Nicholas Powers, assistant professor of literature at State University of New York at Old Westbury, has an article out on Alternet which cheers on the box-office failure ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.’ He sees the film through a Marxist lense where Lincoln fights for the ’99 percent’ (which apparently does not include millions of White Southerners, against whom he made war). Notice this Yankee professor’s hatred of and yet fascination with us and our culture. He wants to watch this movie in the South to see if we will boo when Southerners are slaughtered by Abe and his freed-slave side-kick. From his perspective we are like alien creatures with which he has nothing in common – evil but fascinating. He writes:
I really wanted to see this movie in the South. How would scenes of Abraham Lincoln killing Confederate vampires go over in the red state land of Dixie flags and Jesus lovers? Would they boo where we cheered?
Yet, how many self-respecting Southerners would watch this garbage? Would professor Powers go to watch a movie which portrayed communist professors as evil, blood-sucking vampires who had to be eradicated by noble, righteous Southerners? I doubt it.
Also see: ‘Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ and Southern newspapers silent as our ancestors portrayed as vampires
And so many of our people are “proud” of the union we have with these awful jerks. Truly sad.
I bet this fella was sad when the great Communist leader Kim Jung Il died
“From his perspective we are like alien creatures with which he has nothing in common – evil but fascinating”.
Michael, you are right. We are alien to him and we have absolutely nothing in common with this evil person. I am not going to see this trash so he will never know if I cheered where he booed or booed where he cheered and yes I am jesus lover.
Deo Vindice
I have come to the conclusion that those who cannot see valor, see evil. And if they see evil, they will never see or engage in any other type of activity. Therefore all that is good IS foreign to them.
Fiction is a great means of presenting a worldview and good fiction is an even BETTER one. Look at J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings in both book and film. The story is not about fairies and trolls, but about morals and ethics and it is told in such a way that those who love it gain more from a work of fiction than from any dry philosophical tome.
I have found myself moved by a well done film even when I knew that I did not agree with the premise that the film maker was propounding. One gets caught up in the imagery and the story line. Even those films that are nothing more than open propaganda can move the viewer though it be against his will. For instance, images of the huge rallies held by the Nazis with their martial music, marching thousands and multitude of torches held in monstrous open air political cathedrals can inspire awe despite knowing what we do today about those who produced them. If this is the case with the enlightened, what happens with the ignorant and naive? People must be on guard against being swayed by fiction however well intentioned. It is a good thing that this particular film is too poor to be a positive source of anti-Southern propaganda.
This communist excuse for a professor is from New York, which was one of the largest slave-owning state in the colonies. That state was also the site of the Draft Riots of 1863, where hundreds of whites went on a rampage against black people in the streets of NYC. The rioters mistakenly believed the black race was the cause for the War Between the States. Churches, draft offices, and other buildings, including the homes of black citizens, were ransacked and burned to the ground. Almost a dozen black men were lynched and over 100 people were killed before the thirst for vengeance was squelched by the arrival of Union troops from Pennsylvania. Many blacks were hunted down and beaten. One young black girl was found hiding under a bed and promptly lynched. In good ole’ Abe’s North!
Real historians know that the issues of states’ rights and unfair taxes (Morrill Tariff for starters)– not slavery – was the real reason Lincoln invaded the South.
Our universities and community college are plum packed with people like this who are part of a huge politically correct push to create a society of drones subservient to Lincoln’s Union, which has grown to be an oppressive albatross on the heads of our people!
I have to agree with the professor about one thing. We are aliens to him, just as he and those like him are aliens to us. It is almost as if we are two different species. Lincoln should have left our species alone and allowed Southern society to exist, because that is what the Confederacy wanted. The right to exist as a free and independent people.
Who cares WHAT this bedwetting communist thinks?? The movie is a piece of crap. The professor, as Jerry Clower so famously said back in the day, is educated beyond his intelligence. Anyone who gets upset over any comments over this pathetic screenplay has too much time on his hands. Let it pass, people. There are bigger fights to fight.