I'm disturbed that people here think an appropriate approach is to mirror such obviously unreal racist garbage instead of overcoming it
What we're trying to do -- or at least should be trying to do -- is to get people to think about why "cracker" lacks the invective of the n-word, and how racism runs much deeper than merely an insult based on skin color. But as you describe, we're just mirroring racist insults, trying to offend people with them, then saying "how can you possibly be offended by this."
We'll talk all day about how you can't make a book or movie with subtext because no one will get it, then we'll do this convoluted stuff instead of just explaining our views on how racism works.
What we're trying to do -- or at least should be trying to do -- is to get people to think about why "cracker" lacks the invective of the n-word, and how racism runs much deeper than merely an insult based on skin color. But as you describe, we're just mirroring racist insults, trying to offend people with them, then saying "how can you possibly be offended by this."
We'll talk all day about how you can't make a book or movie with subtext because no one will get it, then we'll do this convoluted stuff instead of just explaining our views on how racism works.