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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
Rednecks call each other "rednecks", Christien, in the same spirit blacks call each other "nigger". Strange double standard, no?
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You can't possible be arguing that the word nigger and the word redneck carry the same weight, can you? That's just crazy. "Redneck" doesn't carry anywhere near the amount of hate that "nigger" does, and I don't think anybody would deny that. I could walk up to any friend of mine who was, say, wearing a pair of overalls and a plaid shirt and say "hey man, you look funny, you look like a redneck" and probably get a laugh. If the same guy were wearing heavy gold chains and bright white Adidas and I said "hey man, you look funny, you look like a nigger", well, I'd better have a damn good explanation. It's like saying you want to make love to a woman, vs. wanting to f**k her. Sure, technically it means the same thing, but the connotation is completely different.
The fact that we have multiple words for what is technically the same definition is why we speak a language, rather than computer code.