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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Crackerlist is unironically a masterstroke, I want this to be a thing now

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

Added to Crackerlist
Reason: posted too passionately about casserole

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

masterstroke

Two steps forward, one step back

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We'd have to stop using any terms that include colors: redfaced (ashamed), red with rage, blackballed, black humour, black magic, black eye, black sheep, yellow journalist, red line, yellow card, red card, brown-noser, brown thumb, black-and-white thinking, black out, black as night, etc.

TAGLINE michael-laugh

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Indistinguishable from some boomer in the comments on Fox News

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I really can’t stand contrarian/devils advocate takes. Especially this one that comes across purposely obtuse…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Can you imagine having to examine things you've previously taken for granted? THE HORROR!

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

paper impersonating bleach demons getting mad about the most harmless "slur" in the history of humankind again

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Honestly I find whitelists to be an... odd way of phrasing it. There's a reason most programmers have moved to block and allow lists. Don't really care about crackerlist, but I find it odd that they'd still use the naming conventions of white and black lists. Changing white to cracker doesn't make whitelists any less weird.

No idea how they give two shits about the word cracker when there is obviously a bigger issue.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

9/10 crackers do not ruminate in fear and dehumanization when they’re called that because there is no policy - historical or present - to oppress them as a group of people. Rarely do people say it with complete malice and desire for violence - it’s often said lightheartedly because everyone knows that the dynamics are just completely imbalanced. At worst they’ll be annoyed for 30 seconds and forget about it.

Hell, I’d argue honkey and redneck are more “offensive” because it’s a slur for poor white people, and this subgroup has and is still being targeted by the state today. But crackers don’t want to talk about class, even when it’s them who’s suffering.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

That's amazing we should start crackerlisting so we can crackerlist people becaus someone would get SO MAD and then we could point at them and laugh

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

"allow list" and "block list" are so easy to understand

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Folks, are colors by definition racist?

spoilerYes, especially purple

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And yet you have a purple avatar.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

racist terminology

anti-cracker-aktion

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Raddle goes to war with itself

Isn't this, by definition, all arguments ziq has with themselves on Raddle?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

Okay, change it to honkeylist.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

The struggle of those of us who are eternally online

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

🤦‍♂️ sleepi

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

the lemmy so good that it's not actually a lemmy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

This is so funny lmao. Out of all the things to fight about

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I think white/black offends too few categories. For example, women aren't referenced at all. My suggestion is yinlist and yanglist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Please rename right and left to Dexter and anti-dexter to be more inclusive.

(After I wrote this joke, I decided to check what Esperanto does, it's literally the same)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Does the same apply to black sheep, black magic, yellow journalist and brown thumb?

black magic

yes, yes, yes, yes, yes that one literally is a racist term