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Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
BUT, i am NOT Uncle Bubba and Aunt Suzie Mae. Being conservative is not a solely southern thing. My uncle is very active in the Republican party of LONG ISLAND! (YES, even YANKEES can be conservative.)
Once again, liberals resort to name-calling and mud-slinging when their arguments have no point.
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Whoa, calm down there, Tiger.
I'm fron the South. Therefore, I feel I can poke goodhearted fun at MY Uncle Bubba and Aunt Suzie Mae, representative of the sort of people I imagine are making a huge deal about this Dixie Chicks stuff and who will be the most alienated by the cover, without being called a mudslinging liberal. If you can't poke fun at yourself, who can you make fun of?
Plus, I failed to mention either Republicans or Democrats--I am politically enlightened enough to understand that Democrats can be very conservative and Republicans can be socially liberal. Besides, it was a discussion about SOCIAL conservatives, not POLITICAL conservatives.
There is a difference between boycotting the Montgomery city buses because of discrimination and not buying Dixie Chicks CDs because you don't agree with their political stance. I cannot even believe that you even COMPARED the two.
Nobody said that boycotting was unAmerican--at least I didn't. There is something inherently undemocratic about threatening to physically attack someone who says something you do not believe in. Capitalism is one thing; threats bordering on terrorism because someone says something you don't agree with is another.
Anyway...take a few deep breaths, have a cup of tea, and reread my first post, and then this one. You may realize that my post was not spewing with vitriol; simply, it was an observation of my own culture.
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