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Entry: Down the Memory Hole Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/down_the_memory_hole#29854 Post contents: "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." What I said is correct. Racial segregation -- by which I mean legal, official segregation, as well as such cultural tendencies as not calling black men "Mr. -- was wrong. Secondly, I have debated with some of the current Right who still support anti-miscegenation laws. I ascribe that opinion to people who defended that opinion in an argument with me. You say that most postwar conservatives were not the racists of liberal paranoid fantasies, which is true. I say that some self-styled conservatives are racists in a meaningful and objectionable sense. The comments are absolutely compatible. I don't see anything noteworthy controversial in what I wrote. Furthermore, this is not a zero-sum game -- segregation vs. civil rights legislation/the civil rights movement. I can object to both. Much of the civil rights movement and much of its legislation in this country was liberal and leftist and stupid and destructive and wrong. So too with segregation legislation. I am not constructing some parallel universe in which the only point of certainty is "racism is wrong" and all other moral claims are relative to that. Sent at: 2008 12 01