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In reply to the discussion: Yes, George Zimmerman is in fact a "creepy cracker". [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)but he'd also very much understand the difference is speaking of the roots of a word and how that word might be used by him, her, then, now, whatever. The word 'cracker' as a term meaning Southern rural folks predates the first culinary 'Cracker' so you know, you asked what color is a cracker, as if the people were named after the snack, when that is not the case. In Florida, the Cracker Cowboys were Spanish, Seminole and Scots Irish, so to color code them would take several stages of burning your biscuit.
Chris uses 'faggot' freely and claims when he says it 'it doesn't mean gay'. He's self indulgent in that way, intellectually dishonest as he is about many of his lexicon excuses, he uses those words because they make him money. Chris likes money and says faggot and such to make money. Is he a homophobe? Nope. But he has a homophobic lexicon because he is one venal and petite man, small and greedy.