| re: BALDWIN AND BUCKLEY AT CAMBRIDGE |
| Last Edit: singleticket 09:07 am EDT 06/16/22 |
| Posted by: singleticket 09:03 am EDT 06/16/22 |
| In reply to: re: BALDWIN AND BUCKLEY AT CAMBRIDGE - davei2000 03:54 pm EDT 06/15/22 |
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You would not know this from the debate, in which Buckley doesn't conceal his contempt for Baldwin.
True, Buckley still makes a good theatrical antagonist if you don't listen too closely to what he's saying and realize how far his conservatism which acknowledged structural racism on some level while still arguing for assimilation to the current conservative movement which doesn't even believe structural racism exists and argues that non-white people are trying to take away the rights of white people by replacing them.
Baldwin's argument for the necessity of dismantling structural racism still feels relevant in the recent context of BLM but what is farther away from today is the urgency of that revolutionary moment where former colonial governments were being overturned by their subjects in Africa and elsewhere. |
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Debate transcript from New York Times |
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