clemlaw Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Was I one of the people "adding ethnic slurs"? If anything, we all unfairly ganged up on the original poster and accused him of being an "intolerant, red neck, unfriendly, unkind, and unhelpful ethnocentric bigot." I really don't see this thread as evidence of the Scouting world being "full of" said bigots. (And no, I don't think the original poster is an "intolerant, red neck, unfriendly, unkind, and unhelpful ethnocentric bigot". But perhaps it seemed that way after he had to read through all of these responses to a perhaps inartfully worded question.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadenP Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 clemlaw You just need to reread many of the posts to verify my point. In all my years in scouting I have personally witnessed many cases of prejudice and intolerance and many of the posters, not all of them, in this thread just brought all those memories back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGreyEagle Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Well Said BadenP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeBob Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Ah, the PC Police. Why is it that the folks preaching tolerance are usually the most intolerant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGreyEagle Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Well Said JoeBob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grmaerika Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Hey! What's wrong with being a Redneck? Many a good man has a burnt red neck, and people sing about being rednecks proudly on country radio.....Just poking a stick in the wasp's nest here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clemlaw Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 >>>>clemlaw You just need to reread many of the posts to verify my point. In all my years in scouting I have personally witnessed many cases of prejudice and intolerance and many of the posters, not all of them, in this thread just brought all those memories back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woapalanne Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 "In the process, we talked ABOUT slurs. Nobody ADDED any ethnic slurs." WRONG! The "redneck" comment was most definitely an ethnic slur. A politically acceptable slur, but a slur nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blancmange Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 The "redneck" comment was most definitely an ethnic slur. What ethnicity does the term malign? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdidochas Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 "Redneck" maligns working class, primarily Scotch-Irish descent, Southern white people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woapalanne Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Correct, but only if you remove "Southern". I know from personal experience there are more rednecks in Michigan than in South Carolina. :^) (For example.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83Eagle Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 "Redneck" is definitely a slur in this context, when included with the words shown above. And it is definitely an ethnic slur. You all have a picture of said redneck in your mind right now, don't you? Just like "tea bagger," redneck is a cheap and easy slur to toss about because it does not target a protected minority, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clemlaw Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Come to think of it, I first learned the word "redneck" in Scouts. I had never heard that word before, but one of the older Scouts was doing some work in the hot sun (building a shelter for Wilderness Survival MB, IIRC), and he was joking around something about us being rednecks (becuase our necks were, indeed, turning red). So I guess Scouting is full of bigots, after all. But we're a bunch of anti-Redneck bigots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woapalanne Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 In a fair world, the term "redneck" would be just as unacceptable as the "N-word". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blancmange Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 In a fair world, the term "redneck" would be just as unacceptable as the "N-word". Right, because redneck has come to symobolize the hundred of years of oppression white southerners suffered at the hands of . . . wait, never mind. No matter how one tries to spin it, the impact of the two terms is not remotely comparable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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