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Mar 16, 2008

Peek Beneath the Hood


by Liberty and Power


[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire]

Who (probably) said this, in 1957?

The central question that emerges ... is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not prevail numerically? The sobering answer is Yes – the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists. ... [T]he South’s premises are correct ... It is more important for the community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.

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Mark Brady - 3/16/2008

Note the comment from Charles Murray, who offers his personal take on Buckley. Elsewhere Murray offers the public the opportunity to consider his take on liberty. See, in particular, his book What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation (1997).

Jeff Riggenbach - 3/16/2008

That's what this is - rich, coming from someone who sanctimoniously severed all his ties with Joe Sobran a couple of decades back because Sobran was deemed guilty of the thoughtcrime of anti-Semitism.

JR

Keith Halderman - 3/16/2008

William F. Buckley could very well have said this in 1957; however, such a fact must be balanced with his long, consistent, forceful, logical, and eloquent opposition to drug prohibition. There can be little doubt in any thinking person’s mind that the war on people who use certain kinds of drugs is the most racist institution in American society today. No change in government policy would benefit the black community more than the legalization of drugs that Buckley advocated. His two Firing Line debates on the subject were spectacular defeats for the other side.