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Do you think us white folk should us cracker the same way as black peeps us the N word?

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brokensignal · 46-50, M
It wouldn’t matter because no word used against white people towards white people will ever pack quite the same power and modern historical context as a word like the N word. It is a totally incomparable thing. Not even remotely close honestly.
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
@brokensignal Yes I can be called any slur and I would feel absolutely nothing. It just doesn't exist for me.
@brokensignal And "cracker" originated with wealthy whites, directed to poor whites who often served as overseer—it referred to the "crack" of the whip.
exexec · 70-79, C
I grew up near Atlanta before the Braves moved there. The minor league baseball team was the Atlanta Crackers, so I wanted to grow up to be a Cracker.
hunkalove · 70-79, M
@exexec The Band, who were originally Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, wanted to call themselves The Crackers but the record company said no.
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
That doesn't work quite well in Europe. Most people wouldn't understand the connotation. I barely do.
@CrazyMusicLover White, like a cracker.
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@MsSwan This?

Well, I think curd or bread dough would be more offensive but 🤷‍♀️
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
Ever wonder why people don't bother doing that?
Funlov · M
HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F
As a white I don't get it and I have no opinion
specman · 51-55, MVIP
I don’t play that way. If they want to use that name then let them. That word is a word meaning useless person. That’s what was and still is a ugly word. Not for what the definition is, but what it stands for. I never used it.
Jaego · 100+
@specman It’s just banter
Funlov · M
I don’t even understand where you’re coming from with that. Are you looking for somebody to say a racist word? I don’t understand where you’re coming from
@Funlov What's not to understand? He means white people should call each other cracker like how black people call each other the N word.
Funlov · M
@MsSwan just fucked
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
"Race" is unimportant to me so I feel no need to have a nicname for my white friends. I'll just call them by their names. The reason blacks started using the N word is to appropriate the language of contempt and destroy its power.
@JimboSaturn Personally, I think it was a mistake because the word hasn’t lost any of its power. White supremacists and other racists still use it with hateful intent.
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
Fluffybull · F
Could I have a translation please.......?
hunkalove · 70-79, M
I prefer "hillbilly."
Jaego · 100+
@hunkalove Ah, some of us live close to sea level. For now…
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@MsSwan you, cracker
@SW-User Ok white bread.
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@MsSwan YT
Piper · 61-69, F
Not particularly, but many white folks already do use the word in a similar way. Some people from from Florida, Georgia and a few other southern states, proudly refer to themselves as "'_______' crackers", and use in an affectionate sort of way. Many white people use it a clearly insulting way, towards those who reside in the South.

There are many reasons why I do not think the two words can be compared, as far as their power to hurt and attempt to demean.
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Some do. And both words come from the same source—wealthy whites.
Incidentally, black people with self-respect don’t use the N word, it’s low class.

 
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