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National Review Defends Its Segregationist Past

By Matthew Yglesias on Aug 28, 2009 at 5:28 pm

It’s fascinating to me how little distance there really is between the racist right of the 1950s and 1960s and the anti-anti-racist right of the 1990s and 2000s, but Adam Serwer shows us right here a surprising example of a Corner poster drawing the link explicitly. Except he seems to see this as a vindication of National Review’s past support for segregation.

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