Posted on 08/30/2010 7:30:51 PM PDT by pissant
Now that irresponsible opportunists have brought many of the misled to Washington, we can begin to contemplate what makes bigotry so appealing. Surely, being able to exclude is one of the great joys of the species because it can give a grand identity to the average person.
That identity as one of the elect made the red glow in Southern white necks. They felt part of a civilization in which they were looked down upon until they put on their costumes, screamed loudly at mob gatherings and committed acts of violence.
While bigotry is as American as apple pie, its shelf life is now rather short. The easily dismissed lies that Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich have used to fire up the true believers will not work. After race-baiting as clearly as they could on the issue of a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero, all of them have attempted to "clarify" what they actually meant.
The reason that opportunists from the right have had to tread carefully is that nobody today desires to be called a racist. And so they've reframed their Islamophobia as an issue of constitutional rights. This is a variation on the purportedly genteel Southern racists who claimed that the real issue during the civil rights movement was not ethnic exclusion, but the rights of states.
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It’s more complicated than that. Crouch actually did write some important jazz criticism. This rant, though, is shocking and disappointing.
And multi national/cultural. A large, large number of the originators of jazz had a French or Spanish Caribbean background. And p.s. Although they weren’t white, they didn’t consider themselves to be black.
Liberalism is a mental disease.
Could be. I would venture to say he probably still thinks he nailed it. That’s the mindset of the Leftists. Truth is not as important as the good timely effective slur.
Hey, I wouldn’t be surprised.
“..but they suck at real confrontation.”
Exactly. Which is why they will use police. A matter of “law and order” nothing more.
When people like Stanley Crouch give a damn about my family, my heritage and my way of life I might give a damn about his but otherwise he can kiss my ass.
Yeah, but half a million attended the march to make that statement.
Where’s the “projectile vomit with chunks” alert?
And what effect do you imagine police agencies would have against a real rebellion?
A real rebellion?
None. But lefties do things they way the do because of the softness of the incremental movement toward a police state.
All Hitler needed was a solid core of true believers (which in terms of the population was very small)and enough bureaucrats and then jack boot thugs in police depts to pretty much take the whole damn country. The point being that there is not an over abundance in any population of the kind of balls required to really rebel.
America had it two centuries ago. Whether we have it still remains to be seen.
I was there at the Rally on the Mall.
The only racist in the room here is the author Stanley Crouch.
Poor SOB is stuffed with hatred, dysfunction and neurosis and it shows.
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