stellar_one@hotmail.com (John Smith) wrote in message news:<7a0d22d3.0308101702.720ed353@posting.google.com>...
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> belfast biker <a@a.com> wrote in message news:<nmg2jvs7er0gu1dku4ue4c2q4eavcfdm2p@4ax.com>...
> > On 6 Aug 2003 09:36:29 -0700, matthewoutland22@yahoo.com
> > (MatthewOutland) wrote:
> > 
> > >Whats worse
> > >than a black guy on living off a welfare check?
> > 
> > 
> > Don't you have a trailer to trash?

This thread began with Anglo/American differences with the French but
we have moved on to the various terms of abuse which are used against
different people.

I have just recalled another:Gringo, which used to be used by American
Hispanics against Wasps ( Another sting? Grin-go). It may be still in
use, it certainly is in Hollywood.

One explanation was the popularity of the song "Green go the Rushes
Oh" among North Americans ca 1840. Are there any other explanations?.

I must check my purse, we Scots are noted for being careful about
money.

Flora