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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs we remember Mandela, Let's NOT forget - Apartheid's Useful Idiots
Apartheid's Useful IdiotsFor many years, a large swath of this country failed Nelson Mandela, failed its own alleged morality, and failed the majority of people living in South Africa.
For many years, a large swath of this country failed Nelson Mandela, failed its own alleged morality, and failed the majority of people living in South Africa. We have some experience with this. Still, it's easy to forget William F. Buckleyintellectual founder of the modern righteffectively worked as a press agent for apartheid:
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When he returned from Mozambique in 1962, Buckley wrote a column describing the backwardness of the African population over which Portugal ruled, "The more serene element in Africa tends to believe that rampant African nationalism is self-discrediting, and that therefore the time is bound to come when America, and the West ... will depart from our dogmatic anti-Colonialism and realize what is the nature of the beast."
In the fall of 1962, during a visit to South Africa, arranged by the Information Ministry, Buckley wrote that South African apartheid "has evolved into a serious program designed to cope with a melodramatic dilemma on whose solution hangs, quite literally, the question of life or death for the white man in South Africa."
Buckley's racket as an American paid propagandist for white supremacy would be repeated over the years in conservative circles. As Sam Kleiner demonstrates in Foreign Policy, apartheid would ultimately draw some of America's most celebrated conservatives into its orbit. The roster includes Grover Norquist, Jack Abramoff, Jesse Helms, and Senator Jeff Flake. Jerry Falwell denounced Desmond Tutu as a "phony" and led a "reinvestment" campaign during the 1980s. At the late hour of 1993, Pat Robertson opined, "I know we don't like apartheid, but the blacks in South Africa, in Soweto, don't have it all that bad."
way more:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/apartheids-useful-idiots/282114/
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As we remember Mandela, Let's NOT forget - Apartheid's Useful Idiots (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2013
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Irving Krystol, father of right-winger Bill Krystol, made a campus tour defending apartheid
philly_bob
Dec 2013
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)1. Sadly there are about a hundred times as many "front" think-tanks now
I don't know why anyone takes think tanks seriously or credibly (and yeah, I'm even including the "real", well-known ones)
Turbineguy
(37,360 posts)3. "Operation Babushka"
I wonder if that was a hat tip to the Soviets who for a while had Cheka operations paid for by the West.
spanone
(135,855 posts)4. k&r...
philly_bob
(2,419 posts)5. Irving Krystol, father of right-winger Bill Krystol, made a campus tour defending apartheid
in the 1960's. I remember him at the University of Michigan "quad".