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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Mar 2017
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      7. Cut to 1963, Podhoretz is editor of Commentary, upper-middle-class & gets into argument with James Baldwin.

      1 reply 6 retweets 36 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Mar 2017
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      8. In heated argument Podhoretz basically tells Baldwin that blacks are the real racists.

      4 replies 6 retweets 37 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Mar 2017
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      9. Podhoretz: “Neither I nor may ancestors had ever wronged the Negroes";

      1 reply 5 retweets 38 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Mar 2017
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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."

      5 replies 4 retweets 36 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Mar 2017
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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.

      5 replies 10 retweets 70 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Mar 2017
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      12. Podhoretz expanded on all this in his essay "My Negro Problem--And Ours."pic.twitter.com/aQpDoURAh5

      8 replies 9 retweets 33 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Mar 2017
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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?

      4 replies 9 retweets 67 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Mar 2017
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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

      1 reply 11 retweets 99 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Mar 2017
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      15. An overlapping & related obtuse explains how Podhoretz can oppose affirmative action (merit alone counts!) & support nepotism.

      1 reply 5 retweets 57 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Mar 2017
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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.

      5 replies 21 retweets 112 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Mar 2017

      17. In "My Negro Problem" Podhoretz's solution to racism is miscegenation with goal of eradicating distinct black identity.pic.twitter.com/l2IEfUhoLS

      8:21 PM - 27 Mar 2017
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Mar 2017
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          17. It's interesting that Podhoretz is so allergic to idea of pluralist society that he also ponders desirability of Jews disappearing.

          5 replies 6 retweets 29 likes
        3. Michael Marks‏ @michaeldmarks 27 Mar 2017
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          Pretty galling that this guy wrote an entire book whining about why Jews are liberal.

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        1. Peter Ramsey‏Verified account @pramsey342 27 Mar 2017
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          ...wow

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        2. adamchaz2000‏ @adamchaz2000 27 Mar 2017
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          This dude really hated black people.

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        3. adamchaz2000‏ @adamchaz2000 27 Mar 2017
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          Imagine if black people hated white people at even the fraction of this.

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        1. Monarda B. Allen‏ @MonardaB 27 Mar 2017
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          What!? He dismisses the entire heritage of Africa, birthplace of humanity, and home of magnificent music and visual art.

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