[Vision2020] Black and Tan Your Hide - Doug's at it again

[Scott Dredge]

Rose,

I think this non-plagiarized and revised version of
SSAIW is going to be very watered down.  I wouldn't
expect to see similar incendiary passages that were in
the previous edition.

Doug will hammer home his point that race-based
slavery is wrong and yet futilely he'll argue that
Southern slaves for the most part were treated very
well.  He will continue that Christians who followed
the Bible's clear instructions regarding owning and
operating slaves could have done so without sin. 
Unmentioned will be the fate of the sinning Christian
slave owners...so write your own ending (damned to
hell versus having their sins whitewashed by Jesus). 
For Doug's finale, he'll claim that the Northern
abolitionists didn't need to slaughter all those fine
Christian Southerners who were just following the Word
of the God and that slavery would have ended
peacefully on its own.  Not much anyone can do about
that one since the Civil War (or whatever Doug wants
to call it) was fought about 150 years ago.  It's not
like anyone of us can just fire up the time travel
machine and go back and try to convince anyone on
either side to "Give Peace a Chance" especially since
that phrase never seems to influence anyone making the
decision about going to war.

Yep, I can't wait for this one to hit the internet
blogs and V2020.

-Scott

--- DonaldH675 at aol.com wrote:

> Visionaries:
>  
> For those souls breathlessly waiting for the release
> of Doug Wilson's  latest 
> attempt at southern history, he writes:
>  
> "But lest there be no accountability at all, I
> submitted the manuscript of  
> my forthcoming book on this vexed historical
> question to one of the top  
> historians in the country, and he gave the book the
> mother of all blurbs."
>  _http://dougwils.com/_ (http://dougwils.com/)   
> 5-30-05
>  
> Presumably, he refers to Eugene Genovese.  I don't
> know what the  mother of 
> all blurbs would be, but for a recent critical look
> at the work of  Genovese 
> follow the link below.
> http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue23/lichte23.htm
> Right Church, Wrong Pew: Eugene Genovese & Southern 
> Conservatism, Alex 
> Lichtenstein [from New Politics, vol. 6, no. 3  (new
> series), whole no. 23, Summer 
> 1997]
>  
> The article is great reading. For example:
>  
> "Ultimately, however, in attempting to chart a third
> way between the free  
> market conservatism of today's ascendent right and a
> discredited collectivism of 
>  the left, Genovese finds inspiration now in a
> Southern tradition associated 
> with  slavery and racism, rather than the socialist
> tradition compromised by  
> Stalinism."
>  
> All I can say is,  haul up the battle flag boys, get
> on your feet,  they're 
> playing Dixie and look,  Gene Genovese's leading the
> parade.
>  
> Rose Huskey
>  
> "One cannot  level one's moral lance at every evil
> in the universe. There are 
> just too many  of them. But you can do something,
> and the difference between 
> doing something  and doing nothing is everything."
> Daniel Berrigan
> 
> 
> >
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