You get the sense that Tony Horwitz went out of his way to find those 2-3 Klan members living somewhere, and then wrote as if they were representative of a whole area or town.
“You get the sense that Tony Horwitz went out of his way to find those 2-3 Klan members living somewhere, and then wrote as if they were representative of a whole area or town.” [Cecily, post 23]
Tony Horwitz built a reputation out of penning pieces of this sort.
In 1998, he published _Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War_. He likened everyone who wasn’t taking the postmodern revisionist presentist position (to wit, the Confederacy was uniquely evil, in a United States that was founded and remains uniquely evil) was like every family who sequesters their crazy aunt in the attic, to avoid embarrassment and loss of face. Makes out everyone in the country who refuses to be a rabid, raving anti-Confederate out to be uniquely hypocritical. Unworthy. Evil.
In 2003, he published _Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Were Captain Cook has Gone Before_. He crewed the replica of HMS Endeavor as it retraced portions of the voyages of discovery James Cook accomplished in the 18th century. And he applied the same postmodernist, presentist, Leftist viewpoints he’d written from earlier. Plus all the snark, self-righteousness, and arrogance of today’s SJWs, as he condemned colonialism and the impact of Western powers on “indigenous peoples.” Uniquely and unassuagably immoral and evil.
But he was a passably talented writer. He presaged today’s imprecations and condemnation being visited on us lesser mortals by the self-appointed moral arbiters who now infest the Left - most of whom are smug, ignorant, and talentless.