haxxiy on 02 July 2013
| S.T.A.G.E. said: Cracker isn't a racist term, its another word for a slave owner with a whip or cowman with a whip. Crack as in crack of the whip, not saltine cracker. I guess some never let slavery go. Ignorance is ignorance, but cracker isn't a racist term. If anything everytime a black person says it historically it demeans them. Its like saying "oppressor" |
Etymology can't be used to justify whether a term is racist or not. That's a kind of genetic fallacy. There are very few terms, if at all, created to mean offense. Otherwise I could just say nigger simply means black-colored instead of anything offensive since that's what the original latin term means.
