Maybe we should all stop walking on eggshells to avoid certain words? Criminalizing speech, taking offense at certain words is pretty stupid. Doesn’t matter what race or skin color you are.
Linking words to automatically assume hate or bigotry is proven by their use is insane.
You’re absolutely correct. But remember that “He who controls the language shapes the debate”. We on the right tend to be conformists when using language. Words have meaning and uniform acceptance of the plain meaning of things is essential to a civil discussion.
But the left has no respect of language or of others. They use language to divide, not unify. Remember Alinsky’s rules for radicals?
* RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
This is how they disenfranchise their opponents and they use fluid definitions of words in its execution. The use of “Cracker” is plainly pejorative and everyone knows it but they scratch out an alternate meaning and attempt to shame us into accepting a pejorative as a compliment.
* RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
This (IMO) should be our response. Just like their overuse of the race card to shame and silence their opponents blew up in their faces, our ridicule of their rationalization of “cracker” serves the same purpose - it robs them of a tool that they wish to bludgeon us with.