1. Lots of subtle and fresh insights in this @RickHertzberg joint about Vidal v. Buckley:http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/buckley-vidal-and-the-queer-question …
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2. It's true that calling someone who isn't a Nazi a Nazi is a terrible thing to do -- but it's also all too common (see Godwin's Law).
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3. Worth remembering that in debate, it was moderator Howard Smith who introduced Nazi comparison, likening anti-war protests to Nazis
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4. Buckley eagerly took up comparison of New Left to Nazi sympathizers. Is this less offensive because not meant personally?
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5. It is interesting to ask why Buckley was seen by almost everyone, including himself, to have lost that 1968 encounter.
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6. Reason Buckley lost was, oddly, a matter of style not substance. He lost his cool & Vidal didn't. He showed anger, Vidal remained aloof.
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7. Also as Paul Newman told Buckley: "crypto-Nazi" was political attack, while "queer" was personal one. Seen as hitting under the belt.
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8. There were some odd gender-norming issues undergirding the Vidal/Buckley encounter.
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@notjessewalker Vidal got under Buckley's nerve by constantly hinting (arguably in homophobic ways) that Buckley was gay.1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes -
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9. One way to think about Buckley/Vidal debate was it was a competition to prove who was most traditionally masculine. Buckley lost.
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10. Murray Kempton, Buckley's friend, very insightful on hidden gender dimensions of debate.
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11. Kempton: "Buckley has taken as his the masculine side of the argument and Vidal is as in the feminine." Kempton thought this wrong.
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12. Kempton perceptively noted that in personality Buckley was more stereotypically feminine: sensitive, sentimental, "womanly"
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