• AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    paper impersonating bleach demons getting mad about the most harmless "slur" in the history of humankind again

    • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]
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      1 year ago

      Honestly I find whitelists to be an... odd way of phrasing it. There's a reason most programmers have moved to block and allow lists. Don't really care about crackerlist, but I find it odd that they'd still use the naming conventions of white and black lists. Changing white to cracker doesn't make whitelists any less weird.

      No idea how they give two shits about the word cracker when there is obviously a bigger issue.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      9/10 crackers do not ruminate in fear and dehumanization when they’re called that because there is no policy - historical or present - to oppress them as a group of people. Rarely do people say it with complete malice and desire for violence - it’s often said lightheartedly because everyone knows that the dynamics are just completely imbalanced. At worst they’ll be annoyed for 30 seconds and forget about it.

      Hell, I’d argue honkey and redneck are more “offensive” because it’s a slur for poor white people, and this subgroup has and is still being targeted by the state today. But crackers don’t want to talk about class, even when it’s them who’s suffering.

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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        1 year ago

        Literally nobody but racist crackers care about "slurs" for white people, it doesn't hurt and may in fact help in the most minuscule of ways because it's funny watching white identitarians malding about make-believe oppression

        I won't use it and I'm not white.

        Looking for a pat on the head or somethin?

      • GunslingerSky [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        If being called cracker makes someone disinterested in socialist policy then they weren't open to changing their views in the first place

        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          This is a bad take. If you try to join a group and they insult you, it's normal to walk away even if you like some things that group is doing. People leave jobs that pay them money they need over insults.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Fam I learned recently that rednecks eat at a place called Cracker Barrel. Only the most baby of petit bourgeois would be angry about it, and their class interests do not align with socialism