Brent Andrews: I guess you will always use “redneck” but I have said before, and will say again, that it is like the N word or calling a gay person the old name for cigarette. Lots of hardworking people who would never hurt anyone’s feelings - people who go to church every Sunday - remain red in the neck year-round, and they have a right to do so without the Poynter types, who seek to insult no one in the whole wide world and try to paint truly such notorious enemies as al Quaida, and even the Chinese Communist Party, without namecalling, reserving this one nastyism for their columns and even headlines. I will ever oppose your use of ‘redneck’ as an unnecessary insult, akin to the N word, that belongs in quotation marks in your stories, if it has any place at all.

Question: Do you consider "redneck" to be an extreme and unnecessary insult?