re: Shooting at Mobile, AL Movie Theater (parking lot) - 12/25

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quote: But let's not pretend that there are not some pretty racist comments here on the OT on a daily basis. To a certain extent. But I'd say a large majority of that "racism" is really "classism". Just so happens that, in the south, due to myriad factors, a significant portion of that urban lower class is black. That's just a product of an ignomious past. Let's not pretend white trash isn't regularly and fiercely derided and lampooned here as well.

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While white trash, etc. are called so here, it's not nearly with the same frequency and vigor that blacks are commented on with a wide variety or derogatory statements and terminology. One example is the thread about the Tuscaloosa Police Department and white college student being arrested versus the thread about adult black people with loud music being arrested. Situations where strikingly similar and neither party really resisted. The differences in those threads were striking. Although this is one example. It is pretty representative of similar commentary here.