Posted on 09/01/2005 9:28:17 AM PDT by Sonny M
And I say this as a brooklyn born, and still living in, New Yorker.
Already posted.
I've been wondering where the Hollyweirds are. They are pretty quick to get in front of the camera and announce their donations when disaster strikes in other countries. Where are they now??
I'm sorry, I tried looking it up, I didn't find it, my bad.
Deo Vindice
yup...and, even tody, if you asked New Orleans residents if they had to vote for Katrina or Union Gen. "Beast" Butler as the most cruelest ever to visit the Big Easy, I'd bet a lot would say "Butler!"
I hope God doesn't punish the "elites" I live near them, by default, that would mean he'd knock off my home too.
I love the tagline.
The height of irony is the way "uneducated" people (especially Southerners) are treated by liberals depends so heavily on skin color. Black poverty is a national shame; white poverty is a sign of shiftlessness. Black hunger is a moral imperative, white hunger is funny. Black ingorance is "revolutionary," poor white igorance is the sign of a Klucker. White resentment of the rich is politically correct and leftist, poor white resentment is "regressive populism" and incipient fascism. And all this hypocrisy with regard to two communities that, were it not for skin color, would be indistinguishable, and by people who have always claimed that they want everyone to be treated the same.
Oh, and don't forget that Biblical Fundamentalism, while a quaint and legitimate form of cultural expression among Blacks, is stupid and reactionary in whites. Don't get me started!
"They assume we are dumb and poorly educated."
This is sadly too true. The dumb southern Bush-supporting hick is one of the bigoted left/elite's staples. It helps them explain why their ideology is rejected by a majority of Americans and allows them to feel oh so superior. If you doubt this, think about how southerners are portrayed on TV and in movies.
Christians and southerners are the last 2 groups where bigotry against them is permitted.
Excellent post; true in every word. Thanks!
This is sadly too true. The dumb southern Bush-supporting hick is one of the bigoted left/elite's staples. It helps them explain why their ideology is rejected by a majority of Americans and allows them to feel oh so superior. If you doubt this, think about how southerners are portrayed on TV and in movies.
Ahem--that's white Southerners. For some reason Black Southerners don't count as Southerners, even if they're poor, uneducated, and have bad teeth. I suppose the Left benevolently refrains from ridiculing their "useful idiots." I wonder how they'd treat the still too-prevalent "yellow dog Democrats" who are as dumb as bricks and are still voting against Herbert Hoover? Ditto, I suppose.
Christians and southerners are the last 2 groups where bigotry against them is permitted.
Black chr*stians don't seem to qualify as chr*stians in liberal eyes, just as Black Southerners aren't considered Southerners and Hispanic Catholics aren't considered Catholics.
The way liberals look at the world there's "us" and "the other." Bigotry is only bad when it's directed at "the other." When directed at oneself it is considered commendable self-criticism. The thing is, white Southerners are frozen as eternal "us" in the liberal worldview. No matter how bitter and ugly anti-Southern bigotry becomes, it is never regarded as true "bigotry" because it is not directed against "the other." White Southerners can't be "the other," no matter how they are ridiculed or how culturally removed their detractors are.
Kinda like the caste system in India, ain't it?
Might as well joke about it. Can't get the hypocritical bastards to see that their attitude violates their own vaunted ideological system.
Nobody understands the South.
I suspect even the South doesn't understand the South.
To me, the South is totally incomprehensible.
With relatives in the area this has pissed me off since Sunday. The total cluelessness of the liberal elite/MSM could not be more obvious.
"Ahem--that's white Southerners. For some reason Black Southerners don't count as Southerners..."
Well said and clarification point taken.
There's truth in that also. The South today especially underestimates the affect of New England puritanism on its own culture, considering itself the pure and undefiled heirs of Old South cavalierism. In fact, the Old South (being cavalier) simply did not take religion very seriously; it was just a part of the culture. The Bible Belt South, with its snake-handlers, tongues-speakers, "born-agains," "word-of-knowledge" receivers, revivalists, etc., is simply the current manifestation of the "puritan religious ferment" of the ante-bellum period, which took place in the North. (The Great Awakening and American Calvinism began in New England, after all.)
Myself, I have a great affection for the old New England. Ironically, today's South is about all that's left of it, and the contemporary "Unitarian-Universalists" of Massachusetts don't even seem to realize it! Nor do the neo-Confederates, of course.
You got that right. I don't see any wall to wall coverage on my TV channels right now on how you can help donate etc. It's TV shows as usual. We don't have cable, but we sure had wall to wall coverage on 9/11. I'm not saying it was wrong on 9/11. But this disaster isn't getting half the air time in order to help these people.
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