WAT.

[tamago23]

Connor's never really been interested in my music, despite my best efforts to get him into it. The only music that he's showed even a mediocre response to is Bear In The Big Blue House.

Just now, I remembered a band Henry Rollins mentioned last night, called the Bad Brains. I went to look them up on youtube, and started playing this video.

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[birthingway]

I would pay money to see Connor rocking out.

OT, but I know that you are the one to ask: how do I explain to someone why the term "white trash" is offensive? I am, for once, at a loss.

[tamago23]

I briefly considered videotaping it, but he was naked at the time. Alas. I'm sure he'll probably do a repeat performance at some point while (at least) diapered. ;)

"White trash" is both classist and racist. First, the racism aspect: aside from being offensive against white people, it paints all PoC as being trash, period. "White" is a qualifier, specifying that you're talking about white people; so who is just "trash" in general? Well, anybody who doesn't fit into "white". In other words, PoC.

Second, it's almost entirely used in a classist context, against those who are in the lower socioeconomic classes. You pretty much never see anyone rich getting called "white trash", unless it's in a "he has tons of money and he's *still* white trash" way, which again makes it clear that white trash is associated with poor people.

[birthingway]

Thank you. I am suddenly too braindead to think straight (fucking asthma). With your permission, I'll C&P this to my friend who used that term and was surprised when I said that it offended me.

[tamago23]

Funny, I was struggling to draw breath just as this arrived in my inbox. Dual asthma FTL! :/ Feel free to pass it along.

[birthingway]

Thanks, my friend. (Heh, I mistyped, "My fiend". That, too.)