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Unread 01-18-2008, 05:10 PM
Mark Allinson Mark Allinson is offline
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So he says things like "Poems that privilege sound and meter are conservative, then, not so much because they privilege tradition, but because they decontextualize poetry"; or "The neo-formalists' perhaps unconscious exaltation of the iamb veils their attempt to privilege prevailing white Anglo-Saxon rhythms and culture."


That's right, David.

I have heard this sort of rubbish so many times in our universities.

Just you try and treat ANY OTHER culture on the planet with the slightest trace of disdain, and people like this will be all over you like a rash. But fail to denigrate our own, and watch out.

Of course I want to represent my own cultural inheritance, just like every member of every culture should, and I will never be silenced by PC fools like the one quoted above.

I wonder how this cretin will get on once "the prevailing white Anglo-Saxon" culture has been destroyed, and we all live under another prevailing culture. These people are working as hard as they can to bring it about.


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