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

[Ryan Hughes]

Not at all. Though, it must be said that if my race had been enslaved for hundreds of years and that word had been used to demean my people all that time, I may feel differently. It is hard to be offended when the power balance is tilted so far into the ethnic majority's favor. It is a sad fact, but true that there is still much racism out there, and rarely does it damage white people, the vast majority of the damage is done to other races.

 

[Little2Raph]

I've never been called a Cracker as I live in Australia and I think it's more an American term. I was called a "Gweilo" once by this dodgy old Chinese bloke and his mate outside a takeaway shop in Newcastle. I couldn't help but laugh to myself though - I don't understand any Cantonese (a little Mandarin, but that's different) except that one word which I picked up from reading Eric Van Lustbader novels as a teenager. As I passed these two blokes speaking Cantonese I heard the word and without thinking turned and looked at them and from the expressions on their faces they must've just about shit themselves thinking that I understood everything they'd just said. So much so that when I had to pass that way again fifteen minutes later they quickly shut up until I'd passed out of earshot. Despite the fact that technically they were being racist I still think it's one of the funniest things I've heard (up there with my Chinese girlfriend at the time threatening to cook a neighbor's dog when it wouldn't stop barking - just about pissed myself with laughter). On a more serious note though; given all the nasty words we have for Asian people here, I reckon I'm getting off lightly if all they call me in return is a "white ghost".

 

[Longstreet]

If someone here starts using American insults on me, that would just make me laugh at them in their face, call them a tosser (the dutch equivalent of course) and walk away.

Fun fact, if someone from Morocco calls a Dutch person a 'kass kop' (Cheese head, they are known for using that as an insult something) it's called freedom of speech. If a Dutch person calls someone from Morocco a *insert whatever insult you like here, no matter how strong/weak* it's racism.

 

[ace_of_something]

No, and from what I've seen as a police officer when someone of a non-white race calls a white person 'Pinky'... well that's the way to start a fight. Other than it has to be more specific, like 'mick' or 'wop'

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

No, because all white slurs are awful. I do not mean in an emotional sense either, they just suck at insults.

 

[jibjab963]

I'm not so much offended by it, as I am annoyed to a stupidly high degree when people try to tell me being called "Cracka" or "Cracker" is not racist. While I can understand cracka not being racist in some sense, the being called cracker is racist all the time.

 

[Atrocious Joystick]

Sorry. Ain't ever been called a cracker. What is it with americans and referring to all us honkies in a single sweeping "white" term? I am white, sure. But I have no knowledge of american race relations. Race relations barely exist where I'm from. It's all nationality and the friction it creates here baby!

The practice reminds me of the few times I have heard or read americans refer to random black guys with no relation to the US as "african americans."

 

[CogDiss]

The word "Cracker" comes from the concept of white people cracking whips...on the people they enslaved.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

IMO it comes down to the intention behind a word. If it is spoken with the intention to insult, it is a racial slur regardless of whether or not its intended target is offended.

 

[Vykrel]

it is a racial slur. if you are of another race and you maliciously refer to a white person as a "cracker", you are a racist.


we just dont find it offensive. probably because it doesnt sound very harsh. neither does "honkey", or "white boy".

 

[SwagLordYoloson]

George Zimmerman isn't even a cracka, if anything he would be a wetback or something? Sorry is wetback still used I am not up to date on hispanic slurs. Zimmerman identifies as hispanic doesn't he? or has this changed? So why is cracka even being used?

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

And even if not I really wouldn't care... I actually don't mind slang terms for races. We call Americans "Yanks" and the English "Poms" and they don't take much offense.

Since when are Americans and English races?

I also mentioned the French and Russians. They're all "white" but you'd be a fool if you couldn't tell the difference between them.

Toss "Mick" in there and you've even got the Irish.

But sure, it'd be unlikely for any of them to call another white person "Cracka".

Calling a Russian "cracka" wouldn't even make any sense. Russians never owned slaves as far as I know, I mean hell, they had serfdom until the 1800s.

 

[Flatfrog]

Well, hello 1976, haven't seen you in a while.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

It is a racial slur, it just doesn't have a whole lot of slavery and oppression behind it so it has no bite.

 

[DonTsetsi]

in any seriuos sentence. why would you use this fake word that means absolutely nothing?

capcha: whitch one is food? answers including: science, germany. i choose science.

He just misspelled it, is all. [https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=flabbergasted&oq=flab&aqs=chrome.2.57j0l3.2815j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8]

not what i was talking about. The word itself is a expression construct and not a word. its like saying " the dog au at him because he didnt know him". no, the dog barked, and au is the sound he made. and you dont flabbergast. the word itself is a false construct.

It IS a word. FLABBERGAST
And the word bark comes from the sound the dog makes, just like chirp comes from the sound a bird makes and meow comes from the sound a cat makes. All those can be found in the English dictionary.
Check any online or offline dictionary if you don't believe me.

 

[Abomination]

I also mentioned the French and Russians. They're all "white" but you'd be a fool if you couldn't tell the difference between them.

Wow, just Wow.
Talk about bigoted and ignorant.

Are you saying it's bigoted and ignorant to be able to tell the difference between someone from France and someone from Russia?

 

[DementedSheep]

I never been called a ?cracka?. In fact I don?t think I?ve actually head it used and only know what is because of people bring it up in debates about racial slurs and maybe once in a comedy. I don?t get offended by it, no.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

The practice reminds me of the few times I have heard or read americans refer to random black guys with no relation to the US as "african americans."

Yes, that's incredibly stupid. The problem is that there are groups of black people in the US who get offended at being called "black" and insist on being called "African American" despite the fact that none of them have so much as seen Africa, much less being from it. So it ends up that Americans tiptoe around these groups and just call every black person "African American" to avoid being called racists.

It actually gets so ridiculous that if a white person from South Africa says he's African American because he's actually FROM AFRICA, people call that person a racist.

 

[Sarge034]

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.

Yes it is a racial slur. I used to live in the South West and it was mostly Latino people that used that particular slur against me. They didn't see a problem with it and continued to use it so I only referred to those people as "spics" to their faces. Needless to say, they were none too pleased.

In general if it aint a color it is a slur. I am white. I am not a cracker, whitey, or pale skin (and yes, I have been called all of those on many occasions.)

It also enrages me when people go around calling each other a slur and then get mad if you do. Like when black people refer to each other as "******". Isn't that a word you all were trying to disassociate from for a long time? Don't call each other that in front of me because I will, and have, join(ed) right in. As a white male, they are also usually none too pleased.

Hope this answers your question.

 

[RoBi3.0]

If someone called me a cracker all they would succeed at doing is making me hungry.