It’s not even really of the same scope or scale at all. If a group of people point and laugh at me and call me cracker, that sucks, and it’ll probably ruin my day. but that’s the worst sort of racism I will ever have to experience. Primary school levels of taunting and bullying. That’s nothing.
It’s like if they were both people in an emergency room, the non-white guy is bleeding out on the floor, missing a limb, and the white guy is standing there demanding the doctors treat his stubbed toe before helping the other guy. That’s why we should pay no mind to these “cracker is a racial slur” kinds of overly sensitive white folks. If the worst thing that is happening to them is someone made fun of them on the internet, they lack the perspective to really ever weigh in on the issue and will take up all the air in the room and demand 100% of the attention.
It’s not even really of the same scope or scale at all. If a group of people point and laugh at me and call me cracker, that sucks, and it’ll probably ruin my day. but that’s the worst sort of racism I will ever have to experience. Primary school levels of taunting and bullying. That’s nothing.
It’s like if they were both people in an emergency room, the non-white guy is bleeding out on the floor, missing a limb, and the white guy is standing there demanding the doctors treat his stubbed toe before helping the other guy. That’s why we should pay no mind to these “cracker is a racial slur” kinds of overly sensitive white folks. If the worst thing that is happening to them is someone made fun of them on the internet, they lack the perspective to really ever weigh in on the issue and will take up all the air in the room and demand 100% of the attention.