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23 Feb 2011, 2:52 pm

On one of the Cheezburger websites, http://thereifixedit.failblog.org/page/2/ , for any meme hovering over the picture will provide the alt caption starting with "white trash repairs...". Personally, I find this offensive. It is racist and it matters not whether it is racism against people with lighter complexion of skin or darker complexion of skin racism is still wrong nonetheless.

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23 Feb 2011, 2:55 pm

I don't know, I don't think of the term white trash as racist. Often times it is rather descriptive. Perhaps a less loaded term would be 'human garbage', that could include people of all skin colors
Someone is probably going to accuse me of racism now, :lol:

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23 Feb 2011, 3:04 pm

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I am going to call you a hypocrit, that is a blatent double standard.

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23 Feb 2011, 3:06 pm

So you wouldn't say that an early 20th century lynch mob is a bunch of 'white trash racists'?
I fail to see how recognizing that some people literally are trash makes me a hypocrite. I would count Al-Qaeda as human garbage, and I would also count the FNLA and the Gestapo. Is that a double standard somehow?

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23 Feb 2011, 3:07 pm

You must first be on the Schedule. Only the scheduled classes can be the focus of racism.

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23 Feb 2011, 3:08 pm

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Uh Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization we don't call people whom happen to be Muslim Al-Qaeda simply because they are Muslim.

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23 Feb 2011, 3:10 pm

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You must first be on the Schedule. Only the scheduled classes can be the focus of racism.

What is a scheduled class?

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23 Feb 2011, 3:10 pm

http://whitetrashrepairs.com/

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23 Feb 2011, 3:11 pm

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http://whitetrashrepairs.com/

It's a site of its own by that exact name? Isn't that just as bad?

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23 Feb 2011, 3:25 pm

The same folks also do http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ which is pretty balanced

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23 Feb 2011, 3:26 pm

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http://whitetrashrepairs.com/

LOL
Some people wear that label with pride, apparently

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23 Feb 2011, 3:29 pm

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Uh Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization we don't call people whom happen to be Muslim Al-Qaeda simply because they are Muslim.

Shwooop!, that's the sound my post made when it traveled from your eyes out the back of your head

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23 Feb 2011, 3:38 pm

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http://whitetrashrepairs.com/

Mallwart topic

Hey, I shop there, and I fix things like Whitetrash repairs.

I am in good company. :twisted:

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23 Feb 2011, 3:40 pm

There is something truly amazing about a vehicle repaired with 2 by 4s and duct tape or a car seat strapped to a motorcycle

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23 Feb 2011, 3:50 pm

It may be that some labels are best applied within a group rather than from without.

I'm white and have no problem with the term white trash. I think it's very descriptive and useful in certain situations.

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23 Feb 2011, 4:00 pm

At least to me, words like "white trash", "hillbilly" and "redneck" fall more into the category of classist rather than racist, in the same vein as calling something "ghetto". I don't really have too much of a problem with them until they're used by people who want to make a big stink about other people using similar terms for poor cultures within other races, then it becomes hypocritical. I've actually had someone jump all over me for having described a bad deal as getting "gypped" for example, so it would be hypocritical for that person to turn around and use white trash or redneck as a descriptor. For general use though I think they're OK.

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