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Originally Posted by Izzibeth
And the words being used are important. "Cracker" simply does not hold the same weight OR have the same history as the word "nigger". White people can say that "cracker" is as offensive as "nigger" all they want but it is not true. Looking up the history, usage and origin of the words will tell you that.
Like I said... if I walked up to my mom and called her a jerk, I think she would be a LOT less offended if I walked up to her and called her a bitch or a cunt or whatever other wonderful mixes and matches of words I could come up with. The words matter.
There is no double standard. The words might not mean the same or have the same origin but if it's deemed racism you will be punished in the real world whether you are black or white
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I believe that racism against whites is now just being noticed in America and maybe elsewhere – mostly by younger generation. My parents’ generation feels sorry about what happened with slavery in America, but they do so without taking the context of history into consideration, and there are some things about the history of slavery that are poorly known. Lastly, how can one say a word like the “n” word is any worse than a “c” word that rhymes with hacker?
History is filled with slavery. Whites did enslave blacks, and others. It wasn’t good. Free, or cheap, labor still exists today, and it isn’t good. Blacks are just as guilty as any white man, for they enslaved and sold blacks to the white man. Whites and blacks were coconspirators.
It would be difficult, and even then it would be subjective, to say one derogatory word is worse than another. The “n” word actually comes from the word for black: in Latin black is “niger.” Still, it is fallacious to say whites are uniquely able to offend other races, and that whites' own mentality and womentality (had to put that in there) has led to white racism in rebound.
White racism has been creeping up with laws that give minorities advantages against a white person getting hired, and laws that punish one race more than another. I don’t see how a minority’s racism is somehow less than another’s.
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