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The concensus seems to be that "redneck" is a term that is often used in a derogatory fashion to refer to a particular demographic of people that may or may not necessarily be all white.
Soooo, should the word be tolerated on these boards when used in the derogatory context (George Bush is just a redneck from Texas, eg), or in polite conversation in general?
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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