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.
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?
Look, we nerds have taken that term over. It means you're a digital sabotuer and theft. You invade other people's space all on the basis that some other asshole promised to handle their safety, became a billionaire and never did jack fucking squat to stop anyone from taking advantage of his backdoor to "your" computer.
That and no one listened to the messiah predicting this and explaining how to really be safe on something that can actually be your computer.
So if it has a Windoze and an Apple on the picture and says exactly that...
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.
I see 'paleface' more as a response to something morbidly shocking versus ID'ing a group of people. Similar, if the original were 'redface,' it would be being uncontrollably angry.
Wouldn't swapping in white to have whiteskins, fit better?
"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.
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.
Yeah, it's a term from an outdated racial theory that got into mainstream language. Still keeps weirding me out every time I see it. In Russia where I grew up, actual people from Caucasus region are still often treated and portrayed in media as "black" for being generally slightly darker than slavs. It's disgusting. But, the populations in Caucasus region are actually very diverse. Like, for example, just talking about the skin color, the Azerbaijanis are generally fairly tan, but then quite a few of them are whiter than snow, and that's the diversity within just one ethnic group of which there are few dozens. So I find it just as weird to call white people Caucasian (and people of Caucasus just "white") as it'd be calling them Romanis or Tuaregs (or Jews) for how meaningless that'd be.
I want to make a hockey team equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters called the Plymouth Palefaces. Instead of being super skilled and making fools of the other team, they obviously cheat and pay off the refs (or just have guys on their team obviously swap out with the ref). Their mascot (a white guy in a pilgrim outfit) could go up and push the other mascot down and walk away, then when the other mascot comes back upset they can act affronted. Then they could have a couple policemen come and beat up the other mascot. Also, any time the other team scores, the players throw a fit and call it cheating.
Somehow I don't think Hockey would be the right demographic foelr something like that.