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Rude, Crude Yankees = Good Useful Idiots
The Patriotist ^
| July 22, 2002
| Al Benson Jr.
Posted on 07/22/2002 12:30:48 PM PDT by Aurelius
I occasionally get some rather rude e-mail from those with a deep-rooted Yankee mentality in regard to my little web site. Usually the writer informs me, rather contemptuously that my web site is all wet, that it stinks, that the War of Northern Aggression was really fought to preserve slavery, that I am totally in error about Abraham Lincoln, who, in the writer's opinion, is really god, and on it goes. 'Those people' never offer historical argument to back up what they say [they can't] but they are quite accomplished at ridiculing others when they, themselves, don't have a clue about the historical accuracy of anything. No doubt many of them are cultural marxists and don't even realize it. But, then, no one has ever accused those with a Yankee mentality of being over-endowed with discernment. Let me say here, that when I refer to the Yankee mindset, I am not offering a blanket condemnation of all Northern folks, else I would also condemn myself. I know lots of good Northerners who would cringe at being thought of as Yankees, and I know some Southerners who, unfortunately, fit perfectly into the Yankee mold. What I am talking about has no connection whatever with where you were born.
I got a rather nice e-mail recently from a Southern-born Yankee type who crudely informed me that "Lincoln was right and J W. Booth, and R. E. Lee and Jeff Davis and the rest of the gang were murderers who all deserved to be hanged." You can really tell that this character did his homework - what historical insight! He then went on to inform me that he was a white man born in the South but was, "thankfully educated in California." Folks, I submit, that anyone today who is thankful for having been 'educated' in California the way this man seems to have been 'educated' is just not the brightest light in the harbor. He then informed me, in his infinite wisdom that I should 'get a life' beyond my web site and 'grow a brain.' He closed his tirade with the statement that Lincoln was the last of the good Republicans, and his parting salutation was 'Long live Bill Clinton.' Usually I don't bother replying to such sanctimonious drivel, but, in this man's case I made an exception. I e-mailed him back and told him that if people such as he didn't like my web site then I must be doing something right. I suppose I should have ended my reply to him with 'Have a nice day' but, for some unknown reason, I didn't bother to.
This individual is a perfect example of the Yankee mindset - smug, self-satisfied, egotistical, and totally ensconced within a sense of their own perfect rightness in all things and on all issues. Anyone daring to disagree with them has to be berated because 'those people' have got it all figured out - after all, their 'teachers' and 'college professors' dutifully informed them that the war was all about slavery and that Lincoln freed all the slaves, and the 'history' professor wouldn't lie - would he? Lincoln must be more astute than Jesus Christ because, after all, Lincoln came along more recently on the evolutionary scale didn't he?
I have had people that checked out my web site and disagreed with something they saw on it. Often they have contacted me and have been courteous enough to voice their opinions in a civil manner. Others have offered constructive criticism, which was all right, because I took it in the spirit in which it was given. I had a black man once that read one of my articles and took exception to it, stating that he was a Christian. I contacted him back, informing him that I was also a Christian and with Christian charity, I sought to correct the misconception that he had. Once he understood where I was coming from we were able to carry on a dialogue with no bad feeling on either side. Some folks will check out the site and come back with genuine questions about something. That's fine. I answer what I can historically [unlike the Yankees, I don't claim to have all the answers about everything] and I often try to pass these folks on to someone else that knows more than I do.
But there is a certain class of Yankees - often well 'educated' that are just so superior to the rest of us 'great unwashed' that they don't even feel the need to attempt courtesy. They howl about us 'rednecks' and what we write and tell us to 'get a life' yet the sum total of their 'life' seems to be wrapped up in demeaning those who dare to disagree with their vaunted opinions.
A while back, Professor Clyde Wilson wrote an excellent article in Southern Partisan magazine called The Yankee Problem in America. In it Professor Wilson took on such Yankee paragons or 'virtue' as Ted Kennedy, the man who never learned to drive over a bridge straight, and St. Hillary Clinton of 'Cattle Futures' fame. Wilson described such people as smug, self-righteous, above the rules the rest of us live by, and completely convinced that they are right in all things - right enough that they deserve the privilege of telling the rest of us how to live - all for 'our own good' of course [and just maybe for their profit.]
There is no place in the Yankee mindset for grace, courtesy, compassion, consideration of the feelings of others, or for any of those Scriptural virtues that have graced and improved our civilization in the past. The Yankee knows only complete self-righteousness and, in that self-righteousness he exhibits a certain perverse pleasure in seeking to trample on the feelings of those who dare to disagree with his elevated opinions. In most cases, the Yankee understanding of accurate history is about an inch deep, and therefore, he becomes little more than a 'useful idiot' that the cultural Marxist professor that 'educated' him can turn loose on the world for the total benefit of the New World Order.
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To: Phantom Lord
Welllllllllllll .... you asked for it, you got it.
In 1999 (as provided by the Bureau of Justice Statistics) New York's homicide numbers were 903, there wasn't a state in the South that came close except for Florida at 859. Robberies ... New York - 43,821. Miami - 31,969 ... the rest of the Southern states weren't even close. Aggravated Assaults ... New York - 58,860, Miami 89,226 (whoooeee ... lotta asswhuppin going on there). And finally forcible rape ... New York - 3,563 ... Miami - 6,990 ... the rest of the Southern States were well below those numbers. So the only close city is Miami and that is in Homicide, Robbery, Rape, and Aggravated Assault. Note that these were reported offenses! Don't give me the bull sh*t about Noo Yawk being a safe city.
To: Constitution Day
20. Never simply "do" something. Always be "fixin to do" something. Minor irony. During the 1800s many of those who settled the South were Gaels evicted from from Scotland during the Clearances. And in Scottish Gaelic there is no present tense: you cannot say "I am fishing"; the nearest you can say is "I am at [the] fishing."
Many of these speech patterns live on: an American-born friend of ours, who turned out to be from this very same heritage, can only pronounce my wife's name the way a native Gael would: Kath'a-leen.
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07/22/2002 7:07:25 PM PDT
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To: billbears
You sure you met this guy in Gastonia? Yes. I made friends with many people in Gastonia. The gentleman and his wife (from Maine) were visiting one of my aquaintances and I was invited over to dinner. I made the presentation of the CBF at the table, literally not knowing how he would react. He and his wife were pleased with the gift. He said one of his neighbors back in Maine already flew the flag and he would, too.
You are right about Gastonians not being to open to the CBF.
To: WhiskeyPapa
There is not a nickel's worth of difference in the way Washington, Madison and Lincoln viewed the Constitution. WaltI have to consider the source to know if the above statement is true or not. NOT.
To: Shooter 2.5
Just make sure you never call yourself an American while you're at it.Southerners are more 'American' than most of the politicians in Washington today. The Senate is ruled by people whose agenda is nothing short of the communist agenda. The rest of them go along with appeasing socialists. That's not very American of them.
To: CWRWinger
There is not a nickel's worth of difference in the way Washington, Madison and Lincoln viewed the Constitution. Walt
I have to consider the source to know if the above statement is true or not. NOT.
Washington urged an "immovable attachment" to the national union in his farewell address. You can look it up. Further, he said on September 17, 1787 that the goal of every true American was the consoldation of the national Union. You can look it up.
Madison said in 1834:
"The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemies to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened; and the disguised one, as the serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into Paradise."
And:
In all cases where justice or the general good might require new laws to be passed, or active measures to be pursued, the fundamental principle of free government would be reversed. It would be no longer the majority that would rule: the power would be transferred to the minority. Were the defensive privilege limited to particular cases, an interested minority might take advantage of it to screen themselves from equitable sacrifices to the general weal, or, in particular emergencies, to extort unreasonable indulgences. Lastly, it would facilitate and foster the baneful practice of secessions; a practice which has shown itself even in States where a majority only is required; a practice subversive of all the principles of order and regular government; a practice which leads more directly to public convulsions, and the ruin of popular governments, than any other which has yet been displayed among us.
20 July, 1788
Oh, I forgot Thomas Jefferson:
On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.
Letter To Justice William Johnson, Monticello, June 12, 1823
Do you see anything in any of these statements that President Lincoln would disagree with?
Your "NOT" doesn't appear very compelling when the record is consulted.
Walt
To: rdb3
What in the world does crossing the Mason-Dixon Line have to do with free-enterprise? I think it would be good for people living under the rule of Washington to get a glimpse of liberty. Kind of like when dingy grey East Berlin looked over the wall at the prosperity and bright lights of West Berlin.
Maybe a little political competition would be good for Washington.
To: CWRWinger
When you align yourself with anything other than the Stars and Stripes, you aren't an American.
To: WhiskeyPapa
Stuff it, federal pharisee. That's just your interpretation.
Lincoln clearly implicated the federal government came first. That's a flat out lie. There was no coersion to force the states to join. It was voluntary as set forth in the Constitution.
If you were really a disciple of liberty and freedom, you would believe in the right of people and states to freely associate or not associate. You have no case with me.
To: Shooter 2.5
When you align yourself with anything other than the Stars and Stripes, you aren't an American.Well then, which takes precedence, the stars and stripes or the Constitution? I prefer to align myself with the Constitution.
To: CWRWinger
Well then, which takes precedence, the stars and stripes or the Constitution? I prefer to align myself with the Constitution.For shame, for shame CWR. Don't you realize it's better to honor the symbol and forget what the symbol stands for than to honor the document itself by following its precepts? I know that's not a popular attitude to have right now, but the Founders didn't have a pledge to say and it seems to me they were quite the patriotic bunch. And it seems to me they followed the Constitution a lot closer than 98% of the lifetime professional political hacks we've had in Washington DC for about 140 years now
To: Phantom Lord
My aren't we Smug....Pray tell why you think Yankees brought these inovations?
To: My2Cents
When we gain what we should have in the first place.......
STATES RIGHTS!
To: Aurelius
No...they probably STOLE it from some well-to-do Southerner!
(sarcasm)
To: stainlessbanner
Not even that deep....heheheheheheehe!
To: arm958
Well let me see...I suppose you Yankees are gonna take credit for the WPA now.....GEEZ!
To: Shooter 2.5
and your point is WHAT?
To: billbears
If abortion, multi-culturalism, welfare, sodomy, humanism and affirmative action is American, then some people on this thread have their priorities skewed (not talking about you, of course).
In reality, the real rebels are those who are running the government right now. The judges, the demokrat commies, the maintainers of socialism are the real un-American rebels.
Just because one says a socialist pledge to a flag doesn't make them American.
To: My2Cents
If you had anything like a normal unbiased education, you would know what the South stood for, and it WASN'T SLAVERY.
Crawl back under your rock now like a good bluebelly!
To: dead
"dead" as in your brain? correct?
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