If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it must be a duck. My favorite part is : “We are not white trash. That’s what everyone is saying about us, but we’re not.” if EVERYONE says it, odds are it is probably true.
what a fucking weird thing to say in this (or any?) circumstance
Anything to distract the population from the real crux of the issue…
Who the fuck cares? Calling them white trash doesn’t fix the gun problem, or the mental health problem, or the class problem in the US.
No, it’s true: these parents/perps are genuinely not “white trash.”
“White trash” implies that they’re poor, uneducated, or otherwise disadvantaged – in other words, it paints the situation as a class issue and implies that they deserve some non-zero amount of sympathy for the circumstances that led to this.
On the contrary: the killer’s parents were middle-class and would be considered “normal,” if not for their evil ideology, fucked-up priorities, and anti-social behavior. They deserve no sympathy and no leniency. The kid himself might, as the victim of their abuse, but the parents sure as Hell don’t!
Bringing up “white trash” as a talking point (even by denying it, unprovoked) is a misdirection. Don’t fall for it!
I’d heard nobody say it until now, so now I’m definitely thinking it.
A former neighbor and landlord of the Grays told The Post the teenager came from a neglectful home that, according to police, was frequently visited by the state’s child protective services agency.
The alleged school shooter’s mother, Marcee Gray, who has a lengthy rap sheet with drug and domestic violence busts, is a bit of a black sheep on her side of the family, the relative explained.
Unlike the rest of her kin, she got into the wrong crowd, dated some bad guys and often got into trouble, the family member said.
Lauren Vickers, who lived next door to the Grays in Jefferson, Ga., told The Post the children were always wearing dirty clothes and sometimes were hungry.
This is practically the definition of white trash.
Just because part of the family isn’t trashy doesn’t mean that this particular family unit isn’t.
To be fair, in many, many places “white trash” people are the “regular people”.
Looking at you, my family from Kentucky who thought it was totally okay and not-weird to have us visit them for a week with no functional toilet.
Edit: They also thought that me being a vegetarian meant that all I could eat is plants. So they bought two bunches of bananas for me. And that’s it. I don’t even like bananas.
