Hasan Piker And The Great ‘Cracker’ Controversy

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Hasan ‘Woke Bae’ Piker is one of the biggest Twitch streamers in the business, with a penchant for letsplays, reaction videos, and political commentary after getting his start as an intern for the Young Turks news platform. Now Hasan gets paid to joke about how Kaitlin Bennett is a ‘secret leftist’ and take the mick out of Neo-Nazi corners of the internet… So basically me, but considerably more successful and attractive!

Why Ban Hasan? Hasan is currently in a week-long ban (started December 13th mid-stream) from Twitch due to saying ‘cracker’, which is one of The Big No-No-Words that are banned from the platform. For the uninitiated, ‘cracker’ is slang for a white person, derived from it’s initial use as short for ‘whip cracker’ as a reference to slave owners. The ban in question was during a debate Hasan was having with a viewer of his, defending it’s use. One excerpt goes as follows:

“Recognise that the person calling you a fucking cracker is literally powerless, okay? […] They’re doing it as someone who’s been historically oppressed blowing off steam. You can say that that’s infantilising or whatever the fuck, but that’s truly the reality. Because there is no historical or contemporary oppression tied to that word because there is no historical or contemporary oppression with being white” – Hasan Piker.

From the Politicon 2018 debate between Hasan Piker and Charlie Kirk.

My opinion on the matter? Essentially the same as Hasan. He even brought up in a later YouTube video (I’m paraphrasing) that “the fact y’all say cracker and not The Actual N Word kinda proves my point that The C Word isn’t that bad dewd”! Or we can come at this from a “punching up vs punching down” perspective. Saying cracker is more lighthearted in most cases it’s used because it’s taking a serious topic and downplaying it in a way that pokes fun at the person in the role of power, the N word doesn’t have that luxury.

Industry analyst Daniel Ahmad said (in response to Hasan Piker’s tweet on his temporary banning): ‘Kinda wild how Twitch responded faster to this absolute non-issue than the actual racism that POC streamers face on the platform’.

Furthermore, reading from my own handy-dandy list of Twitch-banned words, I honestly think the people in charge of that list is purely for the benefit of oversensitive blokes who are afraid of the idea of other people discussing serious topics. Take “incel” for example (involuntary celibate): Not exactly a term of endearment, but not even a swear! The incel movement and individuals have also been involved with and responsible for a lot of anti-feminist and anti-woman hate crimes and backlash, so you’d think discussing incel culture and its ties to white nationalism would be a good thing. The banning of ‘simp’ and ‘virgin’ also paints a picture in my mind of someone who’s likely afraid of those concepts just existing, which is A-Okay (well, arguably), but stopping others from having those conversations doesn’t sit right with me.

For more on incels, Natalie Wynn’s video on the topic is a good introduction to the concept.

On the bright side: Hasan has been streaming with one Ludwig in the meantime and his ban is coming to a close.

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