Presidential election, 2016

[Eric the Green]

(01-03-2017, 04:38 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(01-03-2017, 12:26 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:

(01-02-2017, 07:36 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(01-02-2017, 07:26 PM)Danilynn Wrote: ***still trying to figure out from one post if I'm the hillbilly or the slaveholder*** nice slurs by the way. try replacing those with slurs toward any other ethnic group and still see if they are socially acceptable, if not perhaps try not slinging slurs at southerners and Caucasians living in the south. neither was very nice, nor was it warranted.

This is why I just laugh when people like Bob accuse me of using "vile stereotypes" when I criticize progressives.  Yet he's fine with the outright slurs - as long as it's his side that is using them.

That slur was posted by Eric the Green, not Bob Butler.

If anything we liberals need to break the habit, should we have it, of calling people "hicks", "hayseeds", "rednecks", "peckerwoods", and "hillbillies" for having a culture different from ours. We liberals may need their votes to make America good again, which is the most that we can ever hope to do after what looks as appealing as a four-year prison term to me.

I wish I had dual citizenship.

But just as I would not push Johann Sebastian Bach, a part of my culture, upon black people (even if  his music is poignant and rhythmically-powerful), neither would I push his music in Appalachia. Multiculturalism, if it is to have meaning, must include respect for the home-spun culture of Appalachia and the Ozarks as well as of white cultural elites and middle-class minorities.

Their culture is fine, for them. Their political behavior, and its results upon themselves as well as everyone else; not so much.

THEY are responsible for this. Not the politicians, not urban liberals.

Nor is there any excuse for cultural isolation, in either direction.