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48. Jesus fucking Christ on a pogo stick half my ancestor are whites fleeing Europe, "poor white trash."

Tue Dec 9, 2014, 04:44 PM

Dec 2014

My dad's family was hiding the radical Irish Catholic, a few steps ahead of the English hangman immigrants, and my mom's family was hiding heretic Catholic and Jewish immigrants.

They hit the ground running for the American Wild West in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Many of my wife's family "arrived" here via Canada and Mexico, a generation or two after things got too hot for them here in Protestant U.S.A., as uppity native Americans and gone-AWOL Irish and French Catholics.

I'm a white humanist Catholic heretic of Jesuit and Orthodox Christian San Francisco. I won't ever apologize for that,

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Let me get this straight, re: the suddenly acceptable racial slur [View all] Dreamer Tatum Dec 2014 OP

link? hrmjustin Dec 2014 #1

A lot twisted panties here... TreasonousBastard Dec 2014 #2

Thanks for the link. hrmjustin Dec 2014 #5

seriously. uppityperson Dec 2014 #30

You aren't supposed to say "twisted panties" or "panties in a wad" it is sexist and in some cases snooper2 Dec 2014 #12

I shall wear my alert proudly. TreasonousBastard Dec 2014 #13

I always thought that annabanana Dec 2014 #3

Words in and of themselves don't oppress people gollygee Dec 2014 #4

Words, no AgingAmerican Dec 2014 #14

No gollygee Dec 2014 #17

Racial slurs don't have to 'oppress' AgingAmerican Dec 2014 #18

Sexism is a form of oppression. Lancero Dec 2014 #76

Not of racial oppression. gollygee Dec 2014 #77

I'm listening to you JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #6

The general approach to slurs lumberjack_jeff Dec 2014 #7

I agree. cyberswede Dec 2014 #10

I'm not an entirely disagreeable fellow. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2014 #28

+1 nt Zorra Dec 2014 #11

Who called you a stupid cracker? Link? morningfog Dec 2014 #20

Are you saying that I am the good kind of white person... lumberjack_jeff Dec 2014 #24

I asked who called you a cracker. I have no idea what kind of white person you are. morningfog Dec 2014 #32

Set aside the slur for the moment. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2014 #35

The thread was about crackers infiltrating, not white people. morningfog Dec 2014 #39

"Too many crackers in our society who are indifferent" lumberjack_jeff Dec 2014 #43

Indifferent racist crackers. morningfog Dec 2014 #73

you are creating your own definition of the word Mosby Dec 2014 #74

Well, clearly not, since you're outraged Recursion Dec 2014 #8

Are racial slurs ever acceptable? AgingAmerican Dec 2014 #15

Some of my favorite comedians use them. (nt) Recursion Dec 2014 #16

No doubt, you can find a cross to hang from in comfortable and complacent martyrdom on Amazon. LanternWaste Dec 2014 #9

Cracker is not a slur, settle down. morningfog Dec 2014 #19

White people aren't oppressed by it treestar Dec 2014 #21

craik: Gaelic for "chat" KamaAina Dec 2014 #22

I thought a "cracker" was just a person from Georgia? Blue_Tires Dec 2014 #69

Actually, the term is probably in widest use in Florida KamaAina Dec 2014 #70

And at last! The word 'cracker' comes from craik and as 'cracker' is found in Shakespeare among Bluenorthwest Dec 2014 #75

It's a slur, not oppression in and of itself. n/t Orsino Dec 2014 #23

"Traditionally" white U.S.A. is a racist, apartheid, mean-spirited nation. hunter Dec 2014 #25

Your post is a good reason to add you to my ignore list upaloopa Dec 2014 #27

Heh. I'm a white male who grew up in a 99.44 % pure white community. hunter Dec 2014 #29

Extremely apt reference tkmorris Dec 2014 #31

It doesn't matter where the statement originates upaloopa Dec 2014 #38

Group Guilt? Really? hunter Dec 2014 #42

You deal in absolutes and blanket statements. upaloopa Dec 2014 #47

Read my journal and search my posts here on DU. hunter Dec 2014 #57

How old are you just asking. upaloopa Dec 2014 #63

I'm a decade younger than you. hunter Dec 2014 #72

How big??? bravenak Dec 2014 #58

More than big enough to most people who have seen me naked in warmer waters. hunter Dec 2014 #61

Oooh la la!!! bravenak Dec 2014 #62

the world YOU write about there hfojvt Dec 2014 #45

So I've figured... hunter Dec 2014 #50

If you apply the definition of racism and upaloopa Dec 2014 #26

Cracker is just another way of saying "poor white trash". Xithras Dec 2014 #33

Jesus fucking Christ on a pogo stick half my ancestor are whites fleeing Europe, "poor white trash." hunter Dec 2014 #48

This message was self-deleted by its author Corruption Inc Dec 2014 #34

In what universe is calling a white person a cracker "oppressing" them? Sheldon Cooper Dec 2014 #36

I'm now convinced it's not at all, and in fact is a perfectly good substitute for "white." Dreamer Tatum Dec 2014 #37

You are making progress. Now, let's move on to honkey. morningfog Dec 2014 #40

This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Dec 2014 #44

Good. Sheldon Cooper Dec 2014 #53

Now I can focus on the crackers running in 2016. Dreamer Tatum Dec 2014 #54

There ya go. That's the spirit! HappyMe Dec 2014 #59

This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Dec 2014 #68

Too bad you merely gave-in rather than attempted to understand historical and social context. LanternWaste Dec 2014 #67

Cracker (pejorative) cpwm17 Dec 2014 #46

Thanks, but I'm familiar with the definition. Sheldon Cooper Dec 2014 #51

It's about hate cpwm17 Dec 2014 #66

it's like that time straight people were oppressed with the word breeder La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2014 #79

well look what happened after that - them gays took all the marriage rights Warren Stupidity Dec 2014 #81

and "I am just a dumb colonist" hfojvt Dec 2014 #41

Last line really nailed it! ieoeja Dec 2014 #49

Well, when one thread goes down, that's cause to start another, equally breathless one Scootaloo Dec 2014 #52

Being both boring and predictable. Starry Messenger Dec 2014 #55

I'm sorry, I consider it an apt term for people like Cliven Bundy, Ted Nugent, lots Hoyt Dec 2014 #56

So this is a thread about racism against white people? SomethingFishy Dec 2014 #60

It is a slur. Behind the Aegis Dec 2014 #64

I'm 3/4 white and I don't find the term cracker offensive. To me a cracker is just a saltine. Louisiana1976 Dec 2014 #65

I was born a cracker in central Florida Warpy Dec 2014 #78

if every third post of yours wasn't an attempt to show that people of color, and especially alcibiades_mystery Dec 2014 #71

What Eleanor Roosevelt had to say about this... HereSince1628 Dec 2014 #80