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u/TNXJHZ · 17 pointsr/TumblrAtRest

The book the writer was working on at the time, the strikingly but misleadingly titled Redneck Manifesto, is truly great. It's like a print version of the most biting, knowledgeable, and funny commentary at TiA—but written two decades ago. It was "ahead of its time," as people say when they don't know how long the world's already been the same kind of fucked up it is now.

Reviewers I'd expected to embrace it all had the same wrongheaded complaints about it. The first was that it's a "Marxist" book. Nobody (to this day) seemed to recognize it as a unique entry in a long tradition that's recently come to be called libertarian class analysis, a framework that the non-establishment right (and some of what refuses to call itself the "right" because "right" means redneck cooties) is just now finally coming (back) around to. It's the original, irrecuperable, not bullshit version of "privilege" talk, the one longed for by everyone who thinks there's something to it but it's gone too far now. That's not quite what happened.

Reviewers' other complaint was that too much of a book that said Redneck on the cover was about the proto-"hipster" scene the author lived in, the conspicuous alterna-consumers and self-obsessed public diarists ("'zine" makers) of the post-punk world. '90s tumblrinas! He accurately pegged their cultish pen-pal network as a hazardously overspilling poison vat of hypocritical upper-class white assholery, cultivated pseudo-illness and pseudo-guilt, etc.—everything that makes us here today wonder "Where the fuck did all this shit come from?!"

He saw it first. He even predicted the "trucker hat" fad and the return of lumberjack beards. How the fuck?!

A lot of Goad's other work is crazy and/or trollin', but Redneck is a monster truth bomb about the one thing he truly understands. Non-referrer Amazon link because Thought Catalog is fuccbois. Best $1 (plus shipping) you can spend right now.

u/Cyhawk · 7 pointsr/TumblrInAction

http://www.amazon.com/The-Redneck-Manifesto-Hillbillies-Scapegoats/dp/0684838648

While it covers a lot of subjects from racism to classism and the 'liberal' (read: modern SJW movement, SJW didn't exist in 99ish). This book will blow your mind. It takes about the exact things that SJWs are, products of an entitled family so hateful they direct their hate to anything that doesn't conform to their preconceived ideas about what is. I don't do it justice, but it pretty much outlines everything they are. The most hateful, vile people you will ever come in contact with.

u/Menckenite3 · 5 pointsr/TumblrInAction

There is an excellent book on this subject called [The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats] (http://www.amazon.com/Redneck-Manifesto-Hillbillies-Americas-Scapegoats/dp/0684838648). Highly recommended for people who are interested social history.

u/Stubb · 5 pointsr/WTF

His book Redneck Manifesto should be required reading in high school.

u/Saltmineinspector · 4 pointsr/The_Donald

in the meantime read this

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/business

Interesting. I've read the Redneck Manifesto from Jim Goad ( http://www.amazon.com/Redneck-Manifesto-Hillbillies-Americas-Scapegoats/dp/0684838648/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213693769&sr=8-1 ) which is I think right in many issues, but there was something I was quite surprised about. He complains how the typical redneck working class doesn't earn enough to get by, yet he explains practically every weekend is lost in a haze of beer and crank from Friday night to Sunday afternoon (beer from a bar, not Wal-Mart).

u/liatris · 2 pointsr/Conservative

Wow, I'm surprised Jim Goad is still writing. I read his book The Redneck Manifesto about a decade ago, funny stuff.


The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats Paperback – May 5, 1998


>Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group - the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash. As The Redneck Manifesto boldly points out and brilliantly demonstrates, America's dirty little secret isn't racism but classism. While pouncing incessantly on racial themes, most major media are silent about America's widening class rifts, a problem that negatively affects more people of all colors than does racism. With an unmatched ability for rubbing salt in cultural wounds, Jim Goad deftly dismantles most popular American notions about race and culture and takes a sledgehammer to our delicate glass-blown popular conceptions of government, religion, media, and history.

u/rodentdp · 2 pointsr/ableton

This is probably the best argument I've ever read describing what racism is really about. It is inflammatory at first, but you have to read on through to understand Goad's purpose. Cannot recommend it enough.

u/Capolan · 1 pointr/offbeat

I recommend everyone in this thread to read this book:

The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats

It's very well written, insightful and amusing. And it does tackle the redneck and white trash lifestyle and explain things quite well. Good read.

u/modusponens66 · 1 pointr/AskReddit

>Never underestimate how much "greater society" influences people. It's about pop culture...

I am all too aware of the corrosive effect of pop culture on society. I currently teach English and ethics as an adjunct at a community college here in northeast Ohio (Akron/Cleveland) area while finishing my law degree. 85 to 90% of my students are black (25% of my last class had seen prison time) and I regularly receive essays full of 'text-speak' (e.g. 'u' for 'you') extolling the virtues of looking 'fresh' and other such nonsense. I also taught freshman level philosophy courses at Ohio University and had similar experiences though not as pronounced.

>This was an experiment conducted by scientists...

Well, social scientists anyway... : )

>However, you aren't recognizing the impact race has on determining class.

I do recognize this and referred to it somewhere in this thread when asking someone about the legacy of slavery and segregation. I agree that this is one factor that does limit minorities, though I think it is more an issue of how it affects class presently (it's a longer journey to the top when one starts at the bottom) than one of overt racism.

>But it is very different that almost no minorities have any generational wealth.

The minorities and I, we have a lot in common. : )

Please don't get the impression that I am insensitive to the plight of minorities or in some state of denial regarding the persistence of racism. My point is simply that while racism continues to be an issue, class is the more daunting obstacle (though there is of course a relation between race and class).

You should read this book. The title is intentionally silly and the author has a great sense of humor, but there is much more to the book than that.

Have a nice day "cute little middle class white girl!" : )


u/Kurgan_Warrior · 1 pointr/The_Donald

Jim Goad made a very good start in the late 90s through his book the red neck manifesto- a worthy read. After you read it you see their racism everywhere.

https://www.amazon.com/Redneck-Manifesto-Hillbillies-Americas-Scapegoats/dp/0684838648

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u/serpentjaguar · 1 pointr/WTF

>It's not a lie that Jeff Foxworthy and Larry The Cable Guy's audience is almost entirely lower class white people, their shows and movies have been marketed exclusively to them since the beginning.

And your point is?

Basically, I rest my case. Here's an underprivileged and undereducated population that has been taught that it's OK to laugh at and make fun of everything they are and not only that, they should somehow be perversely proud of their backwardness.

As far as I'm concerned, that's clinical malfeasance on a grand cultural scale.

The dirty truth is that while racism is a big no no, classism is still open season in this country so long as it's poor whites that you're making fun of. The fact that it's rednecks and hillbillies themselves who laugh the hardest at their own lack of dignity bespeaks precisely of the problem.

These are a people who have, on a grand cultural scale, been given little or no recognition and dignity within our wider cultural milieu. Yeah, Doc Watson is probably one of the baddest-ass guitar players of all time, sure, Earl Scruggs plays a mean banjo and Emmy Lou Harris sure can sing. Flannery O'Connor is one of our greatest short story writers and Sam Walton owns your ass and neighborhood, but guess what? They're the exceptions, not the rule, the ones who for whatever reason were able to break out of Appalachia.

The fact is that no one gives a fuck about poor white people, least of all themselves, and this is exactly the type of pathology that sociologists have come to expect in the forgotten corners of society.

Edit: I cordially refer you to Jim Goad's excellent book, "The Redneck Manifesto" for an often humorous but nonetheless in-depth look at the issue.

u/willtel76 · 1 pointr/todayilearned

Read this book if you are interested in learning more about the beginnings of the white slave trade and forced indentured servitude. It is truly an eye opener and all of it's statistics and figures are backed up with the sources you seek.

It explains in great detail why being a white indentured servant was often much worse than being a black slave. In short, a slave was property that was paid for and owned so you generally took care of them. An indentured servant was like a rental and if they died during their service period it was beneficial because you didn't have to pay them out with property at the end of their term.

During that time in Ireland it was a crime to be poverty stricken and something as innocent as begging for bread was enough to have you arrested and put on a ship to America or Barbados and forced into indentured servitude. The term redneck comes from pale Irish whites that were worked in the Barbados sun. It was a way for the upper class to maintain control and have peasants removed from the landscape to further their grasp on the country and it's resources.

Do you ever wonder why everyone claims that America was founded by entitled whites and built by black slaves yet most white people are poor and own no property? It is because most of us are descendants of lower class servants, not noblemen. All told more Irish people were forced into this situation than black slaves were brought over from Africa.

u/VoodooIdol · 1 pointr/politics

>hate crimes apply to any racially motivated crime, whether it's white on black or black on white.

Unfortunately the US judicial system says otherwise.

>affirmative action is not my bag and I never mentioned it

Because it goes against your belief that white men aren't oppressed.

>white men do get public assistance too

I can name several people I know personally who were turned down for public assistance specifically because they were white. I have been as well.

>your points make no sense and I am getting pretty tired of this

They make no sense to you because you're programmed to believe otherwise. Step outside the brainwashing for a moment.

http://www.amazon.com/Redneck-Manifesto-Hillbillies-Americas-Scapegoats/dp/0684838648/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219888166&sr=8-1

Read it and get back to me.


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And for the record, I'm a registered Democrat, pro Gay marriage, pro Choice, and pro equal rights.