White People! Are you offended being called a "Cracka"?

[Stryc9]

Been watching a lot of the George Zimmerman case. Last night I was flaberghasted when Erin Burnette of CNN referred to the word as a racial slur.

I'm sorry, but there is not a world where Cracka or Cracker could offend any white person. Right? I mean I'm pretty sure any of hear the word our minds do not jump to our skin colour but to delicious Saltine crackers. It's like calling someone Spaghetti.

Even honky... If I get called a honky the only thing my mind jumps is the old Jefferson's TV show.

Is there any white slur that has any bite at all? I mean I suppose "You impearalist swine whos anncestors kidnapped and enslaved my ancestors for years and then tried to pull that segration bullshit" but that'd be to hard to say in conversation.

It's not less a racial slur than any other racial slur out there. Equality is equality right? Cracker can be used in the same degrading fashion as ****** and don't even try to tell me it can't because it is, most likely on a daily basis in some areas. A few years ago 3 black kids beat the shit out of a white kid in Seattle while yelling "Die cracka!", and "We gonna kill you honky!" for no apparent reason during a New Years party. So yes, cracker, cracka, honky are all racial slurs aimed at white people.

 

[Fox12]

Been watching a lot of the George Zimmerman case. Last night I was flaberghasted when Erin Burnette of CNN referred to the word as a racial slur.

I'm sorry, but there is not a world where Cracka or Cracker could offend any white person. Right? I mean I'm pretty sure any of hear the word our minds do not jump to our skin colour but to delicious Saltine crackers. It's like calling someone Spaghetti.

Even honky... If I get called a honky the only thing my mind jumps is the old Jefferson's TV show.

Is there any white slur that has any bite at all? I mean I suppose "You impearalist swine whos anncestors kidnapped and enslaved my ancestors for years and then tried to pull that segration bullshit" but that'd be to hard to say in conversation.

Not really. I find crackers to be a delicious, if not somewhat bland, snack food. I suppose that characterizes the insult, but if somewhat bland is the worst insult someone can throw at me, I'll live. I suppose white trash would be offensive, but nobody has ever called me white trash, so I can't say. I have called other people that, but they were pretty horrible people, and I'm white, so I regret nothing.

 

[IrishSkullpanda]

If someone is going to call me a cracka, I'm going to take that as tacit approval to call that person the appropriate "slur" in response in the jokiest voice I can muster. I may not be able to get through the sentence without laughing.

Eg "What you up to cracka?"-

"Not much mah nigg-BAHAHAHAHA I cannot keep a straight face I am so sorry."

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'm not American, so I'm unfamiliar with the word. I am Greek however, and it's pretty safe to generalize and say that we are a loud, rude and quite aggressive bunch. So, I've grown quite immune to words over the years. What does offend me are things like sleaziness, stupidity and pretentiousness, even more so when the three of those are combined, which I've unfortunately seen plenty of recently.

Same in Argentina. Everybody communicates loudly and aggressively. Nobody's going to bat an eye if you drop a racial slur.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Well whether it offends you personally or not is negligible for it is a racial slur. I'm sure there are black people who would say that it's OK to call them "Nigga" but you'd be a fool to think that it's still not a racial slur. Same thing here.

Personally, I could care less and am not offended by it at all. I have never had anyone call me a cracka but I imagine I'd just roll my eyes at them if they did.

agree, and also, "couldn't care less" is the term you are looking for


OT: I really don't care, at all, if someone calls me names or such, I honestly just end up laughing most the time. I've been called a honky and a cracka numerous amounts of times in high school and college, and never once has it touched a nerve.

i mean honestly, i don't think i've ever had a word remotely offend me before..context has gotten a rise out of me such as "why would you do that? what could you possibly gain out of being such an ignorant prick?" but that was because of what their intentions were, not because of the word choice.

honestly, call me a honky and cracka all day, I'll take it in stride.


(oh and to the people who say "well we were *insert racial discrimination here* for *insert years here* so it's okay to say it to you!")

-I wasn't around back then, my ancestors weren't around back then, and I've never done a thing to give any kind of hint towards being superior or thinking you are inferior, so back the fuck off with your assumptions and generalizations.

 

[Strelok]

Well whether it offends you personally or not is negligible for it is a racial slur. I'm sure there are black people who would say that it's OK to call them "Nigga" but you'd be a fool to think that it's still not a racial slur. Same thing here.

Personally, I could care less and am not offended by it at all. I have never had anyone call me a cracka but I imagine I'd just roll my eyes at them if they did.

This is correct, just because you OP don't understand the colloquial slang of another culture does not make it any less offensive and does not nullify the fact it is a racial slur.

crack·er (krkr)
n.
1. A thin crisp wafer or biscuit, usually made of unsweetened dough.
2. One that cracks, especially:
a. A firecracker.
b. A small cardboard cylinder covered with decorative paper that holds candy or a party favor and pops when a paper strip is pulled at one or both ends and torn.
c. The apparatus used in the cracking of petroleum.
d. One who makes unauthorized use of a computer, especially to tamper with data or programs.
3. Offensive
a. Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural, especially southeast United States.
b. Used as a disparaging term for a white person.

Another interesting origin of the term comes from the time of slavery in the USA, cracker could have come from the cracking of the whips commonly used by slave drivers. To me that sounds even more offensive, who would want to be associated with such barbarism, and contempt for fellow human beings?

 

[Korolev]

It is a racial slur, it doesn't offend him because it doesn't even have an offensive origin. Didn't that word come from a character on a packet of candy? How is that offensive?

It isn't used often, and the imagery associated with it is very tame. The N-word is far more offensive, since it has connections with slavery and dehumanization.

I am not offended by it. Then again, I'm only half-white. I do have very pale skin, though.

 

[Charli]

It's an 'invented slur', yes, as was ANY slur when it was first used. If you let it be, as it more frequently gets pulled into aggressive matters it gains more weight and spite. And if any of my my African American friends threw it at me, worst, I give them a look, before moving on. I may not be MORALLY OUTRAGED, ggraaarh anger, hulk smash, ...but they know my name. I'd take the same offence to being called 'yo gurl', or 'that chick'. I know their names, and I don't resort to 'cute slur nicknames' painting them as their skin colour/gender/affiliated party. Equality. Street goes both ways and most should know it. And this is just common courtesy by now...

I'd take less offence to some drunken ass idiot on streets using it, but it doesn't mean I approve.

But between friends... no just ...leave it out. There's a million words you could've used to describe someone. Why Nigga/Cracker of all things? Origin story of the terms not withstanding, it's pretty damn obvious the other was used to counter the former. And now that most sane individuals carry the weight of that word along with them... it's not okay to pick and choose 'what kind of human' gets to say what because of a generation who is pretty much on their deathbed. That's not the point of striving for equality, that's just swinging the other way out of shared bitterness.



Do to others what you desire done to you. Isn't that a pillar of our morals? Or is that 'for squares' these days...

 

[Malty Milk Whistle]

If you call me Craka, Cracker, Milk, Milk-face... etc... Then I am allowed to call you black, ******... ect...

We are all equal that means that you can not say that you have the unique right to some words, if it is so then we have that right also.

The false pretense that we're currently equal aside, there is such a thing as context which does grant bodies unique rights to use words without offense. For example, I can make a crack about any one of my friend's mothers without repercussion. They can do the same about mine. We trash talk each others' families, beliefs, and even spouses where applicable. I wouldn't expect to be able to make a joke about your mother, or anyone else's here without repercussions, because I'm capable of understanding the difference. And I wouldn't want someone random attacking any member of my family, period. Even though I know they're all screwed up.

If you're going to equate a word tied to centuries of slavery, hate, and even abuse and violence to one literally derived from being the one holding the whip, well...I'd say it sounds like you're going out of your way to look for a reason to be offended or even possibly combative.

And honestly, if you've got a grasp of the English language (or almost any other), you should probably have some grasp on the way language always has tiers of severity in its connotation. This is one of the reasons "******" is reacted to with more vitriol than even other slurs against black people, of which there are TONS.

If I was able to, I would /thread you here.

You put it how I would have, except with spelling and logic.
For that I tank you

 

[Total LOLige]

I don't think I'd be offeded by the word but it is a racial slur. How we describe different races intrigues me, white and black people are described as "blacks" and "whites", although "whites" and "blacks" seem quite agressive terms(the 's' makes it seem angry). I've always wondered why do we refer to people of asian descent(races originating from this region) as asians and not by the colour of their skin?(I know it's offensive) Asia is huge, with more than one race(same as europe and the americas), to me it seems more offensive to describe smoeone as asian than it would be to describe them as brown, yellow or whatever. I hope we can one day live in a world where we don't label anyone anything other than human(Earthicans). I don't even know why I'm replying this is going to be on the 10th page, whose going to see it?

Also, just on this off chance that my sleep deprived brain ahs said something offensive, I apologise and don't mean to cause offense to anyone.

 

[Buccura]

Nnnnnnope, not in the slightest. The fact that someone tried to argue that it's a racial slur makes me chuckle and slap my forehead at the same time.

 

[gussy1z]

oi you cant use that, its our word. Only crackers can call other crackers crackers.

 

[TehCookie]

Not at all, I love crackers. Though Ritz are more of a Mexican color so I don't think that term should be exclusive to white people. I know the real origin, but my first thought is food. I wasn't around in slavery times and if they want to bring up the past I'll sympathize since my ancestors were slaves too, to the Romans.

 

[gussy1z]

If the intent is to try give someone a derogatory label based on the colour of their skin. Then yes its the very definition of racist.

 

[AgedGrunt]

I'm sorry, but there is not a world where Cracka or Cracker could offend any white person. Right? I mean I'm pretty sure any of hear the word our minds do not jump to our skin colour but to delicious Saltine crackers. It's like calling someone Spaghetti.

It's not up to you to determine how others feel when their skin color is being mocked and their dignity insulted. And I'll have you know, having an Italian side in my family, throwing the word spaghetti on them may not go over well.

Is there any white slur that has any bite at all?

"White boy" has a hair trigger with me. Like when one of my state representatives attacked my senator for a position on gang violence as an "upper middle-class, elitist white boy solution." Yes, that has some bite, and Mark Kirk, a white man, had to sit there and take it like a professional while Bobby Rush, a black man, basically rebuked it because that's just how he is and he'll say what he means. No apology.

Meanwhile, Paula Deen begs for forgiveness on Youtube and her career is dead.

Rather than slurs, there exists a resentful tone and treatment of white people. It's frequently used to attack the majority, often in combination with Christianity and wealth, in order to describe them as an out of touch, privileged class that oppresses minorities.

On it's own that is mildly offensive, but most of it lives within the double-standard and people telling me, not that a term like this isn't racist, but that I have no claim to even be offended.

 

[Seydaman]

Never cared for it, it has no real impact on me. Insults rarely cause me much distress, besides when people say that I am heartless or something, that hurts...

 

[GundamSentinel]

I would be amused by being called a 'cracker'. If someone called me that I would ask him never to call me anything else again.

 

[Woodsey]

It's a racial slur. Whether anyone's actually offended by it or not is a different matter. (And not in the slightest.)

 

[Master_Fubar23]

I never get angry at those slurs. I even wonder about how out of all the slurs out there whites only get craka and honky? They dont seem very offensive at all. Hell, my pet name used to be saltine cracker and ex was gram cracker.