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Wow I actually agree with apdst on this one. Redneck is a word used to portray rural southerners as stupid, inbred freaks. It is an attack on poor southern rural workers and its use should be condemned.
I agree, accept that it's not only used to refer to poor, rural Southerners.
Wow I actually agree with apdst on this one. Redneck is a word used to portray rural southerners as stupid, inbred freaks. It is an attack on poor southern rural workers and its use should be condemned.
I agree that political correctness has reached a ridiculous point but I don't think it's correct or reasonable to put white racism on an equal level as racism by minorities.
But not every white dude in my town is a redneck.
No, but every redneck in your town is a white dude...
Wow I actually agree with apdst on this one. Redneck is a word used to portray rural southerners as stupid, inbred freaks. It is an attack on poor southern rural workers and its use should be condemned.
I agree that political correctness has reached a ridiculous point but I don't think it's correct or reasonable to put white racism on an equal level as racism by minorities.
No, but every redneck in your town is a white dude...
Yes, they are white, but again, that is not relevant because the charge in this case was not directed towards their whiteness, but their racism. As I mentioned, racism is common in this culture. Really though, you are overreacting and not looking at this issue for what it actually is.
So, you would be ok with calling racist hispanics, "spicks?
Do us a favor and don't try to imply that racism is exclusive to white southerners.
It would be like people freaking out for going after La Raza because all members happen to be Mexican.
Not specifically redneck is also used to describe racist whites in the western US and Canada. Who are not associated with the inbred hicks of the Southern US
I am not trying to say that only white people can be racist, you are reading into my comments. Also, in general usage, spicks is used to refer to all hispanics, not a subset. I think my La Raza example works better as there is an element of racism in that subgroup.
Now it's, "hicks"...:rofl! ALong with the assumption that white southerners are all inbred.
This keeps getting better and better.
This from the diversity loving, all tolerating Leftists.
Just wow!!!
You said that, "rednecks", are white, southern, rural poor and racist; as if there's no way they can't be racist. I'm not reading anything into your statements.
"high yeller", isn't used to refer to all blacks, just a subset. Obama's a high yeller. You cool with me referring to him as a high yeller?
Yes every redneck would be white as redneck describes a cultural subgroup of whites, not all whites. That is an important difference
Yes every redneck would be white as redneck describes a cultural subgroup of whites, not all whites. That is an important difference
So it's okay then for me to refer to gang banging, illiterate, drug running young black males as Niggers is OKAY, because they are just a "cultural Subgroup" of Blacks.
In that case I don't think it would be appropriate because the term nigger is already in common usage and tends to refer to all black people. Perhaps you could call them high yellers, per adpst's example.
So Nigger is no longer a racial slur, got it.
In a broadcast last month, according to the Daily Courier in Prescott, Blair mistakenly complained that the most prominent child in the painting is African-American, saying: "To depict the biggest picture on the building as a Black person, I would have to ask the question: Why?"
I guess so, if it falls out of common usage first and the term is reacquired with another meaning.
Wanna go down to the South Side of LA and go say nigger and tell them, hey it's a common usage term nowI'll wait here.
The reading in was the assumption that I was stating that only white people can be racist. I do not think this is true. I have been on the receiving end of racism myself before and was almost physically assaulted for being white.
And not its not racist. Its culturally bigoted, yes, but not racist.
As for the high yeller case, what other features does this term encompass?
I have no problem with culturally bigoted though because I clearly believe that some cultures are better than others. And I think that culture is an inferior one.
Now it's, "hicks"...:rofl! ALong with the assumption that white southerners are all inbred.
This keeps getting better and better.
This from the diversity loving, all tolerating Leftists.
Just wow!!!
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