Anonymous
10/27/2013 20:19
Subject: Re:Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
I am from the south, and my mom grew up in the 40's. She said when groups of black and white kids saw each other, the white kids would insult the black kids by using the "N" word, and the black kids would respond by calling the white kids "poor white trash". Yes, it is racist.
Anonymous
10/27/2013 08:23
Subject: Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What about Hispanics?
What is offensive is the media's invention of the term "white Hispanic" following the George Zimmeran/Travon Martin situation.
Wouldn't you find it absurd or possibly racist to refer to President Obama as a "white African American" ?? (and yet we are all aware the our President is just as much white as he is African-American).
Invention or popularization of the term "white Hispanic" served only to expose the media's blatant progressive bias. Pathetic.
White is a race. Hispanic is an ethnicity. Those are two different things.
And what is "AA"? Please do tell.
Anonymous
10/27/2013 08:23
Subject: Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
Anonymous wrote:Media didn't invent that. It's a standard social science term used by the US census, eg, Juan Williams is a black Hispanic. Marc Anthony is a white Hispanic.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What about Hispanics?
What is offensive is the media's invention of the term "white Hispanic" following the George Zimmeran/Travon Martin situation.
Wouldn't you find it absurd or possibly racist to refer to President Obama as a "white African American" ?? (and yet we are all aware the our President is just as much white as he is African-American).
Invention or popularization of the term "white Hispanic" served only to expose the media's blatant progressive bias. Pathetic.
It doesn't feel right to everyone, thus apparently a good many Hispanics select "Other" for race in the census (it might help if we had mestizo as a racial category) but it wasn't invented by the media.
All very interesting, but doesn't really address the question of whether or not "white trash" is racist toward Hispanics.
Anonymous
10/27/2013 07:19
Subject: Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
Media didn't invent that. It's a standard social science term used by the US census, eg, Juan Williams is a black Hispanic. Marc Anthony is a white Hispanic.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What about Hispanics?
What is offensive is the media's invention of the term "white Hispanic" following the George Zimmeran/Travon Martin situation.
Wouldn't you find it absurd or possibly racist to refer to President Obama as a "white African American" ?? (and yet we are all aware the our President is just as much white as he is African-American).
Invention or popularization of the term "white Hispanic" served only to expose the media's blatant progressive bias. Pathetic.
It doesn't feel right to everyone, thus apparently a good many Hispanics select "Other" for race in the census (it might help if we had mestizo as a racial category) but it wasn't invented by the media.
Anonymous
10/27/2013 01:30
Subject: Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What about Hispanics?
What is offensive is the media's invention of the term "white Hispanic" following the George Zimmeran/Travon Martin situation.
Wouldn't you find it absurd or possibly racist to refer to President Obama as a "white African American" ?? (and yet we are all aware the our President is just as much white as he is African-American).
Invention or popularization of the term "white Hispanic" served only to expose the media's blatant progressive bias. Pathetic.
White is a race. Hispanic is an ethnicity. Those are two different things.
Anonymous
10/27/2013 01:06
Subject: Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
Anonymous wrote:What about Hispanics?
What is offensive is the media's invention of the term "white Hispanic" following the George Zimmeran/Travon Martin situation.
Wouldn't you find it absurd or possibly racist to refer to President Obama as a "white African American" ?? (and yet we are all aware the our President is just as much white as he is African-American).
Invention or popularization of the term "white Hispanic" served only to expose the media's blatant progressive bias. Pathetic.
Anonymous
10/26/2013 13:17
Subject: Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still waiting for a compelling argument as to why the term is racist.
It presupposes that regular trash is the black kind.
How so? What's the basis for this supposition?
Because no one ever says black trash.
So is it also racist against Asians then?
I Havent heard Asians referred to as trash before.
I haven't heard blacks referred to as trash before either.
I have.
Oh, please. Unfortunately, the American language has no shortage of offensive terms that are specifically used to refer to blacks but "trash" simply isn't one of them. Let's not stretch the truth just to make an argument.
Anonymous
10/26/2013 12:56
Subject: Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still waiting for a compelling argument as to why the term is racist.
It presupposes that regular trash is the black kind.
How so? What's the basis for this supposition?
Because no one ever says black trash.
So is it also racist against Asians then?
I Havent heard Asians referred to as trash before.
I haven't heard blacks referred to as trash before either.
I have.
Anonymous
10/26/2013 11:09
Subject: Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
What about Hispanics?
Anonymous
10/26/2013 11:02
Subject: Re:Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
It is racist.
It's offensive to whites as well as blacks.
It's offensive to whites as well as blacks.
Anonymous
10/26/2013 09:57
Subject: Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still waiting for a compelling argument as to why the term is racist.
It presupposes that regular trash is the black kind.
How so? What's the basis for this supposition?
Because no one ever says black trash.
So is it also racist against Asians then?
I Havent heard Asians referred to as trash before.
I haven't heard blacks referred to as trash before either.
Anonymous
10/26/2013 09:43
Subject: Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still waiting for a compelling argument as to why the term is racist.
It presupposes that regular trash is the black kind.
How so? What's the basis for this supposition?
Because no one ever says black trash.
So is it also racist against Asians then?
I Havent heard Asians referred to as trash before.
Anonymous
10/26/2013 09:34
Subject: Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
Anonymous wrote:It is racist. It's just not racist against white people.
+1
Anonymous
10/26/2013 08:47
Subject: Why is it okay and not considered racist to call someone "white trash"?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Still waiting for a compelling argument as to why the term is racist.
It presupposes that regular trash is the black kind.
How so? What's the basis for this supposition?
Because no one ever says black trash.
So is it also racist against Asians then?