Yesterday I used the phrase "white trash" in a post (which I have since edited to delete it) and it later got me thinking about it really is not really an appropriate thing to write or so. It has always been one of those phrases thrown about ironically by the self consciously hip and I have now come to realize it is really another ethnic slur. Once I used it in a conversation and Chris got very heated up about it and I thought he was being totally PC but on further reflection, I realized he was right AGAIN. I would not ever call someone a nigger - never in a thousand years - so why am comfortable calling someone white trash?

There's some interesting stuff about this very subject on the web.

• Kim Pearson on White Trash
• Why Is "White Trash" An Acceptable Phrase In PC America?