Well you are being a pedant. It's "mongrel:" that's what he wrote. I made a typo.benhall.1 wrote:Hi PB+J. I just wanted to query one thing. I'm not being a pedant, honest; it's just that I can read two completely different meanings in something you wrote there:
You've spelt "mongrel" differently in each of the two instances in the above phrase. Did you mean that you thought he was saying that America was a "Mongol nation", or were you simply offended by him using the phrase "mongrel nation"? I don't want to assume ...PB+J wrote:America is a "mongrel nation (Mongel! for fcks sake!)
Ironically nativists claimed Irish immigrants would make the US a "mongrel nation." They weren't wrong: the US is a "mongrel nation" in the sense that right on my own typical block we have a German American married to an Italian American, a Chinese American married to an Italian American, A Jewish American married to a Fillipina American, a Jewish American married to a Korean immigrant; a French American married to an English American, a French American married to a German American, an African American married to a Swedish American, an east Asian Indian married to an Irish American: OMG the mongrelization is rampant.
It's not that he's wrong about the US being "impure:" it's that he's a racist who thinks "mongrelization" makes it impossible to play music the right way, and he's basing his aesthetic claims on an idea of racial purity. The layers of stupid in that essay are onion like in their extent and their irritating stink.