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Lidane12/20/2013 3:21:01 pm PST

re: #220 goddamnedfrank

Just the entire history of slavery, post Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the resistance to the Civil Rights movement.

People being called redneck were never physically fucking hunted, lynched, denied the right to speak freely, assemble, vote, purchase certain homes, hold certain jobs, join most country clubs, eat at most resaurants, made to sit in the balcony or the back of the bus, on account of their skin color.

That was a seriously stupid fucking question.

THIS.

Comparing “redneck” to the N-word is absurd. Rednecks might be a stereotype, but they’ve never had a history of being physically and legally denied their lives and freedoms.