I'm a honky, cracker, casper, whitey, gringo

[JAbuchan08]

whetto, white trash, pale-face, cornball. And I'm a frickin' bitch as well. So there!

[everythingsxen]

1. OK..

So?

Racist names for white people suck. They are all stupid sounding and have never had their desired effect on me.

The only interesting thing is you can call a white person any white racial epithet you like, on national TV even, and no-one is offended.

Try that with any other race... :grr:

[camero]

2. I always laugh when I'm called a cracker

Of course most of the time it's said in jest. I always ask them if they want a ritz or just a regular cracker. :)

[everythingsxen]

3. When someone says it to me..

and they are being serious, as though they are actually trying to offend me, I say "So?"; and I end up dragging them into a pointless conversation about where the term cracker originated.

[camero]

7. I've been lucky in that regard

Noone's ever said it too me seriously. It could be a subtle insult I guess but my laughter usually takes the wind out of their sails and we have a good laugh. Course I've never really been called prejudiced either. Alot of people feel comfortable talking to me and I find I don't have to use the PC terms much.

For example, I can call a black person black and they aren't offended by it.

[everythingsxen]

20. Hehe..

That reminds me of some PC orientation class I had to go through..

I forget the name of the class but it was at a tech school I almost started going to.

I had to pay money to attend this sensitivity training course before I was allowed to go to school. It was supposed to explain to all of us how to interact with other people.

I was always ultra-polite and followed the rules carefully. The teacher was black and so was about half the class. Several of our "informative" books were often at odds with one another.

For example, one would say that you should call a black person "African-American" and another would say "Afro-American"; So I would use both all the time in reference. One day I asked the teacher "So which is the preferred term? African American or Afro American?"; the teacher looked over the faces of the class and without missing a beat replied: "Black". We all chuckled.

[camero]

23. lol

Sometimes I'm glad I never went to college...lol :)

My education on that was my mom having a black friend where she worked who invited us to dinner at her house on the weekends. This was at the time when desegregation was just starting. The neighbors would give us the coldest looks like we didn't belong but they learned to accept us after we kept going there practically every weekend.

And interaction is the best defense against any racism really.

[JAbuchan08]

8. There's no logic behind my post

I know it sounds a little um, well, freepish, but I got really sick of the PC police discussing how terrible the word b*tch is in any and all contexts. So my reaction was to insult myself... it seemed like a good idea at the time.

[everythingsxen]

10. Logic is overrated

:D

[camero]

11. It's still a good idea

It's just that the "cracker" one jumped out at me because I think it's just hilarious. I can wax comical on it and it calms the person down.

16. Who coined the term PC in the first place?

think about it

[Intelsucks]

4. cornball... Never heard that one before

n/t

[Must_B_Free]

5. you're a haole, too

... at least in Hawaii you are...

[DrWeird]

6. Yeah, but you're priviledged.

So quit your bitching.

[JAbuchan08]

12. I'm not complaining - I know I'm privileged

I experienced it recently when I was turned down for a loan on the basis of my credit history rather than the color of my skin.

[boobooday]

9. Seriously, how could any white person be offended?

We invented racial epithets, didn't we?

I was talking to an Asian friend the other day, and he referred to the American students as "all the whiteys."

My other friend was offended. I had to laugh. Being white, it seems impossible to be offended by racial epithets aimed at white people. What sting can it have without the boot of oppression?

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[camero]

13. Everyone has been oppressed at some point

The problem is with power not with race.

[johnnie]

14. call me anything....

Just don't call me when I'm sleeping....yeah I know..

[JAbuchan08]

15. Well not all white people enter the world with a silver spoon in their

mouth. The only one of those epithets I take any offense to is "white trash" because I used to be on the recieving end of that one quite often. As far as your story goes I don't think what he said sounds that offensive, but I don't know whether he said this with a tone of disdain or in a joking manner. It all has to do with context.

18. did You know the term white trash came into being

as a political tactic during the Reconstruction to separate by race two groups who would have been naturally aligned by class?

[JAbuchan08]

19. I had heard that it was a term that was used very early in the slavery day

From what I heard it was invented by slave masters to refer to the impoverished people whom they felt were a genetically corrupted and bastardized version of the white race (much like slaves, these people had to be genetically inferior to justify the aristocracies world-view) and adopted later by slaves as a way to kind of comfort themselves that there was a class of people who were even worse off then them. Just a quibble, but I think the term was invented prior to the civil war.

21. invented yes

It looks like it got really cemented in afterwards.
I'll accept your quibble.
Check this
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/AM483_95/projects/trash/trash2.html

interesting read.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

17. Dosen't make you a bad person, no siree.

some of my favorite relatives are white trash.

[NightTrain]

22. You forgot "ofay."

Just thought I'd mention it! :evilgrin: