[ SECRET POST #2456 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2456 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[China, Illinois]


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[The Mortal Instruments]


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[Community]


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[Hunter x Hunter, Senritsu/Melody]

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[Hetalia]


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[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]


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[Ghostbusters]


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[Teen Wolf]


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[Malik Ishtar from Yugi-oh Duel Monsters]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But if you have to specify that you're *white* trash, you're saying there's some other race that's trash by default, which isn't true.

What? No. Saying you're "trash" versus saying you're "white trash" are two entirely different things with specific societal meanings, at least to Americans. The claim that the phrase "white trash" is somehow degrading to other races is ludicrous.

tldr: Can we agree on "trailer trash"? Or does that connote that people who live in houses are trash by default?

[(Anonymous)]

MY TRAILER WILL HUNT YOU DOWN and make you apologize.

[(Anonymous)]

MY HOUSE WILL EAT YOUR TRAILER FOR LUNCH

[(Anonymous)]

OPPRESSION

[(Anonymous)]

What? No. Saying you're "trash" versus saying you're "white trash" are two entirely different things with specific societal meanings, at least to Americans. The claim that the phrase "white trash" is somehow degrading to other races is ludicrous.

I agree that's true, but I also think that the origin of the term 'white trash' probably did have something to do with the dynamics of race and racism. And also class, obviously, which is the bigger reason not to use the term, that it's self-evidently classist.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Oh, I'm not saying "white trash" isn't a problematic phrase. I'm just saying "trash" and "white trash" are not at all equivalent terms. OP seems to agree.

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough then!

[tabaqui]

This article suggests it was first in use by African-Americans.
http://thesocietypages.org/specials/white-trash/

[mekkio]

Agreed. Calling someone trash is more on a personal level and has nothing to do with their ethnic make-up. Calling someone "white trash" in more on their ethnic make-up. Or to put it another way, anyone can be trash or be called trashy. It's synonymous with the term, "sleazy." Only white people, i.e., people of European ethnic ancestry background can be "white trash" which, at least, in the US conjures up stereotypical images of meth smoking, missing teeth, barefoot and knocked up, inbreeding, thieving, lying, illiterate, backwoods trailer living, poor white hicks.

Yes, white trash is an ethnic slur but it's a specific ethnic slur.

[tabaqui]

Exactly.