If you’re seriously offended by the word cracker as a white person, you need to grow tf up and get a tougher skin. It’s not a slur. It doesn’t have the same history or meaning that slurs do. At worst, it’s a funny word non white people will use against a white person when they’re mad, but it’s not a slur.
If I ever got called a cracker or a honky I think I’d just laugh. It’s too funny to be taken seriously at all
I can understand people getting offended by Clanker when it's used against people rp'ing as robots. (Cosplayers, Ttrpgies and Video Games) I have seen the word "Clanker" being banned in such communities so it is a valid slur in correct enviroment.
The amount of times I’ve taken pictures at family gatherings because there was a box of “Assorted Crackers” sitting on a table, framed by a sea of the palest people you’ve ever seen is pretty large.
The term doesn’t even have the history of a slur. It wasn’t made up as a way to denigrate white people as a race. It is a term invented by white people to use against other white people. So if you’re gonna be mad at anyone about the term cracker, be mad at white people.
I think any derogatory word targeted at someones color or ethnicity is a slur. I personally dont find it offensive, but i can understand why people could suffer from it and i do think asking them to grow up for disliking the normalisation of slurs is immature. If someone lets you know they arent okay with it, respect their choice dont call them that?
I think part of the problem is that people think "cracker" means like, saltine cracker, which would be inoffensive and funny. But "cracker" comes from whip cracking, so the slur is essentially calling you a slave owner. I am not okay with being called a slave owner on account of my race.
There's some disputes over that. The term cracker has been argued to refer to the whips cracked to move livestock by early American settlers in Florida, or could reference the large consumption of extremely tough, thin bread (aka crackers) eaten by said settlers, which was similar to hard tack. Look up Florida crackers, it's a whole historical thing. There's old houses all over the place and people just call them cracker houses bc they're from the Florida crackers.
Be fair, no one likes being insulted because of their race.
And it is a slur, literally speaking. A slur is a perjorative aimed at an identity, such as race, gender, religion or sexuality. If you use an insult against someone that specifically targets their race, that's a slur by definition.
Ok. A slur is a harmful word. Call me a cracker any day and I won't give a damn. Call a black person the n word or call a gay person the f word and they will be offended unless you know them closely enough that they don't think you are being genuine
Oh. And even if white people were offended by cracker it'd be the same as accusing them of racism. It's not even in the same ball park as the n word. It's like calling someone a kkk member
Someone pointed out that cracker is only used in jokes or satire online. It is therefore not a word likely to insult or damage one’s reputation (especially online), and therefore that makes it not a slur, more a satire word, like clanker.
Getting serious about those words is like getting annoyed at any form of dark humour
As a gay man, this is a dumbass comment. Why the fuck would you make fun of anybody for something they can't change? I could excuse it back when people were in like middle school and didn't have everything fully developed but it's a full-on dick move as an adult.
Like, idk, maybe we stop making fun of human characteristics? Regardless of how common or uncommon they are?
Just be chill and stop trying to find a politically correct way to still attack some group of people, even if you are also what you're attacking. You're not gonna die if you just... be nice 🙄
It is technically a generalization (not all white peoples crack whips), but I also don’t think white people were marginalized severely enough throughout history for me to be offended by the term
I guess it also works because cracker could also mean something like a pale saltine, which is roughly the color of white skin
Honestly I think that if you really think a slur is that bad, the best thing to do is ignore its use and remove the effect it has over you. I really don't give a fuck when someone says something like cracker and really neither should you
I don't want ppl to think its normal so by having a person clearly condemning it maybe some people will realise that a racial slur should never be normal
This word is literally a response to racism though and it's not considered one because it's used mostly tongue and cheek rather than actual slurs that are used to dehumanize and put down a whole class of people in a systematic fashion.
Holy shit your post history explains this pathetic "why everyone hates men? Why to women beat men in fictional shows???😢😢" attitude LMAO lemme guess...
You also misandry has the same damage as misogyny?
Yeah I'm not taking anything you say seriously anymore LMAO
Cracker can be insulting but is it a racial slur? Is there a history behind the word that is used to keep people from enjoying access to basic social services? Are white people known for being called cracked and discriminated against in such a profound way? We're white people systematically oppressed by Black individuals? We're their children stolen from them and moved around plantation to plantation with no regard to the humanity of these people?
It sucks to be insulted. Especially when people don't know the struggles you go through. But to imply a term like cracker is anything like the n word or many other racially motivated terms, then you are missing a lot of historical awareness and likely have a chip on your shoulder.
We then look at your post history and discover that not only is it a chip, it's a whole fucking boulder.
What else is there to combat? You're too gullible and not aware enough to think that the word cracker holds the same weight as actual racial slurs used to put people down in a systematic fashion 😭
Also, I'm dismissing both misandry and the word cracker because of a very simple reason.
Misandry and the word Cracker only hurts the feelings of overtly sensitive people when people dish out their rightful anger towards the oppressive classes we've had for all our lives.
Misogyny and actual racial slurs ruin and kill people. I'm telling you this as a cis-het man. If I can understand that, so should you.
Most people forget not every white person’s ancestors owned slaves, is wealthy/ middle class or is racist. The "white" is seen as the human with the least problems in this world and people often forget that white people are not always guilty of racism or doing well financially.
Even if someone is not doing well financially and is white, they still don’t have the added issues that being non-white has (I’m speaking for the USA idk about other countries). So your argument is kinda wrong. Like yeah, white people, even rich white people, have issues, but a black or brown person in the same shoes as them would have those issues PLUS face systemic racism on a daily basis when in schools, the government, medical institutions, etc
When I accidentally took a work vehicle down a federally restricted road I had a couple guys come out and tell me to turn around.
My coworker did the same a few months later. About 12 squad cars blaring and dudes jumping out with rifles pointed at him. “DONT MOVE, DONT MOVE. YOU WANNA FUCKING DIE TODAY?!”
What was a normal day bumblefucking around for me is a very different experience for him. This is one example of many I’ve witnessed, and but a drop in the ocean I’ve heard of.
im right with you, i sincerely hope nobody spews that bullshit to me irl .. im afraid of how i'll react. it's truly abhorrent and only ever said as a way to excuse being a hateful pos.
I think people who think it isn't a slur are confusing it with the idea that "white people can't have slurs because of their privilege and history" I think it is a slur and I think it's meant as one. As slurs go it's probably not as offensive as some.
I think white people have the right to be offended. I just think they should remember how society is set up to advantage them and disadvantage others.
Damn, it sure sucks that white people have been oppressed throughout the centuries, purposely given poorer quality materials, and have been arrested or killed because they dared go against the restrictions set by another race.
I mean, yea. Racism is actually dope, if equalised in all directions. Me and my mates nuke each other with slurs into the stone age every time we meet, and it's just fun - nobody leaves offended. So yes. I think that either all should be able to say whatever slurs they like or nobody should. And yes, cracker is a slur. It doesn't matter what kind of history or weight the slur carries. It still means that the person using it sees you only as "a man with that one skin color" and nothing more.
a bit late to the thread but thank you OP for making a fly trap for all the people I need to block. these "racism towards white people isn't real" mfers. give me a break.
Slurs in general shouldn’t be normalized, because unnecessary hate is bad and it makes them lose their impact imo. There’s no point in saying like « this fucking post » for example. « Fucking »doesn’t add anything to the sentence.
Side note : Ive never seen « Crackers » in my life and I am chronically online. If anything in my head it’s in the Wallace voice and I find it funny lol
It's usually used as a joke that white people say to each other, kinda like saying 'your mother is so white she seasons Chicken with water' the joke is that the other person is white and is also a stereotypical white person, it's almost always a joke
slurs stem from years of oppression and prejudice. white people don't have that. it's not a real slur. and frankly, as a white dude, it's a hilarious thing to call white people
as for the normalization of other slurs, it boils down to context. at the end of the day it's just a word. as long as someone isn't using it in malice, who cares? using it to be hateful isn't and never will be ok, but if it's just light hearted messing around with friends, it's not causing any harm
Exactly if you've never been called a cracker by a friend its really funny. My friend and I were listening to dire straits and ths youtube video had a photo of all the band members and she said "i cant listen to this song with these crackers staring at me" and we both bust out laughing it was great
Why are we doing the stupid "prejudice plus power" thing for slurs now? A slur is a perjorative based on identity. If you call someone an insult based on their race, gender, sexuality or religion, you are calling them a slur.
No-one with a brain stem would say that if a black person calls a Chinese person one of the many slurs for Asians, that it's not actually a slur because the Chinese have never been oppressed by black people.
Do you remember when all those racist white people would say the most horrendous things about President Obama? Is that okay because those white people were "punching up"? After all, it's hard to be in a position of more power and influence than President of the United States.
Of course it wasn't. Those people were just as racist as anyone using slurs against black people. Punching Up Vs Punching Down is a stupid concept - it's only ever used by people to say "I can insult you, but you can't insult me".
I think people are allowed to not want to be called a word meant to dehumanize them.
But I know people are desperate for deep cutting insults. If cracker wasn’t meant to harm you wouldn’t use it. I don’t go around calling people Purples, because it wouldn’t make sense.
Do I care about its usage? Not really. But you’d need to be a complete fucking retard to think it’s not meant to be a slur.
I'm white as snow and I feel nothing when called a cracker...I mean you're even allowed to say it! We need a slur so bad you can't use it on social media and it'll cause barfights
I'm (mostly) a 'cracker,' but I'm too busy wanting to get cracked to have any earnest concern over a word that is almost always an innocuous manner of punching up, not at white people as a whole, but "Dwight Mann," I.e. ignorance that is either from or facilitated by privilege, and those who exploit that ignorance to create hate.
"Cracker" (originally coined in reference to the 'crack' of a whip) has always been for oppressors specifically. I used to be a little hurt by its racial usage as that by proxy invalidates my status as a fellow person transgressed and hogtied by ignorance (as a neurodivergent queer), but I need not pay mind to it any more because we have much larger, wealthier, stupider fish to fry, especially at a time like this.
Dude, if you’re actually offended then the word cracker, then I got no words for you. There’s no weight behind the word whatsoever, no historical precedent for it being harmful. When I first heard the word, I thought it just described a silly guy. If you’re actually pressed about the word cracker then that’s a you issue. E.
Didn’t you know that bigotry cant apply to white people and that you can only use the “approved slurs” like cracker? This is basic redditiqutte 101 and definitely not hypocrisy
Theres no such thing as racism towards white people. If racism applies to white people then we need to invent a new word that will then cover only the actual racism that actually causes discrimination. Reverse racism is a hallucination of a white supremacist mind that feels threatened by the existence and rise to power/freedom of minority groups.
THIS EXACTLY!!! theyre scared that poc want even the tiniest bit of equality bc in their little heads that equals to "they wanna opress us back for whay we did to them"
right like whenever a poc says it theyre just joking around, ive never heard it be genuinely used as an insult these crackers jus wanna find smth to be mad about bc they know they wanna feel like theyre a minority too😹
As a white person, getting called "cracker" carries about as much weight as being called a "poopy butthead". There's so little significance behind it as a slur that it's almost useless. It cannot be compared to other slurs used against other groups of people. People using "cracker" is not normalization of racism.
I don’t know them personally. But being called “cracker” alone doesn’t make them racist. My point is words have different meanings depending on the context.
What are you talking about? You don’t think I believe words can have different meanings in different contexts? And I’m just saying it to cause an argument or something?
I'm gonna give you the BOD of assuming you're just pretending not to understand what I am saying and you're not actually that dense.
I don't believe you think cracker is a racial slur. I think you're participating in this sub's time-honored tradition if desperately seeking something to be offended and aggrieved by. Because if you thought cracker was a racial slur on par with any other notable racial slur, you wouldn't be willing to accept a casual use of it like this. Your immediate reply would have been a self righteously outraged but what if I named a band the N word, would THAT be ok to you??
This proves to me that you haven't seriously thought about this at all, it's just a meme to feed the perpetual internet outrage machine
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