I assume they all have BAs at least, maybe in humanities. Amazing how little of it sticks.
BobW
--- bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
> At 01:50 AM 10/2/2007, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> >How old is the guy who has a view about Communists?
> I
> >guess the thing I find remarkable is that the
> thought
> >of Communists would come into his mind at all.
>
> both 30ish. Well-educated. He's a graduate student
> in creative writing,
> part-time of course. Wife, kids. Wife works at the
> local public radio
> station. She's got a film studies background, was a
> nanny for awhile.
> Married a Navy guy, raising family.
>
> > In this
> >country, and especially today, any views about
> >Communists are sort of like the Elizabethan idea of
> >atheists, no one had ever actually met one, spoken
> to
> >one, seen one even, but one knew, somehow, that
> they
> >were the Enemies of Humankind.
>
> :) Well, they both work with me everyday, though not
> directly. They're just
> part of the larger TEEM. I'm not properly a commie
> anyway but I wouldn't
> use the term Marxist with shame.
>
>
> >Most of my non- or semi-political friends think I
> am
> >just Very Liberal, not in the slightly technical
> sense
> >that I use the word, but just in a commonsense sort
> of
> >way, meaning (for them) that I am basically a
> yellow
> >dog Democrat and like the Clintons. (This despite
> my
> >polite but firm statements that the Clintons refuse
> >the term "liberal" in any sense, that I think they
> are
> >basically Reaganites without the charm, and that I
> >think the Democratic Party is a pathetic joke.) A
> few
> >others -- or some of the same people! -- think that
> I
> >am a "Communist" or a "Marxist," even if I tell
> them I
> >don't call myself those things and that people who
> do
> >call themselves those things think I don't qualify.
> >Way too liberal.
>
> I'd think that he'd characterize himself as liberal
> -- he thinks cars and
> teevee are 3vil. But, he'd be one of those liberals
> who wants to quickly
> point out that they have no love of the state -- not
> b/c this is
> well-thought out, but because it's de rigeur, lest
> anyone think you're too
> liberal, too commie.
>
> She's similar in these respects, though disdains his
> views about cars and
> teevee. They spend quite a bit of time analyzing the
> latest films and
> teevee shows, discuss Harry Potter, that sort of
> thing.
>
> It's one thing I enjoy about the place, most of the
> people who are in
> management or something similar tend to spend their
> time discussing films
> on public teevee, documentaries, something they
> caught on the history
> channel, discovery, etc. Reading seems to be mostly
> fiction -- sci fi,
> historical novels such as a series by some guy who
> supposed to have really
> done his homework on the Civil War (though the
> author was recommended by
> one of the few freepers (the only?), there, so I'm
> not sure of the author's
> politics).
>
> We did discuss religion today, though. I'd say 50/50
> but I wouldn't
> characterize anyone there as an atheist. They'd see
> themselves more as
> spiritual.
>
> I'd call myself that, too, but most people would be
> aghast to learn what I
> think spiritual means.
>
>
>
> >--- bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
> >
> > > conversation at work:
> > >
> > > She, reading an email from an online friend who
> is
> > > Greece: My friend from
> > > Greece. *sigh* We get along so great, but there
> are
> > > some things that just
> > > upset both of us.
> > >
> > > He, listening to her, rather used to the prattle
> but
> > > relieved because it
> > > breaks up the boredom of the day, says, "Oh?"
> > >
> > > She: "She's very opinionated. And you know?
> Greeks
> > > don't always like
> > > America. Some of them hate America."
> > >
> > > He: "Oh certainly." He roots around in his head
> for
> > > a reason why this is
> > > so, some bit of world history class or something
> he
> > > might have read in the
> > > news.
> > >
> > > He, again: "Oh, in that part of the world you
> can't
> > > take it for granted
> > > that they love the US. And Greece has a large
> > > communist presence.
> > > Communists run for office there pretty
> regularly."
> > >
> > > It was such a classic conversation. Communist =
> > > America hater. Muslims can
> > > break out of that a bit, if they just become
> > > American. heh.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > At 01:42 PM 9/27/2007, Doug Henwood wrote:
> > > >Ok, Americans don't think too highly of Moslems
> or
> > > Mormons. But they
> > > >think even less highly of atheists!
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
><http://pewresearch.org/pubs/602/public-expresses-mixed-views-of->
> >islam
> > -mormonism>
> > > >
> > > >Scroll down to table at bottom for a full view;
> > > here are the highlights:
> > > >
> > > >favorable opinion of
> > > >
> > > >Jews 76%
> > > >Catholics 76
> > > >Evangelical Christians 60
> > > >Mormons 53
> > > >Muslim Americans 53
> > > >Muslims 43
> > > >atheists 35
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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