Patreon responds: Hate Speech on Patreon

He used slurs

That's all that matters. Welcome to the real world where corporations aren't going to waste their time deducing a person's true intentions when that person used racial slurs. Judging by some of the comments in this thread, it seems like people are under the impression that the world operates like Sam's podcast, where everyone is given the benefit of the doubt, nuanced analysis is undergone to make sure the interpretation of events takes the context into account, and then there is a lot of "unpacking" and debate afterwards. In reality, what happens is that companies will boot a person off their platform when A) it comes to their attention that the person has violated their community guidelines and B) the company decides it is in their financial interest to boot them. So, just don't use racial slurs as insults. How hard is that?

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