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• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This might be an odd question. Maybe I don’t understand cause I’m not American. But using the word cracker for oneself almost seems like you embrace your (possible) slaver ancestry. Isn’t that a bit offensive?

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  • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Older white American here. Historically speaking “crackers” were poor white folks from Appalachian Georgia and the Florida “pan handle” (the bit on top) thus cracker isn’t just racist it is historically classist as well.

    The Jeffersons, a 1970s TV show featuring an upwardly mobile black family moving into a more affluent neighborhood, featured George, the main character, calling a few racist white folks crackers popularizing the term for whites in general.

    I don’t see myself as a cracker. Im not poor nor was I southern. Any ancestor that I had that owned slaves did so centuries ago as none of my relatives who could own slaves did so. The fact that I can ignore racist terms directed at my race is a really strong sign of privilege.

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  • sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As far as I know cracker is simply an insult. It does not include slave holder status.

    This is a funny little meme.

    (The nword does not have to include the slave association either. When I grew up there were no slaves, and I learned it simply as an insult for brown people, no association with slaves)

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    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It’s where it came from though. Whip cracker.

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  • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cracker please!

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  • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it’s a way for white Americans to distance themselves from the cognitive dissonance of being a settler by adopting an “embrace, extend, extinguish” strategy towards any term or cultural signifier popularized by Black people

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    • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      No it’s a racist and classist epithet.

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Four individually wrapped varieties” implies each of your grandparents was a separate, distinct nationality

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• countrypunk@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Me fr

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