[lit-ideas] Re: lit-ideas Digest V1 #123
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 19:54:59 +0000
Saturday, November 6, 2004, 6:27:30 PM, at wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
The rise in Christian extremism, so bewildering to us, must also have a reason.
What do you think that reason is? Look at the polls of November 2 and you may
find some reasons there.
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You've looked? What do they say?
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I mean, with all due respect for academia, white suburban husbands and wives
have been ridiculed for generations in scholarly publications and literary
criticism as if they were the very personification of self-delusion (the
"breeders"). Just go to an MLA convention and peruse, just peruse. How do you
think people feel about that over in Ohio, raising their kids and trying to put
bread on the table?
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what the fuck do they know about what's said at the MLA? (I'm not putting them
down when I say that.) What do they know about what's said about them (which
will be different) at APSA? Do you have some kind of direct line to these
suburbans? I do: I talk all the time to non-academic inner-city-suburbanites
(that's where I live), and to bus drivers and so on. But they're, you'll say,
British. So let's take my mother's Mid-West cousins. They have always despised
academics -- not that they know anything about academic -- MLA?! don't be silly.
(I did look back at the polls and the detailed-question findings. They don't
bear out your "MlA...bread on the table" notions, nor can the power of religion
in US politics, now, be explained that way. Aren't you giving certain
academics a power they don't have?)
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A> Being married and having a child, changes the equation a little bit; it kind
of complicates the idea of iberalism a bit.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
not necessarily
--
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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