Posted on 01/04/2005 12:59:58 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Such regional hatred by residents of the other region merely shows the benefits of valuing the individual, and the silliness of such general hatred. Which is why that blanket hatred seems so visible at DU--"them dumb rednecks" seems to be their phrase of choise.
Indeed. I am of an age such that the idea of censoring names, for well-meaning effect or otherwise, nauseates me. In my youth the "dreaded n-word" was in common use, but I was brought up to avoid the word by a very proper Southern grandmother (a survivor of radical Reconstruction) who insisted only white trash would say "nigger" and that no member of her family would use it. The first time she heard me use it, she washed out my mouth with laundry soap -- an experience I assure you one does not want to repeat. She even taught me an alternative "counting rhyme" to replace the ubiquitous "eeny, meeny, mynee, moe".
Don't be ripe for demagoguery. Nowhere near all northerners hate the south, just like nowhere near all southerners hate the north.
oh for gods sake somebody call the waaaaambulance on this moran.Who has that pic of the crying baby that says seal of the dnc ?someone ping that guy to this story.
do you mean the song dixie written by a BLACK man is rascist?Maybe this dem should resign and move into a cave high up on a mountaintop where the only company h e has are squirrels and raccooons then maybe he wont ever be offended again but he has clearly demonstrated that he is way to socially retarded to every be able to get along with normal humans in this society.
If they had married, would he have told her to change her name so he wouldn't having to "endure" proclaiming that "he loved Dixie"?
Why do the Dixie Chicks get such a warm reception from liberals?
If the man is so offended by things associated with slavery, he should be against the Democratic party being allowed in the Senate, rather then be a member of the previously pro-slavery party.
I don't believe it was anything like that. I don't think Duane was a liberal, but who knows? And "political correctness" was really not in vogue back in 1970. Plus, the Allmans were/are pretty proud of their Southern heritage.
I think Duane probably thought that "Little Dixie" might be considered insulting to the great land of Dixie.
Political correctness is not about truth. It is about not offending people. If idiots are offended because they take a phrase the wrong way or associate the wrong history with it, they are still offended. Political correctness deems changing the term.
This is a joke, right?
Good question. What a slavery-loving name for a band.
N. theknow:
I like your style. Texas A&M Grad. and along with the "Aggie War Hymn" we always played Dixie until the politically correct age of Coed and affirmative action.
Political Correctness was in vogue among hippies (if not the Allman Brothers). The MC5 tried to play up to their image as politically aware musicians (their manager was a radical) but they got called out by those really down with such movements.
New York punk (circa 1974) was in part a revolt against politically correct dogma (and noted as such in Leggs McNeil's oral history of punk rock "Please Kill Me" which has comments from many of the players in the origins).
I agree with one exception. In the liberal/socialist playbook, there is nothing wrong with offending those who have perpetrated massive evil on the world. You know, all those right wing dunces who believe in God, capitalism, and the American way.
I live in Fitchburg, work in Madison, grew up in Richland Center. The population of RC has hovered just over 5,000 since I was in high school. (Don't ask - it was a long time ago!) RC was a nice town to grow up in. Don't know if that still holds true.
That's almost an understatement...
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