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Entry: Down the Memory Hole Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/down_the_memory_hole#29842 Post contents: Seeing as my comment on the other blog was deleted (probably because it was regarded as offensive to non-Catholics) and as I do not recall exactly what I wrote, I cannot really defend what I said there. Dr. Gottfried, if you have a copy of what I wrote, please post it here so I can read it again. I do not believe that I said that conservatives generally supported segregation. I thought I said that if by conservative you mean "one who conserves," as opposed to he who reforms, then on the *single issue* of de-segregation, the "conservative" position is to maintain segregation and the "reform" position is to end it. In terms of that *one issue,* conservatism -- i.e. conservation of the status quo -- is incorrect. Whether people who identify with a "conservative movement" generally opposed or supported that reform is another issue entirely. If I took a different position from what I wrote here, I would like to see what I wrote. There are some paleocons over at Chronicles who defend the moral permissibility of anti-miscegenation laws. Some of them seem to defend not only the permissibility of such laws but actually seem to support the laws as such. I have argued with them there. Such laws are wrong. The paleocons who say otherwise are wrong. Yes, there really are some (and only some) paleocons who think that miscegenation should be illegal, or that making it illegal would not be inherently immoral. Such conservatism (and that's what they call it, by their own lights) is wrong. Sent at: 2008 12 01