The Confederacy (was Re: questions)

[kelley]

At 01:04 PM 1/10/01 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Chris Kromm wrote:
>
>>God, what is it with the Southern-bashing on this list?
>
>Dunno. A PC form of bigotry, like that of Western Europeans towards 
>Eastern Europeans? "The Balkans, that dark realm of strange practices and 
>ancient hatreds...."
>
>Doug

i think ehrenreich's analysis in Fear of Falling is applicable here:  it's 
a kind of projection or splitting.  retain the idealized image for yourself 
and those of your ILK, while claiming others do awful bad things and hold 
awful, bad ideas that, upon rational reflection are clearly applicable to 
your ILK, but you can't bear to recognize that and so find an Other to make 
the repository of those despised behaviors, thoughts, ideas.

kelley