bubspeed wrote:
Is there truly a need for white trash in this world?
I hate the phrase white trash.
Here's my problem with the phrase. It basically refers to poor white people. And by extension, implies that whites should not be poor - tacitly stating that poverty in non-whites is somehow acceptable or the natural state.
Oh, but you may say that white trash are white people who are just behaving like idiots. Funny, I never hear George W. Bush referred to as white trash. But let's just set that aside and pretend it does mean uneducated whites. Again, it implies tacitly that non-whites who are uneducated are just fine, but an uneducated white is a waste. I just can't get behind that line of thinking.
I prefer the phrase "stupid people". Baring that, here in America we call them "Republicans". In polite company, "conservatives".