You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Author Unknown
The principle contained in my epigraph certainly aligns with my experiences when I’ve put serious reflection to the statement in light of those experiences. E.g., I’m an Okie with a strong Okie accent. To put a finer point to it, I’m a Mudcreeker, “born and raised.” However, I spent three years in Alaska while in the U.S.A.F., during which time I began to (unconsciously) pick up and repeat certain Yankee terminology; worse still, my accent began to sound a bit “Yankeefied,” per my father, who was … father-enough to point this out to me on numerous occasions during that span of time. My father made the problem known to me in a (successful) attempt to shame the younger me into self-correcting. He knew that, “every time I talk to you, you sound more like a damn Yankee” coming from him was the surest way of accomplishing that goal. Few things grate more on my nerves nowadays than watching thirty-year-old videos we took in Alaska and listening to myself talk. The scenery and whatnot is great, but the change in accent is horrid. Thanks for raising my awareness to the problem, Dad! It worked.
For several months running, I’ve been spending all of my time and energy helping our son-in-law get started in my old business in the eastern part of our state, a location known to post-Reconstruction history as “Little Dixie,” and the capital of Little Dixie to boot. One thing I’ve found expedient to explain to our son-in-law during the short time we’ve been working together on a daily basis is that when I correct his language and his manner of speaking, for example and among other things, I’m not picking on him per se; I do it with everyone I spend a lot of time with because it grates on my nerves when someone says something to me along the lines of, “this tool costs five-hundred and fiddy dollars.” It grates on my nerves to the point eventually that I can’t not say something about it, and the devil take the hindmost. “When you speak to me, speak like a white man or don’t speak at all!” In other words, sound out the consonants; the (non) term “fiddy” is gibberish unbecoming the vocabulary of a white man, especially a white man with a proud and noble Southern heritage.
While we’re on the subject of things that “grate on my nerves,” we might just as well talk about the propensity of certain persons to overemphasize a thing for no good reason. Take the oft-repeated phrase, “we ate the whole entire pizza,” as a prime example. At least two or three of my children have made the mistake of repeating that phrase to me one time, and one time only. Why? Well, because “whole entire” is redundant (you can call it superfluous if you like; I don’t particularly care what descriptive you put to it as long as it fits), and just because everyone else does it doesn’t mean we should. Just say instead, “we ate the whole pizza,” or “we ate the entire pizza.” You’ll sound a lot smarter, trust me. Is anyone else bothered by this sort of thing, or am I the “Lone Ranger” on this one, like I seem to be with the whole ‘a he or a she is not a they’ thing?
Anyway, I’m often facetious in answer to direct questions that I consider more or less invasive, especially when I know I’m talking to an intelligent person who has the mental acuity to “get it.” I was once visited at my home by a representative of Oklahoma DHS/CPS. He was investigating an anonymous call his office had received claiming my children do not attend school and are therefore not receiving an education. When he later (and politely) inquired, “may I ask why y’all homeschool?,” I answered that it would take a month of Sundays to explain our reasons in full, but that the bottom line is “for religious reasons.” When he retorted, “Religion? You mean Christianity?” I replied (facetiously), “Is there any other kind?!” I replied that way to his query because he was an intelligent person, and I therefore knew he would instantly “get it.” Which he did: no more explanation required. Not that I had any intentions of offering any. When it comes to stuff like that, I’m a big believer in the biblical admonition to, “let your yay be yay, and your nay be nay.” When I get the feeling I’m about to be interrogated, I’m more apt than not to “nip it in the bud” the quickest and best way I know how. Call me crazy.
Similarly, when people in my circle(s) use the descriptive phrase “white racism,” my immediate thought is that I expressed in the previous paragraph: “is there any other kind?” The obvious answer to that facetious rhetorical question is an emphatic “NO.” If y’all ain’t figured it out yet, “racism” is an exclusively “white thing” in the insignificant opinions of our enemies of all colors. You and I know that the most racist people in the world are by and large “people of color.” And by “racist,” I of course mean those persons who hate persons of another race simply because of that race. By that definition, most white people I know are not racists; by the same token, lots of POCs I personally know or am acquainted with are. This of course is just projection on the parts of our mortal enemies; it’s the most racist people on the planet accusing the least racist people on the planet – white people – of the former’s worst personal defect while refusing to own it as their own defect. Whatever makes them feel better about themselves, I guess. Truth told, I ain’t really got that big of a problem with what they call “racism” to start with; if you don’t prefer your own people over the other, you’ve got a screw or two loose, in my not so humble estimation.
My point in the above paragraph and in the post title is that “white racism” is superfluous like “whole entire pizza,” and IS in fact the whole entire pizza. This is because, to our enemies of the leftist and right-liberal persuasions who happen to run things and rule it over us in this God-forsaken “country,” “white racism” is the only kind of racism that exists. Hell, they’ve written “whole entire” books purportedly explaining why racism is an exclusively white thing that we as white people cannot possibly escape. Or, so I’m told; I have no interest in self-loathing trash like that, so I really wouldn’t know for sure. Again, it doesn’t bother me if your preference is to describe it as “redundant” since that fits too. The bottom line is that “white” and “racism” are used synonymously in the racist lingo of our enemies; everyone who is anyone knows that “racism” equals “white racism” anyway, so, why the hell make a distinction that doesn’t really exist? The answer to that question is beyond me, but maybe someone can set me straight.
Catch y’all on the flipside. God bless and keep the Southland!
I really hope I’m not the average of the five people I spend the most time with. Those would be people I have to work with. Most of them are hardly worthy of emulation, but that could also be said of most of our population. If you speak in an intelligent and educated manner people think you’re gay.
There are always exceptions to every rule. Thank you for the comment, old friend.
Yes, what GermConf said is totally true
Like, if you speak well and dress well and have a well decorated home, people will think you’re gay
What’s funny (like, legit funny IMO) is, actual gay people never peg me as gay
How should I put this?:
I’ve been … accosted (I almost wrote “propositioned”) three separate times during my life by homosexuals “looking for love in all the wrong places.” All three times the very worst of me came out, since one thing I have absolutely no tolerance for is faggotry of any sort. I very highly doubt in any case that any one of the three “pegged me as gay,” although the first one did tell me in his own defense that, where he comes from (Seattle, if memory serves), sitting in the window of your hotel room with your shirt off is a signal that you are gay and is basically an invitation. But as I told him in reply before I got really pissed, “we ain’t in Seattle, now are we?!”
The second and third times I was quite a bit older (abt. 35 & 45 years-old respectively) and traveling, and made the mistake of relieving myself in a public restroom at a roadside stop in Arizona. The second time I actually got physical with the guy because he was blocking my path to the exit and he wasn’t obeying my order to “get out of my way before I hurt you!” So I moved him out of my way by force. The third time ended much like the first: a bunch of “choice words” on my part, accompanied with what turned out to be “idle threats.” Not that I wouldn’t have made good on the threats if needed be.
Like I said, though, it’s hard for me to believe any one of them “pegged me as gay.” But who knows?; what normal person could ever get into the twisted heads of degenerates who get off on “golden showers,” “fisting,” wallowing around in feces, etc.? A sane society wouldn’t tolerate that kind of crap for a second. That’s how we know we live in an insane asylum that’s being run by the inmates.
Southlanders tend to drop the hard G on words: Talkin instead of talking, walkin instead of walking. We all have an accent whether we know it or not. When I went to the UK I was amazed by the people who stopped me and wanted me to say something. The British people love a Southern accent but hate a New York/New Jersey accent. Ditto for me. I love a British accent on a girl. I even changed Siri’s voice on my phone to a British female voice. (I have to say: Siri turn on the torch instead of Siri turn on the flashlight) As regards racism I notice cowardly conservative types never call CRT anti-White they always call it racist. But it is not racist to people of color because it supports their aspirations! It is only hostile to Whites! We all had to take a course in race and ethnic relations in college where we were told racism is about power and people of color have no power which is why people of color cannot be racist. If that be the case (and that is NOT the case) then how do they explain Obama? 96% of Blacks voted for Obama and with the split White vote that was enough to propel him to the White House!
The little town I grew up in is called Ringling, OK, named after John Ringling of circus fame. All of us natives call it Ringlin, and/or Ranglan. But the real natives prefer Mudcreek. There is a town in eastern OK named Talihina. The natives there call it Tal-uh-hayna. When in Taluhayna, speak as the Taluhaynun’s do, and all that.
Thanks for the comments, sir.
Not to split hairs, but Obama was selected, not elected. How else do you explain a junior Senator with nary a vote on any legislation get elevated to President? And, his ethnic make-up was actually less than 7% black. That’s what’s called a two-fer in the duping of our propaganda-ized, dumbed-down populace.
us old farts didn’t take any course like that in the 70’s in East Texas, thank the lord
I’ve said before the term racist is just an anti white slur. But far more cunning and evil than slurs against other races. Like adulterer or drunkard, racist, purports to be a word describing someone who habitually engaged in a sin, or a bad activity. It’s very very clever.
For some reason, I think as a punishment by God for apostasy after being loaded with so many graces, us whites have accepted this new sin as real.
But like you said no other race can be racist.
Proof of this too is that just. Afew m9nths ago on fox, one of the hosts used the term, reverse racism. Well, why add reverse? Because if he hadn’t it would have confused the listener
Our chief detractors are very clever people; they’re the ones, in Shackleford’s iterations, who “worship on Saturdays.”
I’m not a “racism denier,” btw. I know and understand that racism is a real thing; what I deny chiefly is that (1) racism is an exclusively white thing, and (2) that “white racists” are far worse than any other color or etginicity of racist. As I said in the OP, nothing could be further from the truth or reality in my experience.
P.S. “reverse racism,” as opposed to “forward racism,” right? What a joke!, and what idiotic people we have to contend with!
Thanks for the comments, sir!
About six decades ago a reporter asked boxing champion Cassius Clay (aka Muhammad Ali) why he refused to be conscripted into the army during The Vietnam Conflict. Clay indignantly replied that the Viet Cong had never called him a nigger.
Today, Southerners have no reason whatsoever to care about this satanic globohomo union. No Russians or Chinamen have ever called us racists, robbed us blind through inflation, prosecuted our people for daring to defend themselves against negro assaults, or pushed experimental vaccines and homosexuality on children.
To hell with the union. Damn the torpedoes!
Hear, hear, Vern! Thanks for the comment, sir.
Pretty sure double emphasis stuff like “whole entire” is Southern and its the Yankee in you that hates it probably like you’d hate ain’t. I ain’t gonna eat the whole entire pizza!
Ha, ha. Apparently you didn’t read the whole entire post, otherwise you’d know I ain’t got a problem with ain’t.
You might be right about the origin of the double emphasis being Southern, I wouldn’t know. You might have noticed that I never speculated about its origin in the O.P. You see, it doesn’t really matter to me what its origin is; what matters to me is that it grates on my nerves like fingernails across a chalkboard. Whether it originated with Yankees or Southrons is of little importance to me. I will say, though, that it’s hard for me to imagine that my ancestors ever said anything like, “we ploughed the whole entire field today.”
Thanks for the comment.
A racist.
I define a racist in several ways. One way is that this person is focused on their own race in exclusion of other races. “race centered”, thusly. Their Race is all, their focus of attention.
a hater of a hater, too, is just another hater.
In my years “up North”, in rural upstate New York, no less, I have had more hatred spoken towards the Black Race, than any I heard in the South. Too, they disliked *any* group of people other than
their own.
Yeah, you’re right – racism may be defined in several ways. I chose the definition of the term for the O.P. because that is the definition that fit best for my purposes.
My old Orthosphrean friend, Dr. Tom Bertonneah (RIP), lived and taught at SUNY OSWEGO in upstate New York. One of my female cousins lived in Buffalo for nearly 20 years. She is also a teacher at the college level. In frequent conversation with both of them for years, neither of them ever told me that e.g., “upstate New York is teeming with racists,” or anything of the sort. On the other hand, I ain’t real sure the issue of racism per se ever came up in those conversations. Maybe it did, maybe not; if it ever did, it was never much of a thing in our conversations about the area. Nonetheless, like “Bill the Butcher,” “if only I had the guns, Mr. Tweed, if only I had the guns.”
Thanks for the comment, sir.
Look up the word racism in an old paper dictionary – published prior to say … 1980 just to be safe. It means – and always has meant – a belief or awareness that one or more races are superior or inferior to another race. Then look it up on any device and notice (((they))) changed the meaning to – one who hates another because of their race.
Yes, newspeak arrived sometime in the 80’s or 90’s. I can’t remember.
But look it up for a “full complete” understanding.
“full complete”: ha, ha!
I’ve been absent for several months, so, I don’t know how long you’ve been reading here. But if you stick around for very long at all, you’ll soon learn that the JQ and the nefarious influence of that race throughout history is not a thing we here are unaware of by any means. I’ve said many times before and herein repeat that the word “judaizer” is a term lots of people need to add to their vocabularies. And the sooner the better. Anyway, your comment put me in mind of a passage from R.L. Dabney’s, “The New South.” To wit:
And he ain’t talking about Jews. Catch ya on the flipside. Thanks for the comment.
Keeping regional accents is one thing, but we live in the era of globalization whether we like it or not and certain speaking patterns are going to spread whether we like it or not
EG, I use a lot of slang thst OG from the Black US ghettos despite being White and living in the suburbs. It doesn’t bother me because the other 90% of the time I come off like an educated and informed 30-something White guy
Point being: so what you think is proper, but don’t get sucked into the online LARP of “well I’m X and my people have historically always did Y So I better change to Y”
Matt Parrot’s early 2010s Trad Youth Network essay “How To Dress Like A Reactionary” comes to mind
I’ve said before that my father was the greatest educator I ever knew. And by “greatest educator,” I really mean most effective educator. My siblings and I certainly learned more from our dad than we ever learned in the public schools and in church combined, I can tell you that. Dad was an effective educator because he knew the surest way to get a principle across to his student(s); he taught his lessons in such a way that one would never forget them once learned. He would sometimes overexaggerate a thing to “drive the point home.” He made a bigger deal with me about the whole “you sound like a damn Yankee” thing than it actually was, but as I iterated in the O.P., I ain’t got a problem with overexaggeration IF there is a good reason for it.
I mentioned that my SiL & I have been working together in my old business the last several months. Once I knew he was serious about making a career of it, I started working on him about getting himself a new rig (new truck and trailer). This eventually became a condition of my helping him get established “on the right foot,” otherwise I would not have agreed to it. Borrowing from my dad’s methodology, here is the way I ultimately put it to him when I’d had all of his resistance to the idea I was willing to take:
“If you want me to help you with this, introduce you to my old clientelle, etc., etc., we’re going to get a new rig and I’ll tell you exactly why: because, if you pulled into my driveway in that p.o.s., dragging that other p.o.s. behind you looking to work on my house, I’d (politely) send you back down the road and get myself another contractor.”
No one ever has reason to complain about our work, but first impressions are important in any case. Now we don’t look like a couple of hobos pulling into a new job in a truck that looks like it is on its “last leg” pulling a trailer that looks like it should have been “put out to pasture” several years ago; we look like the professionals we are; contractors who care about the appearance they’re giving off, among other things.
Thanks for the comments, Benjamin.