Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> Jim wrote:
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> >1. Forced deportation of 50% of leftists from college towns and hip
> >metropoles.
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> Didn't you say the best labor work in the country was going on in Los
> Angeles? Where is there a hip metropole without the nitty gritty you
> always have in cities? I grew up among country folk and one thing
> that makes me glad about that is I got no illusions about some
> dichotomy of "real people" living in the country and something else,
> I'm never clear what, living in the city.
I too grew up on a farm, & attended a rural grade school in southwestern Michigan. The high school I attended was in a town of 20,000. I got my B.A. from a regional teachers college in what was then a small industrial city of about 70,000. You phrase very well the advantage of such a background. Attempts to distinguish between "real people" and others comes damn close to echoing fascist ideology -- and as every one on this list knows I almost always object to using that term in reference to the u.s. At the time I became radicalized ISU was ISNU, a pure teachers college, & B/N Illinois had a combined population of around 40,000 in the heart of corn country. Such slang as "hip metropoles" exhibits a basic contempt for people disguised as contempt for a mostly mon-existent small slice of "leftists."
Carrol
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> feh.
>
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