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HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• javiwhite@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I questioned it a few years back on reddit and was told it’s an old American saying for white people, and its apparently from the sound a whip makes rather than the biscuit.

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• jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @javiwhite@feddit.uk had it right, and also it’s specifically a derogatory term; the Oxford English Dictionary gives the definition “US English derogatory a contemptuous term for a white person, especially an impoverished white person living in the southern US. Also called poor white”

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  • HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Okay, but when I see a relatively small box next to a drink, my first thought isn’t “damn, that’s referring to a poor white person”

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    • jaennaet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The joke was the title combined with the picture

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