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Reply to "Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I'm guilty of using it. Why? I grew up with the term. When someone says trash, trailer trash, white trash... The picture in my mind is always the same - poor white people. Honestly because growing up in a mostly white mid west, the poor people I knew where white. It wasn't until later that I realized what "white trash" inferred. So many people that use the term don't understand the undertones. I certainly didn't until much later. My parents weren't racist at all, but they had a lot of sayings that were certainly not PC. I never took the sayings as racist because they were never said with a tie to racism. Another example - someone trying to 'jip' you means to rip off. I didn't realize that it really is gyp, as in gypsies. Jip in my mind was some sort of slang word for ripping off. [/quote]
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