Good riddance
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sabotabbyAm I going to have to hear a lot of people say nice things about William F. Buckley now?
If so, take what I said about Falwell and increase by a factor of 10.
If so, take what I said about Falwell and increase by a factor of 10.
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Date: 2008-02-27 10:07 pm (UTC)I thought I was very nice. Just quoted the song I always quote when someone I don't like precedes me to the yawning horror of the grave.
And did a little dance. But that didn't make it into the post.
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Date: 2008-02-27 10:14 pm (UTC)I haven't done a dance because I'm tired.
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Date: 2008-02-28 12:48 am (UTC)“Why the South Must Prevail,” pp. 148-149
The central question that emerges--and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by merely consulting a catalogue of the rights of American citizens, born Equal--is whether the white community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes --the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the median cultural superiority of white over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists. The question, as far as the White community is concerned, is whether the claims of civilization supersede those of universal suffrage. The British believe they do, and acted accordingly, in Kenya, where the choice was dramatically one between civilization and barbarism, and elsewhere; the South, where the conflict is by no means dramatic, as in Kenya, nevertheless perceives important qualitative differences between its culture and the Negroes’, and intends to assert its own.
National Review believes that the South’s premises are correct. If the majority will what is socially atavistic, then to thwart the majority may be, though undemocratic, enlightened. It is more important for any community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority. Sometimes it becomes impossible to assert the will of a minority, in which case it must give way, and the society will regress; sometimes the numerical minority cannot prevail except by violence: then it must determine whether the prevalence of its will is worth the terrible price of violence.
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Date: 2008-02-28 12:57 am (UTC)speech to the less
Date: 2008-02-28 01:10 am (UTC)Re: speech to the less
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Date: 2008-02-28 01:08 am (UTC)Heh.
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Date: 2008-02-28 01:10 am (UTC)....didn't kick puppies? I got nothin'.
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Date: 2008-02-28 02:08 am (UTC)Oops, I said something good about him. My bad.
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Date: 2008-02-28 02:28 am (UTC)The real tragedy here, of course, is that he lived for much too long.
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