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标 题: 左派自己吓自己，太逗了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Jan 13 12:21:33 2017, 美东)
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“And in a notorious Yale Law Journal article, feminist law professor Wendy
Brown wrote about an experience in which, after a wilderness hike, she
returned to her car to find it wouldn’t start. A man in an NRA hat spent a
couple of hours helping her get it going, but rather than display
appreciation for this act of unselfishness, Brown wrote that she was lucky
she had friends along, as a guy like that was probably a rapist.”
这个就是那个Wendy Brow http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/wendy-brown
全文如下
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/01/13/donald-trump-class-rural-white-democrats-glenn-reynolds-column/96413412/
Oikophobia on the rise after Trump win: Glenn Reynolds
Glenn Harlan Reynolds 3:18 a.m. ET Jan. 13, 2017
Irrational fear of fellow countrymen is spreading among America's ruling
class.
AP TRUMP CONGRESS BORDER WALL A FILE USA NY
(Photo: Elise Amendola, AP)
How crazy has the reaction to Trump’s impending presidency gotten? So crazy
that Democratic operatives are scared of plumbers, and I don’t mean the
Watergate kind.
No, really. Ned Resnikoff, a “senior editor” at the liberal website
ThinkProgress, wrote on Facebook that he’d called a plumber to fix a
clogged drain. The plumber showed up, did the job and left, but Resnikoff
was left shaken, though with a functioning drain. Wrote Resnikoff, “He was
a perfectly nice guy and a consummate professional. But he was also a middle
-aged white man with a Southern accent who seemed unperturbed by this week’
s news.”
This created fear: “While I had him in the apartment, I couldn’t stop
thinking about whether he had voted for Trump, whether he knew my last name
is Jewish, and how that knowledge might change the interaction we were
having inside my own home.”
When it was all over, Resnikoff reported that he was “rattled” at the
thought that a Trump supporter might have been in his home. “I couldn’t
shake the sense of potential danger.”
Well. When people have irrational, exaggerated fears we call them phobias.
We heard a lot during this year’s immigration debate about “xenophobia,”
an exaggerated or irrational fear of foreigners. But this plumber wasn’t a
foreigner. He was an American with an American regional accent who thought
the American election had turned out okay. What do you call the irrational
fear of an American, by an American?
Of class and classes: Glenn Reynolds
Chicago beating doesn't need to be a hate crime: Christian Schneider
Roger Scruton coined the term “oikophobia” (from the Greed oikos for “
home”) to describe the fear of one’s fellow countrymen. And there seems to
be rather a lot of it among the gentry liberals who make up America’s
ruling class.
In fact, another piece on reacting to the election, by Tim Kreider in The
Week, is titled "I love America. It's Americans I hate." Writes Kreider, “
The public is a swarm of hostile morons, I told her. You don't need to make
them understand you; you just need to defeat them, or wait for them die. . .
. A few of us are talking, after a couple drinks, about buying guns; if it
comes to a fascist state or civil war, we figure, we don't want the red
states to be the only ones armed.”
“A vote for Trump,” Kreider continues, “is kind of like a murder.”
Though his piece concludes on a (slightly) more hopeful note, the point is
clear: Americans, at least Trump-voting Americans, are “pathetically dumb
and gullible, uncritical consumers of any disinformation that confirms their
biases.”
It’s gotten worse since Election Day, but there’s nothing new about this.
I’ve been reading Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash: The 400-Year Untold
History of Class in America, and this categorization of lower and working-
class whites as (to coin a word) “deplorables” goes way back. And we’ve
certainly seen it before this election.
Angelo Codevilla wrote in 2010: “Its attitude is key to understanding our
bipartisan ruling class. Its first tenet is that ‘we’ are the best and
brightest while the rest of Americans are retrograde, racist, and
dysfunctional unless properly constrained.” Most ruling classes think that
sort of thing about the ruled, of course, but as Codevilla notes, it sits
poorly with American notions of equality.
POLICING THE USA: A look at race, justice, media
New status anxiety fuels Trump derangement: Glenn Reynolds
And in a notorious Yale Law Journal article, feminist law professor Wendy
Brown wrote about an experience in which, after a wilderness hike, she
returned to her car to find it wouldn’t start. A man in an NRA hat spent a
couple of hours helping her get it going, but rather than display
appreciation for this act of unselfishness, Brown wrote that she was lucky
she had friends along, as a guy like that was probably a rapist.
Another law professor, Douglas Laycock, wrote an article in response
entitled, appropriately enough, Vicious Stereotypes In Polite Society. In
polite society, expressing fear of unknown blacks is unacceptable;
expressing fear of working-class white men, on the other hand, is not. “It
is useful to consider how the story would have been told if Professor Brown
’s car had broken down in Harlem instead of in the mountains. Suppose her
benefactor had been a young black male with a radical political button. ...
I am confident that her report of the encounter would have been very
different.”
As Isenberg’s White Trash notes, the desire to feel superior to somebody is
a powerful human drive, and it has often been aimed at poor and working-
class whites. But it’s not very attractive, and contempt is likely to be
returned with contempt. Those who are still grappling with the reality that
Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as president next week may want to take a
look in the mirror.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor, is a member
of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors and author of The New School: How the
Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself.
You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other
writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @USATOpinion and in our daily
Opinion newsletter. To submit a letter, comment or column, check our
submission guidelines.
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发信人: fatboyslim (fatboyslim), 信区: USANews
标 题: 左派自己吓自己，太逗了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Jan 13 12:21:33 2017, 美东)
这段最有意思
“And in a notorious Yale Law Journal article, feminist law professor Wendy
Brown wrote about an experience in which, after a wilderness hike, she
returned to her car to find it wouldn’t start. A man in an NRA hat spent a
couple of hours helping her get it going, but rather than display
appreciation for this act of unselfishness, Brown wrote that she was lucky
she had friends along, as a guy like that was probably a rapist.”
这个就是那个Wendy Brow http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/wendy-brown
全文如下
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/01/13/donald-trump-class-rural-white-democrats-glenn-reynolds-column/96413412/
Oikophobia on the rise after Trump win: Glenn Reynolds
Glenn Harlan Reynolds 3:18 a.m. ET Jan. 13, 2017
Irrational fear of fellow countrymen is spreading among America's ruling
class.
AP TRUMP CONGRESS BORDER WALL A FILE USA NY
(Photo: Elise Amendola, AP)
How crazy has the reaction to Trump’s impending presidency gotten? So crazy
that Democratic operatives are scared of plumbers, and I don’t mean the
Watergate kind.
No, really. Ned Resnikoff, a “senior editor” at the liberal website
ThinkProgress, wrote on Facebook that he’d called a plumber to fix a
clogged drain. The plumber showed up, did the job and left, but Resnikoff
was left shaken, though with a functioning drain. Wrote Resnikoff, “He was
a perfectly nice guy and a consummate professional. But he was also a middle
-aged white man with a Southern accent who seemed unperturbed by this week’
s news.”
This created fear: “While I had him in the apartment, I couldn’t stop
thinking about whether he had voted for Trump, whether he knew my last name
is Jewish, and how that knowledge might change the interaction we were
having inside my own home.”
When it was all over, Resnikoff reported that he was “rattled” at the
thought that a Trump supporter might have been in his home. “I couldn’t
shake the sense of potential danger.”
Well. When people have irrational, exaggerated fears we call them phobias.
We heard a lot during this year’s immigration debate about “xenophobia,”
an exaggerated or irrational fear of foreigners. But this plumber wasn’t a
foreigner. He was an American with an American regional accent who thought
the American election had turned out okay. What do you call the irrational
fear of an American, by an American?
Of class and classes: Glenn Reynolds
Chicago beating doesn't need to be a hate crime: Christian Schneider
Roger Scruton coined the term “oikophobia” (from the Greed oikos for “
home”) to describe the fear of one’s fellow countrymen. And there seems to
be rather a lot of it among the gentry liberals who make up America’s
ruling class.
In fact, another piece on reacting to the election, by Tim Kreider in The
Week, is titled "I love America. It's Americans I hate." Writes Kreider, “
The public is a swarm of hostile morons, I told her. You don't need to make
them understand you; you just need to defeat them, or wait for them die. . .
. A few of us are talking, after a couple drinks, about buying guns; if it
comes to a fascist state or civil war, we figure, we don't want the red
states to be the only ones armed.”
“A vote for Trump,” Kreider continues, “is kind of like a murder.”
Though his piece concludes on a (slightly) more hopeful note, the point is
clear: Americans, at least Trump-voting Americans, are “pathetically dumb
and gullible, uncritical consumers of any disinformation that confirms their
biases.”
It’s gotten worse since Election Day, but there’s nothing new about this.
I’ve been reading Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash: The 400-Year Untold
History of Class in America, and this categorization of lower and working-
class whites as (to coin a word) “deplorables” goes way back. And we’ve
certainly seen it before this election.
Angelo Codevilla wrote in 2010: “Its attitude is key to understanding our
bipartisan ruling class. Its first tenet is that ‘we’ are the best and
brightest while the rest of Americans are retrograde, racist, and
dysfunctional unless properly constrained.” Most ruling classes think that
sort of thing about the ruled, of course, but as Codevilla notes, it sits
poorly with American notions of equality.
POLICING THE USA: A look at race, justice, media
New status anxiety fuels Trump derangement: Glenn Reynolds
And in a notorious Yale Law Journal article, feminist law professor Wendy
Brown wrote about an experience in which, after a wilderness hike, she
returned to her car to find it wouldn’t start. A man in an NRA hat spent a
couple of hours helping her get it going, but rather than display
appreciation for this act of unselfishness, Brown wrote that she was lucky
she had friends along, as a guy like that was probably a rapist.
Another law professor, Douglas Laycock, wrote an article in response
entitled, appropriately enough, Vicious Stereotypes In Polite Society. In
polite society, expressing fear of unknown blacks is unacceptable;
expressing fear of working-class white men, on the other hand, is not. “It
is useful to consider how the story would have been told if Professor Brown
’s car had broken down in Harlem instead of in the mountains. Suppose her
benefactor had been a young black male with a radical political button. ...
I am confident that her report of the encounter would have been very
different.”
As Isenberg’s White Trash notes, the desire to feel superior to somebody is
a powerful human drive, and it has often been aimed at poor and working-
class whites. But it’s not very attractive, and contempt is likely to be
returned with contempt. Those who are still grappling with the reality that
Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as president next week may want to take a
look in the mirror.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor, is a member
of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors and author of The New School: How the
Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself.
You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other
writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @USATOpinion and in our daily
Opinion newsletter. To submit a letter, comment or column, check our
submission guidelines.
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Marie Osmond: I'm not performing at inauguration
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Trump's 6 a.m. tweetstorm lashes out at intel, Clinton
usatoday.com 1 hour ago
Mom gets probation for rape of 13-year-old boy
usatoday.com 3 hours ago
Good Samaritan shoots, kills gunman who ambushed trooper
usatoday.com 2 hours ago
