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calimary's JournalHe really deserves a nice replacement.
I'd put Rachel Maddow in there, if it were up to me.
I STILL think they oughta give Rachel a Sunday-Thursday schedule. Let her have Fridays off. So the regular programming ends with Chris Hayes's show. THEN, make a two-hour block after that, and give it to John Fugelsang. Let him make a topical comedy-variety show. We're losing Jon Stewart. Why don't we give John Fugelsang a try - to fill up that gap a little? And it could repeat several times over the weekend.
My husband just said - taking that word away will NOT take the racism away.
He's awfully smart!
Just like our President!
Oh MAN this is great!!!
This particular collection - Freakin' FABULOUS!!!! YUUUUUUGE!!!!
WOW. Just WOW!!! What a great piece! Just SO Perfect!!!
WOW! Thank you for finding this, Fritz Walter, and more thanks for sharing it here!
This is freakin' WUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNderful!!!!!!!
A KEEPER for sure!
The link, again:
http://www.thetattooedprof.com/archives/407
Corner the CONfederacy! Hey Gumboot, that's pretty damn good!
That's a nice touch! YOU are eloquent, too! And thanks for the kind words, btw!
I just find myself wondering if most of these folks even grasp WHAT it is they're celebrating and honoring and romancing. The very fact that they've sanitized it enough with the - "had nothing to do with slavery. This was ECONOMIC. The "War of Northern Aggression" was about ECONOMICS. Bullshit. I see they found other ways to word it and phrase it to sanitize it and obscure the facts so they don't have to get their hands dirty. They don't have to deal with the reality - what REALLY happened. Embroidering the whole idea with that whole "but they LIKED being slaves! Life was GOOD for them! They WANTED to stay slaves!" SHEESH. Just another attempt to rewrite history and mask what really happened and minimize the grizzly parts and make it all not-so-bad. Render it harmless and even fun. Make it okay.
Well, I think they need to be shown that there really is NOTHING here to feel romantic and wistful about, to wish you could go back to those "good ol' days." Lipstick on a pig - on STEROIDS! Lipstick on a pile of shit, really. There was nothing "good" about those "good ol' days." Let's grow up and get real about it, shall we? Isn't it about time? Quit changing the subject and distracting and obfuscating.Quit AVOIDING THE ISSUE. These are great great grandsons and great great granddaughters of that era and I get the feeling that this is really all they know, all the awareness they have (or that they've been ALLOWED to have) - gotta accentuate the positive! Well, the problem here is that there is not much positive to accentuate. Not much positive to outweigh the HUGE grievance that overrides all those foggy pretty pastel "memories." I'm sure they didn't hear at their grandma's knee about actual slavery and what was done and what was condoned and what was excused away as - just "economics." Nice effort to tweezer out the good parts and just keep those.
It's like tweezering out a splinter, keeping and actually treasuring and caring for the splinter, and throwing the finger away.
It's like a bunch of kids in second grade forcryingoutloud!!!
OOOooooooooh Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhh!
Let's find a way to PIN this on 'em. Oh REALLY??? You're getting funding from THEM????? Indeed? Let's look at who they are, shall we? Let's talk about that. Let's talk about what they advocate, what they've written? It's on the internet but few of us even knew it existed before now. Let's make sure the whole world SEES and KNOWS it, then, 'eh? No little bubbling boil in obscurity where only your private little club knows and can savor and share it. OUT IN THE OPEN with you!!! Bring EVERYBODY'S eyes and ears in on it. Let's see how great it is, now, 'eh? Let's see how it stands the test of sunlight.
But it has to be asked!
Seems to me no one has made a real issue of it. Nobody's ever made a stink about it. Have they? I've not seen that, but then again I haven't followed it closely all this time.
But I think this behavior has been allowed to continue. Benign neglect maybe it is. Nobody's ever come right out and made a stink about it and targeted their motivations, have they? Has anyone really made an issue of drilling down into the mentality of the defense of the CONfederacy? WHY are they defending it? Do they REALLY realize what it is they're defending? Or are they having fun on commemorative weekends dressing up and play-acting and prancing around like it's some sort of ongoing Halloween party for grown-ups?
That's kinda what I see happening with some of these gunners, too. I went to a "shooting clays" event once (clay discs as targets), and it was really kind of embarrassing to watch a few of the men who were guests there. Swaggerin' around like latter-day six-year-old pretend cowboys, with their little pop guns and their little plastic gun holsters and their little cowboy hats from Toys-R-Us that maybe they got for their birthday or something (only these "plastic pop-guns" were deadly real). That's what I felt I was really looking at when I watched them down at the base camp at the party after the various rounds of shooting had finished. I don't know what they were like out on the course (which was well-supervised) because I was in a group of women. It was embarrassing to see grown men prancing around like that. I kept having to fight off an urge to ask - "um... how old are you? Six?" Ridiculous.
I think maybe the whole CONfederacy thing has been treated with benign neglect. No biggie, right? No big deal. Just a flag. But nobody stops to probe into it a little. Has anyone ever challenged any of these people as they cling to that hate rag? Do they even connect the dots? Do they even put 2 and 2 together on it and get 4? Instead of 1860, maybe? It's been benign neglect - allowing this fond befuddlement, this rose-colored-glasses business to take over. It's so much easier and more gratifying to focus on the nice parts - the fun bang-bang-shoot-shoot, the fun rebel soldier outfits and the big sweeping hoop skirts and white gloves and Sunday-best bonnets, the fun cannons and bayonets and Civil War reenactments where you can play all day and go bang-bang-shoot-shoot-"CHARGE!!!!" and nobody gets hurt. Let's reenact history! Fun fun fun! Hmmm... are there also mock-up slave ships that they can go out to the harbor to play on, too? Play ship's captain! You even get this fun whip to crack! YEEEEHAW!!! "Aw, leave it be. What's the harm? They're just funnin'. That's all!"
Well, that shit is the shit that's got to GO. Do we ever see that in Germany? Do they have the wackos who refuse to put those bad ol' days OUT TO PASTURE FOR GOOD? Frankly I can't think of any - except for the crackpot Nazi sympathizers HERE in America who have no problem parading their own swastika shit around in public. The Germans? Not so much.
Seems to me this would be a GREAT time for some network TV programming chief to bring back the miniseries "Roots" for a rebroadcast. PERFECT. Where you see the "good ol' days" of the Old South - from a different point of view. "Gone with the Wind" showed us the plantation owners' view. "Roots" showed us the slaves' view - from their original abduction from Africa onwards.
Not saying it's foolproof, but it's harder to ignore when you know others are in on it.
If I'm keeping something "just between us," for example, then it's easier to keep it in the shadows.
Most welcome this weekend, SCE. Really lifted my spirits.
Thanks! I needed that. Especially the Pug Boat, AND the math test!
I already didn't like haley barbour. Only difference now is - I have yet another reason to
feel that way.
I think we should try to spread this around. So more people know about it. So it's out in the open. Where the sunshine is. So more people will know about it. So these assholes can't walk around like pure-hearted America-lovers. Well, they AREN'T ANY SUCH THING if they support or defend the CONfederacy or anything about it. They're America-haters and traitors. They're guilty of TREASON and shouldn't hold ANY elected office whatsoever.
Let's keep this one on the front burner.
We have to make sure that ANY "romance" with the CONfederacy is bolted, epoxied, welded, and laminated to HIGH TREASON and hatred of America. It has to equate to the complete LACK of patriotism. It has to be rendered 100% UNpatriotic. If you're for the CONfederacy, then you are UN-AMERICAN. Seems to me we need to work to help as many people as possible start associating the support or defense of anything CONfederacy-related with TREASON and hate of America. You are UNPATRIOTIC to the Nth Degree if you support or defend or somehow try to excuse away the Confederacy. It has to be made NOT OKAY. Just as the bad guys reframed and reshaped the public mindset on liberals, and turned the very word "liberal" into a dirty word - uttered more often than not with a curled lip. It has to be turned into an obscenity. We need to drive home that this "it's our heritage" crap is complete bullshit, and that "heritage" is NOTHING to be proud of.
No one is pointing out that the truth about the CONfederacy is they wanted not just to abandon this country and turn their backs on it and renounce it and their citizenship, but wanted to rip it up, physically, to tear it apart, to undo the first word of the very name of our country - the "United States of America." That is about as unAmerican as you can get, seems to me.
WHY shouldn't we point that out? WHY shouldn't we put the apologists ON THE SPOT? Just drill down a little bit when they start defending and insisting it's okay and it's noble and it's their "heritage" - why isn't anyone asking - "WHY are you proud of that? It's the most hideous thing in the world! To be willing to break away from this country and GO TO WAR with it because you wouldn't be allowed to own slaves anymore? THAT IS HIDEOUS!!!!! And THAT'S what their wonderful precious almighty CONfederacy was - that they love so damn much and try so hard to keep alive. It should be asked of them, point-blank - WHY are you so hellbent on keeping something as awful as that alive? They should be put on the spot. The CONfederacy should be spoken of, written about, and cast in that kind of ultra-negative light. It should be spoken of and portrayed publicly as something horribly negative. ALWAYS. The fact that it's not, that it's somehow been rendered romantic from some misty, foggy, floral-scented "good old days" kind of imaging and framing, is really a crime. And a sin.
WHY shouldn't we speak frankly about what the CONfederacy is all about is ripping America up and destroying her - just so YOU don't have to be told you can't own slaves anymore. "It's economic..." BULLSHIT. It was about SLAVERY and a HUGE multi-state hissy fit because they weren't going to be able to own slaves anymore. It is the complete absence of, and opposite of, patriotism or love of America. I don't know how they even have the gall to put their hands over where the human heart would ordinarily be and pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. If they love and honor their CONfederate "heritage," then they're UN-American, they hate this country, and they're TRAITORS. And to support and defend the CONfederacy is to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
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