Discussion: Are "cracker" & "pasty" racist terms? - Page 7

Codex

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Originally posted by FAME.

You seem like the kind of person that thinks every white person on earth should go to hell because one person called you the n word once when you were 13.

Cracker and pasty are negative words and there's no denying that. It's insulting to basically call someone a slave master because of their skin color, and insinuate that they would morally do something like that. Especially when they were born after 1990, they shouldn't have to apologize for something their great grandparents MIGHT have done.

BabyCantYouSee

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Originally posted by FAME.

It's not a negative term period. It's a nickname that derives from slaves referring to their slave masters as "crackers" for short, because of the cracking up the whips against them. And has carried on. How is that negative or degrading when slave masters were superior to slaves, controlled them, owned them, etc. Calling a white person a cracker is basically saying "Hey person who would have owned and whipped me if this was in the 1600's and who I would have been a slave to." How is that negative for THEM? If ANYTHING it's negative for the black people using the word.

Okay, I see you're looking at it from a different perspective than I am, but you've gotta realize that people who use the word use it to offend peeps. Slave masters aren't considered superior in 2015. It's degrading being called one... would you like being labelled as something that connects to attacking, enslaving and killing people just because they were black? We live in the 21st century, and yes, I know racism still exists very much so today, but it's negative, not positive. At least for decent human beings.

jordanjm

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Originally posted by Mani.

If a white person is poor and a black person is poor, who do you think has the upper hand? They still aren't a minority.

Stop making up these "woe is me" scenarios to victimize white people. I never understood why white people wanted to be oppressed so bad. Black people can't have nothing to themselves.

I'm saying it's not right to treat any race differently at all. Why are you defending your racism so much?

Zoraluv

Yes because cracker and mayo are soooo oppressive. Ya'll are so dense.

Rogue

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Originally posted by Black Umbrella

Black people will say no. But they're insults and used only against a white person so that makes them racist.

Zoraluv

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Originally posted by Codex

You seem like the kind of person that thinks every white person on earth should go to hell because one person called you the n word once when you were 13.

Cracker and pasty are negative words and there's no denying that. It's insulting to basically call someone a slave master because of their skin color, and insinuate that they would morally do something like that. Especially when they were born after 1990, they shouldn't have to apologize for something their great grandparents MIGHT have done.

FAME.

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Originally posted by Mani.

If a white person is poor and a black person is poor, who do you think has the upper hand? They still aren't a minority.

Stop making up these "woe is me" scenarios to victimize white people. I never understood why white people wanted to be oppressed so bad. Black people can't have nothing to themselves.

We can't even have OPPRESSION sis

Like who even wants that? I just

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Jet

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Originally posted by Nikolai.

How is it delusional? Sorry I grew up somewhere that everyone can say a word without people being offended.

This just means you're extremely sheltered and not aware of what goes on around you. You can't just say the n word and expect people to be ok with it, especially if you're a white person.