![]() ![]() ![]() Typically, the term is directed at low-income, rural white people. So why does "white trash" still get thrown around without much pushback? It's deft in its ability to demean multiple groups at once: white people and people of color, poor people and people who "act" like poor people, rural folks and religious folks, and anyone without a college degree. Yet "white trash" could be called the Swiss army knife of insults. An article in The New Republic once posed the question of whether President Trump might be " a white trash icon." For some reason, the term manages to come across as less offensive than most other racial slurs. ![]() You can get away with calling something "white trash" in polite company, on cable television and in the headline of a magazine article. ![]()
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