permissiveness: the cause of terrorism

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>>On the shows I've heard, you can also detect
>>euphemisms "New Yorkers" or "anti-christian bigots" that have
>>an anti-semitic (broadly speaking) undertone.
>
>It's there for sure, but "New York" also represents red, queer,
>foreign, heterogeneity, mixing, cosmopolitanism, urbanity, density -
>all those things that make paranoid nativists anxious.

A trifle dated, Doug. "New York" these days means Ground Zero, epicenter of 
America's new solidarity, pride and general uber alles.  Moreover, today's 
Rudyville version of New York City is Middle American-friendly in the 
extreme -- with a Gap, Pizza Hut or McDonald's every block *plus* the Today 
show stars right there in person at Rockefeller Center giving out 
autographs.

Carl

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