Quote Originally Posted by Pipe Dreams
... Since when is "Redneck" offensive? Hell, REDNECKS call themselves rednecks. :wtf:
Indeed they do. I'm not sure that BA knows any people who would happily explain this to him.

Breuk, in your comments on these boards, you personally have shown more disdain, derogation and derision about more groups than anyone I can think of, from poor single parents to Muslims to women to goodness only knows how many others, and that fact makes it particularly ironic that you should be choosing right now to whine about terms that are a fairly general part of the lexicon.

I'm going to say this to you because I think it needs saying, Breuk. If you find these terms so offensive, then you clearly need to plan to spend time someplace else where your delicate--and strangely contradictory--sensibilities are not going to be offended by reading them.

Something's up with you. Not sure if it's because you're actually deeply unhappy about some aspect of your own life or what. But in recent weeks, you've been determined to find "exterior" things here to take issue with. And it seems like what you really need to do is fix the only thing you have any real control over, which is much more limited: it's simply your own reaction. If you have a personal aversion to the two terms in question, the solution is quite simple. Stop reading.