Ricky and JT at Oxford

Apparently JOX FM sent Ricky Rant to Oxford with an intern and a recording device. Personally I think Ricky is trailor trash and I hate that JOX is giving him air time and encouragement, but that's their prerogative. Anyway, they mentioned that a bunch of Alabama fans wanted to get their picture taken with Ricky. I find that disturbing. We should be shunning this guy, not celebrating him. It also came up in the JOX segment that JT Bowtie was at the game, and supposedly he didn't get a warm welcome from the bama fans. I like JT, so it seems backwards that he's getting a cold shoulder while that trailer trash Ricky is being adulated.

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The difference is...

…Ricky is a dumbass, and JTBowtie is a dumbass, who feigns wealth.

See the difference?

Offense sells tickets. Defense wins games. - Paul W. "Bear" Bryant

by TheRedTideConsumes on Oct 12, 2009 2:02 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

JT said whitetrash

and Ricky said the n-word. Odd….

Fumbles. It was always Fumbles

by DocFumbles on Oct 12, 2009 4:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

name calling is name calling

It is just as wrong for JTBowtie to say “white trash” as it is for Ricky to say the n-word.

Personally, I am not fond of either one. Ricky shouldn’t have said what he said, and JTBowtie shouldn’t have said what he said.

To pretend that what one said is more inflammatory than the other is ludacris. Get off the fence.

Those who praise/downplay one, while chastising the other, are just as ignorant as the two of them.

Offense sells tickets. Defense wins games. - Paul W. "Bear" Bryant

by TheRedTideConsumes on Oct 12, 2009 5:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

first off there is a difference between those insults.

But my my point was how stupid it is to be glorifying Ricky.

What you're seeing is team spirit. It's like the Holy Spirit, but more powerful.

-Hank Hill

by Zoltar on Oct 12, 2009 6:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

enlighten me. what is the difference?

Offense sells tickets. Defense wins games. - Paul W. "Bear" Bryant

by TheRedTideConsumes on Oct 12, 2009 9:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

well, to quote from Urban Dictionary

White trash- an individual that may or may not be poor, but is monumentally ignorant and quite possibly stupid.

Nigger- used as a disparaging term for a member of any dark-skinned people.

So aside from the historical and cultural significance of nigger, one of these insults is a reference to something that you have control over (being trashy) while the other is not (being black). In our society it’s more taboo to insult people over things they have no control over. For example, mentally handicapped people might have very similar symptoms to crack addicts, but saying “Man, I hate retards” is more offensive than saying, “Man, I hate crackheads”.

What you're seeing is team spirit. It's like the Holy Spirit, but more powerful.

-Hank Hill

by Zoltar on Oct 12, 2009 11:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

just wow.

Offense sells tickets. Defense wins games. - Paul W. "Bear" Bryant

by TheRedTideConsumes on Oct 12, 2009 11:52 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well...

…that’s one definition of ‘white trash’…here’s another:

(slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn This definition is the more original and mainstream one, though both are accurate meanings for the term. Ironically, ‘white trash’ is a term that has generally been used by white people for other white people.

Of further irony, by the mainstream definition, I definitely come from ‘white trash’…yet am infinitely more disgusted by hearing the ‘n-word’. I think it’s because I’m used to hearing it from people I think are monumentally ignorant and quite possibly stupid.

"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban

by NiceLittleSaturday on Oct 13, 2009 9:12 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

like you say a conditioned response

the point is they are ultimately the same, and therefore equally offensive, and should be equally shunned.

Offense sells tickets. Defense wins games. - Paul W. "Bear" Bryant

by TheRedTideConsumes on Oct 13, 2009 4:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree...

…that they should both be shunned…but I can’t agree that they are ultimately the same, you know, since they’re not.

"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban

by NiceLittleSaturday on Oct 13, 2009 9:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I BET HIS MOMMA IS A TRICK!

"LOSE HIS COOOL?!?!? I DUN LOST MY COOOL!!!!"

by brandonh on Oct 12, 2009 6:05 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

they're both stupid

and i’m gonna try my best to have nothing to do with making them any more well known than they already are.

by 009jpc on Oct 12, 2009 7:00 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

That duo of doofuses

and wasting time or print on them, makes me want to stick my head in an oven.

"Hollywood made a movie of my life. The film had me proposing to my wife on the football field. I would never misuse a football field that way." -Crazy Legs Hirsch

by Stuck in the Plains on Oct 13, 2009 4:44 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs