tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post3548270988455842521..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: a poem for today: Audre Lorde, "Power"Cord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-39772116861235930912016-12-16T07:57:06.348-05:002016-12-16T07:57:06.348-05:00My eye opener this afternoon was doing a backgroun...<br />My eye opener this afternoon was doing a background search on Ernst Kantorowicz who I am reading at the moment. Immediatly came across a you tube vid by an entity called the 'Irish National Party' did not get past the far right comments to watch but the claim seem to be that these conservative German academics helped steer the extreme fringes of the right in U.S.A away from facisim. <br /><br />Attempting to make a distintion between for example the Front National in France and the tea party in America, using a group of conservative medieval academics as shaping the moderrn face of the American right as the acceptable home of such thought.<br /><br />Basically the claim would seem to be that the tradition of Conservatisim within American Medieval studies gives America an intellectual right wing legacy which allows it to escape the issue of the far right in Europe. <br /><br />Seems to be no escape form such daily encounters at the momement. Jebnoreply@blogger.com