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Wombaticus Rex wrote:"Cracker" is just hilarious, easily the least charged racial epithet in common currency today. I am sympathetic to "redneck" as slur -- I read Jim Goad, too, but he was an abusive asshole in addition to being a gifted writer -- but cracker is just LULZ. There are no sharp edges anywhere on that word.
Wombaticus Rex wrote:I only spoke up on it because I use it constantly and will continue to do so. "Redneck" I'm less fond of as an insult -- because it's basically a term of endearment up here. "White trash" is hate speech as far as I'm concerned, especially coming from a cracker's mouth.
Alchemy wrote:I see a lot of words like cracker and redneck used in these parts and it is slightly disappointing as I thought this forum was above that sort of thing. The use of such words makes one no better than those who use the N word for an African-American, the K word for a Jewish person or the F word for someone who is gay, it is the same mentality and it stems from a troubling and very particular kind of ignorance.
barracuda wrote:"When southern whites stop naming their kids after Civil War generals and electing racist republicans to public office, I'll stop calling them rednecks."
barracuda wrote:Yes, replace everything I said with something else and you might be right. Good call. But okay, let's try it.
"When british aristocrats stop living off the backs of the poor, I'll stop calling them nobs and toffs."
Racism is a function of power inequities. Southern white racists and the politicians they elect run half this country, consciously sustain a culture of ignorance and oppression, and have for a hundred years. Sorry to wound your white pride, but: fuck the rednecks.
2012 Countdown wrote:It is my understanding that 'redneck' was actually a positive, worker oriented term that has been perverted and now used as a slur.
The original term was positive (from my perspective) and refers to a field worker or laborer. The 'prolitariot', if you will.
2012 Countdown wrote:It is my understanding that 'redneck' was actually a positive, worker oriented term that has been perverted and now used as a slur.
The original term was positive (from my perspective) and refers to a field worker or laborer. The 'prolitariot', if you will.
Alchemy wrote:The irony here of course is that the rednecks were the very people who were fighting against the kind of shit you are railing about.
Why not just say you dont like racists and those who vote for the bad guys and leave out the white southern stuff because racists and those who vote for the bad guys come from anywhere and everywhere and they are not all white.
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