Agree with this and am grateful to Linker for making explicit that the anti-"CRT" crowd and its centrist allies are carrying out a McCarthyite project.https://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1408797089950281734 …
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@DamonLinker praises Irving Kristol's comment: "There is one thing that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: He, like them, is unequivocably anti-Communist. About the spokesmen for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing. And with some justification."1 reply 6 retweets 49 likesShow this thread -
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"McCarthyite." Right, Jeet. That's exactly what I expected you to say.
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You approvingly quoted Irving Kristol's 1952 pro-McCarthy statement!
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It was never a "pro-McCarthy" statement. It came in an essay that called McCarthy a "vulgar demagogue." (Compare that to Buckley's genuinely pro-McCarthy stance at the time.) His point then and mine now is that calling out McCarthy isn't enough.
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Criticism over manners is not the same as disagreement over principles. The upshot of essay was McCarthy's superiority to liberals
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This essay was aimed directly at you as much as anyone. I quoted IK specifically to goad you, so I don't expect you to like it. My takeaway point: No matter how bad the right is, liberal societies also have enemies to the left. "McCarthyism," then and now, isn't the only threat.
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I've criticized many manifestations of anti-racism that I think are counter-productive, mis-directed or just plain wrong (the Shor firing, lots of DEI, the hand-sign obsession). What I refuse to do is accept a bogeyman category ("CRT") deployed by manifestly bad faith actors.
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