{"id":176818,"date":"2021-01-25T23:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T23:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/ninja-white-privilege-parents\/"},"modified":"2021-01-25T23:43:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T23:43:08","slug":"ninja-says-its-not-his-job-to-teach-kids-about-racism-and-white-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/25\/ninja-says-its-not-his-job-to-teach-kids-about-racism-and-white-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninja Says It’s Not His Job to Teach Kids About Racism and White Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Popular Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja<\/strong>” Blevins offered his thoughts regarding the parents of youth\u00a0who contribute to online toxicity: listen to, and more importantly, educate\u00a0their kids.<\/p>\n

Ninja is perhaps the most recognizable face in the streaming world. The 29-year-old began his gaming career by joining esports teams for competitive\u00a0Halo 3<\/em> play, but exploded in popularity beginning in late 2017 thanks to\u00a0Fortnite<\/em>. The popular battle royale title and\u00a0streamer are near-synonymous when mentioned, although Ninja thinks Epic Games has lost its way with\u00a0Fortnite<\/em> Chapter 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Artificial Intelligence Software ToxMod Looks to Solve Toxic Voice Chat in Gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Ninja was asked questions about a number of things in his personal and public life.\u00a0The FPS pro details his planned transition towards voice acting, in which he’s already recorded lines for the main role<\/a> on an upcoming TV show, to prior comments made about not playing games with women.<\/p>\n

One particular question, however, has caused the internet to stir.\u00a0Centered\u00a0around the behavior of kids who frequent livestreams, Ninja was asked if anything could be done to mitigate the often combative and toxic behavior in chat, to which the streamer replied, “it all comes down to parenting.”<\/p>\n

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Ninja<\/a> believes the toxic chat behavior, which oftentimes devolves into\u00a0persecutive\u00a0or racial slurs, could be minimized if parents took more initiative and responsibility. “How does a white kid know he has white privilege if his parents never teach him or don’t talk about racism?” Ninja goes on to discuss how slurs not only contribute to overall toxicity, but can get the streamer whose stream it takes place on banned.<\/p>\n

Blevins also elaborated that internet culture as a whole breeds\u00a0this type of toxic behavior, with the perceived safety of being anonymously behind a screen. While most\u00a0gamers would think that Ninja’s main demographic is children, the streamer reveals that his average age range for Instagram, Twitter, and Twitch\u00a0are all 18-27.<\/p>\n

The often-malicious nature of video game chats is not lost on those in the industry. Both\u00a0Microsoft and Sony have taken measures to help ensure player safety, the latter of which introduced a controversial feature\u00a0allowing\u00a0PS5 users to record party chat<\/a> and report it to Sony. Ninja, being one of the most prominent personalities in gaming, often faces heavy scrutiny when issues of gaming toxicity rise to prominence. Blevins is subject to the same toxicity himself, as he also discusses how he was heavily derided upon his return to Twitch after famously leaving for\u00a0Microsoft’s now-defunct Mixer platform.<\/p>\n

Twitch in and of itself is facing its own toxicity problem with the ongoing controversy of the PogChamp Emote<\/a>. After changing the face of the emote\u00a0due to the original, Ryan “Gootecks” Gutierrez, encouraging further violence during the attempted U.S. Capitol insurrection, the platform began featuring a new streamer for the emote every 24 hours.<\/p>\n

While well-intended, the decision caused some of the featured faces to receive death threats and hateful, racist messages, highlighting how widely deep-seated the\u00a0toxic\u00a0culture is. While perhaps impossible to eradicate entirely, gamers can only hope that the malicious and harmful behavior on\u00a0chats is retained to the dark corners of the internet, with figures like\u00a0Ninja<\/strong> leading by example.<\/p>\n

MORE: Ninja Talks Choosing Twitch Over YouTube for Streaming After Mixer Shutdown<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Source: The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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