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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13. For Kennan, apartheid was a beautiful ideal that didn't work out in practice. It was the God that failed (obvious Soviet parallel).
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24. Worth remembering that in 1938 Kennan said that if he had it his way only white men would be allowed to vote in the Untied States.
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25. Well into the 1960s and beyond, Kennan dreamed about creating Bantustans in United States: autonomous, separate black states.
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@Chipmazing The idea is in Kennan's books but I haven't seen any outside analysis of K's racial thoughts. It's a good topic to explore
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