I can't speak for all of Caucasia but I'm not offended.
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I will speak to my fellow caucasians and say, "if you're offended, lighten the fuck up, honky."
I think the way it works is someone who is not a member of that group tells you it's offensive
He got it wrong though. The shirt should says "CRACKERS".
Also not offended by this.
Me either, but it's actually meant to be offensive whereas Caucasians is just a classification.
Cracker isn’t an epithet that native Americans have ever used though.
Paleface would be the matching slur to redskin.
The problem with the football teams is that usually the name of team is the name of a group of ppl that was almost exterminated and their descendants still pay the price and nobody cares while their name is used as something cool. Just using the name should not be that offensive.
Except redskins is offensive. It's not the name of a group of people, it's an epithet describing them.
Should go harder IMHO. This ad from the National Congress of American Indians does a good job.
Yeah the only issue here is "Caucasians" is roughly similar in emotional weight to "native Americans."
Shirt should say like, "crackers" or something
Cracker doesn't even have enough contextual weight. Whitey is about as heavy as I can think of and even that doesn't carry much weight for the people it should.
Source: I'm literally whiter than Casper the friendly ghost, and I actually care. The Americans I'm talking about just don't care.
Even that word has no pull nowadays. I don't know any white people that are even bothered by it in the least. I am one half Caucasian and I know for sure that it has no affect at all on me. I think it's a kind of funny word, actually. We need something with more spice to it for sure. Mayo monkies? Snow roaches? Marshmallow minions?
I very much like Mayo Monkies myself lol
Eh.. folks from County Mayo might feel unfairly singled out.
I would have thought that if redskins is the settler pejorative for native americans then Paleface (or the like) is the thematic riposte.
The issue is a lot of people would completely fail to get the message and want to buy all three hats.
I'm all for it. I want the mascot to be just a normal guy named "Steve." It's just some white guy in a cardigan. His catch phrase is "Hi, I'm Steve, nice to meet you."
When the players score a touchdown, the fans all chant "Hi, I'm Steve." The customary celebration is for the player to mime a normal handshake.
My favorite team is still the Cincinnati Cracker-Asses
I am okay with the rebranded Honky-tonks too.
Whiteskins seems like a more appropriate name
Shouldn’t the shirt say “Red Necks” or anything more offensive?
I read that a more apt metaphore would be a shirt that says Paleface, with a skinny white dude on it. Cause this shirt actually goes hard.
"red necks" is usually referring to a specific lot of folk, whereas the original context (of what this is poking at) "referred" of an entire group of people, so saying "caucasians" is more 1:1.
Is it racist for me a white guy to wear this?
I'd be worried people wouldn't get the joke and think I was some sort of Nazi.
Yeah, that was my thought too.
There are dumb right wingers who would wear it "see theres nothing offensive about this" as opposed to "See how fucking weird this is"
I would wear that shirt
Caucasians doesn't roll off the tongue at all. Need something shorter.
Can we do this? I want this team. It's gotta be full of burly black guys though. They're clearly better at football. I would start watching football.
That guy (and likely his entire extended family) gets it.
Why is caucasian used to refer to the white race, isnt that for georgians or something?
Misrepresenting the target group is just an added bonus. It's like referring to all indigenous people as "indians" - even if they were from India (which they're not), it's just taking a blanket term and making them all seem like they're the same. At least that's why it's even funnier in this context.
But generally speaking, when people unironically use the term to refer to all whites, well, that just shows that they don't really understand the meaning of the term they are using.
Hell yeah brother got one in a large long?