I fucked up.


Before I start, I wanna make sure that I truly apologize for the things I said. The comment that I wanted to make as a general statement on radical views ended up a gross generalization of Islamic culture and for that I apologize.

My comment was fueled by anger and fear after seeing the homophobic and ableist slurs thrown at me, my friends and colleagues. I was angry with the UAE government and their laws. I was fueled by the comments I saw around it and I wanted to protect what I hold dear.

The response I got from a twitter user was:
"Let them people get on with their culture, you don't have to force these things on everybody you know, Yeah you may not agree with it but that is how that culture works so let it happen and ignore it.

Maybe that group of staff should not go to that major instead of complaining".

And I couldn't ignore it. I read this as an attack on my core values, asking me to blindly sit and watch oppression of people take place.

My response to this was:
"No. If your culture wants to murder other people for who they are then that's a dogshit fucking culture that doesn't deserve to exist."

This was me stepping over the line, a complete fuck up. I tweeted emotionally.
What I wanted to convey was a general statement on radicalism, a "if this doesn't apply to you, don't feel targeted by it" statement. This was supposed to convey any kind o radicalism, the ones you see all over the world, not in a specific region. But this ended up making me look like I targeted the people of the UAE, MENA and ISLAM specifically, which I wanna make very clear was never my intention.

I'm sorry for the people that I hurt with this.

I'm sorry for the people of the MENA region, I hope that whatever new Major takes place still takes place someplace else in your region, so that you don't get robbed of your chance to experience such an event. I also hope that Ubisoft in the future, gives you the chance to compete for T1 events, and ofcourse, the Six Invitational.

I'm sorry to Fnatic, I betrayed their trust in me with the way I shoved my extremely loaded opinion out in such an aggressive manner, and I'll be stepping down from representing their Org in the upcoming days.

In the future, I'll work on myself, I wanna make sure I never end up making a a generalization like that again, and I will continue working on creating the most welcome environment I can.

I won't ask for forgiveness, I don't deserve it. I fucked up, and I'll take full responsibility.

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