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White-gaf: Have you ever been called a cracker?

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besada said:
Cracker, peckerwood, marshmallow, ofay, casper, buckra, crisco, white bread, redneck, hillbilly, bubba, whitey, honkey, white devil, wasp, white trash, trailer trash, goyim, powder, opie, etc. You name it and I don't really care about it.

The power of racial slurs is the reminder that one race holds more power than another. Given that I am white, and still utterly and completely in the majority, and have no fear of being supplanted from that majority any time soon, I find it somewhat difficult to become particularly offended because someone lobs a term at me that isn't going to bother me anyway.

If Africans had taken whites as slaves, and we still lived in a culture where whites were not just a minority, but at the bottom of nearly every socioeconomic indicator, then suspect having a black man remind me of how unimportant I am by calling me ofay might sting a lot.

But we don't live in that world, so it doesn't.
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Powder..lol forgot that one. So original.
 
Nope but where I play basketball I'm usually the only white guy there. I usually just get called random white player names.

Don't let John Paxson shot!
Other player names I've been called:
Steve Kerr
John Stockton
John Crotty
Krover
 
Pickman said:
Honkus Maximus.
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I was standing on the bus once and a couple of girls behind me were accosting me and called me a "scared little white faggot" among other things. I think they thought I was racist because I decided to stand instead of sit next to them? maybe? Whatever, ain't no thang.
 
besada said:
Cracker, peckerwood, marshmallow, ofay, casper, buckra, crisco, white bread, redneck, hillbilly, bubba, whitey, honkey, white devil, wasp, white trash, trailer trash, goyim, powder, opie, etc. You name it and I don't really care about it.
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This sounds like a recipe... for disaster!
 
pants said:
I use this word frequently, but it has nothing to do with race in my case. Who uses opie in a racist way and what does it mean?
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It references Opie (Ron Howard) from the Andy Griffith show, in other words, the palest, whitest kid in the universe. Almost always put together as "look at that Opie-lookin motherfucker." Likely fallen out of favor since the show it's based on is sixty years old.
 
I was called a honkey once back in high school and a whole bunch of people laughed at me. Bummed me the fuck out. Still kind of does since I'm sure they're still right.

The context was that I was a nerd
 
besada said:
It references Opie (Ron Howard) from the Andy Griffith show, in other words, the palest, whitest kid in the universe. Almost always put together as "look at that Opie-lookin motherfucker." Likely fallen out of favor since the show it's based on is sixty years old.
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I sill get called that because my last name is Cunningham.
 
johnny_park said:
Nope but where I play basketball I'm usually the only white guy there. I usually just get called random white player names.

Don't let John Paxson shot!
Other player names I've been called:
Steve Kerr
John Stockton
John Crotty
Krover
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I don't usually give a shit about being called anything racist, fag or any other derogatory term but THIS would fucking kill me. Not sure why.
 
besada said:
Cracker, peckerwood, marshmallow, ofay, casper, buckra, crisco, white bread, redneck, hillbilly, bubba, whitey, honkey, white devil, wasp, white trash, trailer trash, goyim, powder, opie, etc. You name it and I don't really care about it.

The power of racial slurs is the reminder that one race holds more power than another. Given that I am white, and still utterly and completely in the majority, and have no fear of being supplanted from that majority any time soon, I find it somewhat difficult to become particularly offended because someone lobs a term at me that isn't going to bother me anyway.

If Africans had taken whites as slaves, and we still lived in a culture where whites were not just a minority, but at the bottom of nearly every socioeconomic indicator, then suspect having a black man remind me of how unimportant I am by calling me ofay might sting a lot.

But we don't live in that world, so it doesn't.
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Where do you live? Whites are no longer a majority in California. I am white and admit that racial slurs directed toward me sting.

HiResDes said:
Do you live in the 50s?
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Believe it or not racist terms tend to stick around.
 
besada said:
The power of racial slurs is the reminder that one race holds more power than another. Given that I am white, and still utterly and completely in the majority, and have no fear of being supplanted from that majority any time soon, I find it somewhat difficult to become particularly offended because someone lobs a term at me that isn't going to bother me anyway.

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But we don't live in that world, so it doesn't.
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A fine perspective, but that dismisses the micro-experiences a person may have for the macro view of the nation on the whole. Getting popped in the mouth and the guy saying "fucking white boy" a number of times in his tirade afterward, with two dudes behind him, didn't offend me but didn't make me feel all that comfortable (in terms of safety) on that sidewalk in that moment. Part of my calculus for not responding was what it would look like to passersby on a busy street in the middle of Harlem if they saw a white dude in a suit get into a fistfight with a college-aged black kid.

I doubt a white kid in high school growing up in a predominantly minority neighborhood who gets called slurs goes home and feels comforted by nationwide demographics and the societal power balances that so heavily tip in his favor owing to his skin color.
 
Chezzymann said:
No but I've been called "White boy" multiple times with a condescending tone, and thats usually more offensive in my opinion.
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More this. Only time I was legitimately angry about it was when it was accompanied by a thrown rock to the back of the head.

I assumed the whole "whip crack = cracker" thing was made up ex post facto. Doesn't really sound like a legitimate etymology. (Like the explanations for "gringo".)
 
Sothpaw said:
Where do you live? Whites are no longer a majority in California. I am white and admit that racial slurs directed toward me sting.
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That's only true if you treat white Hispanics as non-white. Even then, whites are the single largest ethnic group.
 
Cagey said:
A fine perspective, but that dismisses the micro-experiences a person may have for the macro view of the nation on the whole. Getting popped in the mouth and the guy saying "fucking white boy" a number of times in his tirade afterward, with two dudes behind him, didn't offend me but didn't make me feel all that comfortable (in terms of safety) on that sidewalk in that moment. Part of my calculus for not responding was what it would look like to passersby on a busy street in the middle of Harlem if they saw a white dude in a suit get into a fistfight with a college-aged black kid.

I doubt a white kid in high school growing up in a predominantly minority neighborhood who gets called slurs goes home and feels comforted by nationwide demographics and the societal power balances that so heavily tip in his favor owing to his skin color.
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Yea when I used to take all kinds of shit from some local Latinos for being white it didn't exactly make me feel better that there are lots of white people in Nebraska.
 
Slightly unrelated, but you should all watch "Cracker" starring Robbie Coltrane (aka the fat bearded guy from Hairy Potter).
 
The only time I've ever seen it used maliciously on someone I can recall was in early middle school before I moved. Had a white kid join the school mid way through the year and some people got the idea that he was rich for whatever reason
none of us were anything but broke, that much was sure
. I recall the kid getting called a rich little cracker faggot/bitch among other things, idk. They fucked that kid up pretty bad on the regular.

I'd chalk it up to kids being cruel, but I dunno any instance since that I've seen cracker be used against someone maliciously. Pretty much every time I've seen a slur used against someone white, it was usually followed up by something else now that I think of it.
 
white-gaf?!

...i'm offended


also, i've seen plenty of racism towards caucasians on the nyc subways. what's weird is that i see more of that racism publicly displayed than vice versa. white folk just know to be racist in private or in jest.

i got angrily called a cracker for unknowingly bumping into a black woman's foot with my suitcase on the L train. she proceeded to yell at me that I did it on purpose.

I was not offended.
 
besada said:
It references Opie (Ron Howard) from the Andy Griffith show, in other words, the palest, whitest kid in the universe. Almost always put together as "look at that Opie-lookin motherfucker." Likely fallen out of favor since the show it's based on is sixty years old.
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Oh wow I know that actor lol, thanks
 
besada said:
That's only true if you treat white Hispanics as non-white. Even then, whites are the single largest ethnic group.
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Not the fastest growing group by a long shot and losing the majority in the near future is a very real prospect. I personally love where I live and love the diversity, but I do not feel like I am part of an overwhelming majority. Which is pretty cool to be honest. Not many places in the world boast such great diversity.
 
Sothpaw said:
Not the fastest growing group by a long shot and losing the majority in the near future is a very real prospect. I personally love where I live and love the diversity, but I take do not feel like I am part of an overwhelming majority.
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And yet, you are the majority. So, imagine how you'd feel if instead of a paranoid response to a shifting demographic, you were an actual minority, and not a 38% minority, but a 13% minority.

And then consider why I have a hard time feeling too bad about someone calling me cracker.
 
besada said:
And yet, you are the majority. So, imagine how you'd feel if instead of a paranoid response to a shifting demographic, you were an actual minority, and not a 38% minority, but a 13% minority.

And then consider why I have a hard time feeling too bad about someone calling me cracker.
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Just addressing your original contention that whites are an overwhelming majority with no real prospect of being overtaken. I did not disagree with your assertion about actual minorities.
 
Nope, and I'm even a teacher for immigrants, a lot of them being black. We respect each other. ^_^ If someone would call me something like that, I wouldn't care much though.

The closest thing to a racist remark was my boss asking me if I wanted to look like my black coworker last summer when I tanned a lot, I'm as white as one could be usually so lol.
 
There were some black guys who called me cracker almost every day during gym every day from 9th grade to 12th grade. I didn't feel insulted, just confused. They were really persistent in trying to get a rise out of me, which furthered my confusion. At one point I asked them if by "cracker" they meant the food. They said yes. I guess they enjoyed confusing me, too. (I'd known the origin of the term for a long time. I only asked because I was a dumbass who thought he was being funny.)
 
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