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Entry: Down the Memory Hole Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/down_the_memory_hole#29849 Post contents: Tobias can access his reponse by going online and looking at the rejoinders to Helen R's latest blog. Actually T's comments on the evils of racial segregation and his ascription of them to some of the current Right are available in his comment above. Note that I was neither endorsing nor condemning such politically incorrect opinions. I was simply pointing out their irrelevance for prominent postwar conservative activists and publicists. Most of the ones I knew had very little interest in what is today called white nationalism; Moreover, outside the South, these activists did not feel obliged to defend segregated institutions. But unlike the Left, these conservatives did not think the civil rights movement would make most Americans freer; and they feared the effect that civil rights legislation would have on American constitutional government, as they understood it. Sent at: 2008 12 01