13. Outside of conservative circles, some centrist & liberals were sympathetic to apartheid (Dean Acheson prime example).
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14 Having established that there was a vast body of pro-Apartheid thought among conservatives (and some liberals), what are we to conclude?
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15. The usual explanation that anti-communism led to support for apartheid is only in part true & doesn't get to the heart of matter.
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16. Causation is complicated: opposition to communism & support for racism linked because for many racial equality IS communism.
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18. It was experience of opposing Civil Rights in American than animated passion to defend Apartheid in South Africa.
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19. Shouldn't surprise us that National Review went from supporting Jim Crow in South to supporting Apartheid in South Africa.
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20. For many conservatives Apartheid wasn't a necessary evil but a positive good: an ideal that was under siege & needed defense.
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21. George Kennan is worth pondering because he wasn't a right-wing yahoo but the very model of a prudent conservative statesman.
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22. Remember what Kennan said: "I have a soft spot in my mind for apartheid -- not as practiced in South Africa but as a concept."
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