Warbler said:

TheBoost said:

Neither are generally "acceptable" in polite discourse, but to say one isn't clearly worse than the other is silly. Does someone really need to "decide?"

apparently you are doing so with the n-word and cracker. Also I didn't say one wasn't worse than the other, I said there was double standard.

A 'double standard' implies two things that are the same are treated differently.

That the N-word and Cracker are both rude terms for race is true, but to imply they are in any way the same is just monumentally ignorant.

The N-word and 'colored person' are both generally unacceptable terms in mannered conversation. They both refer to black people but the fact one is so clearly worse than the other is not a double standard. It's an overwhelming fact.