"John Smith" <stellar_one@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "x" <someone@somewhere.cxm> wrote in message
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> > "John Smith" <stellar_one@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > > Why is it ok to slander people who live in trailers?
> > >
> > > What makes this generalization, which is both racist and classist,
> > > acceptable but the french waiter joke or the black joke beyond the
> > > pale?
> > >
> > > Someone please explain.
> > >
> >
> > the same things that make the joke acceptable.
> > it's not acceptable, but it's used as a contrast to make a point.
>
> A contrast to what? To make which point?
>
> Well I appreciate your acknowledgement that it is an odious term. By
> the way I don't think a french waiter joke is as condemnable as the
> hypothetical black or anti-poor white joke.

Okay, so you totally missed the original post, or you're just trying to keep
this going for shits & giggles...

The original post said a Canadian waiter was worse than a black guy living
off a welfare cheque.

My statement regarding trailer park trash was to contrast the fact the it
was a "black guy" living off welfare.
My point was to bring into the equation the fact that there are many white
people who sponge off the system. I did not refer to all poor whit folk as
trailer park trash. I did not refer to all trailer park dwellers as trailer
park trash. In fact, I only specifically mentioned "white trash triler park
shits who soak off the good of
society". So get off your high "stand up for white guys" horse.

It's not needed here.

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