As part of conservativism's campaign to avoid any blame for this mess falling on its vaunted pillars of deregulation, naked greed and bubblenomics, they have gone back to some golden oldies and are trying to blame uppity minorities for creating the mortgage crisis with all their crazy shiftless dreams of living in a house they own. This week, the National Review published an editorial on this, and another item from Mark Krikorian. Today we have Glenn noting that NR is blaming minorities for WaMu's failure. Paul previously attacked NR in a lengthy but righteous quick hit but this needs more light.
I'd just like to quote the National Review from an editorial published 1957 and remind them to think twice before opening their filthy racist sewer mouths again:
The Central question that emerges--and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by merely consulting a catalog of the rights of American citizens, born Equal is whether the White community in the South is entitle to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes--the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race...
National Review believes that the South's premises are correct. If the majority wills what is socially atavistic, then to thwart the majority may be, though undemocratic, enlightened. It is more important for any community, anywhere in the world, to afirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority. Sometimes it becomes impossible to assert the will of a minority, in which case it must give way, and the society will regress; sometimes the numerical minority cannot prevail except by violence: then it must determine whether the prevalence of its will is worth the terrible price of violence.
National Review, Editorial, August 24, 1957 - as quoted in p103 of Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman
I was going to bold the worst parts of the second paragraph, but it's all despicable. And with the possible exception of overt statements of racism, none of this has changed. NR still believes the enlightened minority should prevail over the "atavistic" majority, and violence is an acceptable solution to make that happen.
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