Let me start off first with the following:
This is a racism-ridden post by yours truly, the moderator of both coh2.org and companyofheroes.com, James Hale. You're kidding me right?
Just for your information, a large portion of the Company of Heroes 2 community speak Arabic. They get the jist of the message, whether you hinted to it explicitly or implicitly.
I don't understand how this post is constructive in any way at all. It doesn't abide by any of the rules in this forum. In fact, it's really ironic to see that this is the prime example of a post magnitudes worse than the posts you'd usually lock in the forum. One would think a post like this wouldn't exist in a respectable community like this. But then, you have people like James Hale who produce these kind of posts but lock posts completely in-topic with Company of Heroes because it may offer some few remarks he personally doesn't fully agree with.
The post which by all means deserves to be locked by a moderator, gets written by one. MVgame?
Were you trying to accomplish anything funny in this post anyways? The video had me cringing. You just kept mumbling stereotypical gibberish in a stereotypical accent the whole time. It was straight-up racism. I don't feel the need to reiterate what you've already seen in the video. I'd consider Family Guy episodes multitudes more respectful than this.
Why are you trying to diffuse the blatantly obvious issue here when you know yourself that your post was racist? Yeah, you didn't just offend Arabs, you offended several religions simultaneously.
"But wait... how could you take this as 'racist'? But I found it funny! Surely I'm aware of what is offensive to people and what's not"
- You used a Nasheed as the intro song
Really? Out of ALL the Arabic music you could've picked from, you chose a religious genre? And you're telling me this is just "childish satire"?
- You show several clips of rockets and weapons while playing the Nasheed
Talk about making a racist situation even worse right?
- You show the star of David
Was that even necessary? Like you couldn't make a satirical video without religion or other concepts people consider sensitive and hold dear to them?
If this was childish satire, you wouldn't indirectly make fun of several cultures and religions in the same context.
Someone please ban this child. At the very least revoke his moderator status. I'm forwarding it to Ami and enforcement@relic.com in case they hasn't seen this.
rofl, apparently just showing the star of David makes you an anti-semite or some bullshit.
Dude, I'm the person who voiced the Arab character. I genuinly tried to make it sound like Arabic to anyone who isn't Arabic. This is partly why the audio quality is shitty (the other being that the shitty quality makes it more funny). If it was straight up 'durka durka' I would understand what you're saying but this is just stupid.
The entire idea for this video came from when we were playing CoH2 and I was doing this impression of the elephant man while having my mic close to my face. Somehow this led us to me doing a voice that sounded like it could be Arabic (to anyone who isn't Arabic). We then decided that we had to make a parody cast with this Arab character, referencing inside jokes and CoH2 stuff, like Imperial Dane, Ami, etc (I personally was reluctant to put one of the references in but I won't say which one it is). Really the humour to me comes from that he (the character) references all these random things but you only have a vague idea of what he talks about. I showed a video previously in the thread that was partly the inspiration for this parody cast. I say again, are you seriously saying that would be offensive to Spanish people?
The whole intro thing came from Imperial Dane. He has combat footage as his intro with music behind it. We thought of those Syria combat video´s which often have nasheeds playing over them. We thought the idea of having an intro like that would be funny, so we put it in.
The entire goal of this video was to see if people would actually believe it was real, which would've been AA+ trolling.
Also dude, the mods have already seen this, if they had a problem with this it would've already been locked, you don't have to 'take matters into your own hands', stop being a tard.
@Basilone The voice I'm doing isn't the joke. Making fun of Arabic wasn't the intention. If you think the video isn't funny, that's fine.