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Originally Posted by jorgelito
The funny thing is piggy, I'm not even white. However, I do think fair is fair so I don't think it's nice to use derogatory terms about ANYONE. So if the 'n' word offends me, then faggot and white-trash-redneck-hick offends me too (assuming these are epithets).
By the way, I think your interfrat part idea is brilliant (seriously) with more thought and planning. Maybe if they tweaked the theme a bit though. Like Aerosmith and RUND DMC? (work with me here...)
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First of all, that version of "Walk this Way" is one of the best things I've ever heard. Maybe I just grew up at the right time. In fact, anything from
Raisin' Hell is pretty whip-ass.
I always try to understand how redneck and hick are derogatory, but I never really feel they are. Maybe it's because I'm essentially inside the group, so it doesn't register with me. Kind of reminds me of a while back when I was driving downtown to get a drink with 3 puerto ricans, a black guy, and a white girl from Texas. One of puerto ricans was visiting, and I think he was a little astonished to be around a quasi-diverse group in SC, and made some comment on it. One of the other Puerto Ricans said something to the affect that we in a car with 3 spics, after which the black guy said some about adding one nigger, and the girl from texas said something about having two crackers. Everyone was laughing, no hard feelings - if anything those moments tend to lighten everyone up - but what I noticed is that I personally felt almost no tension about the cracker bit - I mean, I just don't care - whereas there was a noticable tension as soon as the words "spic" and "nigger" were uttered. I understand all of it, but I still don't equate "redneck" or "hick" as being quite on par. I guess I might be mildly irritated if someone of a different ethnicity called me a "hick," but I think it might more be irritated that they would expect that to be insulting to me, in the sense that I'd be dissapointed that they couldn't come up with something better.