Cracker Like Me

"*What's your favorite slurs for white people? Oh, well definitely cracker.*"
―Erik
Cracker Like Me is the 143rd lesson of Internet Comment Etiquette. It was released on February 20, 2022.

## Summary

Erik learns that cracker is a slur after he says it on Twitch and gets banned for a month. He points out he's not that offended by it, and he asks what Quarantine Erik and Lady Hair Erik think, but they don't care. He explains that Twitch is cracking the whip and banning him for saying cracker on stream. Erik posts a tweet about it to start drama with people whose opinions he doesn't care about and proves that you don't need slurs to hurt people's feelings.

Erik keeps arguing on Twitter, and does his best to argue without calling anyone a cracker. Erik decides that he doesn't want to die on the hill of saying cracker, but he is willing to roll around on the hill and examine it a bit. He finds a video about the history of the word. He concedes that it's still a form of racial bigotry, but he just can't bring himself to be offended by it.

Erik decides that he needs to include gamers into the conversation, so he goes into Pavlov and asks around for white people. One gamer immediately identifies himself as a cracker, and everyone agrees that it's not offensive. Then he finds an injured solider, gives him a handjob, and teamkills him. Then people start saying the n-word so Erik kills them too. Erik announces that he's a race traitor and he cuts to Noom News.

Erik goes back to Twitter and sees that his account has been restricted. He gets upset about how oppressed he is by big tech companies restricting his free speech. He looks for a Facebook group on this issue, and he finds one to join. He starts commenting, but the way he talks about the Irish offends them so he gets banned. Erik decides to put on a debate video about whether crackers should be banned during Diwali. Erik watches the debate and gives his opinion before realizing that they were talking about firecrackers.

Erik realizes that his Twitch ban is over and that he's back on Twitter, so he decides that it all worked out.

## Comments

*Yeah no one ever was effected by the word cracker you're right. So let's assume people were effected by the word cracker. now they think people hate white people, so let me tell you how is that moral? Now they don't feel comfortable where they're at that's moral?*
- @blueberryfunk62

*I could fly a boeing 747 through your asshole like it was the western side of the pentagon and you'd probably barely flinch you grammarless piece of shit. Fuck your mother.*
- Erik

*Give me a good argument man your subjective crying isn't helping your cause. You change my mind I'll help you change others mind.*
- @blueberryfunk62

*I care about changing your mind the same way Bill Cosby cares about legal repercussions. I cannot stress nearly enough how little I give a shit what is going in your mind, or what sort of absolute detriment to society exists that would let you change their mind, but suck my dick.*
- Erik

*I would say cracker is worse than the n word and here's why: Most translations of cracker refer back to the 1800s, like the n word. The n-words were the slaves, but the crackers were the slave owners who "cracked" the whips on the slaves. Most people don't understand the meaning of the word cracker, but when a black person calls a white person a cracker, they are basically being racist by calling them a terrible racist person. But this word is so misunderstood by people that it is taken too lightly. But if you called someone a cracker and they knew the true meaning of that word, you would be in an even worse position than if they called you the n word.*
- Rockonymous

*Okay I'm gonna stop saying cracker it's not worth hurting anyones feelings. Hey you think Twitch will let me call poor white people "peckerwoods" or is that next on the chopping block? I am going to keep calling the British "lime juicers" though.*
- Erik

*Do you support Trump?How did you hear of this group?*
- FREE SPEECH

*Big timeURL was tattooed on my boyfriends ass*
- Erik

*Rush Limbaugh has been gone a year ago today. He was one of the greatest political commentators of all time. We miss you, Rush!*
- Lisa

*I heard that guy used to plow babies but his talk show got me through a lot of lonely nights trucking across the country*
- Erik

*I GOT BANNED OFF A WEBSITE FOR SAYING A BAD WORD WTF HAPPENED TO FREE SPEECH IN THIS COUNTRY🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬*
- Erik

*Any speech that doesn't conform to the left's ideological views is, well, hate speech/misinformation. Really sad that it's come to this.*
- Lisa

*All I did was call a white guy "cracker"*
- Erik

*Oh, you must not have got the new rules. In 2022 that's racist.*
- Lisa

*Can I still call Irish people potato eating narrow-back bog jumpers?*
- Erik

*I believe that goes against the new rules and I'm Irish 🙄*
- Lisa

*My bad. At least you're not one of those Catholic mackerel snappers.*
- Erik

*tread lightly...*
- Lisa

*Crap I forgot greens are all baby-sprinklers*
- Erik

*I'm honestly still 50/50 on the whole Cracker ban thing. On one hand it's bad for the general environment of things because okay it's destructive in nature, but on the other hand it's fun and we've been doing it forever with no problems. Also picking specific things to have a cracker ban on, instead of just everywhere all the time, like come on... is it a problem or not? If it was that bad it'd be censored from the entire internet, not just Twitch. Oh and speaking of Twitch you better not try to stream one of these cracker debates on there because this shit would get you banned for a thousand years.*
- Erik

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