Comment on Cracker Jill? This is a real product by the way, I didn't name it.

• MrSelfDestruct@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is it racist? It’s a reference of slave masters cracking the whip. Not white people having the same color as a saltine cracker.

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  • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It can be used in a racist way, but its a term of endearment in my circles.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is it racist to call a white man a cracker or a honkey?

    Is it racist to call me a red man? Ya know, Native American?..

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    • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hey dumdum, knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Try using your brain why black people have it a little worse.

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        And knowing that ‘Cracker Jacks’ heavily refers to baseball, the crack of the bat…

        Then put into context how old the company is…

        Their old mindset was basically ‘white people play baseball, black people play basketball’

        Cracker Jacks was founded in the late 1800s, around 1896.

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    • MrSelfDestruct@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Poor white people. They’ve been oppressed for so many years.

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Choctaw here

        Fuckoff

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• DrSoap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are you trolling? You seem angry it isn’t acceptable in society to say the N word? You want to say it?

  I want to take the time to explain the reason everyone is calling you racist. You are insisting a product change its name BECAUSE of the color of someone’s skin. You chose caramel because it is more appropriate for her skin color by your reasoning and doesn’t use the products name, which you find offensive.

  The popcorn obviously isn’t referring to race in any way, but you made it about that and came up with a pretty racist solution.

  Next time get the gum at cvs and not some popcorn. If you don’t like a product, don’t give them your money. Easypeasy. No need to get worked up.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Cracker is to white as N***** is to black.

    Please explain the difference, and why I shouldn’t be equally upset…

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    • Gerblat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you’re comparing the badness of two words, and you won’t even say one of them? That’s the worse word

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        True, I can compare many words. Which word would you like me to say?

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    • DrSoap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      One term came from this: en.wikipedia.org/…/Slavery_in_the_United_States en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*removed*

      The other was made by white people to describe other white people btw. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(term)

      Get over yourself. Read a book.

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Seriously, read your own links…

        Lemmy done censored your own links.

        Well done asshole.

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Read your own links, Lemmy done censored them.

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• watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Cracker is a particular type of white person and I haven’t heard anyone seriously say the word honky for decades. You’re overreacting.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    www.snackhistory.com/cracker-jack/

    Read into that…

    The Prize and Culture

    The prize inside Cracker Jack’s box has tons of cultural references.

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