xQc Agreed With Destiny

Steven “Destiny” Bonnell II agreed with Felix “xQc” Lengyel’s opinion on Hasan “HasanAbi” Piker’s “cracker” dispute.

HasanAbi stated on Twitch on December 11 that two of his moderators had been banned for using the word “cracker,” which was considered a racist slur. While HasanAbi disagreed, others such as xQc, Pokimane, and Destiny all believed the term was offensive.

Destiny went on a rant about people who claimed “cracker” was not a racist term on a recent live stream. He asserted that, through no fault of their own, people treat white/Caucasian people differently.

Pokimane recently disputed with HasanAbi, claiming that cracker was a racist term. HasanAbi, on the other hand, claimed that the name had no negative connotations for Caucasians/Whites saying; “The etymology of the word is different. Like cracker literally means ‘whip cracker’, it comes from ‘whip cracker’. So the power is still in the hands of the white person.” 

Destiny and xQc both agreed with Pokimane that the word was offensive. Destiny went on a rant against those who opposed Twitch and Reddit’s move to prohibit users for using the word:  “R*****ed children, missing half their brain. They are like, “ohh, like you are so stupid, we are going to be nice to you, like you cant control your emotions, you cant help that you are interpreting things, everything is offensive to you. But then when they look at white people they are like, “cracker, cracker, cracker m***erf***er. You have all the class privileges. You have all the institutionalized privileges.””

As a result, the streamer asserted that white people are frequently unfairly judged and may, on occasion, be entitled to the same protection from offensive language as marginalized people: “Why do you expect a white person to have like 50 million years of sociological knowledge in their f***ing mind, and they treat every marginalized person as a 4-year old child who needs to hold your hand. It doesn’t make sense. Either everybody is pretty dumb, which is true, or everybody is like an academic, or a sociologist, or has like a thorough understanding of intersectionality.”

xQc watched Destiny’s clip and concluded that his take “made a lot of sense.” It will be interesting to see how HasanAbi reacts to the overall controversy, especially after both xQc and Pokimane disagree with him.