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Does "redneck" = "racist"?

Does "redneck" = "racist"?

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radcen said:
Does "redneck" = "racist"?

I'm going to leave it completely open-ended.
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My buddy that refers to himself as a "black redneck" would find this rather amusing I'm sure.
 
code1211 said:
Intrinsically, no.

In practice, usually.

I don't understand why I haven't heard a song about RED necks, WHITE skin and BLUE Collars being the real red, white and blue.

Seems like a natural for a country song that's serious or a pop song that's not.
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Seek and you shall find, well, 2 out of 3 anyway:

 
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radcen said:
Does "redneck" = "racist"?

I'm going to leave it completely open-ended.
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Depends on who's saying it and the intent behind the words. Generally, no it does not mean racist. Some of us consider it a compliment.

Recently my wife and I were eating lunch in a local bar when the bartender who is from Georgia told me that there were several people from Georgia outside on the patio having a few beers. I walked outside and without introducing myself said, "The bartender told me there was rednecks on the patio." Several of them said, "Hell, yeah." I said, "Go Dawgs." We had a grand time talking and getting to know each other.
 
AlbqOwl said:
I'm 100% proud redneck - grew up in the South and lived in Texas and know all the jargon and slang that goes with it. I love southern food, am not the least bit offended by the Confederate flag, salute the American flag, stand with my hand over my heart to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and still feel emotion when I hear the National Anthem sung and support generic public prayer at sporting events and a moment of silence to start the school day. I say this of course while cleaning my guns and reading my Bible. :)

And I am not the least bit racist though I do highly resent racism being thrown in my face by those who insist on keeping it alive and well as a weapon to use.
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You sound like most of my friends....other than they aren't from the south per se

Just good old folks, with old fashioned values

And race has NOTHING to do with it

Just plain common decency, and what used to be our core values
 
gdgyva said:
You sound like most of my friends....other than they aren't from the south per se

Just good old folks, with old fashioned values

And race has NOTHING to do with it

Just plain common decency, and what used to be our core values
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Yes, I've lived most of my life outside of Texas and have experienced many other cultures and have friends all over the United States and actually in many places in the world. But you know the old truth: once a redneck, always a redneck. :)

I have friends who hold opinions that would be branded 'racist' by most of the leftists here because they say what they think, but they would give the shirt off their back or do anything else necessary to help out somebody different from themselves who was in need. They wouldn't harm a fly unless it first intended to do harm. They are politically incorrect. Are such people racist? Even though I most often don't share their point of vieq, I can't find the racist component.
 
radcen said:
Does "redneck" = "racist"?

I'm going to leave it completely open-ended.
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No. Redneck is just drinking beer for breakfast and shooting at the cans come noon.
 
Redneck does not equal racist. My Redneck twang became more pronounced in the mid 1990s after I bought a Redneck Tavern. If one does not grow up around Rednecks, becoming one of them requires as much dedication as a boy scout earning Eagle Scout designation. I speak from experience. A Redneck has a duty to face fear. The Redneck Code of Honor states "A Redneck has a duty to fight no matter the odds. The honor comes not from victory or loss, but in demonstrating your valor." Rednecks tend to have a fondness for trucks, fights, hunting, missing teeth, poor spelling, outdated appliances, a love for Elvis (they know he still lives) and they brag about their big decks.
 
Fledermaus said:
The definition of Redneck is, “a glorious absence of sophistication”
--Jeff Foxworthy

It can be used as an insult. To others self deprecating identifier.
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And that’s what’s really funny—those who self-describe as “redneck” who are actually quite well educated and urbane.
 
Van Basten said:
The phrase is used for the poor of the White South. It's for them to decide if it's okay if people use that slur or not, or if it will even still be considered a slur.
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I'm descended from true Southern "rednecks," i.e. white Mississippi scratch farmers, and have called the state home for the past 22 years. Personally, I don't take offense to it, and, honestly, I don't know too many down here who do. Sometimes it's used as a perfectly apt descriptive word, as in labeling the Emerald Coast along the Florida Panhandle as the "Redneck Riviera." Jeff Foxworthy built an entire career around it.
 
Sometimes, it's a literal descriptor. My father was a redhead and very pale except for the neck/upper chest, which was permanently red. He chopped cotton during the summers to pay for his college tuition, and the red neck never went away.
 
Of course not. Just as republican does not equal racist. Or homophobe or sexist or bigoted or neo Nazi.
 
Hatuey said:
Is the question...

Are rednecks racists?

or...

Is the word redneck racist?

In either case, just gonna leave this here:

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Make of it what you will.
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Do black comedians say nigger in their routines?
 
falcata said:
The two are nowhere near equivalent in any context, and your response is frankly nonsensical given what they were reasoning.
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Both are racial slurs. Is it double standard time?
 
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