« on: August 01, 2012, 07:01:00 PM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021050696RedRocco (312 posts)
why is it ok to call me a redneck?
when its not ok to use slurs to refer to other other groups?
dogknob (803 posts)
156. What do all of these have in common?
**edited due to the primitive's obvious glee in using a bunch of racial slurs that no good and decent person would say or want to read.
These are all derogatory terms used to belittle a person based entirely upon their ethnic background.
Redneck is not on the list because that term is primarily used to belittle a person based upon their actions and beliefs. When a person displays racist, anti-intellectual, willfully ignorant, xenophobic, jingoistic behavior on a regular basis, I am going to refer to them in a derogatory fashion because they ****ing deserve it; they are truly a lesser form of human life.
Star Member samsingh (8,089 posts)
3. you can stop being a redneck
get some education, do some meaningful work, support society, don't vote repug.
For shame DUmmies! Why are you belittling those poor farmers and union members. They are the 99% you know and some are your fellow dimocrats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedneckThe term characterized farmers having a red neck caused by sunburn from hours working in the fields. A citation from 1893 provides a definition as "poorer inhabitants of the rural districts...men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin stained red and burnt by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks".
By 1900, "rednecks" was in common use to designate the political factions inside the Democratic Party comprising poor white farmers in the South
The United Mine Workers of America (UMW) and rival miners' unions appropriated both the term redneck and its literal manifestation, the red bandana, in order to build multiracial unions of white, black, and immigrant miners in the strike-ridden coalfields of northern and central Appalachia between 1912 and 1936. The origin of redneck to mean "a union man" or "a striker" remains uncertain, but according to linguist David W. Maurer, the former definition of the word probably dates at least to the 1910s, if not earlier. The use of redneck to designate "a union member" was especially popular during the 1920s and 1930s in the coal-producing regions of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Pennsylvania, where the word came to be specifically applied to a miner who belonged to a union.
The term can be found throughout McAllister Coleman and Stephen Raushenbush's 1936 socialist proletarian novel, Red Neck, which recounts the story of a charismatic union leader named Dave Houston and an unsuccessful strike by his fellow union miners in the fictional coalfield town of Laurel, Pennsylvania.
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