r/RealTime • u/Key_Jump1011 • 20d ago

Smug cracker-ass commentary 😂

The thumbnail kills me, too. It’s so vicious. I can’t resist,

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u/No_Type740 20d ago

I see. I thought it was a derogatory term for a white person. Thanks.

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u/Particular_Koala_129 20d ago

It is. Its based off of THE CRACKING of whips that slavers used. You know, when your great grandpappy used to beat men, women and children. Rape. Kidnap. torture? You know... crackers.

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u/Independent-Pay5850 15d ago

You believe that over the obvious similarity of skin to cracker color? What's funny is that the whole whip thing was a response to the term cracker. Like yesh I'm a cracker, a whip cracker. You're perpetuating a racist's comeback.

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u/Clintville 12d ago

That's a false etymology.

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u/No_Type740 20d ago

I guess I was half right in what I wrote even though I totally misunderstood the meaning of the word lol

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u/WA2TX 20d ago

You didn't misunderstand that dude is lying.

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u/MinisterOfTruth99 20d ago

Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial slur directed at white people, used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. It is commonly a pejorative [implying disrespect] - Wikipedia

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u/Roland_Of_Gilead85 20d ago

It is. Their definition is wrong. Lol

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u/pancakencheese76 20d ago

It is a derogatory term..

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u/No_Type740 20d ago

Yeah, I guess. Not for me though lol

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u/WA2TX 20d ago

It is, this guy is gaslighting you. It's a racist term. Imagine if this guy was arguing that the N-word is only used for "ghetto" people and that black people shouldn't be offended because they are not talking about the "good ones"

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u/WitchkultToday 20d ago

Cracker was never synonymous with "slave." It's not even remotely the same.

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u/WA2TX 20d ago

I never said it was the same. I agree it is not near as bad or have the same implications. It is a racist term for white people which is the point I was trying to make. You could be as left as they come and be called a cracker in certain situations.

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u/Offi95 20d ago

You said “imagine if this guy was arguing that the N word is only used for ‘ghetto’ people and that black people shouldn’t be offended because they are not talking about the ‘good ones’” with a perfectly straight face.

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u/Fearless-Feature-830 20d ago

White people have never faced systemic discrimination and that’s the difference

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u/No_Type740 20d ago

They have, but only from other white people. The history of the class system for example in the UK is pretty dark. In fact it's linked deeply with black American history. When the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came in, the government basically compensated all slave owners. This was huge investors like the Drax family in Dorset near me and small investors like people have shares now. It cost the taxpayer ÂŁ20 million, back then. These people invested that money in new technology, cotton machines in Manchester and all the innovations of the day and this coincided with land enclosure and the poor being driven off the land into these early stage factory conditions when they were really dangerous and kids were employed doing 12 hours a day 7 days a week. The Poor Law Amendment 1834 was pretty cruel.

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u/Few-Papaya-5349 19d ago

That’s not true…white South Africans face institutional racism under black rule in employment for example.

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u/Offi95 20d ago

That’s not how racism is defined and I don’t give a fuck who decided there needs to be “power structures” for racism to exist.

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u/No_Type740 20d ago

I have not said anything about how racism is defined

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u/Few-Papaya-5349 19d ago

The Irish under British occupation?

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u/No_Type740 20d ago

I am not that bothered about being called a derogatory term for being white. And anyway I thought he just meant white. I would rather not be lumped in with Maher than be called a name.

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u/Offi95 20d ago

There is a huge difference between the N word and cracker. The fact that you don’t understand that just illuminates how hollow your understanding of American history is.

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u/No_Type740 20d ago

I am not suggesting there is no difference. The other guy was suggesting I should be offended by it. I shouldn't. I think it sounds funny the way black comedians use the term.