Well I admitted that I don't know why cracker is an insult toward whites, that's just something I've known, I've never had any reason to questionWell that's a big part of your problem, you just accept things without questioning it. That's called being mentally lazy. People like you are easy to manipulate. You say that it's an insult for white people so it has to mean something, what does it mean in the context of beig a racial slur? I can tell you what ****** means.
But thank you for enlightening me and HL and the coli that cracker in no way is a racial slur or insult toward whites
That would be news to a lot of people, especially the people that actually use it
This should be obvious, but calling someone out of their name is almost always offensive....
I already broke this down....White people didn't create the term n1gga, they coined ****** and we made nikka. By using your logic, it would be acceptable for a white person to say n1gga.
Once again, nothing is or probably will be on the same level as n1gger. If you were a critical thinker, you'd be able to denounce these notions...
I agree, calling someone out of their name Or referring to an individual in general terms is usually offensive. Your example is stupid though, which is no surprise. I said that I use the term cracker as a slang term for white people, a term to refer to white people in general or as a whole. I never claimed that I used it to refer to individuals, that's just silly. I don't have a boss, but you wouldn't go up to your boss and say "hello white person" would you? That would be offensive too, right? Is the term "white person" itself offensive though? No, it's not.This should be obvious, but calling someone out of their name is almost always offensive....
But in your case I can picture it now....
Gravity talking to his boss
Gravity: Hello cracker
Gravity's Boss:
I never said that the term cracker was positive. Cracker is a neutral term just like "white person" is neutral. Is there anything positive about calling someone a "white man/woman"? I don't think so, it would depend on the context. It's the same for cracker. You don't walk around referring to your co workers as white men and white women do you? "Hey white man, do this and that......Hey white woman, where are those reports?" You don't think that would be offensive?
If I say cracker, there's nothing positive about my usage of the words.
If my friends and I, reference the word cracker, there's nothing remotely positive about the context. How you douche bags(offensive term), ever managed to flip cracker into a positive term is beyond my comprehension.
Like I said, if you can't call talk to your fellow employees or boss in manner it's probably not a good term....
****** is an English word, English people are white, that means that white people created the word ******. You're not capable of following my logic because you seem to lack common sense. White people don't need your acceptance to use the word ******, and they never have. They created the term then used it to imbed the idea that blacks are inferior in people's minds, and they still use it today.
So you are back trying to equate cracker with ****** huh? Cracker is not a racial slur you nitwit. The reason that a white person using the term ******(or any variation) in reference to blacks is disrespectful is because of the history associated with the word. Without that history then ****** wouldn't be a racial slur. Cracker has no such history, so why would a white person be legitimately disrespected by the term? You havent made 1 intelligent argument for why it is a racial slur, yet you keep trying to pass that BS off as a legit point.
You're another idiot, and it wouldn't be so bad if you were not so hard headed and close minded. You keep repeating the same dumb shyt over and over even after its been refuted. It's not about levels, cracker is not a racial slur period. You claim that it demeans white people but you can't explain how. You keep trying to make this false equivalence between ****** and cracker and I just don't get it. Are you white? If not then take the damn cape off, they damn sure don't need your help.
Where in my post did I mention racism?
Is this thread about something being "cool" to do in someone's face, or is it about racism? Or so-called reverse racism against white people?
I can legitimately call every white person I see an idiot and reserve that term specifically for them and it still not be racist. Its just an insult. What is hard to understand about this?
Insult =/= racist.
Where in my post did I mention racism?
If you look at my first post in this thread I address that. What is/isn't racist seems to depend on one's own definition of racism, which many of us conveniently feel can only be imparted through a racial power structure. So I'm not really looking to get into that discussion because ultimately I'd be arguing people's opinions of what they feel a definition of a word should be, as opposed to how people should be have within a context of decency and equity (i.e. do unto others)
So is the word "cracker" racist? I don't know. It's not really of any consequence to me. What I am trying to understand is
- the value of its use as a pejorative (i.e. how does calling white people CACs on a 99% black message board help anyone or anything, what is the reasoning)
- the reasoning of its use as a pejorative
- the justification of its use in the context of complaints of widespread, institutionalized white on black racism (i.e. how can one complain about the use of "******" and turn around and use "cracker")
It seems to me like folks want to have their cake and eat it too; painting with a broad brush to legitimize their own prejudice/bigotry and resulting behaviors
Like I said before, if folks think calling white folks CACs does anything besides make themselves look ignorant, bigoted and lazy....
