Edited sentence: The consensus view being that if you can't make it in a system that is geared up in your favor, then you must be absolutely useless - trash, in a matter of speaking.The term is considered humiliating and damning - because despite the "societal advantages" of being white, these are people who still did not manage to "make it" - putting them at a ranking below those of oppressed groups who have a "legitimate" reason to explain (at least partly), their poverty/lack of education etc.White trash is also a term that offends, insults, humiliates, intimidates, threatens, disparages and vilifies a white person on the basis of that person's color and ethnic origin, similar to any vile slur for blacks or Asians