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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks, I understand the point people are making about adding the qualifier "white" to "trash." It suggests that normally trash is non-white or you wouldn't have to give it the "white" qualifier. But I am more concerned about how this is used as a pejorative against poor rural whites than I am about whether it's racist against blacks. Seriously, black people already face many challenges fueled by structural racism that we should all be concerned about (eg Trayvon Martin)but I'm not going to lose sleep over the insult to them by using the word "white trash."

But if calling it racist will get liberal whites to stop sneering at poor white southerners maybe that's not so bad. As a white left-liberal I get so tired of supercilious liberals who think it's okay to talk dismissively of poor whites in a way they never would about blacks or Latinos. [/quote]

Nobody is disputing that it's classist against poor people, white or otherwise.  It's bad to be classist.  Again, no arguments.[/quote]

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