Word: bigot
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True to its billing, there is hardly a page in Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream (Johnson Publishing Co.; 652 pages; $35) that won't rile Lincoln's defenders. To start with, says Bennett, Lincoln was a crude bigot who habitually used the N word and had an unquenchable thirst for blackface-minstrel shows and demeaning "darky" jokes. He supported the noxious pre-Civil War "Black Laws," which stripped African Americans of their basic rights in his native Illinois, as well as the Fugitive Slave Act, which compelled the return to their masters of those who had escaped...
South Carolina is not Bigot Heaven...
...response to Buchanan (excluding the one or two questions implying that Buchanan is a bigot simply because his views differ from most Kennedy School students) was neither inappropriate nor restricted to liberals trying to silence a conservative speaking at Harvard. Buchanan must be vigorously confronted with his long record of racism at his every appearance to stop him from turning the hateful rhetoric on and off to suit his purposes. Confronting hate-mongers is not the sole province of the left, accepted wisdom in Cambridge notwithstanding. Buchanan's bigotry is not a figment in the imagination of liberals: His anti...
...however, that the crusaders spoiled such a valuable opportunity to really tackle Buchanan's message. As much as we would like to dismiss Buchanan as a stone-age bigot and group him alongside David Duke, such a characterization is not entirely accurate. Buchanan has somehow managed to avoid the oblivion of the fringe. For starters, his philosophy of "economic patriotism" is based on ideas that are popular across the political spectrum. On issues such as free-trade and globalization, Harvard students should keep in mind that in addition to millions of blue-collar workers, Buchanan can claim the sympathies...
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