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Originally Posted by DZTurtle11
Because there are trailerpark trash people who have mildly attractive kids they hope will become famous and buy them a big house  I mean she looks anorexic, like she got her moves from Jersey Shore, and was allowed to date someone over 3 times her age. What is left for her at this point? Ugh, I am so over these trashy people getting any hopes of air time.
Of course let's not get on this nasty, pervy freak who can't find a woman anywhere near his own age to date. Apparently some juvenile moron is the only person who would dare do him.
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Wow. You're an asshole, aren't you.
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Originally Posted by agzg
Wow, this is unnecessarily harsh and classist. CG2, ity?
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Walmart wasn't mentioned, so no. Flip your PMs on though, would ya?
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Okay...this is a good time to ask why do a lot of (usually white) people say "trailer trash?"
I always found that to be classist and also implying that anything that's not white perfection must be "trailer trash."
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It is complete classism against people who can't afford that house with the picket fence and who don't dress or act the way 'they' think people should. And I think it has some racism in it as well - minorities live poorly and well that's just expected, but WHITE people who live poorly have the option and therefore are just trash.
People aren't trash, people aren't 'trashy' no matter how much one dislikes seeing bra straps, double-wides, or whatever. And apparently according to DZTurtle, anorexia is trashy too. Yay for bashing mental illness!
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Just like Michael Jackson had to lie about his age and I still believe Beyonce is lying about hers. I don't care how many people claim they went to K-12 with Beyonce and saw her birth certificate.
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Birther!
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Originally Posted by agzg
I have no idea. I hate it. Lots of folks live in trailers. Also, I prefer not to call people trash, in general.
And, I hear Roma/Travellers referred to as "trailer trash" before, as well as members of various Native American nations (who, uh, don't have too much of a choice if they live on the reservation because the US really FUBARed that whole thing up), and I think it's completely ignorant of any cultural traditions/ramifications inherent in those types of communities.
As a side note, no, I don't really think this woman is 16. But if she is, I really hope she's actually entering the union of her own accord.
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I've heard Roma/gypsies*/Travellers called names, though never trailer trash, and mostly in Europe where there was a higher presence. But I've almost never heard 'trailer trash' directed at non white people. Sure, plenty of slurs, insults, and general assumptions that the nonwhite people are terribly irresponsible, alcoholic, and lazy - oh. goodie- but the trash insult does seem to come from a place of 'you could do better, why aren't you like ME'