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| White Trash Christmas; Why is this considered funny? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 18 2006, 03:06 PM (686 Views) | |
| Mikhailoh | Dec 18 2006, 03:06 PM Post #1 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Steve Miller posted this over at WTF. Why is this considered funny, but if you did the same about poor undeucated African Americans it would be racism? http://www.toonedin.com/movies/WhiteTrashXmas.html |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| OperaTenor | Dec 18 2006, 03:26 PM Post #2 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Maybe it's the same kind of contextual situation like where it's okay for African Americans to call each othe "ni&&er", but it's not okay for someone outside the race to call them that(as a generalization). |
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| CrashTest | Dec 18 2006, 03:26 PM Post #3 |
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Pisa-Carp
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I don't know, maybe a little something called slavery.. |
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| George K | Dec 18 2006, 03:30 PM Post #4 |
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Finally
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The tune is by Bob Rivers, who has a bunch of funny Christmas parody songs: White Trash Christmas My favorites are "Police Stop my Car" to the tune of Feliz Navidad and "Walkin 'Round in Women's Underwear." Lacy things the wife is missin' Didn't ask for her permission I'm wearing her clothes Her silk pantyhose Walkin' 'round in women's underwear In the store there's a teddy With little straps like spaghetti It holds me so tight Like handcuffs at night Walkin' 'round in women's underwear In the office there's a guy named Melvin He pretends that I am Murphy Brown He'll say "Are you ready?" we'll say "Whoa, man! Let's wait until the wife is out of town" Later on if you wanna We can dress like Madonna Put on some eye shade And join the parade Walkin' 'round in women's underwear Lacy things...missin' Didn't ask...permission Wearing her clothes...Silk pantyhose Walkin' 'round in women's underwear Walkin' 'round in women's underwear Walkin' 'round in women's underwear |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Daniel\ | Dec 18 2006, 03:57 PM Post #5 |
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Mik I'd like to see it but it won't load on my computer. Will you describe it for me and tell me what specifically you object to? |
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| ivorythumper | Dec 18 2006, 04:04 PM Post #6 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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So are you saying that the denizens of WTF are white trash?
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| OperaTenor | Dec 18 2006, 04:14 PM Post #7 |
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Pisa-Carp
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I can only speak for myself. As is evidenced in my family, there is definitely white trash in my gene pool. Thank God Altoid got her mother's genes.... |
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| kenny | Dec 18 2006, 04:32 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Well put. |
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| ivorythumper | Dec 18 2006, 04:39 PM Post #9 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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I just realized the secret of your ragtime prowess -- six fingers on each hand. :lol: |
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| George K | Dec 18 2006, 04:40 PM Post #10 |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Jolly | Dec 18 2006, 04:40 PM Post #11 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Sorry bubba, what do you think indentured servitude was? Nothing but slavery with a time limit. Furthermore, there was more than one black man in New Orleans circa 1855 who owned other black men...and women. So go try again, my ignorant one. |
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| katie | Dec 18 2006, 05:58 PM Post #12 |
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Fulla-Carp
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You know, I watched the thing. I'm so tired of hearing the numerous similar White Trash parodies. I remember once living down in a semi-ritsy burb in B'ham, reading books by James Agee and Walker Evans. I think these were called: "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" and "Their Children After Them". I'd really encourage people to read these books (in sequence) to actually learn something about so called Southern white trash. We all should be so humbled btw, IMO. I also remember some of the rural white folks who had kids in our ICU, of the transports and travels we did, dipping into rural Alabama and Mississippi. I'm sure glad I met such fine people. I'm sure there was lots more we didn't see beyond the roadside kudzu, the homes and churches too. So much seems hidden and quiet. I'd best respect these folks too. Everyone has their pride, ya know. The fact is, I'm plain sick of people making fun of others, creating sterotypes, whatever. It's just not funny.
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| Mikhailoh | Dec 18 2006, 06:26 PM Post #13 |
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Thanks, Katie. I've known a lot of these folks too. Most are the salt of the earth. It is funny how in America only white people can be racist. |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 18 2006, 07:24 PM Post #14 |
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Katie is exactly right, as are you Mik. This is racist, plain and simple. Granted, if people want to make these parodies, that's fine. I might even laugh at them without thinking. I might laugh at one making fun of poor black folks. Whatever. But if anyone sits back and claims to fight against racism, and then advocates this, then they are hypocrites. Slavery has NOTHING to do with this conversation, Kenny and Crash, so try again. And also, without a doubt the nicest people I've met are those in West Virginia or other small towns in North Carolina, etc. Hands down the nicest. |
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| Daniel\ | Dec 18 2006, 07:56 PM Post #15 |
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Oh my gosh, what a trip. I read Katie's post and I thought I was reading Kenny's. Mik, I ASKED YOU TO TELL ME WHY YOU WERE OFFENDED BECAUSE THIS WON'T LOAD ON MY COMPUTER. :angry: I'll try to load it again since you seem to want to make broad statements rather discuss it. |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 18 2006, 08:01 PM Post #16 |
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Dan, it's just a cartoon with a song playing in the background, making fun of the white trash stereotype. |
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| Daniel\ | Dec 18 2006, 08:05 PM Post #17 |
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OK, I watched it and you're not going to like my answer. I don't think this is funny- if it was posted on a posting board for my amusement I wouldn't be the least bit amused. I don't know why people think it's funny to make fun of other people and so gratutitously- what's the point. But no, it's not racist. It is based on class. It does not attribute any characteristics to people based on race. Be a little careful about the fact words have definitions. It wouldn't kill you. What I'm sick of is all these "it's political correctness gone amuk" posts. They make me want to puke. |
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| Mikhailoh | Dec 18 2006, 08:06 PM Post #18 |
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I'm sorry it won't load, Daniel.. but do you really need to see more than the title? |
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| Daniel\ | Dec 18 2006, 08:06 PM Post #19 |
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Thanks 89th, I didn't think it was funny at all. |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 18 2006, 08:07 PM Post #20 |
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I only watched the first 30 seconds and didn't find it funny either. I guess some people at WTF would disagree... |
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| Daniel\ | Dec 18 2006, 08:08 PM Post #21 |
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Thank Mik, yes I do need to see more than the title though. |
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| Mikhailoh | Dec 18 2006, 08:09 PM Post #22 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Why? Can you not figure out what it will contain? If the title was ' De Darkies at de Juneteenth Picnic' 'I bet you could find a way to be offended without seeing it. |
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| Daniel\ | Dec 18 2006, 08:25 PM Post #23 |
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But don't you see- you are projecting on me what you think I should see/think and that I am a liberal hypocrite, which seems to the kind of point you are making in this thread. In my opinion, it is class based and not race based, it does not attribute characterics to white people as a race. It's not that black people are making a caricature of white people, it is WHITE people making fun of other white people based on their social class. It seems more like "ethnic humor" than a "racist caricature" to me and I don't agree with you that it's racism or hypocrisy. Having said that, if it was my forum, I wouldn't allow it, but it's not. |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 18 2006, 09:31 PM Post #24 |
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Dan, first of all, I dont think Mik is saying you are one of the liberal hypocrites. Just that the title of this thread and his first post should be clear enough that this is just racism. Secondly, I'm sorry, I have to bring this up. You think that me asking why a certain ethnic group says certain words so incorrectly IS racist...but a cartoon making fun of "white trash" ISN'T racist?!? If I started a thread asking why "black trash" people say words differently, you wouldn't even get to the part about pronunciation and would be flabbergasted at my reference of "black trash". Am I wrong? I think Mik has a very valid point that is often, but not often enough, brought up...that in this country, apparently only white people can be racist. |
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| Daniel\ | Dec 18 2006, 09:45 PM Post #25 |
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89th, did you read what I wrote above? Would you do me the honor of reading it and telling me what you disagree with? I cannot have a discussion with you (or anyone) if you are not going to read my posts and in this case- you have ignored everything I have written. I am willing to have this discussion with you, but not if you start from this place of ignoring me. ![]() |
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