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Opinions on the folk song (I Wish I Was In) Dixie

Started by Lordofwrath88, Jan 25 2012 05:22 PM

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 11:04 PM

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I enjoyed the video. Thought it was pretty neat and well done.

Kentucky wasn't part of the CSA, nor do I believe they were big fans of singing Dixie when they asked Union Soldiers to drive the confederates out of the state. We can let them be honoraries I suppose. being the only basketball program in the Southeast right now.

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 11:43 PM

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Cool vid, but here are my 2 cents: How many of those guys on that highlight reel would have a problem with that song? My guess is a decent bit. We can sit here all day and debate what "Dixie" does and does not represent, or we can admit the obvious; that song offends a lot of people and reminds many of a time of inequality and injustice.

While I don't care if you play it, others do. Why make it an issue?

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 11:55 PM

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NextYearIsHere, on 25 January 2012 - 11:43 PM, said:

Cool vid, but here are my 2 cents: How many of those guys on that highlight reel would have a problem with that song? My guess is a decent bit. We can sit here all day and debate what "Dixie" does and does not represent, or we can admit the obvious; that song offends a lot of people and reminds many of a time of inequality and injustice.

While I don't care if you play it, others do. Why make it an issue?

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 11:59 PM

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Honestly. the South should probably let it go. We lost a war 150 years ago. We should not keep reopening our own old wounds and salting them afresh. Still, negative connotation aside, it's still a quite beautiful song. Deep down in every Southerner (well, every white Southerner at least) there is a tiny piece yet that wishes the long ranks of gray and butternut brown had made it up that Pennsylvania hill. Take that for what it's worth.

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 12:00 AM

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NextYearIsHere, on 25 January 2012 - 11:43 PM, said:

Cool vid, but here are my 2 cents: How many of those guys on that highlight reel would have a problem with that song? My guess is a decent bit. We can sit here all day and debate what "Dixie" does and does not represent, or we can admit the obvious; that song offends a lot of people and reminds many of a time of inequality and injustice.

While I don't care if you play it, others do. Why make it an issue?

1. Former Ole Miss RB Brandon Bolden does not have an issue with it, otherwise he wouldn't have signed on to play for the Rebs/Rebears. Nor do any of the rest of the Ole Miss players in that vid, obviously.
2. What do you mean, why make it an issue? It is the person who created it's right as an American to create it the video and put any song in it to be played with it.
3. (You knew this one was coming;

) It's all about selective bias, NYIH. Some get their panties in a wad over this song. Others get their drawers in a wad over an old man with a cane that has been synonymous with a certain university since they changed their nickname in the 1930's. Yet others, like myself, get a bit irritated when people ask why make it an issue. Like it or not, that song will always be synonymous with this region of the country. Fwiw, do you see me damning the Stars n Stripes because it represented slavery from the inception of this country until 1965? Nope. Again, it's selective bias.

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 12:00 AM

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It means nothing to me. Yankee Doodle Dandy, now there's a tune

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 12:11 AM

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zartan, on 26 January 2012 - 12:00 AM, said:

It means nothing to me. Yankee Doodle Dandy, now there's a tune

Meh. Kinda fruity if you ask me. lol You should claim Battle Hymn of the Republic. Now, that's a song a good little Yankee could sink his teeth into.

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 12:16 AM

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NextYearIsHere, on 25 January 2012 - 11:43 PM, said:

Why make it an issue?

You're the one doing that.

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 12:34 AM

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FCN!dawg, on 26 January 2012 - 12:00 AM, said:

1. Former Ole Miss RB Brandon Bolden does not have an issue with it, otherwise he wouldn't have signed on to play for the Rebs/Rebears. Nor do any of the rest of the Ole Miss players in that vid, obviously.
2. What do you mean, why make it an issue? It is the person who created it's right as an American to create it the video and put any song in it to be played with it.
3. (You knew this one was coming;

) It's all about selective bias, NYIH. Some get their panties in a wad over this song. Others get their drawers in a wad over an old man with a cane that has been synonymous with a certain university since they changed their nickname in the 1930's. Yet others, like myself, get a bit irritated when people ask why make it an issue. Like it or not, that song will always be synonymous with this region of the country. Fwiw, do you see me damning the Stars n Stripes because it represented slavery from the inception of this country until 1965? Nope. Again, it's selective bias.

A few points my friend: You cannot deny that that tune carries with it things that upset a lot of people. I didn't say everyone hates it, but many do. Also, I find it ironic you mention America as this song is clearly about the Cofederate way of life, not the American way. Lastly, did you mean 1865 when we passed the 13th amendment?

The issue isn't selective bais, it's that many can't let go of the period when our country was split in two and fought for the right to enslave men. We laugh at the idea of Blacks being 3/5ths of a person these days, so why do we wistfully trumpet the battle call of that ideology?

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 12:38 AM

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ElephanTideis, on 26 January 2012 - 12:16 AM, said:

You're the one doing that.

Troll, troll, troll, your boat. Gently down the stream...

The OP is about its appropriateness. I commented on that.

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 12:45 AM

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People will always bash Dixie and the South for being proud of it because they misconceive the Civil War to be about just slavery. The truth is that it wasn't and just because a Southerner prides himself as such and hums Dixie doesn't make him a racist bigot. It may be and probably is true that the song idealizes the "Old South," and was in fact the de facto anthem of the Confederacy, but the use of it today doesn't have to be seen as a person sympathizing with the tolerance of slavery in the Old South. It's a song which embodies an attitude of opposition to political correctness, and an appreciation of the rights of states and individuals, not the opinion that slavery is or ever was justified.

As someone who wasn't born or raised in the South, I personally love and appreciate Dixie and the fact that people try to challenge its present-day use further indicates to me of the general vagina-tude of America.

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Posted 26 January 2012 - 01:36 AM

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NextYearIsHere, on 26 January 2012 - 12:38 AM, said:

Troll, troll, troll, your boat. Gently down the stream...

The OP is about its appropriateness. I commented on that.

speaking of vaginatude ...

you calling someone a troll is the joke of the month

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FCN!dawg, on 25 January 2012 - 09:05 PM, said:

Which one, the actual Dixie or the original FDWL? Video 1 or Video 2?

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Video 2

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Benny, on 26 January 2012 - 12:45 AM, said:

People will always bash Dixie and the South for being proud of it because they misconceive the Civil War to be about just slavery. The truth is that it wasn't and just because a Southerner prides himself as such and hums Dixie doesn't make him a racist bigot. It may be and probably is true that the song idealizes the "Old South," and was in fact the de facto anthem of the Confederacy, but the use of it today doesn't have to be seen as a person sympathizing with the tolerance of slavery in the Old South. It's a song which embodies an attitude of opposition to political correctness, and an appreciation of the rights of states and individuals, not the opinion that slavery is or ever was justified.

As someone who wasn't born or raised in the South, I personally love and appreciate Dixie and the fact that people try to challenge its present-day use further indicates to me of the general vagina-tude of America.

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