RTP-area local music and culture

[Brendan Love <brendan.love AT mac.com>]

I understand these points, but when all is said and done, I'd still 
rather hang out with this guy:  
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/47785163.html



On Nov 10, 2004, at 12:39 PM, Jbtroy1 AT aol.com wrote:

> My own little brother sent me the fuckthesouth site, at which point I 
> felt
> compelled to point out to the traitorious little bastard that I'm a 
> Southerner
> and he is, too.  Nothing worse than a self-loathing anything.   Those 
> among us
> who like to consider the WHYS while contemplating the WHATS would 
> point out
> that there is this factor called *history* that yields what one might 
> called
> *effects.*    But if you prefer to assume that Southern people are just
> congenitally inferior and that regional slamming is an intelligent 
> contribution to
> political discourse, you won't want to delve into anything that 
> complex.    As
> someone else noted, it serves little purpose to insert regional 
> bigotry into a
> conversation about what happened November 2, 2004.   I'd rather break 
> bread with
> someone with whom I disagree strongly on idealogical issues than drink 
> a beer
> with a so-called fellow traveller who wants to use his/her bigotry as 
> a salve
> for nursing our shared defeat at the polls.
>
> Actually, the issue that is raised here, the questionable intelligence 
> of
> assuming thus and such about a region without exploring underlying 
> causes, of
> dividing people further with invective rather than finding ways to 
> bring much
> need unity to a common cause, also applies to the problem of what to 
> do with the
> Bush voter.   I've done my share of bashing the Bush voter, but maybe 
> it would
> be wiser to find out what it will take to reach that person instead of
> priming him/her to make the same mistake next time.
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