Re: your replymediumdaveFebruary 22 2007, 20:22:15 UTC
...going back to the conservative Christian's self evaluation they don't see themselves as privleged.
They might object to being called privileged, yes. But they actually are, and I would say that they actually do see themselves that way... their frustration comes from the gap between the influence they do have, and the influence they think they should have.
The idea that they should be the ones who dominate mainstream culture comes from the plain fact that Christians are (by far) the largest religious group in our society. Majority rules, right? It should be them who own the movie studios, the record companies, etc. That this doesn't happen is a terrible frustration... and so you get the complaints that "the Jews" run Hollywood, etc.
And yeah, you're correct that people like Mapplethorpe see themselves as cultural warriors on the left, but how mainstream are they really? I'd be surprised if, from a random sampling of Americans, even a slim majority knew who Mapplethorpe was. Hell, the folks on the right who complain about Mapplethorpe probably got him far more attention than he otherwise would've.
They might object to being called privileged, yes. But they actually are, and I would say that they actually do see themselves that way... their frustration comes from the gap between the influence they do have, and the influence they think they should have.
The idea that they should be the ones who dominate mainstream culture comes from the plain fact that Christians are (by far) the largest religious group in our society. Majority rules, right? It should be them who own the movie studios, the record companies, etc. That this doesn't happen is a terrible frustration... and so you get the complaints that "the Jews" run Hollywood, etc.
And yeah, you're correct that people like Mapplethorpe see themselves as cultural warriors on the left, but how mainstream are they really? I'd be surprised if, from a random sampling of Americans, even a slim majority knew who Mapplethorpe was. Hell, the folks on the right who complain about Mapplethorpe probably got him far more attention than he otherwise would've.
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