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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Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought it was slang for whips during slave times, cracka, as in whip cracka.
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Saltines are bright white in color. Also basic and bland. Dry. Cracker
That has been my take, as a Northern white dude, at least. Possibly wrong, as always.
I think I would feel more offended if someone called me a ‘honky’ as I am not a fan of basic ass cookie cutter Honky Tonk country music, and I’d be insulted at such an insinuation.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(term)
I checked to see if I was wrong. But apparently, the most likely origin really is ‘whip cracker’, ie slaver.
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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)
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s where it came from though. Whip cracker.
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No it’s a racist and classist epithet.
Slovene@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Cracker please!
CptEnder@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Me as Swedish/Irish. I’m like the underbaked Wonderbread of white people.
Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Polly wants a cracker
I think I should get off her first
I think she wants some water
To put out the blowtorchcountrypunk@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Me fr
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“Four individually wrapped varieties” implies each of your grandparents was a separate, distinct nationality
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He’s got Saxon, Norman, Celt, and Pict.