Originally posted by dryhump
For a person who complains about other posters bigotry, you sure like the stereotypes.
Surely you don't seriously think I was serious. Like, seriously, do you seriously think I seriously think all conservatives are rednecks? Even the likes of William F. Buckley and Thomas Sowell, whose editorials I frequently read in the Orange County Register in my formative years? We all know a lot of conservatives are also white-collar professionals with pasty necks that have nary a tinge of erubescence in the epidermis. So no, I don't cleave to the "All conservatives are rednecks" stereotype.
Maybe you are accusing me of believing in a "redneck stereotype," in which case I am guilty as charged since it is not a stereotype but a reality. I mean, after all, the term "redneck" is used to describe a class of people who have certain characteristics. It's not the same thing as a racial stereotype in which characteristics having nothing to do with a certain race are ascribed to all members of that race.
As for "bigotry," that I take to mean prejudice accompanied by some degree of animosity, and I harbor no genuine bigotry toward rednecks as a set of individuals. A rather significant number of my relatives are rooted in the Deep South and most of them have their charms. Some of 'em are hard-core Democrats, and not of the blue-dog variety.
Right. So let's not take ourselves too seriously here.