Timeline for Redneck and usage
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| Mar 3, 2013 at 18:02 | comment | added | livresque | +1 (every time I see I can +1; it seems like some users don't understand that there's no possible way I could get my own bounty). Would you mind adding your comments to your answer? | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 16:37 | comment | added | user36922 | Jon Hanna, Sorry for misspelling your ID. editing after posting is one of my odd habits too! ;') | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 16:22 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | Thanks, I should probably edit my answer to include them, which I'll do later, but I'm about to run off now. | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 16:18 | comment | added | user36922 | Jan Hanna, Interesting statements! | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 14:21 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | The same will apply to redneck, one person using it of themselves may attach it to down-to-earth values (mostly positive), another may say "yes, you're right, we do like to own firearms, be careful about pissing me off" (aggressive), another may be partly self-defacing and use it as an admission of seeing themselves as matching the stereotype of being uncultured (mildly negative), or use it as a criticism of their background if they are now estranged from it (still strongly negative). The same applies to all such words. You need to look at the context of each case. | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 14:13 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | or within the same group, re-purposings differ with words. Gay is now almost entirely neutral, queer has a strongly positive sense in some contexts (particularly those who hold that being perceived as different to the mainstream of society is a good thing, if you don't approve of that mainstream) but still negative in others. Faggot is much more usually negative, and so re-purposing in Mark Davis's show "Faggot with a gun" is much more aggressive - it holds onto the negative sense while re-using it. The differences don't just change from group to group and word to word, but use to use. | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 14:07 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | @SnowFlake usually, but the way that reaction works differs. To look at the well-known controversy over the use of nigger by black people. Whatever one may think about that, NWA being "niggers with attitude", gangsta raps heavy use of the word, Chris Rock's "difference between niggers and black people" skit, (and we can sort of add Lenny Bruce's piece where he uses a variety of racial epithets for different groups, starting with that and ending with anti-Semitic terms for himself). These all differ, and can't be understood just as "a pejorative word has been re-purposed."... | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 12:19 | comment | added | user36922 | Jon Hanna, "but to understand such positive senses...". May it is a reaction to this stereotype as an unfair action. | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 1:39 | history | answered | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |