White Trash is....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lifted truck with a confederate flag hanging across the back. I actually saw this driving down M St in Gtown a while back. It also said "Hillbilly Highrise" on it. Absolutely amazing.

pretty common everywhere

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Anonymous wrote:I don't give black people a pass for saying the n word. Do you?

go to the political board. apparently it is perfectly ok for blacks to use the N word.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't give black people a pass for saying the n word. Do you?

go to the political board. apparently it is perfectly ok for blacks to use the N word.

Why? But they don't want non-blacks to use it. This doesn't help their cause.

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Anonymous wrote:When I first moved into my house I put up sheets before I could get my curtains and blinds up, in order to have a little privacy (or so I thought), but I was apparently just WT and I should have just paraded in front of my windows. Ditto her vendetta against paper shades. My family has always gone down to Pier I and gotten paper shades -- rice shades from Asia. I always thought they were funky and bohemian, but, sigh, here I am, WT again without knowing it. And when we were sleep training our children, we hung up blankets over the windows just for that week to make sure it was super dark in their rooms. Ohmigod -- inadvertent WT again. Do you think I should send a flier out to the neighbors, or maybe post an apology on the Listserv?

It's pretty clear that this isn't what the OP meant. What's the point of being deliberately obtuse?

When OP drives around, how does she distinguish a temporary blanket hanger from a permanent one -- isn't she the obtuse one?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can't get passed the racism....

The classism as well. The message is that working class rural whites are not as good as middle class educated whites. Some northern liberals love to give themselves permission to say bigoted things about working class whites but it's no different from the racial and ethnic slurs that they are so proud of not using.

There is no classism when it comes to white trash...........you're either "poor white trash" or "white trash with money." You can easily be blue collar and not be white trash or you can be educated and middle income and still be white trash.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A lifted truck with a confederate flag hanging across the back. I actually saw this driving down M St in Gtown a while back. It also said "Hillbilly Highrise" on it. Absolutely amazing.

pretty common everywhere

you have to be joking

[Anonymous]

OP is referring to her own neighbors. On a day to day basis, it's pretty easy to differentiate between what's temporary and what's a permanent situation in your own neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't get passed the racism....

The classism as well. The message is that working class rural whites are not as good as middle class educated whites. Some northern liberals love to give themselves permission to say bigoted things about working class whites but it's no different from the racial and ethnic slurs that they are so proud of not using.

There is no classism when it comes to white trash...........you're either "poor white trash" or "white trash with money." You can easily be blue collar and not be white trash or you can be educated and middle income and still be white trash.

Thank you. That's why I use the expression freely.

[Anonymous]

Are you PWT if you are a millionaire NASCAR driver or team owner?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who judge their own neighbors harshly because of the superficial things OP has listed. People who think they are somehow better than the other people who live in the same neighborhood they do, for all the shallow reasons the OP listed....

You are so right!

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Anonymous wrote:People who judge their own neighbors harshly because of the superficial things OP has listed.

You are so right!

I'm sorry, but this is so ridiculously hypocritical. Anyone who says they don't care if their neighbors don't keep their property up either isn't being honest with themselves or is lying through their teeth.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you do realize that the phrase "white trash" is inherently racist, right? The implication being that trash is, unless otherwise specified, non-white.

Or does it just differentiate between trashy people that are white and trashy people of other races?

Right. I don't think there's any question that it's a "classist" term but calling it racist seems like a bit of a stretch.

Where did you grow up? If it was in the south, you know it's racist.

[Anonymous]

Mmm, OP might be describing my brother-in-law, who does not care about appearances, but cares very much about quality and value. He is probably far richer than most of you posting here. DH is the same way, but luckily I married him and we are getting lovely window treatments

[Anonymous]

God forbid we get on topic, people. Welcome to D.C.! I suppose those who are deflecting either are, come from or desperately fear being WT?

There is no other explanation for the overanalyzing any part of this very simple question.

I propose all of your neighbors attract mice, rats and worse. And have sheets for window treatments when you are trying to sell your house in an upscale neighborhood. Because that neighbor was there first they "deserve" to have what they want in their windows? How much sense does that make?

I get it! You who are deflecting ARE in fact the WT neighbors!

Who said OP was white?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you do realize that the phrase "white trash" is inherently racist, right? The implication being that trash is, unless otherwise specified, non-white.

Or does it just differentiate between trashy people that are white and trashy people of other races?

Right. I don't think there's any question that it's a "classist" term but calling it racist seems like a bit of a stretch.

Where did you grow up? If it was in the south, you know it's racist.

Given the number of people here arguing otherwise, I'd say this issue is far from clear-cut.

And I grew up in the Midwest, BTW, where I've never heard anyone suggest the term is a racist one. It's not the most PC terminology, but that's different than saying it's outright racist.