1. All this talk in the conservative press (like National Review) about Ilhan Omar being an ungrateful immigrant reminded me of Joseph Sobran complaining about ungrateful African-Americans in National Review in 1979.pic.twitter.com/32327viCqz
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3. More context, van den Haag, who Sobran is championing here, was a scientific racist who argued against Brown vs. Board of Education & insisted the best way to fight prejudice was segregation. He supported Jim Crow & apartheid.pic.twitter.com/ZZahj7GGV4
4. Sobran, of course, was someone whose racism bothered even his National Review colleagues when he started working at the magazine in the 1970s (although they kept him on for 2 decades).https://twitter.com/Joshua_A_Tait/status/1133362818298728448 …
5. In 1986, Sobran praised Instauration: "an often brilliant magazine, covering a beat nobody else will touch, & doing so with intelligence, wide-ranging observation & bitter wit. It is openly and almost unremittingly hostile to blacks, Jews, and Mexican & Oriental immigrants.''
Migrants fleeing awful conditions in Central America, largely the result of US foreign policy as well as US-driven climate change, should definitely be thanking the US police state now punishing them at the border. Why are they so thankless????
Although gratitude is an important spiritual trait, it is voluntary and self-initiated. Telling ANOTHER person or group that they should be grateful for any political rights suggests a belief that they are really unworthy of equal treatment.
exactly.
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