Comments on: It’s Time To Stop The ‘Redneck’ Slurs

By: K. Daniel Glover

K. Daniel Glover — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:18:20 +0000

Wow, Frank. And your breathless, insulting response justifies the very existence of this blog. Let’s recap the ad hominem attacks on me without any supporting evidence: blind bigotry, hatred, unreflective, self-absorbed, lacking empathy, judgmental, stereotypical, superficial and knee-jerk — none of which are supported by even a cursory reading of this blog.

By: Frank Sellers

Frank Sellers — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:02:30 +0000

Your very first opening sentence to this long-winded treatise justifies all the negativity associated with the word “redneck”. There’s nothing wrong with working hard, loving your family and friends and being a good person. It’s more honorable to be a poor but honest man or woman than a crooked rich one (which most of the rich are). But there is something wrong with blind bigotry and hatred. There’s something wrong with an unreflective mind and a person so self-absorbed with his or her own way of life they lack the ability to empathize with others and immediately passes judgment on others based on stereotypes and superficial fallacies without hesitation. If you want to change the minds of people who don’t like so-called rednecks, start acting like a decent, fair-minded and caring human being instead of an uneducated know-it-all blowhard.

By: The Enlightened Redneck » Foolish Confederate Pride

The Enlightened Redneck » Foolish Confederate Pride — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:01:36 +0000

[...] “attempt to keep it redneck,” a phrase that Ellison subtly equated with racism, because “redneck” is not a synonym for “racist”, and celebrating Southern history is not necessarily [...]

By: The Enlightened Redneck » Manic Mother: The Poster Child Of Elitism

The Enlightened Redneck » Manic Mother: The Poster Child Of Elitism — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:56:08 +0000

[...] organized that particular flea market fueled a misinformed media stereotype by equating the Confederate flag (and thus Southern bigotry) with being redneck. [...]

By: The Enlightened Redneck » Tom Brokaw’s Cultural Ignorance

The Enlightened Redneck » Tom Brokaw’s Cultural Ignorance — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:18:51 +0000

[...] I’ll say it again: “Redneck” is not synonymous with “bigot” or “racist,” and everyone, especially journalists like Brokaw and Stanley Crouch of the New York Daily News who should know better, need to stop using it as a slur. Jennerationx does a great job of taking Brokaw to task. Here’s an excerpt, but read the whole thing: The American redneck runs this country. We drive semis, we work in the fields, we fix cars, we work in grocery stores, department stores, pharmacies, car washes, mills, factories, mines, we work on the docks, the ships, the junkyards, we work as beauticians, as police as firefighters as nurses and construction workers. [...]

By: TN

TN — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:16:22 +0000

New Yorkers are the biggest hicks in America.

They don’t know anything about anything outside of New York, but they are convinced they are more sophisticated than everyone else. It’s always hilarious.

I wish all New Yorkers hated the South like most New Yorkers seem to. More people from the Northeast move South every year. They tend to be annoying, but some are nice.

By: Mockingbird

Mockingbird — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:59:06 +0000

I prefer Dixie- American.
Thank you, ya’ll.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:05:41 +0000

My quick two cents: the term ‘redneck’ and ‘nigger’ are not racial epithets exclusively. Even during the times of slavery, one would never call a prosperous free black of Charleston or Boston, a nigger; any more than one would call a white prosperous merchant a ‘peckerwood’ or ‘redneck’. These two terms are extensions of an elitist and exclusionary agrarian society, where most of the land was held of a privileged elite and to use either term to designate someone is to remind them that they (a) do not have any economic power and (b) that you think it right that are under someone’s control b/c you are obviously an ‘idiot’. And that is horrible thing to say about anybody

By: Tim McDonald

Tim McDonald — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:47:24 +0000

For an insult to hurt, you have to at least care a modicum about the opinion of the person giving said opinion. Since I could care less, he can insult away.

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:41:54 +0000

Redneck first referred to religious dissenters in Scotland who wore red scarves. By 1830, it was “a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians” according to an account by Anne Royall in NC.

Hoosier and cracker are also North British terms that crossed the Atlantic. Funny how Hoosier isn’t so derogatory anymore.