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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could it be offensive for me to use the word "cracker" in this way?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did. Should I not have?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could it be offensive for me to use the word "cracker" in this way?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t actually know where the term cracker originated from

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could it be offensive for me to use the word "cracker" in this way?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re worried about people thinking it’s a weird or offensive name, just pick another name.

  That’s a good point. I think most of my resistance to doing it so far is all the different devices with different software to change it and thinking of a new name (bit of a perfectionist). Realistically, it would only take a few hours at most to get everything sorted.

  Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could it be offensive for me to use the word "cracker" in this way?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t really thinking about offending other white people. Regardless, I am asking even for the cases of “thin-skinned” individuals. As I said, it’s important to me to not offend people unnecessarily, regardless of how much skin they might have.

• Could it be offensive for me to use the word "cracker" in this way?
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