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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You know, it's possible to dislike SJW's and racial slurs. I'd say 80 per of people dislike both.
But the next time someone on this forum says n*gger, k*ke, or raghead, and then turns around and calls someone out for saying white trash, you have my blessing to call him a hypocrite.
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When people start murdering low-income whites in trailer parks because they're "white trash" you can make this correlation. When people start enslaving low-income whites because "white trash" is less than human, you can make this correlation. But that doesn't happen. That has literally never happened. There is some racial connotation to white trash (hence "white") but to make a direct correlation between n*gger and white trash is such a ridiculous amount of reaching that it's honestly painful.
Is it derogatory? Absolutely. Is it insulting? You're damn right it is.
Is it violently hateful? No.
There's a reason that some of these terms need asterisks added before you can use them in a public forum. There are reasons you say "n-word" but you can openly say the phrase "white trash." Both are insulting but "white trash" doesn't qualify as hate speech.
Also your other examples are used to describe literally any black person, any Asian person, any Iraqi person, any Indian person, etc.
White trash refers to a very specific subset of the white population. Again, sure it's insulting, and yes there's racial connotation, but it's just such a dramatically different kind of insult than are the ones you used as examples.
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Originally Posted by Itse
Neo-Nazis and fascists are not particularly poor or even working class. It's one of those myths that the middle-class and upper classes likes to comfort themselves with. "It's not us, it's those people".
If racism, homophobia and misogyny were particularly lower class problem, they wouldn't be that much of a problem, as power in the society lies mostly elsewhere.
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Yes and no. Those lower class people who most certainly hold racist, homophobic, and misogynistic views represent a huge amount of voters in the US. They openly vote against their own economic interests (while claiming economic distress as their reason for voting as they do) because of their heavy grasp on those bigoted view, and as was shown in November 2016, with the way that the electoral college is set up, those voters then have an inordinate amount of power.
Yes, that power concentrates at the top, but their votes keep that power in office.