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".

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.

Yeah the only issue here is "Caucasians" is roughly similar in emotional weight to "native Americans."

Shirt should say like, "crackers" or something

The issue is a lot of people would completely fail to get the message and want to buy all three hats.

Nah it gotta be dave. Everyone knows Dave

I am okay with the rebranded Honky-tonks too.

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.

I'd be worried people wouldn't get the joke and think I was some sort of Nazi.

Whiteskins.

Crackers

Caucs

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.