White trash (extended: poor white trash) is a racial epithet usually used to describe certain low income caucasians, especially characterized by crude manners or abnormally low moral standards. According to Oxford English Dictionary, "white trash" first came into common use in the 1830s as an American pejorative used by the slaves of "gentlemen" (rich white Southerners, often plantation aristocrats) against poor Caucasians who worked in the field. The term involves both behavioral characteristics (such as mannerisms, lifestyle) and overt racial characteristics (whiteness). The term is probably used most frequently in the Southeast region of the United States.
Tell you what...let's end the discussion and wait for reefersurfer to state whether or not he meant what I think he meant....as in trailer trash, pikey gypo...that sorta crap.
Or if it's possible for a white guy (reefersurfer) to be racist towards another white person.
Transient wrote:How is it not racist? The word WHITE is in the term!
I'm white...Holy shit! I must be racist! I just used the term white to describe the way I look with respect to other people. :icon20:
I believe racism only applies when you're using race-based differences for malicious purposes or to somehow give one person an advantage over another one. Otherwise it's just descriptive language.
Nijjers (extended: poor nijjers) is a racial epithet usually used to describe certain low income negroids, especially characterized by crude manners or abnormally low moral standards. According to Oxford English Dictionary, "nijjers" first came into common use in the 1830s as an American pejorative used by the slaves of "gentlemen" (rich white Southerners, often plantation aristocrats) against poor Blacks who worked in the cotton fields. The term involves both behavioral characteristics (such as mannerisms, lifestyle) and overt racial characteristics (blackness). The term is probably used most frequently in the Southeast region of the United States.
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