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[quote=Anonymous][quote=thegeek20004]i'm black, never been called a nigger before... which I'm incredibly grateful for. if it did happen, I'd like to think at first I'd be confused and at the most bemused by it. then laugh it off and pity the person who said it.

i think the historical use of nigger makes it far sharper and hurtful than cracker. however, how about we all just agree that racism is bad, and that you shouldn't be a racist. [/quote]

cracker = nigger poster here.

Yes, I think you just articulated better what I was trying to say.

Of course the history of the word "nigger" is dramatically more heinous than "cracker." No one was ever called a "cracker" as they were lynched, for example. But when someone is hatefully calling a white person a "cracker" the sentiment is still very much the equivalent to someone else hurling any other sort of epithet. The hostility is the same.

I do find the reluctance of people to even spell out the word "nigger" to be really funny. It's like they're afraid of the word or something. Referring to the "n-word" as if the word "nigger" will bite simply by being printed on the page (or screen) is ridiculous.

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