Notfixed.blogspot.com: Oklahoma is ugly and stupid thanks go to Okiedoke for highlighting this prime piece of Okie hate in the blogosphere
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Notfixed.blogspot.com: Iused to live there, so I know. If you’ve never been, let me just suggest that you take the long way around on your way to Texas or Arizona or Mexico or where ever you’re going.I lived in a town called woodward, which I hate so much that I refuse to capitalize it. It goes against everything I believe in not to capitalize a proper noun, so that shows you just how much I hate it.
I’ve never seen so many people missing teeth all in one place. It could be possible that if I added up all the toothless or tooth-challenged people I’ve ever seen elsewhere, it still wouldn’t add up to more than those that live in woodward, OK. I’m not sure if it’s because of woodward being the meth-head capital of the world or because they’re all stupid. . .
I find the “Oklahoma is ugly and stupid” blogpost particularly of interest because it is a prime example of the viewpoint discussed by my friend in the opening paragraph at Redflagpress.com:
Oklahomans have been taught they have no particular reason to be proud of themselves. We have been told we lack culture and sophistication, and that our pleasures are too simple and commonplace. We have been told our labor is cheap. We have been told our land is flat. We have been told our opinions hold no value. We have been told our heritage is obsolete. We have been told to regard ourselves as “Okies” – dirty, lazy, ignorant and exploitable. We have been taught to be ashamed of ourselves, and to imitate the lifestyles and values of the coastal, cultural elite. We have been fittted with stereotypes that just don’t fit. . .
The good news is that we Okies don’t have to believe the haters. We can find our voice and defiantly speak it out, and we can refuse to believe the lies of the coastal elites who not only demean us but want to destroy (or worse co-opt) our culture and values. That’s part of the reason that I call these blogging Okies haters on their bluff, because they feel safe to spew their hate on the internet. (which would never be acceptable if they were spewing hate towards black people or Asian people or even Muslim people) Why is it that hate speech is condemned by so much of the world, but tolerated and encouraged when it is directed towards “stupid okies”?
Here’s the comments I left for Notfixed…
Comment #1>”If you’ve never been, let me just suggest that you take the long way around on your way to Texas or Arizona or Mexico or where ever you’re going.
I lived in a town called woodward, which I hate so much that I refuse to capitalize it. It goes against everything I believe in not to capitalize a proper noun, so that shows you just how much I hate it”
Let me suggest that you not set foot in a state that you have such a prejudice against. The author Wendell Berry was right when he said the last “niggers” in America are rural folks. Coastal elitists feel completely safe and justified in harboring all kinds of nasty prejudices against “hicks” and “rednecks”, and even voicing their hate in public, yet they would never get away with speaking of an ethnic or racial minority in the same way.
It really is sad that you have such a small and prejudiced mind, because Oklahoma is one of the prettiest places on earth — the spacious rolling praires of Western Oklahoma, the ancient Wichita Mountains, the rapturous green of Northeast Oklahoma, the rugged beauty of Ouachitas, the gentle beauty of a small town in the summer, the goodness of good people who still get up and go to work everyday even though they suffer through so much oppression.
So anyway that’s my take on your post. If I sound angry, I’m sorry but it is hard not to be.
Well Notfixed.blogspot.com has decided to continue to post more of her anti-okie hate speech and is playing this off as a big joke ( see http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17402841&postID=112849186031103121 ).
Well all I know is that when I was growing up lots of folks told n****r jokes, and lots of folks told dumb pollack jokes, and in fact it was completely sociallly acceptable to tell those jokes… today there is no way that you can get away with that. Just try telling a racist joke at work these days and see how long you still have a job.
Comedy is no defense to hate. Unfortunately our society still accepts anti-rural prejudice as being a-ok, but it doesn’t make it right.
If you think it is the “men” of Woodward who listen to Eminem, you must be all of 19? The men of Woodward, like the men of all other communities coast-to-coast, think that people who turn up Eminem on their car stereos are good substitutes for clay pigeons. Even when it is their own children who turn it up, and even if those men are gun grabbers who wouldn’t think of picking up guns in any other situation. The men of Woodward and everywhere would shoot their own children if they turned up Eminem. Fact.
I left this for your friend Amie Virginia and Coastal Elitism —
So what happened? Did you check out the boys of Woodward and you had to put on the barf bag? So did the men. The boys of Woodward are why the latest polls show surprising new support for abortion on demand among Woodward residents. Kids listening to Eminem is depressing like going to the hospital baby hatchery and seeing that your new grandkid is the Alien. The men and women of Woodward are pretty sore at the whole music industry.
What were you — hitching and the kids wouldn’t give you a lift in their turdwagons that had Eminem wafting out of the windows?
You may as well admit it — she’s about 90% right about the subject.
There just isn’t a lot to argue with about a visitor’s perception of Oklahoma.
It’s no wonder the place is filling up with Mexicans and Asians and Arabs.
‘Way too many Okies are waiting for Big Brother to fix things back like they were — and they ain’t going back.
“It’s no wonder the place is filling up with Mexicans and Asians and Arabs.
‘Way too many Okies are waiting for Big Brother to fix things back like they were — and they ain’t going back. ”
What do you mean? I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here.
I think you’ll like this. I’m glad I came by, after all.
http://www.amazingben.com/arc0042.html
Hey Tired (aka BLT- http://www.amazingben.com/profileblt.html)… boy that took some creativity to write an Okie-hate blog post like that.
If you ever cross our fair state again, I hope somebody gives you a good ol’ country ass-whoopin.