Me: Now we are back to the McCarthy period. Even here, I doubt that "many others defied it" is accurate. In any case, soon we will be back to the Cambridge of C.P. Snow. I suppose we could go all the way back to the University of Bologna in the 1300s and find at least one good man. And, "such individuals can make a huge difference in particular cases." (Change this up a bit, and you have a good commercial.) Indeed they can, but this wasn't my point was it? I am sure that there were white people who every now and again prevented a lynching in the south. Great for the person who didn't get lynched. Not very relevant in terms of the societal structures that gave rise to the lynchings in the first place.
-------- Individuals in the elite who come over to the people's side make stories that build up human courage, but they have no general social impact, as Michael argues. A Czarist general came over to the Res, & was captured during the Civil War. The Whites gave him a choice between hanging & renouncing the Bolsheviks. His reply, I die a Bolshevik. As I said, such events build up human courage, and we should appreciate them as such. But they just don't count as making an direct impact on the struggle. I prefer one item in Gar's post: he spoke of the "Truman-McCarthy Era," which Michael shortens back to "McCarthy Era." Most of the horror stories I remember from the period came from the fundamental Red Hunt Truman initiated. McCarthy was a pimple on the butt of a monster. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
