If not, how about if you don’t use a hard R?
I don’t know what the hard R is. But where I work, calling someone a cracker is a good way to be fired regardless of your race.
I think he means “cracka” as opposed to “cracker”. By analogy to a similar construction of the racial slur he’s implying is equivalent.
We can do whatever we want, we’re white.
Cite: history
If you want to get under their skin, there’s a lot of other words that will work better. Cracka is like a nerf dart.
You can, but everyone will either roll their eyes or laugh at you. Or both.
Cracker or “cracka”, the best you will get out of me would probably be a slight giggle. But it all depends on context. I might end up rolling on the floor laughing and have difficulty breathing.
Personally, I would not classify this question as a “Great Debate.”
From a “racial conversation” perspective, I’d say that Black people using racist black slurs towards one another is an attempt to “take” those words and cause them to lose some power. But white people have never seriously been demeaned or put into a subordinate position by words like “cracker”. So trying to call your white friends “cracker” ranges from laughably lame and pathetic to perhaps mildly offensive in a “trying to play the ‘But Black people can…’” card sort of way. I ain’t gonna get mad that you did it but I’m going to think you’re some sort of idiot for trying it. Trying to add a “Black urban speech” slant to it with “cracka” is going to steer me towards the “You’re probably a racist” end of the idiot spectrum.
You can only safely call people “saltine”, or maybe “Ritz” if you know them really well. Anything else would get you beaten with a croquet mallet, or possibly run over by a golf cart. Don’t ever call someone “Zesta.” That could get you banned from the Yale Club for life!
I agree that it would sound silly in most places in the USA, but if you were in Georgia or Florida, where “cracker” can mean a back country pioneer and those descended from and/or embodying that tradition, it would depend on context, since if your target was an actual rural person, they might take pride in the term or might be as offended as if you had called them a redneck without having “r-word” privileges.
I thought in those places it also meant ‘ignorant hick’.
So…kind of an insult?
I named my white cat Cracker.
Too close to accurate.
Can white people call other white people crackers?
Of course they can.
They can also be reprimanded for doing so.
I hope so. I’ve been calling my other highly reflective brethren “honky” when ever I feel like it.
For those of you not treating the OP seriously, what if you were a white person whose job it was to crack petroleum? And, someone came in and wanted to talk to the head cracker? What then, smart guys?
For the past few decades, the strawman use of the n-word was more annoying than the actual use as a slur because it was so much more prevalent. It was, in effect, putting words in other peoples mouths if you intend to take something back that people who hear it don’t use.
But these days, I hear this third level of use even more than the “taking back” use. It’s now risen to its own level of strawmanning, because I hear people making a hypocrisy charge about this use of the n-word a lot more than I actually see it being used.
No. They need to be more specific.
You are such a Ritz.
Did you mean for this to be in a different forum?