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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1943 was not a "privileged" year for Jews - it was an apocalyptic one
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No, of course not. But I feel that reality would have shaped perceptions, sensibilities of a son of European Jewish immigrants
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Not Podhoretz. In Making It he says he didn't like his Hebrew teachers “endless harping on the suffering of the Jews.”
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