I was surprised to discover that my great-grandfather had been a Klan member. It was in his obit in the Grants Pass paper listed as group like the Masons or Elks. He had come to Oregon in the early 1850s by ox-cart and as he grew up he fought for a livelihood in Merlin and Grants Pass. He was past his most active years as a logging camp victualer and a hotelier in Josephine County when the Klan vogue came on.
I soon discovered retired PSU Professor Horowitz as the premier authority on the Oregon Klan. Although not quite the Jaycees it was for a time another civic organization of more or less sanctioned Babbitry. Its membership was comprised of people looking to rise like my great-grandfather, chiropractors, insurance men, small businessmen, realtors, and etc. Uneducated small-timers wanting to do better and acquire a certain level of popular prestige
The Klan’s primary targets were "the black crows" aka parochial school nuns, Jews, Yellow Perils, and any poor black sod they could scrounge up. They were also teetotal moralists against corruption, physical, moral, political. But, it was mostly anti-Catholic as best I recall. It fell apart when the fellow responsible for the renaissance of Klan significance and legitimacy was found out dragging jailbait across state lines in Indiana or someplace Midwestern. Excuse the use of an archaism for females below the age of consent, but I thought that it added to the squalor of the tale.
As a final note, a judge croaked by surprise on a Bend street in the 50s or 60s and he was discovered to have the most comprehensive Klavern notes evah. The judge had been whatever a Klan Klavern secretary is called. I think I got that right. I wish to testify that I have always been polite to Catholics in spite of my heritage.
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"It has long struck us, as students of ethnic machine politics in places such as Detroit and Chicago and Southern California, that there are never-to-be-mentioned-out-loud animosities among most 'people of…' "
Precisely! That's why I've been railing against the most absurd of all progressive bundling of conflicting and unrelated nationalities, "AAPI".
AAPI stands for "Asian American and Pacific Islander. The term encompasses a diverse group of identities, including people with a heritage rooted in all Pacific Islands and all parts of Asia, including South and Southeast Asia." https://www.dictionary.com/e/acronyms/aapi/
Originally coined by the US government, presumably for demographic purposes, AAPI is now firmly established in the progressive identity-group lexicon. Believe it or not, the web is replete with references to the "AAPI community."
Accepting that there could be such a thing as an AAPI community would require the same high level of reality denial as nominating Will (aka Lia) Thomas for the honor of female athlete of the year.
So great are the historical animosities between and among some of the components of AAPI that decency prevents me from going into them lest I reopen old wounds. Likewise, Easter Island in the Pacfic is almost twice as far from its fellow AAPI member Beijing as it is from Washington, DC. These are hardly the building blocks of a true community.
But it's self-evident that "community," as used by progressives, is a political fiction, a phantom constituency of none. Pull back the curtain and the "community" is reduced to a handful of leftist politicians, activists and their most gullible friends. It’s real only to other progressives such as most Portland-area elected officials and their bureaucracies, the progressive media and the inattentive public.
It says a lot about progressives' tunnel vision that they fail to see how vulnerable the AAPI conglomerate is to a leftist critique. After all, who else but a colonizing imperialist would look at a disparate collection of nations and ethnic groups and lump them together as one for administrative convenience?
Aug 12, 2022·edited Aug 12, 2022Liked by Richard Cheverton, Pamela Fitzsimmons
Every hothouse-flower navel-gazer, every West-hating (read: parent-hating) dilettante, every twenty-six year-old basement idler, every shallow, entitled modern hedonist, is "anti-bullying" in the sense wrought by a few generations of ingrates living in a society with unprecedented, unrivalled comfort, security and freedom, built on the labor and sacrifice of those of every sort who went before. That anti-"bullying" credo, the grand legacy of the Sixties in a nutshell?
If it feels good, you have the right to do it; if it doesn't feel good, you have the right not to do it.
With guidance from our nobly resentful non-white, non-cishet American identitarians, let's invert E Pluribus Unum. It should not be, "out of many, one", but "out of one, many". Heck, a house divided SHOULD fall. No house at all is better....well, so long as access to anonymous orgies, streaming services (those are different) food stamps and historical fabulism remains unimpeded.
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Ill prolly say something insightful later but I have a newsflash:
The U.N. has identified excrement issues with the houseless as remisnicent of Jim Crowe. The quotation below supplied by Takimag:
"Catarina de Albuquerque sounds like a New Mexico drag queen. But in fact she’s the U.N.’s “sanitation czarina.” And last week she penned an op-ed for the L.A. Times in which she castigated Americans for not allowing the homeless to defecate wherever they please."
I was surprised to discover that my great-grandfather had been a Klan member. It was in his obit in the Grants Pass paper listed as group like the Masons or Elks. He had come to Oregon in the early 1850s by ox-cart and as he grew up he fought for a livelihood in Merlin and Grants Pass. He was past his most active years as a logging camp victualer and a hotelier in Josephine County when the Klan vogue came on.
I soon discovered retired PSU Professor Horowitz as the premier authority on the Oregon Klan. Although not quite the Jaycees it was for a time another civic organization of more or less sanctioned Babbitry. Its membership was comprised of people looking to rise like my great-grandfather, chiropractors, insurance men, small businessmen, realtors, and etc. Uneducated small-timers wanting to do better and acquire a certain level of popular prestige
The Klan’s primary targets were "the black crows" aka parochial school nuns, Jews, Yellow Perils, and any poor black sod they could scrounge up. They were also teetotal moralists against corruption, physical, moral, political. But, it was mostly anti-Catholic as best I recall. It fell apart when the fellow responsible for the renaissance of Klan significance and legitimacy was found out dragging jailbait across state lines in Indiana or someplace Midwestern. Excuse the use of an archaism for females below the age of consent, but I thought that it added to the squalor of the tale.
As a final note, a judge croaked by surprise on a Bend street in the 50s or 60s and he was discovered to have the most comprehensive Klavern notes evah. The judge had been whatever a Klan Klavern secretary is called. I think I got that right. I wish to testify that I have always been polite to Catholics in spite of my heritage.
"It has long struck us, as students of ethnic machine politics in places such as Detroit and Chicago and Southern California, that there are never-to-be-mentioned-out-loud animosities among most 'people of…' "
Precisely! That's why I've been railing against the most absurd of all progressive bundling of conflicting and unrelated nationalities, "AAPI".
AAPI stands for "Asian American and Pacific Islander. The term encompasses a diverse group of identities, including people with a heritage rooted in all Pacific Islands and all parts of Asia, including South and Southeast Asia." https://www.dictionary.com/e/acronyms/aapi/
Originally coined by the US government, presumably for demographic purposes, AAPI is now firmly established in the progressive identity-group lexicon. Believe it or not, the web is replete with references to the "AAPI community."
Accepting that there could be such a thing as an AAPI community would require the same high level of reality denial as nominating Will (aka Lia) Thomas for the honor of female athlete of the year.
So great are the historical animosities between and among some of the components of AAPI that decency prevents me from going into them lest I reopen old wounds. Likewise, Easter Island in the Pacfic is almost twice as far from its fellow AAPI member Beijing as it is from Washington, DC. These are hardly the building blocks of a true community.
But it's self-evident that "community," as used by progressives, is a political fiction, a phantom constituency of none. Pull back the curtain and the "community" is reduced to a handful of leftist politicians, activists and their most gullible friends. It’s real only to other progressives such as most Portland-area elected officials and their bureaucracies, the progressive media and the inattentive public.
It says a lot about progressives' tunnel vision that they fail to see how vulnerable the AAPI conglomerate is to a leftist critique. After all, who else but a colonizing imperialist would look at a disparate collection of nations and ethnic groups and lump them together as one for administrative convenience?
Every hothouse-flower navel-gazer, every West-hating (read: parent-hating) dilettante, every twenty-six year-old basement idler, every shallow, entitled modern hedonist, is "anti-bullying" in the sense wrought by a few generations of ingrates living in a society with unprecedented, unrivalled comfort, security and freedom, built on the labor and sacrifice of those of every sort who went before. That anti-"bullying" credo, the grand legacy of the Sixties in a nutshell?
If it feels good, you have the right to do it; if it doesn't feel good, you have the right not to do it.
With guidance from our nobly resentful non-white, non-cishet American identitarians, let's invert E Pluribus Unum. It should not be, "out of many, one", but "out of one, many". Heck, a house divided SHOULD fall. No house at all is better....well, so long as access to anonymous orgies, streaming services (those are different) food stamps and historical fabulism remains unimpeded.
Ill prolly say something insightful later but I have a newsflash:
The U.N. has identified excrement issues with the houseless as remisnicent of Jim Crowe. The quotation below supplied by Takimag:
"Catarina de Albuquerque sounds like a New Mexico drag queen. But in fact she’s the U.N.’s “sanitation czarina.” And last week she penned an op-ed for the L.A. Times in which she castigated Americans for not allowing the homeless to defecate wherever they please."
https://www.sanitationandwaterforall.org/about/about-us/governance/chief-executive-officer
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-07-11/public-bathroom-access-cities-homeless-trans