I'm not shocked at what he said, I'm just surprised he had the balls to say it after playing dumb for 12 months.

Update: Zack Hoyt has now pretended to apologize, too many people think he's being sincere: https://old.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/1g55g44/asmongold_stepping_away_from_leadership_at_otk/

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 days ago

      Yep, this was the guy with the picture that came out of his room being full of accumulated fast food drink cups and the like. White imperialist who lives in literal filth because he can't even clean up after himself, who makes ranty internet videos for a living, saying others are an inferior culture. Western chauvinists have been trained to think like malignant psychopaths on a system wide level and they bark it out with mind-boggling levels of individualism, acting like they're bravely saying original things when they're repeating colonial tropes that are hundreds of years old. And I will take the opportunity to note here, in my experience, one of the benefits of reading communist theory is how humbling it is to realize how much shit has already been said by people who lived through it; at least for me, it helped with unlearning western exceptionalism brain. Mind you, I was already consciously trying to and still do, which is probably far from a full-throated genocidal colonizer like this piece of work, but I like to mention it as an aside because I know there's a tendency in western thinkers to reinvent the wheel of ideology, thinking they're so clever and independent of thought, when they're just regurgitating basic shit that makes them a ghoulish tool.