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[cesario]

You guys know how I feel about Christianity, right?

Well, actually, some of you may not, since I haven't been posting much about real life recently. So for those of you new to this journal, here's

Comments

[mafdet]

This confuzzled quasi-pagan agrees with you. Have you ever read Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas? Excellent book, and I'm reminded of his ideas when reading your post and considering all the snobbery and classism that Msscribe played into.

Frank said - and this is a small part of his book, which is mostly devoted to understanding why poor people vote for politicians who rob the poor to give to the rich - is that there is considerable snobbery amongst coastal upper-middle-class educated elites who do often disparage and look down on "those people" (i.e. Christians, Southerners, rural people). And this snobbishness very understandably makes said Southern Christians very angry (and feeds into the "latte liberal" stereotypes).

I'm neither Southern nor Christian, and this still makes my blood boil. I have both on my flist. Hell, I have ministers on my flist. None of whom are intolerant or close-minded or try to convert me or anything like that. Some of them write really good fic. And if people don't want to read smut, well, that's their choice. Likewise, being a pagan or an atheist and/or reading smut does not automatically elevate one to pinnacles of hip coolness.

Finally, if it is true (big "if") that Msscribe is the "undercover sister" light-skinned black woman that she claims she is, then it's very rich indeed that she is trafficking in malicious stereotypes.

[cesario]

there is considerable snobbery amongst coastal upper-middle-class educated elites who do often disparage and look down on "those people" (i.e. Christians, Southerners, rural people)

I hve definitely felt this myself. Insecurity is a large part of the voting process too---my mother doesn't know even to sort truth from propaganda, so she votes for people who make her feel good about being herself.