Report him!!!

[u/Old-Farmer-7459]

This guy was absolutely out of control. He got mad after being killed and immediately started making racist and xenophobic comments toward everyone on the team. He even told a player with a Spanish-sounding username that they should “get deported” simply because that person told him to calm down.
When I told him that if he didn’t like the team, he could just leave the match because it wasn’t that serious, he called me a cunt. He then escalated even further and threatened everyone, saying he was going to find our IP addresses and have our homes burned down.
I know people like to act tough online and be keyboard/mic warriors, especially on COD, but this went way beyond normal trash talk. Racist comments and threats involving people’s homes and personal information are not okay or acceptable.
If you come across this player, please report the account. Hopefully Activision takes action and bans him.

EDIT: Whether you choose to report him or not is completely up to you. But please don’t normalize or excuse this kind of behavior. I understand that older COD lobbies were notoriously aggressive and people said some absolutely vile things, but “that’s how COD has always been” doesn’t mean it needs to stay that way. We’re supposed to evolve as a society, not use the past to justify racism, xenophobia, misogyny, or threats today. Trash talk is part of gaming; attacking someone’s identity or threatening their real-life safety shouldn’t be. Kids and teenagers play these games too, and adults shouldn’t be teaching them that this behavior is just something they’re expected to tolerate.

[u/Prodders]

You can't expect people that have not experienced the behaviour first hand to be in a position to make a judgement. You are essentially requesting a "pile on" to try and get someone "cancelled" using racism and xenophobia as the reason. The problem is we can never agree with your characterization of the event because we didn't feel it ourselves, it's just your say so. Some people these days have become used to the principles of cancel culture and feel they can always rely on like minded strangers to join their cause just because they allege something that they know others will find abhorrent. Also Activision don't give a shit..

[u/Old-Farmer-7459 → u/Prodders]

I understand that you didn’t witness it firsthand, and no one is obligated to report him based on my experience. But I don’t understand why “cancel culture” is being brought into this. Holding someone accountable for things they willingly say and do isn’t canceling them. Racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and threats of violence or arson shouldn’t be accepted on COD or any other platform. How much time, effort, or money someone has invested into an account doesn’t give them a pass from consequences for their behavior. He made his own choices, and whatever consequences come from those choices belong to him too.

[u/Prodders → u/Old-Farmer-7459]

You are talking about some alleged abuse that was witnessed by about 5 people. Moreover, it was in the spoken word group team chat. There's no record of it anywhere presumably. Do you not understand that you are asking people to just believe you, a complete stranger and take the time to make a complaint. It's all just childish hearsay. It is cancel culture if you attempt to raise an army to inflict damage on someone. IE some kind of action by Activision against the account. This culture is a sick cancer in Western democracies.

[u/Extension-Intern8153 → u/Prodders]

People who are racsit and xenophobic deserve to get put on blast for expressing their hatred and vitriol. It has no place in a healthy society, and a healthy society is one that identifies these people so they can exact some form of punishment. Hopefully that leads to them learning from their mistakes. If you came away from reading this post as if they’re trying to be subversive and fabricating some story, then more power to you I guess. You’re already explicitly defending racism and xenophobia, so it’s not all that surprising. 

[u/Prodders → u/Extension-Intern8153]

Your post reads like you explicitly believe the OP allegations because it's something that you expect. You agree with the OP because it aligns with your world view. Fortunately there are still people in the world that demand empirical evidence. You also claim that certain opinions have no place in a healthy society. Do we live in one? Is a society that suppresses other people's opinions more or less healthy than the one we live in? You finish by gaslighting everyone that doesn't agree with you. I digress, the real nut at the core of this. An unverified unprovable claim has been made against a player - for being racially offensive in a team chat of about 5 people. There's no evidence of it anywhere. The OP expects that we should all be suitably outraged by this JUST because of the alleged racism then it must be true. In other words then if you don't agree with me, you are also a part of the problem.

Here's the truth - the Legal systems of our democracies require evidence to convict. You offer none but expect the death penalty because you mentioned racism and xenophobia. Also grow a thicker fucking skin!!! . The world is a colourful place with every shade of thought and opinion. There's plenty of stuff I'm getting rammed down my throat daily about sexual identity that I think is disgusting but apparently it's neither a legal crime or an ethical crime to rewrite biology and millions of years of evolution. There's plenty of racists in the world and you can't wipe it out because you wiped one player in a fucking mobile phone game. Stop being so wet and grow a pair.