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I may be nitpicking but the point I was trying to make was that redneck refers only to a small potion of whites and not the whole race. Where as nigger is universally applicable.
Add to this that I find it difficult for the dominant culture, in this case a white culture, to be open to racism. I'm not saying descrimination isn't possible just that those who are in the position of power (culturally speaking) loose nothing by labels such as cracker (racially speaking).
The same is not true of such labels as nigger, kike, spic, etc. They are labels meant to underscore the difference from the dominant culture. A difference underscored in an effort to isolate them from said culture.
A black man calling a white man a cracker or a redneck is, in my mind, very different from a white man calling a black man a nigger.
In most cases anyway. It could be argued that we are in a transitional phase where cultural dominance is slipping... When I look at who largely holds political and economic power in the west I tend to think the transition, it if it exists, is in the *very* early stages.
I will have to think about this some more.
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