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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jul 2019

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jul 2019

      2. The context here is that Sobran is describing a debate between civil rights activist Roy Innis and Sobran's pal Ernest van den Haag on affirmative action. After the debate, Sobran chided Innis for his lack of gratitude to America. "You expect me to thank you," Innis replied.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jul 2019

      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

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jul 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Joshua Tait

      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 …

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      Joshua Tait @Joshua_A_Tait
      John is totally right. National Review's managing editor was alluding (jokingly or not) to Sobran's racism as early as 1975. https://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1133358673693159424 … pic.twitter.com/Gm5iQhiUg8
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Jul 2019

      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.''

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        1. A cavalcade of anger and fear‏ @ClemUhhh 18 Jul 2019
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          OMG, Instauration was the magazine which sold T-shirts with a picture of the Parthenon and the words “CIVILIZATION. It’s a white thing, you wouldn’t understand.”

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        2. Mark “Completely Harmless Since 1996” Eckenwiler‏ @20002ist 18 Jul 2019
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          A reminder that Ann Coulter eulogized Sobran as the "world['s] greatest writer."

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        2.  🌹Aloysius Legrange‏ @Wicked223 18 Jul 2019
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          Is that last sentence... supposed to be... praise...?

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        3. Butterflyminder, keeper of fluttery thoughts‏ @Butterflyminder 31 Dec 2019
          Replying to @Wicked223 @HeerJeet @delong

          The fuller column does go on to chide the magazine for being too 'purely nativist', and thus not helpful in re: critiquing entire races en masse because personal experience dictates that *some* individuals at least are going to be decent. It's all just bizarre.

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        1. longislandtonv‏ @longislandtonv 31 Dec 2019
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          Jfc.

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