tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post1302773888225594851..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: Point Two: Charles Johnson is prejudiced, and subscribes to stereotypesRobert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-50090607414817613722009-09-21T17:13:05.410-04:002009-09-21T17:13:05.410-04:00One of the things I find morbidly amusing about ma...One of the things I find morbidly amusing about many urban liberals outside the South is how, on the one hand, many of them wear their prejudices against Southerners on their sleeves, and their "multiculturalism" or "worldliness" on the other. But there's a tiny problem with that: the same things they criticize Southerners for are a large part of what connects them to all the other cultures of the world, which through which urban, non-Southern "cultural elites" regard these other cultures as "quaint", "charming", or some other patronizing adjective. <br /><br />A Yankee "cultural elite" would scoff at a Southerner for remembering Mosby's Ride, yet applauds the Scotsman for his local "color" of spitting out the name Campbell like a curse. Both responses are simply different ways of elevating the "cultural elite" to a position of self-prominence, only the former is openly insulting while the other is patronizing. To the "cultural elite" remembrance of the past of one's culture and treating it as relevant today is beyond his "nuanced" scope.<br /><br />What the "cultural elites" fail to grasp is that the average Southerner has more in common with the various cultures of the world than the "multicultural" urban-dweller who can only see the superficial differences, yet rejects the true roots of his "Other" in lieu of congratulating himself for his make-believe "multiculturalism".The Ghost of Flannery O'Connornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-22283118912008543302009-09-19T06:49:04.360-04:002009-09-19T06:49:04.360-04:00My gosh, this was a nice piece. I never left my ow...My gosh, this was a nice piece. I never left my own Southern home in Kentucky until I married my sailor; we first lived blissfully in Florabama for about six months and then moved to the cold (spiritually as well as physically) environs of Connecticut for three long years. <br /><br />I had no idea what it meant to be Southern til we had lived there for a bit. My accent caused people to single me out or exclude me; it took me six months to find a job, even though I have a degree and some butt-kicking computer skills; even then, the job did not pay nearly what I was worth. I wanted my husband to stop at the border when we left so I could moon the state, but he wouldn't even slow down, the rat.<br /><br />We're moving back to the South - Georgia now - at the beginning of the year. It feels good.<br /><br />(so does posting here get me banned at The Other Place? :) )kywritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15601524805207425768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-31821252453700561772009-09-15T14:13:19.240-04:002009-09-15T14:13:19.240-04:00Charles Johnson? Blechh. I got sick to f’g death o...Charles Johnson? Blechh. I got sick to f’g death of his ridiculous bike photos… hated those almost more than his nutty system update entries. (Dude, who gives an eff?!? Besides, LGF still has one of the slowest & buggiest comment systems out there — really — it’s crap.)<br /><br />And oooohhhh!!! Did you ever see that flashing gif of the Rathergate docs? How far do you think he’s gonna try to ride that one?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-60773175896872531422009-09-15T01:00:47.625-04:002009-09-15T01:00:47.625-04:00Is RES seriously arguing whether it's better t...Is RES seriously arguing whether it's better to be a slave or a factory worker? Oh no, he's covered... "One can argue," he says; and presumably the "one" is somebody else. Then why bring it up? Meanwhile, Anonymous implies that the destruction of black families in bondage through selling off and separating members of the family isn't as bad as the perverse incentives of welfare programs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-21151340570755954312009-09-14T01:21:52.254-04:002009-09-14T01:21:52.254-04:00Well, if we're going to be critical of Southro...Well, if we're going to be critical of Southrons it is fair to remember that the worst anti-school integration riots occurred in Detroit and Boston.<br /><br />A quick check at Wikipedia, that noted ultra-right website reveals:<br />" 'Forced busing' was a term used by many to describe the mandates that generally came from the courts. Court-ordered busing to achieve school desegregation was used mainly in large, ethnically segregated school systems, including Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio; Kansas City, Missouri; Pasadena, California; Richmond, Virginia; San Francisco, California; Detroit, Michigan; and Wilmington, Delaware. From 1972 to 1980, despite busing, the percentage of blacks attending mostly-black schools barely changed, moving from 63.6% to 63.3%.[2]"<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing_in_the_United_States<br /><br />One can argue whether, in 1830, it was better to be a black slave in Richmond or an Irish factory-worker in Boston. Certainly the slave was guaranteed an adequate diet and retirement, even if as valued livestock, while Irish workers in Boston were treated as disposable parts. I don't think I would sacrifice my freedom for such, but the North has more than a few beams to answer for ere it points to motes in Southron eyes.RESnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-8189080684333646042009-09-13T21:37:15.386-04:002009-09-13T21:37:15.386-04:00Well Mr. Other McCain, now that's a fine South...Well Mr. Other McCain, now that's a fine Southern name, if I ever heard one, "Other." I greatly enjoy your blog. It seems to me that you are one of the few conservative pundits not afraid to put up a fight and a fine fight you do put up. As for Charles Johnson, who is he? As one Texas preacher said, "I've been criticized by experts, these little spurts don't bother me at all."<br /><br />Greg Marquez<br />goyomarquez@earthlink.netGreg Marquezhttp://www.ivchristiancenter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-16966550242496984412009-09-13T21:32:48.250-04:002009-09-13T21:32:48.250-04:00Linked to at:
http://www.thecampofthesaints.com/20...Linked to at:<br />http://www.thecampofthesaints.com/2009.09.13_arch.html#1252891529927Bob Belvederehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17220595844172546069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-29910863762378334452009-09-13T17:35:54.865-04:002009-09-13T17:35:54.865-04:00The pointy-head types that make up the liberal Eas...The pointy-head types that make up the liberal Eastern establishment, and now control our government, fear that which they don't understand.<br />And ridicule (of Southerners, in particular) is borne out of this fear. They fear people who will fight to the death, if need be, in defense of their family, and who don't make a living hiding behind words.<br />When I run up against these pretentious fools, I find the best response is merely to look at them and laugh. For they truly are a sorry bunch of idiots!PaleRidernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-41521397681716004742009-09-13T14:52:32.036-04:002009-09-13T14:52:32.036-04:00Charles Johnson does not and is incapable of debat...Charles Johnson does not and is incapable of debate. That's far above his intellectual capacities.<br /><br />The brain tumor theory (or just neurological deterioration of the frontal lobes) can explain sudden changes in personality but Johnson merely reverted to his pre-9/11 personality because as you may have noticed, liberals have amnesia for history. <br /><br />It is convenient amnesia as their initiatives have all ended in disaster one way or another (destruction of the black family by Welfare in a way slavery did not, the predictable over a million slain by communists after the American left forced us out of Vietnam, millions of children dead of malaria in Africa after the left got perfectly safe DDT banned etc.) <br /><br />A "man-made" disaster as Obama now wants us to call terrorism such as 9/11 has to be erased as well because it was perpetrated by one of the Left's new client groups, supremacist Muslims working toward sharia (Islamic religious law) wherever they colonize). <br /><br />Luckily this cataclysmic event is written in indelible ink on the hearts and brains of America's better citizens.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-36204102339087068842009-09-13T11:11:47.220-04:002009-09-13T11:11:47.220-04:00You are ever right about the anti-southern folks. ...You are ever right about the anti-southern folks. I spent my entire freshmen year at an east coast college dealing being forced into arguments about the south by a bunch of new york/new jersey folks. It's bizarre how much bias people enjoy cultivating about the south.Shannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15709594638793030086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-1498195076746271512009-09-13T10:43:07.142-04:002009-09-13T10:43:07.142-04:00Well, LGF changed their tune as soon as Obama beca...Well, LGF changed their tune as soon as Obama became president. So, what they say doesn't matter. They should change their name to Arlen.<br /><br />Left Going Forward.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-48954086129154637222009-09-13T10:42:16.401-04:002009-09-13T10:42:16.401-04:00An America that knows nothing of Saratoga or Brand...<i>An America that knows nothing of Saratoga or Brandywine or Yorktown will be annoyed that we scold them for forgetting Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville and Franklin.</i><br /><br />Let's not scold them for forgetting Sharpsburg when we know the proper name of that battle is Antietam. ;)R. Dittmarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-18644968061314997332009-09-13T10:02:53.353-04:002009-09-13T10:02:53.353-04:00I wonder if CJ haa a brain tumor and that is why h...I wonder if CJ haa a brain tumor and that is why he gone completely utterly bonkers.Joenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-53945729460319523692009-09-13T09:25:34.454-04:002009-09-13T09:25:34.454-04:00I like even love the people you like. German impor...I like even love the people you like. German import Southron that I am. I love fighters who fight for the right no matter where they come from. Carry on Mister.Al of Alnotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-22732807288118396962009-09-13T09:03:16.565-04:002009-09-13T09:03:16.565-04:00Charles Johnson used to have a blog worth reading....Charles Johnson used to have a blog worth reading. Now he has started running what could almost be mistaken for a diary at Daily Kos. It is rather sad that he decided to hang his hat on the hook of ideological and theological purity rather than recognizing that thee is room for reasonable people to disagree.<br /><br />But as we now see, Johnson is not reasonable.Rhymes With Righthttp://rhymeswithright.mu.nunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-78091668651164702222009-09-13T07:07:19.341-04:002009-09-13T07:07:19.341-04:00My dad was a Texan, his was a Northern English-Sco...My dad was a Texan, his was a Northern English-Scots Irish ancestry. His ancestors fought at Kings Mountain, and every war since. He spent 33 years in the Navy himself. Your article begins to hit on a phenomenon that so few understand. That of the role of the large numbers of the failed 1848 German Revolutionaries on Civil War politics and the resulting coming of Progressivism. Since that time it has been quite acceptable, nay fashionable for the intellectual eltie that came to make up the Eastern Establishment to point to the south as the bastion of stupidity as well as racism. Their understanding of the culture is so ignorant that I can't find any better word than ignorant. To truly appreciate that it is necessary to realize that to a very large extent those early Progressive were educated either in Germany or by German intellectual thought. And LaSalle's German Socialism was not Marx's socialism, but did look a bit like Progressivism. It's a funny thing too, Woodrow Wilson's obvious racism is dismissed out of hand as a product of having grown up primarily in the South instead of as a byproduct of his political orientation. <br />I don't physicially live in the south but I am very much my fathers daughter. Charles Johnson seems intent on insulting as many as he is able. I quit going to his site when he decided that anyone who didn't believe in evolution was an ass. Once upon a time he had some relevence, but since he went back to his liberal roots, no longer.Rednoreply@blogger.com