Confederate culture too

The News & Observer ^ | November 24, 2002 | Jonathan Zimmerman

[Capriole]

I waited 'til a number of other shoppers were around us to announce to my wife, "Oh, honey, remember when you aksed me what an oxymoron is? There's a great one on that book, Southern Culture. I expected some hostile reaction from the natives, but realized they had no idea what I had just said. LOL

My goodness, I haven't encountered such a display of sophisticated wit since the last time I attended a reception at the British Embassy.

LOL, indeed. It is precisely because of this sort of infantile, reflexive derision that some of us have begun to stand up for the sociocultural heritage the South imparts to us.

Don't mind Hank, ladies and gentlemen; if he were adequately educated he would be familiar with Southern contributions to law, literature, and history, but alas! as he so freely demonstrates, we can't hold him to the standards of behavior evidenced by mannerly and broadly-read people.

[smalltown]

That's a good one Hank.
You've proven that you are a jerk.
Can you do another trick?

[stainlessbanner]

For a guy who preaches autonomy, you ought to be more familiar with home-rule and sovereignty, both inherent in Southern culture.

[joesnuffy]

Somebody ought to beat the snot out of that WankerChief

[Gowelisgi]

Hank, I hate to disappoint you but I have a feeling they understood what you said but decided to ignore you. They probably figured that you were the stereotypical rude, arrogant, loudmouthed Yankee type and just let it slide.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I expected some hostile reaction from the natives, but realized they had no idea what I had just said.

Nah, they were just being polite. But I guess that was lost on you.

[hillyes]

PING

[Don W]

You obviously haven't read any of his (Illbay's) "witty" and "incisive" comments on any smoker threads.

This is very much a characteristic post from him/her/it.

[Pelham]

LoS is a white supremacist organization

Funny how Morris Dees and his Southern Poverty Law Center has fans echoing his radical spew here at FR.

[TomServo]

Dixie Bump!

[error99]

They were probably just being polite, we are taught to handle assholes in that fashion.

(they also probably keyed your car in the parking lot)

[freedumb2003]

Umm, have we lost the point here?

I find it singurlarly amusing that the author suggests that liberals want to teach students to analyze rather than recite facts.

1. If students were taught to analyze the liberals would dissapear after one generation;
2. The current "fact gathering" posited by the author is not taking place. Look at the recent National Geographic test where US students were 2nd to the last (to Mexico, no less!) or any given "Jaywalking" segment on Leno (every time I see of those it scares the bejeezus out of me!)

I also find it interesting that multiculturalism is being hoisted on its own petard. Remember: Multiculturalism says that who you are is based on your group identity, not what you do. It is impossible to suggest such a thing as "analytical multiculturalism" since, as the article itself states, virtually no culture could survive an unbiased examination unscathed. And multiculturalism says thay all cultures (except male WASPs?) are inherently good. This liberal rant is basically saying: "OMG, they are using our weapons against us, the sky is falling, the sky is falling! No, wait! If we just suggest THINKING then those weapons are useless."

True, but then they become useless to the liberals as well.

[Rifleman]

No sir. Being Southerners they were being kind to a Yankee fool who didn't know any better.

[error99]

I think his choice of a screen name has something to do with a statement on his mental health and the kind of 'hoss he rides...

[eloy]

AMEN!!!

[Non-Sequitur]

bump

[Hank Kerchief]

No sir. Being Southerners they were being kind to a Yankee fool who didn't know any better.

I tell the same story when talking to northerners, only change the title of the book to "Yankee Culture." I get the same kind of response there too. Thin skin knows no prejudice and runs equally north and south, and true culture is rare everywhere.

I have a great fondness for the south, having lived many years there as well as the north, and while there are always some who are poor representatives of their own society, I have always found people in all parts of the south and southwest gracious, cultured, and interesting. I am truly sorry to see the old southern culture dying in so many areas, but the same is happening in the north. What we are really loosing is Americanism, I'm afraid.

(Now, if any of you southerners want to prove just how gracious and generous you are, you could send me some boiled peanuts, and I don't mean that commercial stuff, I mean some of those home style peanuts boiled ham juice.)

(stainlessbanner, thanks for the link.)

Capriole said: ...if he were adequately educated he would be familiar with Southern contributions to law, literature, and history ...

I readily admit I am not adequately educated, and never will be, even though I believe education is a life-long endeavor. Of southern contributions I am quite familiar, and proud to be associated with it if only by being part of the country founded on ideas, that, with the exception of Adams, are predominantely southern in philosophy, but saddenend by the history that includes those atrocities and crimes committed against the south called the civil war.

By the way, I appreciate all the responses, especially those that demonstrate some people still have enough guts and courage to stand for something. If we could only channel all that emotion and energy into restoring freedom and individualism in this country, we'd have something to fight for.

Hank

[error99]

Don't try to kiss up