Word: rednecking
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Rural Studio has been dubbed Redneck Taliesin South and compared with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the apprentice architects in the studio have more design freedom than students at Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Taliesin studios. And unlike Habitat, which to date has built 100,000 affordable houses, the Rural Studio turns out only a few handcrafted homes, farmers' markets and community buildings each year...
...Rural Studio has been dubbed Redneck Taliesin South and compared with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the apprentice architects in the studio have more design freedom than students at Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Taliesin studios. And unlike Habitat, which to date has built 100,000 affordable houses, the Rural Studio turns out only a few handcrafted homes, farmers' markets and community buildings each year...
...these began, unpromisingly: "What's so bad about conformity?" The message came from a man of Mexican ancestry, born in the U.S. To be fair, I think he meant: "What's wrong with conformity in the matter of good manners?" I agree. But the e-mail was entitled, "Rednecks Rule?" Hmmm. I wrote back to the guy and asked why it was permissible for him to use the term "redneck" when it would presumably bring on a fine, a suspension and sensitivity training if a "redneck" were to use the term "wetback...
...Redneck means: ignorant, uneducated, low class, common, inferior. White trash. My correspondent told me that I am "an embarrassment to decent people." "Decent people" are people who say nothing with which my correspondent disagrees...
...wrote back, however, that he was sorry for saying "redneck." But another point, perhaps lost on him, is this: John Rocker has his own ideas about what "decent people" are. Rocker apologized for what he said. But I infer that Rocker tends to think "decent people" belong to a more homogeneous America where men marry women, and women get married before having babies, and people behave themselves in public, and men don't sleep with each other and pass around horrible diseases, and "foreigners" stay overseas where they belong...