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Dear white folks,
Before you begin with your pearl-clutching outrage over the title of this piece, just stop.
I can already hear the bullshit, because we are so maddeningly predictable.
Like with that whole dancing-while-biting-our-lower-lip thing, or like mayo in our potato salad.
In this case, I can already hear the predictable whining (and a very cheap white whine at that) about how if you substituted the n-word for cracker in this title “that would be racist.” Or how it would cause the piece to be immediately pulled from Medium, and its author flagged for a violation of community standards on Facebook and Twitter, or wherever else it was posted.
It’s the most intoxicating 7th grade logic in the world, right up there with “If we can have a Black History Month why not a White History Month,” and it sounds like this:
“If it’s racist to use slurs against people of color, then it’s equally racist to use slurs for white people. Like cracker. Or honky. Or peckerwood.”
What, you never heard “peckerwood” before?
Wait, why are you laughing?
