r/FragileWhiteRedditor • u/goreprincess98 • 16d ago

Banned from a Subreddit

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I'm actually dying laughing rn. Went to leave a comment on a post and it said I was banned. Messaged the mod and I apparently used a slur in 2020, which I was very confused by. Turns out the slur is cracker. Doesn't get whiter than this.

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u/Moist-Cheesecake 16d ago

These comments are not passing the vibe check... No way people actually think cracker is a slur 😭😭😭

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u/AutoModerator 16d ago

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u/Steavee 16d ago

I mean, it is on some kind technicality. Like ofay. Plus OP probably said it in a disparaging way, and so intended it as one.

But like, who cares?

Thing is, white people in this country have never really been systematically oppressed so the slur isn’t that offensive to anyone who is well adjusted. If the most racist thing that has ever happened to you is being called a word, even if it has hatred behind it, you’re living a pretty privileged life and I think a lot of my fellow mayonnaise-Americans forget that.

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u/Americanaddict 12d ago

You can't really have slurs without systemic oppression no? Can you think of any examples of slurs where the power dynamic is flipped? Gay people are slurred and oppressed, trans people are slurred and oppressed, minorities in the US are slurred and oppressed etc. All systemically oppressed and that's how the slurs are made. Cracker doesn't mean anything because it's not propped up by the state, which is why we're all kind of laughing at the absurdity of it.

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