I dunno. It'd be a different story if you were speaking french or whatever when saying it, but dude was speaking in plain english and meant it as an insult. And through entertainment y'all know about the word. It still doesn't excuse using it, especially in that context.
And PDP isn't some random dude from Yurop. He's an incredibly famous streamer/Youtuber with fans all across the world who constantly interacts with other streamers/Youtubers both on and offline and makes appearances at all kinds of conventions. The idea that "he just didn't know that what he was saying was offensive" is ridiculous.
Yeah but in reality it's like that fucking meltdown that happened because Janet Jackson breast appeared on live TV. Yes, it was a fucking mess and wrong, but only severe puritans (that later watch them pornos in their PC) took it as a HUGE issue.
When you try to twist and stretch something that in itself didn't have that much weight in absolute terms, it makes the real issue into part of a joke. The issue is real, people can't refer to black people like that. If we attempt to be impartial, pewdiepie could very well think of distinguished black fellow as a stereotype that doesn't define black people at all, so he never attached that word himself to any black person. Instead, his brain simply recited the same he's heard many times ingame without an actual deep ingrained thought to go with it.
like that. well, not like that but still kinda like that. if it makes any sense, PDP was using it as an adjective, when the real thing is a noun. Which doesn't even make sense to begin with and it's why I made the analogy to when people used to say "that was gay", when it really made no sense. "that was homosexual" when dying to a random shot makes exactly 0 sense, it simply became a thing through contagion. Now the case could be: could PDP spawn that kind of contagion based on his numbers? That could happen, but even that scenario is unlikely considering it's not a message he endorses.
Btw, remember what I just said above about the puritans and their porno behind closed doors?
https://twitter.com/notch/status/907682277148295168"it-it's not the same. I said it in a private chat"