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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015
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      6. Podhoretz's contention is that "My Negro Problem" is a radical, anti-racist piece of writing.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015
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      7. In "My Negro Problem" argues anti-black racism is so deep seated in whites only solution is eradication of blackness by miscegenation

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015
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      8. Ellison's response is partially practical (we've had miscegenation for centuries & it only increases shades in racist society).

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015
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      9. But more philosophically, Ellison insists that wanting to eradicate blackness in not anti-racist but a deeper form of segregation.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015
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      10. Podhoretz position is that racism comes from the simple existence of difference, rather than the hatred of difference.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015
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      11. A moments reflection should show why Ellison is right: you wouldn't try to eradicate anti-Semitism by encouraging all Jews to convert.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015
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      12. One interesting thing is that Podhoretz positions himself as a liberal -- i.e. "how dare you call me segregationist, I'm a liberal!"

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015
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      13. But Ellison clearly understood Commentary better than Podhoretz, magazine's editor did. Even in 1967, drift to right is there.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015
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      14. Lots of people in 1967 still thought Podhoretz was a liberal (including Podhoretz himself). But Ellison noticed a drift.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015
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      15. The other person who questioned Podhoretz's putative liberalism in 1960s was critics Wilfred Sheed.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015

      16. Podhoretz never forgave either Ellison or Sheed for getting his number right. Kept making snarling comments on them.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015
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          17. Also it seems like John Podhoretz, as of 2011, is keeping up the family grudge: https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/97303056357666817 …

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Feb 2015
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          18. As I said earlier, the ability to hold a decades old, multi-generational grudge is admirable in a way. Shows a consistency of principle

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