permissiveness: the cause of terrorism

[Max Sawicky]

Yes.  To top it off, the guy I was listening to yapping about
an excess of "new yorkers" in California (ergo, the election
of Barbara Boxer to the Senate) was Michael
Savage (real name, Michael Weiner), who is from the
Bronx and has a NY accent thick enough to use as
roofing insulation.

If you want to get technical, the populist root of this
in the 19th century was anti-Catholic/Irish/Democrat.
The jews were not the stereotypical urbanite.  Now
stereotypical money lender, that's another matter.

mbs


> 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. "The Jew" also 
> represents a lot of those things, and since there are a lot of Jews 
> in New York, it's hard to separate all the pieces out. Not to beat an 
> undead horse, but there's a lot in American populism that shares the 
> antipathy to Sodom on the Hudson. If only NYC after Rudy lived up to 
> the fantasy!   Doug