I'm offended...

[Yanks]

I enjoy the idea of cracking software that has malicious features, for the purpose of exposing them and warning people, I guess if I had the time that would make me a proud cracker. How does that excuse a blatantly racist team name like "Redskins"?

It's not. Read the article I linked above.

Here's the thing, while I think the arguments against the Washington Redskins is a bit extreme, I can understand why people have problems with it and am not completely opposed to the name being changed if it truly offends people.

But it's a false equivalence to liken it to the term "cracker."

There are more white folks offended by the term cracker than there are Native Americans that are offended by the team name "Redskins".

Why? Because, well, simply white people in this country are by and large the dominant race. And as an extension of that over the centuries we've came up with a number of slurs against people of other skin colors, redskin being one of them. So it's a term that was used to oppress and put down an entire race of people.

The term "cracker" doesn't have that same weight, it's a term that was created by the oppressed to put down their oppressors. Which, well, doesn't hurt nearly as much. To borrow from Louis C.K. on the subject:

"What are you going to do, call me cracker? "Darn, ruined my day. Taking me back to a time of owning land and people."

you are obviously insenitive to my oppression.

So, yeah, they're not the same thing at all. Terms white people created to put down other races were created to marginalize them and "put them in their place." Terms they came up for us? Was them trying to fight back, but really can't hurt as much because at the end of the day we used those terms to oppress and control an entire group of people in order to make them on a lower level than "us."

The team name "Redskins" honors Native American warriors.

Calling us "cracker" is pretty much them going, "Well you're a doody head too!"

Not true. You must not have been dirt poor growing up.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

The restaurant name Cracker Barrel offends me.

I want it changed now.

Please President Obama, Harry Reid make this happen A.S.A.P!!

The restaurant name Cracker Barrel offends me.

What is Cracker Barrel and why does it offend you?

The term "cracker" is a hurtful term used by black people to demean and make fun of white people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(pejorative)


I have direct experience with this and have a hard time sleeping at night.

I'll take "False Equivalences" for $500, Alex.

As in "Redskins" isn't demaning in anyway toward native Americans?

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/04/03/washington-nfl-team-name-debate/

"2004 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, that 90 percent of the 768 self-identified Native Americans polled said the team name “Redskins” did not bother them."

I mean, Jesus tap-dancing Christ, you've posted some dumbass things before, but this takes it to a whole new level.

I wonder what the alternate meaning for Redskins is, because I'm pretty sure cracker has an alternative, much more common definition relating to something that is sold inside Cracker Barrel (hint: it's not rural white people). And take note that they have a picture of a Native American as their logo, so it kind of gives away the answer.

Also, the funny thing about your babbling nonsense is that Cracker Barrel actually has a longstanding and pretty terrible corporate policy of discrimination against blacks and gays, including segregated seating and discriminatory hiring and firing practices (and no, not in the 50s and 60; in the 90s and 2000s). So, in your little crusade against what you managed to resist calling political correctness (congratulations for showing a little restraint), you inadvertently showed that you also have no clue that Cracker Barrel participated in genuine discrimination against people who have traditionally been most heavily affected by it, rather than shortsighted privileged white kids making a punkass analogy.

You could have brought up the subject of the the Redskins' name in a thoughtful, rational manner, but instead you decided to make some ridiculous "but what about white people!" pity party.

So fuck this shitty, trolling thread. Closed. If you want to try it again in a non-idiotic and non-trolling way, go ahead, but you're on a short leash.