Now, I pretty much love offensive language, such as swearwords. Words are just words, it's people who attach the stigma to them. However, some words come with so much pain and cruelty attached to them that they really aren't acceptable when used in an insulting way. These words tend to be racist or sexist, and almost every group has a few aimed at them. Except for the white male.
The suggestion here is that there isn't anything inherently wrong with being a white man, but being almost anything else means you're flawed just because of what you are or where you're from.
Ok, there's 'cracker'. But that really sounds kinda cute. I'd call a puppy Cracker. I'd ruffle a kids hair and say, 'Aw, ya little cracker!' Maybe not if anyone else was in earshot... But the word cracker isn't even considered offensive by most people. I know a few people who have been surprised to hear it's actually an insult for white people.
So, I think there's only one course of action to take here. Remove all offensive words aimed at specific groups from our vocabulary? 'Take the words back'? No. We gots to come up with some awesome derogatory names for white guys! If everyone's insulted... no one is.
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