What kind of civil war historian, or any other kind of historian, occupies himself with monitoring and trashing currently existing heritage organizations, and plasters his blog with gleeful disparagement of them?
Well, one example is a man who crafts a mission for his civil war blog that far exceeds history. Indeed, instead of naming his blog Civil War History, he names it Civil War Memory. Thus, if there is something he wishes to discuss (or "discuss") on his blog, all he has to do is find or fabricate some connection between it and "how the civil war is remembered."
Since January 14, Flogger Kevin Levin has posted no less than three blog entries with "Virginia Flaggers" in the title. In one of them, he cites a hate piece he wrote about the Flaggers for the ultra-leftist e-mag, The Daily Beast. I pretty much tore up that piece, examining his methods and the motives behind what he wrote, and you can read it here: http://polygraff.blogspot.com/2016/09/kevin-levin-not-journalist-not.html
On January 16, his most morbidly gleeful headline is posted, which reads, Virginia Flaggers Outflanked and Annihilated. It is interesting that he uses far less inflammatory words in the post itself -- upstaged and defeated, which hardly means "annihilated" -- and the post actually acknowledges two Flagger victories, positive coverage by the press and the raising of another immense Confederate Memorial Flag in Lexington (the fourth in that significant Confederate town). I wonder how much this confused his readers....
But I find his use of "annihilate" in the headline the most interesting, and telling. Some synonyms for "annihilate" at Dictionary.com are: eradicate, exterminate, obliterate, liquidate, massacre, slaughter. If asked, he would probably say he meant the Flagger organization. But just as he interprets big flags by the highway to be defeat for the Flaggers (it isn't), I interpret his use of these words to reveal his agreement with the hatred for white Southerners that has characterized the USA on some level, for generations, and his latent approval of the union's desire to utterly destroy the white South.
I can't help but be reminded of Mrs. Kevin's wishing early death for heritage people (or maybe all white Southerner?) from unhealthy diets, because some people -- including herself and her husband -- misconstrued a meme about an Obama. http://mybacksass.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-wish-for-early-croakin.html
Annihilate... very tolerant and inclusive word, is it not?
Interesting aside. The Yankee's colonial subjects in California want to secede, taking their fifty six electoral votes with them. Which in no small measure, helps the North keep a stranglehold on the Federal Government. So far, not much of a reaction out of them.
ReplyDeleteThey've had an annihilation attitude toward us for a long time. From the early abolitionist rant "let the blood flow to the horses bridles" to threats of extermination by Thaddeus Stevens. They still count ole Pottawatomie Brown and Nat Turner as heroes.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't just Thaddeus Stevens, it was every newspaper from Maine to Minnesota. And a large number of political leaders and clergymen, as well.
DeleteThere isn't a reaction from "us" because it wont happen.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet you have not been "annihilated" have you?
I say, Go, California! Spread your wings and fly! Assert your sovereignty!
ReplyDeleteCorey, the point is that there are people on YOUR side that called for the annihilation of Southerners. If someone in a position of authority called for the annihilation of some left-protected group, the banshee screeching from the progressives would reach the moon.
Actually, Ms Connie, my point is that there's a double standard at work. TNM, for example, get all kinds of threats from people who mostly live in the States north of the Ohio river, or on the West coast. Where #Calexit get few to none.
DeleteA quote from Professor Clyde Wilson's latest essay;
ReplyDelete"Doubtless, if Southerners were talking about secession today, the Special Forces and tactical nukes would already be deployed. But Californians are not Southerners and cannot be treated that way."
Cory you are still an idiot.
ReplyDeleteSays the guy who cannot spell my name correctly...and spells his like a girl
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