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Entry: Douthat: Rhymes with Oakeshott? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/douthat_rhymes_with_oakeshott#29537 Post contents: Mr. Gottfried, maybe your comment doesn't contradict this article, as you referred to "self-styled" conservatives? This insightful criticism by Eugene Genovese might be relevant to this article: <blockquote> Some thirty years later, George Rogers, another southern-conservative historian, provided a better-balanced update: "We have affirmative action because the South was too slow in ending segregation and race discrimination (and the South should be ready to accept these criticisms)." If we take Rogers' point further, we confront the danger in all forms of Burkean conservatism. In principle, Burkeans, southern and other, believe in reform but want it slow, thought-out, careful, and guided by an enlightened political class. But how often does deep structural reform take place that way? Almost always, entrenched interests change course only when subjected to hard blows from outside their ranks. The responsible, humane, decent conservatives of the South did almost nothing to lead their people toward a well-ordered, locally guided integration. They could not do so. For they have always stood for the rights of the community, and their particular communities, which embraced all social classes among whites, were implacably hostile to black demands. </blockquote> Sent at: 2009 01 08