Rewriting, Washing, Scrubbing American Culture

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just so

 

Everybody has a strain of racism/ethnocentrism somewhere in their souls. It's part of the human condition. Actually, it goes beyond humanity -- tribes of chimpanzees are known to wage war on one another.

 

I’m racist against people who text when they drive.

 

In an interview Samuel L. Jackson said not every n-word was in the script.

My grandparents were anti-Semitic racists. The didn't rail against other people or casually use ethnic slurs. But I knew every ethnic slur before I was ten.

QT tries to write how people talk or talked. In his recent book, he tries to claim some connection with black culture. His mother dated black men and he watched a lot of blackploxtaion films.

I grew up in the Northeast. Everybody knew to ask where you grew up. The town you were from, where you worked, the golf course you played was a piece of evidence about your ethnicity. There is a neighborhood in Boston that you wouldn't ask a person which area he was from. You would ask which parrish he was from. Northeast comedians are a reflection of this ethnic awareness.

George Higgins is one of my favorite novelists. He used every ethnic slur under the sun. If he didn't, his books wouldn't have been very realistic.

 

I'd say the same thing about the n-word in Tarantino as I say about smoking in Mad Men.

Yes, it's true people smoked - frequently - in the 50s and 60s.

But not everyone smoked everywhere all the time.

A thing can be generally true, but still gratuitous and overdone in a work of fiction.

 

Honestly, fuck them assholes.

 

Wish I could show a video of our Thanksgiving dinner table at grandmother's when I was a kid. We're talking 1968ish.

Mushroom cloud of smoke.

 

Can relate to that cloud, though most of the lighting up occurred after the table was cleared with the Lions already down by at least a touchdown.

 

When I was waiting tables in college in the 80's I always wanted to work the "smoking" section vs. the non-smoking; they were better tippers. Little did we know then about 2nd hand smoke.

 

Wear a mask!

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If a restaurant has a "smoking" section, the whole restaurant is a smoking section.