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Entry: Down the Memory Hole Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/down_the_memory_hole#29855 Post contents: So, maybe I did make a blanket statement about "American conservatives." If so, I retract it. In any case, I would still like to see the original comment in context. And to repeat, in my first post on this thread, I am using the word "conservative" simply to mean "in favor of the status quo" and I am applying it on an ad hoc basis. Of course, by this standard, most self-styled liberals are "conservative" on any number of issues, like Roe v. Wade, Title 9, and federal civil rights legislation, just as self-styled conservatives would be pro-reform on those issues. I did not introduce this as an obfuscatory motion, but simply to point out that it will not always be obvious what is "conservative" or if conservative is always correct. Some paleocons and probably many self-styled Southern conservatives seem to think that bans on miscegenation are in fact conservative policies, and on that issue reform is correct. Not necessarily the reforms that actually were imposed in the 1960s, simply a refusal to perpetuate the status quo on that issue. Sent at: 2008 12 01