Hereās the issue that I have with thisā¦
(By the way, I have NO intent on firing, harming, or cancelling this voice actor and to defend him at this point with ālmao heās just edgy!ā is honestly insulting to the struggles my culture has gone through for generations. Criticism for someoneās actions is not cancelling ESPECIALLY if they caused harm towards a minority watching their show thank you.)
Kovox the ONLY way that I could defend this as an African American is if you were within a racist home or had no idea of the harm that these slurs have caused to black culture butā¦
According to your āexplanationā from your twitterā¦
And just decided to point fingers at your friend when you were CLEARLY involved within the situation but didnāt even decide to do anything about it.
āAll I can say is that the content of this profile DOES NOT and has NEVER reflected my values as a person. I have never considered shock humour to be even remotely funny, and am disgusted that this content exists on a profile using a username that I identified with at one point.ā
But you admitted to having been involved in saying the slurs or finding these sort of things funny in the first place.
As quoted there was an involvement within the situation:
āThe ārap songā is from aĀ videoĀ that my friend-at-the-time Sammuel made back in 2010 when I was 14 years old. He asked me to record a freestyle rap for a song parody he was doing. While my intent was for the content to be ānonsensicalā and āgoofyā, I did not realize how the language and content could potentially affect others at the time.ā
You did find the āshockā humour to have been something that you found humourous DESPITE the fact that you clearly could have prevented the issue by not being involved in the song in the first place.
When I was 15 years oldā¦
I was sexually exploited by multiple white men online which had caused me multiple amounts of trauma.Ā
Did I fully understand that having taken those pictures of myself for them was wrong?
Unfortunately I didnāt.Ā
But did I acknowledge at the time that using slurs or racism even against OTHER races was innapropitate or hurtful?
People might defend these words asĀ āOh theyāre just edgy!ā orĀ āIts not harmful or bad stop being overdramatic!ā but these things have a HISTORY to them that has caused harm towards our culture even to this day.
This history still having an impact to this day.
Racism is still very much common and to act as if it doesnāt have harmful effects when it DOES for the sake of a cartoon such as what those in the reblogs had done only enhances this stigma further.Ā
At this point in time you should have at least KNOWN that saying these sorts of words or harmful statements as someone who is within a white community.
Ā It would have been one thing if you had fully admitted that these issues of saying these harmful statements and activity PARTICIPATING in the situation.
The statements ofĀ āI participated in the rap video because I thought it was goofy and funny lol!ā to a woman of color before having made the statementsĀ āBut I would NEVER find this sort of shock humour funny!ā shows the level of dishonesty that is very much perceived here.
You didnāt find it funnyā¦
But you DID find it funnyā¦
But then you ALSO didnāt find it funnyā¦
But you still participated within the voices of the songā¦
And now youāre trying to tell ME that its justĀ ābeing a goofy kid!ā when children are normally very much taught by literally 4 grade that this find of wording is harmful?
By using your white previlage to tell someone to their faceĀ āI never found these things to be funny!ā when you clearly had a genuine amount of involvement within this sort of behavior is nothing short of dishonesty.
I did find it to be more considerate of you to have apologized publically but at the same time excusing the situation asĀ āNEVERā reflecting your behavior when you had an involvement within the rap video and didnāt event blink an eye shows that you donāt want to actually admit that these statements had caused harm in the first place.
This sort of behavior DOES impact who you are as a person an who you WERE as a person since you actually admitted to being involved in the video to verbally shove those slurs into a song with someone you clearly knew was racist.Ā
Iām starting to notice an issue with your team in general where there is either the statementsĀ āI didnāt even do that!ā orĀ āI was just a stupid child at the time!ā no matter how much older they truly were.
(Hint: Vivziepop was in her TWENTIES and very much knew that drawing zoophilia or harming her friends was wrong but did it anyway to the point of calling them anĀ āabuserā after having caused Dollcreep to be given death threats and harassment into a SUICIDE ATTEMPT and never having actually apologized.)
What makes it worse if the fact that a few of you even STILL repeating this sort of behavior to this day and have not genuinely attempted to apologize in the slightest.
āI said these slurs already in the rap song but thisĀ āfakeā deviantart was a hoax I tell you! Even if I did the rap song I would NEVER find theseĀ āgoofyā things to be funny and even when I said the slurs within the rap song in the first place I didnāt do any of this kinda stuff I swear!ā
You did find these things to be funny, but living within a white community made it so you didnt feel the need to understand the consequences of them.
You were still 14 years old, a time where those in the white community would have been taught from their parents that saying the hard r or the n word with the intent to mock African Americans was harmful. These things arent just aĀ āsimple lookoverā you KNEW these things were harmful and you did it anyway.
You state that you wouldĀ āNEVERā validate this sort of humor by using your white prievalge to sneak your way out of fully confronting your behavior when you in fact DID find it funny and FULLY VOICED that rap song as the intent of aĀ āparodyā song.
Even if your white preivalege doesnāt want to make you admit that you actually found these things funny or knew that they were harmful but did it anywayā¦
Even if these things might not reflect the values you have now completelyā¦
YOU STILL ACTIVLY DEFENDED THEM WITH THE SAME EXCUSES VIVZIEPOP NORMALLY USES IN THE FIRST PLACE.
You KNEW at the time that these things were harmful.
You DID find those kinds of slurs to be funny.
There was NEVER aĀ āNEVERā in the situationā¦
You actually did use these slurs and had no regret towards them besidesĀ ābut I would NEVER find it funny I swear uwu!ā when you DID.
The same thing for the rest of the Hunicastā¦
The Haitian symbols that were used within the show are STILL being used and Vivziepop never even admitted ONCE that using them was racially insensitive to Haitiain culture.
You didnt even TRY to professionally attempt to create an apology but rather only WORD PLAY ofĀ āI found it goofyā or to point fingers at theĀ āparodyā deviantart by statingĀ āI would never do these things I would never find this funny!ā when you clearly acknowledged at the time that doing the voiceover would have been harmful but did it anyway.
You know thatās shown when a white man attempts to say that theyĀ āNEVER!ā said harmful slurs towards black culture or use OUR wording with the intent of appropriating their music and mocking themĀ profusely whenā¦.
They clearly did and even actively participated in the songā¦
You actually attempted to use your previalege on a black person,
A girl who literally has a HISTORY of having been racially discriminated by those of your community.Ā
Just so you could just point fingers at thatĀ āparodyā account to make it seem as if you wouldĀ āNEVERā be ok with having said slurs such as that when the song parody proves that you DID.
Its always the same thing with you people!
You say that having a gay character that has harmful derogatory stereotypes isĀ āfunā andĀ ājust a jokeā when having a gay male character sexually making others uncomfortable is STIGMA.
You say that using Haitian symbols or having painfully black codded characters such as Valentino isĀ ājust a joke!ā when this sort of demonization if part of the reasons why we are discriminated to this day!
The appropitation of other culturesā¦
Whether any of the cis white community may like it or notā¦
I have literally witnessed others in your community activity SHITTING on our cultures and laughing at us for caring!
I have been drawn in blackface by your community!
Given death threats by multiple white men!
I have witnessed people literally shaming other accounts for calling out the stereotypes and stigmatation within Hazbin Hotel JUST for having Black Lives matter in their profile.
You keep saying to me that this sort of stigmatation of the black cultureĀ āwas just goofy kid jokes!ā and thatĀ āI would NEVER find these things funny!ā when you clearly DID and just donāt want to admit that you were wrong by pointing fingers at thatĀ āfakeā deviantart account whenā¦
YOU STILL DID THEĀ DAMN SONG AND RECORDED IT.
And even if Iām not sure if the Deviantart is truly yours or notā¦
You were still involved with the song AND actually found it funny at the time!
There was never aĀ āNEVERā in the situation.
THERE WAS AĀ āWEREā IN THE SITUATION.
You WERE in a situation where you found the demonizaton of our cultures to be funny!
You WERE in a situation where you didnt regret what you were doing for literally TEN WHOLE YEARS.
Are you trying to tell me that within TEN YEARS you never found that having these sort of statements would lead to any of your African American fans to have ever found these things?
Are you trying to tell me that youĀ āNEVERā would have found these things funny when you clearly DID within the rap āparodyā beforehand and is only trying to use your whiteĀ privilege to sneak your way out of controversy from my eyes?
Because these are all excuses Micheal Kovach!
They donāt actually amount to anĀ āapologyā if youāre just going to find excuses or even funny on deny ever finding these sorts of things funny as an excuse for your fans to defend your white privilege for the thirtieth time!
The same way Vivziepop used HER white privilege as a white passing latina to create stereotypes such as this in the first place.
It wasĀ āJust a little joke!ā that she did and therefore itās find to have racial demonization as long as she gets money in the bank for it right?
When people use their ONLY black codded sterotype as an ā70ā²s abusive moth pimp!ā it characterizes us as harmful or sexually abusive whenā¦
When people use a Latina characterās JUSTIFIED anger as a joke all it does is increase theĀ ālatina women are aggressors!ā trope further.
https://galemalio.tumblr.com/post/627888561832738816/3-examples-of-racial-bias-in-animation
When people use gay men or sex workers asĀ āFlamboyant men WHO make other men VERY VERY uncomfortable because its funny!ā and have them literally sexually harass TWO CHARACTERS as a joke it makes them seem as if they areĀ āall sexā when they clearly are NOT.
Sex addictions AND Drug addictions are not a ājokeā to use against gay men and are serious addictions that are stigmatized within the show for the benefit of the majority cis or straight audience that are watching.Ā
And even if SOME people might find excuses for his demonized portrayal just because of the Valentino plot existing within the seriesā¦
The Valentino plot in itself was STILL glamourized on his Instagram with his abusive behavior with Vox also being used as a joke to an audience that barely understands the struggles of domestic violence in the first place!
Along with the same people who defended Angel Dust being a gay steortype just because of Valentinoās inclusion in the story..
LITERALLY SHIPPING HIM AND HIS ABUSER TOGETHER TO FETISHIZE THE ABUSE RIGHT AFTER THE MUSIC VIDEO.
And some of the fandom might scream to my face,
āIts just a joke! Who cares ship who you want it doesnāt hurt anybody!ā
It does hurt others to fetishize abuse within media.
Kovach you even wore THIS SHIRT just two weeks ago as a joke to attempt toĀ āoffendā someone who hated a character who literally has no redeeming qualities since he is a sexual abuser whoās onlyĀ āgoodā quality is his design.
You clearly find black stereotypes or abusive characterizations of African Americans to STILL be funny according to these kinds of post:
And wanted to prove to someone who had the RIGHT to hate this character that creating merchandising off of a music video with RAPE was somehow funny to someone who doesnāt like to see abuse.
The equivalent of making a animal abuse psa but then creating merchandising of a puppy being punched in the faceā¦.
Or the LITERAL equivalent to creating a psa about domestic violence JUST to have the main merchandising being of the sexual abuser to glamorize itā¦
The series/community acts as if Angel Dust is some martyr for abuse when the character is literally FETISHIZED for his abuse in the first place by both the fandom and the creators in the first place.
Most of the audience wasnāt even PHASED by the rape in the first place and treated it like nothing because of the glamourization featured within the video.
They only reacted as āwow that music video was smexy because it has pole dancing which makes it cool and funny!ā and the visuals of rape didnt effec them as much as it would have if it were featured in the SHOW without the glamourization involved since it was GLAMOURIZED.
Even one of your STAFF MEMBERS was baffled by seeing this in your page.
But did you apologize or have ANY sort of sympathy for what you had posted on Twitter @kovoxā?
And whether the cis white section of the audience likes it or notā¦
These things have hurt OUR COMMUNITY which is the reason we even formed this alliance within the fandom in the first place!
We areĀ āflamboyant gay menā here.
We areĀ āangry latinasā here.
WE ARE LGBT AND MINORITIES SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE STEROTYEPES AND DEMONIZATION WITHIN YOUR COMMUNITY.
And whether you like it or notā¦
YouĀ āNEVERā giving a genuine apology and just attempting to sweep having demonized our cultures under the rug for the sake of a cheapĀ ājokeā that you clearly knew was wrong but didnt want to admit that you ever found it funny in the first placeā¦
People like you are LITERALLY the reason why we are continuously silenced within media just because the white community donāt want to admit that what they are doing is harmful.Ā
So the next time ANY OF YOU attempt to make excuses to our faces or attempt to slide any of these sort of appropriation, sterotyping, and even FULL ON RACISM under the rug to avoid controversy,Ā
WhiteĀ privilege is not the excuse to appropriate or insult someoneās:
There is literallyĀ āNEVERā an excuse for this sort of behavior and you attempting to tell me that youĀ āNEVERā found these things funny by pointing fingers at yourĀ āfakeā deviantart account for the things you still also did within thatĀ āparody songā because you found these sort of slurs and demonization of black culture to be FUNNY.
These things only amount to show how little you actually cared for the situation and only wanted to sugar coat it asĀ ājust a little joke I did as a kid!ā when people of that age are on average FULLY AWARE of this sort of appropitation being harmful towards suffering minorities such as us.Ā
āI did this rap song as a kid but I would NEVER find these sort of demonizations funny because my friend made the lyrics and I only SANG IT that deviantart account doesnāt show my values EVER as a person even if I already said those slurs near when the deviantart was created for a song!ā
āI created this song with my freind because I thought that demonizing black people was cool and fresh because of ME wanting to seemĀ āedgyā and cool to my white peers while shaming my black peerās existence in the process because white privilege is cool as long as no one knows that youāre doing it lmao!ā
Kovox as a professional voice actorā¦
You KNEW that these things were racist you just DIDNT CARE.
And you KNOW that excusing these sort of things withĀ āthat fake deviantart was just made by a troll so now the slurs I said in the song didnt exist because I would NEVER find them funny Starlight!ā is unacceptable.Ā
Yet you did it anyway because your white privilege demanded that you make as many excuses as humanly possible for your behavior by using wordplay such asĀ āI would NEVER find these things funny because this fake deviantart did the SAME things I did in the song!ā,Ā āIt was a freind who made it!ā,Ā āI was just a kid!ā, orĀ āThe rap song was made years ago!ā to attempt to justify the situation or sugar coat the behavior.
You either dig yourself ANOTHER HOLE by not admitting that you had found this sort of unacceptable behavior to be funny in the first place.
Or you admit to that you were a racist white individual who was using his white privilege onto African American culture.
And is currently still using his white privilege to escape the consequences of his behaviorĀ
You either admit to YOUR OWN behavior and move onā¦
Or keep making the same excuses over and overā¦
The same way the rest of your staff members have done for yearsā¦
Its your choice to makeā¦
And Iām not making it for you.
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