Racism in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Kai Cenat and YourRAGE's encounter with racists sparks outrage
Call of Duty lobbies are notorious for their toxicity, but Kai Cenat and YourRAGE's experience with a couple of racists in the brand new Modern Warfare 2 recently caused a lot of outrage.
A couple of clips from yesterday's stream have gained significant traction on social media and the gaming community has had a varied reaction. While many described the occurrence as normal, others were at a loss at how such blatant use of slurs and derogatory remarks are so commonplace in such a popular video game.
Trigger warning: Racism and mention of racial slurs.
Racism and Call of Duty have had a pretty long history in successive games, and the developers made headlines last year for banning hundreds of thousands of accounts with racist names in an attempt to curb toxicity in Warzone. Sadly, Activision is infamous for not being able to do anything because of the unrepeatable hate sputed on voice chat.
Case in point: In April 2021, the popular rapper T-Pain was called the n-word while he was streaming on Twitch. Much the same happened to the currently most subscribed channel on the platform, Kai Cenat, who was playing the recently released Modern Warfare 2 with YourRAGE when their in-game teammates started insulting the popular Black content creators with derogatory words.
What's more, when the person making the racist remarks was called out by the streamers, he doubled down and flatly told them that if they don't want to be called the n-word, they should not be playing Call of Duty:
Kai was not having it and shouted back:
As it turns out, the racist remarks did not stop there, and if anything, only increased. Later during the same conversation, the teammates even started insulting the Black Lives Matter protests by saying that, George
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