Twenty years ago or so, on some Saturday morning cartoon, the heroes (Teenage Mutant Ninja Begonias IIRC) went up against a gang of Hillbilly Heisters. If they had taken on the Sicilian Syndicate and the Mexican Mafia in other episodes we wouldn't have been so outraged, but it was clear this stereotype was uniquely fair game.
I doesn't matter if you're uneducated or not. It doesn't really even seem to matter if you're poor or not. Being white and from the South makes you 'white trash' to many who claim to hate rascism and class distiction.
I KNOW white trash when I see it, I've grown up around it and sadly some of my extended family behave like it, but a redneck is NOT white trash. Neither is country, hick, bumpkin or hillbilly.
I do find if far from amussing that I can be called white trash at will but if I say nigger, kike, spik, wetback, rag head, etc I'm the rascist. It's only rascism if a WHITE does it. Saying those words aren't rascist if labeling whites as those derogatory terms aren't rascist. It's either all for one, or none for all. Of course, that would require many that claim to be against rascism to come out against folks like the Black Pathers, the Mexican Mafia, and CAIR. I won't hold my breath, I don't look good blue.
Note that the term was also used by the NYT reviewer in the review of the Norah Vincent book. It was in quotation marks...but I doubt that the term was used in the book itself, given what sounds like the overall tone of the book.
I just started reading Thomas Sowell's latest, Black Rednecks and White Liberals. If you are interested in this sort of thing, Sowell's book is a must read. As is typical with Sowell, it is incredibly well researched, accessible, and profound.
The first chapter demonstrates, rather convincingly, that (most) modern black culture comes from the redneck south culture, which came from those who emigrated to the US from specific parts of Britain.
I think you mean "slaves in all but name". Indentured servitude was quite widespread in colonial America and could easily be a cruel or even moreso than outright slavery.
What's particularly pathetic is that some people snarl and spit and suggest that you're lying when you describe it that way, but it's the simple truth.
I've wondered, (and I think I'm the first person, right here to ever bring it up publicly) why "dumb blonde" jokes have never been pegged as racist?
Blondes being a stand in for a "dumb white person".
For all intents, blondes have to be white.
Dumb blonde jokes are the only holdovers from the old school ethnic humor jokes that are still "permissible" , as if they weren't a racial slam. But in fact they really still are, aren't they?
Just like the term "Nigga' is used by inner city youths, "white trash" is usually used to describe someone of ones own race and most of the time sarcastically (as Dean so aptly pointed out at the start of this post). It's an "inside racial" slam, because black people don't run E, InStyle magazine, or any of the other media conglomerates that spew the word into the public so fluidly. So if you wanna correctly place rage for the popularity of this term in current American culture, point the finger where it belongs at so-called civilized white america and tell your black american friends to do the same to theirs.
I KNOW white trash when I see it, I've grown up around it and sadly some of my extended family behave like it, but a redneck is NOT white trash. Neither is country, hick, bumpkin or hillbilly.
I do find if far from amussing that I can be called white trash at will but if I say nigger, kike, spik, wetback, rag head, etc I'm the rascist. It's only rascism if a WHITE does it. Saying those words aren't rascist if labeling whites as those derogatory terms aren't rascist. It's either all for one, or none for all. Of course, that would require many that claim to be against rascism to come out against folks like the Black Pathers, the Mexican Mafia, and CAIR. I won't hold my breath, I don't look good blue.
The first chapter demonstrates, rather convincingly, that (most) modern black culture comes from the redneck south culture, which came from those who emigrated to the US from specific parts of Britain.
When you say that to some people, they think you're exaggerating and snort at you derisively. Kinda interesting, huh?
What's particularly pathetic is that some people snarl and spit and suggest that you're lying when you describe it that way, but it's the simple truth.
Blondes being a stand in for a "dumb white person".
For all intents, blondes have to be white.
Dumb blonde jokes are the only holdovers from the old school ethnic humor jokes that are still "permissible" , as if they weren't a racial slam. But in fact they really still are, aren't they?