Orton goes full Team Hogan while gaming

[kidkamikaze10]

Not sure how to embed tweets but....

twitter.com/princeofdvapics/status/1180092820029394944?s=21


To be real about it, what surprised me more is how natural it came out. That is as far as I’m gonna go.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[bmfjules]

Fake apology countdown has been activated.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

This definitely isn't full Team Hogan.

This is white privilege in action, unless some long running trend of him being a racist f***wit comes out.

He is really, really f***ing stupid for saying it on a damn public stream at that, but yeah.

Stupid, stupid, stupid is the word.

[Cyno]

To be fair to Randy, this isn't Hogan level stuff. It's "entitled white guy" stuff. Hogan's was full-on racism, and Randy is using a word he shouldn't be using to sound "street." Stupid, but not outright vile.

[ronin705]

Dammit, Randy, just cuz I consider you black, doesn't make it so!! lol And this is way too normal an occurrence in actual online gaming, specifically shooters, so (though saddened as a black mark for him) not really surprised.

[Cyno]

And not that it's any excuse at all, but he was also apparently blasted.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Why can't people f***ing grow up and stop saying stupid shit they shouldn't ever say?

Grow the f*** up, Randy. You've got kids.

[Deleted]

Saw the title and was filled with dread, I just praised Orton and his streaming in another thread given he gave AEW props.

After seeing the clip, yeah it's dumb but not near as bad as I figured it could be. Just a white dude saying a word that he shouldn't be saying while playing games. It's dumb but it's not near as bad as what Hogan did, not even comparable and that's coming from a black dude in the South. With Orton I'm like "come on Randy, don't do that." With Hogan I'm like "get this orange turd off my screen and into a toilet."

[salz4life]

I assume he used the bad word to identify African Americans?

[Perd]

Not one of the voices in his head said  “Don’t say that word, ya moron.”?

[Lance Uppercut]

Nah he just went Hayes.

Thinks he got the N word privileges

[Main Eventer]

Orton playing both sides. What he said was a team Hogan thing to say, but doing stupid shit while drunk is team Flair thing to do.

[Fake Jesus]

It probably came out naturally because it's a word he and many other people use fairly often and are increasingly comfortable with saying.

The soft A n-word is without a doubt the term that's going to cause the most grief in the west in the coming decades. Why? Well, it's being very rapidly gentrified. Hip-hop culture is predominant in music. People won't like hearing this, but if you feed a generation or generations of children music that uses that word, it's normalised for them and they find it acceptable. And as they age it will eventually become acceptable. This is how language works. This word and the actual legitimate n-word are increasingly divergent. One has come from the other, but in the minds of a lot of people they aren't remotely comparable. Socially, generationally, and on an urban-rural divide, the soft-A n-word is in the middle of its transition from being the milder form of a racial slur to being something comparable to "dude" or "guy".

Orton isn't quite of the generation where it's becoming more commonplace so I do think he probably should think twice before using it, but you're going to eventually reach a stage where this kind of stuff isn't even notable or worth commenting on. This will be hard to swallow for people who grew up with it as a genuinely offensive word that should only be used by African-Americans, but it will almost definitely happen, sped up in large part by the internet.

The word "guy" derives directly from the name of a man that tried to commit an act of sectarian terrorism.

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

Oct 4, 2019 12:25:30 GMT -5 Fake Jesus said:

Orton isn't quite of the generation where it's becoming more commonplace so I do think he probably should think twice before using it, but you're going to eventually reach a stage where this kind of stuff isn't even notable or worth commenting on. This will be hard to swallow for people who grew up with it as a genuinely offensive word that should only be used by African-Americans, but it will almost definitely happen, sped up in large part by the internet.

I bet you ten million dollars this will not happen.

And if you think white GenZ people use that word a lot, I thiiiiiink that might just say a lot about the kinds of spaces you, in particular, might hang out?

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Based on stuff he tweeted years ago, I’m not surprised. That’s all I’m gonna say about it.

[Fake Jesus]

Oct 4, 2019 12:31:44 GMT -5 carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) said:

Oct 4, 2019 12:25:30 GMT -5 Fake Jesus said:

Orton isn't quite of the generation where it's becoming more commonplace so I do think he probably should think twice before using it, but you're going to eventually reach a stage where this kind of stuff isn't even notable or worth commenting on. This will be hard to swallow for people who grew up with it as a genuinely offensive word that should only be used by African-Americans, but it will almost definitely happen, sped up in large part by the internet.

I bet you ten million dollars this will not happen.

And if you think white GenZ people use that word a lot, I thiiiiiink that might just say a lot about the kinds of spaces you, in particular, might hang out?

Yeah social trends just don't exist. Additionally I've surrounded myself with white supremacists born after the year 2000. Very epic and very amazing analysis. 


WIKIPEDIA QUOTE:

In practice, its use and meaning are heavily dependent on context.[1] Presently, the word [N-word] is used more liberally among younger members of all races and ethnicities in the United States.[2] In addition to African Americans, other ethnic groups have adopted the term as part of their vernacular, although this usage is controversial

I also guess that in addition to me existing in a sheltered bubble of racism, wikipedia is also primarily edited by out of touch idiots. 

I can tell you for a fact that non-African American teenagers and 20-somethings not just in America but globally co-opt hip-hop mannerisms and and terminology to the extreme. It's happening whether we like it or not. 

Edit: Edited to replace a screenshot from Wikipedia which contained the n-word.

[Final Countdown Jones]

Oh good, it's ben so long since WWE Current got a thread that took a sharp turn into grim omens before the end of page one.

[abjordans]

This is definitely stupid and in poor taste, but was not used in a racial or hateful context. Not full Hogan.

[Lance Uppercut]

Oct 4, 2019 12:31:44 GMT -5 carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) said:

Oct 4, 2019 12:25:30 GMT -5 Fake Jesus said:

Orton isn't quite of the generation where it's becoming more commonplace so I do think he probably should think twice before using it, but you're going to eventually reach a stage where this kind of stuff isn't even notable or worth commenting on. This will be hard to swallow for people who grew up with it as a genuinely offensive word that should only be used by African-Americans, but it will almost definitely happen, sped up in large part by the internet.

I bet you ten million dollars this will not happen.

And if you think white GenZ people use that word a lot, I thiiiiiink that might just say a lot about the kinds of spaces you, in particular, might hang out?

You must be not into online coop gaming.

It’s filled with 13 year old racist sexists maniacs threatening to rape each other while claiming that the other is gay