Or at least liberals/progressives stop using words and phrases they have been told are offensive, like "all lives matter".

Is the standard now that it is OK to use any term listed in the Urban Dictionary?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nigger+rig

That's a new one on the PC 'NO-NO' list. Who knew? I certainly didn't.

I have known some very fine folks who lived in "trailers". They certainly did not deserve to be labeled as "trash". Not sure anyone does.

Glad the OP was changed.

I love my little hovel. It's mine. I could never have afforded a brick house, but was able to work out a rent to own deal to finally own my home. It's a hovel, but it's mine and I always vote for Democrats. Thanks for pointing that out.

I agree with you wholeheartedly.

And let's be real, when something stinks, you gotta call it trash.

I lived in a trailer during my formative years.

Bristol Palin has lived in a trailer and has done everything possible to be a person one should never emulate. There is nothing about her that should be respectable nor held up as a good thing.

Bristol has become pregnant out of wedlock not on just one occasion, but now twice. She apparently cannot actually respect her God and keep her legs shut.

It is very clear that Bristol Palin favors carnal knowledge of a man over being pure and not being an adulter. Bristol has now become pregnant out of wedlock not once, but twice. Her ability to opine about morality is shattered.

Which only underscores the point.

Maybe she'll get her tubes tied this time so she can pretend that she only had sex twice in her life and continue on the charade.

A lot of women in her situation don't have that much going for them.

And I'm not even being sarcastic.

Me, I just thank the God I don't believe in I wasn't born into a family like that.

Agreed. No doubt whatever, though it won't stop her from doing it anyway.

Backsliders who return to the fold are prized and their stories are celebrated among the brethren and sistern, some of these folks do this stuff on a damn near weekly basis. We are all sinners, what you do is not nearly as important to many fundies as what you profess to believe, if she says the right words in the right tone it's not only forgiven but used as an example for others to follow.

Sistah Bristol was saved from a life of sin by the powah of the Lawd!

Say Amen!

Say Hallelujah!

Praise Jesus!

...then she should do the responsible thing and come out for sex education. Simple as that. If you believe getting pregnant merits "disappointment" (it's not, it happens, even using proper contraceptives) then you should be for prevention, not shame politics.

Her self-shaming only underscores her own belief in disappointment in herself. There's nothing wrong with sex, there's nothing wrong with getting pregnant (though there are some downsides to poorer people who don't make hundreds of thousands a year shilling for abstinent programs, it's not something to be shamed over).

What's wrong is telling people the objectively wrong way to go about sexual relations (abstinence) and then shaming them for not being that way when you yourself are a hypocrite of the highest order.

Coming clean about the failure of abstinence programs is simply the only way Bristol Palin clears her image. Any other attempts should be mocked and ridiculed.

as a spokeswoman for some abstinence group?

Wow, you said it, their hypocrisy knows no bounds. It never ceases to amaze me!

I mean surely they can find someone who actually lives by what they preach.

surely she didn't write that on her own.

Maybe it's her.

That's much of the fundamentalist mindset, we are all sinners and what you profess to believe is much more important than what you actually do, particularly if you are publicly and emotionally repenting some horrid sin.

It sounds nuts but I grew up in that atmosphere to some extent and yeah, the backslider who repents is a rock star at church.

the words "dignity and grace" can be used in connection with that outfit in any context other perhaps than satire.

And I'm going to assume that this pregnancy was the reason her ex-fiance called off the wedding. Dakota Meyer likes a pretty face too & is too smart to fall for the okie-doke.

Nice save Dakota!

And why did she cancel the wedding?
Was it her that canceled the wedding or the groom-to-be?
Why would he cancel a wedding with the woman pregnant with his child, when right before he was ready for this marriage?

Is that what good Christians think of that perfect form growing in her uteus...a disaapointment? Lets hope this wonderful child blessed by God, never reads any of Bristol's statements. I suppose they can brag that at least it was never aborted.

I suppose it must be Bristol meant something different that a disappointing child. And we (the rest of the little people watching the drama unfold) must all make the herculean effort to embrace and understand they (the fundies)are not talking about God's perfect creation being a disappointment.

HOWEVER...AND IN CONTAST

Obama, mentions an unwanted pg is a mistake, and gawd almighty the entire world comes crashing in on Chrstendom. That Obama dare verbalize that a God's perfect creation is considered a mistake. Doesn't matter what he really meant, the fundies and especially the Palin clan, made sure to broadcast what a nasty disgusting, moral-less, petty thing Obama said.

I suppose it's just another case of fundy hypocricy.

White-Trash: This is racist as hell. Not because it insults white people, but because it asserts that the worst white people are better than the best people of color.

Un-freaking-believable.

Yea, un-freaking-believable. Let me get this straight, you changed trailer-trash to white-trash?

How quaint.

After objections, it was changed to "white-trash." After further objections, it was changed to its current wording. All versions are still available for viewing, though.

quaint
adjective \ˈkwānt\

: having an old-fashioned or unusual quality or appearance that is usually attractive or appealing

Why does anyone care what Bristol Palin says or does? That's what I don't understand.

She is completely unimportant in every way.

There's no reason for this post at all, in my opinion.

That is especially true when it comes to your "white-trash" epithet. Please don't use that expression on DU. You can still edit your OP. I encourage you to do so.

I didn't make her up! Really!

She is just a young pregnant woman. We should leave her and all other young women who are pregnant alone.

Plus, your "white-trash" crap is way over the top, in my opinion. I don't think you have even thought about what that expression means, really. People are not "trash." The phrase is racist and classist. It should not be allowed on DU, again in my opinion.

I respectfully decline your kind invitation.

I don't like the term "white-trash" any more than I like any other terms that categorize any group of people. My real objection is to your use of that expression. Bristol Palin is not really of any importance to anyone but herself. You think she is "white-trash." Who else fits that description in your mind?

When you post on DU, you invite comment. I'm happy to accept that invitation in this case.

ETA: Thanks for editing your post title.

I did go back and check all of the versions. So, you doubled down from "trailer-trash" to "white-trash?" From bad to worse. Thank goodness you changed it again.

Sensibilities, indeed!

plural sen·si·bil·i·ties
Full Definition of SENSIBILITY
1
: ability to receive sensations : sensitiveness <tactile sensibility>
2
: peculiar susceptibility to a pleasurable or painful impression (as from praise or a slight) —often used in plural
3
: awareness of and responsiveness toward something (as emotion in another)
4
: refined or excessive sensitiveness in emotion and taste with especial responsiveness to the pathetic

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Second time...FWIW. Had to cater to trailer-dweller sensibilities the first time.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6907607

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How classist and condescending toward another DUer. He edited out trailer-trash and white-trash to "cater to trailer-dweller sensibilities".


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Sometimes I think it's more like chronic swearing ,some people use cuss as a means of expression ,others have little vocabulary.
I guess they run out of thought and trash for talk or what could appear to be some kind of ill formed opinion seems to fill in the void for them.

Perhaps if they do not have people, places and things to look down upon they can have no sense of relevance or some sense of importance about the self.

Ignorance comes to mind, I suppose everybody gets caught up in it every so now and again.

Little pink houses for you and me.
By the way you left out arrogant and stupidity !

Please excuse the stupidity of some people around here and do not help it to spread !

They do however serve to remind us to think more carefully about those words which can cause hurt to others even though it was not intended.

it has everything to do with hypocrisy. She stands by mommy dearest in her rw religious hate and then comes to us and say - gee I'm pregnant again and don't you dare lecture me.

There are a lot of women who have been in her shoes. But they did not stand around pointing fingers at others in the same situation.