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White Trash as a Racial Slur
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I keep hearing people saying white trash is not racial. To those people, I have to ask if the term where 'black trash', would it then be racial? If there were a term to refer to impoverished people as 'black trash', would it be accepted by society? I highly doubt it.
The class connotations are still what sticks out to me the most.
There's huge differences in the compositions of "%^&*!@" and "white trash". "White" and "black" is not a racist terms per se, but "$%^&*!" is. "Cracker" sounds more racist to me, but as I said, I've never heard it used in context so I probably don't sense the significance of it like I should. "Trash"
is
a derogatory way of saying poor-- so "white" ends up simply being a qualifier to the insult.
I'm going to agree here.
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Hyperspacerebel
The class connotations are still what sticks out to me the most.
Because it's used mostly by white people to speak about white people. There is no reason for it to carry racist connotations in those cases.
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