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Elon Musk takes over Twitter

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Alma, Apr 25, 2022.

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  1. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Time to bring back those early 80s Apple shirts.

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    BTExpress, Nov 16, 2022
    #817
  2. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    considering I just got a one week ban for referring to “white trash”….
     
    BitterYoungMatador2, Nov 16, 2022
    #818
  3. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Pet peeve, not directed specifically at you. ... But, anyway, adding "white" as a modifier to "trash" implies that the root definition of "trash" in that context is nonwhite. Some journalism wordsmith made that style point a few decades ago, and it always stuck with me. A loaded term steeped in racism, as it were, but it continues in common use to this day, even in pop culture.
     
    Slacker, Nov 16, 2022
    #819
    Fred siegle, TigerVols, OscarMadison and 1 other person like this.
  4. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    The distinction the term was supposed to make had nothing to do with non whites, though. It was looking at just white people. ... and creating social classes inside that white population. The way the term used to get used was more of a white on white assault, where middle class or upper class people were using the term to distance themselves (via putting them down) from the poverty and lack of privilege of poor whites.

    "White" can be purely descriptive (for example, like the Euro in Eurotrash), and not be meant to imply anything about anyone EXCEPT white people. If I say that I bought a blue shirt, I am not necessarily trying to say anything (unsaid) about red shirts.
     
    The Big Ragu, Nov 16, 2022
    #820
  5. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Also, African-Americans in the South have happily used that pejorative since antebellum times.
     
    dixiehack, Nov 16, 2022
    #821
  6. Regan MacNeil

    Regan MacNeil Well-Known Member

    "... them low-down, poor, white trash Slatterys ..."
     
    Regan MacNeil, Nov 16, 2022
    #822
  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Is like to see the Venn diagram of these people.

     
    Inky_Wretch, Nov 16, 2022
    #823
  8. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Giving porn a bad name.
     
    dixiehack, Nov 16, 2022
    #824
  9. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    The Holy Trinity.
     
    Webster, Nov 16, 2022
    #825
  10. Slacker

    Slacker Well-Known Member

    Elon Musk is white trash a retard.
     
    Slacker, Nov 16, 2022
    #826
  11. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    If I promise to use bitcoin to subscribe to Marjorie Taylor Green's illicit OnlyFans channel, will I get a free blue check?
     
    TigerVols, Nov 16, 2022
    #827
    OscarMadison and garrow like this.
  12. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    The Big Ragu, Nov 17, 2022
    #828
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