How come the ethnic slurs for white people are pathetic?

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theprof00 said:

wfz said:
Cracker is an insult referencing white man's ownership and power in the slavery period?

And that's an insult? Huh... I view slavery as a terrible thing, but I would hardly be offended by someone calling me a man of "power."

Not really anything to do with that. But like, a Boss who is on your shit for every little detail. Someone who desires to exert power over another simply because it gets them off. And that's the problem. Most white people aren't crackas. It's just that most crackas are white.

Eh, I'm sure "white guilt" has something to do with it too, but (as this thread points out)  white people don't seem to take too much offense to it.  Maybe its also this whole nebulous "white people" thing.  Most honkeys don't consider themselves ethnically white, they identify with what ever European heritage they have.