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For anyone that's confused, there was an event at TwitchCon where some streamers (including one Jewish person) created a tier list. The tier list ranked other s
by biimugan 2y ago
For anyone that's confused, there was an event at TwitchCon where some streamers (including one Jewish person) created a tier list. The tier list ranked other streamers according to whether they should be given a "pass" to say the word 'habibi'. The categories included things like 'Arab', 'Arab-coded', and at the bottom 'Loves Sabra'. Sabra, in this case, is a well-known brand of (supposedly not good) hummus (I don't like even good hummus, so I don't know). There's a conspiracy theory (subscribed to by OP) that 'loves Sabra' was actually some kind of code-phrase for a Jewish person because there's a similar sounding Hebrew word that refers to a Jew born in Israel. This led to a lot of people getting very mad.
I say this is a conspiracy theory because if you listen to even five minutes of this (pretty unfunny, admittedly) panel, it's abundantly clear that they are indeed talking about bad hummus, not Jews. In fact, they rank a few known Jewish streamers as Arab or Arab-coded -- i.e. allowed to say 'habibi' -- and vice versa. And, as mentioned, one of the panelists is also Jewish.
There's also the fact that I don't think most people would know this Hebrew word, but would definitely have heard of the brand. So if this is some attempt to promote antisemitism, it seems pretty lousy. If this was an attempt at antisemitism, it also doesn't make much sense to single out only Jews born in Israel. Antisemitism doesn't make this distinction (at least that I've ever heard). It usually focuses exclusively on 'global cabals' and the 'new world order' and conspiracies of that nature.
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- tguvot 2y agosabra - humus and sabra - jew born in israel, it's literally same word. humus is called after jew born in israel as this is brand of humus of israeli company
- Sabinus 2y agoTwitch has now suspended multiple streamers on the panel, for hateful conduct. How do you reconcile that with your characterisation of the outage as a conspiracy theory?
- biimugan 2y agoIt's a simple answer. Businesses are amoral organizations that only care about a few things, some of them being profits and their image (which is tied to their profits). I would've been surprised if Twitch didn't suspend them given that the ADL and other powerful political organizations were exerting pressure. From Twitch's perspective it's such a minute price to pay.