I am far from being a knee-jerk defender of Friedman, but one should not rule out a priori the possibility that in the instances you reference Brimelow was mischaracterizing Friedman
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Replying to @david_glasner @zeithistoriker and
More than possible but I think there was a traffic of ideas there which is worth researching.
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I completely agree with that point.
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Replying to @zeithistoriker @HeerJeet and
I actually don't know whom you are referring to?
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Replying to @zeithistoriker @HeerJeet and
Ok, that would be a pretty interesting research topic, to be sure, but Brimelow is probably not among the first 100 names that pop into my head when I hear the proper noun "Friedmanite" mentioned.
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It was part of the shift from ideological warfare to cultural warfare that characterized turn from late Cold War to 1990s.
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Circa 1989 or so Irving Kristol wrote that "the enemy is no longer communism but liberalism" (paraphrase). If that's the case, the area where liberalism had won the greatest victories was anti-racism, so that's what had to be challenged.
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