[lbo-talk] O'Reilly vs Churchill: treason? sedition?

[snit snat]

At 02:35 PM 2/18/2005, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Thomas Brown wrote:
>
>>The essay was written a year or two ago as a first draft addressed
>>to myself, to eventually be revised into a piece of a long-term project
>>on ethnic nationalist movements in the US. I thought it might be a
>>piece to effectively demonstrate how such movements rewrite history
>>to fit their contemporary political aims. To give you an idea of the
>>context: Another piece of that chapter analyzes the recent use of
>>Lost Cause revisionism by neo-Confederate southern nationalists.
>
>I'm hoping you see some political differences between American Indians and 
>neo-Confederates. The first have received centuries of brutal treatment 
>that continues today, and the second are mourning a cause that deserved to 
>be crushed. I'm no friend of any kind of nationalism, but those are still 
>horses of two very different colors.

he's not comparing american indians to neo-confederates. he's comparing a 
specific faction of american indians to neo-confederates.

well, i've got work to do, so for the overpost!

kelley

"We live under the Confederacy.
We're a podunk bunch of swaggering
pious hicks."

                --Bruce Sterling