Comment on Could it be offensive for me to use the word "cracker" in this way?
countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
We don’t actually know where the term cracker originated from, that’s just one theory. A lot of white (particularly Irish) slaves and indentured servants in the early colonial years were called crackers too.
The term now just means a poor rural white person particularly (but not always) from the South. I got called it growing up and don’t find it offensive if it’s not said in a mean way.
crackerquestion@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I kinda got that sense from skimming the Wikipedia page when I wrote this, but I don’t know what it means to anyone other than myself in 2025 so I figured I would ask.
I’ve only ever been called that because of my name and while that’s “offensive” to me in like a “worlds most unoriginal joke” kind of way, but my experience with the word has biased me.