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Originally posted by fintstone
It is sad that we can rationalize calling one group hateful names like cracker and redneck (ok because some whites would not care?) while calling another group names is a unforgivable sin. Perhaps if folks did not justify the earlier...others would not justify the latter. I would expect that a person would prefer to be called a nigger than a redneck because they born with their color/race... but being rcalled a redneck implies one is that way by choice. I find the remarks posted here in the past calling poor southern whites "inbred" equally, if not more repulsive. Folks that live in glass houses should not throw stones. Their calling Richards a "cracker" was just as repulsive as Richard's remarks IMHO. If they had kept their mouth shut and acted like they were better men than Richards...they would have a point. They did not.
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I'm not rationalizing calling anybody anything. But It's true. Most white people I know don't care about being called a redneck and wouldn't consider it the ultimate slap in the face.