5. Podhoretz resents Mrs. K because she began process of his alienation from roots but also sees her as necessary for his social rise.
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6. Podhoretz explicitly notes that Mrs. K was not interested in mentoring the black students she also had.pic.twitter.com/UB0OxshONH
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7. Cut to 1963, Podhoretz is editor of Commentary, upper-middle-class & gets into argument with James Baldwin.
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8. In heated argument Podhoretz basically tells Baldwin that blacks are the real racists.
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9. Podhoretz: “Neither I nor may ancestors had ever wronged the Negroes";
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10. Podhoretz "I had grown up in an ‘integrated’ slum neighborhood where it was Negroes who persecuted the whites & not other way around."
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11. What's amazing is that Podhoretz can't see the obvious contradiction in his own memoirs: blacks not given educated but are privileged.
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12. Podhoretz expanded on all this in his essay "My Negro Problem--And Ours."pic.twitter.com/aQpDoURAh5
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13. Again, what's interesting is wilful ignorance. 1943 Podhoretz was super-bright teen dreaming of Ivy Leagues & thought blacks had power?
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14. Best response to Podhoretz was critic Marvin Mudrick, who correctly noted that he would not have been so naive.pic.twitter.com/HMSiMPZmBC
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15. An overlapping & related obtuse explains how Podhoretz can oppose affirmative action (merit alone counts!) & support nepotism.
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16. Podhoretz: affirmative action bad because of ideal "it doesn’t matter who your father was." Meanwhile, hands over magazine to his son.
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