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

[lunavixen]

I've never had racial remarks made towards me, but i've had friends who've been slighted due to race. However, if someone were to try, it would likely lower my value of their opinions.

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.

Flabbergasted is a colloquial synonym for astonishment, surprise or shock. It can be used in the place of those words (among others). If used in present tense (i.e.flabbergast), it changes from, 'it happened' (e.g. "He was flabbergasted") to 'it's about to happen' (e.g. "this will flabbergast him"). The past tense term flabbergasted is more typically used in speech, than the present tense term flabbergast, because words like shock and astonish can have different meaning in different languages.

 

[Uhura]

It's also worth noting that black Africans have enslaved eachother just as long as Europeans, Middle Easterners, Asians and Native Americans have; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa

I hate to be the one to bring actual history to the table, but the Trans-Atlantic, North American slave trade did not invent slavery as a concept, so saying "THIS IS WHY ALL WHITES ARE THE DEVIL" is absolutely ridiculous.

yeah.. black africans were the ones selling other black africans to the europeans.. They were enslaved to the blacks before they were sold to the whites.

Slavery in Africa differed quite a bit from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade though. You might want to read that Wikipedia link.

 

[Keiichi Morisato]

to make this as blunt as i can, do YOU like being called ******?

 

[shootthebandit]

No its not racist because white people are the majority. In fact if you are a young (20ish - 40ish) white male then its impossible to discriminate against you because after all we are the almighty master race and obviously inferior races cannot offend us because they are not as powerful. Same with women they cant possibly intimidate us because we are superior in everyway they only serve their purpose as fuckbags and sandwich makers

I mean that with the utmost sarcasm incase you couldnt tell (need to put warning as people cant tell when you are joking). But seriously alot of people assume because you are white, male or come from a TRADITIONALLY dominant group that you cant be discriminated. Of course cracker is racist but does it bother me? Of course not unless they were threatening me at the time. If it was someone simply calling me it, its water off a ducks back but thats just who i am

 

[Olas]

I remember when I first found out that the word "cracker" was an offensive term. I was playing an online RTS with a friend and he typed me a message about getting crumbs on his keyboard cause he had been eating gram ********.

At first I was pretty bewildered, then I realized he had probably meant to type "crackers", but accidentally typed "crappers" instead. So I replied "I think you mean '********'". I was pretty surprised when it censored me as well, so logically I had to look up the word "cracker" on google.

It's not a very common word, at least not where I live.

But ya, as a white, strait, christian, male from a reasonably wealthy family with a good education it doesn't really matter what anyone calls me.

 

[MetalDooley]

Of course not. White people have never been oppressed or a minority, so it's much easier to just laugh off petty insults. However, for someone who has been oppressed, or is a minority, well.. I can't speak for them, but I could imagine it hitting much closer to home and having an actual impact.

Nonsense.There's plenty of examples of white people being oppressed throughout history.Granted it's usually by other white people but that doesn't make it any less real

 

[oreso]

I can't say I mind what people call me, but I do care about any prejudice or hate behind it, even if the word is a polite one.

'Privileged' is about the only term for white people that I hear abused. As in, it is used by people in order to disregard their opinion purely based on prejudicial assumptions about them because of their race.

 

[elvor0]

Don't think I've ever actually heard it used at all in England. Not unless you spread butter or it. Must be an American thing. I don't think I'd be offended if someone called me that, because it's such an amusingly crap insult.

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.

I'm not sure how he used it in the wrong way, looking at the OP he said "I was flabbergasted when..." it's a state you can be in. Same as "I was exhausted/tired/befuddled". It's a good word that doesn't get used very often, mainly because it's only really appropriate when someone does something mind-boggling. It means to be astonished. You can even be flabbergasting. Not that "I am flabbergasting right now" makes a very well phrased sentence.

I love those old faux-theatrically overwrought English words. Stupendous, splendiferous, befuddled and bewildered, phenomenal, meretricious, ostentatious, refulgent; They roll off the tongue in such a pulchritudinous way, I never get to use flabbergasted very often though, and I think that's the first time I've ever gotten to use pulchritudinous in a sentence. You gotta keep em in reserve though, otherwise they stop having the same effect, like epic, or awesome, not that they're particularly over the top.

 

[Pinkamena]

It is a racial slur, but fuck if I care! People can call me whatever they want as long as it's not obviously negative.

 

[Scarecrow]

Doesn't come up at all here in Australia. But when I do hear it, I think it's rather funny...but that's maybe because it seems to only ever be said as a joke.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I'd laugh if called a cracker. Seriously, calling me out on being an overweight pathological liar would offend me more. Be inventive with insults, you sorry excuse for a human, go fuck a monkey and be at one with your people.

 

[lacktheknack]

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.

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.

Wrong.
It is very much a racial slur.

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

Yeah... The TV show where the main character used it as a racial slur.

I don't know man. I don't see it.

I feel it's like calling someone a tomato. It's just odd.

Hint: It doesn't mean "small thin baked food".

It means "slavemaster who cracks the whip".

Used in that context ("Once a cracker, always a cracker"), I'd be really annoyed because it tries to associate me directly with atrocious crimes I'm not guilty of. Otherwise, it's only marginally annoying.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Yeah, nah, always seemed embarrassingly weak.

"You're subhuman and should be my slave!"
"Well, um...you should be my master!"
"..."
"..."
"Um?"
"Yeah, nevermind."

Doesn't work.

The difference between "******" and "cracker" in my mind is that "******" has actually been used to refer to people who are actually being subjugated and treated in the most vile ways. "Cracker" has no such historical background in blood and torture...

Except the Inquisition, the Holocaust, and the intense racism against specific races of white even as recent as the founding of America? Being irish had a stigma for a very long time. Still does in some places.

Pretending that blacks have the monopoly on being mistreated is just ignorant. Don't be one of those people.

That's a painfully bad strawman there. You can't pretend that saying that "cracker" doesn't refer to a group that has been oppressed is the same as saying only black people have been oppressed.

Yes, the Irish (for example) were white and oppressed, but they were oppressed for being Irish, not because they were white. Cracker refers to the latter, it's not a slur aimed at the former, which would have some legitimacy.

 

[Angie7F]

I actually didnt know this was a racial slur. lol
We learn new things every day.

 

[templar1138a]

Racial slurs are any slang terms that refer specifically to skin color or ethnicity. Doesn't matter if they're offensive or not.

Anyway, as for racial slurs against white people that have any bite, I feel that pretty much the one that has the most at this point is "white" itself. In the context of activities and skills other races stereotypically are associated with, the word is synonymous with "lame" or "incompetent." For example: White dancing, white rap, white math, white jazz. It conjures up the image of white people as judeo-christrian descendants being exposed to things from other cultures, thinking they're weird but interesting, trying to replicate it, but looking like asses in the process because they don't have the fundamental cultural understanding.

That said, I don't feel like "white" as a synonym for "lame" is particularly harmful. It only causes offense to white people who are already pretending to be another race. The rest of us can embrace it in the spirit of self-deprecation. I see it as a healthy alternative to guilt over atrocities committed by our ancestors.

 

[Cecilo]

Believe it or not but "White" people were in fact enslaved at one point, not by another part of human, but by our own. I am not trying to say racial slurs are okay because of this, I just like to point out that Africans weren't the only people to be enslaved. Egyptians enslaved many people during their time.

Christians enslaved the Norse heathens, before the African slave trade. And the Norse took Christians and other Norse as "Thralls", or Unfree servants. Even before christianity, Kings, Jarls, Dukes, Counts of Ancient Europe would take slaves or serfs for themselves, whose only real benefit was that they might not be killed, and might get a warm place to sleep, possibly a meal.

Ancient Rome and Greece despite it not being talked about often, employed Slaves. Though not in the way you would think of Slaves.

But, on topic. I would probably be okay with the racial slur of Cracka if the person who is saying it, doesn't mind having racial slurs thrown back at them. If you cant take it, don't dish it out and all that.

 

[Flames66]

I only recently realised what it was referring to, and the OP has just defined the word "Honkey" for me. No I wouldn't find either offensive.

 

[Miyenne]

I wouldn't be offended at all. I'm so white I'm translucent. And being Canadian with Irish heritage, the term wouldn't apply to me anyways.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

What? That's the first time I've ever heard of such a thing. Cracker? So I taste great with cheese?

 

[Xukog]

I wouldn't really be offended, it's kind of a weak insult. However, I would mentally mark the person as an idiot and avoid conversation with him/her as much as possible.