It has come to my attention that some academic idiots on Twitter are trying to culturally appropriate “redneck,” a term they claim once referenced “poor pro-Union coal miners.”
No. Stop this now. That’s not how this works. You wokescold little shits, from me and every proud redneck out there to you: Take your shit and get off our lawns. You’re not getting “redneck” from us.
There is nothing “oppressive” or “marginalized” about rednecks. We are the people who invented rolling coal, big-ass trucks, and blowing shit up while drunk.
Rednecks gave you tractor pulls, Johnny, Waylon, Shooter, George and all the Hanks. We’re the folks who blessed you with Trae Crowder and Jeff Foxworthy.
Hooters wouldn’t exist without real rednecks. We invented “delightfully tacky, yet unrefined.”
We embody God, Jesus, Richard Petty, Guns, and Sunday Dinner after Church. Maybe not necessarily in that order, but you get the point.
Rednecks say grace, sir and ma’am, and thank you. We eat fried everything, drink cold beer, and the pies in redneck kitchens really would bring peace to the Middle East.
We mind our business and didn’t see shit if John Law comes asking what happened at your place last night. You’re welcome, by the way, and you just have to return the favor.
Rednecks are the Dukes of Hazzard County, no matter where that county sits.
Have we embraced certain offensive symbols, words, or other things that might make our friends and neighbors uncomfortable at times? Yes, but rednecks don’t mean to harm nobody, so we learn.
Rednecks gave the world “Nanner Pudding.”
We made “bless your heart” an endearing expression of empathy and a blistering insult.
Rodeos, NASCAR and going big are hard wired into Redneck DNA. We turn the other cheek but take shit from no one.
So take your trappings of oppression and wokeness and go fuck right off with all of that nonsense. Rednecks are drawing a line in the sand. You’ll not get “our word” until the last of us flips you off with our extended cold, dead middle fingers, y’hear?
Because the redneck life is as old as America, and some traditions are worth preserving.
Anyway, to everyone else: Happy Friday! Here’s to a great weekend. Enjoy your weekend, have a great President’s Day (what Rednecks call Monday), and we’ll see y’all next week!
For the mewling, unduly passionate mob that attempted to culturally appropriate “redneck” this week: bless your hearts.
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Chris–you just created a real confuckinundrum for GD and Howl. They might suffer music freeze.
No problem here. It’s not defined by a place on a map.
Like some stupid Pennsylvania Dem? pol once said in a foot-shooting comment, and I’m paraphrasing here..
” when it comes to this state, you only have to work Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the rest is Kentucky”
PS: The song he put up was pretty close to home for more years of my life than I care to admit.
Now that’s a tremendous song.
Et tu, Chris?
When I run out of descriptor words for stuff I like my go-to is always “tremendous.”
I really like that version of PFF. Hopefully Hank III releases it.
Solid cut GD. I have to go find this elsewhere now.
Watch out Chris, The Admirals well over his TRT today (tummy-rub tolerance) …but then again it is scotch o’clock, so he’ll be OK shortly.
You know me too well, GD.
Skink
You never heard of Gary P Nunn? “Up Against The Wall You Redneck Mothers”
What really sucks is that I posted that vid before your comment, but I blew it and posted it to the wrong post.
Of course, and literally a bazillion other Redneck tunes. That’s why there could be music freeze–it’s hard pickens.
It surely isn’t slim pickens.
Oh….Ok. I thought you meant something about Yankees not being real rednecks, rather than ‘option paralysis’. My bad.
PS @Burban Ray Wiley Hubbard, Texas songwriting legend, should get the credit.
That would be a different anthem the kids at the cow colleges can recite word for word and still take their hats off for.
London Homesick Blues
( If I had a vote, I’d say aye to having rojas’ vid posting rights reinstated….i’m gonna be on the road more in the near future…but, i know, it’s not my call, just putting it out there…)
I imagine this will go about as well as when journalists attempt to redefine manhood – which, I note, they seem to do with some regularity.
They are just remembering back to the old days, when Republicans weren’t “red staters.”
The Jesco video at the top is great.
I assume we all have seen “The Wild Wonderful Whites of West Virginia”? What a train wreck of a movie.
Je suis D. Ray White.
Uhmm, “delightfully tacky, yet undefined”, should read “unrefined”. I spent far too much time this AM, trying to decide if this was just a typo or if there was some deeper meaning that I wasn’t getting.
I decided it was the former. If it was the latter would someone please explain it to me.
It’s a typo. They happen.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJrRwTTqm0o&w=560&h=315%5D
On behalf of (most of) rural Illinois: thank you.
Someone had to stop the madness. You’re welcome.
Was the kid playing banjo in ‘Deliverance’ a redneck, a hillbilly, or a hick?
What twisted delusion compels you to leave a comment like this? Are you afraid you haven’t conclusively made clear that you’re an asshole?
He was an actor playing a role in a film.
Ultimately, it’s our diversity that saves us. You can’t get that many of us to agree on ANYTHING including what is or is not appropriation. Most of us are ignorant and the happier for it.