Mixed Legacy February 27, 2008
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On the one hand, Buckley and National Review overlapped the Council of Conservative Citizens and American Renaissance about 80% of the time, and on most fundamentals. (Both magazines founded by erudite Yale alums, incidentally.) In fact, NR pre-1970 might as well been a carbon copy of AR.
But on the other hand, he heartily denounced many organizations and people who were on the front lines of such fundamentals, including the Citizens Councils, George Wallace, and the John Birch Society. And starting in the early 1990s, NR purged its right-wingers and became neo-con.
It is said that Buckley is the grandfather of “mainstream” conservatism. As Buckley himself has a mixed legacy, my opinion is the same about “mainstream” conservatism. As I have said in other spaces, “mainstream” conservatism might have been fine in theory, and might oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, and might have denounced Martin Luther King as late as 1979 in NR, but “mainstream” conservatism in practical application (i.e. the Presidency of Ronald Wilson Reagan) gave us a Federal holiday in MLK’s name and amnesty for illegal aliens.
And that’s disregarding “mainstream” conservatism as a shill for predatory capitalism and its practitioners, both in theory and reality. In fact, the cynic in me would simply say that Buckley’s legacy merely consisted of taking both major factions of the pre-1960 right wing, the Taft-Bricker-McCarthy-JBS isolationists, and the Bilbo-Wallace-Russell-CCA race realists, diluting them, and delivering them pied-piper like into the hands of the corporate ruling class. And I’m saying that his legacy contradicted McCarthyism even as Buckley himself defended McCarthy.
Because I’m the type of person who thinks that actions have consequences while words are cheap, my ultimate opinion on Mr. Buckley’s legacy will probably be cynical, and be not much different than my assessment of the 16th President.
Now that the conservative in theory has joined the conservative in practical application in their eternal rewards, it’s time to move beyond Buckley/Reagan and move on to something better, a philosophy which will verily serve to resist and reverse the racial, social and economic dispossession of the white working middle class.
New Republic Profiles the Racial Right’s Obama Ambivalence February 27, 2008
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And predictably, your CofCC gets part of a paragraph:
And some even see hints that Obama may be leading a national black uprising. “Are blacks becoming more hostile towards whites?” asked a recent entry at the … Council of Conservative Citizens website. The author, citing the early February rampage by a black gunman near St. Louis, Missouri, advised that “the success of the Obama campaign might be emboldening blacks to be more aggressive towards white[s] on a national scale.”
Actually, that needs a little clarification. By himself, Barack Hussein Obama (sorry, John McCain, for using his middle name) is a plastic banana and an empty suit. I would no sooner expect him to succeed in leading a black uprising than I would for him to hang the moon. The point made at Dot Org in that blog post is that many black Americans, particularly in the lower classes, might be “feeling their oats” and becoming more arrogant and flippant (”we’z takin’ over, cracker”), simply because a black man is so close to becoming President. I would expect those sort of people to have that kind of attitude even if the black candidate was the Tommiest of Toms, e.g. Clarence Thomas.
The Left’s Hammer and Sickle February 27, 2008
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They’re called Human Rights Commissions. Equality and liberty are diametrically opposing concepts.
Artist hit for refusal on beliefs
An evangelical Christian photographer was brought before the New Mexico Human Rights Commission after she declined for religious reasons to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony.
When Elaine Huguenin of Albuquerque, N.M., declined in September 2006 an e-mail request from a lesbian couple to photograph their ceremony, one of the lesbians responded by lodging a human rights complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Division, the state agency charged with enforcing state anti-discrimination laws and sending cases to the commission to be adjudicated.
Vanessa Willock sought an injunction to prohibit Mrs. Huguenin and her business, Elane Photography, from declining any future request to photograph a same-sex ceremony. The agency agreed to hear Miss Willock’s complaint, the latest case brought before tribunals in the U.S. and Canada that free-speech advocates say threaten expression across North America.
In the absence of Miss Huguenin, I can think of one photographer in New Mexico who might gladly take that job. Set your GPS to Ruidoso.
Hide Gangs Behind the Cross February 27, 2008
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School Suspends Teens for Wearing Crucifixes
ALBANY, Ore. — A pair of Albany teenagers suspended for “gang-related behavior” because they were wearing crucifixes say they were only wearing gifts from their mothers.
Jaime Salazar, 14, his friend Marco Castro, 16, were suspended from South Albany High School recently after they refused to put away the crucifixes they were wearing around their necks.
Salazar said Principal Chris Equinoa saw his necklace and told him to put it away. “I was like, why?” Salazar said. “He says it’s related to gangs.”
Salazar said he argued and was sent to the office. Instead, he went home. Later, he received a note saying he had been suspended for five days for “defiance and gang-related behavior.”
Like most people, I chalked this up to the pervasive anti-Christianity in public schools, and I also came up with an alternate explanation that the school’s administration sadistically used any excuse when they couldn’t make these two students do what they wanted.
But Jamie Allman this morning informs us that more than forty gangs, mostly Hispanic, are using crosses adorned with colored beads as gang symbols. As it turns out, Messrs. Salazar and Castro’s crucifixes did have light blue beads, indicating a gang.
If we had a news media that would explain these things to us, then most of us would have arrived at the right conclusion to begin with.
