"Names you associate with niggers"

[Will_Repair]

*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.”

[El_Cid_Viscoso]

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.

[Revtim]

But I want those things too… Not too loose on the shoes, though.

[gobear]

Tight pussy? Why would he want to get a cat drunk?

[Cisco]

*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 I think the general consensus is that it’s still accepted, just never used because it’s outdated.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!

[El_Cid_Viscoso]

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.

[lezlers]

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.

[El_Cid_Viscoso]

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?

[Ben_Hicks]

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.