This may also be an indicator of just how much Affirmative Action is doing.
Posted on 08/06/2019 1:30:52 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
You can get away with calling something "white trash" in polite company, on cable television and in the headline of a magazine article. An article in The New Republic once posed the question of whether President Trump might be "a white trash icon." For some reason, the term manages to come across as less offensive than most other racial slurs.
Yet "white trash" could be called the Swiss army knife of insults. It's deft in its ability to demean multiple groups at once: white people and people of color, poor people and people who "act" like poor people, rural folks and religious folks, and anyone without a college degree.
So why does "white trash" still get thrown around without much pushback?
Typically, the term is directed at low-income, rural white people. And while there were more than 17 million white people living in poverty as of 2016, it's still rare that you see poor white people represented in government or media. (In 2014, more than half of all members of Congress were millionaires.)
"The problem with the white trash reference is often ... it becomes an easy way to dismiss a group and to generalize," Isenberg says.
Even though exit polls have shown that white people of all class and education backgrounds voted for Trump in the general election, Isenberg says it's the people pegged as poor and working-class whites — wearing red Bubba hats and cheering at rallies — who get burdened with negative associations.
She says we talk about those white folks as "a group that doesn't deserve to be heard from, either because we don't like them because they're poor and they're violent, or we want to claim that they're the most racist group in society."
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Yak... yak... yak... Why doesn’t everyone keep their opinions to themselves and just STFU.
Because the Civil Rights Acts didn’t allow the possibility of whites to be a protected class.
Because progressivism is nothing more than a means to enable hatred while disguising it as compassion.
You forgot to add the phrase, that’s my opinion.
White Trash?
The enemedia doesn’t use that term anymore to insult us.
Now it’s White Nationalists.
But guess what? Neither term offends me. I’m bigger than that. I guess my White Privilege pays off.
I don’t think we should just randomly give any of our fellow citizens a hard time.
Except for people from Idaho.
They smoke potato peels and think potatoes have eyes and can see.
You find the best articles for FR.
Why?
Because “Poor White Trash” are still polite enough to not knock your teeth down your throat for saying it.
But if the other side keeps their shit up long enough that WILL change.
Along with the rest of us deciding NOT to be so polite.
1. Cuz you can feel like you’re “with” the group owning the US media
2. Cuz if you’re white it’ll sound like an expression of modesty
3. Cuz if you’re belong to the group owning the US media then the credulous dupes humping their sisters out in fly-over country will go and assume you’re in THEIR ethnic group, simply being modest, and not in YOUR ethnic group
4. Cuz it’s just one more little step in brining Heaven to Earth, cuz we all know this NEXT time it’s finally going to go right..!
Interesting this came from NPR. Something must be up.
Maybe their internals indicate the illegal vote alone won’t get them over the finish line, and they’ll need to develop another voting block.
Anyone who thinks the left is suddenly interested in the fair and equitable treatment of whites is fooling themselves.
Well it is acceptable to MSM and elites to trash ALL White people. This must stop. We need to assert our rights. We need a new MLK jr who can avoid being labeld a “white supremicist” (or do we? Is it OK to wear that label?)
That’s my opinion
Hillbilly Pride.
No matter how you insult or stereotype me, I will snatch it up and brag on it because I possess no secret or suppressed self-loathing.
And eff them!
:D
Depends where you live, really.
A guy I know who grew up the DC burbs moved here and within a week, walked into the local hillbilly tavern within walking distance of his house, and proceeded to make “hick” remarks.
He got taken out back by some good ol’ boys.
Never lipped off again.
White conservatives are the only group where it’s A-OK to attack.
This may also be an indicator of just how much Affirmative Action is doing.
It’s because we truly live in a racist country. It just isn’t coming from where the left claims it is.
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