No problem boneprone, I'm about argued out too...
But what I meant by that is, if I drive a pickup truck it doesn't make me a redneck. Nor does it make me a redneck if my neck is actually sunburned. The same as putting a towel on my head does not make me a "raghead" in the racist sense of the word. Hence, the use of your term redneck in that statement is inferring a group of preconceived people (uneducated WHITE people by popular understanding) and it then becomes a racist remark.
The jokes and references to "ragheads" and "arabs" in these threads have been used in reference to and in the context of our common enemy. Terrorists. (at least for the most part... there are always idiots out there) Not innocent and friendly arabs, muslims, what have you. Not people that drive pickups or get sunburned in Maui.
That may not have been your intention, but what I caught was a blanket statement to refer to everyone's remarks regarding the subject. Which simply cannot be done. You don't know me. Nothing about me. Yet, (I'm assuming here that I was included for sake of discussion) I was just referred to as a "redneck" with no knowledge of my actual status. i.e. sunburned neck. That makes the terms use racial in nature.
Remember, racism is ugly ALL the time. Not just when it's convenient.
