The only people who would get mad about the word "Cracker" are crackers and they can suck it.
source: I am pasty white dude and I have been called every slur for white folks you can possibly imagine. Not a single one has ever bothered me in the slightest. Most of them are hilarious.
Some of my personal favorites were: Caulkie, ghost, honkaloid, milkhead, moon cricket, mulletard, pigmently-challenged, powdered donut, raw chicken, saltine, tornado bait, wonder bread and mayonnaise packet.
Especially when it's not even like 10% of people participating.
AND many people already don't do anything after work on a Friday. They just go home and relax.
Needs to be longer than 24 hours and it needs to gain mainstream support. Until then it'll be comically easy for the billionaires at the top to ignore everything.
Come on come all its time for cm002 to post the exact same shit that's already all over Lemmy but now in another place!
Y'all already have the entire goddamn website dedicated to shitting on conservatives 24/7. Making yet another place to do it is just repetitive and unnecessary.
I don't care for most conservative bullshit either, but at least it was nice seeing the random post that wasn't exactly the same as every other goddamn sub on this site.
Yeah I don't care for that. If you have a word and it's been used for something for a long time I do not see the need to change it if it suddenly starts offending people later.
Like working on cars. Lots of parts on cars use terms that some people are now taking offense too. Master/slave to refer to parts that work in a chain of command. Or male and female fittings to describe a connection that protrudes and a connection that has a hole in it.
I'm not going to change my vocabulary because suddenly after hundreds of years people are deciding they don't like the words anymore. They make sense in that application to describe the function of the parts and there is no need to change it. Nobody is being called a master or slave. Nobody is being called a male or female. These are car parts that got named the way they did because it made the most sense.
I'm not gonna get upset with people using the term "fat" to describe anything wide or large just because I'm overweight. That was be stupid.
I never said it was wrong for people to take offense to the word inherently. My point is that it's a choice to get offended by a word. Some people don't like other random words and they freak out about it. I knew a guy in highschool that hated the word "moist" and because he had such an entertaining reaction to it everyone on the class made sure use it as much as possible. Eventually he stopped being bothered by the word entirely. The meaning hadnt changed. He just chose to stop being bothered by it.
Stop letting other peoples words have so much power over your.
I consider 4 people my "parents" as in they all helped raise me to varying degrees. My bio mom and dad obviously. My dad's second wife and now his third wife both helped ar different points of my life.
My mom is about to re-marry finally but I'm a little old to be parented by her new man so he's sorta just a guy who makes my mom happy as opposed to yet another parent.
Nah I just got sent to the principals office for being "purposely distracting" to other students.
Some teachers shouldn't have their jobs.