I’m embarrassed to say it was only a couple years ago when some white people got national attention for getting bent out of shape about being called “cracker” that I learned it doesn’t mean like, “bland and pale like a Saltine,” but is a reference to enslavers and their whips. I’d always thought it was kinda cute, like “Mayo-American.”

So I used to give a kind of “Yeah… you got me…” chuckle when called that, but now it just makes me sad and throws me into a bit of an existential crisis on behalf of my ancestors.

There is a charming Lemmy user who likes to call people “hags” after mining their comments to learn if they are of the lady persuasion. I do not yet, but plan to some day identify as a “swamp hag” so it feels preemptive, but a bit exciting.