Some thoughts on pajamas and duck calls from VDH:
How bizarre that the Duck Dynasty characters and Pajama Boy reverberated the same week. I have never watched Duck Dynasty, and have only glanced at the expanding genre of white working class reality dramas, from tree cutters and gold miners to ice truckers and boat captains: Cussin’ good ol’ boys, who lose their temper when failing to start the generator, have big arms and bigger guts, and are to remind us (within limits) that once upon a time we all used to be more like them than Ezra Klein and Jay Carney.
Who watches these shows? Perhaps the majority of viewers are those who still admire muscular strength and the earthy ability to make a living from nature (and not work for the Bureau of Labor Statistics or the local Department of Motor Vehicles), and a smaller percentage who find these aborigines odd, but also oddly compelling in their reminder that the people like themselves who run our country could not sharpen a chain saw, change the oil in their car, or unplug their own sewer line. This latter group is curious about the uncouth people who can do these things.
The A&E controversy grew even stranger in that pet white aborigines from the rural south are supposed to shock us by their blunt talk and religious hocus pocus, but only if they stay inside the bars of their zoo cage and thus only ham it up within the parameters of politically correct hillbilly-ese. The Pajama Boy mob at A&E must know that the Ducks, should they speak like those in Silicon Valley or act in accordance with Upper West Side protocols, would have zero audience. Is the logic of Duck Dynasty that the few left in America of the 1940s can spout off in a neat way to us — but only without putting their paws and snouts too far through the bars of their cage?
Apparently.
I have no doubt that Victor Davis Hanson, the son of a college administrator and a lawyer, himself an academic professor, can only look upon the working class with bafflement and amusement, as if they are animals in a zoo. It’s probably inconceivable to him that there are actual working class people who not only don’t share Phil Robertson’s bigoted views of gays, but are actually offended by them. By his logic, a guy with a television show shouldn’t suffer any consequences for voicing an idiotic opinion like equating homosexuality with bestiality because, you know, he’s just being a good ol’ boy . Talk about lofty disdain.
“I have no doubt that Victor Davis Hanson, the son of a college administrator and a lawyer, himself an academic professor, can only look upon the working class with bafflement and amusement,……”
You should have doubts about that……
He also equated his own, personal sins of sexual immorality etc with bestiality. It is pretty standard Christian doctrine that all sins ultimately weigh the same.
Isn’t Hason a farmer?
Dave, if you had a clue, you’d see Phil’s position isn’t bigoted at all.
“We never, ever judge someone on who’s going to heaven, hell. That’s the Almighty’s job. We just love ’em, give ’em the good news about Jesus—whether they’re homosexuals, drunks, terrorists. We let God sort ’em out later, you see what I’m saying?”
Sure doesn’t sound like a “hater” to me. In fact, given how quick everyone is to call this man a bigot, a man whose position apparently echoes that of the catholic church (the state of being homosexual is not sinful. Homosexual behavior, like heterosexual behavior outside of marriage, is), it sure seems to me that those people rushing to judge him are the bigots.
Yeah, that’s the point, Dave. (Sarcastic eye-roll.)
Heh