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I have recently been reading the threads about keznit and the allegations of racism, I read several opinions both from Brazilians themselves and also from Chileans and i came to the conclusion that Keznit has never been racist.

I will attach my evidence and arguments to refute the allegations about him

(If there is an accusation that I have not spoken about please let me know)

1st allegation: Keznit was accused of making monkey sounds towards a Brazilian player after making a clutch

The explanation: The clip is taken out of context, actually keznit was imitating a meme about a Brazilian dog that "sings". They were joking in that stream about the meme

EVIDENCE:
Clip of which he is accused: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_KDdrlkeM
The original meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ5kjbMXfM8
The same match but with the context: https://m.twitch.tv/clip/DarlingZanyBillNerfBlueBlaster
Another match talking about the meme: https://m.twitch.tv/clip/StylishSpineyParrotOhMyDog

Note: at the end of the first clip, he says "El perro brasileño" that means "The brazilian dog"

2nd allegation: Keznit was accused of being racist in CS towards brazilians

EVIDENCE:
There's no evidence, people saying that Keznit got banned on many accounts of face it but there's no evidence:
Another thread about this: https://www.vlr.gg/126917/keznit-racism-in-cs

3rd allegation: Keznit was accused of being racist for saying "Primate" to aspas

The explanation: Keznit said "Primate" to aspas, people think that he said it in a racist way when in reality "Primate" in Chile is used as a way of calling someone cousin or friend
COUSIN = PRIMO (in spanish)
PRIMO -> PRIMATE

Said by himself and as a Chilean I can confirm it

EVIDENCE
Clip of Keznit chatting with aspas in valorant inviting him to play together: https://twitter.com/yawnsnore/status/1513655279103135745

It should be noted that it does not make sense since currently Aspas and Keznit still maintain a good friendship.

4th allegation: Keznit was accused of being racist for comparing DGZIN with CJ (GTA SA main character)

The explanation:
During a scrim Keznit and Mazino, they had an argument with DGZIN

EVIDENCE
CHAT OF THE GAME:
(All) GL DGZ19: boa lerdão
(All) KRÜ Mazino: d g z
(All) GL DGZ19: ma zi no
(All) GL chase: stop
(All) GL chase: now
(All) KRÜ Mazino: kkkkkkk
(All} keznitzim: BANDIDO DA NET
(All) NagZ: kkkk
(All) GL DGZ19: relaxa keznit
(All) GL DGZ19: o que é teu ta guardado
(All) GL v1nny: mc donalds da neti
(All) GL DGZ19: acha q eu esqueci ne?
(All) GL v1nny: hehehe
(All) GL DGZ19: ## de
(All} keznitzim: CLASSIFICA 1 CAMP
(All} keznitzim: EU PECO
(All) GL DGZ19: ok
(All} keznitzim: ah, vc posto ate foto no twitter 500000 dolares
(All} keznitzim: kdskfdskfdskfdksf
(All) GL DGZ19: ue
(All) GL DGZ19: vc postou gracinha cara
(All) GL DGZ19: tu acha q vou ficar quieto
(All) GL DGZ19: coe keznit com todo respeito
(All} keznitzim: qm fala dos earnings
(All) GL DGZ19: o que #### de fps
(All} keznitzim: deve ser virgem
(All) GL DGZ19: ah mlk
(All) GL DGZ19: olha tua cara
(All) GL DGZ19: vsf
(All} keznitzim: ?
(All) GL DGZ19: tu postou bgl
(All} keznitzim: vc e o CJ do valorant
(All} keznitzim: cala bocva
(All) GL DGZ19: sim sim sim

Keznit tweet: https://x.com/keznitdeuS/status/1496153331999334404

The tweet translated to English:

"He calls me McDonald's and compares me to a chicken cartoon because of my physical appearance, but I compare him to a character because of his physical appearance and they call me racist for that? What's going through their heads? Why are they taking it that way? Can they ban me from the competition for something that never crossed my mind?

Kru sanctioned me but I might not have a career and have to keep quiet??
They can tell me that I don't know how racism affects there and I apologize for not having thought about that before making the comparison but NEVER put thoughts in my head that I don't have or words that I didn't say.
I compared him to a character like they did with me and that's it. Then they took him to the networks and exposed the part that suited them

I ask you please not to insult the brs as it makes the situation worse"

In summary:
-DGZIN said Keznit seems like a chicken run character (inoffensive comparison, he looks like that)
-Keznit said DGZIN seems like cj (inoffensive comparison, he looks like that)
Where is the racist speech in that comparison?

5th allegation: Keznit was sanctioned by Riot for racist behavior:

i've seen a couple of comments saying that Keznit is actually racist because Riot supposedly penalized him for being racist when in reality he wasn't. Riot investigated it and concluded that he wasn't racist at any point, he was just penalized for toxic comments.

+Source 1: TyC Sports – "Valorant: Riot Games sanctioned Keznit"
Source 1

Riot Games sanctioned Keznit for making offensive comments during an unofficial scrim against Gamelanders Blue.
After investigating, Riot concluded that there was no act of racism, but there was unsportsmanlike and toxic behavior, violating the competitive code.
As a punishment, Keznit was suspended for one match (a Bo3 series) in VCT LATAM and placed on a six-month probation period.
He was also required to complete a professionalism course approved by Riot Games

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+Source 2: OnlyGames – "KRÜ Esports' strong statement after Keznit's sanction"
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KRÜ Esports released an official statement criticizing the sanction against Keznit.
The organization stated that Riot found no evidence of racism, yet still issued a punishment they considered unfair and disproportionate.
KRÜ pointed out that Gamelanders, who were also involved in the incident, received no similar punishment.

-Conclusion:
Keznit was sanctioned for toxic behavior, not for racism.

Finally I would like to send you the apology tweet that Keznit made after all, since I have seen that they say that supposedly Keznit never apologized to the Brazilian community.
https://x.com/keznitdeuS/status/1585789739512102913

Thanks for your attention <3

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well said man

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Thanks!

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i am new can i +1 op?

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Absolutely bro

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Nice post

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Thank you

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"BANDIDO DA NET"
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Can you read the entire text first
after all, they only highlight what suits them, you're not talking about how everything else was just rumors and no one had any evidence, yet Keznit was still labeled a racist.

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I read and I know all of these incidents bro, all of them with keznit involved

there is a common say: "where there is smoke, there is fire"

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Nice

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What I hate the most is his fanbase, not him. He and the other KRU players atleast in public they always tried to maintain peace and be friendly after these incidents. This "racism" of LATAM and BR in these FPS games go way back from counter-strike, its a hard matter.

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in this thread I have spoken with only facts, nothing is speculation
i don't hate br, br players or br people
im not hating them
i am clarifying the facts about the accusations

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You are just justifying. But its weird that 99% of BR players have something against Keznit, and they have "backstage info" that we dont. Ur just supposing that all BR players are butthurt for nothing and its all "misunderstanding". The only BR player that is somewhat friendly with Keznit is Aspas, and thats because Aspas always had zero enemies.

Even Less refused to shake Keznits hand after a game, and he was not part of these incidents and never did that to anyone else

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heat, ex mibr core, aspas, and many other br players of the scene are friends of keznit, it is well known that Keznit generally gets along well with the Brazilian scene, when Less refused to shake Keznit's hand it was because of a dispute they had some time before in a ranked, it is not worth talking about that dispute here because it is like a child's fight (on both sides) but that was a lack of professionalism.

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Ok. We shall forget CJ of valorant, and Mcdonalds of valorant and reunite as one entity of LATINOS 🇧🇷🤝🇨🇱

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Yeah, that's what i mean bro! c:
🇧🇷🤝🇨🇱

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lamentablemente la gente nunca lo entenderá, solo fue una mala interpretación de lo que dijo y lo sacaron de contexto. Gloria al DeuS

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eso pasa siempre en Valorant, gente re ardidad y ofendidad por nada

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Im pretty sure the CJ allegations is real but the other ones are false or taken out of context.

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yes, the others are really fake, after the "cj" incident they got a bad vibe or something like that I guess
But still about CJ thing is misinterpreted

And it does not justify in any way the actions of the BR community, which went all out on him apart from receiving death threats
They make it clear to us that being racist is a crime in Brazil, but making death threats is also a crime anywhere

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kkkkkkkkkkk CJ

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damn this is still going
last i heard of this was years ago

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that's right, but it's unfair to label you as something you're not, right?
c:

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yeah, honestly i dont remember nearly enough to have a well thought opinion
ill look in to all of what you've posted soon

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thank you!

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BR can be too reactionary at times. keznit himself apologized a while ago:

https://x.com/keznitdeuS/status/1867042500185059647?t=JebeMm3ipFT5934kX9VGAw&s=19

"but he was racist that cant be forgiven!!!"

well xand was racist too on camera and people conveniently forgot about it when he was trialing for loud early 24 and when he was on a furia run late 24 lol

i dont like keznit but i feel like people should just forget about that whole racism issue. like whoever has a personal issue with him, thats fair (like dgzin for instance), but the fans who never met him keep insisting on the same thing and is so tiring

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yeah. that's what i mean bro!
🇧🇷🤝🇨🇱
difficult times are coming for us, we are lowering the level, we will have to support each other now or never

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i do support kru when they're not beating out asses lol

jk latam domination 🤝

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i do support br when they're not winning against kru lmao

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"nunca pensei que morreria lutando ao lado dum fã de LATAM"
"que tal ao lado dum amigo?"
"isso sem dúvida"

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ngl i can't read all that but i hope u recover from it.
God bless you

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so what's the point of your comment

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se tenía que decir y se dijo
common Cerati W

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guy was clearly racist and people still think he wasnt

Theres no similitaritys between cj e dgzin

Classic "all Black people look the same"

Shits racist and everyone knows it

I dont know why people still try to defend it, even worse seeing some brazilians do

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sure bro

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fuck em both, ive always been a xand hater, guy is racist and is shit at the game, atleast keznit is good

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no lo pesqui hmno, este tipo siempre ha sido así, no va a cambiar de opinión porque se niega a pensar las cosas 2 veces

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It seems very silly of keznit for taking so many shots against the BR players I hope this all gets settled down soon and doesn’t happen anymore

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yea c:

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i mean, it seems like the players themselves have pretty much moved on. you still see Keznit socializing with Dgzin or Aspas or whoever offstage. instead it's the fans who always get butthurt about shit on the players' behalf.

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that's what I always tell to the br people... if the players aren't mad about it, then why are you? it doesn't affect you.

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Great post, hopefully this year this whole situation ends because I'm tired of seeing X full of shit of both communities(LATAM and BR) just fighting for no reason as soon as KRU loses or wins against any BR team, people just keep fighting over and over using the same memes and saying the same shit either to defend themselves or attack the other community.

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Good post bro, may your year be blessed <3

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W keznit L brazil

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Keznit still the owner of brazil and father of dgzin.

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lembo summoning ritual

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petty things, just get over it bros. People change over time, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Time to move on

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I respect your dedication brother. Huge W

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Goat post
We should all be friends bc the real enemy is NA /j

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he bangin katsumi wp

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lmao

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Dont even try , more than half of the valorant BR community dont use their brain , they just follow what streamers say

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i know, anyway, this post is more for the NA or EU people who still had doubts about this, im not trying to change some people's minds.

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I think they are more open minded , here there is a whole culture of Brazil vs Latin America , the average brazilian thinks that every argentinjan is racist , then Extended this to all latam countries , wich is sad cuz we shoud be united , but its what it is . Most people here hate thr delusional Brazilian fans , so they wiil probally try to understand all the situation before insta agree with any brazilian.

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https://x.com/keznitdeuS/status/1867042500185059647?t=zdWT9KoFmgPI4QxDmqto6A&s=19

What is keznit apologizing for?
Why did KRU sanctioned him?
Why did riot punished him for racial injury?

For no reason, right?

You complain but you relived this incident with Keznit again, even though everything was already calm about this matter.
In December he apologized again about this incident and you are reviving this case to play the victim

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What is keznit apologizing for?
he's apologizing to Tixinha because in off//season he was invited to a brazilian tournament, the brazilians hated Tixinha for inviting Keznit and his team, then he apologized again to the brazilian fans and asked them to know how to forgive and that people can change.

Why did KRU sanctioned him?
kru sanctioned him due to pressure from the entire brazilian community, apart from for complying with Riot and not losing the opportunity to associate with Riot as a team as happened later in the franchise.

Why did riot punished him for racial injury?
riot punished him for having a good image with brazil and the sponsors, not saying anything about it would have been bad for Riot, in short, they did it out of pressure
everyone in the community after keznit was punished, riot was asked to punish dgzin as well but since the heat of the situation had passed, riot did nothing more about it to forget the issue.

"You complain but you relived this incident with Keznit again, even though everything was already calm about this matter.
In December he apologized again about this incident and you are reviving this case to play the victim"

the purpose of this post is not to play the victim role, it is to make clear what really happened to people who were not so aware of this issue, I saw that many people were not clear about what really happened and what was true and what was not.

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Sure, dick rider

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lmao
looking at your profile at a glance, you just jump into a thread and say "nobody is interested" for no reason other than...?
not to mention that almost every time you talk in a thread it's to hate something xd
pathetic

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Cry me a river, dick rider

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yes, a guy has been called racist 5 times already in 5 diferent ocassion, but of course, all the times are just 'coincidence', sure lol

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keznit is from chile
¿?

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still, u, non brazilian and non black, will NEVER understand the racism in comparing a black person to another one that has completely different physical characteristics, its like saying that all coreans look the same, its racist.

And besides, keznit said that like an offense, like is a bad thing being CJ

When a black dude tell u, a white/latino dude that someone is racist or something that he said was racist, U LISTEN AND U AGREE, U DONT CONTEND, U DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SUFFER RACISM

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and why there's brazilian people accepting that everything was exaggerated and it is better to forget they who, according to you, know how it is to be racist with themselves
in the previous answer you said that there are 5 accusations about Keznit, I only know 4, what is the fifth one
Apart from the fact that you are doing something just as bad as being racist, which is hate speech and accusations without evidence against people, I have seen many of your messages accusing Keznit of being racist, and also that there was a "woman abuser" on the team...?
but of course nothing is said to you because you have no repercussions, you are not a public image and nobody is interested in you
apart from the clear ignorance of the subject that you don't even know the nationality of the guy you accuse of being racist
finally, if you are going to talk about something like this, inform yourself a little
and just so you know, racism is not only towards people of color, white people also suffer from racism, enough of so much ignorance, you are not the center of the world
since I'm neither black nor brazilian, I have no right to talk about this and give my opinion, right? like what the heck

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'white people also suffer from racism' KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK AQUI EU PAREI VLW VLW KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

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arent brazilians the same people who call people racist for absolutely no reason and play the victim when you are racist against others?

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yeah smth like that, they never show any evidence, just hate

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'no reason' yeah sure

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Yes, this is common in football.

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Não importa se as alegações são verdadeiras ou não, se os fãs podres do Keznit continuarem a trazer essa treta a tona com comentarios ofensivos toda vez que a Kru ganha contra BR.
A guerra de Keznit x Br nunca acabara.

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esses comentarios sao uma questao de ambos os lados, e uma pena que existam pessoas assim nos fandoms.

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most shit is taken out of context or assumptions are just made, idk why people act like they're the police in these situations

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who cares

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Finally he's free

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cerati você é BURRO e RACISTA também

-Keznit said DGZIN seems like cj (inoffensive comparison, he looks like that)
essa frase é um ponto final no seu racismo velado.

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so dgzin is fatphobic :(

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jajaaj y dale. Que en brasil algo sea considerado racista no significa que todos tengamos que considerarlo así. Luego nos burlamos de que hayan gringos que quieran cambiarle el nombre a montenegro por tener la palabra "negro" pero ustedes con sus actitudes son iguales.

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é muito bom que eu nem preciso atestar que vocês são burros. a exemplificação de vocês é auto-explicativa
sem contar que o amigão ali falou que brancos sofrem racismo. repito: é muita burrice e racismo velado.

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ain ain como sou vitima vai arrumar um emprego amigao

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Buen hilo hermanito mio, te ayudaré a compartirlo <3

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Is in n out worth it or should I try whataburger?

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in n out

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bump

i've seen a couple of comments saying that Keznit is actually racist because Riot supposedly penalized him for being racist when in reality he wasn't. Riot investigated it and concluded that he wasn't racist at any point, he was just penalized for toxic comments.

+Source 1: TyC Sports – "Valorant: Riot Games sanctioned Keznit"
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Riot Games sanctioned Keznit for making offensive comments during an unofficial scrim against Gamelanders Blue.
After investigating, Riot concluded that there was no act of racism, but there was unsportsmanlike and toxic behavior, violating the competitive code.
As a punishment, Keznit was suspended for one match (a Bo3 series) in VCT LATAM and placed on a six-month probation period.
He was also required to complete a professionalism course approved by Riot Games

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+Source 2: OnlyGames – "KRÜ Esports' strong statement after Keznit's sanction"
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KRÜ Esports released an official statement criticizing the sanction against Keznit.
The organization stated that Riot found no evidence of racism, yet still issued a punishment they considered unfair and disproportionate.
KRÜ pointed out that Gamelanders, who were also involved in the incident, received no similar punishment.

-Conclusion:
Keznit was sanctioned for toxic behavior, not for racism.

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irmão tá feio só para

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not this again, oh god

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Vou continuar rindo quando ele perder. Impossivel torcer pra KRU, no post que ele fez da derrota um BR cobrou sobre keznit ter ido cozinha, de 6 respostas 5 eram chamando ele de macaco??? Não é como se BR fosse santo também, torcida da Loud consegue ser bem imatura e tóxica, mas da Kru tá em outro patamar.

Keznit is not racist

1st allegation: Keznit was accused of making monkey sounds towards a Brazilian player after making a clutch

2nd allegation: Keznit was accused of being racist in CS towards brazilians

3rd allegation: Keznit was accused of being racist for saying "Primate" to aspas

4th allegation: Keznit was accused of being racist for comparing DGZIN with CJ (GTA SA main character)

5th allegation: Keznit was sanctioned by Riot for racist behavior: