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Still no idea what any of that has to do with the National Review being a racist newspaper. Absolutely rabid stuff old chap.
by bettysdiagnose 5y ago
Still no idea what any of that has to do with the National Review being a racist newspaper. Absolutely rabid stuff old chap.
- mardifoufs 5y agoThey are saying that if you have to judge the NR by who founded it, and assume they have the same beliefs now as they did back then it only makes sense to apply that same logic to the democratic party since it was notoriously extremely racist at the exact same period Buckley was advocating for segregation. It would be silly to say the DNC is still what it was in the 1950s, since "organisations change and it was 60 years ago" but the comment you're replying to is arguing that we only give that sort of benefit of the doubt when it's convenient politically. Buckley wouldn't be relevant otherwise here, and every single "older" newspaper would be a conservative rag if we were to go by what's been published or said by their founders.
- bettysdiagnose 5y agoNo, that's not what he's saying at all.