[lbo-talk] "pale male" ... question to new yorkers...

[Leigh Meyers]

Ravi quotes John Thornton:

> I also knew a NYer who thought that if you went someplace like OK or
> NM if you went outside of town an Indian might actually scalp you but
> that isn't related to the point I'm making.


yeah he's wrong. he doesn't have to go out of town to be afraid of
indians. there are a bunch of them right in town in flushing meadows and
astoria! but then again, i have met indians who think if they went into
town some white or black dude is going to beat them to pulp...

--ravi
[...]


Flashback or Phobia...

It's hard to say.
 
Anyone with a counter-cultural backround from the '60s can remember 
when Gallup, NM and Jackson Hole, WY were *extremely* fond of long 
hair hippie types(tongue planted firmly in cheek).

The cowboys AND the indians had a problem with the lifestyle.
For the cowboys, it was the hippie, pacifist, peacenik image.

The indians? My guess is the voluntary "poverty" of all those
middle class white kids was *really*, *really* annoying.

Haircuts happened, and hippie "chicks" got raped on a regular...



----- Original Message ----- 
From: ravi 
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org 
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] "pale male" ... question to new yorkers...


John Thornton wrote:
>>i am probably going to regret bringing this up, but is anyone else
>>irritated with this pale male business?
>
> Peoples delicate sensibilities get thrown out of whack when they see the 
> occasional half eaten carcass of a pigeon but they can walk by homeless 
> people unperturbed. <...>
> 

yeah, its quite like the hypocrisy of people protesting for one animal
(because its of passing interest to them) while slaughtering more than a
billion of them each year, isn't it?


> I also knew a NYer who thought that if you went someplace like OK or
> NM if you went outside of town an Indian might actually scalp you but
> that isn't related to the point I'm making.


yeah he's wrong. he doesn't have to go out of town to be afraid of
indians. there are a bunch of them right in town in flushing meadows and
astoria! but then again, i have met indians who think if they went into
town some white or black dude is going to beat them to pulp...

--ravi
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