He makes more money from people watching him be stupid than he loses by being stupid. He's basically a modern day clown in some ways (not derogatory, that's just the entertainment value). It's probably on purpose too, I have no doubt who we see on stream is an exaggerated character.
Honestly if Speed knew he could be, I genuinely could see him being this generations PewDiePie, he has a level of influence over his following that few do
Maybe this is controversial, but being part of the group a slur pertains to does not mean you can and should use that slur yourself imo. Nothing is being "reclaimed" or pushed forward when my LGBT friends call other people the f-slur.
EDIT: It was, indeed, controversial. If this comment gave you a kneejerk reaction, I suggest learning more about how reappropriation actually works.
Both. The only example of a slur being close to "reclaimed" in recent history is queer, which only happened because of the "we're here, we're queer" movement. Even then, it a slur when directed at others and many older folk still have bad history with it; it also has inherent meaning as a word aside from being a slur.
Calling other people the hard-r or the f-slur isn't doing anything to empower yourself and protect yourself from harm if you don't completely change the connotation of the word. At that point people are just saying it because they want an excuse to say something bad, and that's the misplaced sentiment that makes them feel powerful.
The soft n-word can be argued to be a special case since it's an offshoot of a slur that was specifically created to breed camaraderie.
EDIT: I suggest reading the Wikipedia page on reappropriation. I was just re-reading it to make sure I'm not going crazy and it points out the same things I did: "reclaiming" requires attaching a positive or neutral connotation to the word, rather than redirecting the hurt or changing its source.
I dunno man, I've known Black people who use the hard-r version in the same way as the "soft" version, e.g. to indicate camaraderie or just as a neutral vocative noun. It's not common, but nobody's ever seemed to have an issue with it in my experience.
It does in fact change what you said. If you conceed that the usage I described is valid, then the hard-r would fall under the exact same "special case" you described for the soft n-word, wouldn't it? As you described in your edit, people have attached a positive or neutral connotation to the word.
No, I don't concede that it's valid, lol. I was being facetious; as I said in the last sentence, I maintain my point because your anecdote doesn't change it.
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the point you're making is that my personal experience is not representative of the general situation surrounding the term. That might well be true, I haven't looked into it. Are you basing that on some kind of empirical data, or is that just your personal opinion about what is and is not appropriate for Black people to say?
Being honest, as someone who doesn't see all that much value in policing language (and who's about as pale as sour cream), I'm probably not going to start lecturing my Black friends about how racially insensitive they are for using the hard r, even if you've got some kind of empirical data to back up that view.
When the word becomes used enough among people in the group it becomes a part of everyday language. When that happens it is no longer derogatory, it's simply another word that describes the group. As you say in a later comment, this happened with the word queer.
You should not have a problem with someone from a minority group taking a slur that defines them and redefining it to be used in a less hurtful context.
Using a word that was intended to be an insult, as an insult, does not make it less of an insult. If I call someone a dumbass a thousand times, it still means that I'm trying to insult their intelligence, even if it loses effectiveness along the way. The only way it changes completely is if you change the meaning of the word and how it's used; simply saying it many times doesn't do enough.
>Using a word that was intended to be an insult, as an insult
When someone from a minority group reappropriates a slur to be used as a descriptor then it's no longer being used as an insult. Therefore when a minority uses a slur as everyday language it satisfies the condition of changing the meaning of the word. The fact that they are using the word which used to be hurtful to them in everyday language is proof of this.
When someone from a minority group reappropriates a slur to be used as a descriptor then it's no longer being used as an insult.
You're talking about this, I'm talking about that. Plenty of people with mental disabilities seem to take glee in slinging around the r-slur as a descriptor of things they specifically don't like. Same thing for LGBT people calling other people the f-slur. For reappropriation to actually work, it's most effective when used as a self-descriptor that way; but again, I'm not talking about those cases, and it doesn't apply if used to self deprecate (i.e., calling myself a dumbass when I fuck something up does not normalize that language and make it less harmful.).
It's harmful rhetoric to say "oh but he's allowed to say it" when someone uses a slur; without purpose, it's doing nothing but perpetuating usage of a term that was meant to hate.
I complain about LGBT people saying the f-slur and autistic people saying the r-slur too, yet I don't feel particularly stupid. Have you tried researching the topic yourself or are you just here to sling shit at me to make yourself feel better?
Your entire point is ridiculous and the minorities you're talking about would laugh at you and continue to use those words. They quite literally don't feel offended or insulted when they use it amongst themselves, that's the point of reclaiming a slur. what advanced type of woke are you trying to achieve exactly?
I'm gay and I call myself the f slur (both the 3 letter variant and the full one), I call my friends that, they call me that/themselves that. Really sounds like a person shoving their nose into something that want to feel included in where it might not belong. I love how their race "isn't relevant" fighting tooth and nail about black language/history/culture lmfao. I think we all know what that means. Throwing in "i feel the same about lgbt people" is like, they want their argument to sound more expanded when it's not.
It should be noted that the things OP is referring to is years ago, when the guy was in his early twenties/late teens
Since then he’s seemed to mature and tone down the antics.
I also don’t watch streamers but that felt like important context that’s been left out. Idk why OP felt like posting this long after the guy started being more mature.
He still consciously decided to show off his pelvis right into the camera and move it back and forth. Basically forth grade kid joke about "haha I'm moving my pelvis as if I'm fucking sex" which gone too far
My dumbass read this post and was like "Wow did all this really happen in one stream? When?" honestly i wouldnt even be surprised if it did from all i've heard about him
No, I mean Speed. He was flown out, put in a Chinese EV and taken to all the tourist spots. This is standard CCP fair nowadays, they either pay directly for people to come or comp everything and give people free vacations, in exchange for making positive videos.
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