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'White Trash' — The Original Underclass
ProPublica ^ | Aug. 5, 2016 | Alec MacGillis

Posted on 08/06/2016 3:34:10 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o

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To: Mrs. Don-o

Primal scorn against the elite describes a great swath of America, particularly poor and lower middle class whites who have seen the door to enrichment at almost any level barred and locked.


61 posted on 08/06/2016 8:09:50 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: digger48

I want a boat.


62 posted on 08/06/2016 8:18:00 PM PDT by disndat
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Extremely good and important article about the calculated psychodynamics behind the isolation and persecution of whites by the Rats. The evil runs deep.

Thanks for posting.


63 posted on 08/06/2016 8:18:43 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: MUDDOG

I just finished J dot D dot Vance’s book, a memoir called Hillbilly Elegy. It was a good read. A lot of truth in it.


64 posted on 08/06/2016 8:22:42 PM PDT by chalkfarmer
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To: Mrs. Don-o
This subject is very personal to me. There is no limbo, no "no man's land" so invisible to the rest of the world as the limbo of poor rural American whites (especially Southerners of English descent). The similarity of the plights of poor Southern whites and poor Southern Blacks contrasts sharply with the different attitudes toward the two communities by liberals (and also right wing racialists). A Southern accent is the sign of stupidity? You can be sure that doesn't apply to the Southern accents of poor Blacks (among liberals, at any rate; the racialists practice the opposite hypocrisy).

Many years ago I bought a copy of Jim Goad's The Redneck Manifesto. The book is a mixed bag. The author is apparently an atheist whose condemnations of liberal hypocrisy, however satisfying they sound, ultimately have no objective basis (since only G-d can serve as the basis of morals and ethics). The book is unbelievably obscene. It is disrespectful, if not hostile, to the Founding Fathers, and in addition gives forth an odor of sympathy for both the "palestinians" and the Irish Republican Army (like many right wing racialists who hate Jews and excuse Communist nationalist movements that work for white groups). But still, it is impossible for me to read without becoming filled with anger at the liberal hypocrites Goad lampoons, especially in the age of Obama when race has replaced class as the Left's obsession.

Goad is now a full-fledged "palaeo" (yuck!) who writes from The American Conservative--the organ of Israel-hers like Pat Buchanan. I really can't recommend the man or many of the sentiments implied in the book, but I do recommend people who can take it to read it to learn about the plight of poor American whites and the hypocritical hatred of them evinced by the "compassionate friends of the downtrodden."

65 posted on 08/06/2016 8:30:08 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Sof davar hakol nishma`; 'et-ha'Eloqim yera' ve'et-mitzvotayv shemor, ki-zeh kol-ha'adam.)
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To: donna
The term white trash first came into common use in the 1830s as a pejorative used by house slaves against poor whites. In 1833 Fanny Kemble, an English actress visiting Georgia, noted in her journal: “The slaves themselves entertain the very highest contempt for white servants, whom they designate as ‘poor white trash’”

Don't kid yourself; Black slaves didn't invent the term. Slave-owners encouraged slaves to look down on poor whites so they would be more satisfied with their lot. They did the same with the poor whites, teaching them to hate Blacks and hiring them to serve as their "patter rollers" (slave patrols). It began in the seventeenth century as a "divide and rule" strategy and it's still working.

66 posted on 08/06/2016 8:35:12 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Sof davar hakol nishma`; 'et-ha'Eloqim yera' ve'et-mitzvotayv shemor, ki-zeh kol-ha'adam.)
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To: SaraJohnson
White Americans who are not hooked into globalism present a real problem for the globalists. We have the history and culture of Americanism. And it ain’t globalism.

They hate us because they know we have the power to derail them if we wake up and come together. They have built their world on treason.

One irony often overlooked by ideologues on both side of the political spectrum is that Blacks are also among the very oldest, least alien, and most American of all American ethnic groups. What the Left has made of the Black community (with impetus from white bigotry) is a tragedy.

67 posted on 08/06/2016 8:38:05 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Sof davar hakol nishma`; 'et-ha'Eloqim yera' ve'et-mitzvotayv shemor, ki-zeh kol-ha'adam.)
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To: Demiurge2
Attacking and stereotyping poor white rednecks is actually psychological displacement of liberal racist impulses toward a safe, white target. When the MSM and liberals scorn Billy Bob and LouAnn, they’re really attacking NuShawn and LaToya by proxy.

That's an excellent point.

68 posted on 08/06/2016 8:41:33 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Sof davar hakol nishma`; 'et-ha'Eloqim yera' ve'et-mitzvotayv shemor, ki-zeh kol-ha'adam.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

All people really ARE created equal.

Slaves and poor people can develop their own bad behavior without instruction from rich or white people.


69 posted on 08/06/2016 8:44:11 PM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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To: donna
All people really ARE created equal.

Slaves and poor people can develop their own bad behavior without instruction from rich or white people.

Goad's book (referenced in my first post to this thread) explicitly described slave contempt for poor whites as a strategy of the slave-owners. He also traces its history back to seventeenth century slave/servant revolts in which Blacks and whites made common cause.

70 posted on 08/06/2016 8:49:56 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Sof davar hakol nishma`; 'et-ha'Eloqim yera' ve'et-mitzvotayv shemor, ki-zeh kol-ha'adam.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Just because I might tell you that I’m from Mississippi right before I punch you doesn’t mean I’m trashy. It means you will have more respect for Mississippi in the morning.


71 posted on 08/06/2016 8:54:51 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Zionist Conspirator
The source of jealousy and all other things is in each of us. Then, we let others (politicians) manipulate us with those unworthy things. It doesn't let us off the hook.
72 posted on 08/06/2016 8:58:31 PM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

1) Kevin Williamson

2) Gibbet

Some assembly required.


73 posted on 08/06/2016 9:06:46 PM PDT by Pelham (Best.Election.Ever)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Ping for all of the obvious reasons.


74 posted on 08/06/2016 9:07:52 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Salamander; wardaddy; MeganC

ping


75 posted on 08/06/2016 9:08:42 PM PDT by Pelham (Best.Election.Ever)
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To: Pelham
I really do prefer to think of myself as...
76 posted on 08/06/2016 9:12:56 PM PDT by Salamander (I ride by night, and I travel in fear, that in this darkness, I will disappear...)
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To: Hugin

looks like you are right and I am if you listen to the guy he uses it as an excuse but trump is very clear about not liking the term white trash. I think what got trump was that he doubled down and tried to treat it as a joke and like I said it is as loaded a term as nigger is and trump decided to make a point when the guy did not see anything wrong and could not be told that it was bad.


77 posted on 08/06/2016 9:15:14 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: klgator

I saw him play at a Unitarian Church last Fall. He was a hoot, and his much younger wife who’s also in the band is smoking hot and a good singer. Twas fun!


78 posted on 08/06/2016 9:18:56 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
White Trash by Southern Culture on the Skids
79 posted on 08/06/2016 9:23:17 PM PDT by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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To: Pelham

Bikers, like the Irish and by historical extension, all hillbillies are incapable of being insulted.

That’s why I love them.

You call us a derogatory name and we’ll embrace it, make it our own and wear it with pride.

I have seen thousands of vest patches that say white trash/scooter trash/redneck/dirty white boy and infinite variations on the theme.

A ‘slur’ is only effective and ‘hurtful’ if self doubt is there, already.

/Dirty White Girl


80 posted on 08/06/2016 9:24:59 PM PDT by Salamander (I ride by night, and I travel in fear, that in this darkness, I will disappear...)
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