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Red neck was a term coined to oppress Irish immigrants. Poor people who came here from Ireland as share croppers , and indentured servants. So its just as bigoted to use that term as it is to use any other racist term.
By definition if you are of Irish decent and a working stiff you are a redneck.
All that negative stereotype is the same as other racial stereo types. The product of hate filled bigoted oppressors.
But so not my point. My point is what you said about certain words being empowering when used with in the group and insulting comming from out side. We gotta get over that garbage if we are going to progress past bigotry, and hypocracy.
I am a redneck by definition and when a person uses it in a negative way I know they are something worse. They are a sour bigoted hate monger. Im just from Irish share croppers. So yes my friends use it as a badge of honor and when it used as an attempt at insult it only is more so. Cause I know my mom's side of the family came here as share croppers and carved out a nich in this land against hateful elitists.
The same should be with all such groups.



I didn't know any Irish settled in the South. I'm Irish to the bone (in fact my son is in Ireland as we speak and all my kids have lived there at some point). Irish immigration is generally the story of their moving to, and being oppressed in, northeastern America.