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Jim Goad, Redneck Manifesto

Posted by daniel23 • 4/02/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: book, race, working class

I just finished Jim Goad's "The Redneck Manifesto" and it is one of the most genius books I've ever read. Period. I now understand American race and class relations! Hallelujah!

I seriously recommend it to everybody. Has anybody else read it? What did you think? For me, it spelled out everything that had been jumbled around in my mind for so long. It was like the Christian "state of bliss."

Now I just need to read "The Likes of Us" by Michael Collins to really sock it to the stuck up liberal-lefty lot who litter this world of ours...

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4/02/08

Anok

I have not read it. What did it clear up for you, my sweet little trouble maker?

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1. 4/02/08
  
  daniel23
  
  You should read it. It masterfully took on the relation between class and race and demolished "white guilt" ideology.
2. 4/02/08
  
  Anok
  
  Oh, I read a book recently, damn my steel trap mind, I can't remember the name of it....covered a similar topic....Grapes of Wrath maybe?
4/02/08

diggnfordiamonds

"stuck up liberal-lefty lot who litter this world of ours"

I'm hope this is a joke. If not I will be back later to tell ya what I really think about that kind of statement!

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4/02/08

daniel23

Deadly serious.

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1. 4/02/08
  
  daniel23
  
  Maybe not so deadly. I'll still send Xmas cards to the Left and Right as I keep on walking straight ahead!
2. 4/02/08
  
  diggnfordiamonds
  
  Okay...well, as long as I get a Xmas card
3. 4/02/08
  
  daniel23
  
  Deal. You take social events, I'll take social change, and somehow we'll come out even...
4/02/08

diggnfordiamonds

hehehe...but i sure like social change too!

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1. 4/02/08
  
  daniel23
  
  I'm afraid it's mutually exclusive. The "Left" and "Right" are dead men walking, mummified figments of their own imaginations. The right-wing at least have the bollox to stand up for something tho!
2. 4/02/08
  
  diggnfordiamonds
  
  Oh you are soooooo bating me...but I refuse to debate politics on here. It always gets way out of hand. I choose to love everyone instead and skip and sing
3. 4/02/08
  
  daniel23
  
  "If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about?" - Albert Meltzer
4/03/08

daniel23

So nobody has read it? Come on!

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4/03/08

cooper

I read it in high school. It was used as an example of how people can write anything not backed up by fact and have it read. A mere opinion of an angry white male.
An angry white male who obviously didn't get a very good grade in either American History or Modern European History.

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1. 4/04/08
  
  daniel23
  
  I would love to see your criticism, as an angry white male myself. I think it's lovely your high-school used it as the centre piece of your "minute of hate." Orwell would be proud.
  
  His history is very strong.
4/04/08

jackpayne

"Give War a Chance" by P.J. O'Rourke is a fine book, too.

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1. 4/04/08
  
  Donlewis
  
  Go along with you there Jack. Funny and backed up by fact.