We as a progressive society have gone past the point where we can accept some humor as subjective, and still know it as unserious and in good faith, and moral absolutism has ruined how people can engage in humor around people who claim to be progressive.
But ALSO, gooseworx is a piece of shit regardless of whether sheâs racist or not, so this doesnât really phase me.
Looking at the clips people reference paints a clear picture to me. Someoneâs username used the prefix ânega,â short for negative, and the VAs saw that as funny and possibly racist, so their initial jokes were making fun of that personâs potentially racist username.
Then, goose referred to her good buddy vivzieâs oc with black skin/fur as ânega-angel,â referencing the earlier joke and making a race joke.
Thatâs not a particularly racist statement, it doesnât attack black identity and isnât stating a slur, however it is close to the latter.
When this first broke out, I saw dozens of black folks saying they didnât give a shit, and that it was 7 years ago and not even offensive at that.
Once the finale leaked and it was dogshit, and once people realized goose was friends with Vivienne âI am an evil pedophile rapistâ medrano, they changed their minds about the controversy out of nowhere.
I think this is mainly piggybacking off of the fact that gooseworx is a hack, not really being worried about serious racism.
I mean, letâs be real. Looking at the audience for something like the huniecast and the target audience of TADC and hazbin, whoâs gonna be radicalized or turned racist by a joke like that? And further so, why wouldnât they be by the actual race stereotypes in hazbin itself instead?
Goose has said before she believes this kind of humor is best kept private, and I believe that, but she made the clear mistake of putting it out there publicly.
This whole thing is stupid as fuck.
For all the identity clarification virtue signaling assholes, Iâm mixed race, part white, part Korean, gender queer and gay. Iâm also a political socialist and general progressive.
