[Vision2020] responding to Neo-Confederates
thansen@moscow.com
thansen@moscow.com
Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:15:31 GMT
I haven't been to Moscow's Farmer's Market for quite along time. Does this
mean that you consider me to be right wing? My parents would be proud of me if
that were true, since they both consider Reagan to have been a closet liberal.
Trust me. As I look into the depths of my soul, I find that (at best) I am a
day's drive from the right wing.
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
> I wish to second Melynda's comments about the Farmer's Market. I'm a
> liberal, which evidently puts me in Mr. Johnson's " left-wing clique",
> though I was unaware of it until now. I never have thought of the Farmer's
> Market as "ours". I've thought of it as one of the wonderful things about
> living in Moscow, and always assumed that the people gathered there on
> Saturdays were of all philosophical, political, and religious stripes,
> enjoying the fresh produce, sunshine, and music together. It is indeed
> "ours", ownership meaning all of Moscow.
>
>
>
> Carl Westberg Jr.
>
>
> >From: "Melynda Huskey" <mghuskey@msn.com>
> >To: vision2020@moscow.com
> >Subject: RE: [Vision2020] responding to Neo-Confederates
> >Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:12:47 -0800
> >
> >
> >I've read Rodney's message twice now, and bits of it are still escaping me.
> > I'm perfectly willing to concede that my reading, not his writing, is at
> >fault there.
> >
> >What I did understand, though, still puzzles me. How many
> >lefter-than-Rodney persons are required to make a "left-wing clique"? Is
> >everyone who goes to the Farmers Market in the clique? If I don't go for
> >three or four Saturdays in a row, do I revert to membership in a right-wing
> >clique, or am I just a social outcast? How do I know if I'm really and
> >truly in, or if I'm just on the fringes, tolerated because my folks have a
> >big rec room and don't watch the beer too closely? Do I have to have my
> >own Maypole?
> >
> >Now about this NIMBY/NIOT business. . . I recall the minister of Christ
> >Church saying that in a Christian town, all the gays would be run out on a
> >rail (in a Christlike spirit, of course). His friend George Grant is made
> >of sterner stuff: he's written that the only right a gay person has is the
> >right to a fair and speedy trial. Wilson has also said that he expects to
> >convert everybody in our town to his way of thinking. I'd call that the
> >Not In My Zion agenda, and I'm not going to praise it, or sit still for it.
> > Doug would just as soon not have glbt people, feminists, Jews, Catholics,
> >or public schools in our town. I'd prefer that we have all of those
> >things, as well as cowgirls, Republicans, punk rockers, conservative
> >Presbyterians, hydrologists, and gadflies like you and me--even if that
> >diversity comes with some conflict.
> >
> >There's room for both of us in Moscow, Rodney. Room for lots of
> >worldviews, theologies, and lives, room for dissent and disagreement and
> >conflict. But when one of those groups declares that theirs is TRULY the
> >Only Way, and that the rest of us are discriminating against them by not
> >letting them govern all of us, we've got to find a way to talk about it.
> >When one of those groups decides that members of another group aren't fit
> >to live--either here or at all--, we have to talk about it. And that's the
> >conversation we've been having . . . not necessarily in a very productive
> >or healthy way, mind you. Is it possible to oppose ideas without opposing
> >people who hold those ideas? It's tricky, but I think it can be done. We
> >might even be able to do it without calling each other names.
> >
> >Melynda Huskey
> >
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