermelonlivesmatter is grounds for a lifetime ban, how a public figure can get away with saying that all people of a different skin color are literally deficient lesser humans is far beyond me. Comments like this make even phrenologists look good. The ignorance, blatant racism, and complete lack of self-awareness is just mind-boggling.

Imagine the utter shitstorm that would occur if someone said people with too much melanin are "a little less" and "they're acting out of low self esteem." That would be grounds for crucifixion.
He's not getting away with it though, i keep seeing it on twitter, reddit, my friends talking about it on instagram, he lost his partnership with viacom, a company he was partnered with for 2 decades, which means he lost the show he created he didnt just get a slap on the wrist.
 

M2Dave

Zoning Master
So then Mike Z's comments are where you draw the line?
First of all, corporations and businesses have the right to associate or dissociate with whomever they like. Second of all, I draw the line on Mike Z's actions when he allegedly sexually assaulted a female co-worker. He is a potential threat to women in the fighting game community.

He's not getting away with it though, i keep seeing it on twitter, reddit, my friends talking about it on instagram, he lost his partnership with viacom, a company he was partnered with for 2 decades, which means he lost the show he created he didnt just get a slap on the wrist.
If Nick Cannon were white, not only would he lose the show that he created, he would be instantly fired from all companies that he worked for.
 

KingHippo

Alternative-Fact Checker
And one can also calmly and respectfully repeat Marxist talking points, even accidentally.
The fuck does that have anything to do with white nationalism, you goof?

Also the reason why I think you use far right kook talking points is because Sowell is a known far-right kook who has said things such as the Civil Rights movement and Affirmative Action has done nothing but infantilize and encourage black poverty and complacency. If you didn't know that, fine, but that's reality

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