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That which must not be said
Powerline ^ | September 20,2017 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 09/20/2017 8:50:21 AM PDT by Hojczyk

John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey gave us She Who Must Be Obeyed (i.e., Rumpole’s wife as he privately referred to her). J.K. Rowley gave us He Who Must Not Be Named (i.e., the villain Voldemort). Now higher education gives us daily lessons on That Which Must Not Be Said or, ideally, Thought. Thinking the guilty thoughts puts you at risk of saying them and they must not be said.

In the column Wax and Alexander articulated the social practices at the heart of middle class America from the late 1940’s through the 1960’s: “Get married before you have children and strive to stay married for their sake. Get the education you need for gainful employment, work hard, and avoid idleness. Go the extra mile for your employer or client. Be a patriot, ready to serve the country. Be neighborly, civic-minded, and charitable. Avoid coarse language in public. Be respectful of authority. Eschew substance abuse and crime.”

Wax and Alexander propose that we return to these norms to mitigate widely recognized social pathologies and improve the lives of Americans of all stripes. Drawing on the lingo of the academic left, they propose that we “restore the hegemony of the bourgeois culture.” They put it this way: “[R]estoring the hegemony of the bourgeois culture will require the arbiters of culture — the academics, media, and Hollywood — to relinquish multicultural grievance polemics and the preening pretense of defending the downtrodden. Instead of bashing the bourgeois culture, they should return to the 1950s posture of celebrating it.”

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1 posted on 09/20/2017 8:50:21 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

“Get married before you have children...”

I get a kick out of this one!

I see all these stupid DNA search things on TV ... ‘find out about yourself’. Really??

In OUR family and culture, there is still a stigma associated with bearing children OUT of wedlock. THAT means, we ALL know where we came from and who we are... no questions about it.


2 posted on 09/20/2017 8:56:31 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: Hojczyk

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/paying-the-price-for-breakdown-of-the-countrys-bourgeois-culture-20170809.html

Good article..

I grew up in the 50-60s.

We all got along in High School..

It was are parents that did not like one group or the other

Back then if you screwed up your parents beat you

If twice the cops would do a job on you with the night stick

Third time the Judge said you can either spend time in JAIL or join the service..

Most who had to join the service got straightened out by the drill Sargent


3 posted on 09/20/2017 8:59:47 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

***John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey gave us She Who Must Be Obeyed***

I thought “SHE who must be obeyed” was from an H.Rider Haggard novel SHE. I read it along with his other works years ago.


4 posted on 09/20/2017 9:05:58 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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5 posted on 09/20/2017 9:09:51 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (DACA: Their dream, our nightmare... will the rule of law prevail or not?)
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To: SMARTY

I love the one where the lady says that whenever she was asked what nationality she was she replied “Hispanic.” I scream at the TV every time I see that “Why don’t you say you’re an American!”


6 posted on 09/20/2017 9:19:13 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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whenever she was asked what nationality she was she replied “Hispanic.”

I wonder if she can tell us the name of Hispania's capital city or where Hispania is located on the map.

7 posted on 09/20/2017 9:31:33 AM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I had to survey the school district staff for their racial identification for a required state report. Every one, including African American, Hispanic, Native American listed, plainly, “American.”


8 posted on 09/20/2017 9:33:39 AM PDT by ntnychik
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“I wonder if she can tell us the name of Hispania’s capital city or where Hispania is located on the map. “


Neither could I because it doesn’t exist.

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9 posted on 09/20/2017 9:36:56 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Bob

In a survey at the mall, 83% of black people polled could not name the president of Africa


10 posted on 09/20/2017 9:39:06 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: bert

So 17% could???? :=)


11 posted on 09/20/2017 9:40:58 AM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: Bob

Hispani’s capital city is Los Angeles


12 posted on 09/20/2017 9:53:23 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Hojczyk
preening pretense of academics like this:


13 posted on 09/20/2017 10:12:46 AM PDT by yoe
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To: ntnychik

Nice! You hardly ever hear of people behaving that way these days. I even have arguments with my wife, tells me I’m German because my father’s family came from Germany like 150 years ago. But I tell her I am not German, I am American. Just because a cake has flour in it, that does not mean that a cake is flour!


14 posted on 09/20/2017 10:38:07 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: yoe

Academics like this started decades ago. While I was an undergrad, readying to join the Navy, we had in one class a grad student already wearing a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, a vest, smoking a pipe, and already of the air of an anthropology professor.


15 posted on 09/20/2017 11:07:21 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: SMARTY

Not so fast. I was not born out of wedlock and we were told that our ancestors were Scotts/English/Irish. I recently did two DNA scoring and both repored no Scotts in our blood. So somewhere down the line, someone screwed up the genealogy.


16 posted on 09/20/2017 11:15:36 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
That's my recollection as well, as a young teen age boy reading all the H. Rider Haggard novels, “ King Solomon's Mine” and the Alan Quartermain series.

And just verified we are both correct.

Comes from having a proper education and a life before the BBC television series of Rumppole.

17 posted on 09/20/2017 11:25:37 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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