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@elongreen the Algeria reference, oh ffs. Empire and segregation, two for onf
After Selma, William Buckley wrote of Dr. King, "I don't, honestly, think he knows what personal liberty means[.]" pic.twitter.com/9a1duUVrRK
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@elongreen who cares what the hell Buckley had to say about any aspect of the Civil Rights movement? -
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@elongreen@getnickwright hey@MichaelBerrySho, I thought u said Buckley was a super cool dude? - View other replies
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@elongreen@MichaelBerrySho Buckley claimed to reform later in life, but during the Civil Rights Movement he was a monster.
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@elongreen @nath_on_fire Buckley was an avowed white supremacist. His writings in the 50s and 60s just dripped with racist bile. -
@jesnider@elongreen Isn't it incredible how guys like that can be so consistently backwards/wrong yet maintain "respectability"? -
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@elongreen Yes! They find themselves on the wrong side of history, and issue disingenuous non-apologies like Buckley did. -
@jesnider Similarly, I was raised Catholic, but one reason I left is that I noticed they were constantly on the wrong side of history. -
@jesnider Like, they would cling to their dogma until reality made it too obvious for even the typical believer to ignore. Can't roll w/that -
@nath_on_fire Maybe they were hoping the tide would roll back and they'd be in the right again? Sounds like an idea for a skit.
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@jesnider This reminds me of Dennis Duffy on 30 Rock and his beeper store. "Beepers are coming back! Technology is cyclical!"
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@elongreen if you run by hell you can still get William Buckley's autograph -
@elongreen Didion’s 1965 “On Morality”–though not overtly abt race–has some of these same distasteful overtones. -
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@elongreen@jbouie Comparing SCLC 's goals, to Ben Bella's in post-colonial Algeria, was a reach. "Irresponsible Negro rule". -
@elongreen@LOLGOP And THAT is why we don't get William F. Buckley's birthday off. -
@elongreen Harlem politicians, post-colonial Algeria, Governor Wallace as paternal figure. This really hits a bingo. -
@elongreen@root_e Oh, he's an asshole for the ages. A raging, pustular monument to assholery. A weeping sebaceous font human toxin forever. -
@elongreen@Cato_of_Utica It was worth following up on the reference to Ben Bella: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Ben_Bella … -
@elongreen so the conservative icon was like "tut tut, you ungrateful Negroes, we know better" -
@elongreen@LOLGOP People think Buckley was a reasonable conservative of yore. But he was wrong about every issue, like all tea partiers.
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