Because I’m not.
Yes, you are. The term “Cracker” is offensive and disparaging and only directed to people of one race.
That’s racist.
Maybe a moderator will check in?
Man - let’s go to the way back machine! Doh, it’s from this same thread, though it was 1.5 years ago:
I’m not sure what’s more amusing, the original absurd statement or the fact that it’s actually accurate in this instance. I’m torn.
(my bold)
I wonder if you actually believe this. It’s quite ridiculous. There are two assertions here:
[ol]
[li]it is bad for kids to grow up where you can’t go anywhere unless Mom drives you. [/li][li]A suburban kid can only walk to close neighbors’ houses, and perhaps to a playground.[/li][/ol]
To the first - cite?
To the second - cite? I grew up in a suburb. I walked or biked to school, the grocery store, the comic book store, the mall, the arcade, bowling alley, tennis courts, basketball courts, book stores, pretty much everywhere. And my neighbors’ houses and the playground.
Seniors in good health, perhaps. But if you’re likely to need to hurry to a doc, “rural” better mean a small town and not a farm in the middle of nowhere.
it was the name for the Atlanta minor league baseball team before the Braves moved there.
There was even a Negro League team called the Atlanta Black Crackers.
The hijack over “cracker” has now ended.
As initially used by BrainGlutton, the term is not inherently pejorative nor racist.
If hurled as an epithet, it certainly becomes both.
In the interest of avoiding further disruption, please do not use it in this thread, again.
If anyone wishes to argue the issues of the word, they are free to open a new thread to discuss that topic.
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I’m confused. I lived in the suburbs (here, actually) in high school and was able to walk to…
School
Drugstore
Job
Other stores
Church
The playground (and park)
And, not available in Bedford Falls…
The mall
The arcade
Multiple ethnic, fine dining, and fast food restaurants
Tragically I couldn’t walk to where my brother almost died, but I think that’s because he never came close to dying. 
I lived here in my middle school days and was also able to walk to all the above places as well.
Perhaps you just live in the wrong suburbs?
We do?
These day, people don’t really let their kids roam free even if they live in a walkable community until they are teenagers. I remember going to the corner drugstore to buy cigarettes for my grandfather when I was 7 or 8. That would never happen today.
Where do you think all the people fleeing the cities end up? You don’t really relax until you are deep in the sticks and even then, you want a dog to warn you if any zombies show up.
A zombie’s real Achilles heel is ladders. I have never seen a zombie that could climb a reasonably tall ladder.
I’m resurrecting this dead thread to show that plenty of conservatives hate the suburbs…
Should We Love or Hate the Suburbs?
Interesting, coming as suburban voters are increasingly turning away from the GOP.
But Matt Lewis even admits there that conservatives who feel the way he does are “small in number”. Conservatives may end up mainly representing rural voters and not connecting with people who live even close to a city.
(BTW, two of those links are reproductions of the same article.)