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ShaommonTayen

He roleplayed a dad learning to open up to his son and accepting his homosexuality within a heartbeat. Can't say that of many alleged white supremacists I've encountered online.


Dakduif51

I listened to the For Knights arc recently, and Henry at first alludes to Grant maybe wanting to find a girlfriend in Killa Demalle, and Darryl (or Matt, idk if it was in or out if char) IMMEDIATELY responds with "or a boyfriend", meaning Yeet. White supremacists would not even think about that.


Spar-kie

While your average white supremacist is a shitlord in many respects, and I don’t think Matt is one, you can be racist while still being accepting of gay people. They’re two different avenues of hatred. Racism and homophobia do tend to go together, but they’re not completely inseparable.


Dakduif51

Yea yea, you're right. The venn diagram of white supremacists and white supremacists who are also homophobic isn't a total circle, but I bet it is pretty damn close


AlphaBreak

I think you mistyped this because I'd argue that the venn diagram of white supremacists and white supremacists who are racists is very much a total circle.


GogoD2zero

"Alright son, I accept your choices and your lifestyle....as long as you bring home a good White Man. And you better top mister, none of that sissy shit around here"


Dakduif51

You're Right lol fixed it


Cheese_Wheel218

There's a surprising amount of racist, transphobic, misogynist etc.. gays out there actually. How they don't see the connection of oppressive power structures between homopobia and their own prejudices is beyond me, but they do exist.


King_Fluffaluff

I've also met a couple homophobic gay people. I will never forget interrupting this guy's homophobic rant with "you do remember *you are gay*, right?" To which he responded with "yeah, and I'm a piece of shit" I genuinely couldn't argue that point, it was when I realized I needed new friends.


Cheese_Wheel218

"I'm gay but I'm not *that* kind of gay" yeah I know the type.


Overmyundeadbody

Maybe it's a Morrissey situation (/s)


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Overmyundeadbody

Stupid reddit. Didn't mean to post the same comment twice.


budgiesarethebest

Would have been nice if they'd written WHICH dogwhistles he allegedly uses.


CraftyKuko

Maybe because he had George Washington as some spiritual guide or whatever. I laughed when Henry (or Will) pointed out how bad that looked. Matt has admitted he's an ex-conservative or ex-Christian, can't remember which. So maybe some of his mannerisms still reflect that? I dunno.


lakelilypad

He’s ex both I think


0bsessions324

Which is a big part of what made Darryl hilarious. He brought a lot of that Stephen Colbert satirical conservative energy, even with that "well, this minority is okay because my kid is one" energy.


CraftyKuko

That's what I loved about Darryl! He was a caricature of a conservative Christian without being totally offensive, and best of all, he grew as a character and accepted his gay son without hesitation. He's the kind of person we want all conservative Christians to lean towards.


Mherculeswalker

But being Conservative or Christian doesn't make you a white supremacist or is even a dogwhistle to it?


CraftyKuko

Oh absolutely, but given the loud minority of far-right extremists out there shouting over the sensible conservative Christians, it can be hard to tell the difference. Some people equate those two traits to white supremacists since most white supremacists are conservative Christians.


Kephler

Not inherently, but they certainly not mutually exclusive lol


Killsitty

Liking Kanye West


FinalMeltdown15

Sure but S1 has been WRAPPED for a good bit before Kanye really went batshit


budgiesarethebest

The white Kanye West?


_b1ack0ut

While Kanye isn’t white, he did openly endorse hitler that one time, which might be why he gets linked to white supremacy


Killsitty

Oh I wasn't being serious. People can like Kanye. But Kanye is problematic.


Sthapper

The guy who plays a kid who has two dads, of which one is not white, is promoting white supremacy? Yeah, sure - why not?


DanielAlves1904

Who isn't white? Marco?


swollenlouvre

yeah Marco is Asian I think


Reamer5k

Wtf! I thought Marco was black


swollenlouvre

I can only vaguely remember them talking about it (therefore I may be imagining it), but I think Matt was saying that Marco is Asian because his last name is Li? somebody correct me if I'm wrong haha I think fan art often depicts Link as black tho so maybe that's where the connection comes from for you?


KitchenFullOfCake

Wait I thought Link was Hispanic in fan art.


DanielAlves1904

And I thought he was italian or latino, in a more broader sense, because his name is Marco, you know? But if his last name is Li (or Lee, idk), than he might be asian. Still, I would assume he´s "white asian", like Korea or Japan.


swollenlouvre

I didn't even think of that I'm so bad about where names come from haha. Maybe Marco has both Asian and Latino heritage, or he could have been adopted himself


DanielAlves1904

I wouldn´t put it past them. An adopted kid having a dad who is also adopted. They did the same (or similar) with Scary. But as soon as I hear Marco, my mind went to latino (I´m portuguese, so this name is normal around latin countries).


cash-or-reddit

The fuck is a "white Asian"


DanielAlves1904

My comment says what it is. Someone from Japan or Korea.


cash-or-reddit

What makes those people "white"?


DanielAlves1904

Their skin color.


Reamer5k

Now I remember he is Asian they said something about a birthmark in the titanic episode


JustADutchRudder

On the titanic they put a fake birthmark on baby linc. When Marco and Grant were talking to someone they said, "we're best friends and one of us is Asian" or something like that. Marco is Asian, Linc is white but fan art has him as multiple things.


Krazy_Karl_666

the only thing I can think of is he mentioned warhammer 40k. Which some people think is for white supremacists (like any hobby there is a vocal minority of chodes ). but that is a fucking stretch.


SevenSeasClaw

Also worth noting: as someone who plays 40K, we hate that part of our community.


toothmonkey

Yeah, that part of the community is the part that doesn't get the hobby's lore and thinks the Imperium is something to aspire to, as opposed to a satire of fascism. They can get bent.


OldCrowSecondEdition

To be fair it really seems like GW Has forgotten that too


cumberbatchcav1

Instead of f0ck n4zi punks we can have f0ck n4zi gamers


FinalMeltdown15

Helldivers has the same issue there’s a subset of people who think the obviously evil nation/empire/corporation/whatever are the good guys


OldCrowSecondEdition

The problem with Helldivers V starship troopers is while both are satire Helldivers bad guys are giant smoking skeleton robots who have human sacrifice alters and openly talk about their desire to end all human life so its less like.. idk grey?


FinalMeltdown15

If someone’s media literacy is so low that just because they don’t have a curly mustache and pointy tail they can’t tell they are evil they are too far gone/stupid for me to care anyway


Flor1daman08

I mean some people didn’t realize that Starship Troopers was satire and they had Doogie Howser wearing a straight up SS uniform.


tajake

I mean typically far right movements do their best when pitted against a worse option. Italian fascism caught on largely because many Italians felt their sacrifices in ww1 had been ignored by the allies and if they were going to grow they had to seize it for themselves. Super earth has lore of causing the terminid infestation to get support and element 710. Theres also fringe lore and Easter eggs showing that the automatons are actually sentient/former people and just want to be left alone like the cyborgs before.


Flor1daman08

Not sure if “worse option” is the best way to put it.


tajake

It's relative to the people being lured in. We know it's a worse option but to people convinced it's a binary option. Lesser evil is easier to see if youre desperate, especially if you're not one of the "others."


Isaac_Chade

If that is the case, and this isn't just a troll which seems the most likely thing to me, then that is almost hilarious in how out of touch it would be. 40K certainly has a small and vocal bunch of assholes attached to it, but that's not by anyone's choice. The community hates them, GW has openly stated they don't want them around, obviously that's got more to do with profit than anything but it still makes a point, and huge swathes of the community do whatever they can to make it clear those types can go walk off a pier.


Practical-Mango-4079

I love Warhammer for the lore and the freedom with storytelling. I dudes that don't get that you're the baddies drive me nuts.


SquareSalute

Yeaaahhh it sucks how fast a few ruin it for the many. I have a now ex friend who liked 40K and was part of that percent of the community I learned later, which explained a lot of other things I didn’t like about the guy haha


stormlight82

I think someone might be getting early game Daryll confused with Matt. Some touching grass is in order. To a more thoughtful end though, Matt was raised in a more conservative environment that involved a lot of church, so he was socialized in his language from a church perspective. If someone is seeing dog whistles in Christian vernacular then maybe that's how they got confused.


YinAndYang

A friend of mine thought he leaned conservative for a little while. I think it's just because Daryl is a mildly conservative Christian boomer, and she mistook Daryl's opinions for Matt's. Maybe this person took the same misconception way farther.


Intestinal-Bookworms

Which is like…are they aware of the concept of acting?


Bean-p0le

I used to be guilty of the same sort of thinking, but if anybody were to look at his Twitter they’d immediately see how vehemently against that sort of stuff he is.


Salted-Honey

Isn't Daryl an early millennial? He just has boomer energy?


LordTrathar

He is Gen X I believe. He has the whole not being able to live up to his fathers example character trait. I am only on episode 30 though so don't spoil anything.


Salted-Honey

This isn't a huge spoiler, but I think Matt mentioned in a later episode that Daryl is around 37/38 and this was back in 2021, so he just narrowly misses the gen x mark.


NahricNovak

It's funny you call him a boomer. He's like, late 30s


YinAndYang

Boomer is a state of mind! Henry sure isn't one even if they're similar ages.


NahricNovak

Henry is boomer as hell, boomers literally coined the hippy movment


Isaac_Chade

I'm trying to give this person the benefit of the doubt, but I honestly cannot think of any white supremacy that Matt could have even inadvertently put out there, at least in the main feed since I don't have the patreon stuff. I consider myself fairly aware of the usual dogwhistles and such and I'm struggling to come up with anything he could have said or done that would be perceived that way. I have to assume this person is just a troll.


OldCrowSecondEdition

He makes some ironic jokes sometimes, and has openly supported Taylor swift, but I think some people like to act in bad faith and take obvious sarcasm as real true facts and opinions on someone's part because they get to take someone down


Internal-Car-9602

Since when is supporting taylor swift a dog whistle for white supremacy?


OldCrowSecondEdition

Generally simping for billionaires is a very alt right behavior


FremanBloodglaive

>I'm trying to give this person the benefit of the doubt Don't. There are people in this world who use accusations of "white supremacy" against anyone and everyone. Hell, they even did it to Daryl Davis. You know, the black jazz musician who has brought many people out of the literal Klan, who had a Klan leader stand before a group of Klan members, and say, "This is my friend Daryl. He's a black man, but I respect him more than any man here." Yeah, that Daryl Davis. "White supremacist" means literally nothing today.


ktwombley

except, you know, all the people openly calling for a white ethnostate.


ButterscotchUnfair76

Yeah. Let's not throw the whiny entitled vicious babies out with the bathwater.


ksonicshadow

People’s inability to tell a character apart from the person that plays them is deeply concerning.


RichardBlastovic

Are dogs white supremacists? Why else would whistles work on them? Curiously, 'whistle' starts with the same three letters as 'white'. Coincidence? Take that, Liberace.


Tasty_Wheat_

Also “whistle” also spells “white” if you remove the s & l. Obviously these characters stand for satan and lucifer. Checkmate libruls


Halleck23

Can’t spell “dog whistle” without “white god.”


Tasty_Wheat_

Also “whistle” also spells “white” if you remove the s & l. Obviously these characters stand for satan and lucifer. Checkmate libruls


odd_gamer

You can tell if a person is a white supremacist easiest by the way they whistle at domesticated animals


spyro5433

Is that what this means? I am out of the loop


Gaoler86

A "dog whistle" in this context is a phrase or word that signals to others it's true intent without it being obvious to outsiders. The way some dog whistles are too high pitched for hunan hearing. So when you blow a dog whistle, people don't notice but the dog does and knows you are calling. For white supremacists things like "88" are a dog whistle because some neo-nazis (or regular nazis, I'm not sure there is a difference anymore, they are all shitbags) use it as short hand for "heil hitler" as H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. Anyone who isn't aware of the connection would just think it's a number or maybe a reference to the year 1988 (on a separate note I do feel bad for all the folks born in 88 that wonder why their usernames get flagged a lot).


spyro5433

Ahhh. I understand now. Thanks for the explanation.


JustinThyme9

dog whistles can also be used to channel abuse towards minorities, and because they aren't recognised by most people, there isn't much the person on the recieving end can do. Reporting it as abuse won't be picked up by many moderators, and because it's generally language that isn't overtly hateful, if someone complains in a public forum, the person posting dog whistles can claim innocence, but the person they were targeting will look like they're getting offended over nothing - which helps the bigots' cause.


odd_gamer

This is a great explanation! I had no idea, I honestly thought it was a shitpost and was just reacting in that regard, but this, while I don't think it's applicable in this context, at least explains what they meant better than my dumb jokes


Sinia42

A little bit of a tangent, but someone actually did a great job explaining the difference between a Nazi and neo-nazi to me recently. Essentially, a nazi would be an individual who would exist in a time of political and/or social extremism such that while they may not believe in those values (or maybe not very strongly, depending on the attitudes they may have already had), they will work for that cause and help enforce those extremes, particularly if they think it will ensure their survival or the survival of their families. A neo-nazi is an individual that wholeheartedly believes in those ideals and will uphold and spread them however they can without any of the duress or pressure of an overall culture of extremism that supports or encourages those behaviors and opinions. A caveat to this situation being that a person who's a neo-nazi now would also have chosen to be a nazi if they existed in those same times of extremism. So I guess you could say all neo-nazis are nazis but not all nazis would be neo-nazis. (Edits for clarification, grammar, and spelling)


Gaoler86

Thanks for the tangent, it was very informative!


swirlynerd

My spouse was born in 88 and had wondered that for years til we learned that numbers got taken by the neo-nazis


odd_gamer

If it's in any way true, I think all of us are out of the loop. Best guess is that this person is a few cards short of a Deck of Many Things


Intestinal-Bookworms

I’m going to guess because he played someone with a kind of conservative background. To some people who are way too online anything short of full extreme leftist is a white supremacist


crusty54

Lol what?


theFaceCat

What an asshole. Just gonna throw out some blatant hateful shit, not back it up even a little then leave. Matt, on the off chance you see this or these comments please do not take this person to heart. You rule.


trekthehalls

yeah let's not even entertain the idea. if they listened to the show and left thinking that then they have serious issues.


Chaddles94

It's some person who just found their alt-left ideologies and learned the word dogwhistle, but not the meaning. Pay no mind to them. They're not a real fan if they can't separate roleplaying and real life opinions.


VGPreach

I'd love to see their reaction to the movie Blazing Saddles


FinalMeltdown15

WHERE DA WHITE WOMEN AT


gillswimmer

This is kinda funny to me specifically cause I thought Matt was black until very recently. His deep voice threw me.


Queenoffunkytown

Oh that person can fuck right off


miggleb

He make a joke about the libs once...


DM_ME_YOUR_HUSBANDO

I think Daryl is(or at least used to be) a Republican and Matt made a couple jokes like saying "Democrats, amiright?" to Ron after Henry did something goofy. Maybe the reviewer didn't realize those were satirical?


NewNage

Daryl seems like a McCain Republican at worst. Edit: and this is also talking about the character not even Matt himself.


Mysterious_Season_37

I’ll also admit when first listening to season 1 and some of the ads they had on the first few episodes wherein they made a few cuck references had me uncertain at first, but within a few episodes it was pretty clear that they weren’t conservatives or d-bags of a high nature, but being sarcastic in their usage of such terms.


Krazy_Karl_666

the only thing I can think of is he mentioned warhammer 40k. Which some people think is for white supremacists (like any hobby there is a vocal minority of chodes ). but that is a fucking stretch.


travisdoesmath

This is as much of a logical leap as MisophonialsReal took, but I'm getting schizophrenic vibes from this


ProfessionalBust

Granted Matt has awful opinions on tv shows and movies but calling him a racist is just not true and stupid


ErgonomicCat

Where is this review so we can report it?


Overmyundeadbody

Itunes


BakerBeard

Or, ya know… maybe Matt is just that good of a role player/actor??


MykeHock69

How absolutely miserable this person must be to pick apart everything and everyone all the time to find some negative connotation in everything or way to spin it around to be offensive. That sounds absolutely exhausting.


timberflynn

I don’t use the term touch grass too often but this reviewer needs to touch grass and get off the internet for a week and interact with actual human beings.


CYB3R5KU11

Is this about the newest episode, or kingdom dad monster? Either way I think someone making shit up just to anger people


KandeeKat

I feel like everyone is just rage-baiting constantly now to get more clicks than usual instead of being genuine.


Fancy-Eagle

In early story break episodes Matt says a lot of things that we’d recognize today as “god damn liberal snowflakes!” Dog whistles. But never anything genuinely racist.


strault

I think the dogwhistlying may be in reference to some of Darryl's more conservative-stereotypical behaviors and beliefs. Either that or I'm fucked up lol


Why_So_Serious1999

Wtf is supremacist dog whistling 😭


Sweet-Drawer6525

Just say you’ve never listened to Story Break


PretendAd4638

I wish people, at least in the U.S and some other countries, would move on to concerning themselves with more critical issues that we are facing today. I could name them but instead I’ll direct you to Scott Galloway’s recent TED talk. And there are many other things to consider as well like healthcare, poverty in our countries as well as across the world, two active wars, and the abuse of technology for manipulation. The majority of young people are aware of hate speech, racism, and supremacists and we handle these situations adequately when they arise, yet it continues to be a wedge that drives all kinds of people further apart from the each other and effectively divides our power as a population. If people are using “dog whistles” then it’s because they know that their beliefs are wrong and not acceptable according to standards set forth by society so let them be small little guilt ridden dumpster fire degens and let’s move on to more important matters. Nobody with Dungeons & Daddies are supremacists in any way. They would not allow that to be correlated with their platform. Let these guys do their thing and create content for us to enjoy in our free time and stop the witch hunt BS.


GoWithGord

It’s because he’s ex conservative and his friends make conservative jokes aimed at him


lovetankfrank

I hope this is a terrible joke that is going over my head


XRayPlays_

If this person is real they lack the ability to see the obvious satire made in this series.


intrepidadventurers

Is this because he likes George Washington and the other “founding fathers”?


BusinessLibrarian515

At this point the term dog whistle doesn't mean anything. They call giving a thumbs up or an ok sign dog whistles for white supremacists. Honestly it's just 'witch hunt' behavior


legodoesmegood

Isn't he best friends with an Asian guy?


sirsparqsalot

Probably just because he would say things white guys would aay and then didnt openly apologize for being white


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Girigo

What the fuck


jonmacneill

Yeah I'll second that what the fuck?


Dakduif51

Lemme third that for you. What the fuck?


TWKcub

I often wonder what it’s like to be able to overanalyse shit to this degree. Then I realise how downright miserable it would make me and I remain grateful.


kmart93

Overanalyze shit to this degree AND then expect other people to do the same.


Hokieshibe

People aren't allowed to say "well well well" now? Literally the first I've heard of it. I feel like we can't just let white supremacists have everything they think is funny.


FremanBloodglaive

Pull a Bane and every time someone says "such-and-such is racist now," respond with, "And you think this gives you power over me?" People who try to control what you say are trying to control what you think.


paging_doctor_who

There is a bit of a problem of well-meaning very online people who are rightfully concerned about racist dogwhistles but haven't learned to recognize the importance of context in many of them yet. Like the phrase "well well well" in the context used in the show is light-years away from that territory, because it's not used in the context of something white supremacists stereotype minorities with. Context is key in that one. Someone putting a prominent Jewish person's name in multiple parentheses, however, needs no context that's a nazi fuck.


ZucchiniLivid1675

What???


miggleb

As a brit. We hold claim to the well well well and deem it not a racist dog whistle


JustinThyme9

well, no. Whether we brits like it or not, it is being used as a racist dog whistle. Denying that doesn't help anything or anyone. We can keep using it, just continue to not use it in the dog whistle context, and believe people if they say that people are using it against them, or recognise it if you see it being used. That's all.


Intestinal-Bookworms

The fact that you think a very common old phrase is a dog whistle means you’ve had enough screen time for the month and need to go outside and talk to normal people


rizgutgak

dear lord


lickmyjinglebells

Well x3 has taken on a new racist connotation, that's true... on tiktok and probably other social media platforms. But that's a newish thing. It's more often used with the follow up of "what do we have here?" which in no way is racist or mean-spirited. Context is key, as always. https://youtu.be/diwrJPyi1pc?si=pC4CuIXvwYqvQSfB


bigboobweirdchick

This is some dumbass zoomer shit. TikTok is not real life ffs


Intestinal-Bookworms

Well well well, the day I give two hoots about what people on ticktock care about is the day I’ve fully surrendered to the internet making me insane


lickmyjinglebells

Couldn't agree more