As Ron Paul surges in the polls, old questions arise about his involvement with racist publishing. A particularly
ugly quote from one of the articles published in his newsletter:
Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal
justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the
black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.
Paul denies culpability, but Ta-Nehisi Coates
doesn't buy it.
Had I spent a decade stewarding an eponymous publication steeped in
homophobia and anti-Semitism, I would not expect my friends and
colleagues to accept an "I didn't write it"excuse.
I really can't say I'm surprised by any of it. Much of conservatism is
predicated on the same assumptions that would
predicate racism. This is why it has always made perfect sense for
there to be considerable overlap between racists and conservatives. I
think the vast majority of conservatives despise the idea, yet privately
rue the dogged logic that much of what they believe is entirely
consistent with the racist cognitive framework. It’s a dirty truth, and
the conservatives have two options: live in denial, or live dirty. The
Ron Pauls, Pat Buchanans, Rush Limbaughs, Charles Murrays, etc. of the
world have merely found themselves on the dirty end.
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