Discussion: National Review Writer Tries To Set Record Straight On Jim Crow, Glosses Over Magazine's Support Of Jim Crow

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Black people are ALLOWED to buy NR?

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I’d liken it to auto-fellatio myself.

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A new Republican is the old Democrat.

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I like the lover analogy. I’d also add a slightly different angle, writers like this are basically asking “who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”

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“Bloody flag”? It’s “Bloody Shirt”. Jeez, if you’re going to abuse a political cliche, at least get the name right.

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Somewhat ironically, it was Buckley who spearheaded the push to drive the John Birch Society loons out of the conservative movement and out of respectability within the GOP, because he correctly (if not cynically) deduced that they would endanger the electoral possibilities of conservative Republicans.

The crazy thing is that today, the philosophical descendants of the Birchers—the teabaggers—are now firmly in control of the levers of Republican ideology. Buckley ultimately lost his war.

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Next up, Republicans, the party of Lincoln!

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The other piece of the hypocrisy is that Buckley’s reversal and denunciation of his former endorsement of the classic southern “White Citizens Council” apologia for institutional racism is that it occurred at the same time all the Democratic racists were responding to the triumph of the Civil Rights wing of the Democratic Party, and the rapid party realignment of African Americans from the Republican to the Democratic Party by becoming Republicans.

It was essential for Republican elites to pretend like they were anti racism precisely because they were deliberately choosing to become the default party of racists.

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I’ve always wondered what John Fund, the guy arrested for beating up his former mistress, has to say about race relations. And now I do.

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There is a real contest going on on the right to determine who can publish the most wilfully ignorant, slanted and completely untrue propaganda about the Democratic Party. Please. Don’t piss in my ear and tell me it’s raining; the GOP has methodically attempted to deny the franchise to African-Americans, has used the “Southern Strategy” to push southern voters into the arms of the GOP, etc., ad nauseum. It would take a known fabricator like Fund to write this piece of fiction. It’s truly disgusting, and suggests that the Republican party thinks all of its voters are as ignorant and stupid as this article.

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And the Republicans have nominated how many non-whites for President?

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Its National Review for chrissakes! Other than wingnuts who are trying to convince themselves that they’re better than the run of the mill loons who populate the G.O.P. and a few masochistic liberals, I doubt that many of the Buckley descendants read it anymore.

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I suppose there’s a good reason we don’t need photo captions, although I have no idea what that reason would be.

Is this a current picture of John Fund or a postmortem shot of William Buckley?

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No doubt he was actually thinking about the Blutfahne, the “blood flag” stained by the blood of racist facist asswipes who were killed in the Beer Hall Putsch that was turned into one of the mystic relics of the NSDAP.

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The Southern Realignment never happened! Stop saying it did!!!

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Fund comes across like Buckley as arrogant with a selective memory favorable to his position. This is something that is not very unusual.

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Yeah, but what about the hidden history of the Whigs or the Black Republicans! Those who would hide their real actions behind a 100 years of history must be held to the light!

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William F. Buckley Jr., the late conservative icon who founded the magazine, explained National Review’s support for southern segregationist policies, calling whites “the advanced race.”

And that attitude evidently hasn’t changed at the NR:

Fund suggested that “[b]lack students might misbehave in disproportionate numbers.”

But I guess this is what you get when you have a party whose members have their heads screwed on backwards – they keep harping about the past and completely ignore the present and the future.

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Yes, I can imagine that when African Americans contemplate which party has their interests in mind they will choose the one that wants to suppress their voting rights, regularly calls members of their community “lazy” and “takers,” parades around images of the first black president as an African witch doctor, and cultivates continuing white resentment and racism, all based upon Woodrow Wilson’s “terrible record on race relations.”

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I’ve always hated this argument, it’s insulting. For one thing, ALL BLACK PEOPLE KNOW THIS (at least the ones who are reasonably well-educated). A 7th grader knows that Lincoln was a Republican, that Andrew Johnson was a Democrat, and the southern (this part is always left out) Democrats undermined the Reconstruction. Conservatives like to pretend history screeched to a halt at about 1955. Republicans try to claim the Civil Rights Act as theirs, and co-opt MLK’s legacy, which they know nothing about.

Jackie Robinson was a Republican in 1947, but by the 60s, he was a Democrat… why? We know, but ask a conservative, they probably won’t have a clue, because that is an arrow in the heart of their pretend version of reality.

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