Nah, I'm pretty sure the guy has Aspergers too and just went on some massive monologue without really thinking whether I would appreciate a white nationalist in my home and signing off with and I quote "When the revolution comes I'll be the first to shoot" on his way out of the front door.
The reason I allowed that to happen is that I'm extremely patient and will nod along and quietly dismiss some things said by people without making it clear I detest what they are saying. There was nothing whatsoever in my demeanour, surroundings or statements that suggested I would relate to these views other than having a bunch of video games. Yes I am white, but I don't agree that is enough. He saw them tidily displayed and said (twice) "I really like your retro consoles" etc. as if expecting or hoping to elicit great elation from me and a jolly good chat when, really, I just wanted him to strawberry float off since he royally strawberry floated up the job of just drilling some holes into a wall, but I am too shy and vulnerable for that (I mean, when someone starts dribbling out dangerous rhetoric after spending 45 minutes swearing at a wall while brandishing a drill, you are careful what you say;- he also for no apparent reason pointed out he works out and can defend himself). I may have played along slightly because I make an irrepressible effort to relate to people on any level I can, plus it reveals people's true character and cuts through the gooseberry fool, so once it was clear who I was interacting with I was happy for them to leave and I had the estate agent request that they not return.
What it did do however is highlight the existence of this "ugly people in games, people 'politicising' mah gaems" rhetoric (racism/fascistic preservationism of dominant tropes; feeling persecuted by representation), which is absolutely present in online discussions around games, from some people living in certain corners of 4ch*n et al and that way creating a feedback loop for an ever downward (in my opinion) spiralling shitheap of banana splits that play video games. The same guy said he wanted Trump erected as a giant solid gold statue, nicknaming him "Emperor Trump". I mean, this guy was totally strawberry floating nuts, but that didn't make it any less real to hear these things. I'm not associating the two with that simple adjoining I experienced in one person, instead only demonstrating that it can and does exist, this certain subset of gathered individuals - perhaps inevitably. And I think that is more likely with any new media hobby that used to be for geeks/nerds/losers in the eye of whoever or whatever, an opinion largely fuelled by bad science and newspapers we have all experienced at some point.
I wouldn't try to defend this too much Venom, I think that is problematic as well because it's struggling to reconcile with the reality that awful people play games and some of them latch onto that (now) mass culture as a vehicle to peddle and justify their abhorrent views through discussing a shared medium. This guy didn't just start spouting racist rhetoric, he specifically spoke of how he plays Destiny and is upset that there are ugly black people added to his favourite game. I don't even play Destiny, yet it's easy to imagine he had hoped I did because I like games and Destiny is a pretty big game (it followed after Halo online etc, which had its own sort of Xbox/stoner subculture that Microsoft courted as the "extreeeeme console", with plenty of reports here and elsewhere of how much racist diatribe comes over headset on XBL). He specifically segued from games in general to political talk/representation in games and then used that as an entry point to discuss his racism, because perhaps there was a chance I would agree (for the record, I absolutely don't). Like I say this is inevitable with any hobby that has previously been perceived as only marginally interesting to boys and teenagers wasting time away in their bedrooms doing traditionally unsavoury activities like playing games. To ignore that happening now is to ignore the fact that games were ever a new and edgy thing for kids to do and that they were ever a subculture (and in some ways still are; this very forum is a relic of those times). This happens to all new media from punk to reading novels or writing poetry; darker segments of society latch onto the subculture and feed on its controversies to further their ideals even when they are not intrinsically part of the medium or the culture around it. But they are part of it.
A person brought up without a stable family background or with poor or incomplete schooling might be more likely to read into aspects of these games' characters, their actions, lifestyles, viewpoints etc.
This guy is the son of a published Doctor of climate science and his mother is a master in Chemistry, also this is a very low crime, mostly-white, highly liberal area of the south coast (Sussex). So it's more likely he had a relatively good middle class upbringing and then dived when his parents either divorced his views or he otherwise strawberry floated everything up by "suffering from entitlement" i.e. not pulling his socks up when asked, as a matter of protest. So that can happen just as much with a relatively sound fiscal upbringing as any more likely poor one, due to, for example, being poor or dependent on things like drugs or violence to communicate and socialise within the family/social groups typically because there are underlying sociological issues and desperate poverty.