kelley at pulpculture.org wrote:
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> (aside to the offended: i'm from upstate redneck new york (hi carl!) so
> check your outrage button, cause it's gotten sticky or sumpin'!)
Nope, won't check it. I also dislike the term redneck -- I find it's original meaning (sunburnt from overlong hours working in the sun) still too prominent for me. And about the vilest stuff ever published in the Illinois State University student paper was by three smug liberal students (who more than fit the template of "Love me, I'm a liberal") writing about their "experience" in a politely choreographed 'confrontation' of demonstrators and "rednecks" in some small southern town about 16 years ago.
I get the same queasy feeling in my stomach when I see the term "white trash" tossed around: I agree with those who say it has never lost its original primary force as a white-racist slogan. It means whites as disgusting as those black people, and all the whitewashing in the world won't change it.
Carrol