Rosie's ching-chong comments

[sparky]

Originally Posted by cliffdweller

Let me ask you this: how is calling someone white trash any different than calling someone a n****r?

So yeah, that phrase is rife with hatred in my opinion. I'm not taking this up as my hobby horse or anything [because god forbid I should espouse ANYTHING remotely p.c. ], I'm just pointing out the inconsistencies in people's views about these kinds of terms.

In my view it's not even close to the same thing.

White Trash is just a phrase for low class, sloppy living, uneducated white people. My hometown was full of them. I use that phrase all the time. I think it's funny. It's a whole way of life, being white trash. I don't find it loaded at all. It's like redneck to me. In fact, sometimes when I go back to Oregon my pals and I have white trash parties - cheap beer, bad hot dogs, greasy potato salad, Molly Hatchet and Lynyrd Skynrd on the stereo, and TV in the front yard. What that has to do with a slur against black people...I have no idea.