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I saw another one where somebody sent arab andy a clip of the n-word being repeated over and over 50 times while he is on the bus. A very liberal looking white guy in his 40s threatened to stab andy so he got off the bus immediately.

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How does one look very liberal?

Ive seen that clip. The guy was either super unstable or just trying to "out crazy" the streamer and scare him away.

The guy was unstable yes, but he also looked super liberal. It's tough to articulate, but it exists nonetheless, it's like asking what strawberries taste like. Perhaps I can't articulate it but that doesn't mean nobody can taste them or the taste doesn't exist. Some facets about him that I don't care to enumerate gave me that impression. He was trying to appear crazy yes and he did brandish a knife as well.

You are being far too charitable with him. He essentially committed assault by creating the impression that andy was not physically safe and that he may use a knife against him.

Having a machine repeat slurs constantly also makes people feel unsafe. It doesn't sound clear cut

Interesting that you don't cite brandishing a knife as unsafe, it's a text to speech voice that's the REAL problem.

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