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Originally Posted by GateandGarden
I tend not to get very upset when people make comments about white people, and I am a white person. I get more offended when someone says something about black people (or another race), honestly. Other races have been much more oppressed in this country. And I don't think white people truly understand what it is to be a racial minority. I am a minority because I'm a lesbian, but I don't think that automatically gives me a true understanding of how hard it is to be a racial minority. Besides, I could hide my homosexuality easily to the public if I wanted to and that is not so easy for probably the vast majority of racial minorities.
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True - but juding based on type is all the same to me. I think calling someone a redneck is just as bad as calling someone a racial slur. I get that most rednecks were not slaves, but many are poor and uneducated and the system could care a less about them. Thus, they have suffered some abuse. If you do not believe me, go to the innards of Appalachia and look at what the coal mines did to the locals. I think such name calling all stems from the same place just as things like "all rich people are jerks" - they are gross generalizations which may or may not have some vague foundation in former truth. But, we are all humans and I guess it is just in us to do so. I mean to a lesser extent, who did not howl with laughter at Barbra Billingslee (sp.?) speaking jive on Airplane. I do not think that is any less racist than showing field hands plowing the field in the Old South in Gone WIth the Wind - yet one is acceptable more so than the other - thus, I try not to judge in my life - sadly, I am not perfect
