Perhaps NOT a fan of Hank Williams Jr.?

[babylonsister]

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. LOL Perhaps not!

[Burma Jones]

2. Honey Badger don't give a shit

Although, I take some offense.....I do scratch my ass and have been known to swill a little beer now and then.

[bongbong]

3. Inspired

That's some real down-home type face-bookin' there!

"Trans-Camaro with a pitbull chained to it" is LITERALLY true of oh-so-many folks out in Chickens-Voting-For-Colonel-Sanders land.

[sharp_stick]

4. I wonder how long that one sat

there before Hank's manager sobered up enough to delete it?

[jsr]

5. Good one!

And so very true.

[hifiguy]

6. Someone is channeling the Duchess.

Epic takedown!

[babylonsister]

7. My thought as well!

[flakey_foont]

8. Yowch!

It does not appear at all that Mr. Badger is among Junior's
legion, er, group, er, couple of fans

[datasuspect]

9. the phrase "redneck white trash"

is as offensive as the word "nigger."

just saying.

nothing funny about either.

postscript: just a little bit of waylon, sho goes a long way.

[Marrah_G]

11. Offensive, yes

As offensive as the word N****r?

Nah, not even close.

[datasuspect]

12. simple test

go call someone that at a beer joint in southeast texas (or any working class community) and see if you don't get the shit slapped out of you.

offensive enough.

it would be the same if you walked into a barber shop anywhere in any black community and called someone a nigger.

[Marrah_G]

16. I disagree

The two are not the same.

All you need to do is look at history.

[datasuspect]

17. which history?

whose version?

are we using primary and secondary sources, oral histories, what should i be looking for?

the thing about group suffering pissing contests is that there is always something you can trot out to say who suffered more.

i say the suffering in itself is enough.

it adds nothing and is injurious to people when you use phrases like redneck white trash.

or do you condone that phrase?

[Marrah_G]

19. Have a nice day, Datasuspect

[datasuspect]

22. dang

was it the honest questioning that snookered you?

[Luminous Animal]

30. If I called a man "lady" in a beer joint in Southeast Texas, I'd be likely to

get the shit slapped out of me. Is the word "lady" as offensive as n****r?

[ann---]

18. Except

"redneck white trash" were never slaves - in fact, they OWNED the slaves. Those who behave like lowlife rednecks deserve all the derision they get. especially Hank Williams, Jr.

[Care Acutely]

21. but the term "white trash" is most derisive to those who are NOT white

"White trash" says that the intended target is too trashy to be white - it assumes that it would be understandable and permissible to be such low-life trash if only the intended were some other race.

Yes, HW Jr., and his fellow lowlifes deserve many insults, but "white trash" is more offensive and insulting to people who are not white than it is to them. As an epithet, it's not only racist, it totally misses it's mark.

[Luminous Animal]

31. Not quite...

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'".[5][6]

In 1854, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the chapter "Poor White Trash" in her book A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe tells the reader that slavery not only produces "degraded, miserable slaves", but also poor whites who are even more degraded and miserable. The plantation system forced those whites to struggle for subsistence. Beyond economic factors, Stowe traces this class to the shortage of schools and churches in their community, and says that both blacks and whites in the area look down on these "poor white trash".[7]

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22white+trash%22+origins&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&client=firefox-a

[Care Acutely]

32. Yeah, uh, it's not 1830, or even 1854. Usages evolve.

[Marrah_G]

10. Ohhhhhh SNAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TwilightGardener]

13. The first sentence of Honey Badger's post--most excellent.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. I'm surprised Williams has such an Obama-esque avatar. What's up with that?

[Myrina]

26. I can't see what the wording on the icon says...

... but Williams has made some pretty obnoxious anti-Obama/anti-logic statements in recent weeks, so maybe it's some kind of right wing attempt at a slam.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

29. The big word is "COUNTRY" but there seems to be 3 little words right above it.

And to clarify my original post a bit, I think he's been outright threatening to Obama IIRC so if borrowing that look is supposed to be some sort of clever barb it's going to fly right over his fans' heads. And his.

[HopeHoops]

15. "That ain't no Hank Williams song!"

At 0:30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=RdR6MN2jKYs

[Initech]

20. Oh snap!!!!

[LibertyLover]

23. Honey Badger don't care

I loves me some Honey Badger.

[calimary]

24. Me too! Honey Badger says what I would have said! Except I can't.

To post on his Facebook page, you have to click "Like" and I can't do that. I can't say I like that hate-filled, willfully-ignorant Troglodyte.

[rbrnmw]

25. I find this offensive to all

White Trailer Trash

He's even too trashy for them

[madokie]

27. Jr is pissing in his own post toasties for sure

I think his cheese has slid off the cracker, is what I think

[Kurovski]

28. That's talent

K&R