| Kasz216 said: Nigger is worse then cracker, because nigger has hundreds of years of negative conotations. Cracker... has zero connotations behind it. |
Cracker does have decidedly negative connotations, even if they're not as strong.
Your earlier example, that it's offensive if Michael Richards says nigger because he's white but not when Chris Rock says cracker because he's black, is the very definition of a double standard because it violates the basic premise that no one should be treated differently because of his race. That is similar to how critical race theory holds that there can't be simple and universal application of the law because past injustices have to be made up for with... new injustices, really, only in the opposite direction, when in reality the best way to do away with discrimination is to stop discriminating altogether.
Now, the specifics of the actual situations are what make them different: Rock says cracker in the process of telling a joke, whereas when Richards said nigger he did so in anger. Being unfunny is already a cardinal sin for a comedian, so it was that much worse when he flew off the handle and made it racial. That's the context that matters.
