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Among the Cabin Fanatics of Mississippi’s Giant Houseparty
- durkie 3y agoi've been to this! my friend's family is obsessed with it. it is truly an institution there and a delightful car-free neighborhood springs up on the fairgrounds, nutritionally supported entirely by watermelon, loads of southern "salads" and deep fried garbage
- ramesh31 3y agoYeah it's delightful! Must have something to do with all the rebel flags, and a complete lack of any non-white faces.
- Nicksil 3y agoWhat's going on with your blatantly racist comments throughout this thread? Are you trying to be a jerk and/or get banned or is this your usual behavior? It doesn't seem to be which makes me curious to learn what has provoked this diatribe.
- ramesh31 3y ago>What's going on with your blatantly racist comments throughout this thread? Pointing out racism is not racism. It is received as such by racists though, (calling a white person racist is the closest they have to what hearing the N word feels like). Sorry for the lack of a "/s". But yes, this hit a nerve unfortunately.
- klyrs 3y ago> The fair’s inaugural picnic took place twenty-four years after the end of the Civil War. One of the founders was a Confederate veteran. In 1928, the second-place winner in one of the races was a horse named Ku Klux Klan. The pavilion has hosted a succession of segregationist governors and congressmen, and open support for the “Lost Cause” more or less continues to this day. On backstreets at this year’s fair, at least six cabins flew the Confederate flag. The fair allows it. Why is it confusing that people talk about racism, when it flies free at the fair?
- Nicksil 3y ago>Why is it confusing that people talk about racism, when it flies free at the fair? I don't understand your argument. I didn't mention anything concerning talking about racism; it was their racist comments I was referring to.
- ecshafer 3y agoFor an annual event in Mississippi that start 24 years after the civil war, I would be more surprised if any of that wasn't true, it also doesn't make the people or the event racist. Its just a southern cultural heritage. The fact that only 6 cabins of hundreds had a confederate flag means that its kind of an insane things to pick on.
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- rbanffy 3y agoThis sounds like a lot of fun. Reminds me we need more events to bring my neighborhood together.
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- joenot443 3y agoWow - what a dull hit job. It starts off tame but it isn’t long before the author makes her position clear: this gathering of families is a Bad Thing and represents a risk to American democracy and it’s important to remember that the only reason people would ever celebrate southern legacy is racism. If you check out any of her other publications it’s not hard to find a pattern. Who reads this stuff? Self assured coastal folks who are looking to justify their hatred of rural Americans? This piece wasn’t written to educate or inform, just further stoke derision.
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- catchnear4321 3y agoyou only had to read to the end. > When she inherits her share, Derrick will own it with her, becoming the first owner of color in the cabin’s history. if it were such a bad thing, why celebrate integration? because it isn’t a bad thing. it is a complex thing. good and bad. just like the individual from la was called out for calling women “bitches,” and was corrected to call them “ladies.” it is a piece in the new yorker. it is a hit piece in the same way that one is attacked when they bump their head on a low doorway. if one were expecting an objective piece, one ought to have known better. but you didn’t even bump your head. you only noticed you were about to. …so it was fear that prompted your outburst?
- marcinzm 3y ago>Who reads this stuff? Self assured coastal folks who are looking to justify their hatred of rural Americans? This piece wasn’t written to educate or inform, just further stoke derision. If you want to minimize stoking derision look inwards first before you look outwards. It seems clear from what I quoted you're fine with derision as long as it's against the groups you don't like but not the other way around. Which is the real problem in america and not some new yorker article.
- blantonl 3y agoI didn't get that at all. Many of the topics covered later in the article are aren't a hit job, they are a reality and cover an underlying tone of the gathering. It seems like an amazing tradition and frankly a pretty cool thing. But, make no mistake, this is rural Mississippi we're talking about there. There are some uncomfortable truths.
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- KboPAacDA3 3y agoHas the author ever been to an Oktoberfest?
- compiler-guy 3y agoOctoberfest is a giant party, but that’s about all the two of these have in common.
- rbanffy 3y agoIndeed. This looks like a Burning Man from the 1800's
- compiler-guy 3y agoThis fair is all about continuing a culture and heritage (both the good parts and the bad parts, unfortunately), whereas Burning Man is about creating a new society with radically different social mores and rules. All the classic Southern mores are in force there. The generous hospitality, terrific food, stories on the porch, and the unsavory parts as well. Most of it (but only most) is a beautiful thing. But it isn't trying to do anything progressive in any way. So although I see the similarities, these feel very different to me. I guess "big on community with everyone around you" is the biggest similarity, and perhaps a big difference between those two and Octoberfest--where people are friendly, but doesn't have community as front and center as the other two.
- rbanffy 3y ago> So although I see the similarities, these feel very different to me. Still has more in common with Burning Man than with Oktoberfest.
- fitz-re 3y agohttps://archive.ph/ScoF2 https://archive.ph/ScoF2
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- chrisco255 3y agoYou're linking to a partisan hit piece from a biased news source desperately trying to create a racial narrative out of standard faire politics, because that's what sells clicks to people that get worked up about such things even in the absence of real substance.
- Dig1t 3y agoHere's a link to the actual site for the event: https://neshobacountyfair.org/digital-program/ https://neshobacountyfair.org/digital-program/ Flipping through the digital program is way more interesting/informative than this biased article.
- klyrs 3y agoThe majority of the article was positive, curious, and frankly enticing. At the end of the article, there was some criticism tinged with hope for the future. That's what balanced reporting traditionally looks like.