Rosie's ching-chong comments

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

Nope. It's just that it's hypocritical for you to call someone "white trash" when you're making an argument for racial sensitivity. It's like the pot calling the kettle black, get it?

I also find it quite alarming that some people hold the notion that there is no such thing as descrimination against white people. Poor whites who live in under-developed, and/or poor socio-economic conditions (or who come from such a background) are indeed descriminated against and called such wonderfully socially accepted (from the climate around here anyway) names as "trailer trash," and "white trash." Some also seem to be under the impression that these groups are not oppressed. Sure they are, it's just not racial oppression, so much as it's socio-economic, and in some instances, ethnic. Why is it so hard to wrap one's brain around that? It exists, now quit back-peddling with ludicrous arguments about how white people can't be oppressed and/or descriminated against. It's just not true!

One's socioeconomic status/background is NOT the same as race! Again, back to my earlier point, "trash" is more of a state of mind/behavior than it is an artifact of ethnicity or economic status. That's just like saying that oppression against fat people is racism. Why are you trying to twist this into something that it is not?