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Whats wrong with calling someone white a cracker?

I was in uni today, I was playing snooker with a friend of mine. I end up winning, and as a joke, "I said better luck next time cracker".

he flipped out and accused me of being racist.

What do you white people on here think about this matter :confused:

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Reply 1

username202682

You'd be ready to bust a fool's balls if they called you 'negro' etc (or 'Paki' or whatever slur relates to your ethnicity) :colonhash:

I don't see how cracker is any different.

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 2

Liam 09

Yeah, it's just a bit of a racial slur, why is that hard to understand?

Reply 3

dzeh

I dont get how cracker relates to being white?

Reply 4

PapaShmurff

Really? He needs a slap, i couldn't care less if someone called me a cracker

Reply 5

James93

some people are ridiculously over-sensitive and dont get it... its ethnic banter!

Reply 6

Uzzy?

I didn't know cracker was a racial slur :lolwut:

If it is I can understand why he did its the same as calling someone a 'paki' etc this combined with the fact that he lost = rage :angry:

Reply 7

Retrodiction

Original post by dzeh

I dont get how cracker relates to being white?

As far as I know it's related to the whips slave-drivers used on ships on on fields etc. Still, if this were the case I don't understand why black people would use it as an insult... surely it implies that the white person has dominance over them?

EDIT: don't understand the negs... if you have a better explanation then go ahead and post it. Mine makes perfect sense, and, besides, it's just what I read somewhere.

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 8

didgeridoo12uk

i couldn't care less if somebody called me a cracker, i really don't find it offensive

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 9

Jingers

It's a racist slur. That said, lots of white people in England have never heard of honky, cracker etc before... and they still say racism affects everyone equally.

Reply 10

Lamptastic

I don't understand the relevance tbh.

:confused:

Reply 11

Pedrobear

Original post by ChaoticSkills

I guess he's just mad because he literally got smashed when playing snooker.

So he was either drunk when you beat him, or you beat him by chucking a snooker ball at his forehead.

You wonder why he was 'mad'.

Reply 12

ChaoticSkills

Original post by Pedrobear

So he was either drunk when you beat him, or you beat him by chucking a snooker ball at his forehead.

You wonder why he was 'mad'.

Yes, then I stuck the pool cue up his mothers hole.

:facepalm2:

Reply 13

username227498

I would laugh if someone called me a cracker, and I'm white. It's a really odd thing to say.

Reply 14

IlexBlue

And yet if the thread was entitled "what's wrong with calling a black guy n*****," the OP would be called a racist *******.

Ahh, double standards.

Reply 15

Pedrobear

Original post by ChaoticSkills

Yes, then I stuck the pool cue up his mothers hole.

:facepalm2:

How did this make you feel?

Reply 16

ChaoticSkills

Original post by Pedrobear

How did this make you feel?

Not bad, she didn't seem best pleased though.

Reply 17

Oh my Ms. Coffey

Original post by ChaoticSkills

Not bad, she didn't seem best pleased though.

Wrong hole.

Reply 18

Pedrobear

Original post by IlexBlue

And yet if the thread was entitled "what's wrong with calling a black guy n*****," the OP would be called a racist *******.

Ahh, double standards.

It's not double standards, they're completely different terms. ****** was an epithet used by white people to disparage black people, whereas 'cracker'... has a murky etymology, actually, but it's largely thought to have been used by white people to refer to other white people -- specifically poor white people.

Go ahead and disagree with whether history is relevant to contemporary language or not, but it'd be disingenuous and lazy to say it's all to do with "double standards" or "PC gone mad".