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Old 03-16-2018, 03:07 PM   #1024
transplant99
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Originally Posted by rubecube View Post
I'm just not understanding why it's considered a racial slur. It lacks the common thread of other racial slurs, which generally attacks physical features or other aspect of a person's race that they're born with and unable to change. Honky or cracker? Sure I can agree those are racial slurs because they're solely attacking someone based on their whiteness. White trash doesn't do that.

I guess it's also weird for me because I grew up white trash by your definition but definitely didn't feel like white trash because I lacked my dad's bigotry, who I do consider to be trash.
"white" doesn't refer to someones skin color?

Color me confused.
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