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."
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
“There’s two things I can’t stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch!”
A Wigger is a White that acts Black.
The degree to which the white is subsumed
into the black is measured in Jolsens.
I can claim intersectionality!
White Trash
Widow
Senior Citizen
Scooter Trash (Biker)
Trailer Trash (Mobile Home Dweller)
Christian
1/64th First Nation(MicMaQ,Inuit)
Deplorable Trump Supporter
Bible Clinger
Licensed you-know-what owner.
Poor.
Pit Bull Mom
FRee Republic daily poster
What do I get?
Bupkis.
White people know 'sticks and stones, names don't break bones'.
White people can laugh at themselves and play along.
They aren't 'triggered' (unless they're liberals offended by everything).
So white people don't fight the stereotype because they're secure about themselves (unlike other groups).
LMAO!
That would shut down FR.
I knew I could never really trust those Idahoans. Especially the Russets. They are so thin skinned, and just too white.
You could call them a vast right wing conspiracy.
You could ask them if they can get me a hunting license here.
You could say they bitterly cling to their bibles and their guns.
You could say they’re down right deplorable!
But don’t call any of them white trash.
It isn’t OK to trash white people . F’m, those racist losers. As George Wallace , the comedian says...Some people just need their a**es kicked.
i know. Just saying we ( back in the day) called low class whites “trash” b/c they acted black.
That’s a great movie.
Many of us who are actually “rednecks” are NOT offended at all by the “name”, as that “slur” (I’m an educated hillbilly from a county in Northeast TX of about 3,000 people.) is an OBVIOUS IDENTIFIER that the person who uses it is a HATE-FILLED MORON, usually a DIMocRAT extremist, a clueless FOOL & a “city kitty”, who is unworthy of being taken seriously.
Yours, TMN78247
OK. - I’ll tell you: You get the ADMIRATION of the rest of us “rural nobodies”, ex-GIs & other rednecks/PATRIOTS.
Is that enough???
Yours, TMN7247
Same team, same side, friend.
Awww...Thank You, My Dear Fellow Patriot.
And the answer to your question is YES.
(((HUGS)))
It was a rural tavern built for the old wagon trail west, then later owned by a Holocaust survivor and his wife.
They even had the camp tattoos.
Very nice people.
The wife always gave me a cheeseburger and an Orange Crush when my dad went over to shark the other pool players.
[it was not odd to take your 5 year old daughter there, way back when]
The guy went in and for whatever reason, decided to share his belief that the hillbillies “looked like faggots.”
As an aside from, one of my Ibizan Hounds meant to harm him if came close to me so I reckon something had to be off about him, in general.
“...decided to share his belief ...”
Some folks just like to cause trouble. There isn’t any rhyme or reason to it; they’re just bad seed.
And generally they get what they deserve; maybe not then and there, but Karma can be a mean - and PATIENT - bitch.
He sure picked a good place to look for trouble, then.
:)
Yeah... that happens.
People who go looking to start crap will eventually run into somebody that is more than happy to oblige... and usually much, much more capable at it.
Think of the lyrics in “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”...
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