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I agree it's a sad term and I don't like it. Remember, the only people who are trash are the fash.
“White trash” has like 95% overlap with fash though.
White trash is a couple who smoke inside their trailer and beat their kids before driving to work in their $80k lifted pickup with a confederate flag decal
In fact the more I think about it, flying the confederate flag is probably the strongest “white trash” signifier there is, an explicitly fascist symbol.
It may as well just mean “Non-rich fascist”
There are people who grow up calling themselves white trash starting as babies and I just can't accept this. It tears me up inside. It seems synonymous with a baby calling itself "the discarded."