Re: Talking of old jokes

James Nicoll wrote:

In article <3s6dnTaiDrFN2jzZnZ2dnUVZ_tadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Mary Kay <marykay@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Wilson Heydt wrote:

There are some people who appear to be seriously pushing the "Reconquista"
idea. I take them as seriously as I do black separatists and "State of
Jefferson" wannabes.


Who? The only people I've seen pushing the Reconquista idea seriously are conservative commentators using it as a stick to beat brown people.



There exists a group called Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan. which appears to have been designed precisely to allow people nervous about Mexican irredentism to have something to be nervous about.

http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/mecha/ElPlandeAztlan.html

They appear to be the sort of movement that is so unified that
one campus might have two branches.

I'm familiar with MeChA which used the word and concept Reconquista in an idealistic or spiritual fashion. The documents doing so, if I remember correctly, were written in the 1960s. There was lots of, fuzzy minded, idealstic stuff written in the 60s. As I understand it, nobody actually connected with MeChA took, or intended it to be taken, literally. It's a metaphor. Something which seems, often, to be beyond the understanding of all to many Americans. Sort of like not understanding the difference between the thing and its symbolic representation.

MKK
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