Liberal, Nuanced, Sensitive and Bigoted - new @ ExileStreet

ExileStreet ^ | 5/3/08 | Bruce Thornton

[ParsifalCA]

According liberals, they are tolerant, open-minded, sensitive to complexity and nuance, and wary of simplistic explanations. So why is a column by the liberal Michael Hirsh, in the liberal newsweekly Newsweek, so intolerant, close-minded, simplistic and bigoted?

Hirsh’s piece sounds the alarm over the fact that “Southernism” has taken over the “national dialogue” and has “transformed the sensibility of the country, . . .setting the agenda for our political, social and religious mores.” What alerted Hirsh to this “Southernization of our national politics” was a piece in The New York Times about the elimination from the American Idol television show of a contestant who in her last performance sang “Jesus Christ Superstar.” According to Hirsh, this song was once the symbol of the triumph of “the new and the openness to innovation” over “nativism and yahooism,” but now its performance cost the contestant a chance at the talent show finals because of its “blasphemy." [more @ExileStreet]

[outpostinmass2]

So, to counter the snobby northerners you espouse your own prejudice and caricature's onto them. You don't seem much different than those elitist snobs.

Can't you come up with something better than accents? Come on show us up here in the northeast how intelligent you are.

[Hoof Hearted]

"Can't you come up with something better than accents? Come on show us up here in the northeast how intelligent you are. "

Okay, first of all, you should have capitalized "Northeast".

[Hoof Hearted]

"Can't you come up with something better than accents? Come on show us up here in the northeast how intelligent you are. "

But seriously...did you even read post #7 that I was responding to?

Do I need to define the word "irony" for you?

Is it really difficult to grasp the concept that there are regional accents everywhere?

Is it so difficult for you to understand that people with regional accents should not belittle those with different regional accents by saying that they 'talk stupid'?

I would think that my point that the New Yorkers (New Yawkers) shouldn't be telling Texans that they talk "freakin' stupid'. And visa versa.

The only people that deserve to have fun poked at them for their regional accents are snobby New Englanders who have no sense of humor.

[outpostinmass2]

I understood the irony, I was just pointing out that it is kind of tired to fire back the old; “no your stupid” line.

Making fun of accents is really not funny and it seems that it has been beaten to death on this forum.

I remember years ago someone from down south asked me to say: “Park the car in Harvard Yard”. I fired back, “Are you retarded”.