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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.

Would recommend this book on the subject.

Tl;dr it’s somewhat true if you’re born into money.

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.

>So racism is a combination of that inherent distrustfulness, tied together with cultural stereotypes about different groups. So maybe we'll never be truly rid of racism; the best we can do is teach our children about these negative thoughts, and learn to examine those thoughts for real truth.

I'm going to have to vehemently disagree with you on this point. While there is certainly a personal aspect to racism, to reduce it to a mere combination of "inherent distrustfulness" and "cultural sterotypes" is to ignore the vast systemic issues that constitute true racism. Under your definition, only persons can be racist. How then are we to critique - for example - the carceral state in America, in which blacks are imprisoned at a significantly higher rate than whites. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) non-Hispanic blacks accounted for 39.4% of the total prison and jail population in 2009.[41] According to the 2010 census of the US Census Bureau blacks (including Hispanic blacks) comprised 13.6% of the US population. (Elizabeth Anderson recently wrote a very well argued book on this issue)

Any constructive discussion of race in America (which I am attending to specifically, forgive me if you are a non-American, it is the area in which I am familiar) must, necessarily, attend to systemic issues of economic exploitation, cultural devaluation, and political disenfranchisement as well as the personal prejudice and cultural stereotypes that underlie individual participation (not to discount apathy and fear, which play a significant role) in the maintenance of a system of racial domination.

Some critical race theorists whose work I find very prescient are David Theo Goldberg and Charles Mills.

(thanks for jump starting the conversation by the way, it is much appreciated)

Edit: realized they were Aussies, but I find that the point about focusing on individual prejudice rather than systemic oppression still stands.

I taught for four years in an inner city school. Read the book, "no excuses, closing the racial gap in learning" and they mentioned KIPP. Had no idea who they were, but visited one of their schools. Realized it was time to leave and applied for a position at every KIPP school in the country. Got the position at the school in the city I wanted and haven't looked back.

Jack Bernstein as well.
> I am well aware of the tactics of you, my Zionist brethren, use to quiet anyone who attempts to expose any of your subversive acts.

> If the person is a Gentile, you cry, "You're anti-semitic" which is nothing more than a smokescreen to hide your actions.

> But, if a Jew is the person doing the exposing, you resort to other tactics.

> First, you ignore the charges, hoping the information will not be given widespread distribution.

> If the information starts reaching too many people, you ridicule the information and the persons giving the information.

> If that doesn't work, your next step is character assassination. If the author or speaker hasn't been involved in sufficient scandal you are adept at fabricating scandal against the person or persons.

> If none of these are effective, you are known to resort to physical attacks.

> But, NEVER do you try to prove the information wrong.

Guess what? Some say that he was assassinated by the Mossad after this.

Edit : Added "Some say" in the last sentence. Concerning the quote, it's from the book The Life of an American Jew in Racist Marxist Israel (1985) by Jack Bernstein.

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.

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

This book on the subject is fucking fantastic, btw.

in the meantime read this

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).

In case you're unaware of Mr. Goad...

http://takimag.com/contributor/JimGoad/205#axzz4TjM1td6E

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

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

https://books.google.com/books?id=YG5YubNw1pgC&pg=PA102&dq=spin+jim+goad&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihp9X30tDOAhVM6WMKHZeNDM0Q6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=spin%20jim%20goad&f=false

Good read:
https://www.amazon.ca/White-Canada-Forever-Attitudes-Orientals/dp/0773523227

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.

Serious question: you complain to a friend about the weather being 110 degrees, and your friend says "that's nothing: it's 130 in the Persian Gulf right now." Be honest, your response is a) "wow man, thanks for that perspective. Really changes how I feel about going outside today." Or b) "how the hell does it being 130 degrees in Bahrain make 110 degrees any more comfortable for me right now?"

So it was bad for Black people in the 50's and 60's. White people need to stop saying that.

A problem that's fairly new is everyone can see how everyone else lives now. The data is in: systemic racism is not a debatable point.

When young disenfranchised Black people reach out to young disenfranchised White people only to have young disenfranchised White people lash out with inanities about the 60's, it makes all of us less safe.

Yes, things have gotten worse for young white people since the 60's. Things have gotten better for young Black people since the 60's. Black people are still fighting for things White people don't even have think about.

Y'all know there's been civil rights books written for our day since MLK, right? Read some Eric Lamont Hill or some Michelle Alexander for chrissake.

Most importantly, White people turning a blind eye to systemic racism (or worse, punching downwards) ensures two things: that the people in power stay in power, and that violence will happen.

It is a fundamental strategic reality that if you kill Martin Luther King Junior, you will get Malcolm X. People will be heard one way or another.

found it!
https://www.amazon.com/Walls-Racism-Sexism-dont-matter/dp/1546692444/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495901266&sr=8-1&keywords=walls+why+racism+and+sexism+don%27t+matter

Recently read this book: Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty

Author talked about how neoliberal economics (deregulation, eroding social safety net) makes life much more uncertain, and thus stressful, on young adults.

Basically - the whole "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" line where society constantly says you, and only you, and responsible for your fate, regardless of circumstance. Very anxiety-inducing.

And the this book: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging talks about how humans, on a fundamental evolutionary level, are communal creatures. "We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival.

I'd recommend Bicycle/Race as well as Bike Lanes are White Lanes

Check out: http://www.amazon.com/Nations-Matter-Culture-History-Cosmopolitan/dp/0415411874

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6967.html

http://www.amazon.com/Nationalist-Politics-Everyday-Ethnicity-Transylvanian/dp/069113622X

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870500465611

http://nl.aup.nl/books/9789053569566-national-thought-in-europe.html

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Crises-Multiculturalism-Alana-Lentin/dp/1848135815

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-politics-of-home-jan-willem-duyvendak/?K=9780230293984

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo6017282.html

Dude.

Chattel slavery gave a legal basis for ownership of another human on a racial basis, something that regardless of where it occurred developed a standing race theory that due to the color of an individuals skin they were inferior, or ‘heathens’. This distinction of the legality of slavery and the viewing of slaves as pieces of property influenced future thinkers to condemn those of African descent as inferior by nature. Individuals such as Thomas Jefferson, whose ideas were used in the future to justify slavery, described his doubts that Blacks could learn complex melodies, or have proper mental and moral characteristics (Gossett 42). I believe that chattel slavery induced these new types of theories individuals were generating about the race of African Americans, therefore constructing a race theory. Their inferiority and comparison to cattle or property made it easier for white individuals to deem them as an inferior race in general, and therefore generate a new race theory about their status within society and as humans. I think that the "pro-slavery" arguments you are referring to are much constructed from the race theory created by inferiority in slavery, especially between slaves whose close ancestors were enslaved alongside whites in the United States. The distinction between an African American and white "indentured servant" and in United States history wasn't actually made into law into the 1660s (Gossett 30). The book I am referencing is the second edition of Race: The History of an Idea In America by Thomas Gossett. A long (but great) read, and you can find it on Amazon relatively cheaply digitally here.

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.

synopsis: This week, Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) sits down with human rights lawyer, activist, and author Arjun Sethi (@arjunsethi81) to discuss the one year anniversary of his book, American Hate: Survivors Speak Out —as relevant as ever after the massacres in El Paso… and, in the short time since, the arrests of six white men on charges related to mass violence. Arjun and Ana also discuss their frustration with how hate crimes are typically depicted in the media, and how the average American can get involved in the fight against white supremacy.

Then, Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) from The Atlantic discusses his bestelling new book, How to Be an Antiracist. In soft-spoken, gentle urgency, Ibram guides us through the idea “there is no neutrality” in the face of racism: there is only racism and anti-racism. Ibram and Ana then discuss his various encounters with cancer; exploring a profound extended metaphor between the disease and racism in America.

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There is a new category of social conservatives which appeared... I was about to say recently, but I'm not even sure it's that new. I'd be tempted to call them "common-sense conservatives", but common sense is such a subjective measure, so I'll go with "reactionary conservatives".

They're basically the ones saying the pendulum went way too much in the progressive direction, in certain respects - not society at large, maybe, but some environments: colleges, parts of online, parts of corporate culture. They're pointing out several liberal fallacies which are either factually incorrect, or pretty obviously wrong.

There is a very good source for what they're standing for, if you have the patience to read it. If not, google found this shorter video.

If you want I can give concrete examples, but I think the sources will do it better than me.

This is a book that was made into a movie. It stars Hilary Swank as a new teacher in a highschool that is over-run by gangs and what-not. But what it is basically, is all these kids have no real family at home, some of them are even homeless. And since they have no one to talk to, she gives each of them journals to tell stories of their lives past and present. Excerpts from their journals were put into a book. Its a very touching film.movie --Book

I saw that one, on netflix. It was an OK opinion-piece in favour of school choice, although it wasn't very deep, and didn't seem to suggest any concrete steps forwards. If you're interested in this sort of material, I recommend a book called "No Excuses" which I found more interesting that focused on what some unusually successful charter schools are doing right, that might help some failing school districts. No matter what happens in education reform, I think the students and parents are often a key difference between "good" schools and "bad" schools, so moving to a community where enough people share our family's value of education may remain the only good option for finding a really good school district.

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.

>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!" : )

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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>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.

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.

>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.

> This is an excellent sobering book, very easy to read because its anecdotal. Many of the people in this book could be family and neighbors, these stories are so real and familiar. What stands out is the astonishing lack of social trust. I'm not sure many of our favorite classical marxist theorists have really tackled how to create class consciousness among these types of individuals, or a society packed with them.
> https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Short-Working-Class-Adulthood-Uncertainty/dp/0190231890

There's an entire book about this.

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

The "pretend race doesn't exist" approach is absolutely wrong. People of color don't have the liberty of pretending they aren't subject to constant institutional discrimination. All your approach does is show off your privilege and encourage children to ignore the struggles other people face.

Here's a better approach: https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Learning-Anti-Racism-Developmental-Approach/dp/0807736376

Jews are not the root of the problem, because Jewishness is not an ideology. Progressivism is.

Case in point: There are barely any Jews on this list. Think about Merkel or Juncker. On the other side, there is this book and its author, a Jew https://www.amazon.com/Hating-Whitey-Other-Progressive-Causes/dp/1441767150