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Pirates are already playing Microsoft’s 'Forza Horizon 6' days before its official launch | Crackers take advantage of unencrypted files that briefly appeared on Steam. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean it's been a slur for a few centuries, even though the exact meaning changed to mean what it does... also a few centuries ago at this point. 19th century IIRC (cracker = someone who cracks a whip = white person).

But also it's pretty easy to tell from context that cracker here doesn't mean "white people". Similarly to how when you calculate a slope in math you don't usually associate it with the slur.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, context is very important, and also ability to see through propaganda and brainwashing.