Popular online personality DJ Akademiks recently found himself in a heated debate with Muslim content creator Sneako after the latter defended controversial figure Chud The Builder, a creator who has built a following by using racial slurs toward Black people in public settings.
The conversation began when Akademiks noticed Sneako had reached out to Chud The Builder with advice rather than condemnation. Sneako confirmed he had contacted Chud, telling him, “I told him to stop antagonizing people and it’s not going to end out well. So, you should probably stop going out in public.”
Akademiks was visibly frustrated, questioning why Sneako would offer safety tips to someone engaging in openly racist behavior rather than challenge the behavior itself.
The debate quickly escalated when Sneako attempted to argue that Black people should not allow racial slurs to hold power over them. “There’s no word in the English language that gets people so riled up like that word,” Sneako said. “We shouldn’t give this much power to words. We shouldn’t allow this to control you.”
Akademiks pushed back hard, calling out the hypocrisy in Sneako’s position.
The moment that checkmated Sneako came when Akademiks posed a direct question: “So you’re cool with me calling all Muslim people ter**rists as a term of endearment?”
Sneako stumbled through his response, initially claiming he calls his own Muslim friends terrorists as a joke, suggesting words only hold power when real intent is behind them.
Akademiks wasn’t buying it. “A racial slur usually doesn’t have a definition to it. The N-word with the hard R, what’s the definition of that? It’s just a slur to bring you down.”
He then turned the mirror directly on Sneako: “Ain’t you Muslim? If I said some anti-Muslim stuff, you’d be in your feelings.”
Sneako continued pushing his argument that the word should be “repurposed” the same way it has been used colloquially within the Black community, to which Akademiks responded, “You sound like Kanye when he says slavery is a choice. You’re blaming the people who are offended rather than the people who are choosing to offend.”
Akademiks made clear that the issue was never just about a word. Chud The Builder’s behavior, he argued, was a deliberate attempt to tap into historical pain.
He added that Chud’s rhetoric applied not to one individual but to an entire race, which made the intent undeniable.
