11. To @jonathanchait "The Bell Curve" & Peretz's rants might have been outliers to true TNR. That's not how black readers see it.
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12. Do I need to spell out, laborously, why it is a problem for a liberal magazine to have alienated an entire generation of black readers?
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13. Okay: Civil Rights is one of the cornerstone achievements of American liberalism & blacks a crucial part of Democratic coalition.
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14. Last time the Democrats won the White House with majority of white voters? 1964. Before then: 1944.
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15. So for a half century or more, the Democrats have needed black voters to win the presidency. Harry Truman knew that.
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16. Given how crucial blacks are to liberalism & Democratic politics, TNR needed to win back the trust of black readers & writers.
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17. To make this a story about Chris Hughes & not about the countless black readers that TNR has alienated is incredibly myopic.
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18. Some personal back story: I've been reading TNR since, God help us all, 1982 or 1983.
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19. When I started reading TNR I was more conservative than I am now. I supported Progressive Conservative's Brian Mulroney &
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20. But even young, conservative-leaning Jeet Heer really, really didn't like the stuff TNR published on race.
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21. I'm not black, I'm South Asian, so I didn't take stuff in magazine personally. I did think magazine had lots of weird hang ups on race.
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22. I used to read National Review & American Spectator at same as TNR. Didn't think the three magazines any different on race.
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