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Creepy Ass Cracker.... Racist or no? [W:329/550]

Is the phrase "Creepy Ass Cracker" Racist?

  • Yes!

    Votes: 49 62.8%
  • No!

    Votes: 14 17.9%
  • I blame Whitey!

    Votes: 8 10.3%
  • Other

    Votes: 7 9.0%

  • Total voters
    78
As a white guy, there is very little that I would consider to be racist towards a white person.

In Arizona when I was canvassing a fair amount of teenager Native Americans would call me random white guy names (like Hank, Ron, etc) and put on a low white guy voice like Dave Chappelle and salute me.

So idk, I don't really think anyone can say anything to me that would bother be, nor do I consider anything someone says to a white guy as racist.
 
Like I said, I knew that you would see it that way. I'm okay with that. /shrug

Or how about you just link me to the post you made explaining how "institutionalized racism" is a big problem in our country.

Let's also include how you think a black man was elected the president in such a racist country.
 
No, in terms of anything other than the target's feelings, powerless prejudice is meaningless.
Also silly and merely meant to immunize the racist.
In addition ... it's quite an old excuse often run up the pole to see what kind of jamoke salutes, I might add.
 
Or how about you just link me to the post you made explaining how "institutionalized racism" is a big problem in our country.

Let's also include how you think a black man was elected the president in such a racist country.

ChristL..talk to me..what is a ''creepy ass cracker??''

What does it mean??
 
Sure seems to me like whites are not the only ones who control the power structures.




Does that thought make you happy or sad?




"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.
 
and then again, some do not challenge the dogma they encounter at school and some are smart enough to challenge such based upon potential inconsistancies, missapplications and errant assumptions.

You still haven't responded to the fact that on local and regional levels, people of color are in control of various institutions such as the one that failed to serve the needs of my son. In doing so, you have reduced complex situations to a very simple matter of skin color thus reducing your argument to a matter of simplistic dogma.

Accepting answers while never asking questions may earn one a good grade at school, but it certainly does not expand the understanding of racism. Reducing the notion of racism to a simplistic platitude does not address the very meaningful question Dr Chuckles asked a while back and one which I pointed out early on, namely that you are making an enormous and quite erranious assumption that because whites as a whole have more power in the culture at large that there is no possibility that people of color can be racist, even when they quite definitely control various institutions.

I'm not impressed with ones personal or community problems. We're discussing sociology and the impacts of actual racism on society. A couple privileged white boys having a hard time now and then is neither significant nor anything that anyone is not aware of. Such myopic vision only serves to perpetuate the misconception that personal anecdotes carry the weight and breadth of actual studies and the society-wide concerns therein.
 
Does that thought make you happy or sad?




"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.

It's not who they are but what they have done and will do that matters.
 
Speaking of projecting......:doh

Why people reduce the world to binary is beyond me. Your assumption that because a person rejects bigotry against white people that they must therefore tolerate bigotry against people of color does not allow for the possibility that people may actually reject all bigotry rather than just the politically correct rejection of only some forms.

Read that Ingersol quote again. he says ALL people , not "everybody but white folks"






More projection on your part.


I assume nothing.

I live in a reality based world.

I don't know what you see every day, but I do know what I see every day, and I know what's going on in the USA, and that's what I base my opinions on.




"Better days are coming." ~ But not for today's out of touch, running out of time, GOP.
 
It's a slur based on race.

So basically it means..

Synonyms:awful, direful, disgusting, disturbing, dreadful, eerie, frightening, ghoulish, gruesome, hair-raising, horrible, itching, itchy, macabre, menacing, nightmarish, ominous, shuddersome, sinister, terrifying, threatening, unpleasant, weird...

Sodomite??
 
It's obviously racist, but when it's said by a chick who could've been a body double on the move Precious, it's just hilarious.
 
Yeah. It's well known, but ignored for the reason you state. It's odd that the political left preaches an open mind but resorts to stereotypical memes at every turn.

Good morning, humbolt. :2wave:

We have become used to that meme! It's tiresome, overused, and boring, though, which explains why it is usually ignored by thinking adults. Who, except for those who don't want to think for themselves, like to hear "do as I say, not as I do," over and over, which portrays the speaker's arrogance and misguided belief that we are just too ignorant to know what's best for us! :thumbdown:
 
Cracker isn't racist unless qualified by an adjective such as "white" or "black" By itself, it's neutral, some native Floridians use it as a descriptor to differentiate themselves from northern-born incomers.
 
So basically it means..

Synonyms:awful, direful, disgusting, disturbing, dreadful, eerie, frightening, ghoulish, gruesome, hair-raising, horrible, itching, itchy, macabre, menacing, nightmarish, ominous, shuddersome, sinister, terrifying, threatening, unpleasant, weird...

Sodomite??

You looked up synonyms for creepy, didn't ya. hahaha Good one.
 
Without institutional backing, it's mere bigotry or prejudice. Without institutional backing, most of the concept regarding oppression is lost and the term is reduced to an overly-simple description for that which implies so much more than mere powerless bigotry.

It's the 'sociological definition' of racism.
So only when they form 'The Institute of We Hate White People' does it become racist? Or if Wal-Mart sponsors them?

Hah, classic ecofarm.
 
Cracker isn't racist unless qualified by an adjective such as "white" or "black" By itself, it's neutral, some native Floridians use it as a descriptor to differentiate themselves from northern-born incomers.

You must be kidding.

First of all, cracker is inherently racist because the name came around from Saltines, which are white crackers. Black crackers? The hell part of England are you from?
 
Cracker isn't racist unless qualified by an adjective such as "white" or "black" By itself, it's neutral, some native Floridians use it as a descriptor to differentiate themselves from northern-born incomers.


Why have white people taken offense..''creepy arse cracker'' sounds like something kids call each other in the school playground!!
 
Good morning, humbolt. :2wave:

We have become used to that meme! It's tiresome, overused, and boring, though, which explains why it is usually ignored by thinking adults. Who, except for those who don't want to think for themselves, like to hear "do as I say, not as I do," over and over, which portrays the speaker's arrogance and misguided belief that we are just too ignorant to know what's best for us! :thumbdown:
It's all that you say. Living in the south, I tend to discount most of that associated with such political and social remarks, but I'll play along on occasion just to see how far some are willing to take it. I find it interesting that the south was a fine place as long as it voted with the racist democrats. Having largely purged racism from society here, the south is now totally unacceptable to the political left - and that's revealing.
 
Why have white people taken offense..''creepy arse cracker'' sounds like something kids call each other in the school playground!!

Taking offense is not a prerequisite for racism or racist statements/slurs. The determinant factor is how it's said, not how it's heard.
 
Taking offense is not a prerequisite for racism or racist statements/slurs. The determinant factor is how it's said, not how it's heard.

Or how big the chip on your shoulder is??
 
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