Ross was permanently banned from the streaming platform Twitch in 2023<\/a> for failing to have moderators in his chat, while displaying unmoderated messages on his stream.<\/p>\n\u201cDuring that time, the influencer did not moderate the chat he was showing while it included multiple racist and anti-semitic comments. He didn\u2019t condemn or stop showing his chat, which is against Twitch community guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear what, if anything, Ross believes in. The influencer has routinely kept his personal religion amorphous, so as to keep plausible deniability against criticism. Ross has identified as Jewish, Catholic, Muslim, and non-religious in the past \u2014 which he\u2019s used as a shield during controversy. In this case it will be used to say that it\u2019s fine Ross perpetuates the most hateful and harmful stereotypes about Jewish people, because he is one \u2014 next week he can move the goalposts, claim to be another religion, and keep the cycle going.<\/p>\n
There has not been a statement from the NFL, the Rams, or Nacua at this time. It\u2019s possible he will face a fine for publicly criticizing officials, which the league has always had a ban on. However, it\u2019s unclear if there will be any ramifications for modeling the antisemitism on the stream, or potentially replicate in on a football field.<\/p>\n
At best Nacua was uneducated about Ross and did something extremely stupid on a livestream. At worst he\u2019s a willing participant in perpetuating stereotypes about the Jewish community, alarmingly less than a week after the attack at Bondi Beach in Australia during a Hanukkah celebration killed 15 people. There is absolutely no excuse either way. Both the Rams and the NFL should look into the incident and demand answers about why one of football\u2019s biggest stars took part in this stream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re both a fan of Puka Nacua and a decent human being you might not want to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-356055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}