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Originally Posted by Tim Wise
Poor whites are rarely typified as pathological, dangerous, lazy or shiftless the way poor blacks are, for example. Nor are they demonized the way poor Latino/a immigrants tend to be.
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My BS detector went off big time on this statement. "Trailer trash", "poor white trash", "from the poor side of town", "from the wrong side of the tracks", "worthless bums", "ne'er-do-wells" and even "redneck" are terms often slung in the direction of poor whites with no other purpose than to denigrate and demonize. I don't think it is rare at all. Admittedly, most of the time it is done by more well off whites. In societal ranking, I'd say poor whites aren't viewed much more highly than poor minorities if at all.