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Mon Jan-05-09 11:58 AM
Response to Reply #10 |
| 31. Echoes of this very sentiment upthread. nt |
| -What does "White trash" mean? |
Cyrano |
Jan-05-09 11:17 AM |
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Not sure. I do know that you can have all the money in the world and still act like WT though. |
YOY |
Jan-05-09 11:18 AM |
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Exactly!! Rich people can be "white trash" also. nt |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 11:30 AM |
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Our local example is Joe Hardy |
spinbaby |
Jan-05-09 11:34 AM |
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You're right that it has little to do with money |
spinbaby |
Jan-05-09 11:32 AM |
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I can define having money and qualifying as "WT" with one image in my head |
YOY |
Jan-05-09 11:38 AM |
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Being a grandmother at 35, putting all your money into your car and not your house...nt |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 11:40 AM |
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Never investing properly. Low culture. Low humor. Little/no value seen in education. |
YOY |
Jan-05-09 11:42 AM |
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Yeah, that's it |
spinbaby |
Jan-05-09 12:13 PM |
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I've actually seen that in Glendale, AZ. |
YOY |
Jan-05-09 12:15 PM |
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and having no intellectual attainments while being unable to give racial prejudice as the reason. |
Idealist Hippie |
Jan-05-09 12:26 PM |
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damn by your standards I'm WT..... |
unapatriciated |
Jan-05-09 06:45 PM |
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It's about taste. Taking advantage of opportunities...it's not a reference to race. nt |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 11:38 AM |
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It's a racist term to put down poor white people. DONT USE IT! |
laureloak |
Jan-05-09 07:17 PM |
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...like someone who would hike up his pantlegs (in a formal family picture) to show |
Idealist Hippie |
Jan-05-09 12:12 PM |
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I.E. George Bush Jr. aka Chimpy |
snooper2 |
Jan-05-09 12:01 PM |
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No. |
YOY |
Jan-05-09 12:02 PM |
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Um, he's Ashlee Simpson trashy |
snooper2 |
Jan-05-09 01:03 PM |
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Best example - Sarah Palin |
LynneSin |
Jan-05-09 12:04 PM |
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oh yes |
april |
Jan-05-09 12:40 PM |
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I think WT is a synonym for Redneck. |
asjr |
Jan-05-09 12:32 PM |
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I know some WT that are hardly "redneck". |
YOY |
Jan-05-09 12:34 PM |
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Hardly, |
GA_ArmyVet |
Jan-05-09 08:21 PM |
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I grew up in rural Oklahoma. I agree somewhat with your description |
XOKCowboy |
Jan-06-09 03:13 PM |
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Exactly |
GA_ArmyVet |
Jan-06-09 05:13 PM |
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You are correct.
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jaredh |
Jan-05-09 11:19 AM |
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White trash as opposed to black trash? |
Tangerine LaBamba |
Jan-05-09 11:19 AM |
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I don't think it applies just to southerners |
Bacchus39 |
Jan-05-09 11:20 AM |
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I've never connected it to Southerners nor to blacks....n/t |
LeftinOH |
Jan-05-09 11:20 AM |
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Yes it is racist-a part of which is white Americans taught to accept people as dispensable |
underpants |
Jan-05-09 11:21 AM |
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No, they're worse than black because they don't take advantage of better opportunities. |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 11:29 AM |
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Echoes of this very sentiment upthread. nt |
Romulox |
Jan-05-09 11:58 AM |
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It referes to whites that are in the south w/ no education? Not Blacks |
april |
Jan-05-09 12:38 PM |
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Check "teh Googlez" |
PeaceNikki |
Jan-05-09 11:21 AM |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's take on this aside, what I'm reading |
Cyrano |
Jan-05-09 11:31 AM |
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Is DU a fucking thesis, ffs? |
PeaceNikki |
Jan-05-09 11:34 AM |
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Agree about Wiki. nt |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 11:37 AM |
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depends |
qazplm |
Jan-05-09 11:42 AM |
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You hit the nail on the head, my friend. nt |
Liberal_Lurker |
Jan-05-09 11:24 AM |
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Not necessarily southern. Doesn't "equate .... with all black people." |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 11:28 AM |
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You mean there aren't stupid trashy white people outside of the south? |
nini |
Jan-05-09 11:34 AM |
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We've got them in droves up here |
TrogL |
Jan-05-09 11:50 AM |
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ZOMG! |
Tandalayo_Scheisskopf |
Jan-05-09 12:00 PM |
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Yes, there are stupid white people outside of the South. |
Cyrano |
Jan-05-09 11:57 AM |
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It doesn't equate poor, ignorant whites with blacks at all. nt |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 12:18 PM |
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Some people like to be outraged. |
YOY |
Jan-05-09 12:22 PM |
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Yes, I agree. Like "trailer trash" it is not fair. nt |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 12:26 PM |
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Should that be "w***e t***h?" |
usnret88 |
Jan-05-09 11:35 AM |
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'My Big Redneck Wedding' |
liberalmuse |
Jan-05-09 11:37 AM |
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You hear it more now because "trailer trash" is not fair. nt |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 11:40 AM |
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See Palin, Sarah. |
11 Bravo |
Jan-05-09 11:43 AM |
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Igner'nt and proud uvvit |
Warpy |
Jan-05-09 11:44 AM |
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It's an echo of the Jim Crowe days. It's hatred for lower-class whites |
Romulox |
Jan-05-09 11:46 AM |
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Amazing... |
Rebubula |
Jan-05-09 12:02 PM |
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Yep, Romulox, I saw them. Must be some post/Bush form of "Compassionate Liberalism." |
Cyrano |
Jan-05-09 12:10 PM |
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Nothing at all to do with class or the South |
Lorien |
Jan-05-09 12:23 PM |
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"Poor white trash" = "nothing to do with class"???? You can't be serious. nt |
Romulox |
Jan-05-09 04:22 PM |
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Up this way, Trailer Trash is used. |
NutmegYankee |
Jan-05-09 12:04 PM |
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Okay, I've always thought 'swamp Yankee' was a reference to flatland New Englanders... |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 12:14 PM |
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It is - see explanation |
NutmegYankee |
Jan-05-09 12:24 PM |
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It has nothing to do with blacks. Where I grew up "white trash" were |
Lorien |
Jan-05-09 12:08 PM |
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People who are not only ignorant but proud of their ignorance, do nothing to better humanity |
RGBolen |
Jan-05-09 12:09 PM |
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Bingo! |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 12:11 PM |
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Anything to better humanity costs too much. Hadn't you noticed? |
HypnoToad |
Jan-05-09 12:20 PM |
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You have a Futurama icon and username and you bash Family Guy?! |
FarceOfNature |
Jan-05-09 12:38 PM |
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Bush. nt |
Lorien |
Jan-05-09 12:28 PM |
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Gots your definition right here: |
HypnoToad |
Jan-05-09 12:15 PM |
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Caldwell's Lester family and Faulkner's Snopes family... |
mitchum |
Jan-05-09 12:27 PM |
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I never thought it had anything to do with race, even though |
stuntcat |
Jan-05-09 12:31 PM |
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It means looks white, but isn't living up to the minimal expectations of whiteness. |
Gormy Cuss |
Jan-05-09 12:31 PM |
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Wow, Gormy Cuss, you can't get much more on target than that. |
Cyrano |
Jan-05-09 12:48 PM |
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What Gormy said. |
lwfern |
Jan-05-09 07:46 PM |
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The average guest on the Jerry Springer Show |
Chisox08 |
Jan-05-09 12:34 PM |
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It's a phrase that allows some people to feel superior to others.. |
Fumesucker |
Jan-05-09 12:39 PM |
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did you ever see the movie Deliverance //some what like that.. |
april |
Jan-05-09 12:44 PM |
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a 3rd class citizen by choice |
Neo |
Jan-05-09 12:48 PM |
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Whit Trash has different meanings and in all fairness is just as harmfull as the N word. |
MiltonF |
Jan-05-09 12:57 PM |
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That's the way it was explained to me back in the forties, however, |
Cleita |
Jan-05-09 01:08 PM |
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As opposed to "the colored" variety... |
Juniperx |
Jan-05-09 01:09 PM |
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It recognizes that we had different standards for w/bs because blacks got screwed over... |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 04:54 PM |
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There are thousands of white people... |
Juniperx |
Jan-05-09 05:07 PM |
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I'm aware of that. nt |
MookieWilson |
Jan-05-09 05:09 PM |
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Tom DeLay is a good example. |
SteveG |
Jan-05-09 05:21 PM |
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Sorry, but DeLay and his ilk are a whole different breed. |
Cyrano |
Jan-06-09 01:24 PM |
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I just use the term "trashy" but in reference to the same thing. |
Alexander |
Jan-05-09 05:21 PM |
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It is classist with racism layer in |
Bluenorthwest |
Jan-05-09 05:33 PM |
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It means Murrikans haven't had the good sense to adopt the word chav yet. |
LeftyMom |
Jan-05-09 05:36 PM |
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IMO Britney Spears is a perfect example n/t |
on the EDGE |
Jan-05-09 05:39 PM |
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I'm white trash |
easttexaslefty |
Jan-05-09 05:42 PM |
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It means the person using the term is an ignorant bigot, imo. |
Veganistan |
Jan-05-09 06:15 PM |
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Billy Bob, get off your sister. I told you about that son. |
IsItJustMe |
Jan-05-09 06:21 PM |
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Just don't confuse White Trash with Rednecks please... |
XOKCowboy |
Jan-05-09 06:25 PM |
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White trash isn't racist. I've known a few. |
Xithras |
Jan-05-09 06:36 PM |
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sorry if I offend, but I considered Jerry Springer guests and the stars of COPS under this moniker |
carlyhippy |
Jan-05-09 07:09 PM |
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I don't like it either |
treestar |
Jan-05-09 07:50 PM |
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I think the "trashness" has to do with attitude, not with color -- i.e. the unemployed white guy |
Idealist Hippie |
Jan-06-09 09:49 AM |
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That may be your definition... |
Gwendolyn |
Jan-06-09 01:39 PM |
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And that is apparently your definition. I've known many, many poor, uneducated and white people |
Idealist Hippie |
Jan-06-09 04:03 PM |
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As John Waters said... |
Gwendolyn |
Jan-05-09 08:15 PM |
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google OVG |
libodem |
Jan-06-09 01:50 PM |
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I'm from the south |
aphopkin |
Jan-06-09 03:18 PM |
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Don't any of you guys watch Jerry Springer? |
exman |
Jan-06-09 03:58 PM |
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I view the term as a subliminal, reflective, derogatory slur. |
Uncle Joe |
Jan-06-09 04:11 PM |
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I'm with you I've always found it offensive because I think it is a racist term |
WI_DEM |
Jan-06-09 04:11 PM |
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If you've read (or seen) To Kill a Mockingbird |
achtung_circus |
Jan-06-09 06:22 PM |
#104 |
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