Just got called out for using the racial term "Cracker" at work.

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Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

I'm white.
What is going on here?

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:25

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Sponge Baathist: Jan 30, 2010; by FactsAreUseless

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:27

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Applewhite posted:

I'm white.
What is going on here?

time to take the red pill

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:28

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

tell whoever called you out to stop hating

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:28

Lascivious Sloth: Apr 26, 2008; by sebmojo

Crackers with dick cheese

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:29

AlwaysBeSithing: Aug 27, 2015; by Ralp

Sounds like you normalized goon thinking op. Most ppl dont like to hear racial slurs about them. Most people arent self hating husks either

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:29

Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

AlwaysBeSithing posted:

Sounds like you normalized goon thinking op. Most ppl dont like to hear racial slurs about them. Most people arent self hating husks either

TBF in context I was using it as a classist term at the time.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:32

DaemonWyrm: Jul 3, 2003; Why don't I hear any sleep screams?

Applewhite posted:

What is going on here?

Good morning fellow employee. You'll notice that I am now a model worker. We should continue this conversation later during the designated break period.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:37

Bro Dad: Mar 26, 2010

Applewhite posted:

TBF in context I was using it as a classist term at the time.

so you hate poor floridian pioneer families?

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:39

Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

Bro Dad posted:

so you hate poor floridian pioneer families?

"Hate" is such an ugly word.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:40

Sophy Wackles: Dec 17, 2000; > access main security grid
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Maybe you shouldn't make such a hate filled work environment OP

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:41

suburban virgin: Jul 26, 2007; Highly qualified lurker.

Call whoever complained a racist. White people love hearing cracker and whitey and stuff because it gives them a warm glowy feeling of fake oppression. Call them racist and they fall apart into blubbering hysterical wrecks.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:43

Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

Lascivious Sloth posted:

Crackers with dick cheese

A common misconception, but the term "cracker" when referring to white people is not meant to invoke the pale, brittle, blandness of a literal cracker, but the fact that white people "cracked" whips at slaves in the fields. As such, it really refers to racist whites in particular and not all whites.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:43

ROFLburger: Jan 12, 2006

Strange op I can't imagine why your employer might not want you to say thing like that :confused:

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:46

Bro Dad: Mar 26, 2010

Applewhite posted:

A common misconception, but the term "cracker" when referring to white people is not meant to invoke the pale, brittle, blandness of a literal cracker, but the fact that white people "cracked" whips at slaves in the fields. As such, it really refers to racist whites in particular and not all whites.

wrong.

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The term "cracker" was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning "entertaining conversation" (One may be said to "crack" a joke); this term and the Gaelicized spelling "craic" are still in use in Northern England, Ireland and Scotland. It is documented in William Shakespeare's King John (1595): "What cracker is this ... that deafes our ears / With this abundance of superfluous breath?"

By the 1760s the English, both at home and in the American colonies, applied the term �cracker� to Scots-Irish and English American settlers of the remote southern back country, as noted in a letter to the Earl of Dartmouth: "I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode."[citation needed] The word was later associated with the cowboys of Georgia and Florida, many of them descendants of those early frontiersmen who had migrated South. Also used by Florida cowboys, like with picture of Florida cracker Bone Mizell.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:46

Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

ROFLburger posted:

Strange op I can't imagine why your employer might not want you to say thing like that

Well when you put it that way I'm the one who looks stupid.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:49

quakster: Jul 21, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

both slurs and whining about them are political controlling tactics; the only winning move is not to play. gonna roll back to snorts, grunts & whistles, the only real way to communicate

# ? Sep 10, 2015 18:57