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Originally Posted by JinnKai
I don't see how you can justify it as NOT being a racial slur because it applies to a subset of a larger set; you've seen above that it is flawed logic. By this logic, calling a white man a nigger would mean that nigger isn't racial because it applies only to your status is a hierarchy and not a race.
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Because it doesn't use race as grounds for insult? It might be negative, it might be hurtful to some, it might be a lot of things, but one thing it is not is racist. People are not called rednecks because they are white; they are called rednecks because they come from rural areas, have less than cosomopolitan viewpoints, and speak with an accent. People who are called niggers are called niggers because they are black (or in some instances, a certain "type" of black person).
The term "nigger" may have evolved of late to classify a certain type of black person, ie the thug life epitomizing, "negative" one, or poorer black people, but it still has connotations to many (most I would say) as referring to all black people. Redneck never has been used, to my knowledge, to refer to caucasians as a whole group.