re: #319 boxhead

Was he really racist in his younger days? And did he reconcile that as he grew older?

He reconciled to a great extent, but yes, he was racist both in policy and attitude when younger.

Even his reconciliation was still, to my eyes, racist.

Buckley’s editorial “Why the South Must Prevail” spoke out explicitly in favor of white supremacy in the South. It argued that “the central question that emerges… is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes – the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race.”

It’s ‘cultural’ racism rather than ‘ethnic’ racism, but it amounts to the same thing in the end.