Fooloso4 wrote: ↑November 18th, 2018, 1:37 pm
Steve:
Dachshund, it seems, is following a long tradition.
I do not know if William F. Buckley counts as one of Dachshund’s "capital C traditional Conservatives", but Buckley was able to overcome his prejudices against Blacks and went from being an opponent of civil rights to a defender. There are two things he mentions that changed his mind. One, he came to find the arguments of his conservative friends convincing, and the other is what he witnessed of the treatment of Blacks. I think the latter may have been more convincing than the former. He was moved by witnessing first hand how badly they were being treated by the people who claimed moral superiority.
I have no respect for William F Buckley, the so-called "Father of American Conservatism, because he was a weak-willed and duplicitous individual; a man who was never really quite sure what exactly the fundamental principles of his his own political philosophy actually were.
His defense of the American Civil Rights movement in the 1960s is a perfect case in point. In 1957, Buckley wrote an editorial in the National Review ( the right-leaning Magazine that he founded) entitled, " Why the South Must Prevail". In this piece Buckley cited "the cultural superiority of white over Negro" in explaining why Whites were "entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where they do not predominate numerically".
When Buckley appeared on NPR's "Fresh Air" program in 1989, he stood by the passage. When NPR host Terry Gross read it back to him, Buckley said (quote): "Well I think that's absolutely correct." The interview was re-broadcast in February of 2008.
And I think this says it all.
Note, however, that (to his credit) Buckley was, from the early 1960s through to the Reagan era in the 80s, consistent in his outspoken support for the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Buckley basically believed that the South African Blacks were an "inferior" people (race), possessed of "savage tendencies", who would , he argued, never be capable of competently governing themselves in a post-apartheid South Africa. He was correct, of course, and South Africa today, - (as we are all painfully aware) - has, under the rule of the Black-majority ANC become dreadful a crime-ridden, rape and murder capital of the world. Political corruption is endemic, Whites ( and in particular White farmers) have become an openly persecuted minority who live daily in fear of their lives, the economy is in desperate trouble , and so on. To put it bluntly, South Africa has, since, White minority rule ended in 1994, and political power was transferred to the Black majority, become just another third world ,African "**** Hole".
Funny how the leftist media in the West never mention any of this. So long as its a
White-genocide that's going down, that's something they feel the public in the Anglosphere don't really need to know about. Isn't that right Fool?
Regards
Dachshund