Rising Hegemon
...of course, as Instaputz points out, for the National Review the NAACP has never been a great organization -- more than a half-century of race-baitin'.
"[The] NAACP is fast becoming—like the Anti-Defamation League—a routine pressure group for the Liberal Left." -- 1958
Of course, 52 years later, the Anti-Defamation league is but a tool to bring about the rapture and finally bring about the blood-libel -- but the
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For too many years, anyone not with William F. Buckley's program was a commie, and that included the NAACP.
The most important use of power is to keep it. I think Buckley understood that even better than the fat-assed nepotists currently employed by National Review.
The National Review has always hated the NAACP and the whole idea of racial equality. They just love the opportunity to dump on them and pretend that the attack is not based on racism.
Montag -
Buckley and the National Review vociferously opposed desegregation. They and he were virulent racists then and remain so today. Anybody who advocated racial justice was routinely labeled a commie in the 50s and early 60s (then as now, the worst insult that a conservative could think of).
The level of hyper defensiveness the wingers and tea baggers exhibit demonstrate pretty clearly that (hell no) they haven't forgotten and that they'd happily turn back the clock on racism...just like they would turn back the clock on Social Security/Medicare...just like they would on pretty much any advance in social relations over the last century and a half or so.
let's not descend into the pit of Class War--its so low, verboten
now Race War, ja, si, yep. I loves me some race war.
vox
The descent of man has come to this. What a world, what a world.
ooh, he managed to call jews racist too. a twofer!
pansypoo
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