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Words only have power when the person on the receiving end gives them power. I worked with a little black guy (he was 5'4, and I'm a white gal who's 6'1, so it was funny to us) and he used to call me a cracker, honky etc. and I used to call him Wee Nizzle, and the n word. I also told him to 'stay black' when he left work instead of saying goodbye. We desensitized these words to the point where they were nothing more than a nickname or greeting/salutation. Eventually, they will lose their connotations and things will go on as normal, and new offensive names will be thought up.
I never worry about those names because frankly I just don't have much respect for those that use them.Its like being cursed by the devil;that's what you expect.
If people are childish enough to start name calling to make their point, I quit listening. Therefor I don't get offended.
I might pity them a bit because of their ignorance but I won't be offended.
I think cracker, or honky is funny. Doesn't bother me at all.
LOL! My first significant time in jail, I was the only white amongst about thirty blacks in our section. I walked over to my cot, which had a group of blacks gathered not too far away and when we all started meeting and I was asked my name, I said "Just call me cracker... It'll be easier to remember." We all had a great laugh and, as was typical for me in Detroit, speaking openly about race eliminated all tension.
Why are white people not offended by slurs like kracker, honky or white trash?
Racist/ Nazi, is probaly the most offensive slur to a white person
From what I've seen, here's my honest estimation of why whites (and to add to it, Jews and Asians as well) take little to no offense of ethnic slurs: it's like the playground bullying picking on the popular kid (or in the case of Jews and Asians, the well-liked kid). Even though a few words are slung at the popular/well-liked kid, at the end of the day, the kid still knows he has the advantage; that he still gets the social benefits or at least his fair share, he gets the constant breaks and second chances, he still has the "special" connections, and he's seen as the standard or of an acceptable physical and sexual attraction. And besides, if someone who isn't respected at all on the playground makes fun of him, he can just laugh it off at the end of the day with his friends on how the bully "picked on him."
Sorry to tell the truth to all of you. But if I was white (or even Jewish/Asian/Indian), I wouldn't take as much offense to racial slurs than if I was Black/Latino/Middle Eastern.
He he I think its funny. I don't mind, like others have said it can only be offensive if you assign offensive value to it. I don't. I think it is an inadvertent function of public schools and being a kid - to make the skin thicker. Kids are cruel, and once in a while adults have their inner kid come out and say something cruel. My best friends at work consist of a black mexican, a dark skinned but as far as he knows totally caucasian jew, a philippino, and some white bread (me) - and when we go to lunch the tables around us probably think we write jokes for Lisa Lampanelli.
African Americans are offended by certain words. As I recall, they have something to ***** and moan about. I can't quite remember what it was, but it has something to do with boats and shackles.
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