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Just last November, the Boston University CRs endured a barrage of criticism for sponsoring a “Whites-only” scholarship, ostensibly to lament race-based academic preferences. A month later, Tuft University’s conservative journal, The Primary Source, generated a hullabaloo over an unfortunately irreverent mock-Christmas carol, “O Come All Ye Black Folk,” written in opposition to diversity-minded admissions decisions...
...furthermore perpetuate a terribly inaccurate stereotype about the Republican Party. Detractors can now giddily point to “Find the Illegal Immigrant” or the “Whites-only” scholarship as proof positive of GOP mindlessness. If their Democratic counterparts neglect the meaningful issues, CRs exceed their lethargy by making senseless and pointless games out of them...
...Russell Kirk defined it, is “negation of ideology: it is a state of mind, a type of character, a way of looking at the civil social order.” With antics that emphasize shock value over substance and mindless partisanship over thoughtful consideration, these CRs reject the fundamental tenets of civil conservative thought...
...CRs content to continue such tricks vindicate nothing more than their boorish manners, slavish sense of humor, and insufferable ideas...
...long as the Republican Party bears popular association with right-leaning politics, these CRs will besmirch the name of conservatism. Indeed, they deny the first rule of any conservative deserving of the title—the code of civility, that of the gentleman...