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I am very much enjoying Broadsheet. I appreciate the tidbits that wouldn't merit a feature, like the Iceland story. I also appreciate the stories, like Suzette Boler's, that manage to touch on very serious themes in our culture (the Iraq war, corporate encroachment into our personal lives, even our cultural respect for marriage) through the prism of an individual. If that's happening in a non-gender-identified blog, great. I happen to be reading this sort of thing in Broadsheet, and liking it.
But please, an end to classist, racist slurs like "redneck," in this and all forums. Please, blackpaw, think how "redneck" sounds to someone from a working-class, rural, white background, especially someone of Scottish descent (those to whom it was originally, and derogatorily, applied). As a mental exercise, replace it with "nigger," "chink," "jap," "wop," or "kike." Edit your subsequent posts as necessary. (And don't even try responding that rural working-class whites, or Scots in any part of the world, have been inadequately discriminated against to merit this consideration.)
You have succeeded in undermining any argument you were attempting to make.
