Should "Cracker" be a racial slur?

[Hucket]

I had this debate with two friends (one white, one black) and I guess you can determine which side backed which. On the one hand I can see where my white friend is coming from, it is often used in a pejorative sense, directed at white people. On the other hand, I don't really take it offensively (that might be cause I'm not called it much, looking more Asian than white).

Where do you stand on this? Do you stand on this? Should this be discussed or am i just wasting bytes?

 

[Marter]

It has an alternate definition, and declaring it a racial slur would lead to much confusion.

Leave it as it.

 

[Plurralbles]

You can't even argue about it because as soon as you ask for an inch in the debate you're called a racist.

doesn't matter if it's right or not, doesn't matter if an attack on a white person actually IS a hatecrime... No one takes other peoples' racism seriously.

 

[Bags159]

I don't take it offensively but it's kind of a double standard to allow us to be called crackers when the second we go on the offensive it's dubbed racism.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

Honestly, there's too much ambiguity on the word "cracker" to really be offended by it in any way, shape or form. I mean, I could potentially be called racist against my own ethnicity for saying the word cracker around my white friends, while looking at a cracker.

..That would be an awkward scenario.

 

[khaimera]

Yes it should be. I don't see why it wouldn't be one

 

[Twilight_guy]

If it used as a racial slur. If its referring to Saltines then no. Words like cracker and other words that are made into racial slurs should be taken as hate speech when they are but remembered to not be inherently bad.

 

[Easton Dark]

If you say it cracka instead of cracker it's ok.

 

[Maphysto]

Meh, given that white people have a good 500 years' history of oppressing everybody that isn't white, I think we can take it on the chin for a little while.

 

[Ympulse]

I think anything used as a racial slur is too stupid to be insulting.

Pretty much this. Ignorant racists are going to be ignorant. It's best to ignore their bleating.

 

[Bobbity]

I call bullshit. We see race everywhere these days, even where it's totally irrelevant. To be offended by the word cracker is absolutely absurd.

 

[Littlee300]

Are we called crackers because we use to crack the whip on black people's backs?

 

[swytchblayd]

'Cracker' just makes me laugh... Especially when Chris Rock says it.

"Really? You're comparing me to a snack wafer now? I'm not sure whether or not to feel insulted or laugh at how stupid it sounds."

 

[Littlee300]

Meh, given that white people have a good 500 years' history of oppressing everybody that isn't white, I think we can take it on the chin for a little while.

Many Africans sold their own people into slavery. Should we all call them niggers? No. Seriously man, shut up.

 

[Senrab]

It IS a racial slur. Granted, I haven't actually heard anyone use that phrase in at least 5-6 years.