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rage-cry I whined about cracker being a slur and those mean ol Hexbears just called me a cracker more instead of debating merage-cry

ppb-gigachad

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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 106 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

they don't even seem to be tankies

michael-laugh

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 110 points 1 year ago

The greatest insult I've seen levied at us

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

hexbears are libs confirmed

[–] roux@hexbear.net 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Arguing that cracker is a slur is very "all lives matter" energy.

Also who here thinks that USSR or China are fascist pretending to be communist? Like what the fuck even is that?

[–] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

USSR or China are fascist pretending to be communist

socialism TERF

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[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It doesn't have the connotation of a slur, but it's undeniably "a derogatory race-based term." I don't see how an in-person organization in the U.S. could be successful while allowing that, so it's always struck me as extremely online that we do.

This is a case of "page of reactionary screed that includes one decent point made poorly," and us being reflexively contrarian, which is 90% right when dealing with reactionaries but still leaves some considerable blind spots.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Nah. This guy already knows the counter argument and is itching to debatebro. Calling him a cracker and banning him is objectively correct

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[–] One1two2@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (46 children)

Anyone who is not joining because of the word Cracker was never gonna join

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[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

they're pretty adamant about communism but everyone thinks the USSR, CCP, etc are fascist dictatorships pretending to be communist.

mao-wtf

How has anyone possibly come away from here with that takeaway? Most people I've interacted with here will have specific concrete criticisms with all of the above, not just "oh it's fascist". That kind of critique is more what you would see in sectarian ultra or trot spaces. I swear people just gossip about us or something.

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[–] bunnygirl@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago (7 children)

lmao it's that weirdo

why does everybody who gets banned here feel the need to make an account on another instance to whine about it lol

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[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Unlimited bans upon blahaj.zone users

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Who the fuck is in here saying USSR and CCP are fascist, show yourself it’s time for self crit

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[–] One1two2@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When did libs crying about Cracker becoming thing ?

Remeber few years ago that chuds whould get dunked by libs for doibg the same.

[–] beef_curds@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I believe it began over streamer drama, when twitch banned some big streamers over it.

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[–] beef_curds@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

This idiot doesn't realize I've given all my allies here the cracker-word pass.

Maybe if they'd just do a little research.

[–] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

don’t understand the impulse to go around posting Ls like this, does admitting to being a fragile white ledditor have some benefit?

[–] AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

I assume getting offended by scary, civilityless hexbears is a rite of passage for them.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

don't be a cracker, won't be called a cracker papyrus-cool

[–] material_delinquent@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] pixelghost@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I don't know how many people here have actually been to a Cracker Barrel but I was forced to go by a family member once and to this day I remember how racist it felt in there--it was like walking into a cracker miasma.

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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol imagine being upset about being called a cracker

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Being called a cracker is a quantum state, it may or may not be applicable depending on who's saying it, but if you get offended by it the quantum state collapses into a condition of definite crackerdom.

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[–] Ithorian@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We have got the be the worst place to troll. Every time some tries we just put them on blast till they get banned and then sit around laughing at how dumb they were.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

That’s the bad trolls.

The good ones are less obvious and better at stoking drama in more subtle ways (ie taking the side of one faction on the site and leading a charge against another)

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[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Crackers seething

Also totally incapable of reading the room, we definitely are “tankies”

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[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Crackers who want to say cracker is a racial slur be like:

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

100-com crackers really love that fake oppression.

Its a pretty easy test. If cracker offends you, then you're a cracker. Do some self crit

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[–] UltraGreen@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

Wtf? I love the USSR.

[–] honeynut@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is Hexbear. I'm going to need to ask you to call them a cracker 11 more times.

[–] honeynut@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

this is hexbear. I've already used my 11 alts to call them cracker.

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

12 times per alt please, or they may not notice the pattern.

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That's 143 times. You and your alts are covered. We are, after all, "pretty adamant about communism", so I'll help you out, but please remember to call them a cracker exactly 12 times per alt next time.

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Cracker is a racial slur... And it's hilarious! Not only is the USSR and PRC based af, so is the DPRK and Cuba.

STFU tollhouse lib. stalin-feels-good

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[–] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Maybe its just me but I think the majority of that comment just reads like yeonmi-park as a former HB user truth story.

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If someone gets offended by cracker, swap to calling them cumskin.

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Oh man anti-cracker-aktion I guess you shouldn't have angrily direct-messaged people about how much of a cracker you are!

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can sometimes feel a bit sorry when a young, politically clueless person sees us talking about the evil that whiteness is and starts thinking "damn, my skin is kinda whitish, why they hate me :(", but also, that's not being the target of racism. One of the few cases where the typically right wing retort to grow a thicker skin is the actual solution, that and stop associating your light skin tone with the inherently racist conception of "the white race". But I find that once someone goes beyond that to being insulted by the word cracker, it's no longer such an innocent reaction.

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