CONTEXT IS IMPORTANT
I am in Facebook jail for 30 days, the third time this year. My crime was "violating community standards", the specifics are: I responded to a meme which claimed Trump was elected to sweep the trash out of DC. I responded that while he had swept the trash, mostly competant, from DC, he flooded government with incompetant trash, mostly white trash. Okay, that was an exaggeration. While most of the trump appointees are white but not specifically white trash, Steve Miller is a notable exception, the incompetance is well displayed. I am a white northern man who remembers the Civil Rights era well. I know the meaning of white trash, and how it has a rather elastic definition. I do not feel that calling an administration, which has made no attempt to limit white racism, white trash is an insult to community standards. If the shoe fits wear it. But there is more at stake here. Facebook has given people who had previously been limited to poorly written screeds, hand-circulated in fr...