It left its Northern base and stealthily crept along the base of the mountains, out of sight, then forded the Potomac to invade Virginia in the dead of night-- turning its deadly snake-like head toward the Deep South.
We call it political correctness. It was a gradual invasion. At first, it made some sense. Offensive and hateful speech was targeted. PC speech tried to be sensitive, caring, treating all of God's children with respect. I applaud that.
Then, over the years PC got crazy. In its extremes, PC began to practice the very things that it once condemned. Whole sections of the nation were branded as racists or bigots. Emblems were criminalized. Ideas were demonized. Nothing was safe or simple any more. Restrooms for men and women aren't enough any more. The Washington Redskins Cleveland Indians have to be renamed after 100 years. Dixie isn't a PC tune, even at halftime at a southern university or high school. The entire entertainment industry has been provided with PC indoctrination (brainwashing). As far as we know, this was mostly voluntary.
The South is one of the kindest, compassionate and caring place in the world. Nobody has manners, charm, smiles and welcome mats bigger or brighter than Charleston, Atlanta, Bowling Green, or Chapel Hill.
It is always an outsider who doesn't understand the South, has never lived in the South, cannot whistle Dixie if his life depended on it--those are the folks who try to use their version of PC to indict the South on bogus charges. The South has been framed.
As a frog gigging, squirrel hunting, stump jumping, snuff dipping, log snaking, tractor pulling, turnip loving, slow drawling son of the South, I say, "Leave your PC stupidity at the Mason Dixon Line, where it belongs." Come on down to Macon or Tupelo or Mobile and get a whiff of that warm Southern breeze. Enjoy some really tolerant, sensible, compassionate, fun-loving Southern ladies and gentlemen. Listen to them say "ya'll, fixin' to," or "How ya doin', Sugah?" See them dig some crawdads and cook a fine pot of turnip greens with a turn of exquisite cornbread while you sip on real Southern sweet tea.
There's nothing to fear in the real South. I promise you, you will not see one single slave. No brutal plantations, no African Americans being tormented by people with sheets over their heads. No burning crosses, no hate filled marches in the streets, none of the imaginary stuff the PC pundits up North fantasize about. And our African-American citizens experience drastically fewer incidents of violence purpetrated by a po-lice officer than ya'll would see in places like Chicago, Gary, Indiana, Cleveland, Ohio, Baltimore, Maryland, or Newark, New Jersey.
The South is a place of friendly, enlightened people, sugar white beaches, tranquil blue waters, towering pines, carefully manicured lawns, mockingbirds, best selling authors, space engineers, iced tea, fine food, welcoming smiles, pleasant conversations and sitting on the front porch at night listening to the whip-0-wills along the hollow road.
Come visit us down heah in the South. Just leave your PC at the Mason Dixon Line. You can pick it up on your back north, if you decide it's worth going back to. Most of ya'll stay here once you see how charming and gracious the South really is. You will probably nevah go back north at all. Heck, the furtherest north I've been in decades is Nashville.
P.S. You may still see a few "confederate flags" down heah. Not hate. Culture.
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Saturday, July 9, 2016
WHAT LIBERALS HATE ABOUT THE SOUTH
The South is not a region geographically. The South is a philosophy, a set of ideas, a monolithic and perhaps even mythic way of seeing things--which the liberal mind loathes and holds in such intolerance as to be bigoted, hateful and totally inept in understanding.
The South, at least mythically and in cliche, stands for conservative culture. It is really antithetical to "progressivism" and the evils of the political Left which have poisoned America since the mid-Twentieth Century. The mythic Southerner opposes high taxation, Government invasion into individual liberty, tyranny, infringement of the right to private property, weakening of the Second Amendment, open borders, socialism, a welfare state, criminal leniency, legalization of drugs--all the things the Left endorses. Thus, the South is on the opposite magnetic pole to progressivism, liberalism, globalism and socialism.
Every political expression must find a palatable way to express itself so it appears rational, compassionate and reasonable. For, after all, it is still true in our society that government officials must get elected before they can govern. Thus, politicians must justify their philosophies, goals and agendas to the people. How do those opposed to the South go about doing this?
Of course, they look for hated institutions, ideas, actions or unreasonable historical positions--persons or movements on which to anchor their disdain. The two single ideas that ripple outward from a progressive's heart-core of disgust and repudiation are: racism and slavery. This is often disguised as "tolerance."
It does not seem to matter that slavery ended in 1865 and was forever prohibited by the 13th Amendment, which is well and good. And it likewise does not seem to matter that minorities in this country are protected by every conceivable law, legislation, Amendment, program, executive order and affirmative action proclamation that could be conceived by the federal mind, which is also well.
The point is: to advance the leftist, progressive, post-modern agenda, we must not only sell what we want--we must repudiate whatever the public sees as supporting the opposite position. In this case, we must convince people that the South--at least the mythical South, endorses the evils of racism and slavery and that it is intolerant. Of course, they flew the "confederate flag" to prove it. It only follows that southerners must react defensively to prove that they are not really racists or all the ancestors of slaveholders; thus, southerns must at least pretend to support the basic heart pulse of the liberal progressives. Else they will be found guilty for not partially endorsing the progressive left. (So, the Governor of Alabama and South Carolina take down the confederate flag as a defensive response, just to prove that they are not racist or intolerant.
It matters not that probably less than one tenth of 1 percent of southerners would today endorse any form of racism, or would condone any form of discrimination--or that the institution of slavery is so far removed from their consciousness that they don't even have a conceptualization of it, except that they loath and condemn the ancient chattel slavery system. It matters none. If they are southerners, they must be condemned by the truly progressive, superior liberated minds of the political left and by the rightist "conservatives" who fear the left and do homage to it.
So we have the modern cultural war on the South. And people can't wait to leap on that wagon and ride because they feel the end of the ride will result in great political reward. Which is probably true.
Even Bill Clinton, the Arkansas boy who made good, said of Donald Trump: "Make America Great Again? If you are a white southerner, you know what that means!" Donald Trump is white, though not a Southerner; therefore, he must be a racist.
The South, at least mythically and in cliche, stands for conservative culture. It is really antithetical to "progressivism" and the evils of the political Left which have poisoned America since the mid-Twentieth Century. The mythic Southerner opposes high taxation, Government invasion into individual liberty, tyranny, infringement of the right to private property, weakening of the Second Amendment, open borders, socialism, a welfare state, criminal leniency, legalization of drugs--all the things the Left endorses. Thus, the South is on the opposite magnetic pole to progressivism, liberalism, globalism and socialism.
Every political expression must find a palatable way to express itself so it appears rational, compassionate and reasonable. For, after all, it is still true in our society that government officials must get elected before they can govern. Thus, politicians must justify their philosophies, goals and agendas to the people. How do those opposed to the South go about doing this?
Of course, they look for hated institutions, ideas, actions or unreasonable historical positions--persons or movements on which to anchor their disdain. The two single ideas that ripple outward from a progressive's heart-core of disgust and repudiation are: racism and slavery. This is often disguised as "tolerance."
It does not seem to matter that slavery ended in 1865 and was forever prohibited by the 13th Amendment, which is well and good. And it likewise does not seem to matter that minorities in this country are protected by every conceivable law, legislation, Amendment, program, executive order and affirmative action proclamation that could be conceived by the federal mind, which is also well.
The point is: to advance the leftist, progressive, post-modern agenda, we must not only sell what we want--we must repudiate whatever the public sees as supporting the opposite position. In this case, we must convince people that the South--at least the mythical South, endorses the evils of racism and slavery and that it is intolerant. Of course, they flew the "confederate flag" to prove it. It only follows that southerners must react defensively to prove that they are not really racists or all the ancestors of slaveholders; thus, southerns must at least pretend to support the basic heart pulse of the liberal progressives. Else they will be found guilty for not partially endorsing the progressive left. (So, the Governor of Alabama and South Carolina take down the confederate flag as a defensive response, just to prove that they are not racist or intolerant.
It matters not that probably less than one tenth of 1 percent of southerners would today endorse any form of racism, or would condone any form of discrimination--or that the institution of slavery is so far removed from their consciousness that they don't even have a conceptualization of it, except that they loath and condemn the ancient chattel slavery system. It matters none. If they are southerners, they must be condemned by the truly progressive, superior liberated minds of the political left and by the rightist "conservatives" who fear the left and do homage to it.
So we have the modern cultural war on the South. And people can't wait to leap on that wagon and ride because they feel the end of the ride will result in great political reward. Which is probably true.
Even Bill Clinton, the Arkansas boy who made good, said of Donald Trump: "Make America Great Again? If you are a white southerner, you know what that means!" Donald Trump is white, though not a Southerner; therefore, he must be a racist.
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