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For the record, there is no clear origin story for the word "cracker" as an insulting term for white people (the "whip-cracker" history has no direct evidence for it) But the idea that the N-word is short for "ignorant" is completely fucking absurd
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Also the idea that white people didn't crack the whip over slaves' heads is nonsense The teacher has misunderstood the (greatly exaggerated) pro-slaveowner talking point from the antebellum South that slaveowners didn't touch whips themselves, believing them vulgar tools
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But, like, so the fuck what Even if every slaveowner outsourced this job to "low-class" overseers, those overseers were white It's completely logical that enslaved people might come up with a slur for white people comparing them to those overseers
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The whips existed, that's not in serious historical dispute, you can see fucking photographs of people's fucking scars
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