# "Names you associate with \[edit for racial slur\]" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004 "2003-10-01T22:26:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004/161 "2003-10-04T15:17:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blowero \* > \*\*Geez, you leave a broken washing machine on your porch for a month and suddenly everyone’s all over you… \*\* A month!? “Our Maytag is 11 years old and it’s a workin’ still.” ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004/162 "2003-10-04T18:09:04Z")
Let’s not forget “coloreds,” once upon a time every bit as acceptable as “White Trash” is today. On this day in history in 1976, President Ford’s Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz uttered these scintillating words: > [@](#): > > I’ll tell you what the coloreds want. It’s three things: first, a tight pussy; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit. Shithead. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004/163 "2003-10-04T18:42:56Z")
But I want those things too… Not too loose on the shoes, though. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004/164 "2003-10-04T18:53:58Z")
Tight pussy? Why would he want to get a cat drunk? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004/165 "2003-10-04T19:39:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. B \* > \*\*Let’s not forget “coloreds,” once upon a time every bit as acceptable as “White Trash” is today. \*\* We’ve had the “colored” discussion before. I think the general consensus is that it’s still accepted, just never used because it’s outdated. It would be like saying something is “the bee’s knees.” What point were you trying to make? What point are any of you trying to make? This is one of the stupidest pit threads I’ve ever read. Doesn’t anyone notice this? I feel like I’m taking CRAZY pills! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004/166 "2003-10-04T19:47:11Z")
Don’t see the point, **Cisco**? Please allow me to retort. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Mr. B, before the hamster attack_… > > This is a mighty lofty debate, considering the topic’nall. I mean, think about the “white trash” target audience to which we are referring here: educationally challenged, uncouth, poorly coiffed, poorly raised and possibly even poorly bathed. :rolleyes: > > I’ve been ruminatin’. > > I think the distinction lies in what the epithet means to the _recipient_, not all of us out here in the ether. **fruitbat** , you make a good point – in an admirably egalitarian way – you call me a shitstain and from where I sit I’ll think you’ve lost your argument and/or marbles. But on the other hand, you call me a “slow-witted amnesiac” and I’ll be angry and hurt. Call me that yesterday and I’m not quite so hurt. You call me that now and you’re using something against me that you know hurts my feelings. > > Epithets are deplorable because they are like trawling for sore feelings. Epithets are such delicate snares, yet still manage to grab onto something that people loathe about themselves, or they just happen to _nick_ a characterization that impossibly lumps them in with a group that even **they** think is of a lower class. > > I’m just sayin’, I used to work as a bartender in a bowling alley. One night, our fry cook had a little altercation with a group of drunk conventioneers. Marie was a little _ahem_ _terse_ about several fried food returns and two refunds. As one of the customers was leaving Marie’s counter, the customer sneered _white trash **bitch** _ and walked off to the lanes. You know, I heard the woman say it (my service bar front was 10 inches down from the food counter), but didn’t at the time realize she was saying it at Marie. It was only while we were closing that Marie confided in me. “White trash” really hurt her feelings. She’d never been called that before. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004/167 "2003-10-04T22:05:39Z")
I still don’t get what point you’re trying to make, **B**. Just quoting someone and then expecting us to infer the point you’re trying to make is just silly. It’s reminisent of the infamous “if you don’t know why I’m mad, I’m not going to tell you!” line. Out with it. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004/168 "2003-10-04T23:25:05Z")
😕 Granted, it was odious to quote myself, but it had gotten lost during the really bad hamstering plaguing the Board lately. Did you even read my last post? ---
**Author:** ![Ben\_Hicks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Ben\_Hicks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben_Hicks)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004/169 "2003-10-10T13:55:17Z")
**Weirddave** You are absolutely correct. I apologise for my tone. I was way out of line. Thanks for setting me straight. **gobear** Thanks for the reading recommendation. I finished it yesterday. A very informative read. ---
**Author:** ![SavageCabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SavageCabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SavageCabbage)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004/170 "2025-12-15T20:37:38Z")
Couldnt agree more. This is old but almost as ridiculously offensive as the irked snowflower who Had the mammories n manginas floppy enough to whine so Poorly and publicly? White trash is one of my favs and i know that humans who inhabit a Trailer arent all trailer trash… they live next door tho….or they are hybrids, morphing into the pervy underbelly grease that no human (without a criminal record) would aspire to visit unless thry like Pedo Doritos & Man In a Van Vibes everywhere after dark… Yes, words hurt. And i am grateful. We are keeping Midget too! That one is fun to say & not an insult. An insult is the fact that someone raised you to be so stupid and that your mother let the best part of you run down her leg… see?? Fun! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004/171 "2025-12-15T20:43:33Z")
[Moderating] Fuck no. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-associate-with-edit-for-racial-slur/205004/172 "2025-12-15T20:43:39Z")
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