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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
Hmm... I'm not sure how to clear this up for you, other than to point out that we are saying essentially the same thing. "Redneck" is accepted today; I don't dispute that. I do, however, decry that acceptance.
. . . It has become so accepted, so de rigour, that those who use it have no idea of how hurtful it is to some.
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That clears it up. We agree it is accepted.
As to whether it should be accepted, I don't know. I don't know anyone that is deeply insulted or hurt by "redneck," and I've known and grown up with a lot of people that are fairly "salt of the earth." But maybe there is a huge part of the white population that is deeply offended by the term redneck, I don't know.