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@fizzandpop All of them
It looks like he has poop on his right thumb.
There are simply not enough words to decribe my feelings about this, all i can say is "wow"
rednecks are really claiming the term "redneck" nowadays. it's similar to the way queers have re-claimed the word "queer" in recent years. it's kind of funny.
Nowadays? Rednecks have been proud to be rednecks for decades.
really? i used to live in the south and i remember a time when rednecks wouldn't use that term to describe themselves, or they would get extremely offended if you called them "rednecks." now they proudly wear it on their sleeves and backs.
@KeithFuckinMoon - That's not poop, it's meth residue. err uumm, maybe it is poop - Looks kinda like a Fisting Bear.
There's nothing quite like having racism engraved into your skin. It clearly illustrates the conspiracy of forethought so common amongst rednecks.
Based on the color of his back and stubby little fingers, it looks like his neck IS really red...
In a way, I have great affection for people still flying that battle flag. Hey, if I can still be upset at Napoleon for throwing away all those lives by invading Russia...
My brother is a very prideful redneck. He is also an embarrassment to the family, which was supposed to be my role as "the gay one." But in the game of Life, when WASPs are the players, redneck trumps gay almost every time.
Being a closet country music fan, I can say that the genre has definitely embraced the term "redneck". Gretchen Wilson anyone?
@travin: Maybe he's not bothered by being racist, but I think it's more likely that he feels that he's not racist and redneck culture doesn't necessarily include racism.
And, lets be honest, people like us are going to call and think of him as racist no matter what he does, so I think it's less a matter of lack a forethought as he just doesn't give a fuck what we think.
@oskarv Perhaps I come from a more rural part of the South, but redneck pride has been around since I was in short pants.
@billwags, I'm not referring to a culture, rather the confederate flag.
They are among us.
I grew up in a very rural part of a very redneck state, and no one I knew would have ever taken pride in this term. It was considered a slur against poor, rural people. I would have been mortified if someone had called me this.
However, it now seems that some people are "reclaiming" it as a point of pride. I don't think it necessarily has anything to do with racism.
"There's nothing quite like having racism engraved into your skin."
Yes, isn't it horrible that he would judge someone basedsolely on the way that person looks.
Irony, thy name is San Francisco.
bluefairlane: but he isn't being judged by the way he looks. he is being judged by the loaded term he proudly displays on his back! there's a difference. there's definitely a lot of hypocrisy in the gay community (i'm immune, of COURSE), though. i know of some people who feel suffocated whenever we go to a non-gay bar. it's kind of silly.
ehhh. my comment didn't make sense. i was talking about homophobia when the comment you were referring to was talking about racism. bleh.
Wherever he's from I'm sure they miss him there
1. at least if he names his kid robert e lee or jefferson davis, shop-rite will (probably) put it on a cake.
2. back in the '70s, I was trying to convince people to make the ol' stars & bars the gay rights flag. If that had happened, rednecks probably wouldn't be waving it around so much.
To me and my kinfolk, Contra Costa County was and is redneck country.
in all fairness California has PLENTY of rednecks in the San Joaquin Valley and in the Emerald Triangle. So don't fool yourself that they are only exclusive to the South.
Oh no, the redneck, he is everywhere.