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Trying to think of one... pretty difficult white people have dominated the world so long their really aren't many insults you can make.

Oh I've heard people get called pasty and in some Asian countries we all get called "Stupid American" even though we aren't American that's such an insult ..stupid ya maybe... American how dare you son of a... just joking all you Americans

I really can't think of insults we are called heck we often avoid stereotypes too. Well not nationality ones every time I go south people as about the snow, I remember a guy in Cali Best Buy asking how I could get TV in an igloo thought it was a joke till I realized the guy was serious. lol was pretty funny.



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Maybe Caucasians should be referred to as wiggers? w=white and the rest is obvious.



           

As Spazzy_D said, "cracker" was originally about slave foremen, and was actually really a term for Blacks to use against other Blacks, because the cracker was usually a slave himself, just given rank over the other slaves, which ventures into the murky world of intra-Black racism, since supposedly there is a good deal of resentment between lighter skinned Africans and darker skinned ones, or at least there can be.

I prefer "honky." It makes me giggle.



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Am I a salty one? Do I come with cheese? What ethnicity would be a "chip", then? Do they come in a chocolate variety?

Yeah, the terms are pathetic. But as said before, it's less about what's being said and more about it being descriminatory. That said, I personally find it very hard to be offended by something as silly-sounding as "cracker".



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badgenome said:

Because we are just too awesome.

There are good ones if you target specific ethnicities, though. I've always liked "bogtrotter".


Lol, I have to agree that targeting by ethnic lines seems to irk white people the most.

Personally, I just never let it get to me. I don't care.



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I actually find "cracker" and "honky" quite humorous.



Ironically the most offensive ethnic slurs out there for white people are ones created by other white people and used against each other... for example I'm Italian American, and there are tons of ethnic slurs out there for us, most notably WOP, which stands for WithOut Papers.. a slur used mainly by natural born American citizens (mostly of Irish or German descent) against Italian Americans in the early 20th century, many of whom immigrated here fresh off the boat so to speak without any documentation of any sort.

And then of course there's the ever-popular "guinea", which once upon a time was the rough equivalent of calling an Italian a nigger, but has since been embrace by the Jersey Shore crowd, and guido too of course.



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

Yeah I don't get offended at all by the word cracker, none of the slurs against white people really affect me.



It's harder to offend whites because they don't have any complexes about them...I mean there r dumb whites that turn to a bitch but it's nothing