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Thinking of some of the counte- strike streamers I follow. They attempt to be non political but fail. WarOwl is a conservative but knows that being a conservative cuts his audience in half, so he stays closeted but leaks things like his Ronald Reagan calendar and sponsored videos he did with the marine corps. Fl0m does a better job avoiding politics and I think he himself is likely a moderate, but he plays on a team with a frothing chud (Cooper) and his brother (freakazoid), so he is in that sphere of influence.
It ultimately leads to a ratchet effect that left leaning things are "political" but discussing current events with a conservative slant isn't. Literally just a mirror of life in the US
A chud has to be very far gone to actually bother to try to get one of those. They aren't exactly easy to find, even in chud areas, so that's some serious virtue signaling there.
Weirdly I was also thinking of CS folks. I think the entire CS community is closeted hitlers, but there is enough money in the scene that the ones who let their Hitler particles fly are removed. I'm thinking of Thorin and Sado, RL to some extent, Redeye by some accounts, and others that you mentioned here. And then the owner of G2 as well got the axe for being sexist. There have been others too.
If at the very least they can't use their platform to spread the hate I guess that's a better outcome than it could be. At least within the "official" scene of paid tournaments.