re: #12 Obdicut

Fuck you for impugning the patriotism of an entire region, including my grandfather in the Merchant Marine.

If you’re going to say that, then you should extend any condemnation to Sarah Robinson, as her attack on the South is far more damning than anything I’ve said and on worse ground factually. I’ll go on to say that many in the Northeast are still firm of heart, and that the elites that I criticize had no dishonorable intentions, save for the relatively few traitors like Hiss. But they came to be unwilling to fund the military needed to face down the USSR, favoring instead negotiations whose failure they would never attribute to Soviet belligerence.

By her words, Sara Robinson insulted my mother and her entire family, who hail from the region of Asheville, North Carolina. I’m not Rush Limbaugh and will not simply go on a nasty tirade against a woman. But I did find this article personally insulting, and that makes me extremely hostile to it.

And I will modify my words regarding the Northeast as follows: Many of the elites in the Northeast became weak of heart, favoring ‘soft’ policies whose defects they were unwilling to admit, which left the US weakened against Soviet aggression.