Come on yourself. There are always the exceptions, but they do not prove the rule. I am talking about a culture, not individuals. If you go into the hard core ghettos do you expect the same intellectual behavior you would find in a Jewish neighborhood?
I am sort of startled that you would not understand that. Tell me exactly what the southern CULTURE has done to exempilfy itself as sophisticated, or even polite? They never did get rid of segregation (100 years), the northern liberals and African American's forced them to at the point of a gun. They had horrible black chain gangs until the 1930's. They singled out the blacks and falsly arrested them and sold them to plantation owners how tortured them to death.
Where was the culture addressing these evils for a 100 years?
The majority of people in every single county in Mississippi, today, are against gay marriage and I would guess interracial marriage. That is not acceptable as it hurts too many people. My black friends used to tell me how horrible racism is. They said I could not stand it. The minorites have been hurting way too much, for way too long, for me to be polite to any culture or person who causes them to hurt. Their pain has to be considered, when deciding what needs to be addressed and how.
For whatever reason the south is very anti intellectual. Oh, please, the list of sterling southern authors, intellectuals, playwrights, etc. could get rather long rather fast.
More nuance, please. |
