Posted on 08/11/2009 5:27:20 AM PDT by netmilsmom
I have a question. Why do conservatives allow ourselves to be called "Rednecks". I'm on YouTube and Digg. When a poster calls us uneducated Rednecks, no one says a word.
Why don't we own this word? Why aren't we framing the conversation? I find it insulting to be called a dumb Redneck. Much more than to be called a dumb Pollack, because at least I'm Polish.
If macaca is insulting, why is Redneck okay?
When someone uses Nazi in an argument, it means, They Lost!
Because we aren’t aholes.
I think we should respond every time somebody uses the term REDNECK with the term NIPWOCK (a composite of NIgger, Polack, WOg, WOp, Kike, redneCK and any others).
NIPWOCK - a sarcastic comment on racial epithets that implies the user is a complete waste of human protoplasm that might otherwise have been used as common slime mold instead of masquerading as intelligence.
[usage] you asinine NIPWOCK!
Those of us who call ourselves rednecks don’t object when others call us that - even if the others think they’re being insulting. It just shows (as if we didn’t know) that they’re Not Like Us.
Of course, if one’s from a different, non-rednecky, culture, the term would give a different impression.
Wear the term with pride.
Because it implies being out in the hot sun working your butt off all day.
Sounds pretty positive to me
Liberals try to shut down debate by calling names. All children do this. If we are adults, we ignore it and stick to facts. If one is insulted, one doesn’t push them to justify their stand with facts. Ignore the names as it’s a diversion. Make them defend their position.
Interesting.
>>NIPWOCK<<
That is exactly what I’m looking for!
While I understand that some consider Redneck to be okay, the people using this term are insulting the group.
I needed a comeback. Thanks!
If nothing else, it’s because we otherwise wouldn’t be able to tell great redneck jokes, like:
One way to know a guy’s a redneck is if his house’s porch collapses and kills at least three dogs.
Definition of a redneck (as per Charlie Daniels):
What most people call a redneck
Ain’t nothin’ but a workin’ man
And he makes his livin’
By the sweat of his brow
And the calluses on his hands
Now you intellectuals may not like it
But there ain’t nothin’ that you can do
Cause there’s a whole lot more of us common-folks
Then there ever will be of you
What this world needs is a few more rednecks
Some people ain’t afraid to take a stand
What this world needs is a little more respect
For the Lord and the law and the workin’ man
We could use a little peace and satisfaction
Some good people up front to take the lead
A little less talk and a little more action
And a few more rednecks is what we need
I’m a redneck and proud of it. American by birth, Southern by the grace of God, from a long line of Carolina tobacco farmers, with an ancestry in Carolina that dates back to the 1720’s.
We rednecks need to get ourselves together and get our country back.
Now it's associated 1) the obvious trailer trash references 2) with folks who lived in those regions who hated any Federal authority and were willing to resist it on a routine basis.
It's now a name symbolic of pride among many people and is perceived as highly American not to take crap from any authority that presumes to impress it's dictates upon people.
Yes, I’ve heard various explanations, including yours, plus one about indentured servants in the US. I suspect it has more to do with pasty people working outside getting sunburned.
Mine just fit the politics better. :)
“Caipirabob” is loosely translated as “Redneck Bob”. We rednecks get around, is all... ; )
How about REDNECK PATIROT? We work for what we get and do not get handouts form the family.
Don’t know about you, but my neck *is* red - from doing honest labor outdoors.
I say let’s OWN the term “Redneck” instead of going around being resentful.
Then what would the effeminate Eastern elitists do? What could they call us?
LOL!
Redneck is an insult but most ignore it who were raised with:
“Sticks and stones can break my bones but names will never hurt me.”
This Republic would be much better off if *everybody* felt that way.
The first group described as rednecks were union members from all over the state of W Va who were opposing the coal mine owners refusal to allow their mines to be unionized. They wore red bandannas around their necks.
The battle of Blair mountain in Logan Co., WV resulted in the death of nearly 100 union members at the hands of local police authority as they, 13,000 strong, sought to enter the county and demonstrate in support of unionization. In 1921 they were not what is commonly referred to today as thugs.
read here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
The uprising that led to the battle at Blair mountain was a popular movement much like the tea party and anti gov’t health movement today. “Redneck” is an absolutely appropriate and honorable, historically accurate, description of today’s anti government movement. This is the largest uprising since the civil rights movement of the 60’s.
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