Kotaku: Toby "Tobi Wan" Dawson is a professional commentator for esports site JoinDOTA. He covers DOTA and now DOTA 2 matches and tournaments, and is considered to be quite entertaining. Unfortunately, the commentary he was caught making while playing in a live-streamed public match over the weekend is not so much entertaining as it is inexplicably racist.
The comment, as seen in a screenshot, was: "have you heard the expression..lame as a ni**ers baby?"
He later apologized on the JoinDOTA forum, explaining, "it is not ok, that is rage combined with [the other player's] jokes to create a completely inappropriate comment which I am sorry for making."
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The comment, as seen in a screenshot, was: "have you heard the expression..lame as a ni**ers baby?"
Actually, I've never heard that phrase. EVER. And I've just about heard it all on Xbox LIVE. I'm totally using this now, though.
Question: how do you see a COMMENT in a SCREENSHOT? Was it typed or something?
OMG HE SO RACIST! I mean not even black people use the N-word, like never, not even on TV...
The thing is (I'm not racist) but why when Caucasian/European players hop online with a mic, as soon as a Black person, like myself, starts talking we automatically get called Niggers? I never said or heard many Black people start off a match and say "I hate Crackers!" Just to start it off. They also talk about the Latin and Asian community as well.
I think it's a thing about being behind a screen that gets people like them going. I've never been called a Nigger in my face lol
I think every Black person has been called one over Xbox Live or PSN.
But, when we are trash talking each other it always starts off with no racial slurs then after I hurt there feelings or get under their skin then here it comes. "Nigger Nigger Nigger!" Then their friends jump in. It's like a mob of angry KKK members hahaha
But the thing is that they don't know, its uneffective. Then the REAL ROASTING SESSION begins! I wish I could record my bouts haha PSNID:TONESTER_925
Happy Gaming All!!
And still nobody gives a rat's ass about DOTA 2 except meth addicts in central Europe and Chinese net cafe denizens pooping in stairwells.
That comment was just blatantly racist. Its not even an old archiac term or phrase that sounds racist, but are actually not like tar baby(stuck in a sticky situation where trying to solve it makes it worse) or "chink in the armor"(a small crack or opening in the armor or defense that is vanerable).