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Altered mural fuels racial debate in Prescott

Wow I actually agree with apdst on this one. Redneck is a word used to portray rural southerners as stupid, inbred freaks. It is an attack on poor southern rural workers and its use should be condemned.

I agree, accept that it's not only used to refer to poor, rural Southerners.
 
I agree, accept that it's not only used to refer to poor, rural Southerners.

True but it's generally used to identify people with that stereotype.

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Wow I actually agree with apdst on this one. Redneck is a word used to portray rural southerners as stupid, inbred freaks. It is an attack on poor southern rural workers and its use should be condemned.

I agree that political correctness has reached a ridiculous point but I don't think it's correct or reasonable to put white racism on an equal level as racism by minorities.

Perhaps it is a matter of perspective. I live in a rural Georgia town and I commonly see the term redneck applied to a specific group people, not everyone here who happens to be white. To me there is a distinct difference.

But not every white dude in my town is a redneck.
 
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No, but every redneck in your town is a white dude...

That doesn't matter.

It would be like people freaking out for going after La Raza because all members happen to be Mexican. When it is clear that there is something screwed up about La Raza. It is the same with rednecks. (and yes, I think that culture is screwed up)
 
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Wow I actually agree with apdst on this one. Redneck is a word used to portray rural southerners as stupid, inbred freaks. It is an attack on poor southern rural workers and its use should be condemned.



I agree that political correctness has reached a ridiculous point but I don't think it's correct or reasonable to put white racism on an equal level as racism by minorities.

Not specifically redneck is also used to describe racist whites in the western US and Canada. Who are not associated with the inbred hicks of the Southern US
 
People use words differently, so this argument isn't going to be very productive. I personally think that this discussion is completely irrelevant and that it's just as hateful as if it is racism, so it doesn't really matter.
 
No, but every redneck in your town is a white dude...

Yes every redneck would be white as redneck describes a cultural subgroup of whites, not all whites. That is an important difference
 
Yes, they are white, but again, that is not relevant because the charge in this case was not directed towards their whiteness, but their racism. As I mentioned, racism is common in this culture. Really though, you are overreacting and not looking at this issue for what it actually is.

So, you would be ok with calling racist hispanics, "spicks?

Do us a favor and don't try to imply that racism is exclusive to white southerners.
 
So, you would be ok with calling racist hispanics, "spicks?

Do us a favor and don't try to imply that racism is exclusive to white southerners.

I am not trying to say that only white people can be racist, you are reading into my comments. Also, in general usage, spicks is used to refer to all hispanics, not a cultural subset. I think my La Raza example works better as there is an element of racism in that subgroup.

It would be like people freaking out for going after La Raza because all members happen to be Mexican.
 
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Not specifically redneck is also used to describe racist whites in the western US and Canada. Who are not associated with the inbred hicks of the Southern US

Now it's, "hicks"...:rofl! ALong with the assumption that white southerners are all inbred.

This keeps getting better and better.

This from the diversity loving, all tolerating Leftists.

Just wow!!!
 
I am not trying to say that only white people can be racist, you are reading into my comments. Also, in general usage, spicks is used to refer to all hispanics, not a subset. I think my La Raza example works better as there is an element of racism in that subgroup.

You said that, "rednecks", are white, southern, rural poor and racist; as if there's no way they can't be racist. I'm not reading anything into your statements.

"high yeller", isn't used to refer to all blacks, just a subset. Obama's a high yeller. You cool with me referring to him as a high yeller?
 
Now it's, "hicks"...:rofl! ALong with the assumption that white southerners are all inbred.

This keeps getting better and better.

This from the diversity loving, all tolerating Leftists.

Just wow!!!


No not all southern's are hicks only those that are inbred are hicks
 
You said that, "rednecks", are white, southern, rural poor and racist; as if there's no way they can't be racist. I'm not reading anything into your statements.

"high yeller", isn't used to refer to all blacks, just a subset. Obama's a high yeller. You cool with me referring to him as a high yeller?

The reading in was the assumption that I was stating that only white people can be racist. I do not think this is true. I have been on the receiving end of racism myself before and was almost physically assaulted for being white.

And not its not racist. Its culturally bigoted, yes, but not racist. I have no problem with culturally bigoted though because I clearly believe that some cultures are better than others. And I think that culture is an inferior one.

As for the high yeller case, what other features does this term encompass?
 
Yes every redneck would be white as redneck describes a cultural subgroup of whites, not all whites. That is an important difference

So it's okay then for me to refer to gang banging, illiterate, drug running young black males as Niggers is OKAY, because they are just a "cultural Subgroup" of Blacks.
 
Yes every redneck would be white as redneck describes a cultural subgroup of whites, not all whites. That is an important difference


Therefore, it's a racist remark. The same way that, "coonass", is racist, since it describes a subset of whites, as well.
 
So it's okay then for me to refer to gang banging, illiterate, drug running young black males as Niggers is OKAY, because they are just a "cultural Subgroup" of Blacks.

In that case I don't think it would be appropriate because the term nigger is already in common usage and tends to refer to all black people. Perhaps you could call them high yellers, per adpst's example.
 
In that case I don't think it would be appropriate because the term nigger is already in common usage and tends to refer to all black people. Perhaps you could call them high yellers, per adpst's example.

So Nigger is no longer a racial slur, got it.
 
So Nigger is no longer a racial slur, got it.

I guess so, if it falls out of common usage first and the term is reacquired with another meaning.
 
In a broadcast last month, according to the Daily Courier in Prescott, Blair mistakenly complained that the most prominent child in the painting is African-American, saying: "To depict the biggest picture on the building as a Black person, I would have to ask the question: Why?"

My question is "why not?"


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I guess so, if it falls out of common usage first and the term is reacquired with another meaning.

Wanna go down to the South Side of LA and go say nigger and tell them, hey it's a common usage term now :p I'll wait here.
 
Wanna go down to the South Side of LA and go say nigger and tell them, hey it's a common usage term now :p I'll wait here.

It has been a common term since the early 1900s, at least. It is looked down on now as an epithet (and rightly so), but the term has been around a long time.
 
The reading in was the assumption that I was stating that only white people can be racist. I do not think this is true. I have been on the receiving end of racism myself before and was almost physically assaulted for being white.

And not its not racist. Its culturally bigoted, yes, but not racist.



No, you said that all white, poor, rural southern whites are racist.


As for the high yeller case, what other features does this term encompass?

Typically mixed raced, but there are several variants.

I have no problem with culturally bigoted though because I clearly believe that some cultures are better than others. And I think that culture is an inferior one.

I thought Liberals didn't believe in racial superiority. Or, is it only ok when making one's self superior to whites? You comments would justify Jim Crow laws, because southern blacks are inferior to blacks in other parts of the country. Basically: "Southern blacks are niggers and northern blacks are African-Americans".
 
Now it's, "hicks"...:rofl! ALong with the assumption that white southerners are all inbred.

This keeps getting better and better.

This from the diversity loving, all tolerating Leftists.

Just wow!!!

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The bottom line is, one can't decry racism and hate other people on the basis that those people are racists, then turn around and engage in racism, just because it's the politically correct thing to do...then scream to high heaven about how you are this all inclusive, all tolerant non-racist wonder person.
 
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