The 'toxic' online chat culture in games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft has been blamed after a teenage boy racially abused his step dad.
The white 16-year-old used a vile racial slur when his black step parent locked him out of the wifi and banned him from playing video games until he had done his household chores. The boy's furious biological dad grounded the teenager for a month, when he found out about his son's use of the slur.
The 43-year-sparked an online debate about the toxicity of online gaming chat when he asked social media forum Reddit if he had done the right thing grounding his son for so long. Posting under the username throwawayfatherhoody, he wrote: "I'm divorced (have been for a few years now) and my ex remarried recently.
